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Steam News13 September 20241y ago

Redesigned supercruise, redesigned planets - Demo patch 18

Redesigned supercruise We've spent a long time figuring out how to redesign the supercruise speed to make the game smoother and travel more comfortable.

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addedwhen the supercruise is switched off, or when the brakes are applied, the ship does not stop again, but slows down to speed 900. The supercruise therefore now acts as a throttle that you can repeatedly add
changedwe have significantly improved the brakes to slow it down from zero speed.
addedWe have implemented a new engine for planets that provides more detail. We have reworked most of the planets outside of Earth and the smaller moons.
addedWe have opened up several new options for missions on planets without landing.

Space Travellers changes

addedwhen the supercruise is switched off, or when the brakes are applied, the ship does not stop again, but slows down to speed 900. The supercruise therefore now acts as a throttle that you can repeatedly add
changedwe have significantly improved the brakes to slow it down from zero speed.
addedWe have implemented a new engine for planets that provides more detail. We have reworked most of the planets outside of Earth and the smaller moons.
addedWe have opened up several new options for missions on planets without landing.

Redesigned supercruise We've spent a long time figuring out how to redesign the supercruise speed to make the game smoother and travel more comfortable.

In the end, we made the following changes: 1) the supercruise ship stops at 0 only when interplanetary knitting. This is to prevent it from crashing into a planet.

  1. when the supercruise is switched off, or when the brakes are applied, the ship does not stop again, but slows down to speed 900. The supercruise therefore now acts as a throttle that you can repeatedly add

  2. we have significantly improved the brakes to slow it down from zero speed.

Redesigned planets

We have implemented a new engine for planets that provides more detail. We have reworked most of the planets outside of Earth and the smaller moons.

We have opened up several new options for missions on planets without landing.

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Steam News / 13 September 2024

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