'The Universim' Enters Beta Stage With Big Content Update

by Rainier on Feb. 4, 2020 @ 4:09 p.m. PST

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Leave the farms and cities behind, jump straight into managing your own planets in The Universim, a brand new god-game in development by Crytivo Games and Alexander Koshelkov. The Universim is first and foremost a planet management game. The game begins in.

The Universim is a next generation planet management game where a vibrant, living world rests in your hands. With the powers of a god, you have the ability to change everything if you so wish, but time always flows on.

The Universim has been designed from the ground up to offer a very different take on your typical God Game. At its core, it offers all of the juicy features that long-time fans of the genre have come to know and love. The Universim Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.

Your civilization will evolve throughout the ages, with or without your guidance. You are taking control of a living simulation, not the same static world you are accustomed to. The AI will make many of its own decisions, and the world will change dynamically, throwing various challenges at your civilization at random times. You can attempt to influence your civilization’s decisions, or simply watch as their decisions begin to bear fruit or lead them into ruin.

However, when it comes to research choices, exploration, and colonization of alien planets, you have complete control. You can select their research path, and develop whatever technologies you deem important for the near future. Be warned, though. Research decisions play a crucial role in how your civilization progresses from era to era. Failure to do adequate research into the appropriate field for the time period will cause your civilization to suffer, or even perish entirely.

It’s been a while since we were last here together! You know, reading patch notes, braiding hair, listening to a few of your favorite playlists. However, our small break was for a good reason. We’re officially moving into BETA!

This means all the tools and features we need for full release are technically in the game, but we’re keeping a few things locked for now as we refine them and add content (there’s still A LOT of new stuff to play with anyway). The good news is, we’re planning to release The Universim in its entirety this year! The big 1.0 launch will see all of the hard work spent on systems, simulations, AI, sound, art, and more over the years finally smooshed together in a wonderful package.

As you know, we’ve been working on improvements to our in-game simulation engine (Prometheus) for a very long time. Today, we’re happy to roll the new system out for everyone to enjoy. One thing you’ll immediately notice is how the entire planet generation system was completely redesigned, allowing for bigger and more vibrant planets than ever before. Let’s not even mention how massive of an improvement it is over our piddly Kickstarter planet.

The Universim is currently available through Steam Early Access for $29.99.
Below is the list of the most significant changes (which we mentioned in the previous update). If you would like to join the community and follow our development as we edge closer to full release, hop onto our Discord server and see our live changelog there. Every time one of our devs pushes new updates to the game, you’ll see their comments. We’ve always done our best to be as transparent as possible, and now you get to see every little thing we do.

UPGRADED WORLD

The new planets are not only slightly bigger, they have been pumped up in many more ways. They are now wrapped up in a far superior pathfinding system that will help Nuggets find their way around easier (basically rewritten from the ground up to help prevent that silly lot from getting stuck). Mother Planet also has significantly more objects than before, moving from around 12,000 to around 57,000 objects. And the cherry on top: the planet actually loads faster, too! We even managed to optimize all of this to offer a performance boost. How about that?

NEW POLLUTION SYSTEM

A new pollution system is responsible for how often you’ll be bombarded with natural disasters. It’s basically a way for Mother Planet to criticize your civilization. It also affects seasons and Nugget behavior. Certain buildings will increase pollution, while some may reduce it. Additionally, pollution will no longer change immediately upon placing a new building; it will slowly be increased or reduced until it reaches the final level introduced by any new buildings. Be sure to pay attention!

BUILDING ICONS

We have decided to ditch building status flags. Based on your feedback, we agree that they were difficult to see, especially when in between tall buildings as your civilization progressed. The new icon system should make things a lot clearer.

TWITCH INTEGRATION

New commands and updates

#FillWell - Allows viewers to randomly fill 1 Well
#FillReservoir - Allows viewers to randomly fill 1 Reservoir
#AttackNugget *Nugget Name* - Allows viewers to attack whichever Nugget they specified
We added a special toggle where you can disable new viewers from being able to join your game. You can use this toggle whenever you feel necessary, such as when you want to control the birth queue and prevent things from getting too chaotic.
We also did a complete UI redesign to make everything look much snazzier

RESOURCE VISUALIZATION

A much-requested feature! Now, whenever you place a resource extraction building (mine, oil jack, etc), you will see a mapping on the planet that indicates where you can find the most abundant supply of the specified resource. It was a surprisingly complex task, due to the world being spherical, but we managed to make it work. Enjoy!

IMPROVEMENTS AND GAME CHANGES

Additional Slots were unlocked on refineries at level 0 (from 3 -> 6)
Medieval Warehouse can now store modern resources
Throwing rocks and trees can now damage trees
Clothing is now unlocked via research perks instead of internal Era Change code
Previously, flags would display if a building needed water or electricity. If the building needed both, it would still display only one requirement until it was satisfied. Now the new icons will display both requirements.
Improved the lighthouse light effect -- it is now using real-time lighting
The “assign all” button was added to each Factory and Mine. Pressing the button will assign all required Nuggets to the building.
Meteor Strike, Fire and Lightning strike will cause animals to drop Piles of food. Previously, they were not dropping it.
Guards, Police and Hunters will defend the city from wolf attacks or Exile attacks. They will also take reduced damage from enemy attacks compared to other Nuggets.
Factories gathering resources restrictions were removed. Previously, only one Nugget was allowed to gather resources for Factories if all Nuggets were busy. Now all Nuggets will go and gather resources that are missing if other laborers are busy with other tasks.
Auto-scrolling of a Nugget’s status was added to the Nugget panel. Now the status will be scrolled if the status is too large to fit.
Unborn Nugget icon was added to the Clone Center
Adjusted volume / audio priority in our sound system
Added the ability to drop dead Nuggets into the cemetery in a similar way to how resources are being dropped for the buildings
Added the ability to drop crops into the farm in a similar manner to how resources are being dropped for the buildings
Added lights to modern buildings to glow at night
Amount of bushes on the planet was rebalanced and their appearance in specific biomes was changed.
Bushes are dependent on local temperatures rather than seasons. Placing an Epicenter close to the mountains will decrease the amount of food that Nuggets will be able to collect due to low temperatures.
Added Era

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