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Stardust Exile

Ancient Civilization Ruins (v1.2.0)
[p]This update adds ruins from an ancient civilization spread out throughout the galaxy. They can be activated to produce artefacts, ship parts, and process batches. The artefacts and processed batches can be sold in the market, and the ship parts can be used to build a new type of ship. This is the first update more focused on PvE combat, and it is geared more towards advanced players than new players. You can toggle the locations of the ruins with the new ui at the top left corner of the galaxy map.[/p][p][/p][p]v1.2.0 Changelog:[/p]
  • [p]Ancient civilization ruins[/p]
  • [p]New ship type: Precursor Drone[/p]
  • [p]New research techs and market items: Tradable Artifacts, Batch Processing and Precursor Drone[/p]
  • [p]Allow to hide and show all icons in the galaxy map[/p]

Version 1.1.3 Changelog
v1.1.3

  • Allow to fulfill buy orders that are not in range of the currently selected terminal but are in range of other terminals
  • Allow to define the fire mode of ships leaving shipyards and market terminals
  • Cycle over ships in the same position by clicking multiple times
  • Increase radius of places where new pirates packs can form
  • Increase market orders radius for orders generated by systems, and further increase their value closer to the solar system
  • Fix ships showing as duplicated in some situations when the network connection temporarily slows down
  • Fix ships leaving the market terminal showing as duplicated
  • Fix ships stopping on positions already occupied by another ship when they receive instructions to stop
  • Fix camera movement between zoom levels moving too fast when running at a frame rate above 60
  • Fix repair vessel sometimes not moving to the closest ship when there is none in range to repair
  • Fix repair vessel repairing ships that are still in warp
  • Fix ships becoming unselectable if a planet or star is below them
  • Fix dyson swarm selection indicator not remaining over the ship as it orbits a star
  • Fix system summary text getting truncated when there are a lot of players in the same system

Version 1.1.2 Changelog
v1.1.2

  • Allow to filter Logs by other players. Accessible from their Civilization dialog
  • Ship stats now show values with units
  • Allow to select and copy (ctrl+c) chat messages, player name and production values on civilization dialog, planets and stars names on their dialog
  • Improve tutorial text
  • Increase the initial system minimum distance to the solar system and only start where there are empty adjacent systems to expand to
  • Fix dialogs title bar being hidden if the game window is resized below their width and height
  • Fix planet sometimes not visible in the planet dialog the first time it is open
  • Fix dropdowns list not opening with the correct item highlighted
  • Fix game window default size after changing to Windowed mode for being too small to fully show some dialogs

Stardust Exile Demo Release Announcement

Version 1.1.1 Changelog
v1.1.1

  • Allow to automate outpost location search
  • More tutorial improvements
  • Add support for demo client
  • Once a disruptor enters warp, it no longer has any effect on other ships
  • Base materials production increased by 50% for planets. Collectors in orbit now on average harvest 52% of available materials, outpost established 24% and upgrades 24%
  • Increase storage ships base capacities. Materials storage increases to 21M, Gas Tanker to 9.5M and Energy Accumulator to 27M. Increase Shipyard storage base capacities to 4.2M materials, 1.9M gas and 5.4M energy
  • Change the initial shipyard to have extra-solar capabilities by default. Increase initial resources to 4.2M materials, 1.9M gas and 5.4M energy
  • Fix allowing to attack ships still in warp when 2 players in the same alliance share the same system

Version 1.1.0 Changelog
Update 1.1.0 released today adds the ability to repair ships, tutorial improvements and several bug fixes.



v1.1.0 Changelog:

  • Add Repair Vessel
  • More tutorial improvements and allow to restart it
  • Change trajectory color if ship can harvest from planet, star or asteroid belt
  • Always open objectives dialog if some of the tutorial objectives have not been completed yet
  • Increase Research Vessel speed and reduce construction time
  • Reduce Disruptor and storage ships construction time
  • Fix connection drops not detected in some situations
  • Fix projectiles weapons sound that sometimes keeps playing after the battle has ended
  • Fix coordinates buttons and ship focus button not working when in the galaxy view
  • Fix camera not moving to initial system when starting a new game if the camera is in the galaxy view
  • Fix ships trails positioned outside of the ship when they have a horizontal or vertical design

Stardust Exile 1.0 has been released!
After 21 months in Early Access, Stardust Exile version 1.0 is now live, marking the end of its Early Access phase.


List of major features currently implemented in the game:

  • MMORTS persistent, single-shard
  • Single-Player skirmish
  • Procedural spaceship generator
  • Markets, sell and buy spaceships and resources
  • Research/Tech tree
  • Pirate NPCs
  • Alliances between players
  • Bounties placed on pirates or other players
  • Planetary outposts
  • Rename stars and planets you control outside of the Solar System
  • Leaderboards
  • Logs of recent activity

Stardust Exile will leave Early Access on November 8th
With 21 months in Early Access, Stardust Exile is now ready to have its 1.0 release on November 8th.

Major features added since the start of Early Access:

  • Single-Player skirmish
  • Markets, sell and buy spaceships and resources
  • Research/Tech tree
  • Pirate NPCs
  • Alliances between players
  • Bounties placed on pirates or other players
  • Massive black hole at the center of the galaxy
  • Gas, Research Advancements and Credits as new resource types
  • Planetary outposts
  • Chat rooms for each language and private chat rooms
  • Logs of recent activity

After that, development will resume. The next set of features to be implemented can be checked out on the Discord roadmap channel or inside the game.

Version 0.10.2 Changelog
Update 0.10.2 released today rebalances weapons damage to make ships with missiles or projectiles more effective against gauss. You can now configure keyboard keys on the settings dialog. And the skirmish game speed is now controllable with keyboard keys. The tutorial was also improved.

v0.10.2 Changelog:
- Allow to configure keyboard keys
- Allow to control skirmish speed with keyboard keys
- Improve tutorial
- Skirmish opponents ships now have the colors of their faction to help differentiate them from the player own ships during battles
- Rebalanced weapons damage to make ships with missiles or projectiles more effective against gauss
- Fix skirmish mode with seed 0 blocking when moving to the galaxy zoom level
- Fix wrong main menu button text after exiting a skirmish game without a playable faction
- Fix incorrect engine trail color for ships from other players
- Fix gauss shot path sometimes not visible

Version 0.10.1 Changelog
v0.10.1
- Improve responsiveness when running skirmish at 100x
- Improve performance rendering many ships and trajectories with camera zoomed out
- Improve systems creation time when moving the camera
- Limit total amount of resources in pending market sell orders to 1B
- Fix shipyard and market terminal rally point indicator not moving as the ship moves
- Fix some ships staying in place when moving several at the same time and some of their trajectories go over a corner between systems
- Fix ship selection indicator and mouse over ship indicator being hidden on some zoom levels
- Fix incorrect rendering on some GPUs for: ships, trajectories, planets trajectory lines, over indicator, selection indicator and weapons range line
- Fix some animations moving too fast on frame rates above 60
- Fix establish outpost buttons not being disabled immediately after establishing an outpost if there are no resources to build another
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