Greetings Star Commanders!
We are so excited to release Alpha 7: Meet the Midorians to you right before the Holiday season! This release is by far our biggest to date with a ton of new features, balances, stability and bug fixes. We have focused on bringing in the Midorian race into the game as well as Loyalty so that you and your crew can begin moving towards your goal of working with the other civilizations of the galaxy. Patch notes below:
- Midorians Added to Game (brand new race)
- Loyalty (earn loyalty for doing missions for each race)
- New Vendors (new products for you to purchase)
- Selling (sell objects to vendors)
- Revised vendor system (smart spawning of objects based on race)
- Game saves (brand new saving system with different save slots)
- Growing stations (completing trade missions will slowly grow space stations)
- Distress calls (allies will call you up if they are attacked)
- Dialog system updates (loyalty and other)
- Faction nav node ownership (each faction will take ownership of nodes in the galaxy)
- Intro Video (establishes game goals)
- Revealing map (map slowly reveals hidden areas)
- Teleporter system revised (holograms showing where your crew is going to arrive)
- Space backgrounds (rotating backgrounds on travel)
- Freighters ships for all races (framework for transporting supplies between stations)
- Updated weaponry (new guns including cannons, artillery, radiation torpedos and more)
- Hierarchy menu integrated (needs lots of work)
- Brand new tutorial system
- Return teleport button added to crew dock (quick return for anyone off of your ship)
- Race specific names for ships
- Key commands (M for map, WASD pans, H for Hierarchy menu)
- Stability issues and bug fixes across the board (too many to even list)
Try it out, tell us what you think. We know that there are still a lot of bugs to fix and a long way to go until we have a really solid release but we feel like, at a bare minimum, the game should offer quite a bit of fun. Lot’s of hard work in that release!
Happy Holidays and good luck Captains!
Warballoon