Developer posts and news about this game.
Dear players, I already announced last fall that there won't be any major updates coming any more. I wanted to let a few months pass to see, if there are any bug reports coming in or if there are any issues left. After no bug reports where brought to my attention, it is now time
Dear players, The summer is over and it is for another update! Highscores The calculation of highscores when you loose / end a game has changes and is less money-focused than before. In addition, when you play with online connection, you can share the highscores with others! See
Dear players, I wanted to post this dev log earlier this week, but I got sick. So, please excuse the delay. Since Galactic Crew II was released as Early Access title, I get reports of games crashes that happen at apparently random times. Although I invested over a hundred hours p
Dear players, One new features, I wanted to talk about are lootable crates in spaceships. During the development of Galactic Crew II, I added looting space pirates on enemy ships and your ships, but there was not much of an incentive to board the enemy ship, if your weapon turret
Dear players, There was no major update this summer as announced this spring. I did not stop the development altogether, I just did not develop every day. However, I have created a nice bundle of new features most of which are completed. Today, I want to give you a broad overview
Dear players, The beta version of the latest update was available for three weeks and as I could see in the online logs, many of your were testing it out and there were no bug reports of any kind. Therefore, it is time to make the latest beta update available on the main branch f
Dear players, I am excited to announce that the latest update has became available sooner than expected! I spent the last weeks testing the current build and I just uploaded it to the test branch. That means, it won't be automatically available for you, but the update is public f
Dear players. The development of the upcoming update is going very well. The servers have been rented, software has been deployed and the development of the new online features can now be easily tested on the actual game servers. The hardware infrastructure is done. Meanwhile, I
Dear players, Two weeks have passed and I want to keep you updated on the game's development. I am currently investing time into the server infrastructure. Since you will all have the option to play in a shared universe, I want to make sure that everything runs smoothly. It will
Dear players, While I work on the multiplayer infrastructure, I am also working on features that are available for all players. In this dev log, I want to introduce you to weapon turret upgrades. There are already weapon upgrades for firearms that you can get by disassembling loo
Dear players, Today, I want to give you a short glimpse at what is coming up next in Galactic Crew II. I started the production back in 2019 and spent most of my spare time of three years into the game. I've already implemented more than I promised, but I want to go further. In t
Dear players, It has taken some time, but the engine update is now finally available outside the public test branch. I have taken the feedback from you and further improved some features and I hope you will have fun with it. I will not spoil too much right now, but I already star
Dear players, The past weeks have been very stressful for me for many reasons. That's why I wasn't able to publish the test version of the new update in December as I had planned. I am not completely done with the update and I also have a lot of personal things to do that will ta
Dear players, Two weeks have passed since my last dev log and I have been very busy playtesting. I played the game many times starting with a simple Var-class scout and completed all three story lines plus and upgraded my way up to a Zeus-class testing all the new and old feature
Dear players, In the last dev log I gave you a glimpse at some of the new rooms that will find their way to Galactic Crew II with the next content update in January. I have made great progress in the past two weeks developing the game. I mainly focused on an issue that was report
Dear players, As I discussed in the last dev log, I am not only working on game engine improvements, but also on a lot of new content. The main content will focus on inter-dimensional trading and the rooms show-cased below are playing a major part in it. There will also be a lot
Here is a quick patch that was requested by a new player. When you kill a pirate who boarded your ship, you are now able to loot him/her. So far, it was not possible to loot defeated enemies on your own ship. When you board an enemy vessel, enemy crew members who are idling will
Dear players, As you know from my previous dev logs, I am working game engine improvements. I migrated the game engine, all game projects, and all tools from .NET Framework to .NET and I also integrated my own code in one of the modules that I use, which is no longer in maintenan
Dear players, This dev log will be very technical. I try to express my work in a way that is understandable for non-sofware developers, but please excuse me, if I fail doing so. As I announced in the last major update, I am currently putting a lot of work into the game engine. If
Dear players, I am very proud to announce that the latest update of Galactic Crew II is now live! You can now create your own content for Galactic Crew II and share it with other players using Steam Workshop - or send your mods directly to your friends. How to use mods? You can g