Hey ectypes!
Highlights from our Dev Stream #10 are up!
Watch the Highlights video here:
If you want to watch the full stream, you can do that here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChR4aKZ4LrQ
Below you'll find a list of the questions answered on the video, so you can easily access them. But first, something important:
We are officially Steam Deck Playable!
If you have a Steam Deck, go test it out and give us feedback! It really helps us improve the experience. You can leave your comments on our Steam Discussion Forums, or on our Discord.
Community Questions Answered
When the ship powers down and the Homunculus is ejected, could you make it easier to find it?
Yes, that's something we will fix. We sometimes can't find it either when it happens.
Any plans to allow a normal run to become an endless run?
We've been talking about this internally. One perspective is that Endless Mode delivers the experience a pilgrimage does, and more so. The value of a pilgrimage is that they are a short session where you get rewards at the end.
Some of these rewards we will also add to Endless, so you can have these short sessions. So anytime you're in the Void, you will be able to go to the Astral Map and fly back to the hub at any point, and actually get an extra bonus from saving the ship and uploading it. But of course you get more if you keep going.
So yeah, we expect to merge them together, so you can get both of them via the Endless Mode.
Will we ever get a medium-sized ship? Something in between the Frigate and the Destroyer.
Yeah, we see this as content we can add to the game, and it's definitely something we want to do as we continue working on the game.
What about ship customization?
Yeah, some ship customization is something we want to add!
Improvements to solo play
We will be adding more balancing to the solo experience. In this update we also made some of the twists adapt to solo players, so they are less threatening for them. And that's also why it's important that solo players let us know what things make the game difficult or frustrating for them, so we can try and mitigate them. So please leave feedback on our Discord!
Will you add a way to repair the hull further than the game allows right now?
The hull is the most valuable asset we have in the game. Maybe some time in the future we might add something like that, but for now we really wanted it to be the thing that you really have to take care of.
Boss fights?
If you look at the roadmap, you'll see that we have something there called Boss Fights. We will be working on having on having some peaks of that inside Endless Mode, so you know you'll have to face a big baddie.
When do we get more things to put perk points in? What about more points to spend?
Right now we have "work in progress" perks, that are not available yet. Of course, that's something we're going to add.
As for the perk points, for now they're locked at 31. In the future we might increase the level cap, which in return would increase the maximum perk points.
We hope you enjoyed the highlights! And, as always..
Metem preserve you!
Wishing you all the loot,
The Hutlihut Games team