Dear players,
First of all, please let me welcome all new players to be a part of the Galactic Crew! In this week's dev log, I want to give you a compact preview of the next content update that is scheduled for late July and I also want to give you more exciting news!
Combat update
The first big update back in the Beta phase was focused on construction and colonies. The second update (May) was focused on the exploration theme and the upcoming update will be focused on combat.
There will be a new playable race: robots! The image below gives you a preview of the new playable models. There will also be a new story line focusing on improving your crew's equipment, improving your ship's weapons and the new robot race.
There will be a completely new room for your colonies with new features, scientists will get new active and passive skills, there are new items to craft, new cards to use when creating a new game, new achievements in Steam, new elements in the tech tree and many quality-of-life improvements - some of which were requested by you. There will also be a way to upgrade your weapons with special abilities!
I am actively working on improving the jobs of characters especially for the ground combat system that needs improvement.
Was this everything? No! This is just a brief summary for you to get a feeling what is coming up in late July! I make great progress so far and I think the update will be completed by then.
Twitch
If you have ever wrote me an e-mail, started a Steam discussion or sent me a Twitter DM, you know that I will always respond as fast as possible. Player interactions are very important to me, because you know best what you want in the game and I enjoy seeing players enjoying the work I have done. I was looking for new ways to interact with you and I will start my own Twitch channel very soon. Artists are currently working on graphics and designs for the channel and I am waiting for the delivery of hardware. Hopefully, I can start the channel next week or in two weeks. I will announce on Twitter before I go live for the first time. I do not expect any subscriptions or anything. I will develop Galactic Crew II live on streams, playtest the game and present new features, play games I like or I want to research and talk to you. So, if you are interested in this kind of interaction, feel free to follow me.
What's next?
I will post the Twitch streaming dates on Twitter once I know them. I will write new dev logs here every two weeks. The reworking of the ground combat system and other features will be very time-consuming and I could not present exciting news every week.
If you like the game, please leave a positive Steam review and if you have criticism of any kind, please let my know by sending me a DM or opening a Steam discussion.
Kind regards, Benjamin