Greetings Star Commanders! To get onto the beta branch, go to your library. Right click on “Star Command Galaxies” and go to properties. Go to the BETA tab and select “Public Beta.” We are so excited to begin rolling out Alpha 10 through the public beta branch. This represents a ton of hard work over the last six months. Let us start by acknowledging the long wait between releases. We think that the numerous changes, fixes, upgrades and additions are worth the wait. We can’t wait to start re-engaging with the community as we move back to our regular update schedules with our stable release. So what’s new?

EVERYTHING!

Basically the game is brand new.

• Brand new UI
• Completely reworked mouse and controls
• Over 300+ bug fixes. New ships
• New weapons
• New kits
• New missions
• New tutorial
• Melee combat
• Physics
• Revised lighting
• Balance across the board.

In other words: we highly recommend this update. But a few things first: Loading take a long time! This will be optimized over time and it primarily has to do with the amount of LUA’s in the game for mod support. For now please be patient when you start or continue a game (up to a minute or so). If something breaks, quit the game and restart We have done as much testing as a 5 person team can do but we definitely missed some major league things. If something breaks we recommend that you save and try to reload. If the game still won't work quit out to desktop then restart and reload. That should do the trick. We will continue bug fixing as we go. Take screenshots of errors If you get an error in the console please click on the red text and take a screenshot of the expanded message. Please submit the screenshot and circumstances around the error to our steam forums. This would be greatly appreciated. Previous save games won't work Sorry folks, those old saved games aren’t compatible with the new release. Time to start that new crew! Please help us with resolution problems We have been doing our best to work with all resolutions, in particular anything around 1280x720. The game was built around 1920x1080 monitors so we do HIGHLY recommend running in that mode if you can. Please take any screen shots and list the resolution you are in if you are seeing some funky things with the new UI. The starting text will be an animated sequence at release You will see an block of text at the beginning of the game. This is the set up for your goals and will be video upon release. But it does help set the scene and give you your over arching goals. Games end This release basically ends after you destroy the pirate space station. Our next update will add the second portion of the game where you meet the other alien races and build your coalition. Enough talk. Go try it out and tell us what you think. Post any bugs in our forums. Let’s do this thing! Cheers, Warballoon

[ 2016-10-29 03:10:43 CET ] [ Original post ]