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Update 0.7 is now live

October 31, 2019by littlecloudgames

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Storm Chasers Patch Notes — October 31, 2019

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Hello Storm Chasers!
The new v0.7 update is now live (at last!).

Changelog

Features

Add a laptop in the car.
You will now be able to upgrade your gears directly from your laptop and navigate through the map on your radar.
This also adds a new feature to be able to upload your photos and probe's data. With this change you will still earn points when you take pictures but no money. To earn cash you will have to upload your photos and probe's data to your laptop.
This upload will last longer if you don't upgrade your bandwidth.
Uploading your photos will also free up space in your camera storage.
It is always better to upgrade your camera storage to avoid having to upload your photos right when you are chasing a tornado.
Here is a short video of the new laptop feature included:
New "Home" interaction in free roaming.
You will now have a home where you will be able to rest or to sleep. For now it is just a menu without an interior in 3D. If your house is destructed by a tornado, you will have to pay and wait (depending on damage amount) for its reconstruction.
"Feel the power" online versus game mode added.
In this game mode, you control a tornado and you have to earn more points than the other team (normal storm chasers). You have to destroy things to be able to increase your category. There will be a destruction bar to know how much you have to destroy to gain access to the next category.
You can watch a small peak of this upcoming game mode here
Warn residents of close tornadoes.
If a tornado is close to a house, you will now be able to knock the door to warn possible residents. It won't give you money, but a good amount of points.
Camera's battery management.
You will have to take care of your camera's battery level. You will be able to charge it in your car and will have to remember to take your camera with you before getting outside of the car if you leave it charging.

Modifications

Avoid player from being sucked by a tornado if he is protected behind a wall or similar (and the tornado doesn't destroy that wall ːsteamhappyː)
Optimize map performances
Probes will give you more points (up to 300pts in a EF5 direct hit)
Players will earn less points if they are taking too many similar pictures.
Make the game brighter
Car's lights have now a greater range and lights from street lamps are now wider
Offroad is now more complicated because the terrain is no more flat outside of roads
Better damage sounds when a tornado hits something
More violent physics when a debris is sucked up by a twister
Update max players number in online free roaming private to 8
Increased tornadoes max speed
In free roaming you will now earn XP every 12h instead of every 24h.

Bugfixing

Tornadoes were not spawning after sometime in online free roaming
Unity version updated to avoid some crashes
Respawning car in Wakota gas station was not working
Changed time of day 00pm and 00am to 12pm and 12am
When player was dying in singleplayer free roaming, he was respawning in his house instead of the gas station (to be able to respawn his car)
Increased the speed needed to be hit by hail when the windshield of your car is broken
If your car was in a forbidden area (in gas stations), respawning it was not changing this state
Changed break light color of the cars
Avoid getting vertical trees rendering when they are uprooted by a tornado
Some female clothes were locked until level 0 was reached
Some debris were flying far away when getting hit by a car
Cars were flying when driving over some big debris

And that's all!
Keep in mind that this is a big update that could include some new bugs
Thank you so much for your patience.
Have fun!