Just when you thought you were safe, a Star Ruler 2 update arrives from inside the house! As always, read about some of the highlights below, or scroll down for a full detailed changelog. Interested in Multiplayer? Join our Dev-astation Friday multiplayer game.

The Flying Dutchman

In the spirit of Halloween the skies are now roamed by a ghastly pirate ship with a craving for booty. The flying dutchman will hunt civilian trade ships in systems with weak defenses, taking the cargo it stole back to its hoard stations, hidden in deep space. After halloween, the flying dutchman will revert to just being the plundering Dread Pirate. The pirate mechanic can be turned off from the game options menu.

The Revenant & Artifacts

Spread across the universe are 4 new unique artifacts. Each of the four parts of The Revenant, an ancient forbidden warship, give a permanent bonus to your ships when activated. Have all 4 activated at the same time and gain control over The Revenant as a whole, the most powerful ship in the universe! In addition, this update has various new artifacts and improvements to old artifacts, ranging from equippable Ion Cannon disabler beams to artifacts with the power to generate entire new planets and star systems. Thankfully, the addition of the Tractor Beam subsystem lets you pull those shiny new artifacts away from the greedy hands of other empires.

Random Design Generation

The design editor now includes a randomizer! You can set up some simple parameters and let the game generate random designs for you until you find one you like - for use or to further edit into your own design. The AI also makes use of the new random designer, and will now make completely unique ship designs in every game.

Full Changelog

Added:

Add automatic design generator. Simply press a button in the design editor, and receive a randomly generated design.
Ship icons are now based on the design.
Add "Rush" and "Call Out" influence cards.
Add art for the fusion and antimatter reactors.
Added a tractor beam capable of pulling ships, asteroids, artifacts and orbitals.
Added unique artifact parts of The Revenant. Activating each gives a passive bonus and having all parts active allows you to control the most powerful warship in the universe. (Can be turned off from game options)
Add two planetary weapons.
Added and overhauled a number of Artifacts for better gameplay.
Add some hint messages when players crash their economy, explaining what is happening.
Add Dread Pirate mechanic. The dread pirate roams the galaxy killing civilian ships and storing its loot in deep space stations. Killing it or its stations gives you the money.

Changed:

Votes show the time remaining before it passes/fails, based on how the vote is currently going.
Rebalanced many influence cards to provide varying incentives for their use.
Unusable resources explain why they are unusabled.

Fixed:

Fix situations where flagships could drop supports while in FTL.
Activating hyperdrives for multiple fleets via the action bar works correctly.
The AI could attempt to order billions of supports into a damaged flagship's fleet, destroying its economy.

Balanced:

Capitalism can't start with more than one leverage against a given empire.
Damage reduced by armor can't be reduced to lower than 20% (up from 12.5%)
Repair requires and consumes supply.
FTL Interdiction applies to fling destinations.

AI:

The AI designs new ships over time.

[ 2014-10-31 01:57:29 CET ] [ Original post ]

Star Ruler 2
Blind Mind Studios

Developer

Blind Mind Studios

Publisher

2015-03-27

Release

Strategy Singleplayer Multiplayer Coop

Galactic Economy

Colonize planets, each with one of dozens of resources, working in unison to create bustling centers of production. The resources you choose matter, and will guide your empire and its conflicts throughout the entire game.

Custom Ships

Design ships that fit your needs, strategies, and tactics using our new 'blueprint painting' approach to ship design. Quickly and intuitively lay out the armor, weapons, engines, and internals of your vessels.

Politics with Power

Diplomacy and influence gathering are reinvented as a core mechanic of the game, giving meaningful alternative options to players and serving as a platform of interaction both between players and AIs as well as humans in multiplayer. Harness your influence to annex territory, spy on enemies, aid allies, and more! You truly have the opportunity to affect the political landscape.

Massive Scale

Running on our internally developed Starflare Engine, Star Ruler 2 is able to make full use of multi-core cpus, and runs on both 32 bit and 64 bit machines. The size of a galaxy is only limited by your hardware and ambitions!

Intricate Research

Expand your knowledge through a grid of numerous technologies, big and small. Improve nearly every aspect of your empire.

Complete Moddability

You can modify the gameplay, graphics, interface, and virtually every other facet of the game through scripts and data files, giving unprecedented freedom to the modding community to implement any feature they want. Use the in-game mod editor to add or change most content, and upload your mod to the Steam Workshop!

Full Multiplayer

Star Ruler 2 features complete multiplayer support with up to 28 players and AIs in the same game.

Games above 8 players or in galaxies of several hundred systems may exceed the capacity of a typical home connection. Consider playing very large games on LAN.

Cross-Platform Support

Star Ruler 2 supports both Windows and Linux, with all game features supported fully on and between both operating systems.

MINIMAL SETUPOS: Linux
Processor: SSE2 Capable processorMemory: 1 GB RAM
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: AMD or Nvidia Graphics card w/ 512MB RAM. OpenGL 2.1 SupportNetwork: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 600 MB available spaceAdditional Notes: Broadband required for internet play.
RECOMMENDED SETUPOS: Linux
Processor: Intel Core i7 or AMD Phenom IIMemory: 2 GB RAM
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 460 w/ 1GB RAMNetwork: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 600 MB available space

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