[Klei] Preview of the first content patch of Oxygen Not Included

Klei Entertainement has unveiled the first Oxygen Not Included content patch through their weekly stream. Here's a synthesis with commentaries and screenshots!

Date of launch of the patch

As for Don't Starve, the patch will be available in a preview version via Steam one week before its release. Here are the dates:

Preview version: March 15, 2017.

Release version: March 22, 2017.

This patch is obviously free for all owners of the Alpha version of the game.


New biome: the Glacier

A new biome is emerging, the glacier, whose ambient temperature is very cold as well as the ice in the solid state and semi-liquid (undergoing melting) that composes it.



As the ambient temperature increases, the ice melts gradually to water.

Ice can be polluted and therefore give some polluted water.

The glacier is also composed of rock like granite and others already in play. There is also a new rock:

The glacier has a new plant that breathes and cools the ambient air.

You can warm the ambient air of the glacier or other biome with a new craft recipe that has been added:

New negative effects: hypothermia and hyperthermia

The patch is resolutely focused on highlighting temperatures and their impact. Thus, Duplicants can now suffer from hypothermia (very low body temperature) or from hyperthermia (having too much heat).

Note that extreme temperatures will also affect machines that will be damaged.

Several interface elements thus appear:

New Overlay: Thermal Comfort



This new concept of thermal comfort is added to the thermometer which allows only to see the different temperature levels. Here, it will really matter to manage the temperature for you Duplicants to feel good and especially do not suffer damage seeing die from hot or cold!



We realize that water basins are now considered very cold areas and therefore potentially dangerous for Duplicants if they were to stay there to build a water pump or to recover resources.

From then on, a new craft recipe was added: Hermetic Full Element.

This one must be completely immersed and allows to warm a basin of water.

Here is its location in the research tree:

New environmental structure: geysers

Some caves now include geysers that spit water vapor unlimitedly and continuously.

The uses will be numerous and varied provided to tame the high temperatures that reign there.


New mechanism: allow/forbid access of certain rooms of your base



The mechanized door now has a new mechanism. With the patch, you can control the access to a room with this door by setting the inputs / outputs separately and for each Duplicate!

Here are some examples :

    Duplicant 1: has the right of entry / exit.
    Duplicant 2: has the right of entry but can not exit.
    Duplicant 3: has the right to go out but not to return.
    Duplicant 4: can not enter or exit.

Imagine all the possibilities such as preventing Duplicators that break your machines from entering the battery room or rollers that remain their primary targets. And many other possible uses.




New mechanism: voltage management

Now you should be careful not to overload yours electrical network since you will have a maximum value of electrical voltage:

Thus the basic cable will carry a lower electrical load, requiring you to increase your network.

Alternatively, use a high voltage cable that replaces the thermally insulated cable.

Changes and bug fixes

• The thermally insulated cable is replaced by the high voltage cable.

• New indicator:

 

The decay of food was already in the game but now it will be more visible and especially more emphasized. You will therefore be more incited to put your foods cool. Obsolete foods no longer disappear but become rot that can be used as a fertilizer.

• The word "contaminated" is replaced by "polluted".

• New icon for the Mop action:

 

• Now the absence of soil or the injection of a fluid not suited to the machine (like the contaminated water for the shower) breaks the device.

• Now when a Duplicant gets annoyed on a machine and breaks it, once calmed, the latter repairs it immediately.

•  The bug that destroyed the fluids that came in too much to a device was corrected.

Changes and contents to come in the next patches

• More sand will be added in the upcoming patches.

• A new way to reduce stress will be added.

• There will be plenty of new research to be implemented.

And of course many other things are still unreported.


Stream Replay

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/127563083