The update is coming together great, and now we’re looking for your feedback to help push it across the finish line.
The Wilderness adds asteroids and abandoned stations around the player’s base, new enemies, new skills, new cosmetics, improved combat, numerous quality-of-life fixes, and more. We also fixed many many bugs and improved gameplay balance.
The new mechanics lay a new foundation for how you play the game, by venturing out directly onto asteroids to explore, fight monsters and scavenge for resources to bring back to the station.
This gives us more freedom to add new things, unique places to discover, and rare items to find.
This a big step forward and you can try it right now!
How to Play
Accessing the new update is easy!
To play, simply open Steam, then right click Starmancer and select properties. Next, go to the Betas tab, and select “Earlier Access” from the dropdown menu. The newest update should automatically start downloading!
Playtesting
While playing, just have fun! But to get the most from your playthrough, try to think of these questions:
- Am I having fun? What happened during your playthrough that you think you’ll remember for a long time?
- Are there any moments where you were confused about what to do? Were you able to figure out what to do in-game? For example, maybe you couldn’t figure out how to assign a job to a colonist
- Are there times when disaster (and other bad things) happened and you didn’t notice until it was too late? For example, maybe you ran out of food and everyone starved, but you didn’t notice until it was too late
To get even more from your play session, use cheats! Cheats are accessed by typing “cheater” directly in the build menu’s search bar. We also added more settings in the option menu, including an option for directly spawning items. This helps while testing, but also it’s fun to spawn C4 and blow stuff up like a madman.
Where to Report Feedback
Please direct feedback to one of three easy locations:
- On our Discord
- Directly in-game via the feedback menu (accessed in the Escape Menu). Your game will automatically be saved and sent to us. This is the best way to report weird in-game issues.
- On the Wilderness Update Steam Forums thread
- During our weekly live stream every Friday!
Stream
We stream Starmancer every Friday at 11:00 AM GMT-5 over at Twitch. This is the same timezone as New York City.
Check it out and share all your ideas and feedback!
Thanks Everyone!