Azulgar 0.46

It has been a long time, too long, but new content update is finaly here. New way of aquiring resources has been added to the game. You can upgrade your ship with asteroid drill and mine asteroids. This will give you more yield than salvaging the debris with salvage laser. Asteroids have different pockets of resources in them, you have to scan the asteroid to see where the deposits you want are. You can then choose what to mine. Scanning speed is determined by your sensors module. Mining speed by the number of drills on your ship.

Other content updates in this release are cockpit view and ship tab in inventory window, where you can view your ship's stats and modules. Another small feature is that content of your inventory now spawns after death into a cargo box.

On a slightly different note. Azulgar Star Commanders has been in Early Access since 2017. We started as a team of people, but soon after release whole team fell apart due to lack of funding. Since 2018 it has been mostly me developing the game alone in my spare time. Volunteers came and went, mostly 3d artists who left their footprint, but 99% of code in the game was done by me. Hence the reason development is extremely slow. But it won't stop. Following is a roadmap of planned features, without any specific timeframes. Tomas „Muad'Dib” Koza

Roadmap:

Bugfixes & Rebalance

• list of multiplayer & audio bugfixes

• rebalancing mining yields and ship building costs

World Generation

• more sector variability and uniqueness

• resources spread across different sectors

Map Improvements

• show debris and asteroids on map

• add option to zoom out to whole star system to see other planets

AI Enemies

• neutral enemies to shoot at and shoot back at you.

Player Stations

• ability to construct stations

• serve as respawn point and resource storage

Player Capital Ships

• ability to construct higher tier ships

• similar to stations, but can fly like regular ships

Research

• unlocking new parts based on research and collecting blueprints

Trading

• trading stations to sell and buy resources and blueprints

Quests and NPC's

• generated quests and NPC ships to interact with

Version 0.46 Gameplay Changes:

• asteroid mining mechanic added

• cockpit view added

• new tab with ship stats added to inventory

• cargo box with inventory spawns after death