Hey Everyone,
As we are gearing up towards Early Access launch, there`s plenty of news to share, so lets get started - exciting days ahead:)
New Trailer
We are happy to present the new trailer - finally a good look at what the game is all about. You can watch it now on our Stars End steam page. Trailer is fully captured in-game, from actual live gameplay (with the exception of several cinematic shots showing planets). You will also see a lot of content that`s not in the current build, but being added in the massive update next week.
Major Alpha Update
We have a major update in the works, that should finally take the game to the Alpha milestone. This update finally completes the game loop making all of the main gameplay elements fully playable. Updates includes: expanded crafting, dozens of new resources to gather and crafting components, new merchants system with trade moved to the orbital space stations, orbital mining with new NOVA space vehicle, broken vehicles in the environment to fix, Nox moon of the starting planet to explore and gather resources on, various help and tutorial windows, full localization into German, French, Chinese and Russian and so much more. In a nutshell this update finally makes the game fully playable.
Upcoming Alpha Testing
We have hundreds of applications in our email from players like you who want to help test the game. And time is almost here to finally get everyone into the game. We`ll be sending out invites by September 5th, and hope to get few dozen players online at once playing the game during our 2 week Alpha testing period. During this time we`ll be playing alongside you, working on balancing and fixing various bugs across the board (there are quite a few of these to fix before release)
If you haven`t yet - write us an email to [email protected], subject: "Stars End testing", we are still accepting applications for the next week or so, all the way until September 5th.
Release Delay
And as we you have by now figured out - we are couple of weeks behind with our release date. Just didn`t make it in time for September 6th as we wanted to pack as many features as possible into our Alpha update, and we still want to do two more weeks of testing and polishing before launch. We are extremely confident in the new launch date - September 20th.
Thanks for your support, and can`t to play the game with you guys next weekend!