First launched in 2022, Captain of Trade is likely one of the extra distinctive twists on the factory-building automation style on the market, combining it with a component of city-building that requires you to provide and look after the well being of your employees’ setting simply as a lot as your machines—that means that an excessive amount of polluting heavy trade can truly be a foul factor.
Now builders MaFi video games have launched the second main replace to Captain of Trade, including an intensive map editor that allows you to tweak the world and revamps all the present maps to a brand new, increased commonplace. There’s additionally a brand new participant hub for individuals to share their creations with one another.
The replace additionally provides hydrogen automobiles, conveyor lifts, stackable conveyor balancers, customized surfaces, improved difficulties, loans, ore sorters, improved logistics gameplay, pipe and tank coloring, and icons on fluid storage and assemblers that present what they include and produce.
The brand new maps actually do take heart stage for this replace, with dynamically smoothed edges on mountains that makes every thing look a bit extra sensible. There’s additionally procedural era on terrain options within the map editor, so as to lay down a big space to be stuffed with forest or mountain and let the editor spit out the main points. There are even 4 new fashions for timber and 16 new bushes.
You may try the brand new group hub at hub.coigame.com, the place individuals are already sharing cool stuff like all-in-one automobile depots, streamlined waste disposal setups, and extra. Even some good trying blueprinting for nuclear energy setups, which received an enormous overhaul again in Captain of Trade’s Replace 1 and are subsequently fairly advanced.
You may learn the whole lot of the gorgeous intensive Replace 2 patch notes on Steam. You may as well discover Captain of Trade in Early Entry on Steam, the place it is 20% off till April 19.