Galactic News: August 02 2020

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Hi everyone,

Welcome to the Galactic News. And the weekend 🙂

Word from the Devs

If you didn’t catch it, we pushed a new patch a couple of days ago. It included a performance optimization for players with a lot of exploration history that were experiencing some lag. If you were affected by this, please let us know whether you noticed a difference after updating to the patch, or if you tried the ‘Clear Exploration History’ button we added.

Another patch should be along soon! We’re not actively working on any new features right now, the focus is still on fixing bugs – including the exploits that we’re aware of (e.g. fleets larger than the flagship should be able to support).

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Galactic News: July 25th

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Hi everyone,

Welcome to this week’s Galactic News. This week we’re going to take a look at some of the active alliances in the Awaken the Dark galaxy, as well as the usual review of the top of the leaderboards. But first, a word from the devs…

Word from the Devs

The v120 patch will be released early next week – probably on Tuesday.

The focus of this patch has been game client optimization (particularly for games with a massive amount of exploration history following the speed changes to the Awaken the Dark galaxy).

There are a few bug fixes included. We’re still looking into the bug reports we’ve received related to minefields. If we can make enough progress on that then there should be minefield fixes in there too.

This week we’ve asked you to list Your Top 5 Outscape Wants and Priority Bugs. Thanks to those of you that have already posted, your contributions help us to prioritize tasks. Please check those threads out if you haven’t already, thanks 🙂

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Galactic News: July 18th

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Hi everyone,

Welcome to this week’s Galactic News. We hope you’ve had a great week and are enjoying the weekend 🙂

Your News – Here

We want to make the Galactic News better – but we need your help!

Each week you can send us your news. For example, what were the main themes discussed that week? Does your alliance have anything they want to share with the rest of the galaxy? Got a relevant Outscape meme we should share?

You can PM it to me or email it to news@outscape.net.

Here’s a contribution from one of the devs:

Word from the Devs

No. The devs don’t spend all day sitting around thinking up memes 🙂

They spend it making Outscape better!

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Patch v119 – Minefield Improvements

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Hi everyone,

We’ve just released a new patch on Steam and the improvements to minefields that many of you have been patiently waiting for are finally here! There are also some other interesting balancing changes and bug fixes you might want to check out in the Patch Notes below.

Improvements to Minefields

There are a lot of changes to minefields in this patch. They’re mostly the same changes that were previewed on the forum several weeks ago (see Part 1 here). But the new Awaken the Dark galaxy was launched since then and there are some config changes specifically for that galaxy too.

You can find the full list of changes made to minefields in the Patch Notes below. If you’re not already familiar with minefields, you may instead prefer to skip the list of changes and jump straight to the updated wiki pages to see how each part works.

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Galactic News: July 12th

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Hi everyone,

Welcome to this week’s Galactic News 🙂

Before we take a look at how the Awaken the Dark galaxy is doing at the end of week two, let’s see what else has been going on and what’s to come next week.

The Word on the Street

Minefields suck

Have you experienced rageful fury while playing Outscape? If yes, you’ve probably been involved in a protracted, soul-destroying ‘minefield war’ with another player.

But good news! Part 1 of those changes we proposed a few weeks ago – that we believe will drastically improve things – are finally ready to go and will be in the next patch…

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Galactic News: July 5th

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Hi everyone,

Last Sunday the new faster Awakening of the Dark galaxy launched with a bang!

Have you played in the new galaxy yet? Let us know what you think on the forum after you have. We’ve seen some fantastic feedback already from players that are enjoying the new game mode. Why not try it and see for yourself?

A massive new patch was also released alongside the new galaxy, and this week the devs have already pushed out two more patches to address a couple of issues that came up after adding all that new content.

Let’s see how things stand after the first week of the new ‘Awaken the Dark’ galaxy…

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Patch v118 – Bug Fixing

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Hi everyone,

We’ve just pushed another patch to Steam.

We usually avoid releasing patches on Fridays. But these changes are relatively minor and the display bug fix (see below) will eliminate a lot of possible confusion for players over the weekend. Plus the devs will be monitoring closely just in case.

As well as fixing the display bug, we’ve dialled down the vengeful wrath of an NPC guard fleet. If it doesn’t catch an enemy fleet fleeing the newbie protected zone quickly, it’ll give up the chase and head home to resume its defensive duties. Instead of devoting the rest of its existence to the enemy fleet’s pursuit, destruction and taunting of the vanquished wreck. [Read more…]

Patch v117 – Stability Improvements

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Hi everyone,

We’ve just pushed a small stability patch to Steam.

It’s mostly minor bug fixes but one of the bugs fixed was causing a lot of frustration for players due to its frequency. A game client error was triggered in multiple scenarios but most commonly when opening chat (see here). Apologies to those of you that were affected by it!

We still need to implement the changes to minefields and another patch will follow shortly. Please let us know if you’re having any issues in the game and we’ll address what we can in the next patch.

If you’re enjoying Outscape please help us out and let others know by rating us on Steam.

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‘Awakening of the Dark’ Galaxy Launched + Patch v116 – Alliances

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Hi everyone,

The new faster ‘Awakening of the Dark’ galaxy is NOW OPEN and ready for you to play!

And the v116 Alliances patch has also been released – a huge event in its own right!

Play in the ‘Awakening of the Dark’ Galaxy NOW!

The new ‘Awakening of the Dark’ galaxy is unlike any galaxy we’ve launched before. And you can join it from the game lobby right now.

You can experience in a couple of days what takes weeks in the other galaxies (e.g. ‘Main’ and ‘Skirmish’).

It’s perfect for those of you that prefer an all-action pace. And if you’re at home with the more casual pace of the other galaxies, it’s somewhere to try out another civ or experiment with a new strategy. We recommend all new players try the ‘Awakening of the Dark’ galaxy before the ‘Main 2’ galaxy.

Hyperspeed

  • 10x faster fleet travel, growth and construction (more details)
  • The regular 1x speed ‘Main 2’ galaxy remains open if you prefer a more casual pace (you can play in both galaxies at the same time if you like)
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