Hi everyone,
Patch v103 has just been released and should be available the next time you launch Outscape from Steam. The highlight of this patch is the addition of exploration history which we’ll go over in this post. Plus, an in-game Russian language option was added and several other changes worth checking out. Read on for details.
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Hi everyone,
There’s a new patch coming early next week. The highlight of this patch is the addition of exploration history – previously explored star systems and planets will remain visible when they’re no longer in scanner range!
While implementing exploration history, we saw a suggestion in the community related to visibility. That it should be possible to see the owner of a UFO if you have a treaty with the UFO’s owner. We think it’s a great idea and want to do it, but thought about taking it a step further and wanted to run it by you first:
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Hi everyone,
There’s a new patch available through Steam and it includes a new playable civilization – The Snithereal! Read on for more details and to find out what else is new…
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Hi everyone, we’ve been super busy supporting all the new players which have come to Outscape over the past two and a half weeks (we launched on Steam Early Access on October 22nd). Thanks for all of your help onboarding those new players!
One thing we did not anticipate was scoring a ‘Very Positive’ on Steam so early. It actually feels like ‘Overwhelmingly Positive’ (the highest possible score) is within reach. At least 500 reviews are needed plus at least somewhere between 90% and 95% positive reviews. We are incredibly thankful to all the community members that purchased Outscape and also left kind and useful reviews for other players. At the time of writing, there are 98 reviews and 90% are positive. In fact, around half of the negative reviews came from China where connectivity is challenging. We’ve made some changes which seems to have helped this problem.
Here is our sales chart. As you can see we launched with a pop, but then things slowed.
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Happy Halloween!
We’ve just released a new patch. It doesn’t include a new pumpkin-headed civ but it does introduce a change that enables those of you that wanted to quit and rejoin a galaxy to be able to do so without having to wait.
Hi everyone,
A big welcome to all the new players, and of course to those of you that have been with us for some time now 🙂
We’ve just released a new patch. It’s the first patch since the release on Early Access earlier this week and contains several fixes. You may need to restart Steam to get it.
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Hi everyone,
We’re very excited to announce that Outscape is now available to buy on Early Access on Steam! Get your copy now and take advantage of the 10% launch discount (this discount expires in a few days).
By purchasing the Early Access version of Outscape, you’ll be helping us to accelerate our development velocity and deliver more features to you faster! See our post Why we need to launch on Steam Early Access to find out more.
Get Outscape on Steam Early Access
As part of the Early Access release, two new galaxies have just been launched and are ready for you to join right now: Skirmish 1 and Main 1.
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Dear Community,
You asked how you can help. Now the Outscape team needs your help urgently!
You probably know about our impending launch on Steam, if not you can read about it here. We need to ensure the Outscape launch is as successful as possible and the early weeks before and after launch are critical in deciding whether the game flops or takes off.
We’ve thought long and hard about how the community could help us into a position where we will launch successfully and narrowed it down to six highly impactful goals for you to drive. We think there are multiple ways of achieving these goals and we really need the community to get creative and drive these goals to make Outscape successful.
We will chart progress on these community goals and update those charts daily here. We will also do an additional weekly blog post with a bit of commentary on how things are going towards these goals too.
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TL;DR
We are developing features too slowly and are constrained by our budget, yet we have an amazing community and the game is doing well so far. We need to launch Outscape on Steam Early Access to increase our feature development velocity and secure the future of the game we all want to play. We don’t want to be a ‘pay to win’ game, so a Steam launch is the only sensible option. More than ever, we need the community’s (i.e. your) help to increase our development velocity and also secure the future of Outscape. Please help us!
Dear Community,
Herein lies some super important information regarding the future of Outscape. This is a longform blogpost so grab a coffee and make yourself comfortable 🙂
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Hi everyone,
We’ve just released patch 0.99. The one change you might notice is that the visual design of the galaxy has been restored/improved.
A couple of server issues were also fixed, including the cause of the server crash yesterday evening. We also added some metrics that will enable us to monitor game client performance such as FPS that will enable us to prioritize which areas of the game to optimize in the future.
Please note: while releasing this patch we generated a test galaxy that is listed from the Skirmish slot in the game lobby. It’s not possible to join it. If you try to join it a web page should open explaining that it’s a test galaxy. Apologies again to those of you still waiting to join a galaxy, we will update you on when one will be available as soon as we can, your patience is appreciated.
We’ll be back very soon with more news for you,
– The Outscape dev team
Updating the game client: the game should be automatically updated via Steam. Please check here if the download doesn’t automatically start when you launch Steam.