Hey Everyone,
As we are crunching towards Early Access launch in 4 days, we have another major alpha update today. We`ll continue with daily updates all the way until launch... well actually I guess we`ll continue with daily updates after launch as well... We`ll rest next year:)
And to confirm Stars End launch is schedule for 3pm EST, on Thursday October 10th. We will have at least 10 official servers live for launch, and can expand with more by Friday evening depending on player numbers.
For now we`ll only keep 1 official server running, as we really want to start trying to max out sever population, and soon try the waiting ques.
And so presenting update 0.629
Server
-Several new servers added covering Europe, Asian and various US locations (offline for now to help stress test just 1 server)
-Major improvements to server stability and performance
-Delay removed on picking up world loot, plants and harvested rocks.
-Loot container function completely revised and should be 10 times faster
-In case of a server crash, server will auto restart and be back online within 30 seconds
-On taking down or restarting the servers all players are now kicked
-Added various commands for controlling official servers booting, shutdown e.t.c
Important Fixes and additions
-Various metal loot including Scrap Metal can now be collected in the environment without tools - located by the big metal structures
-Fixed prologue issues with spawning half way into the Cryo Chamber
-Fixed prologue issues with some players spawning in a floor, or being stuck and unable to continue
-Fixed major issue with main menu getting stuck on the screen when logging into the game
-Fixed major issue with unable to start sawing a log
-Fixed issue with sawing logs (still one problem there - logs disappear too fast)
-Turned off a bunch of items that weren't meant to be craftable yet, like concrete floor e.t.c
-Fixed a bug with closing and opening wood storage container
Misc
-Much faster mining, wood chopping e.t.c animations
-Reduced super sized mech bullet casing when shooting
-All in-game music and sound now properly turns off when exiting to the main menu and will not continue when logging back into the game
-Weight of tutorial Hangar sequence items greatly reduced
-Meat Stew now recovers hunger
-Rain volume decreased
-Copper Added to all asteroids
-Copper also added to the mine (but not working yet - just mine in space using NOVA for now)