Galactic Arms Race cover
Galactic Arms Race screenshot
PC Steam
Genre: Shooter, Indie

Galactic Arms Race

MP Server Down Temporarily
Apparently Amazon EC2 server instances can get hacked. ;(

The GAR Official Server will be down temporarily.

Otaku Bundle Mix #2
Get GAR and 8 other games for a low price in Otaku Bundle Mix #2.

The deal runs from 19 June to 26 July.

OtakuMaker Bundle

OtakuMaker Giveaway and Bundle
OtakuMaker is giving away 50 GAR Steam keys to promote an upcoming bundle.

Take a shot at winning free keys on their site .

Snowbreak Cubic Bundle
Pay what you want for GAR and seven other games in the Cubic Bundle:

Snowbreak Cubic Bundle

1500 sales will unlock another secret Steam game and top contributors get the next Cubic Bundle for free.



Steam Patch 7 February
Patch 1.26h scheduled for Feb 7th:

  • Camera shake on collision with large objects and nearby explosions.
  • In-game links to development road map, help wanted section, and YouTube channel.
  • Some mission text edits for newer features such as wormholes.

Help wanted! Looking for a few good game devs:

<*>Want to contribute some cool code, art, music, or sound effects to GAR? Contact us at gar@eecs.ucf.edu.
<*>Large enough contributions will get a percent of sales. But all contributions will get in-game credits, web site credits, and will look good on a resume.
<*>We will consider all original ideas or give you a list of specific stuff we are looking for. More details coming soon.

Steam Patch 28 January:
Patch 1.26J:

- a mysterious wormhole has opened in Cygnus Alpha
- weapon bank now displays both ship and bank weapons
- upgraded radar fidelity
- planet ring graphic upgraded
- prevent possible progress loss by saving character when MP connection interupted, before dump to main menu

Upcoming patches:

- wormholes will be populated, several per patch
- new Science Mission track which will run parallel to existing Navy missions track, will be populated with wormholes

Steam Patch 15 January
Steam patch 1.26i on 15 January:

  • radiation storms now apply snare + damage based on storm type/color
  • fixed rare bug where player may not get rank up for completed missions

Scheduled for patch 1.26j:

  • wormholes
  • new missions

Patch 5 January
Steam patch 1.26h scheduled for 5 January:

  • updated icons client side for modified achievements
  • removed excessively grindy achievements
  • ten thousand Pirate kills (removed)
  • ten thousand Xindo kills (removed)
  • one thousand Geonoid kills (removed)
  • one thousand Space Blob kills (removed)
  • one thousand Xindo Super Elite (removed)
  • one thousand Player kills (removed)
  • one thousand deaths (removed)
  • one thousand isotopes found (removed)
  • one thousand isotopes picked up (removed)
  • one hundred million credits collected (removed)

Steam Patch 23 December
Patch 1.26g:

- fixed isue that caused smoke trails to render incorrectly on some video cards
- thruster effect now fires when on auto-pilot
- fixed 1 million shots achievement completing with 10,000 shots achievement
- lowered Find Isotope achievements to 10, 100, 1000
- lowered Pickup Isotope achievements to 10, 100, 1000
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