The Fleets of Sol
Build update 1/23/16
- New COD Cutter capital ship added, be afraid
- COD forces now engage your fleet regardless of how far away they are
- Lowered Missile Barrage damage by 40%
- Implemented Nyx special ability (beam weapons)
- Implemented Deimos special ability (nuclear warhead)
- Adjusted fleet formation positions
- Added more lighting to Home Base and the main menu scene
- Various fixes and tweaks
Lots still to come!
Build update 1/20/16
- Clicking through both friendly and hostile ship lists in the upper right quickly changes your target and camera focus
- Controller support implemented
- Misc bug fixes and tweaks
Build update 1/5/16
- 6 new scenarios, including home base defense and one super battle
- Mining Rate research level 3 and higher now also generate fuel at home base
- New Repair Ship/Repair All buttons while at home base
- New Target UI next to abilities to help quickly point out what is targeted by the current ship
- Whenever switching fleet focus or targets, the UI behaves and reflects what would be expected
- Minimum jump timer increased to 90 seconds, up from 60
- Overall difficulty clamped to 6 (it takes 40-60 jumps to get that high, depending on encounters)
- Freighters now spawn at home base. Note that if home base is under attack, if a freighter is destroyed it is permanent
- Fixes for fighters sometimes being destroyed in hanger upon launching
- Improved responsiveness for fleet capital ships
- Improved/streamlined fleet info, now includes civilians
- Increased Olympus base movement speed by 50%
- Adjusted several projectile ranges, some shorter and some longer
- Lots of minor bug fixes and tweaking
Upcoming
- Front-end gameplay options to allow accelerated start and starting difficulty, more TBD
- Higher level probe fixes
- More scenarios
- New UI (no ETA right now, but it is coming)
Build Update 12/29/15!
- Research can now be done at home base, there is no longer an upgrade screen between jumps
- The new flagship, the UCS Olympus, can construct ships in real time. The exception is capital ships, which are constructed back at home base.
- There are 3 fighters, a repair ship, and probes available for construction
- When first going into a new area, the initial combat for most scenarios has been slowed down so there is time to launch your fighters and make targeting decisions
- While you still get salvage from destroying hostile ships or raiding refineries, there are now freighters that you can rescue and they remain at your home base. There they will generate resources which you can acquire by returning to home base
- No longer a separate tutorial, messages are now presented in the main game and can be turned off in the game settings
- A lot of difficulty balancing and bug fixes
FUTURE UPDATES
- Adjusting Commanders and Specialists to better benefit the new mechanics
- A new way to acquire fuel for jumping
- More scenarios, including scripted ones that will not be repeated in a playthrough
- Greater ship movement control
- And more!
8/21/2015 Update
- Added Supply Field scenario
- Home base can be jumped to at any time
- Upgrade screen now should only show for home base
- Enemies start much further away from fleet
- Fixed issue with fleet not receiving automatic decommission salvage
8/13/2015 Update - New Control Scheme!
- Pan the camera with W,A,S,D, or by putting the mouse cursor to a screen edge
- Raise and lower camera with R and F
- To rotate left or right, use Q and E
- To fully rotate the camera with the mouse, hold down the right mouse button
- Click directly on your fleet ships, other friendly ships, and hostile ships.
- Quickly cycle through your fleet with the mouse wheel
- You can still cycle between hostiles and friendlies with the 1-4 keys
- Click on your weapon and ability icons to give orders to the current fleet ship you have selected
- Camera focus button at bottom right will lock the camera to a ship until turned off or the camera is panned
- Combat focus button at bottom right will draw the combat targeting lines for each weapon for the current fleet ship, and current target if one is selected
- Jump button is also at the bottom right, and the hotkey to jump still works
- The fleet list, radar, and fleet information UI can all be hidden with the arrows located next to them.
- Removed unneeded game options
- Also made capital ships move a little better/smarter
- Various other small fixes
8/7/2015 Update
- Fixed health going above 100% after some hull upgrades
- No longer rewarded fuel multiple times at refineries
- Fixed instant death within solo/bad jump scenario
- Fixed various UI issues
8/6/2015 Update
- Corvette turrets now damage capital ship hulls
- Fixed health percentage issues after purchasing hull upgrades
- Fixed issues with ships not following some targeting orders
Our next update (outside of bug hotfixes) is going to revamp the entire in-game UI. We are, at least for now, dropping full gamepad support and implementing a mouse controlled HUD for a much more streamlined experience for PC. We will also be addressing capital ship movement issues.
8/4/2015 Game Update...
- Fix for ships not gaining the correct health when purchasing hull upgrades
- Repair costs halved
8/2/2015 Game Update...
- Fixed issue where ships might not be added to your fleet
- Fixed issue where free upgrades could be given
- Increased salvage gains from all sources
- Removed unneeded controls from control screen