Dynamic Seasons
Added 2025-03-06 20:25:04 +0000 UTCHere's a little surprise that I had been working on with this extra Q1 development time.
Originally I planned to have the Winter Mode as a separate mode from the main menu, but since the dynamic word has been trending lately with RtV, now the winter / snow also support fully dynamic method.
This will be implement to the commercial branch like this:
- In the main menu, when you start a new game there will be 3 seasonal options.
- Option 1: Summer Mode (always summer)
- Option 2: Winter Mode (always winter)
- Option 3: Dynamic Mode
- Options 3 will transition to winter slowly over time and return back to summer etc.
Now I basically have the dream combo for early access:
- Dynamic TOD
- Dynamic Weather
- Dynamic Season
- Antti (Developer)
Comments
Looks gorgeous
steven chen
2025-03-07 22:00:18 +0000 UTCYou are always full of surprises :)
Shamnolya
2025-03-07 13:57:39 +0000 UTCThis is so exciting! But i do have one question. Will progress for the winter patch for surviving in winter count in option 3 during winter?
Infinity
2025-03-07 00:15:41 +0000 UTCCurrently I'm testing a 50 day summer cycle and after that it will start transitioning to 50 day winter cycle, but it's a bit too early the say where the sweetspot is, so I will fine tune those numbers once I have the ea gameplay loop in place.
Road to Vostok
2025-03-06 23:04:51 +0000 UTCAwesome. Eagerly awaiting the EA demo
Mike D
2025-03-06 22:22:41 +0000 UTCI wonder how long a season will last in real gameplay hours. This kind of stuff is an "X-factor" on it's own already. Having the choice would have already been nice, but gameplay wise it'll be so much more of a complete survival experience when you can make it through the winter, and will obviously add variety.
Mello' Mike
2025-03-06 22:05:54 +0000 UTCIn the actual game, the northern lights event change in Area 05 is 1% on the neutral night, once the "North" map area and Shaman trader comes into play the change there is 50%.
Road to Vostok
2025-03-06 21:29:11 +0000 UTCWill the northern lights always be visible if it's a clear winter night? Probably one of my favorite features in the demo currently.
Mike D
2025-03-06 21:27:01 +0000 UTCAwesome!! I love the ambience and the moving trees, looking so real.
Feruen
2025-03-06 20:55:57 +0000 UTCCome on! This is huge! 👏🏻🔥
Antton Eskola
2025-03-06 20:52:07 +0000 UTCDynamic everything, for a dynamic sucess! This whole thing was a great idea I think, suh immersion :)
BomberDX
2025-03-06 20:44:05 +0000 UTCI had actually been working on this for a while now, but wanted to keep the "hardline" of sticking just with the Winter Mode answer until I 100% knew this could be done efficiently within the game :) ps. Spring and Fall are now fairly easy to implement also, but I will not add those to initial early access launch (no surprises coming with this), so I don't feature creep myself with making all those transitions.
Road to Vostok
2025-03-06 20:38:33 +0000 UTCi slowly don't know why i even complain about something missing when you implement exactly that only 3 Days later ..... great job :) Still hope we get Spring and Fall sometimes later during EA :)
SavRoyale
2025-03-06 20:32:37 +0000 UTCYou just made my whole day with this! I love it!
securityCase
2025-03-06 20:30:19 +0000 UTCOooooh booyyyyy!!!
securityCase
2025-03-06 20:29:40 +0000 UTC
