Skirmish galaxy: we have a winner!

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Hi everyone,

Congratulations to Pepelekus on winning the Skirmish galaxy!

Pepelekus crossed the 100k points winning line on Wednesday morning – needing only a month to do it – and wasted no time in letting us all know 🙂

Not only did they win the main competition, but they also managed to top each of the other 5 leaderboards while doing so. Very impressive!

You can see the final leaderboard standings at the end of this post (the live leaderboards will continue to change while the game is still running – we didn’t pause them).

And a big thanks to all of you that took part in the Skirmish galaxy. Your participation and help with testing the game is vital and always much appreciated.

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Dev Diary #24 – Conquered while you sleep

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Hi everyone,

Wow – three patches last week and a dev diary at the start of the week – what’s going on?

Last week’s patches saw many annoying bugs fixed, but there were also changes to gameplay and other additions e.g. the first round of planet management improvements and notifications are a lot less intrusive now. Check out the release notes for each of last week’s patches here: 0.935, 0.936 and 0.937.

There’s still a focus on improving usability and making the game easier to understand, but we’re also trying to address gameplay issues affecting players (thanks to all of you that posted your top 5 issues on the forum for us). Let’s look at one such issue now.

Conquered while you sleep

We’ve heard from players that moves to defend a planet can be too easily bypassed by an attacking player. Even building an orbit defense system or laying a minefield provides little defense. A planet could have:

  • A large population/home guard
  • Many defensive troops (through military bases)
  • Orbit defense system installed
  • A minefield encircling it

Yet still be captured in less than two hours? Why – and what can we do about it?

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Release: Alpha patch [v.0.937]

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Hi everyone,

Alpha patch 0.937 has been released today via Steam to all Alpha players. Yes, the 3rd patch of the week! We needed to apply a hotfix to the servers related to this morning’s issues, but thought as we had a few other changes ready – why not push out another patch? There are a few changes and bug fixes – less notification spam should be nice 🙂 Check out the Full patch notes below for full details.

We’ll be back soon,

– The Outscape dev team

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Release: Alpha patch [v.0.935]

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Hi everyone,

Alpha patch 0.935 has finally been released via Steam to all Alpha players. This patch includes several planet management improvements and a number of significant bug fixes.

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.

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Release: Alpha patch [v.0.93] – Alpha 3 Skirmish Galaxy Launched!

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Hi everyone,

The Alpha 3 Skirmish galaxy has just launched and all Alpha players can join it right now. The Skirmish galaxy is a faster game so join as soon as you can and don’t get left behind!

The launch of the Skirmish galaxy coincides with the release of Alpha patch 0.93. This patch introduces 2 changes, both apply to the new Skirmish galaxy only and not the ongoing Alpha 3 main galaxy (see below for details).

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.

The new Alpha 3 Skirmish galaxy has launched

And it’s ready for Alpha players to join right now!

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Release: Alpha patch [v.0.92]

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Hi everyone,

Alpha patch 0.92 has finally been released via Steam to all Alpha players. This patch includes a lot of new features and bug fixes including: smart fleet merging, player colony scanner, trade mechanics for fleets and planets, and more! Read on for full details 🙂

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.

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Dev Diary #22 – A big week ahead

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Hi everyone,

There’s a lot going on at the moment. In the week to come we’ll be releasing a new patch (hopefully Monday) and then on Thursday the experimental Alpha 3 Skirmish galaxy will launch. Are you as excited as we are?

The new patch

The wait for a new patch has been much longer than usual (the scope of the new patch was ambitious and on top of that one of the devs was ill). But the wait is almost over. We’re expecting to release it on Monday and it’s going to be the busiest patch of Alpha 3 so far:

  • Smart merging for fleet management
  • Nearby player scanner
  • Transferring fleets and planets to other players
  • New bio-farms (increase the max population size a colony can support for all organic civs – both primary and secondary populations)
  • The settings panel for automated colony development
  • A fix for the ‘fleets getting stuck in a planet’ bug
  • And more

You’ll be able to see full details of all new features and changes in the release notes we’ll post when the patch is released.

Alpha 3 Skirmish galaxy

In case you missed Friday’s announcement – we’re launching an Alpha 3 Skirmish galaxy on Thursday April 4th at 15:00 UTC (if there are any significant issues with the new patch we may have to push the start date back a bit).

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Alpha 3 Skirmish Galaxy: Starts 4th April

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Hi everyone,

On Tuesday we asked if the Alpha players wanted us to launch a second galaxy. The response was a definite YES from most players so we’re busy getting it ready.

We didn’t want to keep players waiting long so set a launch date less than a week away – Thursday April 4th at 15:00 UTC (we’re planning to release the next patch on Monday, if there are any significant issues around this we may have to delay the launch).

The galaxy will be called the ‘Alpha 3 Skirmish’ galaxy (A3 Skirmish) and all current Alpha players will be able to join. A3 Skirmish will run until one player wins!

The Alpha 3 main galaxy: remains the mainstay galaxy, will run alongside the experimental A3 Skirmish galaxy, and will continue after the A3 Skirmish galaxy has ended. So don’t neglect your existing games in the main galaxy!

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