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Full Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift update
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We've been busy incorporating your feedback and building out the game — and today we're releasing something we've wanted to make for a while: the Colonist Handbook.
It's a 20-page in-fiction player manual written as a bridge officer's reference document. Everything you need to know about running the Perseverance, laid out in the game's terminal aesthetic.
What it covers:
Ship subsystems and how cascade failures work
Crew, factions, and the stance system
The year-advancement sequence (all 15 steps)
All 10 research branches
How to read dispatches
Navigation, probes, and when to reject a candidate
The five drift meters
Landing profiles and world types
An endings gallery — names and art only, no spoilers
Download (free):
https://selenodrome.com/assets/dr/DEAD_RECKONING_MANUAL.pdf
We also pushed v0.1.313 today with a few things you asked for: a mission archive so you can review past runs from the start menu, a confirmation step before committing research, and a refreshed start screen.
Thanks for playing. More coming soon.
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