The second monthly update, the May 2022 Update is out now! Plus we've got a trailer made to show off the new features!
Features
New Sprites! The entire Solar system, asteroids, stars, and some FTL objects have gotten new textures courtesy of MechanicPluto24! Thank you!
Binary Stars! Alpha Centauri Reunited!
Landing on Water! An upgrade for your probes that can be purchased.
Screenshot Mode! Press F3 at any point to hide the GUI for maximum screenshot capabilities! Also F3 to bring it back again.
Galaxy Sectors! Each Galaxy now has sectors to fit more stars and very generation. More to come with this!
Quest Mask - The planet you are going to will now have a quest marker on it as well as a tint. This is to assist new players.
Tweaks
Galaxy Backgrounds have been adjusted to look not as ugly
New Galaxy Generation! Faster generation + better spread of stars
The final boss ship can now be seen after it has been destroyed.
Save files are now sorted by most recent
Save selection screen now shows time last played
Esc now back out of save selection & Game mode selection screens
Doubled number of stars per Galaxy Sectors
Moon orbits are fixed and they should stay a healthy distance now
Bugfixes
Main menu was not recognizing that you have a save file
Comms text boxes fixed so text doesn't go off screen
1.1.0.0_O
Features
Game Mode Selector! No more hotkeys when selecting what game mode you want to play!
Multiple Save Games! Now when you continue game, the game will come to a save loading screen where you can choose the save file you want to play! Also has indicators on the most needed info.
Speed Run Mode! See how fast you can go FTL and submit your fastest times to our Discord and discuss strategy!
New Prompts for RNG quests!
300+ Lines of dialogue added to various species. Will be adding more in the future!
Sunrises & Sunsets! Now every planet with an atmosphere will have some effects during the sunrise and sunsets.
Probe Storage Indicator! A gray bar will show up next to the probe to show how much of the storage has been used (for rocks), should help new players know how much they can load into the probe per trip! :)
Trade Centre Elevator! Only 1 floor can currently be accessed, other floors planned for next month’s update.
Planets are now visible from their moons.
Tweaks
Landing heights are now shorter and the gameplay loop has a lot less idle time in it.
Eyelids in Space Station Trading were all the default colour, now matches skin tone.
Game no longer attempts to stretch when the window size is changed, in order to keep text readable on some displays
Your ship that you've chosen has a unique name! Check the lore book Human section to see the name of your ship!
Gas Giants no longer have a black border around the body, looks much better and blends with rings.
Planets with atmospheres now will have a semi-transparent border around the sprite to show it's all atmosphere-ey.
Plants are now a little transparent in their leaves, it varies from plant to planet.
Bugfixes
Memory Leak! Was caused from a change in Monogame 3.6+ that makes Color Objects no longer dispose properly, was able to get around it and ended up improving performance! Also allows for some cool graphics features I didn't have before :)
Wrecked Ships were crashing the game upon startup for some reason, that's fixed now.
You can no longer move when the "Leave menu" pulls up from flying away from a star into the V O I D
1.0.9.7_O
Features
Added "Save Game" option to Tablet Options Menu so you can save at any point in the game (Loading the game will still take you to the Trade Centre)
Tweaks
Added Arthinaan to credits as well as a few other adjustments, thanks for all your help, buddy! :)
Bugfixes
Lore Book no longer has infinite scroll, now matches the number of in game species, this previously caused a crash
1.0.9.3_O
Features
Mushrooms! They now randomly generate on planets and clump together into large groups
Asteroid Belts can now be in multiple belts, or even scattered around not forming a solid belt
Chance Cube Event - You have a chance when visiting Stars to get a chance cube on 7/25 and 11/25
Slave Star Animations - They now pulse to show they are being drained
Galaxy Map Backgrounds - Whichever Galaxy you are in will now show up in the background and fade as you move around
Tweaks
Added more prompts for various species
Crash File now contains some extra info for testing
Made a few arrays bigger to help with Procedural stuff causing overflow, will take up slightly more memory
Bugfixes
Fixed Hel crash bug that some were running into
1.0.8.1_O
Tweaked a few things to hopefully prevent some crashes, please report any seeds/coords you have so that I can try them out!
