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.
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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Hi everyone,
Alpha patch 0.85 has just been released via Steam to all Alpha players – along with the launch of the awesome new ‘Alpha 3‘ galaxy! If you didn’t catch yesterday’s announcement post we recommend you take a quick look as it also explains why the game is still in Alpha.
And if you got an email yesterday about your Steam Key arriving today – they’ve been emailed out today already so should be in your inboxes by now (or spam folders).
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.
Joining the new galaxy: after logging in, players will be able to join the ‘Alpha 3’ galaxy. Players that had previously joined the ‘Alpha 2‘ galaxy will also be able to continue their game there, but it’s been closed to new players.
A lot of what the devs have been working on lately hasn’t been seen in the game galaxy until now. Many of the new features and changes would have caused too much disruption to the existing galaxy, so we had to launch them together in this new ‘Alpha 3’ galaxy…
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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!
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).
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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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.
There will now be 6 leaderboard categories in the game, each recognizing player excellence in a different area of gameplay:
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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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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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Hi everyone,
We’re excited to announce that Beyond Dark is changing its name to Outscape! The changeover will begin right away and should be done within a couple of days.
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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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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New planet concept art
Hello again 🙂 And welcome to our weekly Developer diaries.
It’s pretty hectic in the office right now. The team is busy getting the features finished for the new galaxy, preparing the end game challenge for the current Alpha galaxy (details to follow soon in another post) and readying the next patch.
Fleet merging and splitting is ready for the next patch and something worth taking a look at in this post. We had to spend a fair bit of design time on it as the current way of doing things has been frustrating both new and old players alike!
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