Steam Summer Sale is over, but ours is just beginning. For the next two weeks we are running one of the biggest sale on Stars End with 63% off. If you were on the fence about getting Stars End - now is the perfect timing. Number 63 is not entire accidental as we have just released the 63 update of the game earlier this week.
Also we have just launched a brand new Global Server that we welcome all new players to join. Stars End continues to grow with several updates coming later this summer. Now is the best time to join the community, especially with a deal this good and a brand new fresh global server where all the new players will have a fair starting point.
Become the master of your own universe...
Stars End is an challenging open world sci-fi survival game. Build a spaceship, explore the galaxy, conquer a planet, and more in this thrilling game by Reverie World Studios.
Stars End is currently in Early Access, which means it receives updates and new content on a regular basis. Our development team is really dedicated to polishing Stars End, so you'll see improvements all the time!
This is your chance to get an exciting indie title and watch it grow. At 63% off, there's never been a better time to try Stars End!
Also if you have missed the other news - we have just released our 63rd update, with 64th on the way next week.
Thanks for your continuous support, and we hope to see you in-game.
Update 63 – First Steps and Global Server
Hope everyone is enjoying their summer! Today we start rolling out a series of big updates that has been in works for the past months. Have to warn you - it will be a process – as we are expecting 7 updates over the next two months before everything is finally in-game and running. Our goal is to make the experience as smooth as possible, keeping the live build working well, without downtimes.
Majority of changes are behind the scene, until we ready to drop bigger features like offline multiplayer, or super fast loading times. But right away you will star noticing better stability, a lot of fixes across the board, and same time we will be adding new content here and there.
Over the course of the summer you will see new vehicles, new planets, a lot of gameplay improvements and balancing, UI updates and more. Though the main features that we have been working on is a smooth, fast game, without game breaking bugs, and a better gameplay flow.
Please keep in mind that these changes do not affect current online Singleplayer, and to experience the improvements please play the game on the new Global Official Server or restart self-hosted server. Today`s update includes mostly behind the scene changes, but a lot of outstanding issues has been fixes and performance and server stability has been significantly improved.
Quick note - there will be some cleanup on the Global Server tomorrow morning around 6am EST that might effect a few players, downtime will be brief. We`ll also be adding second part of today`s update tomorrow - but it doesn`t effect the gameplay, only the file assets structure. So far only core files were uploaded, tomorrow morning we are adding the repackaged art assets (it`s about 2Gb download)
Also we are expecting a potential clean-slate server wipe, but we`ll try to postpone it as far as possible, hopefully as late as September, and players will be able to store their items in global storage before the wipe.
And you can expect the next big update towards end of next week or sooner. As always thanks for all your support and staying with us through all these years.
Official Global Server update with some minor downtime
Hey Everyone
First of all - we want to thank our community for your continuous support and patience. During the past few months we have been hard at work on a major engine upgrade that will allow us to complete production and prepare Stars End for much higher player population, as well as fix some long standing issues. And we are glad to finally bring the good news - we are starting to roll out of the big update this summer - and there`s a lot of new content and improvements coming that has been in the works over the past half a year, some even in the works for over a year.
Please keep in mind that we expect all the game servers to be offline today for about 12-16 hours as we launch the new server and update the old once.
Today (technically -tomorrow) we are happy to introduce the Global Official Server. It`s a PvPvE server, with a fresh setup that we have launched in preparation for the coming updates and changes. Our final goal is to try to have a mega server - and while we are still a long way from it, current lower player populations should allow us to keep it running, stable and with a lot less issues.
We recommend all payers to start their game on Global Server, as it has countless improvements and fixes. Also a lot of fresh territory up for grabs.
Thanks for your continuous support, and can`t wait to share all the great things and updates that are coming this summer!
Huge Sale on Stars End is here!
Hey Everyone,
Steam Summer Sale is finally here, and for the week we are running one of the biggest sale on Stars End with 60% off. If you were on the fence about getting Stars End - now is the perfect timing.
Become the master of your own universe...
Stars End is an challenging open world sci-fi survival game. Build a spaceship, explore the galaxy, conquer a planet, and more in this thrilling game by Reverie World Studios.
Stars End is currently in Early Access, which means it receives updates and new content on a regular basis. Our development team is really dedicated to polishing Stars End, so you'll see improvements all the time!
This is your chance to get an exciting indie title and watch it grow. At 63% off, there's never been a better time to try Stars End!
Also if you have missed the other news - we will have a massive 62nd update that upgrades the game to the game engine, and adds offline singleplayer and more - ready for beta testing later this Spring.
Thanks for your continuous support, and we hope to see you in-game.
The BIGGEST Sale Event - 71% off
Hey Everyone,
We are starting one of the biggest sale on Stars End we had so far with massive 60% off. If you were on the fence about getting Stars End - now is the perfect timing.
Become the master of your own universe...
Stars End is an challenging open world sci-fi survival game. Build a spaceship, explore the galaxy, conquer a planet, and more in this thrilling game by Reverie World Studios.
Stars End is currently in Early Access, which means it receives updates and new content on a regular basis. Our development team is really dedicated to polishing Stars End, so you'll see improvements all the time!
This is your chance to get an exciting indie title and watch it grow. At 630 off, there's never been a better time to try Stars End!
Also if you have missed the other news - we will have a massive 62nd update that upgrades the game to the game engine, and adds offline singleplayer and more - is now available in beta. Though delayed, after a year in the making the new game engine update is almost here!
Thanks for your continuous support, and we hope to see you in-game.
The BIG Sale Event - 60% off
Hey Everyone,
We are starting one of the biggest sale on Stars End we had so far with massive 60% off. If you were on the fence about getting Stars End - now is the perfect timing.
Become the master of your own universe...
Stars End is an challenging open world sci-fi survival game. Build a spaceship, explore the galaxy, conquer a planet, and more in this thrilling game by Reverie World Studios.
Stars End is currently in Early Access, which means it receives updates and new content on a regular basis. Our development team is really dedicated to polishing Stars End, so you'll see improvements all the time!
This is your chance to get an exciting indie title and watch it grow. At 630 off, there's never been a better time to try Stars End!
Also if you have missed the other news - we will have a massive 62nd update that upgrades the game to the game engine, and adds offline singleplayer and more - is now available in beta. Though delayed, after a year in the making the new game engine update is almost here!
Thanks for your continuous support, and we hope to see you in-game.
Beta Updates Begin - Update 63
Hey Everyone,
After an extremely long delay in production due to numerous reasons and unfortunate events, we are back, with the engine rewrite that took almost a year to complete.
I won`t get into full details - but just to give some explanation to this major delay... Our small team got hit on all sides. Lost families, covid, lost teammates, funding issues, and now the war in Ukraine all hit us hard.
Same time we really underestimated the complexity of this major engine update that we took on, but work continued albeit slow and with all the delays. Now we are finally at a point where we can start showing our progress.
At this point we are starting to assemble all the elements of the game back together using this closed beta build. So players who are interested in seeing our progress can access it by activating the beta mode for Stars end on Steam.
This new build of the game, is not playable, and honestly I don`t see it playable for at least two months, until all the elements are in, and we are ready to replace the current live build with this new version of the game.
The current build has many elements working, but as a top priority we are still looking to enable all weapons and tools after replacing them with all new art. We also waiting to complete update of the Beta Prairie planet and at that point basic functionality will be complete. Right now we are working on fixing up the intro missions as well.
Meanwhile lets talk about what you can already see in the new build.
New fully offline mode is there Updated game engine looks mostly the same visually, as these updates are not enabled yet, but you will notice everything works a lot faster. Loading times are seconds instead of minutes for example.
All the framework and back-end work is complete, so now it`s just about getting all the features playable.
We hope to have next update to the beta in a week or so, fixing the startup missions. And after that focus is on getting new Beta Prairie and new weapons art in.
Thanks for believing in us, and your support. We will get Stars End finished, but it will take time.
Our Biggest Sale Ever - 65% off
Hey Everyone,
To get 2022 off to a good start we are starting the year with our biggest sale to date! For the week we are running the biggest sale on Stars End we had so far with 65% off. If you were on the fence about getting Stars End - now is the perfect timing.
Become the master of your own universe...
Stars End is an challenging open world sci-fi survival game. Build a spaceship, explore the galaxy, conquer a planet, and more in this thrilling game by Reverie World Studios.
Stars End is currently in Early Access, which means it receives updates and new content on a regular basis. Our development team is really dedicated to polishing Stars End, so you'll see improvements all the time!
This is your chance to get an exciting indie title and watch it grow. At 63% off, there's never been a better time to try Stars End!
Also if you have missed the other news - we will have a massive 62nd update that upgrades the game to the game engine, and adds offline singleplayer and more - ready for testing very soon!
Thanks for your continuous support, and we hope to see you in-game.
Update 62 - Big Engine Update is almost ready for testing
Hey Everyone,
After a number of delays, due to complexity and sheer scale of our big engine rewrite, we are finally in the final stages and expect this massive 62nd update to be available in the steams beta testing mode soon, with a dedicated beta server available for our players to help fine tune this big update before we finally push it live later in January.
Also please accept our sincere apologies for the delay. Due to complexities of upgrading to a newer game engine, and countless changes to how the game`s database works it took us two months longer than we initially planned. Unfortunately during these two months we also couldn`t update the main game client as everything else was changed as we migrated to the new game version. But once this large update goes into beta, we`ll return to releasing bi-weekly updates.
Now lets take a look at some of the upcoming changes, as they are quite monumental. Lets start from the main menu and walk through the players experience step by step
Update 62 - Main Features Walk-through
As you log into the game - be in any game mode - singleplayer or onilne, you`ll notice that loading times and wait times have been drastically reduced. Things run as much as 10 times faster in some cases
First thing you`ll notice are the changes to the main menu, allowing to have the game playable both with steam online or offline. You`ll notice various new welcome and help screens and tooltips as well
From here on you can choose to play game completely offline, locally with no need to even have steam online or internet connection. Players have long been asking us for this feature, and it`s finally here.
Previously Stars End used very aged Unity 2018 game engine, with this update, we finally completely finally switched everything over to the latest Unity engine! You`ll notice some difference compared to the old engine, though we are just getting started using the new capabilities like improved visuals. The main changes for now is how much faster everything works, and how a lot of bugs we previously had are now resolved by the new Unity engine
There`s also now linux powered CMD like hosting that makes hosting dedicated servers very easy, with all the powerful tools available to the hosts. And hosting is now lighting fast and you don`t have to wait forever for the game to initialize
If you are playing the singleplayer you will notice that a lot of game rules and features have changed, as we worked to tailor singleplayer experience to make it stand our from online mode. We streamlined all the online oriented features that didn`t make sense in the singleplayer game
On top of this you will notice a lot of gameplay changes in all game modes from stats to interface and so much more. It`s a very long list to share now, and we`ll save this until update is finally ready for you to play soon.
We`ll keep you posted on our progress and let you know as soon as it`s ready to try in the steams beta testing mode. Meanwhile wishing everyone all the very best this Holiday season. Stay merry and safe.
Update 61 - Improvements before the big Engine Update is Live!
Hey Everyone,
We have another smaller update today before we go into a month long production stretch as we complete the work on the updated game engine, as well as offline singleplayer, and hundreds of other improvements and major changes to the game. We expect the big 62 update to be ready towards end of September. Sorry for the wait, but it`ll be well worth it - 62nd update is literally the game changer.
Meanwhile, lets take a look at today`s update 61:
Update 61 Patch Notes
Added voice acting for the tutorial dialogues
Various fixes for the tutorial on the ship
Nav resource icons have a gradual increase or decrease based on distance.
Nav resources icons are a bit bigger when near the resource.
Fix to player visuals initializing with nulls fixing various creation issues
Fixed error preventing new characters from being created
Fixed, optimized and used the new placement effects on some remaining components.
Configured several long audio files to Streaming, so they're not entirely loaded in memory.
Fixed storing player location and equipment on character creation to resolve disconnect during loading a new character into the world.
NPC voice clips are loaded when a conversation starts and unloaded when it finishes, instead of being forever in memory.
Increased loading timeout to prevent game world not loading fully
