From our small indie team we want to thank all of our players for your support and patience over the past couple of days.
And we are back with another daily updates. Today's update include a lot of improvements to server stability, dedicated server updates, some of the vehicle and animal issue fixes, a lot of balancing and crafting improvements as well as a solution for anyone getting stuck in environment - new Unstuck Teleporter item will be given to each character on respawn or can be purchased for free at a General Store.
Please make sure to restart Steam to download the latest update. Once in the main menu the game should show ]Version 0.68, instead of 0.67. You will not see the game servers if you don`t have the newest version 0.68.
By tomorrow we expect to finally address last remaining problems with vehicles. Meanwhile our moderators are available in-game chat to help, and new moderators just joined our team. Thanks for your understanding and your support. We expect the game to be in the great shape later this week. And offline singleplayer will be finally added to the game later this week as well.
And we are still on track with adding offline singleplayer towards the end of this week - sorry for a bit of a delay there.
As always – forever grateful for you support, and lets go over some of the fixes and changes in this update 68
Added new item – Teleporter Tool – will be added to every new player inventory, and also
when player dies and respawns.
Teleporter Tool can be used by the player to get unstuck if player is stuck in the environment
Fixed majority of issues causing players to loose connection to servers
Fixed a number of issues with players loosing items
Fixed various issues with AI NPCs acting oddly
Fixed most instances of Mech Robots moving in one spot or not moving at all
Various improvement to the AI animals
Countless server stability and performance improvements
Improvements to the Dedicated Hosting utility
Improved French Translation of the game – courtesy of our new member – Jackfarm
Did number of balancing changes based on our players feedback, listing some of the more noticeable once bellow
Adjusted Spotter and Respawn pill price to 0 so that players don`t sell them, and can always get a free one from the General Store if they loose them.
Rebalanced Manufacturing of Plastics The recipe Should now give 2 Polymers and for each Polymer you should get 2 Plastic at the orbital refinery.
Rebalanced pricing on: Empty Water Bottles, Cloth, Ore's, Ingots and Crafting materials to help get some credits early game.
Rebalanced where you can sell basic crafting items to in game, for example Flint can now also be sold to Gas vendors and the Gas vendors will also buy Powercells.
Rebalanced the crafting Recipe of the Spinner; the best ship you can currently build in the game.
Rebalanced the crafting recipe and all of the recipe's and value relating to the Christmas Cake.
Rebalanced the Drinks that didn't return an empty bottle after consuming the drink.
Fixed Items that were in the wrong crafting menu.
Reverted the Crafting Recipe for Wood Planks.
Update 67.0 - Day One Fixes
Hey Everyone,
From our small indie team we want to thank all of our players for your support and patience over the past 24 hours. We had a large number of new players join us this weekend and this had caused some unexpected problems.
Our team has been working around the clock with a number of updates released fixing majority of the new problems – from rubber banding and sync problems, to getting stuck, using weapons and so much more. We have just released yet another update fixing large number of startup issues. Please make sure to restart Steam to download the latest update.
By Wednesday we expect to finally address last remaining problems with vehicles and claims. Meanwhile our moderators are available in-game chat to help. Thanks for your understanding and your support. We expect the game to be in the great shape later this week.
As always – forever grateful for you support, and lets go over some of the fixes and changes in this update 67.0
Dedicated Hosting Tool can now be used by the same Steam account on multiple PCs both to host and play on the same account
Dedicated Hosting Tool can even be started without Steam - use the .exe file to launch it
Fixed a lot of server issues resulting in rubberbanding
Fixed players sometimes floating or teleporting
Fixed Chat client not working for some players
PvP Red Skull sign will no longer show all the time - only when in PvP zones
Weapon targeting recital and targeting box fixed for all weapons
Some trees in the distance no longer flicker or disappear
Completed translation on some of the text that was still shown in English in the main menu and other menus
Fixed various common issues with getting stuck in some objects
If still stuck use /stuck command in the game chat (tomorrow we will add an item to player inventory to get player unstuck in these rare scenarios)
Fixed most of the issues with Mechs not moving
Fixed various translation issues across the board
Fixed a number of rare exploits
Update 67 - Foundation Complete
Hey Everyone,
We have a major milestone update today that finally completes the foundation of the game. Today`s update includes galore of features - from new game servers to the dedicated hosting utility and so much more. With this update done we can finally say that the foundation components of the Stars End are complete, and now we can focus on polishing and improving across the board, and including more awesome gameplay content. This will be a very exciting winter, and we are expecting at least one update per week moving forward.
Also this winter we are switching to an open development – where we will invite our players to offer help in any area of developments. We are looking for people to assist in any capacity – from testing to bringing new gameplay and balancing ideas. From help with Unity coding to translating the game. In addition we will be letting our players decide on what we should focus the development on via polls and feedback. We are looking forward to working closely with our community and building an amazing survival experience together.
Now lets take a look at what today`s milestone update 67 has to offer. Since there are literally hundreds of changes, we will focus only on the most visible parts this update:
Please note that we are putting finishing touches on Offline singleplayer and expect it to be ready within 24 hours. Sorry for the delay! But we want it done right. Meanwhile if you would like to continue playing your Solo - in the main menu press Play - and under Player Hosted Server - please look for Official - Old Solo Accounts
Greatly expanded variety of Official game servers – from peaceful PvE to hardcore PvP experience. Original sever is now PvE Server # 2 (Old)
Added 3 additional official game servers
New servers now have different gameplay settings - PvP, PvPvE as well as difficulty variations between them
Original sever is now PvE Server # 2 (Old) - it used to be gold Global
Dedicated Game Hosting Utility – available under Tools in your Steam Library, allows anyone to host dedicated servers, with variety of options - more options and CMD is coming soon.
Solo experience can be customized with various options like wildlife, loot, these settings can always be changed in the Solo menu
Private and Public CoOp mode added - at any point can player adjust his Solo experience to be able to invite friends or random players
Brand new weight system - uses kilograms and grams, every items weight has been re-balanced. System is a lot more realistic and better balanced
Completely re-balanced entire crafting system and items, especially with mid to late game crafting - including oil, polymers, plastics
Crafting requires a lot less grinding now especially for the mid to late game items
Fixed all issues with items not stacking and other related inventory issues
Fixed very large number of exploits
Redesigned collision on the Spawn Ship to fix all the issues with walking through falls or falling to the ground
Improved translated version of the tutorial with a lot more details and tasks
Redesigned main menu layout a bit, including new welcome message. Hosting is now done via Dedicated Server hosting Tool
Various improvements to the game`s translation in German, French, Russian and Chinese
As always – forever grateful for you support!
Milestone Update 67 Incoming – Offline and More...
Hey Guys,
Hope everyone is ready to enjoy the holiday season ahead! We have some very exciting news on our end – after over a month of work we are getting ready to release the 67th milestone update – and it`s a big one! We are expecting this update to go live towards New Years, and it truly transforms the way you play Stars End.
Now let’s go over some of the biggest features of this update.
Offline Singleplayer
Thanks for your patience with this, I`m happy to say that it`s finally here. Offline singleplayer will allow you to play Stars End with local saves, completely offline. We`ll be reworking some of the solo game rules as well to make offline singleplayer play differently than the online main game.
Reworked Game Hosting
This update will also include new approach to hosting your own personal servers that doesn`t require setting up My SQL. Players will be able to host a new server with just one click from the main menu. You can invite your friends for a true CoOp experience, craft your own solo experience in sandbox mode, or host dedicated servers visible for other players with your own game rules.
New Official Global Servers
In addition, we are launching a number of new official global servers with various game rules. These will offer players a fresh start, as well as bring variety of gameplay experiences. For example, we are including hardcore PvP servers where loot is plentiful, crafting is easy and experience becomes almost a battle-royal. We`ll also include variety of PvE servers with various degree of difficulty.
Crafting Balancing & Item updates
Aside from these major features this update also includes a major rework of all of the in-game items. We have updated hundreds of lines of text - with most of the items in game – be it vehicles, weapons, or resources getting new lengthy descriptions, as well as re-balanced to fix a lot of issues with crafting (yes -oil, plastics e.t.c is just a tip of the iceberg in this total rebalance)
Countless Fixes and Improvements
This update also comes with a lot of fixes and improvement across the board, too many to mention now, but looking forward to typing in an impressive list of update change logs next week!
As always – we are forever grateful for our community support, and can`t wait to share this milestone update with ya all.
P.S. Something else of note to mention – we have added a new gameplay Trailer to the store page, that shows the game`s improvements over the past 2 years. The progress is well visible next to the older long trailer that we kept for now. We plan to rework that long trailer over the next two weeks as well with all new current footage.
Update 66.5 - Localization
Hey Everyone,
With today`s update we are finally adding full localization support. All of Stars End`s text has been translated into French, German, Russian and Simplified Chinese. Please keep in mind that this is the first draft of the translation and additional work is being done to proof-read and improve the translations. There are several thousand lines of text, so it will take us a little while before everything is perfected.
In the future we intend to support more languages as we get closer to release next year, but meanwhile these four additional languages cover vast majority of our players countries of original. Also - if you notice any problems with some of the translations in your native language - you can let us know on our forums, and we`ll be sure to correct it.
And with that said – we are pushing forward with completing work on offline single player as well as simplified self-hosting without any extra steps. Thanks for your patience - and as always – forever grateful for you support!
Keeping updates notes very short this time around, as it`s mostly about new languages:
Added Language Selection to the game`s options and in-game menus
Simplified Chinese translation added
French translation added
German translation added
Russian translation added
Fixed various issues with Cryo Ship where players would fall to the ground while exploring some areas
Various improvements to the Cryp Ship NPCs and rooms
Update 66.4 - Early Game Improvements
Hey Everyone,
Hope everyone`s staying nice and frosty - and we have a new update today. Now that the foundation of the game is complete with the upgraded game engine and networking running well - we are combing through the rest of the content to fix whatever smaller issues remain, before we push forward with offline singleplayer and late game content.
With today`s update we focused on on-boarding and early game - improving everything possible about first few hours player spends in the game. You will notice a few additional changes to the starting Cryo ships, as well as significantly improved starting tutorial objectives, with additional helpful information, tooltips e.t.c
In addition we looked into fixing some exploitable looting locations and fixed a couple of last remaining stability issues. In addition - apologies about the brief server outage earlier this week - we have tracked down and resolved this issue.
Thanks for your patience - and as always – forever grateful for you support!
Lets take a look a what Update 66.4 includes
Various stability improvements
Resolved the last of the sever issues that caused brief downtime this week
A lot of polish of various aspects of the early game, especially tutorial quests
Reworked startup quests with a lot of additional details
Updated description for majority of the quests
Improved some dialogue prologue lines and other text
Reworked some startup quest objectives to make it easier to complete
Work completed to prepare for full localization of the game to come in the following update
Tarphite mine now has a different icon which is much easier to locate
Redberry Liquor fridges marked as secure – stopping exploitable loot
Fixed various location with exploitable loots, marked as stealing now
Adjusted colliders for Two Tap Banking vendor and vending machines
Added some missing fences in Cryo Area
Another redesign of the Cryo ships with more new style lifts
Removed a grey box artifact on of the lift prefabs
Adjusted loading distances on captains’ office for better view from cryo area
Fixed issue with Captains Office window collider
Update 66.3 - Various Improvements
Hey Everyone,
And we are back with another sizable update. We focused on fixing a lot of minor bugs and greatly improves quality of life for the payers in a number of areas. In addition, we also greatly reworked and improves startup sequences and early game. From redesigned Cryo ship where player spawns to improved startup quests.
Also, with this update a lot of work went into ironing out the last of stability and performance issues, to make sure our servers work without any interruptions or downtimes in the future and most of the system run the game with great FPS following the recent visual update.
Also, we are also setting time aside to finally complete offline single player as the next big feature release. Thanks for your patience - and as always – forever grateful for you support!
And now lets take a look at what out Update 66.3 has a store
Major server stability improvements
Performance improvements for a variety of systems
Greatly improved voice quest cinematics
Fixed some structural issues in cryo and engine rooms on clone ship
Repositioned startup quests characters to speed up prologue
Fixed visual issue with standing computer terminal
Fixed an AI Error when returning to menu causing various issues
Fixed a POI Detail error when returning to menu causing various issues
Updated some layouts in Cryo Ship Command Centre, it's now much easier to navigate between floors. Fixed some missing fence sections up.
Some new stores added and relocated in the cryo ships
Quartermaster/Reclamations moved to top floor next door next to the captains office
Updated Captains Office layout and improved visuals quite a bit
Updated props in Quartermaster/Reclamations.
Boarded up some empty shops but kept them for future use.
Added Death Counter to Info UI plus the database
Various NPCs, Merchant, quest NPC have different interaction distance now – addressing a lot of issues
Added "sci fi lifts" to the mall area on the clone ship (and the props folder for other use), an early game idea that never got properly completed until now. Use the lift with particles floating upwards for up, and vice versa. Supports getting off at floors along the way. These replace the stairs in this area and also add to the overall sci fi visuals.
Reduced the volume on all door sound effects
Fixed some invisible walls in clone ship mall area
Removed the desks in Quartermaster and Captains Offices.
Updated hair visuals on Officer Joy.
Fixed NPC paths crossing in the way of Lt Diesel.
Mission waypoint positions updated in scene.
Update 66.2 - Pushing Forward
Hey Everyone,
We have a major follow up update today that resolves all of the issues that came with the big engine and networking update. In addition, we started enabling some of the new engine’s features – like better graphics for lower end systems, new animations and more.
This updates also deals with last of remaining exploits and issues with vehicle claiming, or selling in the info screen that had long effected the game. With all the big background updates out of the way we are also focusing on a lot of smaller bugs and a lot of these have been resolved in this update.
We are also setting time aside to finally complete offline single player as the next big feature release. Thanks for your patience - and as always – forever grateful for you support!
Now, lets take a look at what Update 66.2 brings. Please keep in mind keeping the list short as many of the fixes are combined into categories to make this easier to read:
Major server stability and performance improvements
Major visual improvements for these who ran the game on lower visual settings
Game now defaults to highest possible visual settings for new players - better engine performance easily allows decent FPS on most systems now
Fixed an issue where server will often not show for a minute or two
Fixed majority of issues with vehicle info screen
Player can no longer sell same vehicle twice in the info vehicle screen
Fixed issues on info vehicle screen with vehicles changes names or disappearing
Fixed exploit allowing claiming same vehicle twice
Fixed issue with players unable to get out of fighter/interceptor spaceship
Added new animation for driving ground vehicles - with hands on the wheel
Mining rocks will no longer damage player
Mining rocks will no longer occasionally throw players in the air
Changed visual effect on minable rock depleting
Minor polish to main menu background scene visuals
Update 66 - New Game Engine
Hey Everyone,
And we are back with our milestone update 66 that finally switches the game to the new game engine as well as brand new networking technology. On the surface you will not notice that big of a difference - other than much faster loading times, significantly increased performance, and global server being able to support much higher player numbers in one instance. In addition new engine fixes countless minor bugs and issues across the board that were part of the old 2018 Engine/network code that we were using before.
Please keep in mind that it might take us a few days to find and fix some of the new minor bugs that we surely introduced with this massive update, but all in all game is in a good shape and ready for you. Also now that we have switched to the new engine we can finally start rolling out the content that we have been sitting on - like new larger space spaceships in different classes, visual improvements and late game content.
We are also setting time aside to finally complete offline single player as the next big feature release. Thanks for your patience - and as always – forever grateful for you support!
Keeping the patch notes very general, as it`s all very technical and includes hundreds of changes:
New Unity game engine
New Pun networking
Significantly increased performance
Significantly decrease loading times
Some improvements to graphics - but very minor, still need to enable all the cool tech that new engine comes with
A lot of stability improvements
Fixed countless bugs effecting many areas of the game - these bugs were used by using a very dated Unity engine and old networking tech
Update 65.3 - Engine Update Prep
Hey Everyone,
We are happy to say that our long-awaited engine update is complete and ready for launch next week. Meanwhile we have another update 65.3 for you today that sets the stage for this upcoming 66th milestone update.
Today`s update includes a lot of back-end infrastructure for the upcoming launch as well as several dozen fixes and improvements in all areas of the game. We wanted to make sure to tie up all the loose ends and fix remaining known bugs before the big launch.
You can see the full patch notes on our Steam forums or Discord. As always – grateful for you support!
Lets take a look at what Update 65.3 has in store:
Reworked outlaw system, NPCs will now only attack player who has 3 stars wanted level or more
Killing a player grants 3 wanted star, Killing a mech grants 2 wanted stars, 1 start for NPC
Added global loot terminal beside air vehicle vendors on System Stations
Fixed NPC waypoints on System stations to show for 200 meters
Nav points now update as player moves across the planet with new once showing on proximity
Fixed an issue in final tutorial objective where Copper ore collection will not end tutorial
Added Saw to Blade Check to fix various issues with sawing
Added Trout and Carp to Cooked Meat cooking tutorial
Other various improvements to the tutorial
Relocated quest NPCs in the starting cryo ship quests so players don’t need to walk as much around the ship
Captain Harper re-positioned in new Captains Office with new environment
Quartermaster in Prologue now only gives basic items
Update for AI frequencies on BP, Bears now spawn less, foxes, boars and trawlers – a lot more
Foliage waypoints for the spotter now update every 5 seconds, if the spotter is active
Fixed an issue with a wrong item ID making players unable to use Frigates
Majority of items that are end products in crafting – like workbenches, tools and larger items will no longer stack or auto-ques multiple when crafting
Disabled stacking on crude oil so it acts like other containers now
Some restyling on the greyed out "buy" button for Merchants
Added Global Storage terminals on space station for players to store their newly purchased spaceships
New UI element added for greying out the inventory neatly, while crafting is in progress
Integrity Averaging added to all items stacks. Stacking an item will no longer reset the integrity preventing a number of small exploits
Items like finishing hooks and other small items now stack correctly
Fixed issue with placing some base components on the ground
Various unnamed exploits fixed effecting various items, merchants, transactions e.t.c
Fixed an issue with certain merchants now showing goods correctly
