This update is full of surprises! Some you will read about here, some you will have to discover on your own in game. ;)
Features
- Your Fauna may have evolved: We have added some additional Fauna characteristics and some characteristics have changed. This means that some of the Fauna you care for may look different than they did before. But dont worry! Their love for you will never change.
- New Feature! Bux Stores! Now you can purchase Gene Food to change your Fauna's colors, parts, or even species using Bux! If you are one of the Caretakers who already have Bux, youre in luck! If not, keep an eye out for upcoming ways to earn Bux. Bux will be available for purchase in the Faunasphere store when the game launches; its a special treat for beta testers to use throughout the beta. Keep in mind, these items can also be traded to other players or sold for Lux on the Marketplace. So even if you dont have Bux you still have a chance to get your hands on Gene Food!
- Store Stations that sell items for Lux now project a hologram of the Lux icon. The Store Station hologram that you are used to now means that Store Station sells items for Bux.
- Cleaning pollution will result in Lux more often and Blocks less often.
- Caretakers can now stop the hoopla whenever a goal is completed or an egg is hatched by clicking on the animation.
- A baby Fauna will remain a baby until it earns a certain amount of egg points, rather than growing into an adult after a short period of time.
- The Fauna profile and information has been updated and polished. You will now see what abilities your Fauna has by looking at its profile!
- Introducing the Gene Test Kit! When looking at your Faunas profile you will now have the opportunity to view the genes of that particular Fauna including dominant and recessive genes. This information will prove to be very helpful when trying for specific colors or patterns as you hatch eggs!
- Another gate has opened! Go take a peek at Glacier Base! You can find the gate in the Frozen Village.
- We have added tooltips to the happiness/energy bars, help button, and the chat entry box.
- You can now hide the menu at the bottom of your screen if you want to see more of the game. Just press the Ctrl + Shift + H keys at the same time! The menu will reappear when you hover over the bottom of your screen. The same key combination will disable this feature and return your menu to its original state.
What else is in store?? More animations have been put into place! What exactly? Thats a surprise. Go check it out!
Bug Fixes
- We addressed some issues that were causing Faunas lasers to zap pollution incorrectly.
- Fauna level has been removed from the Egg point indicator. You can now see the Fauna's level in its profile.
- The ability to switch Fauna will be disabled when the Fauna is under attack (eaten) by the pollution monster. This was done to avoid issues with Fauna becoming frozen.
- Text in the to do list for tasks where you collect specific items (like the curios and the flyers) will now show the correct number collected ("1/5", "2/5", etc.).
Beta Testers! You can discuss this update
here.