Hi everyone,
Alpha patch 0.887 has been released today via Steam to all Alpha players. This patch includes the option to automate research, a new super-fast scout class engine, improvements to resource transfer and bug fixes.
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Hello friends,
We’re working on achievements at the moment as part of our work on player profiles and wanted to pick your brains!
Achievements should be fun, bring mini-challenges to the game, and help illustrate a player’s progress (the image above is an early design mockup).
To begin with, we want to finalize around 50 of them. Some will be progressive e.g. capture 5 enemy planets, successfully defend 3 invasions; and others will be one-off actions e.g. construct a dreadnought, take back a lost planet…
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After a bit of a hiatus the dev diary is back and will continue again on a weekly basis.
With the launch of the new Alpha 3 galaxy, Christmas and New Year, closing the Alpha 2 galaxy, and then the Q1 2019 Outscape Roadmap & Survey Findings post we put out – we put it on hold temporarily.
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Hi everyone,
Alpha patch 0.88 has been released today via Steam to all Alpha players. Dreadnought class hulls have been added in this patch, a number of frustrating bugs have been squashed, and more…
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Each civilization now has access to their very own dreadnought class hull!
These ships are massive. Plenty of large weapons slots means they can be equipped with a beastly amount of firepower including fighter carriers and torpedo launchers. Coupled with a robust frame that can stand up to powerful attacks, they really are the ultimate addition to an empire’s armada.
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Hi all,
Happy New Year! We wanted to give you an outline on what we will be building in Q1 and hence what you can expect to be incrementally layered into Outscape, as well as an update on the findings from the recent mini survey.
A huge thanks to all of you who completed the mini-survey we sent out over the holiday period! This survey was much shorter than previous ones, and helped us to understand if we were moving the needle or not on the key areas players highlighted in the last full survey, as well as allowing us to keep our thumb on the pulse more generally.
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Hello everyone,
Alpha patch 0.87 has been released today via Steam to all Alpha players. This patch includes several changes to engines and a number of significant bug fixes (including not being able to upgrade a Ziryl Level 2 mine to a Level 3 Deep mine).
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Hi everyone,
The Alpha 2 Galaxy endgame contest has now closed (on Jan 7 2019) so it’s time to announce the winners!
The Alpha 2 galaxy – which has been running for over a year now – is still playable, but will collapse under the weight of its own gravity (well, get turned off) this Monday January 14th at around 11:00 UTC.
But the Alpha 3 galaxy is still in its infancy and not going anywhere soon, and with plenty of improvements and new features on the way – so stayed tuned…
Before we announce the Alpha 2 galaxy winners, we have a favour to ask 🙂
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Hi everyone,
Alpha patch 0.862 has been released today via Steam to all Alpha players. This patch includes different bug fixes related to research tree and calculating population growth as well as some other bug fixes and improvements.
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Hi everyone,
Alpha patch 0.861 has been released today via Steam to all Alpha players. This patch includes a significant bug fix related to colony population size limits being exceeded (further details below) as well as some other bug fixes and config improvements.
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The size of a population that a colony can support partly depends on the number of farms (as well as environmental factors such as planet size and civ compatibility).
There was a serious bug where the population was able to continue to grow uncapped regardless of how many farms had or hadn’t been built.
This has been fixed in this patch, but it means any populations larger than what the colony should have been able to support will begin to die. e.g.
Hi everyone,
It’s only been 3 days since the new galaxy launched and the 0.85 Alpha patch was released – but the devs have managed to prepare this new 0.86 Alpha patch already 🙂 It’s just been released via Steam to all Alpha players.
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