Developer posts and news about this game.
I've simplified much of the worker movement code this week, as i've been trying to track down an odd movement issue. There were several code paths, that if they failed in a certain order could put a droid in an incorrect movement function, with incorrect destination. As the game
Droids could get stuck when building walls, when set to be upgraded. They need to move location, before attempting a path to the droid maintenance. Invalid location check needed to be before upgrade check. Made a small improvement here as well, so that if a droid maintenance isn'
Fix for an issue when workers were hauling dead characters. If the path was blocked, the carried character id was being lost, which cause an error when trying to draw the carried character. An improvement when saving your game, you are no longer dropped straight back into the gam
Hey everyone, Thought i'd take a moment to give you all an update on what i'm working on. Over the last few weeks i've been working on the heat addition mentioned in the road map. I thought i'd get on to this now rather than further combat additions as i think it'll give a bit mo
Fix for an issue with job and hauling priority windows. If you revisited the window an update was needed as the number of workers could be the same, but they might be different (destroyed droid, then built a new one). Caused a crash, but thankfully quite a rare occurrence. Patch
Multiple popup windows are now supported. I know some of you running larger screens wanted multiple windows open at a time, so i've added z-ordering. Should all behave as you expect (latest opened window to the front, select a window behind to bring it to the front). Only excepti
A few sound effects have been added when selecting your crew (for a bit of personality). Recent scanner addition wasn't updating pathing, so workers moved around rather than over like other turrets. Scanner was also missing an on/off switch. Fixed another issue with airlocks and
A new scanner has been added to the game. This new defence turret, scans for pirates and if they come within range, your laser and cannon turrets receive a damage boost. These scanners can also be upgraded to increase their range. That's not all though, any large mineable asteroi
Hey everyone, Thought i'd put out a news post just to update everyone about where Deep Space Outpost is, and what to expect next. A lot of bug fixes and improvements have been made since launch. Thanks to everyone who has reported issues and given me feedback. Apologies for the n
For those of you running large monitors / high resolutions, Deep Space Outpost now supports 1.5x and 2x in-game text scaling. This improves things a lot especially if you are running 4k, as the UI was pretty small previously, even at 1.25x. Patch notes:- Improve: Support for 1.5x
Fix for an issue if food hauling was interrupted (destination deconstructed/destroyed). New food destination check needed to know what food type was being carried. Have also clarified some info in the tutorial with regards tractor beams. Patch notes:- Fix: New haul destination ch
German language has been added. Do let me know if i have any text in the wrong place, it is easy to copy strings in to wrong locations when going through a large amount of text. Also a fix for when you completed a scenario, and wished to continue playing. If you subsequently went
Fix for building where you made a job top priority, but due to number of jobs it was picked up in normal queue and build type priority was missing. Thanks to Marcus for the bug report :o) Patch notes:- Fix: Making a build job top priority, still needs to bring across build type p
Couple of fixes with traders repairing/docking at repair bays. Finding a repair bay destination dock was not testing if it was enabled. Repair bay status check also needs to check enabled and powered. This would lead to an incorrect tooltip says repair bay offline, but it just ha
My update earlier that improved job priority, failed to include upgrade jobs. Sorry about that. Patch notes:- Fix: Item upgrade jobs missing priority value, caused crash. Nick
Few changes to the survival scenario. Exiting now gives you a high score option, it's a tad tougher, and now traders will visit (for all scenarios now). I've altered the build corner walls priority system, as in my last update i used the 'player make top priority' action. Which s
I've finally managed to start on some improvements that people have suggested over the last week. Firstly asteroids are now all collectable by your tractor beams (if you have a free salvage depot and mining laser available). The exception is for much larger asteroids that you sho
Fix for a weird movement bug that could occur when a worker moved off a wall just built, if an airlock was nearby the droid could get stuck just moving off screen. Also fixed an issue with humans not picking food from storage to eat, if no canteen available. And lastly the scroll
A few fixes with storage and production figures. Main issue fixed was that algae bars were only being hauled to canteen and lab, not food storage. Co2 figures shown for co2 scrubbers, were max capability, not what was actually being collected from station habitat. Also incorrect
I've disabled the restriction which stopped you selecting things in game when you have a worker control / ship communications / research popup open. Not sure why i put that in originally, possibly some issue that has since been fixed. Nice addition with this is that selecting a w