Galactic News: July 12th

Hi everyone,

Welcome to this week’s Galactic News 🙂

Before we take a look at how the Awaken the Dark galaxy is doing at the end of week two, let’s see what else has been going on and what’s to come next week.

The Word on the Street

Minefields suck

Have you experienced rageful fury while playing Outscape? If yes, you’ve probably been involved in a protracted, soul-destroying ‘minefield war’ with another player.

But good news! Part 1 of those changes we proposed a few weeks ago – that we believe will drastically improve things – are finally ready to go and will be in the next patch…

Patch v119 is coming

The next patch is just about ready and will be released early next week. As well as the minefield improvements mentioned above, it will include a fix for high-speed interceptions failing and some balancing tweaks. You can find out more here.

Fan Art: Captain MadRexx

Like comics? This comic – The adventures of MadRexx – was posted to the #artwork channel on Discord recently and I thought I’d share it here 🙂

If you’ve made any fan art, have any awesome/funny screenshots from the game, send them through to me somehow and I’ll share what I can in one of our posts (post it to Discord/Forum and tag me or PM it to me).

Right. Let’s see what’s going on with the new galaxy…

Top Players – Awaken the Dark Galaxy

Top 10

The Top 10 players from the leaderboards

Grand Emperor

Rank		Civ	Player	Score
1	+2		chiral	217,356 +169,711
2	+6		ConsortiumCzar	206,076 +174,626
3	-2		Rae	187,057 +134,550
4	+2		Gavoid	177,249 +143,131
5	-3		trippdie	171,939 +120,612
6	+6		Seraph_SirShockey	133,537 +105,513
7	–		Belisarius	117,329 +83,554
8	+9		SteppenWolf	114,098 +89,819
9	+22		Noldat	112,691 +95,690
10	-1		TotKtoZhret	105,120 +75,438

Master of Warfare

Rank		Civ	Player	Score
1	+5		chiral	137,957 +125,889
2	-1		Rae	100,934 +50,003
3	+6		Gavoid	98,849 +92,083
4	-1		orolyn	96,573 +75,036
5	+3		Roknor	82,234 +72,707
6	+24		slimeddy	72,919 +71,581
7	-2		Belisarius	71,300 +58,715
8	-6		Soulsinger	61,064 +34,842
9	+8		TotKtoZhret	56,307 +52,523
10	+9		Kenosis	51,717 +48,597

Grand Emperor

chiral

Master of Warfare

chiral

We have a new Grand Emperor and Master of Warfare this week. And like last week, it’s the same player! Congratulations to chiral, the double-titled ‘Grand Emperor Master of Warfare’.

Those are some huge points for just one week. In Main 2 gaining more than 30k points in a week was rare. And it took many weeks for players to get anywhere near the top scores we’re seeing here!

Mankind are still absolutely nowhere to be seen. However… The Mankind chomping Snithereal are riding suspiciously high…

Top Alliances

Grand Alliance

Rank	Alliance	Members	Score
1	BLACK	10	836,178
2	Andr	12	611,042
3	SOLID	10	424,015
4	COTP	13	416,054
5	AE	8	400,569
6	BORG	10	249,127
7	32nd	12	236,623
8	TEARS	2	190,307
9	GEX	7	188,916
10	1v1	1	171,939

Alliance of Warfare

Rank	Alliance	Members	Score
1	BLACK	10	371,567
2	Andr	12	243,248
3	AE	8	195,604
4	TEARS	2	169,492
5	COTP	13	126,235
6	SOLID	10	97,676
7	GEX	7	61,246
8	IDDQD	1	56,307
9	DOTF	2	51,693
10	BORG	10	49,176

There aren’t dedicated leaderboards for alliances yet. So I’ve cobbled some together for you here.

In case it isn’t obvious, the scores are the collective scores of all members of each alliance for Grand Emperor and Master of Warfare, with those titles imaginatively relabelled Grand Alliance and Alliance of Warfare. If you can think of something better, let me know.

Congratulations to BLACK! Topping both leaderboard categories – they look like they mean business and business is booming 😉

And a shout-out to TEARS, who with just 2 alliance members are up there on the Warfare leaderboard. Where have those points come from? Valiantly defending their territory or do they just love blowing things up?

If your alliance has any news that you want me to share in the Galactic News, send it to me. A declaration of war on another alliance? Looking for new members? Just want to introduce yourselves?

Technology Unleashed

The most difficult to research technologies due to their high research cost

Tech	Item	Owners		Cost
	Fleet Dock T3	6%	23	50,000
	Orbital Strike T5	6%	25	50,000
	Torpedo Launcher T6 (People’s Realm)	1%	3	50,000
	Orbital Bomber	8%	32	20,000
	Large Bio-Farm	11%	45	20,000
	Lightning Gun T5	11%	45	20,000
	Fleet Dock T2	7%	29	20,000

Tech	Item	Owners		Cost
	Syntis Fleets T6	3%	11	20,000
	Dreadnought	13%	51	50,000
	Ripchee Power Beam T2	4%	14	20,000
	Orbital Strike T4	9%	35	20,000
	Missile Launcher T6 (People’s Realm)	3%	9	10,000
	Torpedo Launcher T5	11%	45	20,000
	Armor Bane Cannon ABA-S	9%	37	10,000

The most unlocked technologies – excludes tech unlocked by 50%+ of players

#	Tech	Item	Owners
1		Ziryl Mine T2	50%	207
2		City Center T1	50%	206
3		Limbalt Mine T2	49%	204
4		Olzine Mine T2	49%	201
5		Planetary Scanner T2	49%	201
6		Freighter T2	47%	195
7		Power Station T3	47%	194
8		Power Cannon SPC-2	47%	193
9		Corvette	47%	192
10		Destroyer T2	44%	183

#	Tech	Item	Owners
11		Ship Scanner T2	43%	177
12		Dark Energy Engine	42%	175
13		Kinetic Cannon SKC-2	42%	175
14		Government Building T2	42%	172
15		ODS T1	42%	172
16		Frigate T2	42%	171
17		Beron Mine T3	41%	170
18		Reinforced Armour	41%	169
19		Entertainment Center T1	41%	168
20		Cargo Transporter	41%	168

Technologies players have collectively spent most of their research power on (Spent = Cost x Owners)

#	Tech	Item	Owners		Spent
1		Dreadnought	13%	51	2,550,000
2		Carrier T2	17%	68	1,360,000
3		Orbital Strike T5	6%	25	1,250,000
4		Fleet Dock T3	6%	23	1,150,000
5		Carrier T1	23%	93	930,000
6		Lightning Gun T5	11%	45	900,000
7		Large Bio-Farm	11%	45	900,000
8		Torpedo Launcher T5	11%	45	900,000
9		Cruiser	21%	86	860,000
10		Shipyard T4	20%	81	810,000

#	Tech	Item	Owners		Spent
11		x4 Troop Defense Strength	20%	81	810,000
12		Extended Ordnance L	18%	71	710,000
13		Orbital Strike T4	9%	35	700,000
14		Government Building T5	17%	68	680,000
15		Colonization Module T4	16%	65	650,000
16		Hyperspace Energy Engine	31%	128	640,000
17		Orbital Bomber	8%	32	640,000
18		Battleship	30%	125	625,000
19		Scout Engine	30%	124	620,000
20		Minelayer T3	15%	60	600,000

Technologies that indicate progress players have made along certain branches of the tech tree

Tech	Item	Owners
	Small Bio-Farm	23%	95
	Government Building T3	29%	119
	City Center T3	21%	84
	ODS T1	42%	172
	x2 Troop Defense Strength	24%	99
	Fleet Dock T1	13%	53
	Shipyard T3	40%	164
	Beron Mine T3	41%	170
	Farsu Mine T3	38%	157
	Cargo Modules T2	30%	125

Tech	Item	Owners
	Zero Gravity Engine	40%	166
	Dark Energy Engine	42%	175
	Battleship	30%	125
	Minelayer T1	32%	130
	Minesweeper T1	21%	87
	Cloaking Module	29%	119
	Torpedo Launcher T3	17%	69
	Medium Cannon “Hellfire”	26%	105
	Power Beam T3	16%	64
	Orbital Strike T3	10%	41

13% of players now have access to Dreadnoughts after just two weeks! Dreadnoughts are by far the technology players have most heavily invested in. And after next week’s patch, they’ll be even more in-demand because they’re getting buffed. More slots will be added to Dreadnoughts which will make them more versatile, powerful, and useful.

That’s it for today, see you next week 🙂

– The Outscape dev team

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