Hi everyone,

The first patch of 2020 is here and it contains a round of fixes for Play with Friends, some new player protection, and the invisible fleet icon bug has been fixed. Apologies that we couldn’t get this patch to you any sooner!

Play with Friends Fixes

Since Play with Friends was released in patch v104 there’s been an ongoing discussion on what to do to prevent the feature from being exploited. We proposed some options in a blog and have since made refinements to those options following the feedback we received. The following changes were the ones players agreed with and that we were able to do in time for this patch:

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Hi everyone,

Want to play alongside a friend? With this new patch – you can! A friend can join the same galaxy as you by spawning on to one of your planets. You just need to give them that planet’s unique spawn code. We’ve also got auto-mining of asteroid fields in this patch. Read on for full details and to find out what else is included.

Steam Winter Sale Now On

Before we begin, a quick reminder that the Steam Winter Sale kicked off yesterday. Get 25% off Outscape until January 2nd. If you or a friend is yet to buy a copy, now is a great time to do so! You can play alongside each other with the new Play with Friends feature.

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Hi everyone,

Patch v103 has just been released and should be available the next time you launch Outscape from Steam. The highlight of this patch is the addition of exploration history which we’ll go over in this post. Plus, an in-game Russian language option was added and several other changes worth checking out. Read on for details.

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Hi everyone,

There’s a new patch available through Steam and it includes a new playable civilization – The Snithereal! Read on for more details and to find out what else is new…

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Happy Halloween!

We’ve just released a new patch. It doesn’t include a new pumpkin-headed civ but it does introduce a change that enables those of you that wanted to quit and rejoin a galaxy to be able to do so without having to wait.

Patch notes

• Less restriction on restarting: you can now restart in a galaxy without having to wait 7 days. But if you do restart, you then won’t be able to restart again within the next 5 days. Please note: even if you choose the same civ when restarting, your previous progress won’t be carried over in that galaxy and you will be rejoining it like a new player (we’d like to make changes to this in the future).
• Improved construction cancelling: previously, if three Beron mines were added to the construction queue at the same time and one of them was already 50% built, trying to cancel construction of one of the other two that hadn’t started yet would instead cancel construction of the Beron mine already 50% built. Now, construction of the Beron mines not yet started would be cancelled instead.
• Account creation: we made a couple of tweaks to the create account form as a small number of players had issues with it.

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Hi everyone,

A big welcome to all the new players, and of course to those of you that have been with us for some time now 🙂

We’ve just released a new patch. It’s the first patch since the release on Early Access earlier this week and contains several fixes. You may need to restart Steam to get it.

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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

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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:

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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

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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

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