What's New Games

Minor tweaks and bugfixes

November 29, 2021

(temporarilty) Removed civlian ships because it causes a potential fps drop
Also made red skybox more orange to make the icons more visible
Fixed some random errors in the console during playtime. Nothing major or too-often recurring though, so there should be no impact on performance.
Fixed center of map firing (maybe)
Fixed bomber hangar launching fighters while still being constructed
If bombers move away too far then they will now 'dock' instead of flying over the entire map (300 range)
Fixed that the follow camera would keep the camera-smoothing on after the target that was followed was destroyed

Auxillum support vessel

November 24, 2021

Added the Auxillum support vessel
Made cinematic camera 'calmer' and slower
Added 3 powerpoint style slides before the tutorial starts with the most important elements
Bomber health is now 18 (from 24).
Fighter health is 12
Added progression indicator to the main menu
Units now show how many kills they have in their tooltip

32:9 screen resolution fixes

November 19, 2021

Done a bunch of screen resolution fixes for those with 32:9 monitors. Hopefully they can see all the buttons now on their ultra-ultra-ulrta wide screens.
Spent 4 hours so far cleaning up and categorising the trello todo list
Disabled recoil visualisation for now
Manually set references for all weapon origin points
Updated Krautak visuals
Updated the 'unable to place here' building area visual
Shipyard also has a height indicator again
Added muzzle flares to all projectile based weapons
Changed the missile visuals
Beam weapons now have particle effects at the beginning and end of the beam again

Muzzle flare, projectile, beam and missile experiments

November 19, 2021

I've just finished some changed visualisations for all ingame weaponry. Its an experiment most of all, so I don't know if I am going to keep it like this or not. The goal is to make things look better, hence the new muzzle flares and the adjusted beam weapons.

Let me know what you guys think! Does this look better? Or the previous iteration of weapon visuals?

Tooltip scaling, campaign mission 3, 4, 5 audio

November 12, 2021

In summary I have done some polishing on campaign missions and the ingame tooltip. I have also added some voice lines and put a limited on the amount of sounds that play when you click a building.

Please note that I only just added those 3 new campaign missions. If you have any feedback on if it is too difficult or too easy please place a suggestion in the suggestions channel on discord or as a comment to this update (or the steam discussion forum).

I have also done playtests of capmaign missions 1-5. All in all it seemed good to me, but I am also awaiting some input/feedback from the people on Discord.

There is also a new weapon called the Krautak that has been added. More refinement of it will follow, but the initial implementation works. The Plasma Fortress now also has an Iron Dome attached to it.

Fixed some menu navigation issues
Added a button to go to the ship editor to the unlocked ships menu
Added the Dome Cruiser which has 2 Iron Domes but only 1 turret slot
Increased Iron Dome range from 80 to 90. Decreased size of editor slot select buttons
Made building upgrades in the bottom of the screen vertical (in preparation of unit thumbnails of selected units being shown which is needed in preparation of campaign objectives being shown in the right spot)
Fixed building selection-beeps playing too often or with a weird delay
Each campaign mission now also displays the current objective
Edited and added the first 4 voice lines to campaign mission 1
Edited 6 voice lines for campaign mission 2 and added them to the game
Edited 5 voice lines for campaign mission 3 and added them to the game
Edited 4 voice lines for campaign mission 4 and added them to the game
Edited 8 voice lines for campaign mission 5 and added them to the game
Edited 9 voice lines for campaign mission 7 and added them to the game
Edited 8 voice lines for campaign mission 8 and added them to the game
Done editing and adding 42 voice over lines
Each campaign fortress now has an additional 2 Iron Domes attached to it
Regular plasma fortresses now have 1 Iron Dome attached to it
Added a new weapon: The Krautak
Campaign mission 1 works as intended
Done testing voicelines for m1
Unlocked Ships button in the main menu now succesfully hides when opening the singleplayer menu
Enemies dont spawn in mission 2. Fixing now.
Changed mission 2 objective 1 to ; "Build up an economy and defenses"
Fixed enemies not spawning in mission 2
A Doomfleet now appears if you dont complete mission 3 in time
Mission 3 changes have been applied and checked
Fixed an issue with campaign mission timers not working correctly
Mission 4 should be good now and everything should trigger correctly. Checking mission 5 now
Mission 5 should be good, checking ingame tooltips now
Disbaled basebuilding in campaign mission 5

Iron Dome Cruiser

November 8, 2021

Added the Dome Cruiser which has 2 Iron Domes but only 1 turret slot
Increased Iron Dome range from 80 to 90.
Decreased size of editor slot select buttons
Fixed the back button only being half clickable in the unlocked ships overview + added a note that people can find frames ingame. Ive also added this 'unlocked ships' button to the ship editor
Fixed some menu navigation issues
Added a button to go to the ship editor to the unlocked ships menu
Made building upgrades in the bottom of the screen vertical (in preparation of unit thumbnails of selected units being shown which is needed in preparation of campaign objectives being shown in the right spot)
Fixed building selection-beeps playing too often or with a weird delay

Ingame tooltip GUI fix + Point Defense Systems

November 5, 2021

I've added:

Added a Heavy carrier called Hive
Added a PD against fighters and bombers called Iron Dome
Added unlocked ships overview
Unlocked the work in progress campaign missions 3, 4 and 5 (i will finetine these in the upcoming week)

Added anti fighter/bomber weaponry to the Cruiser
Added anti fighter/bomber weaponry to the Corisant
Added anti fighter/bomber weaponry to the Manta

Added an alternative ship selector to the ship editor as part of a plan to make the ship editor a bit more intuitive in the future.
Hidden data on ships that have not been unlocked yet to encourage unlocking
Added the Iron Dome anti fighter/bomber PD structure
Added more discord buttons to the multiplayer to get people who want to play multiplayer to come here rather than get annoyed that they cant find opponents
Added ant-bomber defenses to campaign mission 3
Fixed mission 3 spawns & CWIS not working
Fixed a bug in mission 4 and 5, ran some tests
Fixed AI targeting
Improved turret and CWIS targeting
Working on scaling for 1366*766 resolution scaling of ingame tooltip. Already tested it on 4k, works perfectly there. Will check the smaller sizes now. This will hopefully ensure that tooltips are readable for everyone and wrap up the GUI scaling fixes
Testing ship editor on small resolution also works
Lowered the overall difficulty a bit. AI now only gets a damage boost above difficulty 35

Carriers, Fighters, Bombers

October 30, 2021

Carriers have been one of the most requested features for Stellar Warfare. I've spent the last month working to add them to the game.

Over the past few days you guys have seen me post a bunch of small updates regarding Carriers, Fighters and Bombers. While not perfect yet they are now functional and smooth running enough to be added to the game. While there is likely styll some balancing to do the current state is pretty good!

So hop in wave defense, singleplayer or multiplayer and have some fun!

You can also join the Discord here in order to more easily find multiplayer or coop players: https://discord.gg/KrWbsdX

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Here are some of the devlog notes from the last few days:

storage now gives +500 instead of +400 of each storage
fighter and bomber hangar structures now only spawn if done building
added fighters and bombers to the cinematic camera (untested)
singleplayer carriers are now a bit buggy, attempting to fix
Bombers and fighters keep respawning in SP. Fixing now.
fixed bombers respawning instantly in sp
fixed big explosions when fighters die
fixed ficghters now docking after killing all targets in sp
fixed construction lights not showing in sp
prevented fighters to set themselves as target and launching themselves as a result of them being in range
prevented fighters and bobmers from launching if the target is an inactive gameobject
fixed that the AI fighters kept respawning because they didnt check if the target was alive before launching
fixed fighters after respawning in SP return to carrier right away
doing 1 more multiplayer test and if it succeedds then i will upload it ot steam
coop is NOT tested
fixed fighters after respawning in SP return to carrier right away
uploaded the new version to steam
fixed; references not set for fighters and bombers causing bugs in multiplayer (i think, will test tomorrow)
fixed; craft health reference not set
fixed; able to target units with fighters
increased time warthog-rounds are visible in MP
made fighters and bombers more 3dimensional by having them go in more directions after attacks
fixed the bomber and fighter network reference not correctly set
fixed not giving enough data to the thing that sets the references for fighters and bombers
updated stellar warfare icon
much better
fixed fighter color trails
updated the Stellar Warfare big logo
not sure if we will keep it though
fighters and bombers finally seem to work as intended in multiplayer
i should really test singleplayer...
fixed bomber patterns and multiplayer bugs
lowered volume of bombs and the fighter cannons

So here we are! Let me know in the community forum if you guys have any feedback or cool new ideas!

Nerfed carriers

October 29, 2021

Fighter carriers now cost 350/350
Bomber carriers now cost 400/400
Fixed bug of height indicator always being visible

GUI improvements