0.5.8 - Tutorial and fixed broken game


Tutorial
RTS games can be pretty daunting if you've never touched one, since they can have a high learning curve and there's a lot going on at once. During development we've watched players who've never been into RTS games try The Fertile Crescent. In these cases we've had to do a lot of explaining before they were able to enjoy the game. 

We made a video tutorial a while back to partly address this and explain the game to newcomers, but an interactive tutorial is usually a more efficient teacher. Learning by doing, as they say. That's partly why we decided to add an in-game tutorial as well.

We're aware that some of you introduce friends to play multiplayer with, and we hope this will make it easier for new players to get a basic understanding of the game and enjoy it more.

Our rough estimation is that the tutorial takes 5-10 minutes to complete. It goes through basic features like unit selection, constructing building, harvesting resources, and most importantly, how to avoid starvation!

Fixed broken game
0.5.7 and 0.5.7B attempted to fix rare and odd unit behavior problems. Unfortunately, in an attempt to fix these issues we managed to introduce more problems than we fixed.

In this version, we've taken greater care to make sure we have fixed everything that has been reported to us through Discord and that we have found internally. There's always the risk that we missed something, so we would be very thankful if you report any remaining bugs to us.

Change log 0.5.8

Improvements
- Added tutorial that can be accessed from the main menu
- Almost depleted clay pit sprite is no longer the same as completely depleted clay pit sprite

Bug fixes
- Fixed that ranged units could target buildings in FOW across the map
- Fixed error that could happen when a unit was blocked by another unit and was waiting to execute its next move
- Fixed that ranged units didn't execute their attack order on first click if they were doing something else
- Fixed a problem that could happen if you placed a building just above a unit that was assigned to construct it
- Fixed other new pathfinding problems introduced in 0.5.7 and 0.5.7B

Files

The Fertile Crescent 0.5.8 Linux.zip 41 MB
May 11, 2020
The Fertile Crescent 0.5.8 Windows.zip 42 MB
May 11, 2020
The Fertile Crescent 0.5.8.app.zip 40 MB
May 11, 2020

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