A16 Hype

[O Negative]

So, Tynan recently posted this pic on twitter, and then a few hours later on a Steam announcement



Is anyone else hyped?

[A Friend]

New world map screen I assume?
Hmm, wonder what's this for...

"A16 will probably be the biggest update ever in terms of the amount of work we've done adding and refining things, so it's taking a while."

"Biggest" huh... Let me guess, being able to travel to other places? Interacting personally with factions?

Eitherway:
Hype.

[newcadence]

So many possibilities:

Factions and geography have a significance when establishing your colonies now?

Satellites? Meteors? ALIENS? Giant Orbital Mechanoid Hive event?

[RawCode]

z-levels confirmed!*

























































*haha no

[mumblemumble]

Can't say this teaser does much for me... ...its a rendered picture of the world (like nasa occasionally does)

I look forward to a16 still, of course, but this does literally nothing to excite me.... I would need something....slightly more concrete.

Plus, the idea that time was used to render a round planet for area selecting is kinda sad that time was used for that rather than other effects. Guess I got too spoiled by the no nonsense developing of the past few alphas. But I spose tynan splurging on a few graphical tweaks is not a bad thing

But maybe im being too cynical, even with  all the other updates, rim-world hasn't had a bad update yet. A few iffy balance choices(which were quickly fixed), but nothing BAD.

Cant wait to see what the actual content is..

[O Negative]

I think the teaser was meant to represent a lot polish of existing features, honestly. That's what has me excited

[mumblemumble]

I think the teaser was meant to represent a lot polish of existing features, honestly. That's what has me excited

Thats actually a very good point, my mind is extremely linear sometimes, and I don't always pick up on subtlety.

Tynan also mentioned bisexuality in response to someone asking about it, and this gets me thinking : If its added, will straight people FINALLY have 0 chance of gay stuff?... I mean, unless we do a deep psychological simulation, but unfortunately I don't think everyone could agree on what that is.

[crazybmanp]

Oh man, if this is the option to travel off map i'm gonna just stop existing in the real world and only play Rimworld.

[Andy_Dandy]

My Rimworld seen from Space. It looks amazingly beautiful.

[carbon]

Are we sure it's not just a new main menu background image with slightly more world map flavor?

EDIT: If you're going to relay information, relay all of it please.

via Steam:

Hey all, just a quick teaser update for you. Behold, the planet!



I'll be releasing more information about this soon-ish. I just wanted to give you all an image so you know we are still working at full steam, on many different features.

A16 will probably be the biggest update ever in terms of the amount of work we've done adding and refining things, so it's taking a while.

[O Negative]

Are we sure it's not just a new main menu background image with slightly more world map flavor?

The stars indicate that that's exactly what it is, haha.

Still, I'm hyped lol

[carbon]

Tynan spent 6 months working on development and all we get is a lousy background.



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[O Negative]

EDIT: If you're going to relay information, relay all of it please.

Eh, that would take the fun out of it

Tynan spent 6 months working on development and all we get is a lousy background.

Except... It's only been, like, a little over 2 months since the last Alpha release? lol

[Alenerel]

If that is the main menu new background he deserves all the bullshit that happened with RPS. Tho I think that that bullshit actually made him popular, so idk...

[Darth Fool]

He hasn't explicitly said it, but is quite clear that A16 is a total rewrite that will allow the creation of giant fleets of spaceships which you can use to explore other worlds, expand to place colonies on them, exploit them for resources, and exterminate rival civilizations... reminiscent of Masters of Orion.... ;P