HotM: After The Transformation

Reporting Bugs

• Any bugs or requests should go to our mantis bugtracker
  • If you need to submit log files, those can generally be found under your PlayerData/Logs folder in the folder your game is installed in. The most relevant one is called HeartoftheMachineLog.txt. You can send us the whole thing, or just strip out relevant parts.
  • In rare cases, mainly if your entire game crashes (that almost never happens), we will need your unity player log. That gets overwritten the next time you run the game after a crash, unlike the other log. These can be found here:
    • Windows: C:\Users\username\AppData\LocalLow\Arcen Games, LLC\Heart of the Machine\Player.log
    • macOS: ~/Library/Logs/Arcen Games, LLC/Heart of the Machine/Player.log
    • Linux: ~/.config/unity3d/Arcen Games, LLC/Heart of the Machine/Player.log

0.506

(Not Yet Released)

0.505 Investigation Exceptions

(Released May 18th, 2024)

• Added a bunch of extra hardening to the investigations so that they don't cause nullref exceptions after completing in certain fashions. This was kind of a threading issue, sort of.
  • Thanks to ptarth for reporting the cluster of these that existed.

0.504 Playtest App

(Released May 18th, 2024)

• Updated the game so that it can properly log into steam on the playtest app or demo app.
  • Since changing to Heathen Engineering's version of the steamworks wrapper, away from Facepunch, there were some differences that I didn't appreciate until today. All seems good now.

0.503 The Return Of Testers!

(Released May 18th, 2024)

• Fixed a bug where a structure without a job at it would throw an exception when it took damage.
  • Thanks to ptarth for reporting.

• Hardened the InvestigateSpecificBuilding method so that one error that might have been possible is no longer possible. Not sure if that was the error actually encountered.
  • Also added in more direct instrumentation so that if this happens again, I'll know much more precisely what the problem is.
  • Thanks to ptarth for reporting.

• The rebel you're supposed to find at the start of turn one now has a giant pulsing ring around them, to make them easier to find.
  • Thanks to ptarth for inspiring this change, but he wasn't the only one who ran into this over the last months.

• The tooltip for finding the rebel now mentions some extra details about the fact that you can interact with things outside of your scan range.
  • Thanks to ptarth for the more specific notes related to this.

• The checklist item related to the slayer ability no longer specifies a specific ability slot, as there are several options depending on what unit types you have, and it was referring to the wrong one for the most-likely case.
  • Thanks to ptarth for reporting.

• The "find more androids" tooltip now mentions explicitly that you probably need to turn the camera to see all your options.
  • Thanks to AC for mentioning this months ago.

• Added a further clarifying note when StreetSense is introduced in the prologue that each individual unit is in it separately, so that players know to turn it on for further android capture if they are running lower on units.
  • The fact that StreetSense is not on by default is important for the flow later in the game, so trying to overcome the speed bump the learning experience for players is my goal instead. Hopefully this is sufficient, but if more people run into the same thing, we'll have to see.
  • Thanks to ptarth for the related report.

0.502 A Year Of Updates

(Released May 17th, 2024)

Literally the entire game has been rebuilt from scratch, in terms of every gameplay system, almost every UI, and even a lot of the graphics. It was tens of thousands of logged changes over the span of a year, so be glad you didn't have to read all those notes.

Prior Release Notes

HotM: Initial Tester Groups