Hello!
Our regular update on status and plans of the game development.
Released: Balance improvement
Balancing of the game was significantly reworked, improved and released on 22-JAN-2018. See Update 0.33.00.00 announce for more details.
It was just fist iteration of balance improvement. Based on players' feedback we plan to continue work on developing the balance of the game.
Upcoming release: Gamepad support
Gamepad support in accordance with Steam Partial Controller Support scheduled to release on 02-FEB-2018. It will include full ship control and object interaction, but interface interactions (like store, inventory, etc.) will still require using of mouse.
Based on your feedback and wishes, we have reviewed and updated our development priorities in the following way.
Sandbox mode
A sandbox mode will allow players to travel around the game world without bounds of the campaign story. We expect to release a sandbox mode in the first half of March 2018.
Online cooperative mode
We plan to release a version with online cooperative mode support in early April 2018.
Engineer player class & Crafting
One more player class Engineer will be added. Crafting of items will be implemented.