Major Features / Enhancements

New Tutorial Mode teaches basic game concepts. Access Tutorial Mode by selecting “Learn to Play” from the pause menu or by picking Tutorial Outpost EZ-101 on the Galaxy Map. New Goals Screen tracks player progress towards persistent goals, such as “50 citizens on base”, “Researched all technologies”, etc. Later in the game hostile forces now show up in greater numbers and combinations, culminating in a visit from the Pirate Megafleet once your base becomes successful enough. Survive the onslaught to complete the game’s hardest goal.

Minor Improvements / Bug Fixes

All “Famous Citizen” tier customer names added to Credits and random citizen name pool.
Disaster Menu can be enabled with a secret key combination and used to unleash disasters on your base.
Many new sound effects, including crowd noises in rooms based on their current population.
Many small UI polish items. Look and feel of UI in the Citizen/Zone/Object Inspectors is now more consistent.
Brig and Residence assignment UI improvements: X button to clear an assignment, clicking the assignment button a second time cancels out of pick mode.
"Execute" button in citizen action tab causes security to immediately target this citizen. Use responsibly!
Asteroids are treated like walls for the purposes of object placement.
Citizens who are sleeping in beds that get destroyed wake up and become annoyed.
Clicking an object in the Contents section of a container’s Stats Tab selects it.
Improved mouse wheel, middle mouse, and keyboard view zoom behaviors.
Vaporizing a wall with an object hanging on it vaporizes the object and refunds its matter.
Dropped research datacubes will preserve their “claimed for research” state. Scientists will try to drop them off somewhere in the base even if there isn’t a Research Lab.
Citizens flee when someone is having a tantrum nearby.
Emergency Alarms in rooms with no/disabled alarm panels turn off.
Price of Dark Matter Reactor increased from 450 to 600.
Tooltip for a research datacube shows the blueprint it contains.
New Spaceface logs: cuffed, escaped from brig, needs shelving, security starts exploring a beacon, security finishes exploring a beacon.
Duty skill increases when morale is high, up to a 25% bonus per duty task.
Security citizens take their helmets off if they get into a brawl with another citizen.
"Flavor" text and descriptions for all objects that were lacking them.
Start new bases with time paused.
Balance: Many small changes to citizen morale and duty efficiency.
Balance: Turret damage output increased.
Balance: Buildable objects are more resilient.
Fixed: Dozens of crashes and AI issues.
Fixed: Scrollable views such as the Job Roster don’t display correctly in non-16:9 aspect ratios.
Fixed: Decals remain after a tile is vaporized.
Fixed: On loading a savegame, citizens who were sleeping are awake and restart their sleep cycle.
Fixed: White helmets display on citizens when playing certain animations.
Fixed: Citizens exercise, play games, and hang out in functioning airlocks.
Fixed: Lower right UI buttons shift to left even if there are not enough alerts to warrant this.
Fixed: Job Roster columns highlight on hover incorrectly.
Fixed: Non-citizens in unclaimed derelicts do not react to dangerous situations.
Fixed: Botanists do not repair damaged or destroyed hydroponics cultures.
Fixed: Citizen talk and thought bubbles do not draw correctly.
Fixed: Exiting Job Roster / Research Assignment screens minimizes the Hint pane.
Fixed: Killbots bleed.
Fixed: Killbots get sick.
Fixed: Player can hover and select some objects or rooms within hidden areas.
Fixed: Security duty citizens flee in rooms with active alarms while doing certain tasks.
Fixed: Removed debug power visualization mode.
Fixed: Security Beacon location isn’t preserved across save+load.
Fixed: Flipped text on the Alarm Panel.
Fixed: Turrets in space can’t be deactivated.
Fixed: Breach ships don’t play VFX when taking damage or exploding.
Fixed: Text overlaps UI in several miscellaneous places.
Fixed: Matter counts up/down from previous session’s total when starting a new base.

[ 2014-10-27 19:09:21 CET ] [ Original post ]

Spacebase DF-9 1.0 released

Major Features / Enhancements

New Tutorial Mode teaches basic game concepts. Access Tutorial Mode by selecting Learn to Play from the pause menu or by picking Tutorial Outpost EZ-101 on the Galaxy Map. New Goals Screen tracks player progress towards persistent goals, such as 50 citizens on base, Researched all technologies, etc. Later in the game hostile forces now show up in greater numbers and combinations, culminating in a visit from the Pirate Megafleet once your base becomes successful enough. Survive the onslaught to complete the games hardest goal.

Minor Improvements / Bug Fixes

All Famous Citizen tier customer names added to Credits and random citizen name pool.
Disaster Menu can be enabled with a secret key combination and used to unleash disasters on your base.
Many new sound effects, including crowd noises in rooms based on their current population.
Many small UI polish items. Look and feel of UI in the Citizen/Zone/Object Inspectors is now more consistent.
Brig and Residence assignment UI improvements: X button to clear an assignment, clicking the assignment button a second time cancels out of pick mode.
"Execute" button in citizen action tab causes security to immediately target this citizen. Use responsibly!
Asteroids are treated like walls for the purposes of object placement.
Citizens who are sleeping in beds that get destroyed wake up and become annoyed.
Clicking an object in the Contents section of a containers Stats Tab selects it.
Improved mouse wheel, middle mouse, and keyboard view zoom behaviors.
Vaporizing a wall with an object hanging on it vaporizes the object and refunds its matter.
Dropped research datacubes will preserve their claimed for research state. Scientists will try to drop them off somewhere in the base even if there isnt a Research Lab.
Citizens flee when someone is having a tantrum nearby.
Emergency Alarms in rooms with no/disabled alarm panels turn off.
Price of Dark Matter Reactor increased from 450 to 600.
Tooltip for a research datacube shows the blueprint it contains.
New Spaceface logs: cuffed, escaped from brig, needs shelving, security starts exploring a beacon, security finishes exploring a beacon.
Duty skill increases when morale is high, up to a 25% bonus per duty task.
Security citizens take their helmets off if they get into a brawl with another citizen.
"Flavor" text and descriptions for all objects that were lacking them.
Start new bases with time paused.
Balance: Many small changes to citizen morale and duty efficiency.
Balance: Turret damage output increased.
Balance: Buildable objects are more resilient.
Fixed: Dozens of crashes and AI issues.
Fixed: Scrollable views such as the Job Roster dont display correctly in non-16:9 aspect ratios.
Fixed: Decals remain after a tile is vaporized.
Fixed: On loading a savegame, citizens who were sleeping are awake and restart their sleep cycle.
Fixed: White helmets display on citizens when playing certain animations.
Fixed: Citizens exercise, play games, and hang out in functioning airlocks.
Fixed: Lower right UI buttons shift to left even if there are not enough alerts to warrant this.
Fixed: Job Roster columns highlight on hover incorrectly.
Fixed: Non-citizens in unclaimed derelicts do not react to dangerous situations.
Fixed: Botanists do not repair damaged or destroyed hydroponics cultures.
Fixed: Citizen talk and thought bubbles do not draw correctly.
Fixed: Exiting Job Roster / Research Assignment screens minimizes the Hint pane.
Fixed: Killbots bleed.
Fixed: Killbots get sick.
Fixed: Player can hover and select some objects or rooms within hidden areas.
Fixed: Security duty citizens flee in rooms with active alarms while doing certain tasks.
Fixed: Removed debug power visualization mode.
Fixed: Security Beacon location isnt preserved across save+load.
Fixed: Flipped text on the Alarm Panel.
Fixed: Turrets in space cant be deactivated.
Fixed: Breach ships dont play VFX when taking damage or exploding.
Fixed: Text overlaps UI in several miscellaneous places.
Fixed: Matter counts up/down from previous sessions total when starting a new base.

[ 2014-10-27 19:09:21 CET ] [ Original post ]

In Spacebase DF-9, you'll build a home among the stars for a motley population of humans and aliens as they go about their daily lives. Mine asteroids, discover derelicts, and deal with the tribulations of galactic resettlement in Earth's distant future. Meteor impacts! Explosive decompression! Unbearable loneliness!

Key Features:

Base Construction

Build your base using available matter and expand by mining more from nearby asteroids.
Gradually expand from a small oxygen-filled room to a thriving, well-decorated hub.
Build Gardens, Pubs, Fitness and Research facilities, and more.

Citizen Management

Assign citizens to duties to ensure survival-critical duties are performed efficiently.
Monitor citizen needs to ensure overall morale, balancing duty demands with citizen happiness.

Base Defense

Send security forces to investigate mysterious derelicts that appear near the base.
Fend off hostile invaders as well as parasites that
Construct turrets to lend firepower to hostile

Research and Progression

Research new equipment, armor, weapons, and base structures.
Discover blueprints for new technologies aboard derelict ships.
Research cures for deadly space diseases.

MINIMAL SETUPOS: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. fully updated
Processor: 1.8 GHz dual core CPUMemory: 1 GB RAM
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: 256 MB GeForce 8800. Radeon HD 2000. or Intel HD 4000 Graphics
Storage: 200 MB available space

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