The second monthly update, the May 2022 Update is out now! Plus we've got a trailer made to show off the new features!
Features
- New Sprites! The entire Solar system, asteroids, stars, and some FTL objects have gotten new textures courtesy of MechanicPluto24! Thank you!
- Binary Stars! Alpha Centauri Reunited!
- Landing on Water! An upgrade for your probes that can be purchased.
- Screenshot Mode! Press F3 at any point to hide the GUI for maximum screenshot capabilities! Also F3 to bring it back again.
- Galaxy Sectors! Each Galaxy now has sectors to fit more stars and very generation. More to come with this!
- Quest Mask - The planet you are going to will now have a quest marker on it as well as a tint. This is to assist new players.
Tweaks
- Galaxy Backgrounds have been adjusted to look not as ugly
- New Galaxy Generation! Faster generation + better spread of stars
- The final boss ship can now be seen after it has been destroyed.
- Save files are now sorted by most recent
- Save selection screen now shows time last played
- Esc now back out of save selection & Game mode selection screens
- Doubled number of stars per Galaxy Sectors
- Moon orbits are fixed and they should stay a healthy distance now
Bugfixes
- Main menu was not recognizing that you have a save file
- Comms text boxes fixed so text doesn't go off screen