Inevitability
1.10.6 Update and special announcements
First of all I have big news for us as a company. Our second game has just gone up on Greenlight! Now wait, do not jump ship and panic thinking "this means that this is the end of Inevitability". Our new game has been in development for the past year and a half so it has already been happening alongside Inevitability as they both use parts of an game engine that we built. You can read about how that whole process all worked with Inevitability on a rant I did on Reddit awhile back if you are interested.
Now for some Inevitability news! The 1.11/1.12 updates are planned to come out early-mid April and has some really cool new stuff in it such as the long awaited randomly generated side quests. Along with this the enemy ship AI is getting a massive overhaul, The reason for that is something exciting... An arena mode!
Ships in the 1.12 update will function as Steam workshop items that you can download from the community page and pit them against each other to see who has designed the best ship.
We have some fun competitions and battle live-streams planned with this and some really cool prizes to give out to the best ship makers.
See you guys soon, I think it is Inevitable ;) !
Putting out fires and balance! 1.10.3
Also the power system has been reworked a bit and balanced. in the build menu you can now see very clearly how much power your ship is using when idle and how much each part uses when it is on so you no longer have to launch it to see if the ship has enough power for everything!!!
Shields, missiles and stabilizer thrust have all been nerfed. Some lasers have been buffed, the beam lasers and main engines have been buffed.
The cost of parts has gone up across the board and when killing ships parts have a chance to explode instead of being collected.
A lot of big changes that should make the game more balanced :D
1.10 Update. Mining improvements, Bigger parts, Zoom fixes, and much more!
The first thing that you can notice is that mining is a whole new ball game. All of the planet textures have been redone and are no longer blocky. The planets are 10 times bigger, you can now upgrade your probe to mine better, you can find secret parts in the planet, and there are worms wandering in each planet to nab your minerals!
Another highly requested feature was the ability to zoom in/out when you are flying your ship around, and it has been added. On top of that the menus have been reworked to fit better on all resolutions.
Many new parts have been added including some new 2x1 parts that have two systems in a single part!
This update is by far jam packed with the most new content since the launch on Steam, let us know what you think of it!
Community ships uploaded from 1.8.1 update and above will be slowly added over the next week. We got a lot of them the past two months and are still sorting through them.
1.10.0 Changelog:
- Added 7 new parts
- Increased planet size by 10
- Added upgrade-able probe features
- Added Mika worms on the planet that hit you and take minerals
- Added zoom feature to the ship view
- Added new element on planets to give you new secret parts
- Fixed sometimes spawning on enemies when warping into a new system
- Fixed scaling issues with the menus on high resolutions
- Fixed some typos in tutorials
- Fixed Tractor beam control mappings not working for planet and ship
- Fixed some other minor sound bugs
1.9.0 Update (Wait there was just an update!?!?)
Well we have had a major change in the works for awhile, moving the Framework that Inevitability runs on to be something more modern. It is stable enough now and this update solves far more problems than it creates so we decided to release it early :)
This however doesn't change our schedule and the 1.10.0 Update with some really cool new content will be out late January/Early February.
The actual change log of fixes is extremely massive so i'll just give you the highlights here.
- Moved from entire codebase from XNA to MonoGame (WHEW)
- Fixed XNA Sound bug with it leaving ghost processes
- Fixed Occasional graphics bugs of animated textures not appearing
- Fixed the mapping from the last update for some of the controls
- Fixed some annoying gamepad bugs
- Fixed save compatibility with Save files all the way back to Version 1.2
- Fixed so many other XNA related bugs
1.8.2 Re-Mappable controls and other fixes
Also some of the old textures have been updated and a few minor performance issues have been fixed.
1.8.1 Bug fix update
1.8.0 update! Hipoom Incoming.
GALACTIC NEWS
As the industrial Ukinkina faction grows ever stronger in the galaxy some members of the United Space Federation have taken action into their own hands. Their goal is to stop USF corruption by the Ukinkina.This comes after Ukinkina's blatant disregard for the well being of the environment and inhabitants on the planet of Zuol. These free-lance protesters are calling themselves the Hipoom.
The Reta-Leziua have been hard at work designing new parts for ships. Their most recent breakthrough has been in spin thrusters to help large ships spin around with ease. They have also made all lasers less explosive while doing the same impact so you can see your target's last moments.
The Pesomila faction, in their eternal pursuit of peace and zen in the universe, have equipped every ship and station with sound modulation units. This now helps everyone hear more pleasing sounds when doing virtually everything.
The Ukinkina outraged by the birth of the Hipoom Faction are pledging increased mining in USF Space and are rumored to be on the hunt for an external faction to help with the new threat..
1.8 update Full Patch Notes:
- Added Hipoom Faction and quest-line
- Added 9 new parts and 2 new sub-types
- Added Community ships uploaded from 8-2-15 ~ 12-1-15
- Changed nearly all sound effects and made them more varied
- Changed some of the art for the HUD to make quests more clear
- Changed font for much of the in-game text to make it more readable
- Changed some of the relationship algorithms to make it more balanced
- Changed a lot the action animations
- Fixed "phantom ships" from appearing
- Fixed some ship loading bugs for enemies
- Fixed load times across the board(it is now almost instant for some things)
- Fixed Lag caused with a large amount of beam lasers
- Fixed some layering issues with quests
- Fixed the mouse bugging out in the character menu
- Fixed bug with parts when attempting to rotate certain objects
- Fixed Ship light layering on certain parts.
- Fixed a whole ton of other very minor things
1.7.1 Bug fix update
Some minor things have been added to prepare for cool stuff coming in 1.8 :)
Also ships uploaded from 9/23/15 - 10/2/15 have been added to the Universe!
1.7.1 change log:
-Added recent community ships
-Added some secret optimizations to pave the way for the 1.8 update
-Fixed some menus bugs
-Fixed bug when you launch a very large ship from a very large station
-Fixed some minor graphical bugs
The "Flow update" is out.
Much of the confusing UI has been reworked and is now more clear. The UI is also more mouse and controller friendly. As well the tutorial has been expanded to make the learning curve for the game not so difficult.
Some of the community ships that you guys have been uploading via the build menu have also been put in the game.
Last big thing is there is a new part type: Point Defense Turrets that will shoot down incoming projectiles and drones. Seen below
FULL CHANGE LOG
- Added select community ships uploaded from 8/24/15 - 9/20/15
- Added new part type: point defense laser
- Added HUD prompts for many aspects of moving around the world and menus
- Added Extended Tutorial for mining and building ships
- Added a ton of mouse support in the build menu
- Updated Build menu art to be more informative
- Updated Build menu to fully work with mouse only controls
- Updated Enemy Ship AI to be more mobile in combat
- Updated Drone AI to be more random and dangerous
- Updated Drone Spawn Time for all DroneCores (they are all longer)
- Updated Text Overlay background.
- Fixed Invisible drone bug
- Fixed Unlimited stacking bug
- Fixed a couple menu bugs that could get the user stuck
- Fixed some other minor graphical bugs
Thanks for all the support you guys. I look forward to seeing what cool ships come from you guys next!!
First Ship of the week!
This weeks ship is from a Human Pirate ETHOSYDE.
The real kicker on this ship is the 177 drones that are produced by the ship. It has a layer of armor to protect the important parts from collisions completely surrounding it. However it is still fairly fast and maneuverable for a large ship.
Let us know if you want us to keep doing ships of the week and keep the cool ships coming!