At the time, Xmas version was the default so head was different. aside from head appearance, nothing changed, remember the steam trailer we talked about?
It’s here! Let’s see:
Does that mean the long waited “Early Access End” had come? Nope, not yet… So far, all stuff in the trailer are the same except one thing…
Remember the Spacecraft Showcase from the first month of the year? Looks like it’s reused here, but now with animations and zoom outs.
And after all of this, this screen isn’t in the game and remained dev-exclusive…
Version 65
A new feature approached, It’s the league and like many ideas in the game, it’s fan-based:
And also, the system of how dares and points are chosen is revealed:
The league at the time has similar features to the ones we have today but there are some stuff which are missing, well get into them in the next versions!
Version 67
More league tweaks, and in this update, the friendly match got added. Nothing much to say about this update, moving on.
Version 68
A normal update, some stuff were tweaked, like Slob chicken now has less pain in his belly:
But luckily no resets happened for this update, it might happen in the next one, who knows?
Version 70
And here’s the update where the galaxy is about to be… Wait…
Not this update? A new feature took up the galaxy rest time?
Phew, no restes and instead we got “Anonymize Player”.
It just hides player info from the screen while playing. Only useful in streams or videos on Youtube to not suddenly get a bunch of “New Contact” messages.
But we still need to be aware of that Galaxy Reset, it will come, no matter what we do.
Version 71
And now the galaxy has been… Agh, not again, what’s up this time?
What does that mean? Are we going to translate the game? Turns out YES! To any language!!!
Finally we can translate and play the game in our native language!
Wait, not all of them, Arabic, Persian and any language which is written from right to left are untranslatable… Will this be fixed? As also many players are Arabs, and not what iA said…
Version 72
Hey, we’re not restarting the galaxy today, there are more important stuff, one of them is Support for the Arabic Language and its fragments, Left to right languages.
So iA changed his mind? It’s still a great decision. Even though the shaping looked wrong and UI was flipped horizontally:
It will be fixed in the next updates to be like the Arabic we all know.
I really want the shape of the UI like that as an option. But what about the galaxy reset? I think it’s time for it..
Version 74
And long waited galaxy reset is here.. As a reminder that means all missions, planets are removed and regenerated.
In my opinion, this can be as a separate idea for “infinite galaxies” idea, the only bad side of it is there would be one player in the galaxy map…
Anyway, how was the galaxy reset? Not so good, aside from the side effects we mentioned, more were introduced:
We’ve already got some problems with the galaxy, do you know what does that mean?
Another galaxy reset!
So the regeneration is slight, but still, there are some lost stuff…
These regeneration stuff are already breaking the game…
And even an old version of the “guest spam” nowadays…
Now you know how messy/dangerous a galaxy reset, so far no galaxy resets happened after this one, let’s see some major features, with that, we’re going to…
Version 76
This version is made for a new thing, remember steam trailer from the start of the year? It’s coming, and for the first time in CIU, a BETA comes in!
At the start there are limited amount of people who can access the steam beta, it’s only accessible via “keys”.
I already feel how tired iA is now after messaging everyone to send them steam keys… Like imagine the amount of people who wanted to participate…
Version 77
Easter Edition has been added this update, also the Steam version is about to release, and with that a new “feature freeze” is coming.
Which means no features are going to be added for the game temporary. And that means, skipping more versions…
Version 81
With that update a new feature got added, Pro gamer mode!
And no, you don’t have to be pro to enable such a mode. All what it does is decreasing the effects in explosions, smoke, shakes, etc…
Not much to talk about here.
Version 82
Waves rush is back! Too many waves in a single update, and we can’t forget this wave:
And this isn’t the only thing, a new boss was added, it’s a secret one..
Basically this is just a retro boss fight but it’s fought with rotated screen. That’s it.
Version 83
“Leds” were added for UFOs, each UFO enemy had its color.
Also a new enemy, “Fester” remember the UFOs from CI2, CI3? It’s kinda the same thing expect it drops UFO after destroying it.
And the design and name is based on a character from Space Quest?
Looks like we’re running out of original characters…
Version 84
A short update but with a MASSIVE feature, introducing:
Thundercluck!
Fun fact about the name, after finishing the boss, iA asked about a name for this chicken, it had a name in the files “Punk” but we’ll need a better one..
All suggested names for the boss:
In the end, the name was chosen through a poll and with that we got Thundercluck as we know now, almost.
The difference there that this boss had pain animation but the idle one looked ugly (used flip horizontal effect), so only one choice is available, replace it with idle animation and make them like Special Forces, Party Chicken…
Version 86
A new kind of competitions… Introducing, the Galactic cup!
Actually for this version, there aren’t any cups… We’ll just play that cup normally and see how it goes.
But wait… The first cup is going to be awarded?
And with that, the Galactic Cup got added to the game:
Stuff I noticed that these letters, numbers are shortens of some stuff:
U → Universe
C → Chicken
M → Medal
First Number → Breed/Item Number
Second Number → Variation Number
K → Key
And so far, there were 11 items:
3 Medals
2 Coward Chickens
All Chicks (10)
14 Balloon Chickens
2 Pilot Chickens
72 Normal Chickens, each one has 24 variations, and there were 12 clothes, per breed including… An unused shirt from the game?!
That logo design is also reused “in the future”, when it’s used? We’ll get to know soon.
As for the website now…
It’s still there with changed pfp, and no descriptions, does that mean it’s cancelled?
Maybe, 5 years and no new NFTs were added there.
Probably for how that website wasn’t very known there at the time or just people downloaded them with the way I’ve shown above. It’s already obvious people don’t want to waste money on animated pictures.
Anyway, let’s see if there are any changes happened to the multiplayer.
Version 92
Too many fixes, Ctrl+Alt+X now crashes in main menu only, new outcome “partial”, players can now leave without pausing, UDP options, etc…
So in short, this update made a step closer to the current multiplayer, there are more missing features but we’ll get to them in upcoming updates!
Version 94
More fixes for Multiplayer, Translations, New “Password” games were added, and the early access banner is now replaced with nags!
Actually, these nags look cool, I’d really want them to be an option to be viewed, even for CHL users. They can serve as a good decoration.
Maybe they would be replaced with stuff like “Train at Heroes Academy”, or “New Sales await in Aftermarket”. That would be great for some players who don’t like nags but still wants decoration.
Version 96
More features to the multiplayer, darkening, hiding speech bubbles, hiding hardpoints, etc..
And with that, multiplayer features are about to get finished to reach a closer state to the present multiplayer.
Version 98
This version released in December, and everyone knows what does that mean, Xmas skins.
And also the galactic party is now in the game, and the sun colors were changed, wait.
How did the old ones look like?
Like this:
Why this topic is in Lounge? It doesn’t fit there that much to be private…
Still, it got added:
Nice! and that’s how the idea of changing star colors came from, it sounds minor but some behind of scenes screenshots were revealed, it’s still a great change!
Version 99
More Xmas skins, many new for CI3 (Mysterious Ship, Blast From the Past), now we’re approaching to the multiplayer party!
We already have a galactic party in Space Burger, we just made multiplayer this year so…
That’s what iA did, and this isn’t just a random multiplayer game, it had many players…
And finally concluding the year with a new ship teaser!
What’s going to be the ship mechanics, How many customizations will this ship has, and how it will play. Is for the next year… To be continued…
