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- theres a button with a lightbulb on it that you haee to press upgrade brain. the cutscene was either broken or unfinished because it just played the music but ther was no creature animation with hte brain and it just kinda locked the game for a few seconds - geting a new pack slot showed in an interesting way in the middle of the screen and then the slot moved from the middle to the right in its usual slot. the empty slot is also a question mark instead of a silhouette of a creature - im not sure what was toggled here in effects

- another ufo event spawned the ufo like right at the creature, seemed to bump into it and the ufo is just a tree with a swing on it??? this is NOT in final btw. this ufo tree. thats ctually new. it also keeps bumping into the ground for some reason

- i think the big reason shadows look somewhat better is moreso that theyre noticeably darker than final. otherwise theyre really low res here, at least at htese resolution settings - picking up bones for some ereason didnt seem to work here. the avatar creatures just kinda idle at the nest (which is very tiny) and dont do anything. it actually feels like everything kinda broke here - first person view with the distorted camera?????? i dunno i f this was related to bypass zoom limits or not

- brain cutscene didnt work properly again but they triggered it in them iddle of the meteor strike again. none of the npcs are reacting to meteors still - another button to create a tribe in the place of where the call button was in creature stage . but here i assume it wouldnt have locked you out of the editor? aslo mating call didnt work either - i didnt screenshot it in time but clicking on this button actually showed a window asking if youre sure you wanna transition to tribal stage bcause you wont be able to edit your creature. the window actually looked remarkably same ui-styled to final - tribal stage transition cutscene actually seems to work and seems to totally match final, aside from a broken npc creature hanging out at the nest still - the moment the cutscene ends it just opens the tribal outfitter. also all the tribal outfitter parts seem to be unlocked from the get go? also this is apparently treefrog

- theres weird bell ringing when switching tabs in the editor. im not sure why they picked this - parts that you cant afford for whatever reason have bright red - there IS a loading screen with this weird art that was in the prima guide actual selection for your hut style and hut color (instead of it being based on your creatures colors) which is really really interetsing!!! this isnt in final at all!!!!!!!!!!! not even any leftovers from what m aware

interesting pathing debug stuff and another window. all planner huts are also immediateley unlocked

- tribe camera seems to move really weird and really fast, or that was the free camera? - tribes have paths coming off them and weird decals on the ground. the animal pen is also rather separated from the hut

- the moment the rival tribe cutscene ended the npcs just visibly teleported back to their hut - debug cheat to add food too. also they were still spiked clubs not torches!!! that was a really late in dev change apparently!!

unused totem that was also left over in final. this is for socializing?? this as summoned through a debug cheat thoiugh and it seesm to pick randomly what you did with the lapis vilage (your player village)? also the colors idsappear from it in the totem cutscene and the colors are VERY bright .except the colors were kinda there up close? the colros seem to be based on the type of totem

- i think having one tribe member selected and hovering over another one had a hearts cursor although im not sure. this could very easily be related to the old matig feature - theres a volcano event or. something? maybe? it is remakrable that the volcano actively spews particles - also theres a cheat that will damage huts under cursor, or heal huts, which they demonstrated by destroying their own hut - theres a cheat to remove tribe members and it plays weird sounds - the hut looked different . i think the cutscene text might have menitoned something about city stage but im not sure??? i didnt get to see it in time

- building editor is not very changed but has placeholder icons and the lighting is weird. window part icons face the camera and the city hall parts are also rotated weird. music and other sfx seem the same

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- civ stage cutscene that has the city walls sprout up. city walls are totally different from final and it has aw eird hud

vehicle editor explains part stats on parts. some different tab icons. also the city music seemed to sound the same there but the vehicle eidtor music kinda isnt? also with all the debug cheats its interesting that the game picked military to start civ with ALSO name your land vehicle has a break in the middle of it and tires dont have the usual tire texture on them

vehicle panit themes for some reason seem to repeat across pages and the ui is weird for he color selector, very squarshed

anthem editor seems the same. the city label seems to be based on your tribe color still instead of saying your creatures name

- i think there was a civ outfitter i missed - spiky house lol. & more line breaks in name your entertainment building

it also threw an error in the factory editor but kept going anyawy

- LOLLL they named the factory Orphan Crushing Machine - hud is weird here and also the turrets look different. i think this is left over in final kinda? the truret? also there was a sound thats used in final when youre asking for trades for something

- some cutsccene text for unlocking either planers or boats. which yeah this was at the point in dev where boast were unlockable it said to conquer 2 cities to unlock it. planes seem to be at 6 cities??? - rival city cutscene played one of the npc city anthems . also theres a debug thing that just places a ruler on the ground apprently - debug command to summon military vehicles. selecting them plays a cutscene pointint you towards the spice geyser which looks weird & the vehicles play weird voice clips

- oh the bottom panel has economic in green, religious in yellow and military in red. im not sure what any of these buttons are supposed to be - communication panel looks COMPLETELY different. you cant see it very well past the debug text but point stands. also there were no voice clips for it - being zoomed out far away from rival cities still plays the music instead of only when up close enough

this actually shows what the buttons do it has a bunch of empty slots. for. something? someone in chat said it might be superweapons but its weird that theyd all just be here

- cutscene for conquering a city zooms in on a random plaza in hte city where nothng in particular happens

- sea vehicle editor is unlocked now and placing chassis parts seemed a bit broken and pairs them up sometmes. more placeholder icons

for some reason it still seems to be within the stage judging by the debug overlay that keeps moving around with the camera. whichm ight explain why editors load crayzy fast?? and explains why soundsd and ambience keep playing into the editor when you open them in adventure editor at a sound source

- you could apparently move the camera in the city planner around just wherever. unless you can do that in final too and i just never noticed. also theres both a red exit icon and a green confirm icon in the city planner for some reason, as if you can exit it without confirming changes?? - weird alert text ui

weird debug stuff in the top left. changes when hovering over a vehicle

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- the sound for trades when you ask for a trade seems to play when you get sporebucks in civ stage, whch you can also do with a debug command - oh on eof the cheat commands is specifically god mode with some specific commands. which is labeled in the readme as "gode mode" sometmes lol. theres also a command that instantly kills a vehicle hovered over

- the clock in the top right actually changes depending on the cameras position on the planet! it adjusts to the timezone!!!! - hologram when taking over cities with religion seemed to look different and theres also a note over the captured city

this here says z to plop sea harvester vehicle btw. in the top letf of the game window

also this WAs superweapons and theyre unlocked for all three archetypes here for some reason

- civ to space transition custcene seems the same - the editor background is NOT. they then exited out of the editor in civ and just, restarted the cutscene i guess to get back in

- the weird debug overlay is still here in the ufo editor as well. music at least sounds the same in it - honestly the lighting looks really nice? also cockpit windows arent a blue color theyre all just grey

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- same cutscene going into space stage too. also no transition loading csreen between stages. ufo also bumped into buildings on exit but more visibly this time - another comm screen with no audio from the other creature - camera in space stage is TOTALLY different when on a planet, it spends a lot of time being on the top fo the screen

unfinished hud

weird lava moon on this planet

weird looking planet also it had [ Cinetext: You discovered a wreck. ] and crashed again

hesres the opening ctuscene a bit

planet loading shows that logo pill that didnt match the planets shape or size at all

spice looks and sounds VERY different

audio and moving around space is very different. you actyally move around in jumps instead of moving around smoothly & you wait a few seconds at every jump which looks like itd be annoying

more comms. not a lot of options here theres no store

well not tTHERE... its accessed some other way and plays unique music

planets genuinely all look totally diffrent also the comunication button is neon magenta

and the tools panel is yellow

this appears to have a bunch of debug tools or earl ytools or lord nkows what else. they also started unlocking a bunch of random creature parts which show in the same place as creature carrds in final - audio for combat and tools is all totally diffrenet like the lasers from flying vehicles. combat music seems the same

- planet buster dint have a cutscene just boots you to the space view with the planet being completely erased

radio is vay more frequent when youre closer to it and the waves radiates outwards

- empires in space stage still are based on colors - lasers just zap fom lord knows where from empires who dont like you - oh that is a pretty galaxy gradient in the top left also sapce travel is not in jupms suddenly

another weird creature. some resource string for the green spice description

yeah the comm button is based on the empires color and so is the name still

the tool hud was generally way more intensely tinted certain colors. the coloring tools werent colored at all so you had to just see the name sto tell what the ydo. more weird ufos?

the hud for showing the terraform stuff is in the top irght instead of the map screen and theres a notif for telling you gto go look at who sent you messages

more debug bars

travel rings are more strongly colored too

achieevements are in the lower right for some reason also they typed a cheat to unlock them

lightbulb button again for getting your master badge instead of being automatic

- pretty sure that was called "Planet coloring Tools" with this exact capitalization -mind erase is in the tool panel with the scanner instead of the social panel. this panel also comes first instead of third, they swapped it with the social panel in flnal for some reason - "help space" just prints a million space related cheats so those are also in here - hologram scout stll movees really slowly but it is also extremely transparent to the point where its har dto see if youre not moving. the button to exit is just kinda in the lower right but behaves similarly with the spaceship coming over to pick you up

- "space -flyto home" is like return ticket for free. "space -flyto sol" teleports you to the solar system with eatrh and everthing. so of cousre they put the planet buster on it

- gas giants can be zoomed in in really close and still wont let you visit them. this one looks really different from final

heres peopel freaking out over city stage and flora editor in chat

galaxy core was orange?

- it is remarkable that music is actually the same during space stage as final, even though the actual audio files are pitched up compared to this - grob btw. it was immediately followed with the trading empire alert

another view of the core

didnt get to see the grox uinfortunately

selecting city in the e3 menu does nothing. just nothing. it doesnt even crash the game or anything

cell editor works its even the hidden cell editor. theres also debug ui for editors

cre (spg) is this! i wish there was an easy tway to access this in final outside of space stage.anyway stats dont work here. plays normal cretaure editor music

flora editor is INSANE AND HAD WILLOSAUR MODELS?????? YOU CAN GET OFFICIAL WILLOSAUR MODEL FROM THIS BUILD AND THE FLORA PARTS ARE ALL HERE

flora actually saves and then theres test drive where it behaves like a creature. lol

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outfitters DID seem to load shortfuss by default instead of a broken sausage but shortfuss looked difefrent. the hud nouses are normal in the civ outfitter idk why ribal has those bells. also this part looked erally weird why is it teal

state buildingeditor just goes here

harvester vehicle?? the test drive didnt work and the alert said that the creation is over budget despite having 1 part

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maxis creatures had distinct author names and descriptions

some arent in final even

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another paint

also not in final, but resembles ce_skinpaint_theme_outOfNames

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thes ones are unfamiliar

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the base paints seem to be the same as final, with early icons. curiously theres a texture pill from the material editors, which shows a broken texture, its presence has all the color options smushed

curiously setting the base paint reset the coat and detail paints from the paint theme. also the blank themes default color is cyan here, instead of the final grey

but the color from the other paints remained? why are the lips cyan

the base paints all look the same, but the textures continue baking remrarkably quickly

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coat and detail paints seem the same. not much to note

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seems like selecting a paint will reset the color that was selected though (note that green is selected but the detail paint turned blue anyway), and the color selection has no default color option

also one of the creature anims afetr selecting a paint is quite different

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test drive is immediately different. the dais just disappears immediately and in its place is a flat circle. trees just shrink the same as in final though

creature moves a lot more awkwardly in test drive and emits black dirt particles. the indicator of where you clicked looks different too with a crosshair instead of arrows

the actions tab doesnt immediately show up. creature still jumps with the spacebar though. shadows look kinda different?

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early building editor ui, the part tabs are rearranged (why are roofs the first one anyways) but the parts are sorted the same. no icon for the building budget also, and no stats (notable bc internally theres evidence of building stats being a thing at some point)

also this building isnt in final

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placeholder thumbnails, the cubes are still like in the creature editor more or less intead of having one tab for this

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nothing to say about the building paints since im not familiar with them, but its interesting that these factory parts get painted too. they also dont animate at all unlike final

also no color selector on the subsections unlike final

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this has almost the same icons as final! though theyre arranged a lot more densely than final

the default paint color replaces one of the greys. which actually really does explain why theres two redundant shades of grey in the color selector

also the outlines are a lot thicker

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a harvester vehicle it seems! super early bg and ui, you already know what to expect here

different paint icons too

the light direction is different on the actual paint icons and thats about it

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-150 budget lmao. i think this is meant to be a ufo, but it has stats for some reason (which are empty)

then it shows the baking process, with a shiny placeholder mode; which quickly turns into the ufo itself. lots of interesting info in here (the first screenshot says 60 fps???)

whatever this is they move the camera around still. and the model was torn apart dynamically into its uv, and then turned back into the model