Hi ! It's been some time since our last update, with a hot, busy summer taking some time away from development. We're back !

Our next update

We've promised you a new patch since July this year, but it has since snowballed into a much larger update to address recurring issues with the game. The current list of changes includes :

• Scannable artifacts in the world to unlock for research points and lore details
• A completely re-worked AI for the game's companies, fixing a few long-standing issues with contracts
• An auto-trade technology to automate your fleet in end-game
• Two new sectors
• Weapon balancing
• Plenty of bugs fixed

We still don't have a firm date for this version's completion, as we'd like to resolve as many long-term issues as possible, and testing all of them together. The changes in the economy are large enough that we might release a Beta version first, before moving on to the main branch.

Getting out of Early Access

We initially planned for a brief Early Access period of only six months, but clearly, the game needed more work than we assumed. Once the upcoming feature update is released, we'll finally be ready to mark the game as finished ! The transition out of Early Access will not change anything for you. The price of the game will not be changed, and we will keep responding to bug reports. We'll probably have to release additional patches to fix new issues. It will only be the end of an active development period where new features were expected, and bugs more likely to be found.

Speaking of bugs...

Helium Rain had its share of bugs, like any Early Access game. We never like seeing players affected by issues, though it is hard for a small company to test every update in depth while in Early Access. We would like our final game to be as bug-free as possible. To help us achieving that goal, please make sure you report issues you see on our bug tracker. We'll just ask for your save file, or your crash report file, and we'll use that to make the game better for you :) This also applies to the Linux platform in particular, since our initial support had quite a few issues. Now is the time to tell us if you have weird bugs... We'll be back soon with our new update - stay tuned !

[ 2018-09-03 15:09:37 CET ] [ Original post ]