Astrela Starlight
The Astralecx Merge
Dev Omega
One year later and that had morphed into a full blown RPG with the Cetus campaign. Astrela Starlight was still pretty rough but went into Early Access. Several years later, ASL has now reached the completion of all of the original development goals, with a few changes and additions.
Thank you to everyone who has supported the journey of Astrela Starlight. From the Cetus, to the Saurum, the Avar, all the way to the Ecxos planetary station, I am sincerely grateful and hope you enjoy solving the mystery of Lystran.
- Daniel C. Ray, author of Astrela Starlight
Development of the game will slow to bug fixes and features requests for now.
Changes in this release:
- Drag and drop functionality added to systems control.
- Various UI sounds added throughout the game.
- Volume control for UI effects.
- Flight of the Astrela added to game start screen.
- Final end game animation added with credits and dedication.
- Fixes for derelict ships that kept exploding.
- Alert sound added when a ship switches to hostile.
- Pause system updated.
- Reclaim 'Y' key added.
- Minor bug fix in Quest guidance code.
- Polish of Ecxos, Hohlrom, and many other UI elements.
- All trade stations now have a communication item for "Trade" in additional to the usual trade button.
- Fixed issue with ship recall system and ship name.
- Fixed issue where the player could jump a station through someone else's Lygate.
- Single ship recall added for trade at Elpin station in upper systems.
- Mini-star model updated to look like an actual star, changes based on high material.
- Animation added to celestials when high material changes.
- Render changes and updates to dust field.
- Coordinate offset added to game to fix odd oscillation issue when far out in star systems.
- Minor changes to weapon beam renderer.
- Fixed issue with how aux rector cooling boost was calculated.
- Total redo of Stardock model. Model now visually shows when Refinery, Shipyard, and Factory are mounted.
- Final version of derelict ship salvage completed, trade to remove contents, then reclaim the vessel.
- Minor tweaks to several ship's mass and turn rate for better engine performance.
- Updates to VSync code and frame limiting.
- Some audio normalization and changes to the main voice of the game.
- Button added in graphics settings to switch windowed <-> full screen. Graphics settings can also be controlled by holding CTRL while starting the game.
Quest Guidance
Also in this release:
- Major performance update to the jump process and star system loading process. Building star systems is never easy.
- Several graphical changes to the UI. Some minor polishing of menu functions.
- Fixed issue where some ships showed as having trade items in the Target Info screen when they were empty.
- Svem was causing the Cetus anomalies to visually appear unsealed after completing his quest, fixed.
- Fixed an issue with the Toreisan blocking the jump system in Tord.
- Radiate level in Nidium has been lowered.
- Plaesmrc ship is now radiate immune.
- Plaesmrc ship now comes equipped with the Hohlrom generator. Generator can still be built separately.
- Verbose help menu added to the Lygate system. Describes the process of Lygate connection and usage.
- Addition of Player Information menu to the upper right of the radar. Shows total score, quest completion status, and general status.
- Target Info rename wasn't accepting 'enter' key in some cases, fixed.
- When communication ends, camera will swing around and face original target.
- Several updates to the main help screen to show new UI and added features.
- Some items in Quest information were updated to better describe what's been completed for certain quests.
- Factory Lv2 no longer requires equipped Factory Lv1 to build, same for Lv3, doesn't require Lv2 or Lv1 to build.
- Repair crews now operate across the entire ship instead of being divided equally between systems, making repairs more efficient.
- Mines now are now materialized at the celestial target instead of having to travel there. Player must be within 2,000k of celestial target in order to deploy mines and other orbital stations.
Experimental Branch
Builds in the experimental branch are for testing only. Updates are made without warning or announcement. Updates made to the experimental branch may cause bugs and break any functionality of the game.
Celestial Alignment Update
- Update to HUD for more usability. Overlapping HUD items further away will fade behind closer ones. Active target will always appear in front.
- Some celestial updates to Nidium to fill in the empty area of the system.
- Added more Elpin to Celor system.
- Fixed issue when merging Astrela and Tserilecx where some materials in storage didn't merge.
- Several updates to Astralecx model, textures, and engine effect.
- Navigation pop-up could appear on occasion when communications was active, fixed.
- Minor updates to audio and UI.
- Changes to Hohlrom menu for easier understanding of resources required, also better clearance checking.
- Updates to Lygate system for better clearance checking and object behavior after jump.
- Changes to anomaly missions and effects to better show that specific anomalies have been sealed.
- Items in orbit of an Excos target world are now removed.
- General performance updates to loading star systems, objects, and some UI items.
- NAV radial occasionally showed on non-player owned vessels, fixed.
Fall Update
Changes included in this release
- If a vessel is permanently wrecked, its cargo can be salvaged, and now the vessel can be reclaimed.
- A small green dot will now appear on the mining station screen. The dot indicates that another mine is orbiting the target celestial and is already mining the noted resource.
- New models of the Astrela and Tserilecx have been released along with new engine effects.
- Engine effects have been expanded to all ships in the game.
- There were some camera jittering issues related to the Tserilecx' tractor beam, fixed.
- Filters have been added to the trade menu. Previously selected items will not be filtered.
- Changes to deep scan detonation quest for more helpful descriptions on where to search.
- Teselor is now identified as a Citetrek corporation vessel.
- Ecxos reactors quest now shows that you have talked to Wile.
- Some minor UI updates in the databank and changes to material images contrast.
- Extra wrecks added to Tord as a further breadcrumb trail.
- Cleanup of duplicate materials in a few UN sectors.
- Available materials increased on Hohlrom created celestials, still reflects system radiation level.
- Minor text update to Lune's wild cap station mission referring to Rheel.
- The five rifts mission now recommends setting pulse to max range.
- Screen resolution mode list now shows refresh rate.
- Fixed issue when returning to loading screen, then starting a new game, where menu remained.
Summer Update
Community requests:
- Databank entries can now be set as a priority so they show at the top of the list, like mines.
- Copiae will show incoming streams from the mines in the system.
- Saurum Lv2 H2 collector added, collects up to 200, requires Lux.
- Updates to the speed and visuals of the jump system.
Other changes:
- Minor UI changes in radar, target info, quest interface, and main engineering.
- Target info mode-swap has pop-up description and disappears when not required.
- Fixed intermittent issue with enter key in save game window.
- Mouse pop-up in upper left quadrant of the screen will show lower to the right so it's not under cursor.
- Several small tweaks in the UN and UNN star systems to balance resources.
- Two extra wrecks added in Tord as a better breadcrumb trail.
- Extra comet added to Osti for resource balance.
- Avar Fuge trade station Lv3 ship changed to Lv5.
- Two new nebulae added in Saurum Lacu for better visual effect.
- Audio tweaks to Rheel and Maelir.
- Some cleanup to Como's derelict model.
- Planetary engine fragments will no longer show in systems control, they will also be removed by Skal at end of mission.
- Minor update to ancient stardock quest information.
- Steam icon update.
Cleaning Celestia
- The "next enemy" HUD algorithm has been updated to better find nearby hostile vessels and cycle through them in order.
- Minor update to the vessel explosion effect.
- The pulse system's "north" pointer has minor changes to the model and texture.
- Various small text updates to some quest information items.
- The Astrela's specularity has been lessened, helping with bloom.
- UV update on the Lv1 and Lv2 mining station.
- Issue fixed in the Galaxy Map where the jump button was taking too long to become available.
- The navigation UI can now be locked open by clicking on the steering wheel. Forward, reverse, left, and right can all be held down the UI, like holding WASD.
- Some 2D image updates to NPCs, quest items, and the radar system.
- The solar info and HUD filters pop-up would overlap in some circumstances, fixed.
- Minor changes to some object names in Nidium, Thetan, and Osti.
- Issue fixed with sound mixer that was causing a scratching noise on load or system jump.
- Some encounters data wasn't unloading properly. Now being cleared as expected.
- Vessel collision damage system updated for more dramatic effect based on velocity.
- Vessels that are permanently derelict will no longer show a faction in the target info.
- "Control this object" button in encounters fixed.
- Some minor UI updates and more explanatory pop-ups in Main Engineering.
- Ship's system information modifier removed from info window, replaced with mass and energy boost.
- Jump points are always marked as scanned and show more appropriate target information.
- Issue fixed where Copiae would sometimes pull resources during a jump.
Weapons Release
- Weapon mounts and locations updated on all ships in the game.
- Repair related audio now states "vessel" repair instead of just hull.
- Asteroids and comets in all star systems now use standard naming.
- Audio for highest power setting changed to "Battlestations."
- Button added to trade menu for select and deselect all.
- Several changes to help screen showing default keyboard mapping.
- 2D images updated throughout the game with better textures.
- The reclaim verify screen now shows materials that will be reclaimed.
- Bow and stern lights added to the Tserilecx, are we coming or going?
- Several updates to NPC descriptions and text in quests.
First Update
- Level 2 mine added to the trade station in Obice. Lv2 will mine all resources on a celestial in sequence until the celestial is depleted.
- An issue was fixed with power systems calculation.
- Blackout transitions between menus have been updated.
- Advanced engineering system added for better information about each vessel.
- Scanner and detection range colors on the radar were changed.
- Objects will update on the radar when coming into detection range.
- The radar list will now show what objects have been scanned.
- Mines will now scan a short distance around them.
- Scanner Lv1 detection range updated to 6000k, scan range to 2500k.
- Slights updates to Kyraine, Dolan, and Deca's dialogs.
- Reclaiming a target will automatically switch to the next owned target.
- Several updates to the available materials in Kattar asteroids.
- Deca's first mission reward updated to Lv2 Cetus flight enhancement.
- Total update and re-balance of all weapons in the game.
- Wild rifts will no longer show on radar.
- Update to Toreisan weapon images.
- Increased total Thorite in Medius.
- Visual updates to lower HUD.
- Location of Exolux asteroid in Ius updated.
- Some resource changes in Janua.
- Pulse range slider now shows the Pulse detection distance.