Hello all since my last post in january, I have been continuing to work on the game and have been doing lots of updates, but often I just seem to get absorbed in doing it and it never seems to be a good time to do a post, so I am sorry about that. I do, however always post about it on the Discord, so if interested, please come and join myself and other players here: https://discordapp.com/invite/DCnp3Vp I've been asked about when the game will be finished and the general plan - really I just intend to keep working on it until it feels complete. I enjoy adding things to the game, so if im tired etc, will often add a new anomaly, or weapon etc just for fun. In general though, I am planning on adding 2 more "capital" star systems with a new non playable race in each I also intend at least 2 more races other than those. I also am working on some occasional events - these will generally be some king of tough "mega" boss ships that I hope players will need to team up to hunt down and take on. With some unique loot. Longer term I would like to also have some special star systems where player can build their own stations and battle for territory. Aside from that I would like to add more mission types.

Highlights since January

• Ara - Aralien capital system. Safe haven for those friendly to the Aralien Empire, Harsh challenge for enemies
• Church of Megmos - Religious group that reside in Ara that have weapons more designed to heal each other and pacify enemies rather than destroy. Giving you a few more "support" options
• AI hunters - occasionally if you destroy a high level ship in enemy territory, a hunter will be despatched to come and hunt you down - these hunters are always custom designed legendary ships
• some ultra rare AI only weapons to spice things up usually a more different version of an existing weapon
• Lots of new weapons and items. Now up to: 1432 weapons, 1945 items total
• Annihilator - big Aralien ship, now 96 playable ships, 172 total
• New in station humanoid/aralienoid characters - look better, have new animations and actions e.g. salute, dance, wave
• New planets, structures, skins, anomalies, random sector events, random encounters. Wandering black hole is a recent addition. Lots of rare things to stumble across sometimes
• Loads of balancing changes/tweaks all thanks to the excellent game community

Beta 0.33.7 Changes:

• 2 New sector events
• Fixes to offline Mode
• New Weapon: Piranha Rocket
• Fixes to survey mission rewards
• New Red Mist Augmentations: Accelerator, Strafer and Reloader
• Stealth should now hide all parts of ship when there are multiple parts e.g turrets and forkworms
• Old news should get deleted properly now
• AI NPR ships should no longer equip 2 deathtraps and other aug restrictions
• Fixed problem with retargetter
• Fixed some mission editor issues
• Asteroids will now bounce off barrier walls, (but not reliably)
• New Race progressed
• Some minor fixes

Beta 0.33.6 Changes:

• More storage
• New Utility: Mining Charge
• Fixed issue with bounty in offline mode
• Fixed a way to switch to high mass ship in low mass system using cargo screen
• Tank shield now reduces a few points of projectile damage per projectile - making it useful against vulcan & scatter cannon
• Fixed an error with the mission editor
• Fixed a problem with missions reloading as low level missions
• Fixed an issue with the ammo harvester & large weapons
• Fixed issue with hunter facing the wrong way when entering your sector
• More planet text thanks to ReThink
• Minefield generator should now give you xp/credit for your kills with it
• Ai ships should hopefully no longer have multiple deathtraps equipped
• Fixed an issue with broadside/radial weapons
• Mining lasers should have range affected by nebula sectors again
• Fixed an issue with the tractor beam sometimes being too strong
• News race & capital star systems progressed as well as the megabosses
• Some typo fixes
• Stat changes to dephase, fast charging shield, tank shield
• Some other small fixes

Beta 0.33.5 Changes:

• New leaderboard for bounty + monthly leaderboard for a few things
• New leaderboard terminal in stations
• Mission should now all save progress over sessions
• You can now view stats etc of weapons not in station before locating
• Replaced Cluster Mine Bomb with Minefield Generator
• New weapon: Interceptor Torpedo
• New Augmentation: Turret Overdrive
• New Weapon: Roid Wrecker
• +100 more to storage cap
• Fixed error with tyraan decoy
• Fixed some issues with vendetta + crossing sectors
• Fixed some issues with Volleys
• Some new planet lore, thanks to Rethink
• Fixed issues with signal booster
• New Races + Capital Systems progressed
• Retargetter and solarion barrier stats changed
• Other fixes

Beta 0.33.4 Changes:

• New station humanoid actions, try primary fire, secondary fire, augmentation when in stations. + some new dances
• New Devimon Relic
• New Planet
• New achievements based around level/rank
• Storage cap increased
• Fixed issue with weapon exhausts on torpedos mounted on ships
• Fixed issue with shield indicator on ship pointers
• Fixed a booming sound issue when in coop squads
• Fixed issue with heavy bolt volley firing invisible projectile and stopping firing on hit
• Fixed some other loot issues
• Fixed rear black light bombard
• Fixed neck seam issue on station humanoids
• Stopped it telling you you lost your bounty when in fact you claimed it
• Mega bosses progressed
• Capital star systems progressed
• New race progressed
• Other small fixes

Beta 0.33.3 Changes:

• New motion captured waving animation for station humanoids
• Triple teleporting stinger removed, teleporting javelin added
• Fixes to offline mode tutorial
• Bounty now saved so should remain between sessions
• Hopefully fixed assassination missions finishing suddenly
• Fixed a problem with crafting telling you you didnt have enough of a mineral even though you did
• Jump gates recharging your hyperspace: should now remember that its done this after death
• Weapon tweaks: Murk, Hammerhead
• Minor fixes

Beta 0.33.2 Changes:

• Adjusted how hyperspace/ recharger booster works
• Fixed: Chain laser not chaining
• Fixed: Red mist horn error
• Heavy bolt volley fixed (now fires full volley)
• AI Hunt error message fixed
• Triple Teleporting Stinger added
• Teleport jammer fixed
• Some other small fixes

Beta 0.33.1 Changes:

• New Church of Megmos boss ship
• New church large weapon: Sanctuary Barrier
• Some other small fixes

Beta 0.33.0 Changes:

• Aralien Capital Star System: Ara - Safe for Integrationists, Harsh for all others
• New Bounty System - build up bounty by killing random enemies and cash in by docking.
• New Non playable faction: Church of Megmos (needs more work)
• Deathtraps now make a sound
• Adjusted how Effect Nourish works - now intensifies effects rather than extending duration
• New Mission types
• Fixes to hunters
• Fixes to solarion shield
• Some new surpises added
• New planets
• Stat changes: Null Cannon, Null Bolter, Intensifying Tractor Beam
• Front Facing shield, Back Facing shield
• More torpedo exhausts
• Other minor fixes

Beta 0.32.7 Changes:

• Higher level ships should now spawn in higher level systems
• Adjustments fixes to loot/crates dropped during missions and in warzones

Beta 0.32.6 Changes:

• Can now stack up to 10 items in a (non mineral) storage slot (storage, not cargo)
• Some more craftable blueprints added to stations including 2 new weapons: HV electrojectile and Plasma Broadside
• New dances added - can change via options menu, but they dont yet save
• Fixed some errors with legendary loadouts + should hopefully give a nicer error if they do break
• New disruption visual effect, pretty cool i think
• Ammo harvester now works for larges that only allow 1 ammo
• Dartian sphere fits in scanner window + possibly in background of adjacent sectors
• New Relic
• Some mission editor fixes
• Sticky mines should now go through dephased things
• Some other small things

Beta 0.32.5 Changes:

• New Humanoid/Aralienoid models in stations + new animations (try holding secondary fire button)
• New Weapon: Field Hop mine
• Hunters now on by default
• Fixes to ammo harvester, let me know if theres still issues with large weapons
• Fixed issue with joypad start button toggling hud (hopefully)
• Fixed issue with getting a free shot if holding down secondary fire while weapon reloads
• Co-op mission fixes
• Mission editor fixes (sector events + other minor things)
• Fixes to Mining droids (thanks darty)
• Fixes to issues with shooting asteroids to get ore out
• Andromedan Ram Fixes
• New Races progressed
• Megabosses progressed
• Few weapon stat tweaks that i forgot last time
• Other small fixes

Beta 0.32.4 Changes:

• Lots of stat changes to primary weapons to make them faster and more useful
• Changes to ascendant weapons + shield
• 2 new ghost weapons
• New anomaly in GV
• Fixed error with collecting sensitive cargo when cargo is full
• Ascendant shield now also affects damage done by ship effects applies by NPR weapons
• Minor fixes

Beta 0.32.3 Changes:

• New Gilded skin added
• Refine/Enrich missions added
• Fixed the problem with endless waves of ships spawning at stations during coop squad missions
• Ammo harvester now can restock large weapons + fixed an issue with how long it takes
• Can now shoot asteroids with primary/dumbfire weapons to get minerals out of them
• Fixes to errors caused by AI Hunt/Named legendary
• New levels of burst weapons added
• Sticky MCB fixed
• Burst vulcan cannon removed
• Burst Sheenite Chevron added
• Sector change cooldown now only applies to vendetta targets
• Fixed age old problem with hyperspace being jammed messing up autopilot
• Mining droids adjusted to pick better targets i.e. not ones zooming past or out of sector
• Fixed some issues with ammo refunding sometimes giving wrong amount
• Fixed hyperspace harvester
• Ascendants have a location in the Chaos Engine, but will only be there sometimes
• Fixed issue with red mist horns being wrong angle on hydra
• New star systems progressed
• Lots of minor tweaks and fixes

Beta 0.32.2 Changes:

• New Refining quantity drop down to make refining/enriching easier
• Return to Sender, scrambler etc now have a max range
• New Augmentation: Radar enhancer
• Portals adjusted (+ sneaky new portal)
• Proton Beam and Salvager beam now no longer hit an invisible item in the centre of the sector
• Ingi Onagers no longer collide with each other
• Strange issue with unexploded bombs going off in next sector fixed
• Dartian mining droid should now get the more efficient rate that it claims
• New Ascendant Broadside
• Ascendant Investigation spawns no longer part of the human alliance
• Tractor beam stat adjustments
• Probably some other things, I lost track a bit

Beta 0.32.1 Changes:

• New Race added
• New sector event added
• Some fixes to the AI Hunt system
• Can now cancel hyperspace if quick enough with the key again
• Fixes for issues with getting outside spacestations (on foot) sometimes
• New Turret Beacons: Gao, Tobor, Tyraan
• New Relic
• Some New Tobor Adverts thanks to TmickyD
• Fixes to stuff being in loot that shouldn't be
• Deep scan and stealth status now dont show at the same time
• Fixes to oculus quest 2 tutorial (I hope)
• Other smaller fixes

Beta 0.32.0 Changes:

• AI Hunters: opt in via options, beta occasionally have an AI ship trying to hunt you down across sectors. Hunts are activated sometimes when destroying high level ships in a high threat rating sector (when not doing a mission)
• Some new Rare asteroids
• Bunch of ultra rare AI use only weapons: Flaming Onager, Radicane, Radii Slug Barrage to name a few
• New devimon weapons: Curse Seeker, Fire Blast
• New random encounter
• Bunch of grammar fixes
• Jammer guard formations should only be at jammers now
• Lots of other minor fixes

Beta 0.31.4 Changes:

• Fixed issues with microgates dropping that shouldnt (hopefully) + shouldnt keep getting IB gates if you already have one - let me know
• Hopefully fixed the issue with spawning on a crate causing issues - let me know
• PvP matches should now tell you why you cant join when you mouse over the sector
• Some new surprises
• New planet
• Background stars/dust working again
• Planet: Sanaras visible again
• Can now hack effect jammers
• Battles (orange sectors) now removed
• Lots of error fixes
• New races progressing

Beta 0.31.3 Changes:

• AI ships will occasionally launch escape pods on death (as if run out of lives)
• 4 new random sector events
• New relic (a fun one)
• Fixes to coop mode missions
• Fixes to issues with chronos and other exhausts + them not disappearing during stealth
• Whirlers nerfed a bit
• Fixes to some errors coming up
• Some other small bug fixes

Beta 0.31.2 Changes:

• New Ship: Annihilator
• New visual effects for shield repair, energy recharge
• New mission: Station Defence
• New mission type: Challenge - this is to be some missions to be done in a particular ship. I will add extra secondary objectives to them later
• Igni Onager no longer collides with your own onagers
• Progress to new race
• Weapons mounts added to imposer and diomedes
• Guided friendly teleport disc now works properly
• Fixed issue with burst weapon accuracy
• Some minor fixes

Beta 0.31.1 Changes:

• Work done on stealth systems/ai sight - hopefully will resolve some issues - but might cause new ones, fingers crossed
• Tweaks done to custom missions: will no longer give money reward unless approved. On end events will happen at the end. regardless of the time. Reward values capped.
• Minion count will be shown next to friendlies
• Hopefully fixed bug with tornadian storms finish missions early
• New races progressed
• Lots new legendaries from iNSaNiTY
• Red mist booster adjusted