Major quality of life update, mostly backend stuff but some new game things.
v1.23
Platforms:
- Windows 64 bit version has been added (32 bit version still available for 32 bit systems)
- Mac 64 bit version, playable on Mac once again
- Linux 64 bit version, no more Linux 32 bit support
Game:
- New music track, the Solar 1 theme
- Updated Mouse controls. Reset the tutorials in the Options menu to see how they work.
- Instant Spawn Menu added to God Options. Unlocks when the game is beaten. Allows you to spawn or shoot objects with the mouse.
- New missions screen that allows you to easily replay any mission.
- Camera now zooms out further with larger systems.
- Slightly improved graphical and audio quality. This is why the game files are larger.
Options:
- Interface scaling, increase or decrease the size of the interface
- Borderless windowed mode added
- Improved menu screens
Backend:
- Data has been moved to "Documents/My Games/Solar2".
- New config file. It contains some advanced options.
- A controls file has been added that allows manual keyboard or controller remapping. Instructions inside the file.
- No external dependencies required. No longer requires XNA to be installed.
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Solar 2 is an open-world, sandbox game set in an infinite abstract universe. Play constructively: grow your system, nurture life on your planets and attack enemy life in huge space battles. Play destructively: crash into other objects and cause chaos, use your orbiting objects like wrecking balls, steal planets from other systems.
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Play constructively: grow your system, nurture life on your planets and attack enemy life in huge space battles. Play destructively: crash into other objects and cause chaos, use your orbiting objects like wrecking balls, steal planets from other systems in an open-world, sandbox game set in an infinite abstract universe.
In most games you see stars in the background, you shoot asteroids or you live on planets. But in Solar 2 you ARE these objects! Enter a universe where you must prove yourself to the resident god-like figure by doing its many bizarre and varied tasks. Or just ignore it and see how big you can grow!
Solar 2 is an open-world, sandbox game set in an infinite abstract universe. Play constructively: grow your system, nurture life on your planets and attack enemy life in huge space battles. Play destructively: crash into other objects and cause chaos, use your orbiting objects like wrecking balls, steal planets from other systems.
Key features:
Dynamic abstract sandbox universe. Changes and evolves as you do.
Non-linear missions and open-world gameplay.
No boundaries. Drift forever in ambient space bliss.