Frack the World — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
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| Introducing Beef Cat Ultra! | 2024-03-21 | Introducing Beef Cat Ultra! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2796510/Beef_Cat_Ultra/ BEEF CAT ULTRA WISHLIST PAGE A retro-infused auto-shooter where you play as the titular Beef Cat and 5 of his friends. Battle the forces of Some Big Guy through 4 hand-crafted worlds across several gameplay styles like Survival, Collectathon, and Gauntlet (the like old game series that's sadly not continued anymore). Watch the trailer and take it all in, we'll be discussing the game in much more detail as time goes on but let's meet the Beef Cat Team! Our Media Creator is @thet.blahaman, Thomas Blaha, and put together this first teaser. He is also our certi |
| Patch 1.1 | 2023-05-21 | Patch 1.1 A New Underground We begin the journey to the depths of the patch notes with an overhauled underground experience. Starting small, a visual make-over has been done on the Frack Spots to make them less contrasting with the dirt and appear more visually palette-able. Small and subtle but effective. Introducing Dense Dirt in the underground: this new underground tile has a gravel-y look and can be built through but pipes built through it will cost more monthly maintenance. A tutorial for Dense Dirt has been added to Scenario 2: Rocky Situation, and the tiles themselves have been added to more than a dozen stages throughout each mode. P |
| Fracking Milestone! | 2023-04-18 | I'm so happy to say over 500 of you have made Frack the World such a personal success! I had written in my notebook prior to launch that I expected 50 people to play my game. Lofty goals. To be crossing the 500 player threshold a little over a month into the game's life is mind-blowing to me. So, thank you all - really. Anyways, several weeks have passed since launch and 8 patches alongside it that have addressed dozens of quirks and quality of life things. Beyond that I was able to add a new company and scenario. It's the quality of life stuff that really makes me happy and I hope it's noticeable in-game. I think that very must-address launc |
| Hotfix 1.07a | 2023-04-11 | Hotfix 1.07a Changes -potentially fixed an issue with fullscreen mode** -fixed an error when opening the lab in bird mode **I could not replicate this issue for the life of me but had it described fairly clear by two separate users. I never was able to replicate it - but I think I did identify where the issue was coming from, I have no way of confirming that but the code makes sense to me. My suspicion is that anybody with ultrawide monitors or particularly large monitors in general were the affected group - in which case you should be good. |
| Patch 1.07 | 2023-04-02 | Patch 1.07 Changes MENU STUFF scenarios now visually indicate which company you are playing as in the menu scenario names and win conditions are now in their own title card in the menu several formatting changes to scenario descriptions items in shop menus are now highlighted when cursor is in contact changed "Select a Map" to "Select a Stage" in Quickplay menu changed "Special Game" to "Special Mode" in Quickplay menu re-positioned location of Special Modes in the Quickplay menu the description menu backdrop now only displays when text is being displayed in the Quickplay menu quickplay stage selection description completely revamped scenario |
| Patch 1.06 | 2023-03-22 | Patch 1.06 Changes There is a lot to unload here. I wanted to wait until there was even more but at some point the refinements were at a tipping point that I just didn't want known flaws out there in the wild. So this is two weeks earlier than planned - which just means another one will come in a few weeks. NEW CONTENT added Scenario 11: The Future is Plastic added Quickplay Stage 22 added a new company, Peridot Fabrications, to Quickplay added a new music track while playing as Peridot Fabrications added Australian Dirt cosmetic option to Quickplay added Australian Dirt cosmetic option to Bird Mode added a new mouse cursor cosmetic added Sup |
| Hotfix 1.05 | 2023-03-10 | Hotfix 1.05 Changes OTHER Turbines no longer have infrastructure costs if playing as Sapphire Drilling fixed some News Flashes not triggering properly in scenarios changed the text that displays when losing the scenario Deadline in various circumstances removed some text from Quickplay menu that wasn't accurate fixed mouse cursor not displaying correctly in weird specific circumstances adjusted the color of the $$ earned display inside of the Plastic Manufactory Just a small clean-up today from things I've caught or heard about. A couple I saw in a Twitch stream, so thank you for streaming - a couple clean-ups thanks to you. Kyle |
| Hotfix 1.04 | 2023-03-05 | Hotfix 1.04 Changes NEW FEATURE added a visualization for new players that guides them to play the tutorial first NEW CONTENT added United Kingdom Dirt cosmetic option to Quickplay added United Kingdom Dirt cosmetic option to Bird Mode added a new unlockable cursor cosmetic added 3 news stories to the news scroller with varying trigger conditions added 6 Steam Achievements related to quickplay and a new cursor challenge OTHER adjusted spacing of some quickplay options adjusted centering of controls button in-match made in-match quit button much more clean and legible adjusted the text layout of the bird descriptions fixed a typo in the pelica |
| Hotfix 1.03 | 2023-03-04 | Hotfix 1.03 Changes NEW FEATURE can view all previously triggered news scrolls in-match in the ESC menu OTHER edited the text of several news scroll stories smoother control over master volume setting smoother control over news speed setting further increased collision check for the click-to-start on the title screen added a sound effect when opening and closing the controls menu A big one for a hotfix probably, but every triggered news in the UI can be read at any time now in-match when you open the ESC menu. Just highlight the news and read away to your heart's content! This was based on feedback from multiple people, including my partner, |
| Hotfix 1.02 | 2023-03-04 | Hotfix 1.02 Changes CONTROL CHANGES pressing W/S now navigates the view the same as the arrow keys or mouse wheel scroll pressing R now sells oil (in addition to Mouse Wheel Click) pressing Q now closes any active window/menu (in addition to Right Click) pressing E now opens the contractor and does not reset the view pressing any of hotkeys for the pipe hotbar UI opens the contractor and does not reset the view controls menu has been reorganized for legibility and new controls OTHER updated sell UI to say "R to Sell" updated an economist news scroll message to say "Sell with R" updated the sell key references in Scenario "Getting Started" to |
| Hotfix 1.01 | 2023-03-02 | Hotfix 1.01 Changes can no longer build pipes or buildings if it would make you go broke adjusted the resolution output to reduce the amount of pixel stretching occurring fixed an issue where the saved volume setting wouldn't properly be loaded on the next play session added a visualization if you have not sold oil after the start of the month -----after 10 seconds pass if you haven't sold your oil, the UI will get a pop-up that says "S to Sell" -----this will not show up if you sell your oil altered the sound effect that triggers at start of month reduced the volume of a couple sound effects Not every hotfix will be this fast, but it's launc |
| Frack the World is Available Now! | 2023-03-01 | Frack the World is available now! Wow. So I made a Reddit post this morning hoping to drive my expectation for 5 players up to 6. A sincere heartfelt thanks to the Reddit community for making this not only one of the most memorable days of my life - but leaving me totally speechless. As of writing this, my hope of 5 players has been far succeeded and there are over 100 people fracking the world. You have no idea what that means to me. I have worked on this game for so long. I'm so proud of it. And I am so excited that so many people are playing it - even if it does kind of terrify me. Please please let me know if you stream the game, I will t |
| Frack the World Releases Wednesday March 1st! | 2023-01-31 | Frack the World, the first game from Beef Cat, launches March 1st! Before I get into Frack the World, which is already introduced in the game page, let me introduce myself. Beef Cat is a small team of brothers making gaming content across streaming, YouTube, and game development - consisting of myself (Kyle) and my brothers (Thomas, Alex). We are all passionate about the game industry and all get different things out of it. Unified under the Beef Cat umbrella we all get a place to express it. Frack the World is a solo dev game, made entirely by myself (Kyle) aside from some small things. Some early art assets were originally put together by a |