Developer posts and news about this game.
Tutorial The tutorial now teaches flight basics You must zoom all the way out at the start of the tutorial Pointer hints now cover defense, utility and activation items separately The weapon swap hint now dims the screen so it's harder to miss Fixed typos in tutorial hints Genera
Missions Expansion A new INTEL BROKER band in the Starbase store sells one-off sector contracts for fuel Each Intel Pad names its sector, mission type, difficulty and payment before you buy Purchased side missions stay active until you complete them, making that sector more diffi
Bugs Fixed the tutorial showing up as a selectable sector during a run Fixed the end screen missing all of its text
Special thanks to Ellotheth for finding a lot of these issues. New Weapons ( thanks BlackBox ) Blunder Buss: launches a shrapnel ball that detonates at range Sonic Cannon Mk2: fully automatic twin sonic slug projector Balance Damaged items now sell for less, with a floor of 20% f
Tutorial More Star Wars references because why not Tractor beams are cool Screen flashes are also cool Items can no longer be dropped during the tutorial You get some loot from the tutorial you can take into your first raid Bugs Fixed getting stuck in the tutorial if you never zo
Tutorial Redesign The tutorial has been rebuilt from scratch as the opening for the story Game systems are now taught within the context of a real mission HUD instructions with highlighting of the required action to help with ramp-up Hints Hints about one thing on screen now poin
As we move into the final weekend of our first playtest, it's clear the act 1 difficulty is still too high, so we're addressed it in two ways: Nerfing Act 1 Soldiers Reworking Upgrades (run meta progression) to much more significantly increase your power Balance • Act 1 boss HP r
We've been analyzing some of our analytics for first half of the playtest so far and it's clear we have a problem: No one is making it out of Act 1 (~Threat Levels 1-5): I like the direction of the difficulty trend line, but it's too many walls too early. Let's look at the culpri
General • Added framerate cap setting Bugs • Fixed Blink costing more fuel than normal for mouse users • Fixed framerate cap not reapplying on scene/connection state changes • Fixed run economy graph desyncing across runs and multiplayer • Fixed clicking launch counting toward th
General • Added run economy graph showing fuel earned/lost across missions • Added hub slider for choosing how much fuel to bring on a run • Added "Hold Shift to split" hint on stack split tooltips • Performance improvements with many enemies on screen Balance • Act 1 boss stays
Added missing glyphs for rebinding keys Find-it story objectives are less placeholdery
Players can now rebind keyboard keys (thanks Devlin!)
Added experimental controller support for flying the ship only - no menu/inventory support Loot chance now scales somewhat with increased player count Fixed an issue where Bruisers / Enforcer Captain would sometimes not have a shield
• Fixed players carrying tutorial state into the hub • Fixed bindings for a few ships
We're very excited to turn it on and see who (not counting our mother) turns out to play! Prizes At the start of the Playtest, we have three Steam leaderboards for you to compete in: Hub Gauntlet Best Time, a short race to help you practice piloting, but there are no rules in ter