Hi everyone,

We’ve just released patch 0.99. The one change you might notice is that the visual design of the galaxy has been restored/improved.

A couple of server issues were also fixed, including the cause of the server crash yesterday evening. We also added some metrics that will enable us to monitor game client performance such as FPS that will enable us to prioritize which areas of the game to optimize in the future.

Please note: while releasing this patch we generated a test galaxy that is listed from the Skirmish slot in the game lobby. It’s not possible to join it. If you try to join it a web page should open explaining that it’s a test galaxy. Apologies again to those of you still waiting to join a galaxy, we will update you on when one will be available as soon as we can, your patience is appreciated.

We’ll be back very soon with more news for you,

– The Outscape dev team

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.

Hi everyone,

We’ve just pushed a new patch out via Steam. It’s primarily a server maintenance patch but it does include a few other changes and bug fixes:

Hi everyone,

Patch 0.972 has just been released via Steam. It contains a couple of quick bug fixes we thought we’d push out rather than leave on our servers collecting dust 🙂

Bugs squashed

• Players were seeing systems and planets coloured green when they shouldn’t have been (because there wasn’t a treaty with an active player)
• Labels were missing and stars were blurred for some systems on the very outskirts of the galaxy

Thanks, see you again soon

– The Outscape dev team

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.

Hi everyone,

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s treaties patch we’ve got another one for you. The devs fixed a few of the issues reported following that patch quite quickly so we thought we’d push them now rather than wait until more changes were ready:

Bugs squashed

• Interceptions were failing (in yesterday’s patch we fixed one bug with interceptions but introduced another which this patch fixes)
• The wrong player civilization icon was displayed for received treaty proposals (treaties already proposed will still use the wrong icon – recreating the treaty would update it to the correct icon)
• The ODS recharge time could be bypassed to trigger it to fire more frequently than intended (by ordering it to be dismantled and then cancelling the dismantle)
• ODS were sometimes firing at the fleet of a player they shouldn’t have because of a treaty
• A planet’s suitability for the player’s civilization was sometimes displayed incorrectly (e.g. it was showing as too cold when it should have been ok, or it didn’t clarify that there wasn’t sufficient land/water mass)

Features and changes

• City center beron and credit costs have been increased (the pricing is now similar to labs). The cost increase is intended to keep them relatively affordable, but reduce the feasible amount that could be constructed.
• Beron cost increased to 5k for all levels (from 2k, 3k, 5k). Credit cost increased to 1k, 5k, 25 k (from 500, 2.5k, 12.5k)

Disconnected while playing or trying to login?

The game servers have gone down briefly a few times since the patch was released yesterday. If you were playing at any of those times you will have been disconnected but been able to rejoin the game shortly afterwards. This patch fixes the cause of those crashes so performance should be stable now.

However, if you are having issues logging in or connecting to the game after updating to this patch please let us know.

See you soon,

– The Outscape dev team

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.

Hi everyone,

Patch 0.966 has just been released today via Steam to all players. It contains fixes for some of the bugs you’ve reported to us over the last couple of days:

• Income from a colony was displayed wrong in the game client on colony’s with 100% happiness and city centers (see here for details – it was a display bug only and the correct income was being calculated on the server)
• It was possible to trigger an error by entering too many characters for the blueprint name (blueprint names and fleet names are both limited to 20 characters now, we considered increasing it but it looked better to keep this max length)
• Some of the descriptions for reinforced armor weren’t displayed
• Joining the galaxy sometimes triggered a crash

Hi everyone,

We’ve just released a new patch. It follows today’s earlier big announcement about the new Pre-Beta galaxy launching this Sunday August 11th. If you haven’t seen that announcement you can find it here.

In this patch we have a new tutorial system, some usability improvements, client and server performance optimizations and some annoying bugs have been squashed.

Hi everyone,

The game servers have been offline since Monday afternoon, which is the longest downtime we’ve had for a running galaxy (and this one’s been running since the end of last year). But they’re back online again now – along with a new patch.

It’s a thin patch – since the last patch a lot of the dev’s time has been spent on the server environment. But it does contain one important fix though that corrects the issue with minesweepers sweeping 4 times faster than was intended!

Hi everyone,

We’ve got another patch for you. Alpha patch 0.95 has just been released and although it’s been little over a week since the last patch, there are a couple of cool changes included.

Troops reworked

It was a bit odd how troops worked before. There were defensive troops that were intrinsically linked to military bases, and there were assault troops that were magicked into existence by transferring colonists onto assault troop carriers. It caused confusion among players and just didn’t make sense (it was a feature we half-implemented a long time ago that we hadn’t been able to get back to until now).