Beta release 6

2.0.1-beta and following releases will only be downloadable on itch.io. See https://rudderbucky.itch.io/shellcore for downloads and https://rudderbucky.itch.io/shellcore/devlog/547959/201-beta-released for the changelog.

Thank you for playing ShellCore Command Remastered!

Beta release 5

v2.0.0-beta changelog

ADDITIONS:

• Added multiplayer Skirmish.
  • You can either play peer-to-peer, or on rudderbucky server - a set of hosted servers by yours truly.
  • You can select your own blueprints to use against other players. For balancing purposes rudderbucky server mandates certain rules described in the Ship Builder.
  • Standard BattleZone rules apply.
  • Flying out of sector for 3 seconds will result in destruction.
  • Upon the round ending, you will have the option to vote on the next sector in the world to play in.
  • To make a multiplayer map all you need to do is place BattleZones in different dimensions. The first one played on is in dimension 0.
  • Also make sure your BattleZones have carriers for the first two factions.
  • The scoreboard reflects how players have dealt with objectives since when they joined. It's meant to display some kind of progression but take it with a grain of salt.
  • In multiplayer only, your core tier will affect how quickly you respawn. Tier 2 respawns 2 seconds slower.
• There is now a singular folder to store ship presets between instances of the game.
  • Yard Presets have been replaced by accessing this folder. Migrating your save will move your presets over so you can still use them.
  • These presets will indicate whether you have the specified parts in singleplayer, and whether they are rdb server valid if you are trying to join hosted servers.
• Added native macOS support
• Added a new ability - Speeder Missile
• Added sprites for the towers
• Absorb and Damage Boost now have cosmetics
• Added an "is shiny" checkbox to the add reward node
• Added new World Creator music
• You can now command selected drones to locations via left-clicking the minimap.
• You can now clear all your targets by shift-left-clicking.
• You can now select all your owned units by pressing ctrl+tab.
• Parts can now be mass-selected by drag-clicking.
• Added the option to change UI scaling in the settings menu.

REVISIONS:

• EP3 has received major balancing updates and bugfixes.
  • Overhauled EP3 map.
  • Redesigned multiple ships.
  • Redesigned BattleZones Lambda, and Mu and Nu.
  • Redesigned and balanced SiegeZone Kappa.
  • Fixed Abandonment, Derelict Vanquish, and Forsaken Declaration story and fixed node issues.
  • Fixed the Stronghold node issues.
  • Fixed Gunning Triumph node issues.
  • Fixed some of the Citadel skirmish missions.
  • Updated Awakening the Holy Citadel mission.
  • Updated EP3 sectors to now spawn custom drones.
  • Updated the Haven 6 trader to sell more parts.
  • Added new mission: Reclamation.
  • Added Haven 9.
  • Added checkpoints after winning BattleZones.
  • Fixed a part farming exploit during the capitol invasion in Truthful Revelation.
  • Fixed an issue with the mission control in Sector 2040-180.
  • Fixed an issue where the speaker for the Compass Theory was hard to talk to.
  • Fixed multiple writing issues.
  • Removed the set part drop rates in Supply and Demand.
  • Removed most of the unused nodes found in various mission canvases.
  • Updated multiple canvases that use spawn entity nodes (condensed).
  • Custom turrets will have more health.
  • All BattleZones (not including skirmishes) will now use custom turrets and tanks.
  • Updated MusicZone Alpha to include the new world creator music.
• Ion now starts shooting directly at the target.
• Background spawns should no longer occur when speaking to an entity
• Damage Resistance tower has been replaced with Energy Tower
• Towers have been given energy costs
• Carrier drone pathing has been randomized
• Added better default dialogue to the drone workshop
• Control now only affects owned units instead of all allies
• Laser no longer pierces core
• Laser now deals bonus damage to tanks
• Missile projectile and Beam hit effects have been slightly tweaked
• Bomb now has a much shorter fuse and expiration time, as well as lower damage and explosion range
• Drones no longer have None parts
• Damage Boost and Control now boost damage by 10%/5% respectively per tier instead of a flat damage boost.
• Area Restore now heals 1000 shell per tier but no longer heals the caster.
• Air Carriers now have more shell
• Carriers now have an intrinsic damage resistance mechanic.
  • They possess a damage counter of 800. This recharges every second.
  • Damage taken will deplete the counter.
  • If the counter is zero, excess damage will be quartered.
  • This effectively means that additional DPS over 800 will be quartered on carriers.
• Pin down will now focus on your target if you have one selected.
• Flak has been reworked
  • Flak now only shoots one bullet at a minimum.
  • All enemy drones in the vicinity will also have bullets fired towards them leading to a potentially unlimited bullet count.
  • Drones hit by flak bullets will stop moving and shooting for 3 seconds.
• The Part Index should not be as laggy on subsequent accesses.
• Counter Drones now take 5 times less damage and deal 5 times more damage against other drones.
• Counter Drones also will have every weapon equipped deal bonus damage to drones.

BUGFIXES:

• Fixed an issue where switching sectors during missions could cause tasks to repeat
• Fixed drone workshop drones being spawned by enemies
• Fixed save time played being excessively incremented
• Fixed various ability descriptions
• Fixed various overworld particle layering issues
• Fixed a dialogue misordering issue in the WC character handler
• Fixed some WC icon layering
• Certain blueprints without defined cores should no longer glitch out the ship builder
• Ability autocast statuses are now remembered when respawning
• Bombs should now unload when switching sectors
• Fixed a glitched interaction between disrupt and active regen abilities
• In singleplayer, ability tiers will now be reflected on the ability bar while using the ship builder.
• Loading and saving worlds with different faction counts in the World Creator should now be more functional
• The force tractor node should no longer break if any of the two entities it uses dies
• Rotation and part placement should no longer stick to your cursor in the ship builder
• Snapback should function better on the ship builder with symmetry mode
• Shards found via exploration should no longer be lost upon death.
• The Status Menu map should no longer occasionally stick to your cursor.
• WC defaults should now work properly right after they are saved.

Thank you for playing ShellCore Command Remastered!

Beta release 4

v1.0.0-beta changelog:

ADDITIONS:

• Added Drone Workshop functionality. Some features are missing but it is available in the main world.
• Added Towers. They are spawned from Tower bases and provide various effects to allied entities in a large radius. They still need balancing.
• Added custom inventory functionality for outposts and bunkers
• Added the ability to zoom in and out in the Ship Builder
• Added new particle effects and background tiles for EP3
• Added a new fade effect to the background
• Yards now take parts from worker drones
• Added a new ability - Chain Beam. Not in the main world yet.
• Party member portraits can now be seen on their character bars in the party section of the status menu
• Added a small animation when targeting entitites
• Added new music
• Added the SetAudioNode to the World Creator
• Added EP3 save card
• Added EP3 story courtesy of FoeFear (Note: The world is not in a stable state).

REVISIONS:

• Several sprites have been polished
• Laser damage nerf from 60 per tier to 45 per tier
• Part stats can be viewed by hovering over yard/trader buttons now
• Shard rocks can now be seen on the minimap
• The status menu map should now be slightly less laggy and should start off closer to where you currently are
• Ion shooters will now rotate around even when disabled/on cooldown.
• The AI now moves a bit erratically
• Missile's projectile animation has been slightly tweaked
• Sector creator data has now been removed
• The siege bullet projectile sprite has been removed
• Updated manual

BUGFIXES:

• Shard rocks will only get damaged by the player's faction
• Fixed some issues with the Ship Builder's symmetry mode
• Laser will no longer fire when invisible, absorbing, or when the ability is disabled
• Fixed ability name text getting cut off on the ability bar
• Using mouse controls will no longer jitter your ship
• Several main story/mission canvas/world creator bugfixes
• Bugfixes to party member/player reassembly on proximity to a yard
• Party members will now have a short cooldown on interaction when warping in
• Rotated parts in the Ship Builder now have more accurate hitboxes
• (Hotfix) Save migration from Beta 0.1.1 should now be working correctly. In any case please send me copies of your old saves for testing and backup purposes.
• (Hotfix) Save migration should be working correctly, this time for real hopefully.
• (Hotfix) Fixed some issues in EP3

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Thank you for playing ShellCore Command Remastered!

Beta release 3

v0.1.1-beta changelog:

ADDITIONS:

• Added yard warp
• Added clear party options for skirmish entries
• Added the first set of trigger system nodes
• Added unload (includes an audio clip)
• Added poor god mode
• Added the disrupt audio clip
• Added siege bullet sprite
• Force tractor nodes can work on stations

REVISIONS:

• Reworked laser so that it would no longer be affected by gcd
• Reworked the symmetry mode for the ship builder
• Reordered the world creator menu items
• Revised the line rendering for the sector creator
• Revised a bunch of sprites
• Missile can no longer attack air stations

REMOVED:

• Removed ion air station

BUGFIXES:

• Fixed some issues with the party member system
• Fixed the issues with disrupt
• Fixed the check entity condition and conditional group nodes
• Fixed some performance and out of bounds problems in the ship builder
• Fixed bullet's targeting and audio
• Fixed variables not working with sector limiter nodes
• Fixed some issues with the mission nodes
• Fixed some null issues
• Tooltips text should no longer go out of bounds on the status menu map
• Control buff should be fixed if the ship has been repaired
• Inverted tractor should work with any tier
• Part index should now work with all factions (besides the player faction)
• Pressing the buttons in reward nodes will no longer cause an error
• Custom factions can now work with background spawns
• Node editor should now with Linux builds
• Core max and regen should now display their stats in ship builder

Thank you for playing ShellCore Command Remastered!

Beta release 2

v0.1.0-beta changelog:

ADDITIONS:

• Added a general ConditionCheckNode to encompass general player state checks
• Added two commands - "no limits" which removes parts limits on your save, and "i am an uncivilized barbarian", which removes weapon GCD
• Added yard auto-reconstruct. When close to a yard and with damaged/knocked off parts, the yard will automatically replace your parts. Party members that are following you will also auto-reconstruct.
• Added a changelog

REVISIONS:

• Bomb now has tiered damage (2k per tier) and reduced range
• Torpedo no longer deals bonus damage to constructs
• Most canvases are now offloaded. This should improve save load times
• Ship builder now closes on player death

BUGFIXES:

• Fixed some Linux specific path issues
• Laser's damage is now tiered
• Various bugfixes to the main story
• The Item property display no longer blanks out if you open defaults while having a platform selected
• MediumSide2 no longer bugs out with symmetry mode
• Parts on the axes should no longer be deemed invalid by the symmetry check
• Dialogue windows should hopefully no longer jump up and down randomly
• Original part shader should now work better with stealth
• Fixed some issues with sector mirroring platforms
• (hotfix) Temporarily removed the wave folder checking when validating worlds in the save menu
• Graphics should no longer be blurry if you only started playing in the alpha

Thank you for playing ShellCore Command Remastered!

Beta release 1

v0.0.0-beta changelog:

ADDITIONS:

• Added the Set Flag Interactibility node (used for warping)
• World Creator music
• A new siege music track
• There is now a check for if you have installed a world correctly when launching from the main menu
• Parts now show up on the minimap
• Warping now has a small effect
• Pgup/pgdown should allow you to cycle through sectors
• Ship Builder editor now remembers your last core selection
• Status menu map now extends as much as it needs to to display the world
• You can use filename references in siege waves
• World-wise custom faction support in the WC
• You can hover over your credits to see the exact amount in a tooltip
• You can now choose parts to be shiny in editor mode
• Added "use entity color" for various nodes, which determines dialogue color contextually
• Added a bunch of cheat codes
• Added a sector symmetry button in the WC to mirror sector contents
• Added range circles when you hover over an ability with range
• Added Flak - fires up to 5 bullets at various enemies
• Weapon tooltips hint at bonus damage targets
• Entity finder in the world creator
• Added a map marker node
• Added a lock party node
• Added a Clear dialogue node
• Finish task node now has custom response options
• The Drone workshop is now partially functional
• Minor health HUD tweaks
• A new red border when hit below 0 shell, can be customized in settings
• Added a Ship Builder symmetry mode - mirrors parts and highlights them red if they are not symmetrized with an opposing part axially
• Added scrolling to the dev console
• Added sounds to passive dialogue
• Pin down and disrupt now have animations
• A new EP2 save card
• New shooters and various sprites
• MediumCenter7 for the Infected Leader
• Added the Skirmish menu and dimensions to the world
• Added the Warp Player node
• Added the Rocket Tank
• Added more story
• Added weapon stations - customizable non outpost/bunker/carrier stations
• Added a changelog

REVISIONS:

• Mission finish node now clears objective arrows for that mission
• Following party members now teleport to the player when too far and not in a BattleZone
• Core upgrading should now increase max tractor range
• Area restore no longer heals core
• Invert tractor now works on every entity in the game
• Your shell will always have tier 1 bounds in the Ship Builder now. This means blueprints made before upgrading won't become invalid all of a sudden
• The Ship Builder should be more performant with extremely large builds
• Cap unit count to 99
• Improved bullet prediction
• Power rock orb spawn time nerfed from 5 seconds to 8 seconds
• Power rock orb life time increased to 20 seconds
• Missile tanks now target air entities only
• In the editor mode ship builder, part tier now defaults to 0
• A bunch of ability value changes, among which
  ** Shell Max - 1000 shell per tier
  ** Energy Max - 400 energy per tier
• Default energy regen has been halved
• Power is capped to 5000
• Shell/core bars under targets should now be larger
• Parts are returned to their bright faction color when dropped
• Ion and bomb have different sounds
• Bomb now has a fuse time of 3 seconds before detonation
• Improved mouse movement: right click moves, left click minimap to move to that point in the minimap
• Party members should now keep their items on sector change
• Party members should now show up on the HUD with their current action
• Shard rocks are now scattered throughout the map instead of mined in the same place
• Spawn entity now has the option to spawn multiple entities at various flags
• Drone and tank healths are balanced
• Exiting BattleZones now has a timer like in the original games
• Timer nodes can now count down to milliseconds
• You can now scroll in a circular manner through WC items

BUGFIXES:

• Counter drones spawn with weapons again
• Rotation has been balanced
• Squares and the background should no longer clip abruptly when zoomed out
• Enemy commanders should now drop parts if they are the last entities destroyed to win a BattleZone
• Command should work with stations now
• The ship builder should have fewer annoying warnings pop up
• Fix a bunch of core/shell misalignments when loading blueprints in editor mode
• Various bugfixes to start dialogue node and start task node
• Moar data does not lag out anymoar
• Ion should no longer damage ground entities
• Copy paste bugs in the mission editor are fixed
• Various abilities have been fixed
• Tanks and drones have had various fixes
• Smoother tank paths
• Fixed some BZ stats
• (hotfix) various entities should now be speaking correctly again
• (hotfix) BattleZones should be winnable again
• (hotfix) Aristu dying should now fail the Training Circuit task
• (hotfix) Fix a capitol raid mission issue which happens when you try and reenter the capitol center
• (hotfix) Fix a supply and demand force dialogue issue

There's much more, I didn't do a good job tracking everything.
Thank you for playing ShellCore Command Remastered!

Alpha release 20

v5.4.1-alpha changelog:

ADDITIONS:

• Added a changelog

BUGFIXES:

• Your save should no longer get corrupted if you start a custom world and then try launching a main world
• Active regen should now work, somewhat. It's still not completely fixed
• Ability hotkeys should now be rebindable again
• Abilities should no longer be activated when rebound
• Fixed several race condition issues that caused certain save files to lose the ability to progress missions

Thank you for playing ShellCore Command Remastered!

Alpha release 19

v5.4.0-alpha changelog:

ADDITIONS:

• Added Sector Graphs, which activate when you enter specific sectors and manipulate sector properties
• New cheat commands
  • add rep x - adds x reputation to the core
  • marco - marks entire map as seen
  • caught em all - marks entire part index as obtained
  • counting cards - debugs randomizer nodes
  • moar data - enables some helpful debugging info
• Allowed adding custom sounds
• The Ship Builder now has a compact mode that allows 1024x768 to display the entire window
• The Ship Builder grid is now draggable and masks extremely large ships appropriately
• Added the Bomb ability
• Added the Ion ability, a slow, rapid-damage beam
• Added a part select window in the WC that allows you to click parts to fill in the part ID field
• Added cluster moving sectors by shift-double-clicking
• Added BattleZone allied victory
• Added a new part courtesy of TBD
• Added new music courtesy of FlightWish
• Added the yard part collect node
• Added some more story
• Added a changelog

REVISIONS:

• Revised the speed system to be more like in the original games, though some constants have been adjusted
  • Hopefully this means bulkier ships are penalized less speed-wise
• Abilities of the same kind now stack into one square
• Abilities can now be rearranged on the bar anywhere you can access the ability bar
• Very large credit values are abbreviated in the HUD display
• Removed sector type from the map tooltips in the status menu
• Drones now form circles around ground carriers
• Regen skill has been buffed and the energy version no longer consumes energy
• The radius to save parts when players move to a new sector should now be increased
• Skirmish Minisode has been updated
• Core upgrades now increase max zoomout and main bullet damage
• The sector property display now is activated simply by left-click
• Variables can now be set in dialogue canvases via the node
• The roulette node is now the randomizer node and works for all canvases

BUGFIXES:

• Sounds should no longer stack
• Fixed SmallSide3 fill color
• Fixed skipping faction IDs
• Blurry edges on ability bars, the bar in the WC, and the dragging selection box have been fixed
• You can no longer interact with most entities while escaped out
• Parts that are hidden no longer trigger information in the bottom left of the Ship Builder
• Typing in the dev console should no longer move the player or trigger the passive dialogue archive
• Typing X into fields in the Ship Builder should no longer toggle the core in editor mode
• F1 now hides the HUD again
• Beams now have their effects again
• Entities should no longer overshoot their paths in cutscenes
• Fixed layering issues for various WC items and shard/power rocks
• Fixed glowing effects being retained when parts are destroyed
• Custom resources are kept when saving maps
• Stealth should no longer behave weirdly when stacked with other stealths
• Fixed ID selection for start dialogue nodes
• Fixed some command issues

Thank you for playing ShellCore Command Remastered!

Alpha release 18

v5.3.0-alpha changelog:

ADDITIONS:

• Added item defaults to the WC, you can specify the default faction and json values of items in this window. You can access it in Item Mode
• Added customizable carriers/outposts/bunkers in the WC via JSON
  • You can access the drone core that outposts/bunkers use and the ground carrier core by pressing X in the WC Ship Builder
• Added the Change Character Blueprint Node
• Added remaining drones to the WC
• Added background spawn option to only show the dialogue if the corresponding ID is in your party
• Added part index parts seen/obtained as dialogue conditions
• Added markers for ShellCores in BattleZones
• Added some more story
• Added a changelog

REVISIONS:

• Upgraded default ground carriers. Their drones stick to their spawn points instead of charging at the enemy
• Increased laser damage, penetration, and reduced energy cost
• Changed laser color to match with other weapons
• You cannot interact with entities while dialogue is open now
• Changed spawn entity to use ID instead of name for entities (flags still use names)
• Spawned SiegeZone entities only travel to targets that aren't their faction
• Orange markers are now per mission. You can now click on them in the Status Menu map to switch to the corresponding mission

BUGFIXES:

• Fixed core alignment bug in background dialogue. Hopefully for real this time.
• Fixed being able to move in cutscenes
• Fixed placed ShellCores not spawning correctly in SiegeZones
• Fixed worker drones being able carry multiple parts
• Fixed WC layering issue with ShellCores/ground platforms
• (Hopefully) fixed mission complete box cutting off text
• (Hopefully) fixed characters randomly moving to the origin point
• Jump gates now match with faction coloring
• Fixed bad default color for start mission nodes
• Only enemy outposts are marked as targets now in SiegeZones
• Fixed SmallSide3 fill color
• Fixed skipping faction IDs
• Fixed background dialogue coloring in main story
• Leaving BattleZones should now despawn all enemy characters
• (Hopefully) fixed some control bugs

Thank you for playing ShellCore Command Remastered!

Alpha release 17

v5.2.0-alpha changelog:

ADDITIONS:

• You can now hold shift in the Ship Builder to see the actual rectangular bounds of each part
• Added the Invert Tractor ability - temporarily allows you to grapple yourself to tractorable entities. SASAGEYO!
• Added advanced traders into the game, courtesy of Abnormalities
• Shards should now be dragged in by the Yard
• Added the original game's part shader as an option in settings, courtesy of Shell-Core
• Added the Core Upgrade Condition node
• Canvas entries are now scrollable in the input menu for when you have too many to display in a dropdown for your screen
• Added some more story
• Added a changelog

REVISIONS:

• Increased time limit for traveling to Haven 3 in Clearly Delusional Gauntlet from 30 seconds to 35 seconds
• Decreased the range of the Speeder Tank significantly
• Made Clearly Delusional ask you for confirmation when you want to start the timed tasks
• Changed the core designs in the EP2 main menu

BUGFIXES:

• Fixed a World Creator layering issue with turrets
• Fixed tanks driving off the end of the road if they weren't in the range of their target
• Fixed an empty manual entry
• Fixed the hotkeys manual entry not displaying everything written in it
• (hotfix) Fixed the hotkeys manual entry not displaying everything written in it again
• Fixed platforms not loading in the main map
• (Hopefully) fixed enemy harvesters/player tractors glitching out
• Fixed cutscenes breaking on world exit
• (Hopefully) fixed worker drone tractored parts disappearing on entering a new sector
• (Hopefully) fixed active regen reducing your regen to negative levels
• (Hopefully) fixed saves breaking if you load a custom world, and then a main world in the same session
• Destroy entity node should now work with factions correctly
• Null entity name warning spam removed
• (Hopefully) fix wave builder text cutoff
• Wave builder entities should now read in with correct factions
• (Hopefully) fix secondary targets not being removed on stealth
• Added some lenience to the Ship Builder to allow for more symmetric designs and fix floating-point rounding issues
• Removed ending message in Scourge of Secrecy
• Siege turrets should no longer have attack delays
• Sukrat has been added back to Haven 2 and Haven 3
• (Hopefully) fixed torpedo drones
• (hotfix) Fixed station minimap icons
• (hotfix) Fixed scrolling canvases being broken in the World Creator Canvas Editor
• (hotfix) Fixed platforms not saving correctly if you delete them all in a given sector

Thank you for playing ShellCore Command Remastered!