And We’re back!
It didn’t take that long, anyway let’s see what got added to the current version, hmm…
Version 113
We’ve got a new enemy! A cold one. Chiller!
Also noticed some last-minute changes:
And also, it couldn’t attack… So we need an attack idea.. Who’s brave to prove a new attack concept? Oh here it’s:
With that we got the attack in the game!
And fun fact: when getting hit by a snowball, you don’t get actually frozen, instead, you’re getting tooo slow, similar to Alchemist but it’s potion is faster.
We got a cold enemy, what about a fire related one? Well, here’s what iA got:
And no, this isn’t really him, He just got the image from this post:
And wait, that fast? The enemy got implemented that quickly?
Another fact, the enemy face is just a mix of “Drone chicken” and the turkey beak.
Oh that was quick! I guess the enemy is ready (just noticed it uses the normal legs instead of the “halloween ones”)
Oh it’s finished? That took just a week! Looks like the content are going to come pretty easily now. Let’s see what’s next…
Version 114
And we’ve got that enemy in the game! Let’s see what it does.
So it’s just Chiller clone but with different attack… ok. Anything else got added? Surprisingly, yes!
It’s Cuisines! What’s this? It just replaces the food appearance with other food, they don’t carry drumsticks all the time.
And btw, this isn’t “new”. It actually originated from one of CI3 unlockables:
This makes me wonder… Do chickens turn into fish or they were carrying some of them?
Second is possible as chickens also contain buns by default for burgers. Which makes another quesion.
Why do chickens hold drumsticks?
As apparently it’s not part of them. My theory is that they use them for reviving/cloning other chickens specifically from Earth somehow.
And also bosses hold multiple drumsticks. So I guess it’s the case.
I guess I'm overexaggerating just for game element.Anyway.
Let’s continue our new content rush!
As we got 120 anniversary special, can’t we get one for CI2?
Of course we’ll get! Instead of the whole game remade in game.
We don’t want the game to be free in CIU. We also don’t waste time for just a whole remake. The remake part can be done later but we have few months until the anniversary.
What should we do? Hmmm… Let’s see what iA got:
So we get a downgrade effect that:
- Pixilate stuff
- Limit Colors
- Downscale Assets
- Use CI2-like music
There were also plans for disabled mouse controllers but thankfully this didn’t make the cut!
Now let’s go to the next version where we see that feature straight in the game!
Version 115
We’ve got new features like Pixie Dust which is a side visual effect similar to the exhausts but all what it does is spitting particles…
And of course these particles don’t do anything…
Also a whole redesign for the mission config to allow:
- Multiple Cuisines
- Multiple Backgrounds
- Multiple Music
And lastly, Heat insight which all it does is adding lines around the ship to represent the heat meter on the ship directly, also wanna mention that it was shown in 2002 preview screenshot:
And that’s it, into the next version!
Version 116
We’ve got all music actually in the game, new unexpected ones. And with a new one coming soon to the game! Finally! And yes, hugo the great isn’t a boss track, it’s a wave track.
Any other changes? Oh yes, this secret thing…
What happens when we enable it? Let’s see..
And yes, not that exciting but worth mention.
Version 117
The main feature is Pot Luck, it’s just a daily mission which all players use the same equipment per difficulty.
Also, I wanna say something about.
The" Fleet Preview" now actually shows the ship:
This later got changed as it also makes the ship grid in the back look worse, iA doesn’t want to remove it so…
Now that’s much better!
Version 118
As we got Pot Luck, why don’t we get another challenge? Well, we got a new one this update! I already wonder how unique it is…
So it’s just Pot Luck but harder? Yes…
Also the Daily Mission got changed to “Today’s Scramble”. So far small stuff look like. Is there anything else got added?
Actually, yes!
Something new, great, with that, we got the chance to use backgrounds with other colors (like red, orange)!
But everything has its cost…
And that made backgrounds from colorful depending on both environment and background.
But now. If you got to an environment you’ll see them in one static color no matter the background…
Version 119
Even we got the background colorization to worse. We got a new background, and a new music!
And that’s not all, we’ve also got quests! The main attraction of this update! Let’s focus on quests, for just this update, the game got updated 8 times to make quests easier or harder.
And with all these updates, one of the quests got removed which is:
And because of the recent “2002 mode bug reports”, iA decided to… remove it.
Don’t worry it will come back in the next versions.
Version 121
There aren’t any new features but at least there’s a “new” season edition, at least it’s the first for CIU alone, introducing…
The Halloween Edition
And that’s not just replace stuff with CI5 halloween skins, no he couldn’t do that only.
As you know, the normal chickens didn’t have halloween skins before the update (because they basically didn’t have one). But with just some copy-paste work, we got the skin.
The other stuff include with actual new assets are:
- Alchemist
- Other Chicks
- Thundercluck
- Dr Beaker
- Slob Chicken
- Big Chicken Shirt
Yes, the shirt just got replaced with one with skull picture… boring…
But, this isn’t the only thing, there’s something approaching, the dream most players wanted to see. Wanted to try, introducing…
CIU goes to phones!
And finally, the dream became true! We’ll play the game in our phones! But, it’s not yet in play stores…
It’s just a test build which people download via apk. The classic way we downloaded games before when they weren’t in stores.
Let’s see the differences between our current phone version, and the old one.
Oh, one of the planned features was removing the ability to host games on phone…
Good it didn’t change, what else?
Fun fact: this menu still exists in the game, just go tot an area where you should write stuff but with a controller instead of a keyboard:
And that’s what we got in main changes, into the next versions of CIU!
Version 123
Another edition? The time files! This time with Thanksgiving Edition, there was less time to do stuff as we mentioned above phone improving stuff, but let’s see what iA got to add.
Almost nothing new, except for making the chicks turkeys and the ability to look at the ship.
There’s something off about it however is that, they use the original chick pupils instead of their own…
The chickens didn’t even get to get reskinned, only their sound. At least Big Chickens got skins too, wait.. Most stuff aren’t combilable with the big chicken skin…
Agh, this edition ruins more, let’s just remove it, there are already too many issues.. Especially as big chickens asset is reused almost everywhere.
Version 124
Phew… That was close, are there any other editions? Yes, and the one we started with…
Remember 2002 mode we talked about? Now it’s here again. With a different prompt instead of being -2002test, it’s now -2002mode. This version now also include 2000s music which includes the og CI2 theme as replacement of the main CIU theme.
That’s it.
Version 125
A new feature came! Finally after all of this. What it does?
It just allows you to report players… And because beginners might report anyone for no reason, we’ve got a limit based on tiers, activity and other stuff which its details aren’t revealed.
And no, this isn’t tutorial tweaking or anything. It’s just stuff to protect the game from bad behavior like better spam limits, or whatever it got added, also.
The forum now has better defense against spammers:
And also, Xmas edition got added back. With that we got 3 versions in a row, each one containing a new edition.
And almost we’ll come to the LAST VERSION of Early Access! But before that, we need to go somewhere…
Galactic Party
Welcome, to the party perpetration phase. Every year from now on, we will do the same galactic party, in first we choose which location the party will be in. (where all people come to)
And then iA releases the update with the party and then we say it’s actually…
Early Access EXIT!!!
Version 126
Version got released after all, this year was filled with content, new enemies, however there’s no time to add new features yet… back to the party.
Going there and then the location gets a disco party inside of it, meanwhile we’re just watching it from outside…
And this isn’t the only thing, iA hosts there a multiplayer mission, with Linux?
And that’s not it, he still comes to CI Discord server and join the voice chat and… well chats with players. Sometimes talking about what’s next in the game to add.
And that’s it, the year ended! Expect more stuff to come in the next year, it will have new projects with interesting details about how iA makes his assets.
Thanks for Reading!
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