Release notes here. The title of this one is a programmer-y joke at the expense of us human meatbags.  But I think it’s also a pretty apt description of some of the new AI behaviors in terms of how it decides to take major actions at a planet.  Sometimes bumrush you, sometimes go away for a […]

Release notes here. Bunches of improvements for various factions, and also for the “unit stacks” feature.  There’s still more I plan to do with that feature in general (such as making AOE and beam weapons actually have a bonus against stacks, for one example), but for now this lets you choose custom stack sizes and how […]

Release notes here. There’s a lot of stuff in here!  Hacking is better, construction is better balanced, and balance in general has gotten a huge bunch of changes.  Visually there are some improvements in how large some ships are, so that you can see them better.  Huge thanks to particularly Puffin and Quinn on this release, […]

Release notes here. There are things!  They are new!  The release notes themselves are pretty much brief enough to cover it, to be honest.  There’s some good fixes and tweaks in here, again from Puffin and Badger and Quinn.  I have still been out for the count. My personal life has still been completely upside down […]

Release notes here. Right!  It’s been 17 days since the last release, which is a hugely long period for us, so there’s a ton in here.  Even though I didn’t personally do any of it; it’s all thanks to Badger, Puffin, and Quinn.  Huge, huge, thanks to those three for holding down the fort and getting […]

Release notes here. This has a couple of notable bugfixes, and it tunes the balance on the hacking response from the AI waaay down.  That was some game-ending level of hacking response that some folks were getting.  Badger is currently in the process of reworking how the hacking response severity gets calculated anyhow, but for now […]

Release notes here. Whew!  It’s been a really long day, but I feel like I didn’t get really that many things in.  Most of my day was spent on the forums, and I know I promised that a few things would be in this build that got pushed back — apologies to those folks.  I think […]

Release notes here. I really wanted to make a Spaceballs joke as the title for this build, but all of the ones I could think of are both rude and involve keeping firing, not ceasing fire. Anyhow!  If you have cloaked ships, and you want said ships to stay cloaked instead of breaking out in a […]

Release notes here. Well, this is hugely embarrassing — we introduced a last-minute bug today that made the objectives menu (and some other menus!) completely illegible.  The fix is now out, along with a bonus fix for a much more longstanding issue with double-clicking units.  Thanks to pango and la_nague for bringing this to our attention, and thanks to […]

Release notes here. Early Access arrives at last!  Welcome to all the new players. :)  There’s nothing particularly huge in this update, but it fixes up a couple of last-minute bugs as well as a few bits of the tutorial. Expect more tomorrow, and each day this week.  We’ve been maintaining a schedule of roughly 3-5 […]

Release notes here. At last!  Finally you can view and edit the controls from within the game, rather than having to open a text file.  Sorry that took so long! That’s the last of the important interfaces, except for the lobby in the custom start.  That one is still not going to be pretty (and bug-free) […]

Release notes here. Whew!  This one should feel a lot more fun to play, just from a fundamental low level.  Previously, various aspects of the UI were feeling kind of sluggish, and the keyboard and mouse controls sometimes did, too.  That wasn’t a framerate issue, but rather was a series of code issues that I inflicted […]

Release notes here. The name of this release comes from a pair of contradictory bugs fixed in this build.  They’re best summed up by a fun savegame that HeartEater7 provided: Longwinded Storytime 200ish Eyebots and Agravic Pods of his are sitting on a planet, staring at an enemy Concussion Guardian. They refuse to shoot it unless […]

Release notes here. (Singing) I can see clearly now, the HUD is small… Right!  I’m very excited about this one, it has a lot of long-desired pieces of polish in it.  And some bits that were not long-desired, but are exciting all the same. The settings menu is better organized, and doesn’t have any more non-functional […]

Release notes here. Surprisingly large amount of stuff in this one!  Unit stacking is every bit the godsend I’d hoped it would be, performance-wise, and I’m really pleased with that.  We don’t have any remaining savegame cases where performance dips below 100% for long on my machine, and the targeting cycle keeps to sub-second times in […]

Release notes here. That release last night sure was huge, eh?  Changed a ton for the better, but as with any release that is SO darn huge, it’s full of bugs.  In Early Access or after, we’d have to do a separate beta branch and get people to test there.  As it stands, this is a […]

Release notes here. There’s a lot of good stuff in here.  All sorts of bugfixes, major targeting improvements, beam weapons work better and have visuals, the AI does some cool new things, and there’s a lot of balance improvements.  It’s very late and I’m tired, so I’ll mostly leave it at that. ;)  Oh, there was […]