New ‘Alpha 3’ Galaxy Launches Friday @ 16:00 UTC!

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Hi everyone,

We’re excited to announce that a new ‘Alpha 3’ galaxy will launch TOMORROW (Friday December 7th) at 16:00 UTC – finally!

Existing Alpha players

A new patch will be released at this time – existing Alpha players will then see the new ‘Alpha 3’ galaxy in the game selection list ready to join (in addition to the ongoing Alpha 2 galaxy).

More Steam Keys going out

Almost 2,000 players joined the last ‘Alpha 2’ galaxy but in this galaxy there will be even more players involved!

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Dev Diary #13 – Space heist

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Hello everyone and welcome back to our Developer Diary!

With the new ‘Alpha 3’ galaxy knocking at the door and the current ‘Alpha 2’ galaxy entering an exciting phase this week – it’s been a long week for the team and it’s likely to continue on into the weekend… But it’s cold outside and dark early right now so – meh. We’ve got a game to make 🙂

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Alpha Galaxy: Endgame and New Leaderboards!

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Hi everyone,

The current ‘Alpha 2’ galaxy has been running since December 2017 and is nearing the end of its life – we want to make sure it goes out with a bang!

Tomorrow, Wednesday November 21st at 16:00 UTC, we’re launching new leaderboards to recognise player excellence across different areas of gameplay.

The galaxy will close a few weeks later on Monday January 7th at 11:00 UTC. We’ll then publish the outright winners and overall Top 20 of each leaderboard category on the website.

If you’re wondering what Outscape is? It’s the new name for Beyond Dark. Find out more here.

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New leaderboard categories

There will now be 6 leaderboard categories in the game, each recognizing player excellence in a different area of gameplay:

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Dev Diary #12 – Rebalance and newcomers

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Hello everyone! Welcome back to our Developer Diary!

The long-awaited update 0.84 came out this week which included features like merging/splitting fleets and attack and return. A lot of other features and changes the devs finished aren’t active yet – but they’re ready to go with the launch of the next galaxy!

You can check up on the progress of the roadmap here. There are still things to do, ships to paint, balancing to get right and asteroids to shoot, but we are fast approaching the finish line and a lot of the tasks outstanding aren’t too intensive 🙂

So let’s see what the team has been up to this week…

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Release: Alpha patch [v.0.84]

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Hi everyone,

Alpha patch 0.84 has just been released via Steam to all Alpha players.

This release includes new fleet merging and splitting functions, attack and return mode, UI improvements, visual enhancements and more. Alpha players will also notice that the game has been renamed to Outscape in their Steam library and the game itself. If you missed our announcements about the new name you can find out more here.

The changes in this patch represent a fraction of what we’ve been working on since the last patch, but as they are game-changers, they need to be released at the same time as the new galaxy on the way. We covered some of these changes in a recent dev diary post in case you missed it.

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 #11 – Stealth Wars

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Hello everyone and welcome back.

Last Sunday we announced that the game was changing its name to Outscape! We started on the changeover right away and managed to get the bulk of it done this week. There’s still a few bits to do, such as releasing the new patch with the new name/logo changes…

Most of the team continued working on the game during the changeover. Which was lucky, because despite all of the team being excited about the new name, the actual process of changing names is many times less fun than actually working on the game 🙂

As mentioned in last week’s dev diary, this week we have a few more details about the changes on the way to share with you – so let’s get to it!

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Dev Diary #10 – Shipyards in Space

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Greetings friends, and welcome back!

In our last dev diary post we covered new core gameplay mechanics and features that will be implemented in the next galaxy. If you didn’t catch it, you can find it here. We had a lot of great feedback and ideas in relation to it so thanks to all of you for your contributions.

This week we have a few more details for you related to those changes and a couple of new cool things that came up this week and we wanted to show.

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Dev Diary #9 – New Gameplay for a New Galaxy

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Hello everyone! Welcome back to our Developer Diary – a little later than usual, apologies for the delay 🙂

We keep mentioning a new galaxy we’re getting ready to launch and the new gameplay to come with it (which won’t be implemented into the existing galaxy) but without going in to any details…

Now seems like a good time to change that 🙂 We won’t go into the numbers just yet though as we’re still working on balance – but by the end of this post you should have a good idea of what’s on the way.

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