Sometimes when we introduce changes that are sufficiently large, we like to run it through a beta branch first. This is one of those releases, with the changes to the Outguard. We’d love it if lots of folks would give this a try, so that we can feel confident bringing this back off the beta…
Release notes here. This one has a lot of cool stuff that should make more playstyles viable. It may make the game a little easier than we want, but one step at a time. Balance Swinging Your Direction A Bit For Once Next release will have some exciting changes to the outguard that StarKelp has designed…
Release notes here. Lots more stuff, and there was an intermediate hotfix build as well in here. Main new things: The AI now writes you a chat message as well as giving you the voice taunt. So if you have sound off, or voice off, or just have trouble understanding it in the din of battle……
Release notes here. This is a big one, in terms of having a lot of items. They fall into six main categories: Continued UI polish. Some experimental changes to group-move from a new volunteer dev. Tweaks to the Intel screen and some new beginner objectives for ARS, GCA and flagship capturing to teach people that those…
Release notes here. Relatively small release, and honestly the largest improvements are to the metal flows detail screen. But something about hacking, and in particularly spire archives, always makes me think of this scene from Star Trek TNG. “I just love scanning for life forms” pops into my head in daily life much more often than…
Release notes here. Lots of stuff in this one! Also, there’s a new interview with me and Rob chatting over at the eXplorminate’s podcast, if you’re interested. There’s a new option under the debug settings that lets you forcefully change the difficulty of the AIs if you want to, after having already started the game. Later…
Release notes here. Some players have noted that they’re able to deep-strike way into enemy territory with what feels like too little response from the AI. So… now the AI has a new AI Reserve force (in new campaigns only) that it can bring in to help defend its planets when it detects you deep-striking. A…
Release notes here. Duplicate Ship Lines In One Fleet The marquee feature in this build is that you have full freedom with your fleets now to combine the same ship type into multiple slots of a single fleet if you want. Aka, if you have three lines of snipers or bombers, you can just slap those…
Release notes here. There are actually several releases in one here, since we had a few small ones we just posted about on the forums rather than making a full announcement. But we’re back to where we’ll be doing an announcement for each release again. This particular build… does a whole heck of a lot, good…
Release notes here. This has been a very busy week! Personally I was doing semi-successful broadcasts of myself playing the game on Steam, and then the world’s longest AMA on reddit, and originally before that just looking into a ton of correspondence with players and press, answering questions, etc. Meanwhile, Badger and Puffin have been going…
