This is how you get access to the beta branch (USE AT YOUR OWN RISK):
Right-Click on Avorion in your Steam list, Properties -> Betas -> Select branch 'beta'.
Avorion
Beta Branch Patch 0.33.5 - Patchnotes
This is how you get access to the beta branch (USE AT YOUR OWN RISK):
Right-Click on Avorion in your Steam list, Properties -> Betas -> Select branch 'beta'.
Beta Branch Update 0.33.4 - Patchnotes
This is how you get access to the beta branch (USE AT YOUR OWN RISK):
Right-Click on Avorion in your Steam list, Properties -> Betas -> Select branch 'beta'.
Gameplay
UI
Misc
Scripting API
Bugfixes
Patch 0.33.3 - QoL and tons of Bugfixes
Moving things to Stable
This time it's a short announcement. We're moving the current beta build to default because it's been performing extraordinarily well and we'd like to test it with more users to find remaining issues.In the meantime we're working on polishing up the game more, but for safety reasons those fixes will go live on beta once they're ready, before moving them on to stable. You should brace yourselves for lots of patches coming in over the next few days. We're trying to find some very pesky bugs where we need your assistance as well.
Most Important Features
The most important features coming with this patch are:For more details, please check out the patchnotes for previous versions below.
Patchnotes 0.33.3
The patchnotes for 0.33.3 aren't that spectacular, it's just some smaller, but important fixes. We'll keep releasing the super new bugfixes on the beta branch to not compromise the stable branch by some errors that might be introduced by a faster working pace.Misc
"Just a quick patch to move things to the default branch since it's been performing really well on the beta branch!"Bugfixes
"As always, [UBR] are User Bug Reports! Thanks for reporting and keep it up!"Previous patchnotes
You can find the patchnotes for the previous beta branch updates here:
https://steamcommunity.com/games/445220/announcements/detail/1702861991428118097
https://steamcommunity.com/games/445220/announcements/detail/1702861991442377955
https://steamcommunity.com/games/445220/announcements/detail/1702861991448953398
Beta Branch Patch 0.33.2 - Patchnotes
This is how you get access to the beta branch (USE AT YOUR OWN RISK):
Right-Click on Avorion in your Steam list, Properties -> Betas -> Select branch 'beta'.
Gameplay
UI
Misc
Bugfixes
Beta Branch Patch 0.33.1 - Patchnotes
This is how you get access to the beta branch (USE AT YOUR OWN RISK):
Right-Click on Avorion in your Steam list, Properties -> Betas -> Select branch 'beta'.
Gameplay
Balancing
UI
Graphics
Scripting API
Bugfixes
"More fixes and improvements! Fixes marked with [UBR] are fixes that were solved thanks to User Bug Reports! Keep reporting guys, even if it's been reported before!" Beta Branch Patch 0.33.0 - Patchnotes
This is how you get access to the beta branch (USE AT YOUR OWN RISK):
Right-Click on Avorion in your Steam list, Properties -> Betas -> Select branch 'beta'.
Gameplay
"These will be the last major features that will make it into the new game. Along with some more quality of life improvements."UI
"Almost only quality of life stuff and maybe something to do with bug fixing."Client
Building Mode
Misc
Scripting API
Bugfixes
"Bug reports marked with [UBR] are user bug reports. I think there is a clear tendency visible in the list below, and we're not planning on stopping. Keep it up guys! :)"Known issues
"We still have tons of things to do, we know that and we're working hard on it! Please keep reporting bugs as you're already doing. You guys are awesome!" Update 0.32.2 - Generator Rework & Endgame Content
Procedural Craft Generator
It's finally here! We reworked the procedural craft generator to create prettier ships, based on faction styles. Factions can be recognized by their ships and stations now, and each ship/station class has a distinct look. We won't bore you with the internals, just one thing: Yes, you can mod it. Now go explore!Faction Economy
With this update we added economic factors to factions. Their supply of ships and stations is now finite, depending on faction size and military or economic focus. Players can now drive AI factions to their limits, and see and feel the impact of their actions. When you destroy a station, the faction will rebuild it after some time. If you manage to destroy all ships and stations of an AI faction before they can rebuild, you can even eradicate them completely.In addition to those features, you can now hire spies at smuggler outposts, that will send you information about a faction's economy (ie. amounts of ships, stations, etc) on a regular basis.
New Endgame Content
We feel that after killing the Wormhole Guardian there should be more to do with your time. With this update we introduce new Xsotan ships, a new server wide post-guardian event and three new bosses. In order to not spoil you too much we'd just say: Go and finish Avorion, and then see what happens.More Features
That's far from all! We've got a few more cool features waiting for you:Faction Packs
Ever wanted to play against the Star Wars Empire in Avorion? You now have the tools to do so. You can now create faction mod packs that give a faction a subset of ships from the Steam Workshop.Creative Mode Improvements
We want players to be able to use Creative Mode in a way its name suggests, to try out features and game mechanics. So we added the possibility to quickly change the equipment of your craft. There's a new creative mode command center in the ship window where you get access to tons of utility features for creative!Backups
Since Avorion saves (galaxies) are persistent they tend to become huge, and a normal savegame feature is not possible. We did our best to add a safeguard against losing all your progress (for example after a crash) without taking up tons and tons of hard drive space. The game now creates hourly backups that you can use to restore your current save.Keep in mind that restoring a backup is not the same thing as loading a save! Progress of NPC factions is completely reset during this process and the world is reset to zero (except for the progress of players).
Patchnotes
Of course there are tons and tons of other QoL features and bugfixes. To get the full list, check out the patchnotes of the previous beta patches:https://steamcommunity.com/games/445220/announcements/detail/3588743161435047711
https://steamcommunity.com/games/445220/announcements/detail/1702861358068600657
https://steamcommunity.com/games/445220/announcements/detail/1702861358076178338
Time for Bugfixing!
Time for bug fixing!
Time flies! We could not be more excited about the upcoming release. Since there are only a few days left, we are giving 100% to solve the remaining issues. This is the part where we need your help! Please report all the bugs you can find in Avorion. It does not matter if you have already reported it some time ago. If it still bothers you, report it again. We will take care of it. We are thankful for every hint that you can send to us!When you have found a bug
Ouch! To report a bug, please use the ingame tool.For more information you can find an extensive manual here:
https://www.avorion.net/forum/index.php/topic,478.0.html
If possible, we would really appreciate if you could tell us the following things:
What happened?
Please tell us as exactly as possible what happened when the bug/issue appeared.
The most important field for us is "Steps to Reproduce". Please give us the most detailed description that you can.
We understand that sometimes it feels like bugs are obvious. But they can be related to your machine, your drivers, your operating system and so many other things. If we had found the bug while testing, we would have fixed it for sure.
Here is a great example for "Steps to Reproduce" as taken from a bug report:
"For the Station dock crash:
- Start a new game, preferably in creative mode
- Have a shipyard generate a Station-Founding ship (any size will do)
- Get in the ship
- Find a suitable sector for a station
- Found the station
- Get back to that sector you founded your station at (because for some reason, if that's your only "ship" in the sector, it kicks you out into your drone and you go back to your home sector, or other vanilla destruction behaviors
- Enter your station
- Go to build mode inside your station
- Place a dock anywhere
- Game crashes."
We know that this takes some time, but with these steps, we managed to fix the bug in minutes. We hope you understand!
Thanks to everybody who is helping us, we are very thankful for having such an amazing community!
Happy playing! Please report as much as you can. We are looking forward to release!
Beta Branch Patch 0.32.2 Patchnotes
This is how you get access to the beta branch (USE AT YOUR OWN RISK):
Right-Click on Avorion in your Steam list, Properties -> Betas -> Select branch 'beta'.
Gameplay
"Had a little breakthrough with the engine code over the weekend, enjoy!"Balancing
"We think that boarding a station takes lots of effort already, so from now on you won't have to pay the full price of a station on top of that to rebuild it."UI
"QoL features, yay! You can now easily favorite and trash items with F and T while hovering them. Also, you can now scrap all trash turrets in one go at a Scrapyard."Client
"Polishing and debug output for upcoming bugfixes on the client. Nothing too special."Scripting API
Bugfixes
"Thanks to all our User Bug Reporters (UBR) for helping us improve the game! We're focusing 100% on this now, so keep it up!" Beta Branch Patch 0.32.1 Patchnotes
This is how you get access to the beta branch (USE AT YOUR OWN RISK):
Right-Click on Avorion in your Steam list, Properties -> Betas -> Select branch 'beta'.