Biotope Steam news

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• Release dateJul 23, 2019
• DeveloperMBL Development
• PublisherMBL Development

Genres: Casual, Simulation, Strategy, Early Access

Company pages: Developer: MBL DevelopmentPublisher: MBL Development

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Biotope Steam news

Biotope news collects recent Steam feed items, update posts, and announcements that SteamPulse can associate with this app.

Latest Steam announcements

• Version 2024.1 (7784) - 28 December 2024

  This version contains a preview of the upcoming Japanese translation. The dynamic water displacement has been integrated into the main version and two fish species will be renamed to match the internationally accepted taxonomy. Japanese localization I We are proud to announce the upcoming release of BiOTOPE in Japanese. This has been one of the most requested translations overall. We tried to stick to the official terminology as much as possible when translating technical terms and proper names. In order to accommodate Japanese punctuation, we also had to make a few technical changes to our typesetting system and line break algorithm. This update contains translations of menus, quests, lexicon pages, descriptions of fish, plants and hardware items. The remaining translations will be given in the next update. Water displacement II The second iteration of dynamic water displacement, as it…

• New year's sale + dynamic submersion depth - 30 December 2022

  New Year Discount Since we unfortunately missed the 'Winter Sale', we bring a New Year's Discount. BiOTOPE will be available at a discount for two weeks starting with the 30th of December. Development update Work on the new state variable submersion depth is nearing completion. This will now allow the simulation to understand when objects are only half submerged or not submerged at all. To get one thing out of the way: A non submerged heater will not suffer any damage. We don't have a generic damage model for equipment just yet. That will come later ... :)

• Dynamic Water Displacement - 10 December 2022

  A sneak preview of the next iteration on the topic of variable water levels: displacement! (A longer video is here on Twitter) Going forward, the calculation of the water levels will also take into account how much space the objects take up in the aquarium. So, in the future, if you have a lot of stuff in your aquarium, you won't be able to put as much water into it — although you won't have to go to such extremes as in our preview picture to notice the effect :)

• Version 2022.1 (7688) - 21 November 2022

  This version is a major update that we proudly managed to put together against all odds recently, celebrating our regained independence! New feature: Variable water volume From now on, the amount of water in the aquarium is no longer constant but can vary over time. This leads to new gameplay challenges and increases interactivity. In the first iteration, we focus mainly on the effects that a variable amount of water has on the simulation and handling. For example, the amount of water decreases over time due to evaporation and must be re-filled manually. New display page: Heat balance The heat balance, which is the basis for computing evaporation, can now be viewed on a separate statistics page. On the "Balance" information page, there is a new tab to display the flow of heat between sources and sinks. These calculations have always been done to determine temperature, but were never dis…

• Transfer of Ownership - 18 November 2022

  This is a notice about a changed legal situation around BiOTOPE. The developers of the aquarium simulator "BiOTOPE" - MBL Development - and the previous publisher - 2Tainment GmbH - have mutually agreed to terminate the existing publishing contract and return all rights back to the developer. We would like to thank 2Tainment for the great support that accompanied our ambitious simulation from vision to Early Access on Steam, especially in the early stages of development. However, the time has now come to go our separate ways. From now on, the MBL team will independently focus on improving the simulation with regular updates, creating new content, and following our roadmap, working towards version 1.0. We will always incorporate community feedback and make BiOTOPE what it was always meant to be: a fun yet scientifically solid aquarium simulator! The MBL development team, November 2022

• Version 2020.1.2 (7369) - 6 October 2020

  This is a patch to address the DPI scaling issue under Windows, that happens on 4K displays and maybe others. Going fullscreen on a monitor with active DPI scaling should no longer result in the game window being oversized and only partially visible.

• Version 2020.1.1 (7351) - 26 August 2020

  This is a small maintenance update. Serious bugs Fixed an engine issue that could lead to invisible items after loading a game, or to the game crashing after switching saves. Fixed a physics glitch were objects were able to fall through the floor. Fixed a possible corruption of item positions after importing a save game into an active slot. Fixed a possible corruption of the game state by an undo action that changes the installed hardware. Fixed the zip importer that was not able to read zip files created on the Mac. Clipping Bugs Fixed wrong reflection of the lamp in the water surface. Fixed wrong double reflection of the heater in the side walls. Fixed that plants and other items were partly rendered outside of the tank. Other changes Fixed screen position of the oxygen concentration in the analyzer view. Fixed several typos and text appearance errors. It is no longer possible to sele…

• Version 2020.1 (7317) - 11 August 2020

  This is a small maintenance update. Savegame management New options have been added to delete, import or export save states. Save and exit: After saving, the player now has the option to return to the game. The Newgame Assistant will now switch to the selected save slot only upon completion, and not before. The tutorial notifications are now reset correctly when changing save games. Other changes The sex selection (♂/♀) for the species Maylandia lombardoi has been corrected. The history curves now have labels. The category and topic selection in the Lexicon is now properly highlighted. The notification window now has a close button. Fish and plants in the player inventory now correctly display a given name (if they have one). The 'Buy' button is now grayed out if you already have 5 or more tanks. Fixed possible crackling noises during sound playback (audio codec issue).

• Version 2019.4 (7216) - 8 November 2019

  This is a small maintenance update. Community Feedback The current version and build number is shown in the settings under the tab "general". A 500 W heater was added. Other changes The pH value in the tutorial was errorneously 11, this was corrected to 7. The quest conditions for the quest "Botanist" now show the correct number of days. The quest "Time Lapse" can now only be completed with the fastest time lapse. Names with umlauts or other special characters can be entered. Sex selection will no longer be reset after each purchase.

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