New Galaxies Launching Next Week

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Hi everyone,

The last time we launched a galaxy was back in October 2019 and a lot of you have been asking for a new one. So next week, we’re launching not one, but two new galaxies for you.

The new ‘Skirmish 2’ and ‘Main 2’ galaxies will ‘big bang’ on Wednesday March 25th (we’ll confirm the time a couple of days before).

The current ‘Skirmish 1’ and ‘Main 1’ galaxies will continue. So if you are playing in those galaxies, don’t worry, you can carry on playing there. See the FAQ below for more details.

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Patch v110 – Bug Fixes

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Hi everyone,

We’ve got another bug fix patch for you today. While there aren’t any new features, some of the bugs that have been fixed were significant and caused a lot of frustration.

Which is why we’ve pushed this patch today on a Friday (the 13th) rather than waiting until early next week. One of the bugs in particular was preventing players from entering the galaxy, and we expected more players would have been affected by it over the weekend – which releasing the patch today should avoid! And the devs will be keeping an eye on things in case any serious issues come up over the weekend.

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Patch v108 – Fleet Docks + False Flag Ops

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Hi everyone,

We’ve got a fantastic new patch for you. Want to stockpile fleets without hitting your fleet limit? Fleet docks! Want to attack an enemy without them finding out it was you? False flags! Read on to find out more about these exciting new features and what else is new with this patch.

New Fleet Docks Added

Fleet docks are finally here – and they’ve redefined how fleet limits work.

What was your empire’s fleet limit is now its ‘active’ fleet limit, because docked fleets don’t count against your fleet limit.

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Release: Patch v107 – Friend or Foe + Lightning Guns

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Hi everyone,

The new v107 patch has been released and there are two exciting new features to tell you about: lightning guns are now in the game and scanners can now always detect a fleet’s owner. There are also other changes and bug fixes you’ll like – read on for details…

Friend or Foe – Play with Friends

You can now see the player and fleet name for all fleets visible to your scanners and whether they’re a friend or foe.

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Patch Preview – Ebombs

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Hi everyone,

Here’s a quick preview of the new large energy weapons coming in next week’s patch. Although content isn’t a priority at the moment, these weapons were partially implemented some time ago and we didn’t want to keep those of you that have been asking for them waiting any longer 🙂

Ebombs: Large Energy Weapons

  • As an energy weapon, they’re blocked by shields and powered by the ship’s power supply
  • Compatible with all large weapons slots
  • Each shot deals damage to each enemy ship within the ship’s line of fire
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Release: Patch v106 – Zonikloids

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Hi everyone,

The new v106 patch has just been released on Steam. There’s a new minor faction, German language support, some feature tweaks, but more importantly for many of you – some very annoying bugs have been fixed!

German In-game Translation Now Available

Outscape is now available in German as well as English and Russian! You can change the language used in-game from the game lobby (top right corner).

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No Reset for Skirmish or Main Galaxies yet – but Pre-beta Galaxy Ends Feb 5th

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Hi everyone,

We’ve been asked if we’re going to reset the Skirmish and Main galaxies because of the exploits that were introduced with Play with Friends. After analysing the data we’ve concluded it’s better to keep Skirmish and Main running and don’t plan to reset them at this time.

Across the playerbase the exploit was used to a relatively low degree, whereas a reset would affect everyone and likely cause much more frustration. Of the players that did use the exploit only a handful used it to a significant degree while others used it only once or twice. We do appreciate that if you are next to one of these players it will be dissapointing and we apologize to you for this. But for most of you it should have little to no affect on your game.

At some point we may well add a new game slot but that won’t happen before more new features are added – in particular those that make sense to be introduced with a new galaxy – or when a new game type is ready…

More Play with Friends Fixes on the Way

In the last patch we added some fixes to address how Play with Friends can be exploited. In the next patch we’re adding a couple more:

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Release: Patch v105 – Newbie Home Planet Protection

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Hi everyone,

The first patch of 2020 is here and it contains a round of fixes for Play with Friends, some new player protection, and the invisible fleet icon bug has been fixed. Apologies that we couldn’t get this patch to you any sooner!

Play with Friends Fixes

Since Play with Friends was released in patch v104 there’s been an ongoing discussion on what to do to prevent the feature from being exploited. We proposed some options in a blog and have since made refinements to those options following the feedback we received. The following changes were the ones players agreed with and that we were able to do in time for this patch:

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Play with Friends: the Next Steps

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Hi everyone,

First off, we want to apologize again for the issues that most of you experienced after the v104 patch was released. Usually when there’s an issue with a patch, the devs are able to quickly push out a hotfix. But in this instance, the nature of the issue went much deeper and as such we were unable to ready a fix quickly enough. In the future we’ll exercise greater caution with the timing of a patch release and limit the number of risky features in a single patch.

Patch v104 Bugs

On Friday we applied a hotfix to the servers which appears to have fixed the issues with teleporting and invisible fleets. There is one side-effect though: fleets will probably remain affected by the issue until they are moved and the client is then restarted. So we recommend moving all of your fleets a bit and then restarting the client. If you have done this and still have problems with teleporting or invisible fleets, please let us know on the forum.

We are working right now on a followup patch that will address other bugs and changes to the Play with Friends which we’ll go over now.

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