Finally, It is this day! Friends, the complexity of this sequel is far beyond my initial imagination. I'm sorry to have kept you waiting for nearly two years.
The core gameplay content of Chaos Galaxy 2 has been basically completed. However, there are several important contents, such as playable Alien Faction, which have not yet been finished. In the next six months, I will finish the rest content, and listen to your opinions to add or adjust the game content.
The following picture is the development plan of CG2 for the next half year. Only the most important contents are listed. But the work to be done is far more than that. I may add new inspiration that I haven't mentioned, or delete the inappropriate content in this plan. Therefore, the final product may deviate from the plan. But I promise that the version 1.0 of Chaos Galaxy 2 will not only meet my game aesthetics, but also meet the common preferences of most of you.
In addition, in the past two months, I have been busy making diplomacy, events, and all the faction rules. The work is very complex, and it is likely that you will experience some bugs. During the EA, the game content will also change frequently, so bugs are inevitable. When you encounter bugs, please don't rush to make bad comments. Please describe these bugs on Steam community or Discord. I promise that as long as you submit the bug you find, I will repair and update it as soon as possible. Thank you very much!
Now, Lord Admirals, please board your flagship and conquer the Galaxy!
Han Zhiyu
The last dev log before EA
I've been working very busy for the past 2 months, and I finally finished all the content of the game today. In next week, Chaos Galaxy 2 will start the Early Access, and the monthly dev log will be over. Later, I will communicate with you by the game update and roadmap. I hope you can work with me to make this game better in the next 6-9 months.
Now let me introduce to you the recent development contents.
First of all, the game will support three control modes: mouse, controller and keyboard. The rule are shown in the picture below. Next is the largest content of the game: the faction rule system. All factions in the game belong to 8 different faction types. Different faction types will have a completely unique playing rules and an unique building.
1 imperial The imperial rank system has been shown in demo. The main difference of the new version is that it uses a new prestige of imperial influence, and Imperial factions can consume influence to compete for ranks.
2 Traders Traders can choose proposals for investment. The higher the level of the exchange, the better the investment proposal will be put forward. Traders are also the only faction that can trade supplies.
3 Pirates Enemy units fleeing in battle may be captured by the Pirates. Captured units can be disbanded for supplies, or put into the Pirates' garage. When our fleet is on our planet, we can mobilize units from garage to join the fleet instead of recruiting new units.
4 Mercenary Mercenaries can accept the missionof attacking planets. When accepting the mission, they will receive a deposit of gold or supplies. If they capture the planet within a year, they will give the planet to the entrusting faction and obtain the military reputation. Using military reputation can improve the power, energy and agility of all your units.
5 Assassin The Assassins can accept the mission of assassinating the commander of the enemy fleet. When accepting the mission, you will receive a deposit of gold or supplies. Within half a year, if you can complete the mission, whether by plotting to assassinate or by fighting to destroy the target fleet, and get the Assassin reputation. The Assassin reputation can improve the success rate of strategy and assassin skills.
6 Omnic When the Omnic AI legion destroy the enemy's advanced units in battle, you will gain the technical mastery of this unit. Each time they destroy this unit, the mastery will increase. You can also use learning points to accelerate the mastery. When the mastery reaches 100%, you can decode the blueprint of the unit. This unit can be recruited from now on.
7 Liberal The Liberal faction can carry out revolutionary actions, send agents to the surrounding planets to increase the resistance, or destroy the Planetary Defense. When the resistance exceeds 50, you can incite an uprising. After success, a Liberal fleet will appear. When they capture the planet, the Liberal fleet will disappear and give the planet to us.
In addition to this new system, the diplomacy system also adds the function of Alienation. When you are a vassal, you can even incite your suzerain‘s dissatisfaction with other vassals and trigger a civil war.
Of course, there are a lot of new events. There will be a series of events around the princess Jing.
There are two other things to tell you.
Because the alien faction still have many contents that need to be refined, they were not selectable at the beginning of Early Access. It is expected that by the end of September, you can use aliens. Please wait for the roadmap of EA to see the detail.
By the way, the content of demo has been integrated into the game ontology as tutorial. And the content of demo is far behind the current version, so when EA starts, I will close the download of demo.
To say again, The Early Access of Chaos Galaxy 2 will start on July 25. Let's have a carnival, friends!
Han Zhiyu
Dev Diary of May
Hi, my friends!
In the past month, I have comprehensively improved the whole game based on the demo.
The first is the operation mode of the fleets and troops. Each time the troops are selected, they will enter the moving state. After moving (or clicking on themselves), the command list will appear. When selecting the direction, you can place the mouse on the up, down, left and right positions of the army to change the direction, and press the left mouse at any position to determine the direction. In any case, right-click to go back to the previous step.
In each scene of the game, a tip is added at the bottom of the screen. (The tips can be turned off in game options.)
When selecting target, you can move the mouse to view the status of the target fleet or target troop.
The galaxy map can be zoomed out once more.
The planetary UI has also been greatly changed. Now you can click the left or right button of the planet name to switch and display your other planets. The panel no longer shows how many buildings you have, but shows the various resources produced by the planet every month. Putting the mouse on the number, you can see what factors affect the resource income.
There is another interesting modification. The ship ram or drill in CG1 is of little use, but in CG2, the ram can push the enemy troop back by one tile. If there is an other troop behind the enemy, it will cause additional impact damage to these two troops. If there is a map boundary behind the enemy, you can even drive it out of the battlefield! If you play mercenary faction, it will be very happy to rush into the enemy's formation with ramships.
My friends, see you next month.
Han Zhiyu
Dev Diary of April
Hi, my friends!
On the 23rd of this month, the three games of Chaos Sector, Chaos Galaxy and Chaos Galaxy 2, are joining in the Enter The Dragon game show.
For the game show, we made a new game video of Chaos Galaxy series and added it to the game store.
During the event, Chaos Sector and Chaos Galaxy are all on sales. Welcome to play them!
By the way, an artist friend of mine, BigRice, asks to draw several illustrations for Chaos Galaxy 2 for free. I will add these works to the official version of the game. Let's enjoy one of them first.
I spent most of this month dealing with some chores such as coordinate data related to unit art resources. In next month, I will deal with the to-do-list accumulated from the demo and start to make some new contents.
My friends, see you next month.
Han Zhiyu
Dev Diary of Feb and Mar
Hi, my friends!
There are more than 100 characters and nearly 300 units are available in Chaos Galaxy 2, so the number of art resources is also very large. For the last four months, I have been drawing art resources all the time. Finally, by the last day of March, the art resources of all commanders and units have been completed!
Now I think I can announce the Early Access time of CG2 —— 28th July. If everything goes well, it will be on that day.
Now let me introduce a new game system of Chaos Galaxy 2: Aeroplane
Aeroplane is a new unit type added in CG2. These units have the ability Hit and Run. That ablity allow the unit move again after the attack. Your aeroplane will become the horse archer on the space battlefield.
There are more than a dozen aeroplane blueprints in game. Some characters also have special aeroplanes as their command units, their power are above most Recruitable aeroplanes. Collect them in the game!
My friends, see you next month.
Han Zhiyu
Dev Diary of Jan
Happy New Year!
This month, I am continuing to produce unit art resources. I expected that 70% of the art will be completed by the end of the month. The process of making a game is like this: a few weeks of wonderful inspiration and more than a year of boring work. Thanks for your patience. I will try my best to speed up the progress.
On discord, Umbrae Stragis shared some interesting ideas with us: what will the characters of Chaos Galaxy do in the new year?
I bet Duke Gaoshan has some sort of ceremonial parade where he rides around on a palanquin. He probably also displays the princess in her own palanquin so that no one can question his legitimacy.
Eastgalaxy corp probably has a mercantile holiday? And Kleven maybe throws a party with all the executive members of his corporation?
Pretty sure Li Chengsong's faction goes to visit the graves of their loved ones. The girl (whose name I can't recall) goes to visit the grave of her dead fiance, and Li Chengsong visits his father's grave.
Lycurgus and Hera probably hold some kind of olympian sporting event to celebrate the coming of the new year, and the winners are granted the chance to pilot elite mechs like Ares.
I can totally see them seated in the royal wing of a Colosseum looking on as gladiator mechs fight to the death.
That angry looking guy from Southheaven fleet probably goes around checking how the preparations for his revolution are coming along and making connections with people he'll need in the coming war, like networking. Chen Hentai... I mean Wentai, probably works overtime to assess troop morale and tries to throw together entertainment for the new year to distract the galactic empire.
Bontenmaru, now I'm not sure how everyone else sees her character, but in my opinion, probably lets all her troops celebrate and do their own thing while she retires to a secret mountain lair or something to meditate next to a candle in a dark room while holding a Katana, trying to gain a better understanding for the way of the sword and by extension life.
The leader of the Kurushima pirates strikes me as the sort of guy who is loved by his people, so they probably have a celebration where he is sorta like the chief guest? And they all make plans for the future and do wholesome stuff for the betterment of their community, while also plotting ambushes against the galactic empire.
Black Khalif Jihad... they probably have some kind of mandatory sermon by the Khalif that everyone has to attend? And they renew their faith in the religion that he preaches and maybe make sacrifices and whatnot, who knows, BKJ is a bit of mystery to me.
The Omnic Apocalypse will probably lauch a major invasion knowing full well that most human factions would be engaged in celebration or festivities and would not be expecting the spanish inquisition... I mean Omnic assault. But then they would be thwarted by the Mozi Order cause they built the AI and they know how they think and are always cautions.
Your friendly neighborhood assassins would of course be engaged in the shadow war, taking pot shots at high profile targets and using the revelry to help them blend in and disappear.
Umbrae stragis is really an imaginative guy, isn't he? I think Duke Gaoshan may deliver a new year's speech on galaxy TV, but unfortunately no one watches. Maybe he'll text everyone's phones. Do you have any interesting ideas?
Finally, Let's see the New Year wishes from Princess Jing. Let's meet again next month.
Dev Diary of Dec
Happy Christmas Eve!
Steam Winter Sale has begun. Chaos Galaxy and Chaos Sector are both on sale now.
In recent months, my main work is to make art resources of units. I plan to finish all art of nearly 300 units before next March.
Now let me introduce the new artillery weapons in CG2.
The feature of artillery weapon is that it must be used in place. Once the unit is moved, the weapon cannot be used. There are three kinds of artillery weapons in CG2: Bombard Gun, Siege Gun and Hammerfall.
The Bombard Gun is the most basic artillery weapon, but it also has more damage than the Lance. Weapon Range: 2-4 Damage Range: 1
The Siege Gun is the most powerful of all weapons in the game. Weapon Range: 2-4 Damage Range: 1
Although the Hammerfall is slightly less powerful than the Siege Gun, it has a larger range and can cause a wide range damage. Weapon Range: 3-5 Damage Range: 1-2
On the battlefield, these units can hide behind the front line and cause great damage to the opponent. Therefore, breaking through the enemy's defense line to destroy the enemy's artillery will also be the priority goal of fleet commanders.
That's the end of this log. My friends, see you next month!
Han Zhiyu
Dev Diary of Nov
Hi, my friends!
Today, I finished the portraits and small models of all the characters. Including rebels and aliens, there are 117 characters in Chaos Galaxy 2, almost twice as many as the previous game has. All characters have their own unique stories, talents, tactics and flagship. I blieve these new characters will bring richer storylines and more interesting game content.
The new system introduced to you this month is the Intellect and the Strategy in Chaos Galaxy 2.
In this game, every character has one more ability besides Military and Admin: intellect. This ability is mainly reflected in the Strategy.
Each character has and only has one Strategy. Some Strategies can confuse the enemy, reduce the enemy's power or supply efficiency. Some Strategies can destroy the defense of the enemy planet and increase the resistance. There is also a Strategy to allow our fleet to do a forced march.
The fleet strategy value is increased according to the intellect of the commander every month. You can use Strategy only when the fleet strategy slot is full. Intellect also affect the effect and success probability of the Strategy.
By making good use of Strategies, your thinking type commander will play an unimaginable role in the war. Sun Tzu said: The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting, his triumph will be complete.
