Hi all!

I just wanted to thank everyone for taking the time to write all these wonderful reviews over the years, which allowed my game to reach a staggering 94% Positive rating!

I will be forever grateful for this!

I guess it's a good time to share some plans for my plans for Sector Six . . .

The next big milestone is 6 years on Steam anniversary in September.
For that, I am planning to release a content update.

I have a couple of ideas for that, but we'll see how it'll turn out.
Relic weapons? Boss rush mode? Ability to gain level increases in abilities like Era's End?

I do not want to promise too much because my time is extremely limited for Sector Six as I am working hard on my other projects.

Speaking of other projects, towards the end of this year I plan to have wrapped them up.

This means my hands will be free to pursue a Sector Six sequel/reboot!
It already has a name: Perfect Shrapnel Zero!

It is planned to be my magnum opus in a brand-new universe, with my signature storytelling, atmosphere, and mechanics inherited directly from Sector Six!

In other news:

I released a small patch that fixes a dupe glitch with amplifiers and restores the Final Ascension XP formula to its previous version - the new formula has been left enabled accidentally. Oops!

Have fun and until next time~

Hi all, dropping another QoL update!

Change list:

• Vendor in Rift region now sells crafting items in large quantities.
  
• Holding [control] button or [Right stick] on controllers now allows buying and applying full stacks of crafting items.
  
• You can now move during the Machine explosion cutscene and end the mission early.
  
• Fixed: Limitless inventory mode would not remove inventory restrictions in story missions.
  
• Fixed: If the player has XP to level Ascension more than once, leveling up Ascension level for the first time does not award Ancesion Reactor.
  
• Fixed: A crash that occurs when the game state is restarted.
  
• Fixed: A crash that occurs when switching to the Portuguese language.
  

Hey all,

The yearly support/QoL patch is here!

The key feature of this update is limitless inventory: If you trust your PC to handle it, it is now possible to disable the inventory limit and play with dozens of inventory pages.



It does come with loading times with sorting and selling hundreds of parts, but it may be a good alternative for some.



Have fun!

Change list:

• Added limitless inventory mode to the settings: Removes 3-page limit for the inventory.
  
• Updated credits and intro to show V3663L, my new studio / artist name.
  
• Numbers above billion are now shortened to, for example, 1B instead of 1000M. The same applies to trillions.
  
• Absolute Deterioration decayed fragment reward is now capped at a maximum of 6600 fragments per attempt.
  
• Attempting to level up Ascension level now consumes all available experience and instantly converts it to levels.
  
• It is no longer possible to modify locked parts.
  
• The 'Sell all' function at vendors now affects relics as well.
  
• Removed several cheated entries from the leaderboards.
  
• Potentially fixed: The game doesn't boot immediately when launching on Steam. Updating the Steam SDK version appears to have helped.
  
• Fixed: Infinite Sustained Barrage when combined with Channel.
  
• Fixed: Modified threat level 3 minions do not count towards True Champion achievement.
  
• Fixed: It was hard to see how much ether the player has in battle HUD due to a display showing 4+ digits.

Hey all,

Just a quick fix: Since the update all ability ether costs were being set to 0.
This is now fixed.

Until next time!

Hey Linux users,

Unfortunately, due to a lack of resources, I will no longer be updating the Linux version of the game.

If it's any consolation, the game appears to be working properly via Proton:

Library > Sector Six > Properties > Compatibility > Enable: Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool > Select: Proton Next

(The game doesn't work via Proton Experimental - other versions of Proton are untested)

The non-latest Linux version of the game will remain untouched.

I was unable to verify that it works properly, so I will be de-listing Sector Six as a game with a Linux version.

I always wanted to have Linux versions of the game, but that has become too difficult for me.

Thanks for playing!

Hey all,

The promised update is live!



Here are the changes:

• Ascension Reactor is now generated at item level 90.
  
• Reliquary Diode item now sets relic level to your current spaceship level.
  
• Auto-fire is now toggled by holding [Control] + pressing an ability key.
  
• Auto-fire status is now saved between missions and game sessions.
  
• UI now indicates which abilities are on auto-fire.
  
• Added information about auto-fire to the manual.
  
• XP is now distributed faster (A.K.A. XP bar now fills faster).
  
• Gaining over 10 million XP in a mission will no longer cause lag + it is distributed instantly.
  
• 3 inventory pages are now the new default.
  
• Node + Strike attack visual effect has been toned down.
  
• Fixed: Pause menu 'controller cursor' was not usable.
  
• Fixed: Broken Infinity UI shows "NaN".
  
• Fixed: Setting instance severity via Infinity Instances increases altered part chances globally.
  
• Fixed: Entering New Game+ via Time Rift mission does not reset instance severity.
  
• Fixed: Mission overview shows incorrect difficulty rewards when viewing a story mission.
  
• Fixed: Alloy container ether/armor on kill boost was not updated when the container was removed.

A bit ago Steam proposed new default prices in Turkish and Argentine currencies.

I am changing it now to these prices:

Argentine Peso
115 -> 700

Turkish Lira
16 -> 95

The game used to cost very little when on higher discounts in these currencies so that's the main reason for this change.

I believe this was exploited in several previous sales.

Hey all,

Happy new year! It is sort of a custom at this point to write something about my plans for the upcoming year.

First of all: The patch I hinted at once is finally in development.

Planned changes:

- Ascension Reactor fix: It will always be generated at item level 90.
- [Hold shift + use ability] to toggle auto-fire. I find the current method to use auto-fire a bit annoying.
- Auto-fire is preserved between missions and play sessions.
- Abilities on auto-fire will be indicated as on auto-fire in the UI.
- Several exploit fixes.
- Possibly a change to how XP works to speed-up mission end screen XP distribution.

With this patch I'm also porting the game to the new engine version: This long-term support (LTS) version is promised to not be updated with new features, meaning I will be able to return to this game years later and have it open without any problems.

It means I might be able to make patches like these easier.

In 2023 I plan to release at least 2 new games and clear up my development queue, moving forward toward Sector Six reboot.

Sorry for taking so long with it all and I hope I can impress with upcoming releases of 2023!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1184450/Magic_of_Autumn/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1786910/Magic_of_Spring/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1097560/Light_of_the_Locked_World/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2152950/Beyond_the_Gate/

Hey all,

Just wanted to share links to games I am currently working on right now.

Beyond the Gate

I recently added this game to Steam: I plan to release it early next year.
It's a small game I made years ago - I decided to update it and release it on Steam.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2152950/Beyond_the_Gate/
It is an RPG (ARPG?) with loot and other procedurally generated content.
If you're a fan of Sector Six, I'd recommend checking out Beyond the Gate (It has a demo!) - Sector Six and BTG share a lot of the same DNA ^_^

Magic of Spring

Magic of Autumn's sequel - a card game and RPG hybrid with a conjuring mechanic: Turn everything in the game's environment into playable cards.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1786910/Magic_of_Spring/
Currently, in the late stages of development, we are about to start preparing for release.

Light of the Locked World

My ambitious RPG! Currently on hold as I'm working on Magic of Spring - but I am planning to return to this project in near future.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1097560/Light_of_the_Locked_World/
So, yeah, I'm working hard as always to make the best games I can make for you guys and the next year is going to be pretty exciting!

Thank you.

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Hi all,

Just a quick update on price changes:
I've changed the base price from $9.99 to $9.

For non-USD currencies, I've tried to keep the prices similar to the base price - the results may vary.

Also, I might have mentioned a game update for Sector Six, but seeing as there are no critical problems and my filled schedule I think I'll pass on that one, unfortunately.

This is not the end for Sector Six as I will be working on a reboot game in the not-so-distant future <3

That is all for now,
Thanks for buying, playing, and leaving these wonderful reviews!

Hello everyone!

As mentioned earlier, I am working on a new game, Magic of Spring.

I'm happy to say that the development is going well and that a demo version is available now!

[previewyoutube=IbRoDd_r3S0;full][/previewyoutube]
The demo can be downloaded from the Magic of Spring Steam page:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1786910/Magic_of_Spring/
In other news: I'm planning to make a small quality of life update to Sector Six soon.

Until then!

Hi all,

Just jumping into the news feed to talk a bit about my new game - Magic of Spring!



It is what I've been calling a card adventure game - there is a story, a world to explore, deckbuilding, and a lot of card fights.

I've been working on Magic of Spring with extremely skilled Minho Kim and Bert Cole.

Bert Cole composed the music for Sector Six and Light of the Locked World, so you know he's good =]

Minho Kim is the artist of Devespresso Games, the team that created the great-looking Coma games, Vambrace: Cold Soul, Scarlet Hood and the Wicked Wood.

The demo for Magic of Spring should be ready to play next month.

Hope this sounds interesting - if it does, don't forget to follow and wishlist the game <3

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1786910/Magic_of_Spring/
Good luck on those part drops and until the next game announcement, I guess ^_^

(One of those going to be a sequel to Sector Six, I swear!)

Hi all!

A small update for those wondering what's going on: Small Moons is a studio created by me, Zuurix a.k.a. Aivaras Klimas.



I've created it in case I'll want to expand in the future and because saying that these games are made by me isn't entirely correct.

Two of my biggest games are made with the awesome Bert Cole of Bit By Bit Sound.

Please follow Small Moons creator's page to be updated about new game releases:
Link >>

That's all for now, until next time!

Hey all,

I've just released a small update for the game!

I was thinking to maybe add some new content, but couldn't figure out what would be interesting to add.

So instead, I've decided to make some non-content changes.
I've looked at the list of things I could do to improve the game and done a few.

Huge thanks to everyone who bought the game and your generous reviews!

(Please report any issues you might find after this update)

Anyway, the update!

Auto-fire

Now holding an ability button for 5 seconds will enable auto-fire for that ability.
To disable auto-fire, release the ability key and press it again.

XP and experience changes

The player's ship now gains experience no matter in what region it is.

Also, difficulty level modifiers are no longer limited by a region level, they can be enabled anywhere.

Finally, the players no longer need to reach level 5 to enable difficulty modifiers.

Number formatting

Number formatting updated to display more numbers.
E.g.: 20.1M weapon damage -> 20.19M weapon damage.

Altered parts

Increased altered part drop chance and a chance of altered parts to become more altered.

Absolute Deterioration

Absolute Deterioration XP multiplier is now active for spaceships of all levels.

Endgame shortcut removed

This option has some problems with it, so I've decided to remove it.

Fixed

Nuke does not deal any damage while Azimar's Killframe is disabled.
Manual mentions that relics cannot have scaling properties, which is incorrect since relic rework.
Item generator creates low-level altered parts.

Have fun!

PS.: If you wish to support me, check out my other games:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1097560/Light_of_the_Locked_World/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1184450/Magic_of_Autumn/

Get it now for a historically low price - Sector Six enters Itch.io and GameJolt with its first 80% discount!

Sector Six on Itch.io >>

Sector Six on GameJolt >>

Sector Six on VoxPop Games >>

(First 80% discount on Steam will be happening in January, probably)

If you guys would Rate/Like the game on these new stores I'd be eternally grateful!
Right now games are my only source of income, so every dollar matters to me =]

Thanks again for buying Sector Six on Steam, the game just passed 150 reviews, it's truly amazing <3

This update adds Simplified Chinese translation by Wang Li a.k.a. Jether!

Also fixed Lantern of Chances + Azimar's Killframe bug thanks to playstrike2004.

Until next time!

This update is an attempt to even out power levels of the sets. Lodeon's Ultimatum should no longer be the only set capable of reaching 10+ waves in Absolute Deterioration.

The new and improved set effects:

Etherion's Clash
If your spaceship's installed abilities are of the same color:
Weapon damage is multiplied by X
The multiplier is based on the number of weapons installed
Armor generated by armor generation is added to base maximum armor
Armor generation is doubled
Always active:
+10% armor generation per Etherion's Clash set component installed

Cor's Voidmass
If your spaceship has no compressed parts installed:
Triples core attributes
+10 levels to Unload, Detonate, and Attract Mines abilities per weapon installed
Maximum armor is multiplied by 1 + 0.01 per alloy used during the mission
Capped at 1000 alloy
Always active:
+5% to core attributes per Cor's Voidmass set component installed

Ultranid's Torment
Cooldowns of all abilities are set to 0.5 seconds
Activating an ability deals damage to your spaceship
Damage dealt is equal to 10% of maximum armor
+10% damaging wave damage per every damaging wave chance percent that is above the cap
Current damaging wave chance: X%
Current damaging wave damage: X%
Always active:
+10% damaging wave damage per Ultranid's Torment set component installed

Kithalia's Blight
Maximum ether and maximum armor is multiplied by blight multiplier
When ether reaches 100%:
Ether is set 0 and the blight multiplier increases by 0.1
The multiplier is capped at 10
While your spaceship has no relays and nodes installed:
Weapon damage is multiplied by X
The multiplier is based on the number of weapons installed
Always active:
+10% ether generation per Kithalia's Blight set component installed

Oesa's Radiance
Weapon damage is multiplied by 1 + 0.01 per 1000 ether
3 seconds invincibility after an enemy is destroyed
Always active:
+10% maximum ether per Oesa's Radiance set component installed

Azimar's Killframe
Weapon limit is equal to the part limit
Ether is removed
Damage reduction is halved and the reduction cap is set to 100%
Your spaceship takes damage when a minion is destroyed
Damage is equal to 10% of weapon damage
Nuke ability damage is multiplied by X
The multiplier is based on the number of installed parts that increase ability levels
Always active:
+10% weapon damage per Azimar's Killframe set component installed

Lodeon's Ultimatum
Base weapon damage is equal to 100% of the maximum armor
Effect strength is based on the number of parts installed
Every second the damage is dealt to your spaceship
Damage dealt is equal to 2% of maximum armor
Always active:
+10% maximum armor per Lodeon's Ultimatum set component installed

Endgame shortcut
The endgame is now more accessible than ever!
Start a new game and jump right into the endgame by skipping leveling and story.

Other changes
Better Unload attacks, Awakening of Inner Power, mission-saving items, automatic containers + quality of life changes!

• Relays + Unload: Mines created by this combo now deals 10% less damage instead of 50%.
  
• Updated store and library assets.
  
• Pylons + Unload: Mines created by this combo now gain damage while immobile and start seeking enemies automatically after 5 seconds.
  
• Nodes + Unload: Mines created by this combo now pierce enemies.
  
• Awakening of Inner Power ability now also removes minion maximum armor.
  
• Added armor text to the HUD armor bar.
  
• Set description now shows a total number of set components installed. E.g.: "Etherion's Clash - 11/6 components".
  
• Sacrificial alloy containers, Lantern of Chances, and Pearl of Deterioration now give 5 seconds of invincibility after saving the spaceship.
  
• Relics that increase relic limit no longer require one empty relic slot to be installed.
  
• Fragment fusion is now instant when fusing more than 4 relics.
  
• Replaced Steam store page artwork.
  
• The leaderboard button now opens the leaderboard in the Steam browser.
  
• The leaderboard button now opens the Absolute Deterioration leaderboard.
  
• Fixed: Automatic alloy containers are not counting towards Consumer achievement.
  
• Fixed: Automatic alloy containers are not helping with Malasmar fight.
  
• Fixed: Automatic alloy containers are slow.
  
• Fixed: Alloy containers are inheriting tooltip lines from relics.

Hey all, just a small update - version 1.5.6c - for Linux.

Version 1.5.6 used to crash for some users because of a debug command I forgot to remove.
Also, it was slower. I can't tell how much exactly, but quite significantly.

I am only 90% sure that the new version will work, so I left version 1.5.6 accessible:

Go to Library > Sector Six > Properties > Betas:
Enter the password "fallbackbranch" and select "fallback" from the list.

If the Linux crisis is finally over, I'll start doing set rework in a week or so.

I really want to do set rework well - I want this update to have a huge positive change to endgame build diversity.

Because nerfing Lodeon's Ultimatum doesn't seem like a desirable option, the goal is to bring other sets to Ultimatum's power level.

That is the goal, but the way there is unknown.

These factors make it impossible to not do set rework blindly:

- It would take a while to test every known build thoroughly even with cheats and I don't have much time allocated.
- I don't have any tools to accurately model the stats of endgame spaceships.
- There is always some uncertainty when making changes like that, even in with the best tools.

So here's the plan:

- I'll hack together a set rework giving buffs and changes based on my experience in the endgame and the power level of Ultimatum.
- After it's released, I'll continue making smaller-scale changes based on your feedback until all sets feel decent.

I have created a pinned discussion for that:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/465020/discussions/0/1737762134390535712/

So that's the news for now, thank you for your patience, and until next time!

Hey all,

I have uploaded Linux version 1.5.6b which is faster and doesn't have that crash caused by a leftover debug command.

I couldn't make it live because it has one problem: Clicking "Play" in the Steam library does not run it.

To run it:

Go to Library > Sector Six > Properties > Betas
Enter password: "password12345", select "beta - Beta branch".
Then "Browse local files" and run SectorSix executable or run.sh script.

I have tried several things yesterday and I can't figure out what is the problem.
If you get an error that could help me or have any ideas on what's wrong, leave a comment.

Until next time.

Hey all!

- Fixed: Chance calculation bug. 100% wave chances and deflect chance used to not guarantee that these mechanics would pass the checks every time.
- Fixed: Font related memory leak.
- Fixed: Strange part generation bug/crash. Possibly. Watch out for weird part behavior.

Linux:

A new build has been uploaded, it runs on my virtual machine, so hopefully, it will run for everyone else.
If it doesn't work properly, please report that to me.

Have fun!

Hey all,

A small update: Sector Six's original soundtrack (OST) that was previously a "DLC" has been ported to Steam's new soundtrack system - now it's separate from the game in your libraries.

I've also added two new tracks that weren't in the game when the OST was first uploaded back in 2016.

Enjoy =]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/469520/Sector_Six_OST/

Hey all,

Just a quick update on what's going on.

Linux is still broken, but I am working on it almost every day.
You can see that in detail here.

After I have fixed the Linux, I'll be spending Saturdays making set rework.

I have done some brainstorming about set rework in this discussion.
I've also got a suggestion to make a set that promotes the gameplay that resembles the old class system.

I'll share more concrete details once the set rework is in progress.

So, that's the news.

I hope the new year has been good already, until next time!

Hey all,

I've just released a new version of the game:

Shadow of the Past no longer shows flags.
Text added and changed with relic rework update has been translated to BR, BE, FR, and DE.

Linux status:

It's still not possible to launch the game.

The problem is very annoying because it doesn't show any error message, so I have no idea what's wrong.

I've made a thread in Steam developer's discussions and now I'm waiting for a reply.

Hang in there.

Better endgame, better relics, Belarusian translation, and more!

Endgame changes:
Decayed fragments required to create deterioration relics: Reduced from 1000 to 100. There's no reason to keep more casual players from getting Arcane Arsenal achievement. Including myself =]

Level 30+ alloy container vendor stock: Increased from 3 alloy containers to 22. Made getting those transient containers less of a hassle.

At max spaceship level: Altered Instance and Absolute Deterioration multipliers now also affect the experience. That means millions of Ascension XP!

Altered part drop chance in altered instances: Increased by 20%.

Relic rework:
Dismantling relics now always gives reliquary diode.
Relic property amount: Increased from 7 to 9, one above fully upgraded etalons.
Relics can now have scaling properties. E.g.: +x maximum armor, +x ether on kill.
Graphically improved Upgrade Sockets, Amplifier Well.
Tempoquake, Cryostasis now reduces weapon damage by 50%, instead of 90%.

These relics now increase relic limit by 1 and no longer compete with stronger relics for relic slots:

• Legionvault, Fractal Arsenal
  
• Scepter and Needles
  
• Suun's Loom, Atomic Library
  
• Deathlink, Assault Adapter
  
• Surge Accelerator, Exothermic Focus
  
• Eternity of Destruction, Arsenal Extender
  
• NA-1, Naonic Archive
  
• Strengthsource, Tridenkorian Flagship Systems
  
• Zero Spire, Coolant Injector
  
• Mark of Defender, Hero's Exempt
  
• Radiance and Blight, Aberrant Alliance
  
• Flame Tower, Redirection Hub

• Asymadrenlysk, Craeno's Final Creation
  
• NA-1, Naonic Archive
  
• Eternity of Destruction, Arsenal Extender
  
• Everlasting Light, Ether Networks
  
• Legionvault, Fractal Arsenal
  
• Trism of Glory
  
• Duality of Transience, Etherion's Catalyst
  
• Upgrade Sockets, Amplifier Well
  
• Strengthsource, Tridenkorian Flagship Systems
  
• Surge Accelerator, Exothermic Focus
  
• Crippled Vault, Broken Reality

Hey all, this is just a quick post about the current status of the game's development.

So, first of all, yes, I am currently working on a relic rework update.



It's pretty much done, this is what changes it'll bring:

Dismantling relics now always gives reliquary diode.
Relic property amount: Increased from 7 to 9, one above fully upgraded etalons.
Relics can now have scaling properties. E.g.: +x maximum armor, +x ether on kill.
Graphically improved Upgrade Sockets, Amplifier Well.
Tempoquake, Cryostasis now reduces weapon damage by 50%, instead of 90%.

These relics now increase relic limit by 1 and no longer compete with stronger relics for relic slots:
Legionvault, Fractal Arsenal
Scepter and Needles
Suun's Loom, Atomic Library
Deathlink, Assault Adapter
Surge Accelerator, Exothermic Focus
Eternity of Destruction, Arsenal Extender
NA-1, Naonic Archive
Strengthsource, Tridenkorian Flagship Systems
Zero Spire, Coolant Injector
Mark of Defender, Hero's Exempt
Radiance and Blight, Aberrant Alliance
Flame Tower, Redirection Hub

Now it's possible to disable animations of these relics by rotating them:
Asymadrenlysk, Craeno's Final Creation
NA-1, Naonic Archive
Eternity of Destruction, Arsenal Extender
Everlasting Light, Ether Networks
Legionvault, Fractal Arsenal
Trism of Glory
Duality of Transience, Etherion's Catalyst
Upgrade Sockets, Amplifier Well
Strengthsource, Tridenkorian Flagship Systems
Surge Accelerator, Exothermic Focus
Crippled Vault, Broken Reality

Endgame changes:
Decayed fragments required to create deterioration relics: Reduced from 1000 to 100. There's no reason to keep more casual players from getting Arcane Arsenal achievement. Including myself =]

Level 30+ alloy container vendor stock: Increased from 3 alloy containers to 22. Made getting those transient containers less of a hassle.

At max spaceship level: Altered Instance and Absolute Deterioration multipliers now also affect the experience. That means millions of Ascension XP!

Some have things have changed.

1)

Sector Six is no longer published by Michael Jendryssek.

Without him, Sector Six would probably not be on Steam today and I am very grateful for that - I'm sure all those players who enjoyed Sector Six can relate, so let's thank him =]

From now on everything will be managed by me, Aivaras Klimas a.k.a. Zuurix.
That should not affect players in any way.

2)

Sector Six might get some updates.

I have decided to dedicate Saturdays to working on low priority projects - side projects and finished major projects. This includes Sector Six!

Currently, I'm busy with Magic of Autumn, but after some time I'll be able to start updating Sector Six.

First of all, I'm thinking about doing a small relic rework - a bunch of minor changes to making relics truly the top tier parts.

But more about that later - for now that's all the news.

Until next time!

This update adds German translation by Spiffosi and Milkshaker!

Other changes:

Techamer's rewards are now better: +200% inate loot quality for parts created by Techamer.
Destroyed areas now no longer draw backgrounds.
Trism of Glory achievement number is now displayed with a custom font in all languages.
Fixed: Trying to take screenshot by pressing F12 while using controller switches to keyboard and mouse mode.
Fixed: Shadows of the Past graphical glitch.
Fixed: Ship surfaces are not removed.
Fixed: Switching languages deletes wrong fonts.

Have fun!

This update adds French translation by Alexandre Magin a.k.a. All_Zebest!

Also, fixed a bug that made Strike + Nodes deal more damage than it should.

Have fun!

Wow, I did it again.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1097560/Light_of_the_Locked_World/
A new game by Zuurix!

Light of the Locked World is a fantasy RPG with local multiplayer, inspired by old school MMOs like Ultima Online and RuneScape.

The World Gate has malfunctioned and you are taken to Caios II - the Locked World.
As you build a new life for yourself, you notice that something sinister is going on.
You might be in danger - you must find out what's happening.

Features:

Light of the Locked World has all of the beloved RPG features - quests, exploration, crafting, and deep character customization - executed in uncommon ways.

Combat:

Real-time, uses only one button to attack, effectiveness is based on equipment stats and player's positioning skill.

Local multiplayer:

Take the game to the next level by inviting another player to play with or against you.
You have the freedom to compete for rare items, cooperate to overcome difficult tasks, steal, trade, duel, and more.

This update adds Brazilian Portuguese translation by Digital Kaz Brazil!

Changes:

• Minor graphical and text changes.
  
• Minor localization selection changes.

• Fixed: Arena reward says "undefined".
  
• Fixed: "Error Error Error" achievement description says "Jam minion three times".
  
• Fixed: Auto-sell button tooltip is visible outside vendor interface.
  
• Fixed: Several spelling mistakes.
  
• Fixed: "Safe and Sound" achievement is unobtainable.

Here it is, the last Sector Six content update!

Altered parts:

Level 90+ or altered parts are here!
Altered parts get additional property and their properties scale based on alteration level.
For example, level 90 altered part with alteration level 10 will have properties like level 100 part.
Altered parts start to drop after completing the story.

Final Ascension:

Highest level altered parts require Ascension level, which can be increased by spending XP after reaching level 90.
Also, Ascension level increases the amount of Ascension Reactor's amplifier slots.
Ascension Reactor is added upon reaching Ascension level 1.

Altered instances:

Make Broken Infinity instances as difficult as Absolute Deterioration for an increased chance to get altered parts!

The Signal:

Get all achievements, install an altered part, clear altered instance, and increase Ascension level to unlock an introduction to Sector Six's sequel, Sector Zero.

Item sorting:

The most wanted Sector Six feature is here!
You can now sort items by grade, properties, type and other options - similar to how "Dismantle all"/"Uninstall all"/"Sell all" functions work!

Automatic selling:

Connect to a vendor to set up automatic selling!
While it's enabled, dropped parts of the selected grade range will be turned into units.

Help interface rework:

• Multiple quality of life, graphical, and control improvements.
  
• Help interface button now glows until it's clicked.
  
• Updated some data interface entries and added new entries.

• Failing a mission is now a lot faster.
  
• Rapid Fire Mode now speeds up all attack abilities.
  
• Evolution mechanic improved: Minions now evolve into bigger minions faster.
  
• Added level 90 weapon skins.
  
• Achievement spoiler: Symbol of Life and Cache achievements can now be achieved in Broken Infinity.
  
• Changed XP sound.
  
• Made several improvements to language selection systems.
  
• Changed item tooltip system: Tooltips will no longer go outside the screen.
  
• Ability interface now shows ether cost clarification if Flow Stagnation modifier is enabled.
  
• Dismantle all button moved to vendor interface to make space for sort button.
  
• New parts are now highlighted and can be interacted with through management: Uninstalled, dismantled, sold, filtered, and sorted.
  
• Added flipped versions of a station, deflector, inhibitor, and antenna skins.
  
• Item experience boost is now capped at 200%. NA-1, Naonic Archive increases the cap to 300%.
  
• Power Shield ability now attempts to cause white wave when activated.
  
• Level parts 89 are no longer generated in level 90 missions and vendors.
  
• Weapons are now slightly more common.
  
• Weapons are even more common in regions 1-4 to help the new players get enough weapon damage.
  
• Frailsphere, Pearl of Deterioration no longer halves maximum armor.
  
• Legionvault, Fractal Arsenal now also increases double drop chance.
  
• It's no longer possible to create level 90+ instance.
  
• Improved part tooltips.
  
• Increasing difficulty now gives +5% loot quality and +1% double drop chance per difficulty level instead of 10% and 2%.
  
• Lodeon's Ultimatum set effect now scales with the number of parts installed: Armor to damage conversion reaches 100% with 80 parts installed.
  
• Relics can now be sold for units!
  
• For technical reasons it's no longer possible to use anodes on Upgrade Sockets, Amplifier Well relic.

• Fixed: Instance loot quality does not work.
  
• Fixed: Elimination mission objective reminder mentions escorting the carrier.
  
• Fixed: Vendor items in Broken Infinity are affected by instance loot quality.
  
• Fixed: Scrambler Belt Escalation achievement description spelling mistake.
  
• Fixed: Locked parts cannot be uninstalled via uninstall button.
  
• Fixed: Crippled Vault relic is preventing level ups from increasing the part limit.
  
• Fixed: Area tooltip + The Decision modifier problem.
  
• Fixed: Level 75 level up screen does not show that part and weapon limit has increased.
  
• Fixed: Story spoiler: Infinity is called Broken Infinity before it's broken during mission 13.
  
• Fixed: Mission 12 cannot be completed.
  
• Fixed: Minor alloy container issues.
  
• Fixed: Mistake in Fear Bringer Ourend's minion spawning code makes enemies jump forward after been spawned causing all sorts of problems.
  
• Fixed: Sections are generated with weapon skins.
  
• Fixed: Non-rotating skins + rotated parts + skin applying problem.
  
• Fixed: Re-stock button tooltip is visible outside vendor interface.
  
• Fixed: Controller cursor doesn't stick to the spaceship building grid in vendor interface.
  
• Fixed: Wrong level 80 node skin.
  
• Fixed: Map arrow button controlled hint.
  
• Fixed: Restoration War may select already secured region to be contested.
  
• Fixed: Minor resurrection mission glitch.
  
• Fixed: Sell all result notification shows the wrong unit amount.
  
• Fixed: Minor selling particle effect glitch.
  
• Fixed: Guillotine + seeking projectiles problem.
  
• Fixed: Pearl of Deterioration effect triggers Sacrifice achievement.
  
• Fixed: Contribution and vendor statuses are not updated when new missions or instances are generated.

It's time for me to end Sector Six content development.

For the last several months I've been switching between working on Sector Six and Light of the Locked World.
I love both of the games, but I want to dedicate all of my time to LOTLW, and I can't do much to Sector Six to make it better.

What I can do, I'll try to do with the final update.

This is what it will contain:

Item sorting:

The most wanted Sector Six feature!
It will make it possible to sort items by grade, type, properties, etc. - every option that works with the current filtering system will work with item sorting.

Final Ascension:

Final Ascension will be an endgame activity that gives maxed players something to work on. Experience received after reaching level 90 will be used to increase the Ascension level.
Increasing Ascension level will reward players with random skins from new skin set.
Ascension level will also be a requirement to install altered parts.

Altered parts:

Altered parts will let me add meaningful, scaling item rewards and level 90+ parts without having to increase the level cap.

After the update, all parts will receive a chance to become altered as they are generated.

This is how it will work:

1. Part is generated.
2. The code is run to check if the part should be altered or not.
3. If it is, it gains 1 alteration level.
4. The code is run to check if the part should be altered further.
5. If it is, the alteration level increases by 1.

Step 4 and 5 are repeated until one of the checks fail.

It means that high alteration level parts will be much rarer than lower alteration level parts.

Alteration level will improve part's properties.

For example, currently, the code sets part's maximum armor property like this:

Increases maximum armor by (part level * 250).

After the update it will work like this:

Increases maximum armor by ((part level + alteration level) * 250).

Altered parts will also receive additional property.

High-level altered parts will require Ascension level to be installed.
E.g.: Level 90, alteration level 9 part will require Ascension level 9 to be installed.

Altered instances:

You will be able to spend alloy to make Broken Infinity instances as hard as Absolute Deterioration. Altered instances will have an increased chance to get altered parts.

The Signal:

Reach level 90 and get all achievements to unlock the introduction to Sector Six's sequel, Sector Zero.

Many fixes and changes:

Like with every update, the game will receive a lot of improvements - including increased mission failing time, new part highlighting, evolution mechanic improvements, and old glitch fixes.
I intend to end Sector Six development with 0 known glitches remaining.

In conclusion, this will be a big update!

To clarify, this is the end of new content and reworks development only - support updates to fix glitches will continue.

Hope all looks good, until next time!

Build a monster spaceship and become #1!

If you can beat current best at wave 20 that is.
It's pretty insane considering the scaling of the deterioration.

Hopefully, this will encourage to upgrade spaceships to ludicrous power levels =]

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Quick update on Sector Six development - or lack of it:

At the moment I'm working on another game, but I'm planning to get back to working on Sector Six... soon?

The next update should add real item sorting and another batch of glitch fixes/improvements.

Later this year I might be making something I call Final Ascension - an endgame activity for players who have reached max level. Something something level 90+ parts!

I hope everyone is enjoying the game and until next time!

This update adds much-needed challenge for players with really high power level spaceships, improved vendors, many quality of life changes based on player feedback, and important fixes.

New endgame activity: Absolute Deterioration

This is the end of your invincibility. All of the worst instances collapsed to form absolute deterioration.
In this vortex of nightmare incarnations, your enemies will become more and more powerful, until your strongest weapons and best tactics are worthless. Until you have no choice but to flee or be destroyed.
If you're lucky, you will escape with treasures born in twisted realities of deterioration.

Absolute Deterioration is a mission in which you will have to fight waves of enemies.
Enemies will enter your range as fast you destroy them, and with each wave, their power will increase.
Fight as long as you can, then extract - the more waves you will defeat, the more decayed fragments you will get.
Decayed fragments fuse into absolute deterioration relics:

New relic: Stolen, Hidden, Forgotten, Lost

This relic increases relic limit by 2.

Flame Tower, Redirection Hub

With this relic installed, projectiles your ship will deflect transform into seeking missiles that deal 100% weapon damage to enemies.

New relic: Physical Linking System

This relic gives +1% weapon damage per three projectiles, meaning that you will deal more damage the more projectiles there are.

New relic: Radiance And Blight, Aberrant Alliance

This truly unique relic will allow you to have both Oesa's Radiance and Kithalia's Blight set effects active at the same time.

New relic: Frailsphere, Pearl of Deterioration

Frailsphere will restore your armor 50% when it drops 0 once per a mission.

New relic: Horrorcradle, Darkspindle

Horrorcradle will become more powerful based on the highest number of waves survived in absolute deterioration.

Vendor rework:

A recent breakthrough in quantum logistics have allowed improving long-distance part distribution systems: You no longer need to enter secured regions!
This leap in technology has also led to the fusion of spaceship building and vendor interfaces: All building functions are now available during trading.

• Improved vendor interface and accessibility.
  
• Connecting/disconnecting to/from the vendor now is much faster.
  
• Now it's possible to uninstall/install/compare/dismantle parts and containers while connected to the vendor.
  
• Sell all/dismantle all/uninstall all/disconnect buttons now give proper confirmations.
  
• Vendors are now limited to one connection per mission completed.

• You can now lock/unlock items by moving the cursor over them and pressing L or - for controller users - Start.
  
• Locked items cannot be sold and dismantled.

• Moving cursor over filtered item now will make it visible.
  
• You can now filter/highlight/dismantle/uninstall/sell set components and parts with certain properties.
  
• Improved item selection in item management.
  
• Surge Accelerator, Exothermic Focus relic effect now works with Power Shield, Channel, and Creation of Energy abilities.
  
• Resurrection mission revenant phase now takes 10 seconds instead of 60.
  
• Black Rain shards now deal 25% weapon damage instead of 100% at max level.
  
• You no longer need advanced access to view sets, manage inventory, toggle map key, and jump to a region.
  
• Overload ability cooldown has been increased to 75 seconds to make it less exploitable.
  
• Gatherers and scions now stop shifting after firing 5 projectiles, instead of 10.
  
• Abilities 1, 2, and 3 can now be activated with the mouse: Ability 1 - left button, Ability 2 - right button, Ability 3 - middle button.
  
• Ancient container now gives 100 alloy when you pass dust cloud, making it more useful for certain mission types.

• Fixed: "Sell all" button sells crafting items.
  
• Fixed: Mass Detonate achievement description is wrong.
  
• Fixed: Level 13 region non-story mission crash.
  
• Fixed: Nemezium Plating sprite.
  
• Fixed: Relic limit boost exploit.
  
• Fixed: Retrieval mission + The Rain of Fire problem.
  
• Fixed: Siege cannon ammo is not picked up when behind player's ship.
  
• Fixed: "Unbreakable" achievement doesn't work with apex and the Machines.
  
• Fixed: You can use alloy container during dialogues and cutscenes.
  
• Fixed: Average difficulty in Broken Infinity is not saved.
  
• Fixed: Cathode stacks disappear when using cathodes in vendor interface.
  
• Fixed: Black Rain shards hit the player with full weapon damage during shield duration end animation.
  
• Fixed: Mission II sequence break glitch.
  
• Fixed: Malasmar's damage zones deal no damage.
  
• Fixed: Risk For Reward + loot box graphical glitch.
  
• Fixed: Several grammar and spelling errors.
  
• Fixed: Crash occurs in Broken Infinity after failing a mission.
  
• Fixed: You can get negative loot quality during time attack missions.

• It's now possible to choose Chinese and German languages - the game isn't fully translated to these languages, this is just for testing purposes.
  
• Make some changes to the code for localization features, such as different fonts for different languages.
  
• Now you can use the controller to select the language in language select screen.

2018 was a difficult year for me, but it was another year of growth, especially the second half of it.

I got flu two times, went to hackathon which was an unpleasant experience, I worked more than ever this year and had a hard time after Sector Six was released - glitches, stress, constant inner conflicts.

But this was also the year when I got close to my goal of living from making games - thanks to Sector Six's success in December.
I also did some of my best work during this year - I think I'm most proud of relics, the Machines, mission 11, and Broken Infinity.

I'm better now - more experienced, more confident - than I was before 2018 and I'm happy about that.

My plans for 2019:

In early 2019, possibly January, I'll release Sector Six update, that will add things that it currently really misses - better vendors, better highlighting, and brutally difficult challenge for top players to push themselves.
After that update, I might be doing a balance update to trim the absurd power levels, if that proves to be necessary.
I'll also try to repeat December's success and if I'll succeed - maybe I'll make another big update. If not - I'll just a make a few small updates, mostly support ones to fix glitches and implement small quality of life improvements.

2019 is meant to be a year for Light of the Locked World, my ambitious RPG project.

Once Sector Six's update is out of the way, I'll be working on Light - that's how I ended up calling it for short. The promised alpha demo will probably not come out in January.

After I'll release Light's alpha demo, I'll keep making updates to, just like I did during Sector Six alpha/beta.

So, to summarize, in 2019 I'll release the alpha demo for Light of the Locked World, then I'll update it, at the same time working on small updates for Sector Six.

I hope this year will be great.

Until next time!

Today Sector Six got its 100th review!

Thank you all for complaints, suggestions, compliments - it's very helpful and inspiring.

I'll keep developing the game as much as I can =]

Currently working on reward relics for the new endgame activity, later going to finish up the activity itself and start working small feedback-based improvements. After that the update will ready for release I guess.

So until then!

Recent discounts have increased player count by a lot of and I've got a lot of feedback.
Because all of that, I decided to do one more big update - with so many sales and positive reviews, I think Sector Six earned it =]

The development of this update has begun with proper sell all/dismantle all/uninstall all button confirmations.
This should prevent accidental selling/dismantling of valuable items, and is possibly faster than previous system - no need to wait for "Cancel" time to run out.



The next thing I did was a vendor rework.

Clicking on a secured region instantly opens vendor interface, and the interface was merged with spaceship building interface - now it's possible to dismantle/install/uninstall/compare parts and alloy containers while trading.



The other change is that now it's not possible to visit the same vendor again until you complete a mission.
This was done because it would very easy to connect and disconnect to vendors to generate new stock for free - and the game needs that unit sink.
Also, it makes having multiple secured regions with the same vendor type useful.



Overall, I think it's a large improvement to the whole trading experience, and I can't wait to release it.

Now I will be working on a new endgame activity - Absolute Deterioration.

The feedback I got about this, suggests that players who make it to max level are so powerful, that no current content is challenging to them.

Absolute Deterioration will change that.

This endgame activity will have players to do an endless mission, in which enemies keep getting stronger.
The current plan is to make enemies spawn every time there's no more of them left.

E.g.: You destroy heavy and veteran spawn in its place immediately - there are no pauses, combat is constant.

After you destroy a certain amount of enemy groups, a new wave begins and enemy power increases.

E.g.:

• Wave 1 - Enemy armor and damage is multiplied by 2
  
• Wave 2 - Enemy armor and damage is multiplied by 3
  
• Wave 3 - Enemy armor and damage is multiplied by 4.5
  
• Wave 4 - Enemy armor and damage is multiplied by 6.7
  
• Wave 5 - Enemy armor and damage is multiplied by 10.1
  
• ...

• Waves survived: 1 - 2% relic chance
  
• Waves survived: 2 - 3% relic chance
  
• Waves survived: 3 - 5% relic chance
  
• Waves survived: 4 - 7% relic chance
  
• Waves survived: 5 - 11% relic chance
  
• Waves survived: 6 - 17% relic chance
  
• Waves survived: 7 - 25% relic chance
  
• ...

• Add language select button controller support.
  
• Make Flurry and Unload abilities benefit from Rapid Fire Mode ability.
  
• Extend highlight options.
  
• Add an option to "favorite" parts, making them impossible to sell.
  
• Reduce the time it takes to fail the mission.
  
• Reduce the time it takes to resurrect during resurrection missions.
  
• Speed up evolving.
  
• Make highlighting easier to use.
  
• Allow inverting LS with DPAD.
  
• Allow mouse binding for ability slots 1 and 2.

The biggest update since the release!
It makes all weapons useful, adds new relics and enemies for more variety, improves time attack missions, and more!

New enemy: Planar

Planar is an alternative version of sentinel.
It's a medium - threat level 2 - enemy.
Currently, it's the only enemy that releases projectiles from the left of the player ship.
Like a sentinel, planar uses a shield but activates it earlier.
Planars can be encountered in regions 20, 23, 27, 29, Broken Infinity, and arena missions.

New enemy: Launcher

Launcher attacks player by launching missiles, that fall on the player from the top of the screen.
The launcher is another medium, threat level 2 enemy, it also uses a shield.
I want to increase the number of shielded enemies to keep shield removal abilities relevant - weapon rework adds two attacks that ignore shields.
It's why I changed Breach ability as well.
Launchers can be encountered in regions 10, 12, 14, 17, 20, 22, 25, 28, Broken Infinity, and arena missions.

New enemy: Wasp

Wasp is a threat level 0 enemy, comparable to swarmling.
Unlike swarmlings, wasps have high damage for a threat level 0 enemy.
Wasp's only attack ability is telegraphed, giving you more than enough time to move out of the way of attack.
Wasps can be encountered in regions 7, 9, 12, 16, 22, 24, 28, and Broken Infinity.

New relics:

Weapon rework removes ether efficiency and cooling rate, making it impossible to change ability ether costs and cooldowns by installing nodes and pylons.
Instead, I have added new relics that have those effects.
I have also added two relics that are not related to weapon rework, but also expand the possibilities.
As usual, new relics come with unique animations.

Suun's Loom, Atomic Library:

This relic halves ability ether costs and maximum armor, which is a small price to pay for cheaper abilities.

Zero Spire, Coolant Injector:

This relic halves ability cooldowns and doubles ability ether costs.
It's supposed to synergize with Suun's Loom, Atomic Library.
Zero Spire, Coolant Injector is a less extreme version of Tempoquake, Cryostasis.

Tempoquake, Cryostasis:

Tempoquake, Cryostasis reduces ability cooldowns and weapon damage by 90%.
This game-changing relic makes some of the faster damage abilities as fast as attack abilities.
Combined with Zero Spire, Coolant Injector, it can reduce ability cooldowns by insane 95%.
Still, its downside is massive and might require ridiculous amounts of weapon damage or ether generation to be useable.

House of Hate, Isotope Equalizer:

House of Hate, Isotope Equalizer might be the most powerful relic of the six added with this update.
It doubles weapon damage, ability ether costs, and ability cooldowns.
Because ability ether cost and cooldown modifiers do not affect attack, shield, and shield removal abilities, House of Hate gives you more than it takes away.

Crippled Vault, Broken Reality:

This incredible relic increases the part limit by 10 and reduces core attributes - maximum armor, maximum ether, and weapon damage - by 25%.
It also doesn't increase the weapon limit.

Surge Accelerator, Exothermic Focus:

It's a simple, but useful relic - it generates ether amount equal to 5% of maximum ether when an enemy is destroyed.

Weapon rework:

• Attack abilities now release projectiles from all weapons.
  
• Projectiles released are based on weapons and attacks that released them.
  
• All weapons now have base weapon damage.
  
• Weapons now have more skins - they are unlocked every 10 levels until level 80.
  
• You can no longer use weapon damage amplifiers on sections and engines.
  
• Removed cooling rate and ether efficiency properties.
  
• Missile Strike ability has been renamed to Strike.
  
• Concentrated Fire ability has been renamed to Flurry.
  
• Spread Mines ability has been renamed to Unload.

• Time attack missions now support all modular difficulty system modifiers except The Decision and Hivind's Army.
  
• Different regions now spawn different minions for time attack missions.
  
• Instead of scaling reward, now you get +150% loot quality in the beginning of the mission, that decreases by 1% every second.
  
• Time attack missions now give standard rewards.

• Mythical parts now cost about 2 times more than fractal parts.
  
• Etalons now cost about 3 times more than fractal parts.
  
• Reduced amount of alloy received from dismantling mythical parts and etalons.
  
• Compressed parts no longer have higher prices than normal parts.
  
• Oesa's Radiance set effect nerfed: Now ether amount required to get a damage boost starts at 10 and increases by 10% every level.
  
• Etherion's Clash set effect nerfed: It only increases weapon damage by 120%, because installing different weapons no longer has a downside.
  
• You can now extract engine skins with cathodes.
  
• Changed how skins work: Engine skins can only be applied to engines, weapon skins - to weapons, and section skins - to sections.
  
• You can no longer use skins on installed parts.
  
• Added etalon engine.
  
• Slightly increased spaceship speed and acceleration.
  
• You can now check experience in spaceship building interface by going to spaceship stat page 5.
  
• Trism of Glory now increases weapon damage instead of cooling rate.
  
• Changed base ether cost of Piercing Laser ability to 5 and base cooldown to 45.
  
• Dropped parts are now picked up automatically if they are behind player's ship.

• Fixed: Game does not appear on the taskbar.
  
• Fixed: Mission 12 "Start mission" button in new game+ takes the player to a non-existent region.
  
• Fixed: Apex's lasers do not disappear when the apex is destroyed.
  
• Fixed: Black Rain ability effect remains active during story cutscenes.
  
• Fixed: Story spoiler: Broken Infinity level during mission 14 is wrong in the new game+.
  
• Fixed: Story spoiler: Mission 12 regions remain to be destroyed after the story is completed.
  
• Fixed: Achievement spoiler: Life rune spawns in Etender, Labyrinth, instead of Bloom.
  
• Fixed: Pyramids never appear in Broken Infinity.
  
• Fixed: Relic animation graphical glitch in start interface.
  
• Fixed: Relic level can go above level cap.
  
• Fixed: Volume bars doesn't work with a controller.
  
• Potentially fixed: Linux + language select problem.

I have started working on a new game!

It's called Light of the Locked World.

It's a fantasy RPG with local co-op and PvP, set in a world of Caios II.

Three hundred years from the game's present, magical artifacts were sunken in the world's only sea.
Magic leaking from artifacts and pressure of the depth created perfect conditions for abyst crystals to grow.

Abysts amplify magic and are very valuable.

After abysts were discovered, miners and all kinds of opportunists have rushed to Caios II.

Abysts have a dangerous property - if there is a large quantity of them in one place, they cause anomaly called the Glow - abysts start glowing and all sentient beings close to them permanently lose sanity.

This and the fact that abysts can be used to create very powerful weapons forced the Council of Lords to send contraptions known as worldlocks to Caios II.
Worldlocks disrupt teleportation spells, making it impossible to enter or leave Caios II, keeping the abysts isolated from the rest of the worlds.

Three hundred years from all that player characters arrive at Caios II.

It's a wild, vivid world, full of dangers, ravaged by wars, and tainted by occurrences of the Glow.

The game will not have a main story quest chain, instead, it will have several independent chains. Complete all quests to win the game.
You won't have to read much - there won't be many dialogues.

The meat of the game will be exploration and combat.

Combat will be real-time and position based: The way you attack will be based on what tile you will stand on.
There will be three types of tiles: The ones next to solid objects will be called "Limited", the ones next to enemies - "Melee", and the ones that are neither - "Open".
You will be expected to move between different tiles and use abilities to deal with constantly changing situations, all while dodging enemy attacks.

Weapons will determine which abilities you will have.
You'll get weapons and other equipment by completing quests, from enemy drops, trading, crafting, and exploring.
You will be able to fully equip your character and equipment will change your appearance.

There will be several cities in the game - in them you will get most quests, craft, buy, and sell items, but the rest of the game will take place outside cities, in uncivilized, poorly mapped lands.
In them, you will find enemy encounters, loot, secrets, and many other things.

Your character will start with nothing, it will be bad at everything, but it will learn and become strong.

Doing activities will make you better at them, and will increase the level of roles.

For example, fighting with magic will increase the level of Mage role, and crafting items will increase the level of Materialist role.
The current plan is to have 9 roles: Warrior, Archer, Mage, Survivor, Materialist, Gatherer, Alchemist, Explorer, and Merchant.

You will be able to invite a friend to play with you, against you, or anything in between.

No content will be exclusive to co-op, it will be possible to fully complete the game playing solo.

I want to complete this game in a year, but it might require more time, as it is quite ambitious.

So that's pretty much it.

Keep in mind that this is my current vision of the game - things will probably change.

More things will become clear when an alpha demo will be available, which should happen in early 2019.

As for Sector Six, I won't abandon it, but as I will be focusing on Light of the Locked World, the updates will become less frequent and smaller.
Still, I'll keep fixing glitches and adding new content. The next Sector Six update is planned for early December.

Anyway, I'll be tweeting about Light of the Locked World regularly on Twitter, and posting entries to its development blog on my website.
That's primary places to keep in touch with the game's development.

You can also join my Discord server.
Invite link >>

I hope all of this sound good, until next time!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1573213477

Hey all,

Because of large reworks and old save file deletions, I said I would add Sector Six 0.9.5 legacy version.

Now that the whole save system mess seems to be over - haven't heard about corruptions or anything like that since last save system fix, it would be the time to make a legacy version available.

Question is, does anyone want it?

If you want it, please tell me so.

As a reminder, Sector 0.9.5 is a version with an incomplete story, no relics, no endgame content, old save system - you would be able to play with ships you built during Early Access if you kept the save files, and old XP/weapon/ability/class/part systems.

PS.: Still working on weapon rework, not much left now. Today I'll add last of the planned new relics and start working on time attack mission changes + new enemies.

I've been working on another weapon rework for a while now.

The first weapon rework made pylons and nodes reduce ability cooldowns and ether costs.
It was a good idea on paper, but because pylons and nodes don't affect attack abilities, relays were much more useful than pylons and nodes.

So I have decided to have another rework to make pylons and nodes useful.
Another goal is to increase attack variety.

Second weapon rework makes all weapons increase weapon damage, and work differently with different abilities.

For example, Missile Strike will release missiles from relays, shards from pylons, and AoE waves from nodes.

Same is with other attack abilities, so in total there will be 9 different attacks, 3 for each weapon type per attack ability.

As I'm writing this echo, I have already made 8 attacks, only one to go!

So that's part 1 of the second weapon rework.

Part 2 is to re-implement ability cost modifying effects to the game.

Right now the plan is to add relics with these effects:

===

House of Hate, Isotope Equalizer:

Triples weapon damage
Doubles ability ether costs
Doubles ability cooldowns

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Atomic Library And Muon Loom:

Reduces ability ether costs by 90%
Reduces weapon damage by 90%

===

Tempoquake, Cryoflash:

Reduces ability cooldowns by 90%
Reduces weapon damage by 90%

===

Zero Spire, Coolant Injector:

Doubles ability ether costs
Halves ability cooldowns

===

The Pendulum:

Halves ether generation
Reduces ability ether costs by 25%

===

Part 3 is giving abilities weapon synergies.

For example, installing relays will increase the chance of Shards of Chaos ability releasing 10 shards instead of 5.
Most of the abilities should have some sort of weapon synergy effects.

It's a lot of work to come up and implement these effects, so I will be adding them gradually.

Attack ability changes and new relics should come out with the next update.
The next update should be released this month.

Aside from weapon rework, the update will include new enemies and time attack mission rework.

Hope this sounds good.

Until next time!

PS.: You can now help translate Sector Six to your language >> https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1563321679 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1558959075

Now you can help to translate Sector Six to your language!

Get started: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1555466753 If you have any questions, need more help, or anything, go to this discussion:

Link >>

In other news:

I'm working on weapon rework!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1558959075

Changes:

• Mission page is now saved.
  
• Changed initial player name to "Aos".
  
• Removed "Gain XP" toggle, because it's not needed anymore.

• Fixed: Amplifier Well, Upgrade Sockets relic crash the game.
  
• Fixed: Damage from colliding with minions is not calculated properly.
  
• Fixed: Pyramids have wrong names and threat levels in arena missions.
  
• Fixed: The Core changes after you fail the mission.
  
• Fixed: Vendor hint bug.
  
• Fixed: Potential issue with True Champion achievement.

The new relic - Amplifier Well, Upgrade Sockets - crash the game. Not instantly, but after you save and press "Start" on the main menu - so avoid installing this relic.

If you already have Amplifier Well installed and saved in your save file, you have two options:

1)
Wait for the update.

2)
Erase save files with Amplifier Well, Upgrade Sockets.
To do that, run Sector Six, then go to C:\Users\\AppData\Local\SectorSix, find the folder that contains your save files, and delete them, then close the game and start it again.


It should look something like this

Note: If you want to keep backup copies of your save files, don't keep them in SectorSix folder.

I'm very sorry!

Changes:

• Changed reliquary item drops: Triodes are now as rare as diodes, no relic fragments.
  
• Shortened relic fragment description.

• Fixed: Version 1.0.2 save files cause a crash.
  
• Fixed: Anodes generate a different level part.
  
• Fixed: Minor number formatting bug.

While fixing version 1.0.3 save system problems, I have made a mistake and save files created in version 1.0.2 crash the game.

You have two options:

1)
Wait for the update.

2)
Erase version 1.0.2 save files.
To do that, run Sector Six, then go to C:\Users\\AppData\Local\SectorSix, find the folder that contains your save files, and delete them, then close the game and start it again.


It should look something like this

Note: If you want to keep backup copies of your save files, don't keep them in SectorSix folder.

To find out if you have version 1.0.2 files, simply run the game, press "Start", and if doesn't crash, you can play.

Save system status:

This update should fix the last problem with the save system, hopefully, save files will no longer get corrupted.
If you're still having problems - report them immediately.
I also recommend backing up save files just in case - don't forget that Sector Six save file folders get synced and backups get erased in they are stored there.

New content:

• Added new minion: Pyramid.
  
• Added new relic: Incarnation of Impossibility, Trapped Phasar.
  
• Added new relic: Amplifier Well, Upgrade Sockets.
  
• Added new relic: Duality of Transience, Etherion's Catalyst.
  
• Added new relic: Mark of Defender, Hero's Exempt.
  
• Added new relic: Strengthsource, Tridenkorian Flagship Systems.

• Removed region XP bonus.
  
• Enemies now give 200% more XP.
  
• Boss enemies now give less XP, but with global 200% increase it should still be right.
  
• Reduced region XP rewards back to 50%/100%/200%.
  
• Players will no longer gain XP after failing mission.
  
• Players will no longer gain XP in lower level regions.

• Reduced mythical part and etalon prices.
  
• Removed generic and optimized part vendors.
  
• Removed some of the advanced part vendors.
  
• Replaced removed vendors with fractal part vendors in regions 2, 6, 9, 15, 17, 20 and 29.
  
• Replaced removed vendors with part vendors in regions 2, 8, 15, 18, 20 and 25.

• Reworked Guardian of a Thousand Worlds ability.
  
• Reworked Breach ability: Now deals weapon damage whenever enemy shield is removed.
  
• Searing Beam now unlocks at spaceship level 18.
  
• Entropic Missile now unlocks at spaceship level 4.
  
• Spread Mines and Detonate now unlocks at spaceship level 12.
  
• Attract Mines now unlocks at spaceship level 13.
  
• Creation of Energy now unlocks at spaceship level 22.
  
• Concentrated Fire now unlocks at spaceship level 6.
  
• Phase Recognition System now unlocks at spaceship level 11.
  
• Entropic Fracture ability has been renamed to Dimensional Fracture.
  
• Unstable Shield ability has been renamed to Heat Shield.
  
• Entropic Missile cooldown has been increased to 10 seconds.
  
• Entropic Missile ability has been renamed to Nuke.
  
• Capacity ability has been renamed to System Capacity.
  
• Resistance ability has been renamed to Defense And Retaliation.
  
• Moved Rapid Fire Mode animation.
  
• Made minor improvements to Assemble Obelisk ability.
  
• Player bladed mines now pierce destructible minion segments.

• "Phase threshold" changed to "Phase charge speed".
  
• "Phase intensity" changed to "Phase damage".

• Optimized parts now have two properties, but can no longer be upgraded with amplifiers.
  
• Dropped parts can no longer have cooling rate and ether efficiency.
  
• Changed part upgrade chance: Creates pop-up, upgraded instantly.
  
• Instead of "Warning: Difficult mission" game now shows recommended spaceship armor and damage for that mission.
  
• Waves now affect all minions on screen - minions outside the screen are not affected.
  
• Changed what minions spawn in regions to reduce repetition.
  
• Effect timers no longer stop while spaceship is in a dust cloud.
  
• Improved Asylomandrenlysk's animation.
  
• Improved mission 1 artifact carrier collisions with the player.
  
• Reduced the number of missions required to fully clear regions. Note: Changes will be visible in new saves only.
  
• "Press any key" now applies to the mouse in a first game screen.
  
• Base phase damage has been increased from 0% to 100%

• Fixed: Physical part boost calculation mistake - works with virtual parts as well.
  
• Fixed: Damaging wave damage calculation mistake.
  
• Fixed: It's possible to break story mission 1.
  
• Fixed: Mission 3 database collision bug.
  
• Fixed: Bulwark pulls problem.
  
• Fixed: Oesa's Radiance set effect is not changing maximum armor correctly.
  
• Fixed: Overload ability cannot reduce spaceship's armor to 0.
  
• Fixed: Phase delay timer graphical issue.
  
• Fixed: Cathode region reward.
  
• Fixed: Players can receive level 91+ items.
  
• Fixed: Vendor hint is visible after the player gets advanced access, not before.

For a while now Sector Six had a bad gameplay loop.
This is how I think it works:

1)
Level 1 player plays at level 1 region and reaches level 2.

2)
Player sees "Warning: Difficult mission" on level 2 region missions because often player's spaceship has level 1 items.

3)
Player decides to stay at level 1 region to get better items and to clear the region.
Because it's a lower level region, the player gets XP slowly.

5)
After completing numerous missions in level 1, the player reaches level 3 and moves to level 2 region.

6)
But level 2 is now a lower level region, and the player continues getting XP the slower way.
Region 3 missions still have that "Warning: Difficult mission message", because the player was playing in level 1 region and can only have level 2 parts.

7)
At this point players only have two choices: Play in level 3 region that is difficult and slow because enemies are strong or play in level 2 region which is easy, but leveling up takes a very long time because enemies don't give much XP. The only way to get out of bad gameplay loop is to play those difficult level 3 missions, until the ship is good enough for them and move to level 4 region as soon level 4 is reached. The other choice can make the player always stay in lower level regions, always out of range of good experience.

Probably there are more reasons to why that happens, such as mistakes in spaceship building, the high rarity of weapon damage parts, players just wanting to clear the regions, etc.

In the end, it all combines into a hellish mixture of mechanics that makes game slow and boring.

I intended for players to always stay in their level regions - that's where the game is most fun.

Changes to combat the bad gameplay loop:

1)
Change "Warning: Difficult mission" message
For example - "Recommended maximum armor for this mission: 4000 | Your ship has 3800".

2)
No longer give XP to players after they fail the mission.

3)
No longer give XP to players in lower level regions.
This would allow players to play at their own pace - it's probably the most important change.

4)
Reduce the number of mission completions needed to clear the region.
For players who like to clear regions, this makes the game slower than I intended.

5)
Remove pylons and nodes from drops until they are reworked to be useful again.
Pylons and nodes would still be obtainable from vendors.

6)
Make generic parts better.
I think this would make the game more fun overall.

7)
Remove region level XP bonus and instead double the amount of XP minions give.

Right now I'm implementing these changes and also trying to fix the save file corruption problem.

Patch is coming soon.

Important: Backup your save files before loading – the save system have been changed, there could be errors.

Changes and fixes:

• Fixed: Game still mentions decompression modules.
  
• Fixed: It's not possible to receive instance clearing rewards.
  
• Fixed: Minor save issue.
  
• Fixed: Restoration War: Starts at Deep Path even if it's secured.
  
• Fixed: Restoration War: It's not possible to secure regions destroyed during mission 12.
  
• Fixed: The Machines have less than 9 armor extensions in the endgame.
  
• Fixed: Mission 12 and Restoration War dialogue glitches.
  
• Fixed: The Machines are repeating their mission 14 dialogues.
  
• Fixed: Item highlight hides spaceship during the mission.
  
• Fixed: Shield abilities are not sharing cooldowns properly.
  
• Fixed: Siege cannon collisions with the player
  
• Fixed: Mission 1 carrier collisions with the player.
  
• Fixed: Siege mission controller problem.
  
• Fixed: Save files only work on the device that created it.
  
• Fixed: Map legend clashes with instance information.
  
• Fixed: Damage animation of the Machines is off.
  
• Fixed: Concentrated Fire counter goes into negative.
  
• Fixed: Apex's lasers disappear, when they collide with an obelisk.
  
• Fixed: Wrong restock prices.
  
• Item highlighting is now off as a default.
  
• Objective hiding is now off as a default.
  
• Legionvault and Arcane Arsenal relics now generate parts on all level regions.
  
• The Core region now works the same as the other regions.
  
• Improved instance boss mission objective reminder.
  
• Made scions and other minions with similar AI easier to destroy.
  
• Sell all button in shops is now locked until the player reaches level 5.
  
• Rearranged region selection.
  
• Added shop hint.
  
• Made advanced access more difficult to enable accidentally.
  
• Reduced ether costs of Era's End, Guardian of a Thousand Worlds, Awakening of Inner Power, and Piercing Laser abilities.
  
• Reduced cooldowns of Piercing Laser, Shards of Chaos, and Rapid Fire Mode abilities.

Just fixing the recent problems:

Increased the amount of experience gained from mission experience reward.
Part upgrade chance and wave chances are now capped at 100%.
Fixed: Minor problems with mission experience rewards.
Fixed: Compressed nodes are not properly uninstalled.
Fixed: Can start a mission in the area destroyed during mission 12.
Fixed: Can move away from the Machine during beacon attachment.
Fixed: Ether gained by destroying seeker's pylons is not rounded up.
Fixed: Map update animation is above map tooltips.

After 3 years of development, 2 years of Early Access, hundreds of changes, fixes, reworks, and additions - Sector Six is finally complete!

Watch the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f1KipPu1fgFor those who don't know what Sector Six is:

Sector Six is a shooter with many RPG elements: Inventory, procedurally generated equipment, a leveling system, rewards, story missions, and so on!
Your goal - alongside stopping the Machine invasion - is to build the best spaceship ever.

Unlike arcade shooters, in Sector Six won't be fighting more than 5 enemies at once, but fights are more tactical and enemies can take more than one shot.
Most enemies have unique attacks or weak spots, which means that the more you play, the more skilled you'll become at fighting those enemies.

You will also get better at using your spaceship's abilities - there are 31 active combat abilities and 9 of them can be taken to battle.

The final and most important layer of your progression is spaceship building.

Destroying enemies will reward you with procedurally generated parts.
There are 7 rarity grades of parts, starting with generic parts, that are most common and only have one property and ending with relics, that are rare, have 7 properties, unique skins and effects.
There are also part sets, that unleash game-changing effects if you install 6 parts of the same set.

You can install up to 80 parts, up to 9 relics, and have one set effect active - and if you'll find a right way to combine them, your spaceship will become unstoppable!

The better you and your spaceship get, the more difficult missions you can complete and modular difficulty system allows you control almost every aspect of difficulty - even enemy swarm size and mission length!
Increasing difficulty increases rewards, which will allow you complete even higher difficulty missions - so you can keep pushing yourself.

But you can also play the game just for the story.
Each story mission has something that other missions don't have, they vary in length and structure, have dialogues, cutscenes, bosses, special events, and enemies.

So, that's the game!

For those who know what Sector Six is, but didn't play version 0.9.9:

Version 0.9.9 has added the remaining story missions, endgame content, new bosses, relics, and more.
Weapons, ether, abilities, and reward systems have been improved as well.
Read more about what changed with version 0.9.9 >>

For those who played version 0.9.9, here's a list of changes:

• Fixed: The apostrophe symbol is missing and a black box is displayed instead.
  
• Fixed: It's impossible to choose Ourend's black option.
  
• Fixed: Time Vortex description wording mistake.
  
• Fixed: Aggression ability mentions "Maximum damage" instead of "Weapon damage".
  
• Fixed: Shield destroys ruins even while inactive.
  
• Fixed: Channel ability doesn't have a cooldown.
  
• Fixed: Impossible to close the mission reward screen after reaching maximum level.
  
• Fixed: Black Rain deals damage based on cooling rate instead of weapon damage.
  
• Fixed: Crash caused by getting armor above maximum with armor generation.
  
• Fixed: It's possible to access missions 11 and above from Sector Five.
  
• Fixed: Upgrading and uninstalling ability uses the same controller button.
  
• Made minor changes to Channel ability sounds and particle effects.
  
• Improved Channel ability level scaling.
  
• Made minions drop more units.
  
• Improved main interface and settings page buttons.
  
• Made beacon stop repairing after a repairing a certain amount of armor.
  
• Reduced minion shield durations.
  
• Returned "Gain XP" toggle button.
  
• Added button to toggle mission objective hiding.
  
• Made elimination mission objective show remaining minions again.
  
• Improved killer's seeking missile attack.
  
• Made new achievements flash when seen.
  
• Changed Concentrated Fire to need reloading every 50 uses, instead of 25.
  
• Compressed parts no longer drop: Instead, use compression modules to get them.
  
• Replaced decompression modules with compression modules.
  
• Made beacons spawn only in level 6+ regions.
  
• Made parts give more part upgrade chance and removed "Part upgraded" message.
  

Important: Your saves will not be deleted from now on.

Version 0.9.9 highlights:

Full story

The story campaign is finished!
Will you stop the Machines?

Relics

The most powerful parts ever!
Each relic comes with unique skin and game-changing effects.

Weapon rework

Modify your ability ether costs and cooldowns by installing reworked nodes and pylons!
Includes new part properties.

Ability rework

Abilities now unlock with level and they are no longer bound to classes.
More possibilities and better progression!

Ether rework

Ether properties now scale with level!
Everything that relates to ether has improved.

Loot rework

Loot quality is now affected by minion strength and difficulty level!
Plus, tons of improvements to all sources of rewards.

Compressed part rework

Compressed parts are now obtainable from drops and region rewards!
Manual compression has been removed to make super compressed - 4 in 1! - parts possible.

Endgame: Infinity Instances

Fight in forever changing, procedurally generated instances of Broken Infinity!
Made for experienced players: Higher chance of rare mission types, harsher failure penalties, and a huge boost to loot quality!

Endgame: Restoration War

Secure every area in Sector Six to get Ultra Aegis, Ascension Catalyst!
Random regions get scaled to your level: Return to low-level regions with a high-level spaceship for the final battle against the Machine minions.

And more!

Avatar customization, Arcane Arsenal, new save system, improved side missions, evolved modification rework, 70 new achievements...

Full list of version 0.9.9 changes >>

Sector Six will come out of Early Access on September 7th and I need your help to spot problems - more than ever!
I can't guarantee that there are no crashes/balancing issues left, but most of the content should work as intended.

Have fun!

About 3 years and 8 months ago, I have started working on Sector Six. And now it's finished.

When I started working on Sector Six, I thought that I'll complete it in 3 months. It was supposed to be a small sequel to Sector Seven. I wanted to make it just because I promised I'll have a sequel to Sector Seven.

It was 2015 January or February when I have released an alpha version of Sector Six.
I didn't expect anything and I was surprised to get positive feedback.

It was enough for me to thinking about making Sector Six into a bigger game than I initially planned.

I said to myself: "People like this, and I can do much better so why not do it?"
So I started working harder.

Hundreds of times I decided to rework something because it wasn't as good as I could do, and I'm very glad I did.

Sector Six is not perfect, but it is about 10 times better than I imagined it in the beginning.
And it is like that because of feedback. Every "Great game, but X could be better" made Sector Six better.

I always wanted to be a game developer and make games like Sector Six and I'm incredibly happy and grateful that it happened.

I hope that this is not the end of Sector Six. I hope I'll be able to continue working on it and make it even better.

Sector Six was finished on 21st August. 22nd August was a bad day - I had problems with a monitor, so I had to spend an entire day fixing them.

This day I was testing Sector Six. I have already spent like 8 hours testing the game, and I have only completed half of the story.

Tomorrow I hope to finish testing and with luck, Sector Six version 0.9.9 will become available for everyone to play in the weekend.

Here's a full list of what changed since the last Sector Six update:

Completed:

• New save system.
  
• Compressed part rework: Parts received from drops, removed manual compression, added super compressed parts.
  
• Added 70 new achievements.
  
• Arcane Arsenal: Endgame activity.
  
• Infinity Instances: Endgame activity.
  
• Restoration War: Endgame activity.
  
• Added mission 14.
  
• The Machines.
  
• Loot rework: Bigger enemies now drop better parts, difficulty level makes enemies drop better parts.
  
• Ether rework: Ether properties now scale with level, ability ether costs increase with ability levels.
  
• Weapon rework: Nodes now reduce ability ether costs and pylons reduce ability cooldowns.
  
• Ability rework: Abilities now use same damage type and are unlocked as spaceship level increases.
  
• Added 12 relics.
  
• Added mission 13.
  
• Rebalanced ability points: 1 ability point per level.
  
• Added mission 12.
  
• Added mission 11.

• Mission 6 boss fights now end earlier.
  
• Improved controller support.
  
• Added new particle settings: Now you can tone down particles, instead of turning them off completely.
  
• Improved optimization: Game will now run better.
  
• Moved tips to separate interface.
  
• Added evolving minion tutorial.
  
• Reworked evolving mechanic: Now minions evolve while attack abilities are not on cooldown.
  
• It’s no longer possible to use weapon amplifiers on engines.
  
• It’s no longer possible to sell items that have no value.
  
• Now it’s possible to use anodes on compressed parts.
  
• Rearranged achievements in the achievement interface.
  
• Improved Ionize ability: Now adds extra 2 alloy per ionized enemy, glitch free.
  
• Awakening of Inner Power ability now supports all mission types.
  
• You can no longer install alloy containers if their level is higher than your spaceship level.
  
• Now locked until spaceship level is higher than 4: Difficulty system, set interface, item management, new missions button.
  
• Improved/replaced certain sound effects.
  
• Secured region changes: Removed manual compression from secured region interface, added highlight toggle button.
  
• Improved shield particles, sounds, and animations.
  
• Shields now destroy ruins.
  
• Spaceship collisions with certain objects are now better.
  
• Improved cooldown and effect timer text: Now shows second fractions.
  
• Improved number conversion.
  
• Improved damage text.
  
• Reduced amount of units dropped.
  
• Improved region rewards: Now includes uncommon and rare rewards, such as five fractal parts, +200% experience, etc.
  
• Replaced gauntlet missions with new retrieval missions.
  
• Changed music system: Now tracks in side missions play regardless of area status.
  
• Changed time vortex: Improved dialogue, can only reset story, made it more accessible.
  
• Changed contribution system: No longer saved between missions, must be claimed immediately.
  
• Improved region destruction.
  
• Expanded dialogue box.
  
• Improved cathodes.
  
• Improved loot box: Up to 170 looted items visible, glitch free.
  
• Updated boss mission.
  
• Improved arena mission: Better loop, supports The Assault of the Modified and The Rain of Fire modifiers.
  
• Improved siege mission: New blocks, minor graphical improvements.
  
• Expanded credits.
  
• Graphically improved loot.
  
• Added region select screen and map key.
  
• Improved mission overview interface.
  
• Improved mission 1.
  
• Improved mission 3.
  
• Improved text input.
  
• Reworked tutorial.
  
• Reworked introduction.
  
• Added avatar customization: Name your character and choose how it looks in dialogues.
  
• Improved spaceship building interface.
  
• Reworked Super Shield ability: Shield lasts 8 seconds and increases armor generated on kill while active.
  
• Fixed inventory leak.
  
• Adapted backgrounds to screen shaking.
  
• Improved dialogue avatars.
  
• Improved settings interface.
  
• Added button that resets settings to default.
  
• Added button that resets controls to default.
  
• Modular difficulty system changes: Flow Stagnation maximum level changed to 1, rebalanced rewards, removed diodes.
  
• Reworked Creation of Energy and Channel abilities.
  
• Improved achievement interface.
  
• Repositioned mission interface.
  
• Fixed weapon amplifying.
  
• Improved ability bar.
  
• Made better ability icons.
  
• Heavy Shield rework: Now called Power Shield, no longer slows down spaceship.
  
• Improved ability and effect icons.
  
• Improved Kithalia’s Blight set penalty
  
• Improved barrager.
  
• Toggle XP gain feature has been removed.
  
• Improved Sector transition cutscene.
  
• Improved pausing.
  
• Improved HUD.
  
• Improved ability level scaling.
  
• Improved item management and filtering.
  
• Repositioned item management buttons.
  
• Stat page improvements.
  
• Virtual and physical weapon clarification and stats.
  
• New part properties.
  
• Improved part names.
  
• Higher grade parts are now more common.
  
• Relic dismantling rewards.
  
• Parts give less damage reduction and reflect chance.
  
• Parts give fewer wave chances.
  
• Improved item generator: Now produces more random items.
  
• Item changes: Changed diode cost, changed certain item sprites, improved item use error messages, improved tooltips.
  
• Fixed story mission X glitch.
  
• Reworked phase break mechanic: Gain additional damage after taking a certain amount of damage.
  
• Channel ability’s ether cost reducing effect now lasts 3 seconds, making Channel much easier to use.
  
• Cataclysm ability has been replaced with passive anti-shield ability: Breach.
  
• Renamed Phase to Phasse, to differentiate it from phase mechanic.
  
• Improved Aggression, Resistance, and Capacity: More powerful, more interesting, and consistent with other abilities.
  
• Decreased starter part limit to 6.
  
• Decreased starter maximum ether to 50.
  
• Starter engine now gives less maximum armor.
  
• Increased starter ability points to 10.
  
• While Guardian of a Thousand Worlds ability is active, Concentrated Fire recharges instantly.
  
• Improved alloy containers: New property, increased sell and buy price, reduced city stock.
  
• Removed filled alloy containers.
  
• Corrected W. warning button tooltip.
  
• Fixed engine glitch.
  
• Improved missiles that appear when player's spaceship leaves the enemy range.
  
• Guardian is now more mobile.
  
• Potentially fixed Black Rain projectile problem.
  
• Region update flashes are now brighter.
  
• Veteran's and revenant factory’s ballistic attacks are now slower.
  
• Improved dialogue system graphics.
  
• Oesa's Radiance set effect changed, now base maximum armor is equal maximum ether.
  
• Damage bonuses now are applied to damage while Lodeon's Ultimatum set is active.
  
• Fixed and improved certain set descriptions.
  
• Fixed many glitches.

Here are my plans for the end of Early Access, pre-release beta, and post-release updates:



Release preparations

Testing, uploading new achievements, etc.

Pre-release beta

IMPORTANT: Saves will not be erased after pre-release beta.
IMPORTANT: In pre-release beta, the game is essentially complete. The beta is just in case, I expect Sector Six to be without any major flaws at this point.

During the beta, I'll ask everyone to play the game to find as many problems as possible!
There's a lot of new features and it's too much for me to test on my own.
During this period I'll also be making a new, final Sector Six trailer and updating the store page.

End of Early Access

The big release!

Post-release

During September, I'll be releasing updates to fix glitches and balance things, if needed.
After September, I'll either start working on a new game or continue developing Sector Six.
This depends on the number of sales.

If the game will sell much more copies than it sells now, on average, I'll continue working on Sector Six.
I doubt that it will happen, but it's not impossible.

If the game will not sell much more than during Early Access, I'll move on to the next game. I'll still update Sector Six annually to add the content that is currently missing.

Perfection Project updates

If the game will sell enough copies, some or most of this will be implemented:

- Full scaling support
- Maze mission
- Boss craft mission
- Boss siege mission
- Tomb capture mission
- Tomb purge mission
- Perfected time attack mission
- Perfected arena mission
- Two more bosses for boss missions.
- Improved armored colony seeker.
- Improved mission entering and leaving times.
- Massive parts.
- Intellect Encryption Template activity.
- Lost Regions activity.
- Level 30-90 content.
- Full background overhaul.
- New modes.
- New enemies and ruins.
- 100+ relics.

Minimum Project updates

Otherwise, only this will be implemented:

- Tomb capture mission
- Tomb purge mission
- Perfected time attack mission
- Perfected arena mission
- Two more bosses for boss missions.
- Improved armored colony seeker.
- Improved mission entering and leaving times.
- 30+ relics.

IMPORTANT: Everything between minimum and perfection is possible =]

Like always, I will do everything based on feedback and analysis, so these lists will probably change.

Prepare for the beta!

Sector Six endgame content batch 1 is done!

I have added three endgame activities:

Infinity Instances
Complete areas in procedurally generated regions that are in Broken Infinity to gain loot quality bonus.
Includes instance boss missions and increased chance of spawning uncommon mission types.

Restoration War
In the endgame, random regions get scaled to your level, so you can complete missions in low-level regions and secure areas you haven't secured yet.
Securing all 144 areas in Sector Six will reward you with a very powerful relic.

Arcane Arsenal
Obtain all relics in the game to get a special relic that will appear in all your saves.

If there will be a demand for more content, I'll add more endgame activities.

Now I will be working on new achievements, the new save system, a few minor things and...

Well, that is all!

The new ETA is 13 days.
I have added extra few days to ETA just in case =]

Normally I'd put task list and screenshots here, but that takes a lot of time and soon it will be possible to experience changes directly, so I won't bother this time =]

I am going to make another post about my plans for the future of Sector Six, pre-release beta, and out of Early Access release, so until then! https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1471820178 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1471820169

Sector Six story is completed!

I admit that I wanted too much from it.
14 different missions, 8 bosses, choices, all those dialogues - it was too much for me to do it flawlessly.

But the most important thing for me was to make a story campaign that is more than just...
More than just a bunch of "go there" goals so that player would know what to do.

So I think I have accomplished that and I'm happy.

Other cool things that I did:

The story is now literally bigger because I increased dialogue font size!

Loot box now shows up to 170 items!

I have updated boss missions to use all minions, instead of just scions, sentinels, and gatherers.
It also supports Manifestations of Destruction and doesn't support The Decision modifiers now, so it's, well, better.

I have added more bulwark blocks for siege missions, now there are explosive blocks that destroy blocks diagonally when hit and blocks that contain loot!

Finally, the arena missions have been improved significantly.
Now they support The Assault of the Modified and The Rain of Fire modifiers, and you no longer need to keep going back to summon new minions.

And now I'm going to work on endgame content!

The current plan is to make the procedurally generated region with objectives and rising loot quality, war to secure all areas, new mission type, and more relics!

The new estimated time of arrival for Sector Six is 24 days:

Completed:

• Mission XIV.
  
• The Machines.
  
• Loot rework: Bigger enemies now drop better parts, difficulty level makes enemies drop better parts.
  
• Ether rework: Ether properties now scale with level, ability ether costs increase with ability levels.
  
• Weapon rework: Nodes now reduce ability ether costs and pylons reduce ability cooldowns.
  
• Ability rework: Abilities now use same damage type and are unlocked as spaceship level increases.
  
• Relics.
  
• Mission XIII.
  
• Rebalanced ability points: 1 ability point per level.
  
• Mission XII.
  
• Mission XI.

• Broken Infinity endgame activity.
  
• Restoration War endgame activity.
  
• New save system.
  
• New achievements.
  
• Compressed part rework.

• Expanded dialogue box.
  
• Improved cathodes.
  
• Improved loot box: Up to 170 looted items visible, glitch free.
  
• Updated boss mission.
  
• Improved arena mission: Better loop, supports The Assault of the Modified and The Rain of Fire modifiers.
  
• Improved siege mission: New blocks, minor graphical improvements.
  
• Expanded credits.
  
• Graphically improved loot.
  
• Added region select screen and map key.
  
• Improved mission overview interface.
  
• Improved mission I.
  
• Improved mission III.
  
• Improved text input.
  
• Reworked tutorial.
  
• Reworked introduction.
  
• Added avatar customization: Name your character and choose how it looks in dialogues.
  
• Improved spaceship building interface.
  
• Reworked Super Shield ability: Shield lasts 8 seconds and increases armor generated on kill while active.
  
• Fixed inventory leak.
  
• Adapted backgrounds to screen shaking.
  
• Improved dialogue avatars.
  
• Improved settings interface.
  
• Added button that resets settings to default.
  
• Added button that resets controls to default.
  
• Modular difficulty system changes: Flow Stagnation maximum level changed to 1, rebalanced rewards, removed diodes.
  
• Reworked Creation of Energy and Channel abilities.
  
• Improved achievement interface.
  
• Repositioned mission interface.
  
• Fixed weapon amplifying.
  
• Improved ability bar.
  
• Made better ability icons.
  
• Heavy Shield rework: Now called Power Shield, no longer slows down spaceship.
  
• Improved ability and effect icons.
  
• Improved Kithalia’s Blight set penalty
  
• Improved barrager.
  
• Toggle XP gain feature has been removed.
  
• Improved Sector transition cutscene.
  
• Improved pausing.
  
• Improved HUD.
  
• Improved ability level scaling.
  
• Improved item management and filtering.
  
• Repositioned item management buttons.
  
• Stat page improvements.
  
• Virtual and physical weapon clarification and stats.
  
• New part properties.
  
• Improved part names.
  
• Higher grade parts are now more common.
  
• Relic dismantling rewards.
  
• Parts give less damage reduction and reflect chance.
  
• Parts give fewer wave chances.
  
• Improved item generator: Now produces more random items.
  
• Item changes: Changed diode cost, changed certain item sprites, improved item use error messages, improved tooltips.
  
• Fixed story mission X glitch.
  
• Reworked phase break mechanic: Gain additional damage after taking a certain amount of damage.
  
• Channel ability’s ether cost reducing effect now lasts 3 seconds, making Channel much easier to use.
  
• Cataclysm ability has been replaced with passive anti-shield ability: Breach.
  
• Renamed Phase to Phasse, to differentiate it from phase mechanic.
  
• Improved Aggression, Resistance, and Capacity: More powerful, more interesting, and consistent with other abilities.
  
• Decreased starter part limit to 6.
  
• Decreased starter maximum ether to 50.
  
• Starter engine now gives less maximum armor.
  
• Increased starter ability points to 10.
  
• While Guardian of a Thousand Worlds ability is active, Concentrated Fire recharges instantly.
  
• Improved alloy containers: New property, increased sell and buy price, reduced city stock.
  
• Removed filled alloy containers.
  
• Corrected W. warning button tooltip.
  
• Fixed engine glitch.
  
• Improved missiles that appear when player's spaceship leaves the enemy range.
  
• Guardian is now more mobile.
  
• Potentially fixed Black Rain projectile problem.
  
• Region update flashes are now brighter.
  
• Veteran's and revenant factory’s ballistic attacks are now slower.
  
• Improved dialogue system graphics.
  
• Oesa's Radiance set effect changed, now base maximum armor is equal maximum ether.
  
• Damage bonuses now are applied to damage while Lodeon's Ultimatum set is active.
  
• Fixed and improved certain set descriptions.

• Rework certain achievements.
  
• Rearrange achievements in the achievement interface.
  
• Lock advanced features if the player level is lower than 5.
  
• Holding shift button to dismantle and sell just one item from the stack.
  
• Improve Techamer's cell.
  
• Improve shield particles and animations.
  
• Intro logo skipping inconsistency.
  
• Make Awakening of Inner Power support all missions.
  
• Improve damage text.
  
• Improve controller support.
  
• Optimize.
  
• Improve secured regions.
  
• Rework evolving mechanic.
  
• Replace gauntlet missions.
  
• Improve collision system.
  
• Add help pages.
  
• Improve background system.

• 24 days.

• 80% of the tasks completed.
  
• I’ll post again when the percentage will reach 90%.

Hi all,

I've been thinking about how to make compressed parts easier to get and make it possible to have super compressed parts.

I have an idea to remove the option to manually make compressed parts and instead make them drop from enemies.

Currently to get compressed parts you need to first get parts you want to compress, then go to the shop, then go to compress mode, then press X on the parts you want to compress and for 5 alloy they will be compressed.

It's overly complicated and causes a lot of problems:

1) It's a lot easier to build big ships than small ones - so players who like smaller hitbox for dodging projectiles are disadvantaged, which is not fair.

2) It costs alloy and currently, it's not possible to dismantle parts in shops, so players get punished for forgetting to bring alloy.

3) The whole compression system lacks tutorial. It means that new players have no idea about compression system and when they find out that it exists, they don't know how it works.

4) Manual compression creates very strange parts! For example, if the player selects generic part first when compressing it with a fractal part, the game will create a compressed generic part. Confusing, inconsistent, etc.

5) Manual compression allows players to create parts with 16 properties, and parts with 16 properties fill the screen with their giant tooltips! It's the main obstacle to making "super compressed" parts, which would allow players to create parts with 32 properties!

I could make improvements to this system - allow players to dismantle parts in shops, add a tutorial for compressing, improve compression interface, rework tooltip system to allow parts with two grades - a lot of work.

The other solution is to make compressed parts appear with the normal parts.

How would that work?

Instead of putting stats of two parts into one part, the game will use the item generator to create compressed parts as they are dropped by enemies.

First, the generator will create a normal, not compressed part.

Then, there will be a 50% chance to turn that part into a compressed part.

If the generator will choose to create a compressed part, the stats of the base part will be multiplied by 2.

E.g.:

Relay
Level 1 optimized weapon
0 / 1 amplifier slots
Uses 1 part slot

100 damage relay
Generates 1 ether on kill

V

Relay
Level 1 compressed optimized weapon
0 / 2 amplifier slots
Uses 2 part slots

200 damage relay
Generates 2 ether on kill

V

Relay
Level 1 super compressed optimized weapon
0 / 4 amplifier slots
Uses 4 part slots

400 damage relay
Generates 4 ether on kill

That's right, if I want to, I can allow the generator to multiply part stats by 4, 5, 6, 32, creating ultra compressed parts, ultimate compressed parts, deluxe parts, deluxe enhanced parts, pro parts, and so on!
No limits.

Because base part cannot have more than a set amount of properties, having compressed etalon with 16 properties will become impossible and tooltips will be tamed.

Plus, I won't need to make a tutorial, the whole compress mode mess in shops would cease to exist, new players could instantly start building small ships, and the variety of parts dropped would increase, so it's great.

Obviously, this new system comes with its own problems.

1) Doubled the number of trash parts! If a player wants to build a big spaceship, all the compressed parts player will get from drops will be useless and current plans are to make 50% of parts compressed/super compressed.

2) Players would not be able to make compressed parts manually - goodbye to perfect compressed etalons with +80% damage.

3) The compressed parts would make the game more confusing for new players. With manual compression, new players would only get confused in shops. With all that compression mode mess.

And I think that is all.

I think that's a small price to pay.

Besides, I can implement relic or something that makes only compressed/only normal parts spawn, and don't spawn compressed parts for the new players, so it's just one problem.

I would implement it right away if it were just for me, but I admit that I have no clue what crazy things are you guys doing with the compression system, so before I do any changes, I want to hear what you think.

In other news:

I'm still working on story mission XIV, I'm expecting it to be done within this week. Hopefully, the Release Countdown: 3! is also near.

Since the last time I have posted, I have made a new introduction and tutorial, loot rework, region select screen, another MDS reward rework, character customization, and...
And something else probably.

The most important of those is, of course, loot rework!

It's very simple - making missions more difficult will make enemies drop more and better parts.
Additionally, drop quality is now influenced by minion power and whether it is modified or not.

For example, modified dreadnought will drop better parts than the normal dreadnought and normal dreadnought will drop better parts than a tank.
There are still a lot of random chances involved, so don't expect this to be true all the time.

Introduction cutscene has been removed, because it was too long and, well, not that good.
Instead of it, there are several dialogue boxes that appear before and after the tutorial.

The tutorial has been shortened as well, so it takes a lot less time to get to the real game.

Region select screen allows to quickly jump from one region to the other, without using arrow buttons.
This is useful to higher level players and it will be even more useful when the Restoration War activity will be added.

Finally, now it's possible to create a custom character for dialogues.
You can change character's name and dialogue appearance.

I'm really happy with the improvements, but not that happy with how fast I've been working.

Unfortunately, ETA has not moved forward much. Now it's at 45 days.
This is because there were several delays and because loot rework was not included in the previous ETA.

Two steps forward, one step back.
This weekend I won't be at home, so that's another delay, but when I'm back, I'll be working on the final story mission and the Machines.
My current estimate is that it'll take 3 weeks, but if I can do it faster, this will bring the release much closer.

Currently, story mission XIV and the Machines are the biggest tasks on the list.

Completed:

• Loot rework: Bigger enemies now drop better parts, difficulty level makes enemies drop better parts.
  
• Ether rework: Ether properties now scale with level, ability ether costs increase with ability levels.
  
• Weapon rework: Nodes now reduce ability ether costs and pylons reduce ability cooldowns.
  
• Ability rework: Abilities now use same damage type and are unlocked as spaceship level increases.
  
• Relics.
  
• Mission XIII.
  
• Rebalanced ability points: 1 ability point per level.
  
• Mission XII.
  
• Mission XI.

• Mission XIV.
  
• Broken Infinity endgame activity.
  
• Restoration War endgame activity.
  
• Shared stash in Deep Path to transfer items between player characters.
  
• The Machines.
  
• New save system.
  
• 49 new achievements.

• Graphically improved loot.
  
• Added region select screen and map key.
  
• Improved mission overview interface.
  
• Improved mission I.
  
• Improved mission III.
  
• Improved text input.
  
• Reworked tutorial.
  
• Reworked introduction.
  
• Added avatar customization: Name your character and choose how it looks in dialogues.
  
• Improved spaceship building interface.
  
• Reworked Super Shield ability: Shield lasts 8 seconds and increases armor generated on kill while active.
  
• Fixed inventory leak.
  
• Adapted backgrounds to screen shaking.
  
• Improved dialogue avatars.
  
• Improved settings interface.
  
• Added button that resets settings to default.
  
• Added button that resets controls to default.
  
• Modular difficulty system changes: Flow Stagnation maximum level changed to 1, rebalanced rewards, removed diodes.
  
• Reworked Creation of Energy and Channel abilities.
  
• Improved achievement interface.
  
• Repositioned mission interface.
  
• Fixed weapon amplifying.
  
• Improved ability bar.
  
• Made better ability icons.
  
• Heavy Shield rework: Now called Power Shield, no longer slows down spaceship.
  
• Improved ability and effect icons.
  
• Improved Kithalia’s Blight set penalty
  
• Improved barrager.
  
• Toggle XP gain feature has been removed.
  
• Improved Sector transition cutscene.
  
• Improved pausing.
  
• Improved HUD.
  
• Improved ability level scaling.
  
• Improved item management and filtering.
  
• Repositioned item management buttons.
  
• Stat page improvements.
  
• Virtual and physical weapon clarification and stats.
  
• New part properties.
  
• Improved part names.
  
• Higher grade parts are now more common.
  
• Relic dismantling rewards.
  
• Parts give less damage reduction and reflect chance.
  
• Parts give fewer wave chances.
  
• Improved item generator: Now produces more random items.
  
• Item changes: Changed diode cost, changed certain item sprites, improved item use error messages, improved tooltips.
  
• Fixed story mission X glitch.
  
• Reworked phase break mechanic: Gain additional damage after taking a certain amount of damage.
  
• Channel ability’s ether cost reducing effect now lasts 3 seconds, making Channel much easier to use.
  
• Cataclysm ability has been replaced with passive anti-shield ability: Breach.
  
• Renamed Phase to Phasse, to differentiate it from phase mechanic.
  
• Improved Aggression, Resistance, and Capacity: More powerful, more interesting, and consistent with other abilities.
  
• Decreased starter part limit to 6.
  
• Decreased starter maximum ether to 50.
  
• Starter engine now gives less maximum armor.
  
• Increased starter ability points to 10.
  
• While Guardian of a Thousand Worlds ability is active, Concentrated Fire recharges instantly.
  
• Improved alloy containers: New property, increased sell and buy price, reduced city stock.
  
• Removed filled alloy containers.
  
• Corrected W. warning button tooltip.
  
• Ability to decrease the level of MDS modifiers even while they are disabled.
  
• Fixed engine glitch.
  
• Improved missiles that appear when player's spaceship leaves the enemy range.
  
• Guardian is now more mobile.
  
• Potentially fixed Black Rain projectile problem.
  
• Region update flashes are now brighter.
  
• Veteran's ballistic attack is now slower.
  
• Improved dialogue system graphics.
  
• Oesa's Radiance set effect changed, now base maximum armor is equal maximum ether.
  
• Damage bonuses now are applied to damage while Lodeon's Ultimatum set is active.
  
• Fixed and improved certain set descriptions.

• Improve the implemented Machines.
  
• Rework certain achievements.
  
• Rearrange achievements in the achievement interface.
  
• Better default controls.
  
• Fix stack buying glitch.
  
• Lock modular difficulty system if the player level is lower than 3.
  
• Holding shift button to dismantle and sell just one item from the stack.
  
• Improve Techamer's cell.
  
• Rework loot box.
  
• Fix loot box stackable item glitch.
  
• Improve siege mission.
  
• Improve arena mission.
  
• Fix dialogue clash with HUD glitch.
  
• Expand dialogue box.
  
• Improve shield particles and animations.
  
• Intro logo skipping inconsistency.
  
• Make Awakening of Inner Power support all missions.
  
• Rework contribution system.
  
• Improve damage text.
  
• Cathode rework.
  
• Improve controller support.
  
• Optimize.
  
• Improve secured regions.
  
• Rework evolving mechanic.
  
• Replace gauntlet missions.
  
• Improve collision system.
  
• Add help pages.

• 45 days.

• 70% of the tasks completed.
  
• I’ll post again when the percentage will reach 80%.

Since the last time I posted, I have finished weapon and ether reworks!

Weapons now modify ability stats and ability ether costs increase with level.
These changes have significantly improved quality of loot and variety of possible spaceships.

There are three weapon stats now: Weapon damage, cooling rate, and ether efficiency.

Relays increase weapon damage, which increases ability damage.
Pylons increase cooling rate, which reduces ability cooldowns.
Nodes increase ether efficiency, which reduces ability ether costs.

It's possible to focus on one weapon stat to make spaceship deal a lot of damage or have low ability ether costs or have low ability cooldowns.
Or anything in between!

For example, during testing, I have built myself a spaceship that reduced cooldowns of its abilities by 94%!

While it dealt very low damage, powerful abilities like Shards of Chaos, Swarm Control, and Entropic Missile had really low cooldowns, so I was able to spam them and it compensated the lack of damage.

It was really fun, and I can't wait to see what you guys can do with this new system.

As for ether rework, it made each ability point spent increase ether costs of all abilities by 10%.
This allowed me to make part ether properties scale with level, so now parts that increase ether are more rewarding than ever!

Now I will be working on making tutorial and introduction shorter and better, which should take about a week.
After that, I will work on story mission XIV.

ETA is back to 50 days, because I have added new things to the list and because there were all those reworks that created a huge delay.
Let's hope my calculations will be wrong again, but this time to our favor!

Completed:

• Ether rework: Ether properties now scale with level, ability ether costs increase with ability levels.
  
• Weapon rework: Nodes now reduce ability ether costs and pylons reduce ability cooldowns.
  
• Ability rework: Abilities now use same damage type and are unlocked as spaceship level increases.
  
• Relics.
  
• Mission XIII.
  
• Rebalanced ability points: 1 ability point per level.
  
• Mission XII.
  
• Mission XI.

• Mission XIV.
  
• Broken Infinity endgame activity.
  
• Restoration War endgame activity.
  
• Shared stash in Deep Path to transfer items between player characters.
  
• The Machines.
  
• New save system.
  
• 49 new achievements.

• Fixed inventory leak.
  
• Adapted backgrounds to screen shaking.
  
• Improved dialogue avatars.
  
• Improved settings interface.
  
• Added button that resets settings to default.
  
• Added button that resets controls to default.
  
• Modular difficulty system changes: Flow Stagnation maximum level changed to 1, rebalanced rewards.
  
• Reworked Creation of Energy and Channel abilities.
  
• Improved achievement interface.
  
• Repositioned mission interface.
  
• Fixed weapon amplifying.
  
• Improved ability bar.
  
• Made better ability icons.
  
• Heavy Shield rework: Now called Power Shield, no longer slows down spaceship.
  
• Improved ability and effect icons.
  
• Improved Kithalia’s Blight set penalty
  
• Improved barrager.
  
• Toggle XP gain feature has been removed.
  
• Improved Sector transition cutscene.
  
• Improved pausing.
  
• Improved HUD.
  
• Improved ability level scaling.
  
• Improved item management and filtering.
  
• Repositioned item management buttons.
  
• Stat page improvements.
  
• Virtual and physical weapon clarification and stats.
  
• New part properties.
  
• Improved part names.
  
• Higher grade parts are now more common.
  
• Relic dismantling rewards.
  
• Parts give less damage reduction and reflect chance.
  
• Parts give less wave chances.
  
• Improved item generator: Now produces more random items.
  
• Item changes: Changed diode cost, changed certain item sprites, improved item use error messages, improved tooltips.
  
• Fixed story mission X glitch.
  
• Reworked phase break mechanic: Gain additional damage after taking certain amount of damage.
  
• Channel ability’s ether cost reducing effect now lasts 3 seconds, making Channel much easier to use.
  
• Cataclysm ability has been replaced with passive anti-shield ability: Breach.
  
• Renamed Phase to Phasse, to differentiate it from phase mechanic.
  
• Improved Aggression, Resistance, and Capacity: More powerful, more interesting, and consistent with other abilities.
  
• Decreased starter part limit to 6.
  
• Decreased starter maximum ether to 50.
  
• Starter engine now gives less maximum armor.
  
• Increased starter ability points to 10.
  
• While Guardian of a Thousand Worlds ability is active, Concentrated Fire recharges instantly.
  
• Improved alloy containers: New property, increased sell and buy price, reduced city stock.
  
• Removed filled alloy containers.
  
• Corrected W. warning button tooltip.
  
• Ability to decrease the level of MDS modifiers even while they are disabled.
  
• Fixed engine glitch.
  
• Improved missiles that appear when player's spaceship leaves enemy range.
  
• Guardian is now more mobile.
  
• Potentially fixed Black Rain projectile problem.
  
• Region update flashes are now brighter.
  
• Veteran's ballistic attack is now slower.
  
• Improved dialogue system graphics.
  
• Oesa's Radiance set effect changed, now base maximum armor is equal maximum ether.
  
• Damage bonuses now are applied to damage while Lodeon's Ultimatum set is active.
  
• Fixed and improved certain set descriptions.

• Sector map interface and map key.
  
• Improve the implemented Machines.
  
• Rework certain achievements.
  
• Rearrange achievements in the achievement interface.
  
• Level cap changes and game options.
  
• Side mission dialogues.
  
• Better default controls.
  
• Ability to toggle side mission dialogues.
  
• Fix stack buying glitch.
  
• Lock modular difficulty system if the player level is lower than 3.
  
• Holding shift button to dismantle and sell just one item from the stack.
  
• Looting improvements.
  
• Improve Techamer's cell.
  
• Rework loot box.
  
• Fix loot box stackable item glitch.
  
• Improve artifact carrier.
  
• Rework mission III. Again.
  
• Improve siege mission.
  
• Improve arena mission.
  
• Fix dialogue clash with HUD glitch.
  
• Expand dialogue box.
  
• Improve shield particles and animations.
  
• Improve MDS decorative map in mission select screen.
  
• Fix Lodeon's ship glitch when skipping intro cutscene.
  
• Intro logo skipping inconsistency.
  
• Improve mission I.
  
• Make Awakening of Inner Power support all missions.
  
• Rework contribution system.
  
• Improve text input.
  
• Character customization: Rename character and change avatar icon.
  
• Improve damage text.
  
• Cathode rework.
  
• Improve controller support.
  
• Rework tutorial and class select.
  
• Rework introduction.
  
• Optimize.
  
• Improve secured region interfaces.

• 50 days.

• 60% of the tasks completed.
  
• I’ll post again when the percentage will reach 70%.

It's been a week since I made the last post, so here's an update on what I'm working on.

Two days ago I have successfully merged classes and made abilities unlock when leveling up.

Yesterday I have started working on weapon rework.

Since abilities use the same damage type now, all weapons are the same and that is not good.

To combat this, I have made weapons reduce ether and cooldown of abilities.

I have doubled ether costs and cooldowns of most abilities.
Installing right weapons would reduce ether costs and cooldowns to their normal values.

It did make weapons more interesting than ever, but it was a little too messy.
Just replacing one installed ability with other, would require the player to hunt for a different set of weapons.

Plus, it didn't create any interesting decisions.

It feels like punishment for not installing right weapons and it's not what I want.

So, I am going revert all yesterday's progress and start working on the new idea.

The new idea is to make weapons work in a way that allows the player to build three different spaceships.

- Powerful spaceships that have higher damage, longer cooldowns, and burn more ether.
- Fast spaceships that have shorter cooldowns, lower damage, and burn more ether.
- Efficient spaceships that have longer cooldowns, lower damage, but burn less ether.

To make it happen, weapons will get two new properties - ability ether cost reduction and ability cooldown reduction.

To stop these properties from making abilities too fast or not expensive enough, they will not interact with ability ether costs and cooldowns directly.

Instead, the player will need to install a certain amount of weapons to reduce ether costs or cooldowns of abilities by 25%.
If requirements are not met, abilities will have base stats or even become 25% more expensive and/or slower.
Requirements will rise with the number of parts installed.

Basically, there will be three types of weapons and by focusing on one weapon type will allow the player to make spaceship powerful or fast or efficient.

What's also good about this system is that it doesn't really end with three spaceship types.

It will be possible to build balanced ships that are not bad or good at anything

It will also be possible to make spaceship excel at more than one field - maybe even at all three with enough rare, amplified weapons.

As for the final Early Access update, I'm still over a month away from releasing it.
This rework created a huge delay, but I think that it's worth it because the game will become a lot better.

Next week I'm hoping to continue the release countdown, so until then!

In "Sector Six Release Countdown: 6!" I have said that I was considering to do some big changes to Sector Six.

Now I have decided to do them, and this is an update on that, as promised.

What are the changes?

First, spaceship classes are not going to be a thing anymore.
All abilities will use the same damage type.

Secondly, abilities will be unlocked with level. You'll start with three basic abilities and unlock other abilities on level up until you reach level 30.

Finally, because weapon damage is now universal to all abilities, weapons will now reduce cooldown and maybe even ether cost of certain abilities.

Why am I doing these changes?

Because they will make the game much better both for low-level and high-level players.
New players won't have to deal with 36 abilities, weapons will be more interesting, leveling up will be more impactful than ever, there will be more important decisions to make, and so on!

What's the catch?

The catch is that it will take a week or more to do all those changes so the final Early Access update will be slightly delayed.

Hope this sounds good, I will post again when I'll catch up to countdown or when there will be more changes in plans.

Since the last time I posted, I've been working on inventory improvements, mission XIV, ability scaling, new HUD, and other things.

Long story short, mission XIV is getting closer to being finished, meanwhile many parts of the game have become easier and better to use.

Now I would be directing all my attention to mission XIV, but this week I have received a lot of new feedback and now I have to make a few important decisions.

I might choose to do some really big changes to the game, which would delay the release by a month.
If that happens, I will make another post explaining the situation.

Anyway, to the task list!

Completed:

• Relics.
  
• Mission XIII.
  
• Rebalanced ability points: +1 ability point per level.
  
• Mission XII.
  
• Mission XI.
  

• Mission XIV.
  
• Broken Infinity endgame activity.
  
• Restoration War endgame activity.
  
• Shared stash in Deep Path to transfer items between player characters.
  
• The Machines.
  
• New save system.
  
• 49 new achievements.
  

• Improved Kithalia’s Blight set penalty
  
• Improved barrager.
  
• Toggle XP gain feature has been removed.
  
• Improved Sector transition cutscene.
  
• Improved pausing.
  
• Improved HUD.
  
• Improved ability level scaling.
  
• Improved item management and filtering.
  
• Repositioned item management buttons.
  
• Stat page improvements.
  
• Virtual and physical weapon clarification and stats.
  
• New part properties.
  
• Improved part names.
  
• Higher grade parts are now more common.
  
• Relic dismantling rewards.
  
• Parts give less damage reduction and reflect chance.
  
• Parts give less wave chances.
  
• Improved item generator: Now produces more random items.
  
• Item changes: Changed diode cost, changed certain item sprites, improved item use error messages, improved tooltips.
  
• Fixed story mission X glitch.
  
• Reworked phase break mechanic: Gain additional damage after taking certain amount of damage.
  
• Channel ability’s ether cost reducing effect now lasts 3 seconds, making Channel much easier to use.
  
• Cataclysm ability has been replaced with passive anti-shield ability: Breach.
  
• Renamed Phase to Phasse, to differentiate it from phase mechanic.
  
• Improved Aggression, Resistance, and Capacity: More powerful, more interesting, and consistent with other abilities.
  
• Decreased starter part limit to 6.
  
• Decreased starter maximum ether to 50.
  
• Starter engine now gives less maximum armor.
  
• Increased starter ability points to 10.
  
• While Guardian of a Thousand Worlds ability is active, Concentrated Fire recharges instantly.
  
• Improved alloy containers: New property, increased sell and buy price, reduced city stock.
  
• Removed filled alloy containers.
  
• Corrected W. warning button tooltip.
  
• Ability to decrease the level of MDS modifiers even while they are disabled.
  
• Fixed engine glitch.
  
• Improved missiles that appear when player's spaceship leaves enemy range.
  
• Guardian is now more mobile.
  
• Potentially fixed Black Rain projectile problem.
  
• Region update flashes are now brighter.
  
• Veteran's ballistic attack is now slower.
  
• Improved dialogue system graphics.
  
• Oesa's Radiance set effect changed, now base maximum armor is equal maximum ether.
  
• Damage bonuses now are applied to damage while Lodeon's Ultimatum set is active.
  
• Fixed and improved certain set descriptions.
  

• Sector map interface and map tutorial.
  
• Improve the implemented Machines.
  
• Rework certain achievements.
  
• Rearrange achievements in the achievement interface.
  
• Level cap changes and game options.
  
• Side mission dialogues.
  
• Better default controls.
  
• Ability to reset controls to default.
  
• Ability to reset settings to default.
  
• Ability to toggle side mission dialogues.
  
• Settings interface improvements.
  
• Fix stack buying glitch.
  
• Reposition mission interface.
  
• Rework achievement interface.
  
• Lock modular difficulty system if the player level is lower than 3.
  
• Connection strength near avatar picture.
  
• Adapt backgrounds to screen shaking.
  
• Holding shift button to dismantle and sell just one item from the stack.
  
• Looting improvements.
  
• Improve Techamer's cell.
  
• Rework loot box.
  
• Fix loot box stackable item glitch.
  
• Improve artifact carrier.
  
• Rework mission III. Again.
  
• Improve siege mission.
  
• Improve arena mission.
  
• Fix dialogue clash with HUD glitch.
  
• Expand dialogue box.
  
• Improve shield particles and animations.
  
• Improve MDS decorative map in mission select screen.
  
• Fix Lodeon's ship glitch when skipping intro cutscene.
  
• Intro logo skipping inconsistency.
  
• Improve mission I.
  
• Make Awakening of Inner Power support all missions.
  
• Improve ability bar.
  
• Rework contribution system.
  
• Improve text input.
  
• Character customization: Rename character and change avatar icon.
  
• Improve damage text.
  
• Cathode rework.
  
• Improve controller support.
  
• Improve tutorial and class select.
  

• 35 days.
  

• 50% of the tasks completed.
  
• I'll post again when the percentage will reach 60%.
  

On this day, 2 years ago, Sector Six was released on Steam and I'm giving away a few keys on SteamGifts and Steam group!

Go to group >>
Go to SteamGifts >>

I would do something bigger for this special day, but I'm really busy preparing the game for the final release.

Luckily there will be many more anniversaries and many opportunities to do something cooler =]

Happy birthday, Sector Six!

This and previous week, I've been improving Sector Six loot.

I have made many changes to random part generation system, made higher grade parts more common, added 22 part properties, gave parts more interesting names, but most importantly – I have implemented relic system and first 7 relics!

Relics not only are the rarest and the most powerful items in the game - they also have unique effects, skins, and even animations!

I would have made a video about relics, but I didn't have enough time for that, so instead scroll down for screenshots.

With relics implemented, now I will work on the last story mission and several small changes.

Relic facts:

• After rarity changes, relics are now rarest items in the game, their drop chance is 1 in 500.
  
• Relics can be sold for 2 relic fragments. 8 relic fragments turn into a relic.
  
• Relics give reliquary items instead of alloy when dismantled.
  
• Reliquary items re-roll and transform relics.
  
• Relics can have up to 7 properties, but cannot be amplified.
  
• Relics are always level 1 and have properties that are useful no matter what level you are.
  
• You cannot install more than 3 relics. Yet.
  
• You cannot install relic duplicates. E.g.: You can't have two Quasar Domes installed.
  
• 7 relics are implemented, I will implement at least 10 more before game launches

• Relics.
  
• Mission XIII.
  
• Rebalanced ability points: +1 ability point per level.
  
• Mission XII.
  
• Mission XI.

• New part properties.
  
• Improved part names.
  
• Higher grade parts are now more common.
  
• Relic dismantling rewards.
  
• Parts give less damage reduction and reflect chance.
  
• Parts give fewer wave chances.
  
• Improved item generator: Now produces more random items.
  
• Item changes: Changed diode cost, changed certain item sprites, improved item use error messages, improved tooltips.
  
• Fixed story mission X glitch.
  
• Reworked phase break mechanic: Gain additional damage after taking a certain amount of damage.
  
• Channel ability’s ether cost reducing effect now lasts 3 seconds, making Channel much easier to use.
  
• Cataclysm ability has been replaced with passive anti-shield ability: Breach.
  
• Renamed Phase to Phasse, to differentiate it from phase mechanic.
  
• Improved Aggression, Resistance, and Capacity: More powerful, interesting, and consistent with other abilities.
  
• Decreased starter part limit to 6.
  
• Decreased starter maximum ether to 50.
  
• Starter engine now gives less maximum armor.
  
• Increased starter ability points to 10.
  
• While Guardian of a Thousand Worlds ability is active, Concentrated Fire recharges instantly.
  
• Improved alloy containers: New property, increased sell and buy price, reduced city stock.
  
• Removed filled alloy containers.
  
• Corrected W. warning button tooltip.
  
• Ability to decrease the level of MDS modifiers even while they are disabled.
  
• Fixed engine glitch.
  
• Improved missiles that appear when player's spaceship leaves the enemy range.
  
• Guardian is now more mobile.
  
• Potentially fixed Black Rain projectile problem.
  
• Region update flashes are now brighter.
  
• Veteran's ballistic attack is now slower.
  
• Improved dialogue system graphics.
  
• Oesa's Radiance set effect changed, now base maximum armor is equal maximum ether.
  
• Damage bonuses now are applied to damage while Lodeon's Ultimatum set is active.
  
• Fixed and improved certain set descriptions.

• Mission XIV.
  
• Broken Infinity endgame activity.
  
• Restoration War endgame activity.
  
• Shared stash in secured regions.
  
• The Machines.
  
• New save system.
  
• New achievements.

• Sector map interface.
  
• Improve the implemented Machines.
  
• Rework certain achievements.
  
• Rearrange achievements in the achievement interface.
  
• Level cap changes and game options.
  
• Side mission dialogues.
  
• Better default controls.
  
• Ability to reset controls to default.
  
• Ability to reset settings to default.
  
• Ability to toggle side mission dialogues.
  
• Settings interface improvements.
  
• Fix stack buying glitch.
  
• Reposition mission interface.
  
• Rework achievement interface.
  
• Reset difficulty level button.
  
• Lock modular difficulty system if the player level is lower than 3.
  
• Virtual and physical weapon clarification and stats.
  
• Stat page improvements.
  
• Connection strength near avatar picture.
  
• Adapt backgrounds to screen shaking.
  
• Dismantle all and uninstall all buttons should have a tooltip.
  
• Holding shift button to dismantle and sell just one item from the stack.
  
• Looting improvements.
  
• Improve Techamer's cell.
  
• Rework loot box.
  
• Fix loot box stackable item glitch.
  
• Improve artifact carrier.
  
• Rework mission III. Again.
  
• Improve siege mission.
  
• Improve arena mission.
  
• Reposition item management buttons.
  
• Fix dialogue clash with HUD glitch.
  
• Expand dialogue box.
  
• Improve shield particles and animations.
  
• Improve MDS decorative map in mission select screen.
  
• Fix Lodeon's ship glitch when skipping intro cutscene.
  
• Intro logo skipping inconsistency.
  
• Improve mission I.
  
• Make Awakening of Inner Power support all missions.
  
• Improve ability bar.
  
• Add map decorations.
  
• Improve Sector transition cutscene.
  
• Rework contribution system.
  
• Improve barrager.
  
• Improve text input.
  
• Character customization: Rename character and change avatar icon.
  
• Improve ability interface.
  
• Improve ability level scaling.
  
• Improve damage text.
  
• Cathode rework.
  
• Improve controller support.

• 41 days.

• 40% of the tasks completed.
  
• I'll post again when the percentage will reach 50%.

Since the last time I have posted, Sector Six has become a much better game!
In a chain of small changes, I have made ability points more rewarding, ability scaling more important, six least useful abilities more useful, leveling more consistent, and phase mechanic more effective!

Phase mechanic now used to turn enemy damage into player damage.
After X amount of damage taken, player's spaceship will enter phase which will increase damage by Y% for 5 seconds.

I have also added mission XIII.
It's more or less a big cutscene, but with it done, I can focus on the main features of the final Early Access update.

So, yeah, tomorrow I'm starting to work on relics!
The arrival of relics will finally end the dark ages for Sector Six and it will become a true loot game!

Completed:

I'll post again when the percentage will reach 40%.
Until then!

I have finished making mission XII!
That's a pretty big achievement because mission XII was one of the larger chunks of content I needed to make and I did it in time.

Now I will be working on ability and level cap update
This update will make ability points more valuable by reducing the amount of ability points gained from level up to 1.
It will also improve Aggression, Resistance, and Capacity abilities and replace Cataclysm with Breach - passive anti-shield ability!
It will bring Sector Six much closer to perfection.

Completed:

• Mission XII.
  
• Mission XI.
  

• While Guardian Of A Thousand Worlds ability is active, Concentrated Fire recharges instantly.
  
• Improved alloy containers: New property, increased sell and buy price, reduced city stock.
  
• Removed filled alloy containers.
  
• Corrected W. warning button tooltip.
  
• Ability to decrease the level of MDS modifiers even while they are disabled.
  
• Fixed engine glitch.
  
• Improved missiles that appear when player's spaceship leaves the enemy range.
  
• Guardian is now more mobile.
  
• Potentially fixed Black Rain projectile + reflect chance problem.
  
• Region update flashes are now brighter.
  
• Veteran's ballistic attack is now slower.
  
• Improved dialogue system graphics.
  
• Oesa's Radiance set effect changed, now base maximum armor is equal maximum ether.
  
• Damage bonuses now are applied to damage while Lodeon's Ultimatum set is active.
  
• Fixed and improved certain set descriptions.
  

• Mission XIII.
  
• Mission XIV.
  
• Broken Infinity endgame activity.
  
• Restoration War endgame activity.
  
• Relics.
  
• Shared stash in Deep Path to transfer items between player characters.
  
• The Machines.
  
• New save system.
  
• 49 new achievements.
  
• Rebalance ability point distribution.
  

• Relic dismantling rewards.
  
• Sector map interface.
  
• Improve the implemented Machines.
  
• Rework certain achievements.
  
• Rearrange achievements in the achievement interface.
  
• Level cap changes.
  
• Increase starter ability points to 10.
  
• Increase starter part limit to 10.
  
• Decrease starter maximum ether to 50.
  
• Rework Phase Recognition system and phase properties.
  
• Rework Aggression, Resistance, and Capacity.
  
• Rework starter equipment.
  
• Rework Cataclysm ability into Breach ability.
  
• Improve Rapid Fire Mode ability.
  
• Improve Channel ability.
  
• New part properties.
  
• Better part names.
  
• Side mission dialogues.
  
• Better default controls.
  
• Ability to reset controls to default.
  
• Ability to reset settings to default.
  
• Ability to toggle side mission dialogues.
  
• Settings interface improvements.
  
• Fix stack buying glitch.
  
• Reposition mission interface.
  
• Rework achievement interface.
  
• Reset difficulty level button.
  
• Lock modular difficulty system if the player level is lower than 3.
  
• Virtual / physical weapon clarification / stats.
  
• Stat page improvements.
  
• Connection strength near avatar picture.
  
• Adapt backgrounds to screen shaking.
  
• Dismantle all / Uninstall all buttons should have a tooltip.
  
• Holding shift button to dismantle / sell just one item from the stack.
  
• Looting improvements.
  
• Improve Techamer's cell.
  
• Rework loot box.
  
• Fix loot box stackable item glitch.
  
• Improve artifact carrier.
  
• Rework mission III. Again.
  
• Improve siege mission.
  
• Improve arena mission.
  
• Reposition item management buttons.
  
• Fix dialogue clash with HUD glitch.
  
• Expand dialogue box.
  
• Improve shield particles and animations.
  
• Improve MDS decorative map in mission select screen.
  
• Fix Lodeon's ship glitch when skipping intro cutscene.
  
• Intro logo skipping inconsistency.
  
• Improve mission I.
  
• Make Awakening Of Inner Power support all missions.
  
• Improve ability bar.
  
• Add map decorations.
  
• Improve Sector transition cutscene.
  
• Rework contribution system.
  
• Improve barrager.
  
• Improve text input.
  
• Character customization: Rename character and change avatar icon.
  

• 60 days.
  

• 20% of the tasks completed.
  
• I'll post again when the percentage will reach 30%.
  

Sector Six has entered the final stage of development!
I was planning to release two more story missions and then work on the last Early Access update, but decided that it will better to release them with that last update.

Instead of posting traditional echoes weekly, now I will post short summaries of what I've done and update to-do list whenever I reach the next development milestone.

Let the countdown begin!

10!

Done:

• Mission XI.
  
• Veteran's ballistic attack is now slower.
  
• Improved dialogue system graphics.
  
• Oesa's Radiance set effect changed, now base maximum armor is equal maximum ether.
  
• Damage bonuses now are applied to damage while Lodeon's Ultimatum set is active.
  
• Fixed and improved certain set descriptions.
  

• Mission XII.
  
• Mission XIII.
  
• Mission XIV.
  
• Broken Infinity endgame activity.
  
• Restoration War endgame activity.
  
• Relics.
  
• Relic dismantling rewards.
  
• Shared stash in Deep Path to transfer items between player characters.
  
• Five of the Eight Machines.
  
• Improve the implemented Machines.
  
• New save system.
  
• 49 new achievements.
  
• Full Sector Six map.
  
• Rework certain achievements.
  
• Rearrange achievements in the achievement interface.
  
• Rebalance ability point distribution.
  
• Cap ability points.
  
• Increase starter ability points to 10.
  
• Increase starter part limit to 10.
  
• Decrease starter maximum ether to 50.
  
• Rework Phase Recognition system and phase properties.
  
• Rework Aggression, Resistance, and Capacity.
  
• Rework starter equipment.
  
• Rework Cataclysm ability.
  
• New part properties.
  
• Better part names.
  
• Side mission dialogues.
  
• Better default controls.
  
• Ability to reset controls to default.
  
• Ability to reset settings to default.
  
• Ability to toggle side mission dialogues.
  
• Settings interface improvements.
  
• Fix stack buying glitch.
  
• Reposition mission interface.
  
• Rework achievement interface.
  
• Reset difficulty level.
  
• Lock modular difficulty system if the player level is lower than 3.
  
• Fix W. warning button tooltip.
  
• Virtual / physical weapon clarification / stats.
  
• Stat page improvements.
  
• Connection strength near avatar picture.
  
• Adapt backgrounds to screen shaking.
  
• Dismantle all/Uninstall all buttons should have a tooltip.
  
• Holding shift button to dismantle / sell just one item from the stack.
  
• Looting improvements.
  
• Improve Techamer's cell.
  
• Rework loot box.
  
• Fix loot box stackable item glitch.
  
• Improve artifact carrier.
  
• Rework mission III. Again.
  
• Improve siege mission.
  
• Improve arena mission.
  
• Reposition item management buttons.
  
• Fix dialogue clash with HUD glitch.
  
• Expand dialogue box.
  
• Improve shield particles and animations.
  
• Improve MDS decorative map in mission select screen.
  
• Fix Lodeon's ship glitch when skipping intro cutscene.
  
• Intro logo skipping inconsistency.
  
• Improve mission I.
  
• Improve alloy containers.
  
• Remove filled alloy containers.
  
• Make Awakening Of Inner Power support all missions.
  
• Fix Guardian Of A Thousand worlds + Concentrated Fire effect timer graphical glitch.
  
• Ability to reduce the power of MDS modifiers while they are disabled.
  
• Improve ability bar.
  
• Add map decorations.
  

• 70 days.
  

• 8% of the tasks completed.
  
• I'll post again when the percentage will reach 20%.
  

This week I was working on story mission XI.



One of my favorite shows is Legion. I love it for its madness.

Mission XI is an attempt to create my own madness in Sector Six.

During this mission you will encounter:

• Replication anomalies
  
• Black spheres
  
• Vertical fractures
  
• Fused and stagnant minions
  
• Temporal loops
  

00th echo!

I was thinking about what to do for the first triple-digit echo and I asked myself: What do my players want from me?

And I think my players want me to make good games.

So, instead of spending a day making a fancy article, I spend an hour and used the rest of the day to work on Sector Six =]

It's still going to be a special echo because I'm going to use it to write about very important things.

First, about monetization of Sector Six and future games.

I've been following gaming news and they have been pretty depressing lately.
Lootboxes, malevolent patents, multiple billion dollar companies whining about how they don't make enough money, and so on.

This is the first time I officially state that my games will never have microtransactions, DLC's, and pre-order bonuses.

What they will have is a single price tag. Pay the price and get the game.
All of the game, including updates.

My plan is to learn to make really good games and create a reputation of a really good developer.
I hope I will manage to do at least some of that and it will pay off.

Right now I don't make enough money from selling Sector Six.
And by that, I mean that I'm not safe, if something goes wrong in my life I won't be able to continue making games.

Good news is that this is the worst it can get and it's not that bad.
A year or two and I'll be making enough to ensure that I can make games for as long as I want.
And I don't plan to ever stop making games.

In conclusion, support me and I'll make some cool stuff =]

Speaking of cool stuff, it's time for second part of 100th echo:

Endgame!

After weeks of thinking, I think I got a solid plan for Sector Six endgame.

The center of endgame is Broken Infinity, a region that you will create during the story.

Broken Infinity will be a procedurally generated region, with varying amount of areas, randomly chosen enemies, background, secured region cities and so on.
Once you secure all areas in Broken Infinity, it will generate a new, different region to clear.

Well, just clearing all areas won't be enough! You will also need to defeat a boss!
But I can't write about bosses because it's a minor story spoiler.

Another possible feature of Broken Infinity is mission chains.

Let's say current Broken Infinity instance has 3 areas.

Area A, area B, and area C.

Area C has a boss you need to kill to close this Broken Infinity instance and generate a new one.

But you can't get to area C immediately because it's locked!
How to unlock it? Beat mission in area B.
Which is also locked and you have to complete the mission in area A to unlock it.

In conclusion, A -> B -> C and you can generate new Broken Infinity instance, a new mission chain to complete.

Oh, and you cannot generate new missions in Broken Infinity.
You have to deal with what you get.

Let's back up a little bit. Why would you want to close Broken Infinity instance?

That's the best part: Rewards!

When you close instance, you get to reward screen.
On the screen, you see 10 open cases. There's a fractal part in each.

Then you see your instance statistics.
How many areas you secured, average mission difficulty level, optional objectives completed, etc.

Then system calculates reward upgrade chance based on these statistics.

+20% upgrade chance for average 20 difficulty level.
+50% upgrade chance for 5 areas secured.
+10% upgrade chance for 2 optional objectives completed.
Total: 80% upgrade chance.

THEN system attempts to upgrade part in each case.
If you have 80% upgrade chance, you will probably get 8 out of 10 part cases upgraded.

Upgraded to what? Relic!
Unless you've been avoiding my weekly text walls, you already know about relics - parts that have unique and incredibly powerful effects.

So, let's say that now you have 8 cases with relics and 2 cases with fractal parts.

Then cases get closed - you can't see what inside them anymore - and are shuffled.

All you need to do now is pick one of the cases.

If you're lucky, you'll get a case with the relic in it.
If not, you will get a fractal part and will have to close another instance for another chance to get a relic.

Obviously, fractal part is a weak reward for clearing 5 areas and defeating a gigantic boss, so in reality, non-relic rewards will be better.

So, the main part of endgame is clearing ever-changing Broken Infinity instances and fighting brutal bosses for OP relics.
Relics will make you even more powerful which means higher difficulty levels, faster instance clears and even more relics!

But wait, there's more!

You're not meant to secure all areas in all regions, just those that you really need.

These leftover occupied, besieged, and destroyed regions are the focus of second part of endgame!
After the story is completed, the Restoration War begins!
The goal of the Restoration War is to restore Sector Six to what it was before the Machine invasion.

During the Restoration War, every time you complete a mission, one of the regions becomes highlighted.
That region is now your level region, no matter what region it is or what level you are!

E.g.: Highlighted Deep Path region is level 35 and contains level 35 minions, items, and secured regions because you are level 35.

If you will secure all - currently 154 - areas in Sector Six, you will get an unbelievably powerful relic that cannot be obtained any other way!

The Restoration War and Broken Infinity will hopefully create that so-called satisfying endgame grind =]

There's third endgame activity - Infinity Invasions, but I'll keep it for another time.

There are only two things left to say.

1) Mission XI is about 50% complete.
2) A little gift from me: Go to settings, mute sounds, and type ETALON to get etalon part.

So, that's the end of 100th echo!
There won't be many echoes after this one because the game will be finished soon.
In a month. Or two. Or three.
Soon!
...

Like always, if you have any questions, I'm ready to answer them.

Until next time!

This update adds a lot of new stuff!



Story mission X

High Path is active, it's time to travel to a dimension beyond the light of Sector Six.
You need to go there to meet a scientist, imprisoned for his work in the forbidden branch of science.

One more step towards victory.
One more step towards the unknown.

If the Almadi knew what you did and what you're planning to do, you would be imprisoned too.

Tips and part rotation

Spaceship building has a received a small update.
Now it's possible to rotate almost every part.
Building a cool-looking ship has never been so easy!

With the new functionality, comes new controls, and because there is no way I could stuff explanation for part rotating into an already long tutorial, I have added tips!
Now every time you will open spaceship interface, below inventory you will see one of several tips.

One of them will tell you how to rotate parts.

Balancing

I've been playing Sector Six a lot recently and I noticed that I have too many units.
To fix that, I made amplifiers, cathodes, and anodes as expensive as fractal parts.
This also makes difficulty level rewards even more rewarding.

The other thing that I have noticed was how powerful Searing Beam is.

So, here is what I did:

• Searing Beam now deals less damage - from 150% pylon damage to 80% pylon damage at level 10.
  
• Searing Beam now deals 40% at level 1, instead of 15%.
  
• Spending points on Searing Beam now increase Searing Beam damage by 4%.
  

• The region that sells empty parts
  
• Three new minions unique to Sector Five
  
• Arena mission in which you can fight these unique minions
  
• Story mission X
  

• Map tooltips now show up at the correct height.
  
• "Collect" button now shows a tooltip that explains what it does.
  
• Corrected Creation Of Energy ability description.
  
• Corrected Searing Beam ability description.
  
• Corrected shield removal tutorial.
  
• Player spaceship now has the same damage and collision graphical effects as the enemies.
  
• Eolutch is now level 19 region.
  
• Charred Link is now level 20 region.
  
• Made new background for High Path region.
  
• You will no longer get Through Broken Infinity achievement for completing Time Vortex mission. Hopefully.
  
• Black Rain now deals less damage to the spaceship.
  

Last week wasn't any better than previous ones.

I was having weird post-flu paracetamol poisoning induced depression and I had to do a lot of work on the farm.
Because of that, very little progress was made with story mission X, so I don't really have anything to write about.

Instead, here are screenshots from upcoming version:










Until next time!

As I expected, mission X got delayed.
It was because I caught the flu and couldn't work on Sector Six for a whole week.

But before I got sick, I managed to do some good stuff.

Part rotating
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfT3moNSkvU It will be possible to rotate almost every part!

Added empty parts



Parts with no stats and a lot of amplifier slots have been added.
They will be sold in one of the areas of Sector Five.

Amplifier cost increased

Amplifiers, anodes, and cathodes now cost as much as fractal parts when you buy them from secured regions.
This is to make empty parts even more expensive and amplifier rewards even more valuable.

Searing Beam changes

Searing Beam now deals less damage - from 150% pylon damage to 80% pylon damage at level 10.
Searing Beam now deals 40% pylon damage at level 1, instead of 15% pylon damage.
Spending points on Searing Beam now increase Searing Beam damage by 4%.

Player hit effects

Player ship will show the same effects as enemies when hit.

Mission X
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXK10nnAI0Y I have written the script for mission X and done most of the work for Sector Five.
There's not so much work left to finish it, so hopefully, it will be finished next week.

So that's what I did.

Until next time!

Last week I didn't do much, unfortunately.

Reasons why:

1) I tried to make more interesting names for parts. Which failed.
2) I updated one of my side projects. For the last time. No more side projects until Sector Six is complete.
3) There were a few farm interruptions.

But this week was not a complete loss.

One of the biggest things that happened this week was a small part update.

In near future, it will be possible to rotate most parts by clicking the right mouse button on a part.
Or left trigger, if using a controller.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1288993932 I've also started making Sector Five for story mission X.

Story mission X will take place on Sector Five, which means new areas, new area backgrounds, new enemies, and new cities!

Sector Five will be different in a way that it's not under attack by the Machines.
That means no occupied regions and no minions of the Machines.

I need to make at least three new enemies for Sector Five missions.
Well, just two missions - story mission X and arena mission.
Since there's no war, the only fights are in the arenas.

Sector Five will have two areas.
One area will be for story mission X, while the other will have a city that sells empty parts and the arena.

Empty parts will expand the spaceship customization further.
Empty parts are parts with amplifier slots instead of part properties.

For example, empty fractal parts will have 5 amplifier slots and no properties.
All of the empty parts will be level 1.

This week I hope to do most of the things required for mission X and finish making it next week.
It will probably get delayed like always, but that's how it works.

So, yeah, until next time!

This update adds another story mission.

Mission IX

Open a forgotten way to the other Universe beyond time and light!
Story mission IX chains alternative versions of siege, boss and time attack missions.
Features decision making and decision consequences.



Other

Now it's easier to set the volume in settings.

Have fun!

Next update: Mission X, Sector Five, new enemies, and new items.

Last week I was working on story mission IX.

I was planning to add new side mission and wasted a lot of time trying to make it work.
Due to various limitations, I couldn't make maze missions work well, so I decided to put them away for a while.

Now I'm working on mission IX, which is a few days away from completion.

Like always, I can't write about story missions.
Instead, I thought that maybe it would be interesting for you guys to know how I develop Sector Six.

So, here's a day of my life:

I wake up late, 10-11 AM, then go to do my daily chores - cleaning, cooking, taking care of cats, etc.
My father and brother work outside on our farm, my mom usually busy with something inside and I'm the only one who can do those chores.

After chores are out of the way, it's 1-2 PM.

This is when development starts.

My main tools to develop Sector Six are GameMaker: Studio 1.4, Audacity, and Notepad.
That covers programming, graphics, writing and sound editing.


Home sweet home.

On a good day, I would code, write, make sprites and do whatever current update requires until 7-9 PM.

While the game is being compiled I check Steam community hub and other Sector Six places if there are new comments.
That's why I can respond to them so quickly =P

On a bad day, I would try to do what I need to do, fail to do it and quit for the day.

If I could, I would work 8 hours every day but it is not how it works.

I need cool names and new attacks for enemies, interesting sequences for story missions, ways to add new content, ideas to fix game design problems and sometimes I just don't find them in my head.

So I go do something relaxing and wait until my brain finds the right way to do things.

I'm slowly learning how this all works and results are getting better.
In 2016, there used to be not only bad days - there were bad weeks.
Now bad days are much less common and even on the worst day, I force myself to work on something easy at least for one hour.
That's from where the small fixes and improvements come.

After 7-9 PM on a good day, I end development for that day and go rest.
I watch shows, YouTube and play games.

Or sometimes I go to work on side projects.

Most of them are abandoned after a one day, so it's a waste of time, but I can't help it.
Sector Six development is going slowly and I just need to try all those ideas that I get and that cannot be applied to Sector Six.

Sometimes I go manage my so-called network - Twitter, Facebook, Zuurix.com, Steam groups, Discord.
I don't do that often because I don't get much from that.
The network will be useful, once I become more popular as a developer.

Sometimes I have no game I want to play, so instead, I make games.

Sometimes I do everything - play, watch and work on side projects until 1 AM night.
That's why I wake up at 11 AM.

There are only three things I want to improve in my life:

1) Get more money for my hard work.
2) See more player feedback - comments, videos, screenshots. That'll improve naturally over time.
3) Get a bit of social life going. Not too much, because I'm introvert =]

Anyway, right now I am kind of stuck on mission IX.
But I've already had a bad day on this, so I'm hoping to do some good progress soon.

With every story mission it's becoming harder to come up with new ideas and if I had more time, I'd spend it to polish dialogs and other things.
For example, defense system core boss would be much better if I had more time.

Technically I have an unlimited amount of time but I decided that this is it - I need to finish Sector Six, 3 years of development is enough.
I need to start making a new game, that is not limited by old decisions, so I'm going to cut some corners.

Going to cut a corner here and end this echo just like that.

Until next time!

This update adds a new story mission and many small, but important improvements.

Mission VIII

You are desperate.
After all those failures, you are willing to steal darkest secrets of the Almadi civilization.
The knowledge of those secrets will change you, maybe even kill you, but without it, you have nothing.
At this point, you will do anything for another chance to Sector Six.

Improvements

• Compression grade and level limitations have been removed.
  
• Changed the way opened region is saved and fixed several region saving issues.
  
• Deep Path, Negati, and Labyrinth regions now have weaker minions.
  
• Time rift is now called time vortex.
  
• Now it’s possible to enter secure regions even if your inventory has more than 3 pages of items.
  
• Region level bonus is now applied even if you fail the mission.
  
• Part upgrade chance now can upgrade parts to mythical and etalon parts.
  
• Parts dropped by modified enemies are upgraded - e.g.: Optimized part becomes an advanced part.
  
• Added part upgrade chance amplifier.
  
• Added infested defense nodes to Silaar region missions.
  
• Improved part generator, less useful part properties are now less common.
  

• Fixed: It was possible to use diodes on etalons.
  
• Fixed: Minion long-lasting shield problem.
  
• Fixed: Using anode on part upgraded with diode used to allow to apply diode again.
  
• Fixed: Lodeon's Ultimatum set effect used to deal damage to your spaceship in secure regions.
  
• Fixed: Obelisk used to block Swarm Control missiles.
  
• Fixed: Map used to reset to Deep Path during the first play session.
  
• Fixed: Alloy containers in inventory used to show wrong alloy percentage in secured regions.
  
• Fixed: Leaking alloy container used to lose alloy after visiting secure regions.
  
• Fixed: Minor modular difficulty system saving issue.
  
• Fixed: Mission V on Niss glitch.
  
• Fixed: Region level bonus was not displayed correctly.
  
• Fixed: New game+ crash.
  
• Fixed: Unit rewards in new game+ used to give the wrong amount of units.
  
• Fixed: Small graphical Phase Recognition System description glitch.
  

Steam Winter Sale has brought in new players and new glitch reports, so I spent most of the week fixing those glitches.
I have made a major new game+ test run and managed to fix several new game+ problems.

Fixed: Using anode on part upgraded with diode used to allow to apply diode again.
Fixed: It was possible to use diodes on etalons.
Fixed: Minion long-lasting shield problem.
Fixed: Lodeon's Ultimatum set effect used to deal damage to your spaceship in secure regions.
Fixed: Obelisk used to block Swarm Control missiles.
Fixed: Map used to reset to Deep Path during the first play session.
Fixed: Alloy containers in inventory used to show wrong alloy percentage in secured regions.
Fixed: Leaking alloy container used to lose alloy after visiting secure regions.
Fixed: Minor modular difficulty system saving issue.
Fixed: Mission V on Niss glitch.
Fixed: Region level bonus was not displayed correctly.
Fixed: New game+ crash.
Fixed: Unit rewards in new game+ used to give the wrong amount of units.
Fixed: Small graphical Phase Recognition System description glitch.

I have also made a bunch of miscellaneous improvements, some of them are quite important:

Mythical parts no longer have can have wave chances.
Instead, they can increase certain ability levels.
I have decided that wave chances are too good to be on mythical parts, so now they can only be on etalons.

Compression grade and level limitations have been removed.
Now you can fuse [any part] with [any part]!

Part upgrade chance now can upgrade parts to mythical parts and etalons.
Buff!

Parts dropped by modified enemies are upgraded once automatically.
The same part can be upgraded again by part upgrade chance!

Region level XP bonus is now applied even if you fail the mission.
Consistency!

Deep Path, Negati, and Labyrinth regions now have weaker minions.
New player experience!

Now it's possible to enter secure regions even if your inventory has more than 3 pages of items.
You will no longer have to dismantle parts in inventory page 4 just to enter the secure region and sell the rest of the parts.
Basic game functionality!

Trash stats.
Less useful stats will appear on part less often!

Before trash stats, all part properties were considered equally useful by the part generator.
That will end with the next update.

Trash stats:

Initial ether
Maximum ether
+% ether
Phase break damage
Phase break cooldown reduction
+% experience
+% part upgrade chance

After all that, the game will become more stable and pleasant when the new version will be uploaded.
And that should happen in a few days, so get ready =]

Until next time!

017 was a year of difficult advancement!
There were many tough phases both in my life and Sector Six development, but I have pushed through and now I'm feeling stronger than before.

Sector Six has been under harsh criticism several times this year - both direct and indirect.
I have used that criticism to take a better look at my game and improve it further.

After region rework, a new tutorial, better loot and graphical combat improvements, Sector Six is a much better game than it was at the beginning of the year and I am really proud of that.

Another thing that I am proud of is how much hours I've invested in Sector Six this year.
I've never developed this hard before.

Here's what updates hit Sector Six in 2017:

January 18
Controller support beta, and miscellaneous fixes

February 20
Secure regions, trading, and alloy container rework

March 19
New abilities and enemies, city improvements, new game+ and full controller support

May 23
New side missions and achievements

June 27
Part sets and the item update

July 8
New tutorial

August 12
Titan class

September 26
Final combat update

November 18
Region rework

December 19
New story missions

After all these big updates, Sector Six is 88% complete!

In 2018 Sector Six will be completed and will leave Early Access!

This is what I need to do to finish Sector Six:

Remaining 6 story missions
I'm not counting story mission VIII because it needs few more hours of work until it is ready to be released =]

Relics
Unique, build-defining parts that Sector Six always needed!

Broken Infinity
The ultimate endgame area!
It will feature chained missions with the Machine boss to defeat at the end of each chain!
Mission chain rewards include relics!

Save system rework
You will have more save slots and will no longer need to manually save!
This update will allow me to add permanent death mode!

Relics, Broken Infinity, save system rework and story mission XIV will come in one, final Early Access update.

After Sector Six will be released, I will continue updating it to fix glitches and add more content.
Although I will only add additional content if there will be a demand for it.

Possible post-release content:

Tombworld of Hate raid
Raids in Sector Six will be like long story missions, similar to story mission V.
They will have bosses and will give relics as a reward.
They will also be non-linear and difficult as hell =]

Nomad class
The most complex and powerful class!

Two new bosses for boss missions
Comes with new minions!

Omni amplifiers
Amplifiers that double the power of a part!
Obtained by collecting fragments from side mission rewards.

Variety packs
These small updates will add new minions, new side missions, new relics, new achievements and new ruin types.

So, yeah, 2018 will be pretty epic =]

Have a good year everyone!

This week I've done many small things.

I have started 75% discount on Steam, updated store page, fixed several glitches, expanded mission interface for new missions and finished writing for story mission VII.

It was a busy week, but what I did is not very interesting to write about, so this post is perfect to officially reveal Sector Six sequel, ENTER and other games!



Yes, I already have plans for multiple games =]
If you have any questions about them, I ready to answer them.

Happy holidays and until next echo =]

This update adds two new story missions!

Fight new minions and bosses, meet a new character, endure despair and end the first chapter of the story!

From here the story will get even darker.

Other changes:

Fixed: It was possible to reflect apex's red lasers.
Fixed: Dozan Vel area glitch.
Fixed: "You can use more weapons" message used to appear on level up screen even after maxing out weapon limit.
Fixed: City trade link was above item tooltips.
Siege missions now take less time to complete.
Replaced "Cannot be refilled" alloy container flaw with "Loses 20 alloy after every mission".
Added backgrounds for Silaar, Charred Link, Nebula, Rift and Broken Infinity.
Improved backgrounds.
Removed fog.



Have fun!

PS.: Claim mythical part on my website >>

The wait is nearly over!

This week I have finished making story mission VI, with all its bosses and encounters!
Now I need to make story mission VII, but it's more a cutscene than a mission, so it won't take me longer than a day to make it.

Then there's the mandatory polishing/minor bug fixing phase and I can release the update!

This should happen this week, so keep an eye on announcements!

PS.: Go to my site to enter Sector Six giveaway >>

This week I was working on the new story mission.

I'm about 60% done, I have added all required enemies, finished writing and finished 1 out of 3 boss fights.
Mission VI is divided into three parts and at the end of each part, there's a small boss fight.
When I say small I mean that it's smaller than boss fight in mission V.

Anyway, here's havoc and scythe, the new enemies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPM4MaCin0Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXbn6Fp53qY


Scythe is the first minion that is able to destroy player shields.
It releases slow moving bladed mines that aren't hard to dodge, but if you will activate a shield, it will be gone instantly.

Havoc does the opposite - you will have to shield yourself or you'll take massive damage!

So, that's all news for now.

Until next time!

PS.: Secret Sector Six achievement revealed on my site >>
PPS.: Join my Discord server to enter Sector Six giveaway >>

Last week I have returned to working on Sector Six story!

But first, here's the new update schedule:

Mission VI and mission VII update

This update will add mission VI and mission VII.
ETA: 2017 December.

Mission VIII and background update

This update will improve backgrounds and add mission VIII
ETA: 2017 December.

Mission IX and item update

This update will add mission IX and will improve items + add the first batch of relics.
ETA: 2018 Q1

Mission X update

This update will add mission X.
ETA: 2018 Q1

Mission XI update

This update will add mission XI.
ETA: 2018 Q1

Mission XII update

This update will add mission XII.
ETA: 2018 Q1

Mission XIII update

This update will add mission XIII.
ETA: 2018 Q1

Mission XIV and last game update

This update will add mission XIV, some endgame content and all remaining achievements, new save system and avatar customization.
With this update, game will leave Early Access
ETA: 2018 Q1

I really wanted to finish Sector Six in 2017, but it's not going to happen.
The new plan is to release the game before the second quarter of 2018.

It should be possible because all that's left is content and story.

Speaking of story, the mission that I am working on - mission VI - will take place in Tridenkor, Colowis, and Mzenim.
This mission will have unique events and enemies like mission IV and a boss fight like mission V!

It's a very important and ambitious mission - it's going to change the direction of the story and it will be very intense.

Mission VI will add three new enemies: Havoc, scythe, and barrier.
Scythe will immobilize, havoc will fire so many missiles that you will need to hide under the special shield to survive and the barrier is similar to barricades from mission IV, just capable of attacking, nothing special.

And that's all I can write about mission VI without spoiling it.

Until next time!

PS.: Go to my website to get a mythical part >>

This update completely changes regions!

Sector Six has been split into 30 different level regions.
Regions have different areas, cities, and enemies.

Part compression

Now you can combine two same level and grade parts into one to make your spaceship smaller!
You can compress parts in all cities.

Arena missions

Secure areas with arenas and enter them to fight!
In the arena, you can choose which enemies to fight.
You need to kill 10 minions to complete arena mission.
Completing arena mission will reward you with units.
The number of units you will get is based on enemies you destroyed during the mission.

Siege missions

Use siege cannon to destroy the Machine bulwark!
Siege cannon requires ammo to be used and it can be obtained by killing enemies.
Cannon keeps running out of ammo and minions keep coming, making it the most complex side mission!

New enemies

The Machines have released barragers and orbital platforms to wreak havoc in Sector Six.
Barragers have a weapon that rapidly fires missiles - don't get in front of them or you'll be destroyed!
Orbital platforms are not a big threat if you can remove their shields and don't get hit by their unpredictable mines!

New secured area types

New types of secured areas have been added:

• Areas that sell generic weapons and amplifiers
  
• Areas that sell parts and amplifiers
  
• Areas that sell parts and alloy containers
  
• Areas that sell optimized parts
  
• Areas that sell advanced parts
  
• Areas that contribute generic part after every successful mission.
  
• Areas that contribute generic weapon after every successful mission.
  
• Areas that contribute amplifier after every successful mission.
  
• Areas that contribute optimized part after every successful mission.
  
• Areas that contribute advanced part after every successful mission.
  
• Areas that contribute fractal part after every successful mission.
  

Just posting to inform that the massive update that will introduce two new mission types, improved gameplay, new features and completely changed regions is still under development.

I was trying to release it last weekend, but I have found a lot of new glitches during the final test run, so I had to spend extra time fixing them.

The new plan is to release it before the end of the week, so the wait is not going to be long!

Here's a bit of what you'll get with the next update:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1201309792 http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1201309794 http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1201309788 I hope this looks good!

This week I have added siege missions, improved new game+ and began polishing new map system.

It seems that I'll need an extra week to finish map rework because the list of minor improvements I have to make has become really big.

Anyway, it's been a while since I have written about future updates.

As you probably know, after map rework I will finally be making story missions.
There are 9 missions left to go, a lot of them will be difficult to make, especially the ones close to the end.

There will be a journey to Sector Five, 7 fights against the Machines, important reveals, new characters and heaps of new content.

This might take me months to make, but these months will be very interesting!

I'm planning to sneak in smaller stuff with story missions on each update.

There are several things I want to add to take game closer to perfection.

One of those things is relics.

Item update back in June really helped to make higher tier items more interesting, but they aren't as good as legendary items in other loot games.

I always thought that random items are what makes a loot game, but I have to admit that I was wrong.
Hand-coded items with unique are just better than procedural items.

At least not with my item generator.

I think that lack of interesting items is the final gameplay flaw of Sector Six.

And I am going to fix it by adding relics!

I came up with the idea of relics by watching some video about Destiny 2.
Destiny 2 has legendary items and I was inspired to write a description of a legendary item for Sector Six.

I wrote one, then another one... And now I have a whole bunch of relics!
It's surprisingly easy, there's a lot of design space that I was not aware of.

Here are some of the relics:

Breakcharm Of Mara
Removes 40% of armour from first 10 minions in mission
Only works if Manifestations Of Destruction is active

Avadys, Atomic Collector
Increases damage by 2% on kill
Generates 1% armour on kill

Etherion's Fusion Reactor
+5 levels to Missile Strike ability
+5 levels to Concentrated Fire ability
+5 levels to Detonate ability

Mortal Core
+200% damage if you have transient container equipped
Generates 1 alloy on kill

Darkwork
-80% armour
Alloy containers will restore 10% of armour per alloy

Rifted Lure
+5 levels to Phase Recognition System
+300% phase break damage
Reduces phase break cooldown by 80 seconds
Only works if Risk For Reward is active

Ultranid's Hope
Damage you deal to your spaceship will not destroy it

Plasma's Link
Reduces Piercing Lasers cooldown by 30 seconds

Metasphere, Secondary Main Core
Your spaceship will not be destroyed for 5 seconds after armour drops to 0

Fractal Repository
Generates fractal part after every successful mission

Eternal Nodeno
Transforms Nine Bladed Mines into Thousand Bladed Mines
+30% node damage

Weaver's Song
Transforms Swarm Control into Spectral Barrage
+100% damage

Calm Of Vanadian, Mental Reactor
Azimar's Killframe set effect will not remove ether
Sets ether on kill to 0
Transforms Creation Of Energy into Glory Of Vanadian

Relarei To Burn Worlds
Reduces Death From Above cooldown to 0.5 seconds
Increases Missile Strike cooldown to 5 seconds
Removes 1% ether every second
+30% relay damage

I was planning to add some of those effects as small part sets, but this works much better!

I would like write more about relics but it's time for me to deal with a huge list of not-so-huge improvements and glitches.

Until next time!

This week I have added remaining 15 regions, improved secure regions, implemented part compression system and began working on siege missions.

The most interesting of these is part compression.



Part compression allows you to combine two parts into one!
Compressed parts are easier to manage and allow to built smaller spaceships.

Things you need know about compressed parts:

Compressed parts use 2 slots like two uncompressed items would.
Compressed weapons use 2 weapon slots.
You cannot compress different grade and different level parts.
Compressed parts cannot be compressed further.
Parts can be compressed in all cities and it costs 5 alloy.

Also, compressed part is two parts stat-wise, but physically it is one part.
Using compressed parts will make Awakening Of Inner Power and Creation Of Energy abilities weaker.
I am planning to adjust few more abilities to work like that and keep uncompressed parts viable.

So yeah, now you choose how big your spaceship will be!

To make part compression, I had to add few things to cities in secure regions.
One thing led to another and I have made several improvements to secure regions.

Most noticeable of them are graphical improvements.
Cities still don't look as good as I want them to look, but it's a step forward.

I have also made city entering and leaving faster and automatic, you no longer need to manually move your ship to the city.

Anyway, as I have planned, this week I have added remaining 15 regions.
Now Sector Six has 145 areas and it should take about 300 missions or 15 hours to secure all of them!
It's unnecessary and I don't recommend doing that, but it still feels good to have so much content.

With all of that done, only four things remain in to-do list:

Add siege mission.
Add endgame area and improve new game+.
Add a few minions.
Fix various minor problems.

I can probably do all of that in a week, so the update is close!

Hang in there!




http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1185253064

Map rework continues!
Last week I have added more regions, added contribution system, improved map interface further, relocated certain regions and changed story mission 5.

I would have done more, but I have burned out in the middle of the week and had to spend a whole day recovering.
Also, I had to help my parents to harvest beets, so didn't have much time to work on the game.

Coincidentally, I added a reward system that allows you to harvest free items!
To do that, you need to secure region that contributes parts, then complete mission in the other area of the region and hit the new "Collect" button in map interface to collect contributions.

There are 15 regions now out of planned 30.
I expect to have all regions added to the game next week.
I should have more time and remaining regions have no story missions, so I can add regions faster.

Here's the updated to do list from the previous echo:

Add 15 regions.
Add siege mission.
Add endgame area and improve new game+.
Add a few minions.
Add part compression.
Improve secure regions further.
Fix various minor problems.

Adding one region takes about 10-20 minutes, including adding decorations and naming the areas, so it should be done quickly.
And yes, now I give a unique name to each area.

The interesting thing about area names is that they aren't gibberish.
If you will pay attention to them, you may find out a lot about Sector Six.

For example, Archmist region area names: Colowa, Phasia, Kor, Negatar and Mzenor.

They are archaic names of Negati, Phase, Colowis, Tridenkor and Mzenim.
That's because sentient life in Sector Six began in Archmist asteroids.

People from Phasia colonized region now known as Phase, it was the centre of Phasian civilization.
People from Kor later have conquered Phase and created Empire of Kor.

Which later shattered and turned into three smaller empires of Tri, Den and Kor.

Even later those empires were conquered by nations from Colowa, Mzenor and Negatar.

People of Tri, Den and Kor fled to a distant region that they have called Tridenkor.

Tridenkor region is going to have only one area called Innexis.
And in the Almadi language "Innex" means "Unity".
From the word "In" - "One".

A lot of area names mean something in Almadi language, they will start making more sense as I will develop the Almadi language and reveal more of its words.

I rarely write about this, but a lot of names and features in Sector Six have stories behind them.

Anyway, I have relocated certain regions and added new regions.

Here's a new list of regions: (And names of upcoming story missions for hype!)

Region level / Region name / Region mission

Level 1 / Deep Path / The Beginning
Level 2 / Negati / To Negati
Level 3 / Labyrinth / The Almadi Knowledge
Level 4 / The Core / The Core
Level 5 / Aspil / The Eight Keys
Level 6 / Pylon / The Eight Keys
Level 7 / Niss / The Eight Keys
Level 8 / Archmist / The Eight Keys
Level 9 / Sailemar / The Eight Keys
Level 10 / Ityl / The Eight Keys
Level 11 / Paradise / The Eight Keys
Level 12 / Tarion / The Eight Keys
Level 13 / Tridenkor / The Wrath Of The Machines
Level 14 / Colowis / The Wrath Of The Machines
Level 15 / Mzenim / The Wrath Of The Machines
Level 16 / Broken Labyrinth / The Origin
Level 17 / High Path / Path Beyond
Level 18 / Gallamar / Beyond Light
Level 19 / White Grid / Beyond Light
Level 20 / Eolutch / The Edge
Level 21 / Pulsar Vector / Broken Worlds
Level 22 / Bloom / Broken Worlds
Level 23 / Lumer Pass / Broken Worlds
Level 24 / Wacar / Broken Worlds
Level 25 / Venerion / Broken Worlds
Level 26 / Phase / Broken Worlds
Level 27 / Nebula / Broken Worlds
Level 28 / Spiral / Broken Worlds
Level 29 / Rift / The Birth Of Infinity
Level 30 / Broken Infinity / The Eight Machines

As you can see story mission 5 - The Eight Keys - is spread through 8 regions.
It used to work better with old map system because it's not designed to be linear, but I can't do anything about it now.

Besides that, the new map system works well and I can continue developing it =]
It should be finished in two more weeks.

Next week I am planning to work on secure regions, I'm going to make cities look better and add part compression.

That's all I have for this echo, so until next time!

Last week I have done a huge part of map rework and added arena mission.

Arena mission works just like I have described it in the previous echo and map rework is going really well!
I have already changed most of the things to work with the new map system.

Left to do:

• Change story mission 5 to work with the new map system.
  
• Relocate and rename several regions.
  
• Add 27 remaining regions.
  
• Add contribution system.
  
• Add siege mission.
  
• Add endgame area and improve new game+.
  
• Add a few minions.
  
• Add part compression.
  
• Improve secure regions further.
  
• Fix various minor problems.