This is the BETA for the new episodic format of Chicken Invaders 2-3-4-5 on Steam.
To join the BETA
Restart Steam (to receive the latest changes).
Right-click CI2-3-4-5 in your Library (alternatively, click the icon on the game’s page) and select Properties.
Select the Betas tab.
Under “Beta Participation”, select episode_beta.
Close the window and start the game. From the launch options that appear, select Episode 2-3-4-5 (NEW!).
How to export your CI2-3-4-5 purchase to CIU
Prerequisites:
You must already have a CIU account, and that account must be associated with an e-mail.
You must own CI2-3-4-5 on Steam yourself (that is, CI2-3-4-5 must be purchased under the same Steam account that you’ve used to log in to Steam). Steam Cafe or Family sharing do not count as owning the game.
Steps:
At the main menu, select Options then Accounts.
Select Export Purchase.
Enter your CIU account e-mail and click Submit.
Done.
Desktop shortcut
The desktop shortcut that Steam creates can only start the game using the default launch option. Sadly, there is no way to launch the Episode directly, however you can force the launch options to be displayed each time the shortcut is clicked.
Right-click on your desktop shortcut, and select Properties. Replace the URL field with this:
I didn’t even touch CI5 one, spare me. It doesn’t look very off-centered to me. Do you take into consideration that it’s not taking the icon on the left into consideration?
Was wondering why choosing spacecraft for the main mission doesn’t have translated text, now I just noticed that it does have translations but only when clicking the paint tab:
The readability of this (small dark text) is also questionable. I wanted to report this one together with the last one but I couldn’t find a quick way to summon a similar window.
Not to sound nitpicky (I’m just curious), has the @ symbol always been so “squished” in CI4?
This is how it appears in CI5:
and in CI3:
Is it just the font?
…but I haven’t touched that symbol when I was extending the font. I suppose it was like that in the original file I was editing, taken from the game. I will fix it after the CI5 font extension (hopefully this January because I am bad at schedules).
For the issue when you knew about Spaceship moved to top of screen without moving mouse cursor. I remember when I tried in Multiplayer CIU with EP5 DLC, it can be same issue with EP2, 3, 4 that spaceship auto move on top of screen without moving mouse cursor (it probably host doesn’t move on top of screen, maybe players (as player joining host multiplayer room), this happening me and @RainbowBoyVN playing multiplayer last time in CIU EP5 DLC.
icon on the game’s page) and select Properties.
Bug
