Version 0.22.0

Thanks for all the continued feedback and ideas! The are invaluable and I hope you are all staying safe and staying at home where appropriate. Tough time for a lot of people and a bit hard to focus on building this game, but on the other hand its nice to get lost in my spaceships for a while... Ive added a planet to Sirius to mark the occasion...

Been a few new versions with a bunch of new changes. The most exciting I think is the new Non playable Race: The Radii a race of cyborgs with futuristic tech, a good challenge for higher level players. Another exciting new race soon to come.,..

I also going back to the Co-op missions, while still trying to work on my mission revamp. The 2 things go hand it hand. I can imaging some co-op multi stage missions being quite fun. However this is a big hurdle to get over, might take me a while. I will try and keep doing smaller fixes in the meantime...

Here are the notes from the recent versions....

Beta 0.22.0

• AI ship levels: now higher level ships in higher systems

• New Andromedan skin added to Benaris

• New look for refinery interiors

• Space station carpets now owners colour scheme

• Can now respawn with fire button

• Multiplayer traffic meter added, let me know if it goes high/extreme at any point

• New Radii Weapon: Radii Revealer

• Shields now sometimes have a secondary resistance against a specific effect

• Can now only equip 1 augmentation of certain types e.g. only 1 ship turret

• Cockpit windscreens fixed

• Eyeblast/brainblast improved

• Fixed the energy balancer constantly telling you energy full

• Droid weapons all had a buff

• Repair beam range increased

• Some other bug fixes

Beta 0.21.7

• Fixed the error due to the missing double thunderbolt mine

• New weapon: Obscurer bomb

• Players can no longer get the vendetta if in an older version

• Large weapons: now get 1 ammo when you buy, but 0 when you equip from cargo hold, to avoid free ammo exploit

• Minor fixes to radii (arming time on photon bomb)

• Forkwork egg minefields added to chaos engine

• Forkworm eye blast, and the brain blast should now work better when point blank

• Adjusted how laser sight works. When holding fine aim on keyboard, but always when not turning fast on joypad/VR

• New random sector event added - quite a cool one

• Some other small fixes as usual

Beta 0.21.6

• New Race added to IoL complete with loot etc but still more to add

• Fixed the issue with shield bubbles and other effects sometimes persisting after running out

• Summoned minions should now work correctly in FFA zones etc (e.g. wont attack you)

• New levels of thunderbolt torpedos

• New ship beam turrets: Energy extraction & tractor beam

• Laser turrets adjusted, now slower turning with less energy than primary weapon turrets

• VR tweaks + tooltip now works better

• Can now longer earn money using the life extender & refunds

• Ships should no longer try and leave via the edge of the star system and shouldnt hyperspace that way and shouldnt enter from that way

• Added some planets

• Lots of work on the other (not live) new race

• Some adjustments to solarion weapons

• Some other minor tweaks and fixes

Beta 0.21.5

• Laser beam ship turrets tweaked+ a few bugs fixed. Nerfed slightly

• Ship Fighting AI - have tweaked so that they are less inclined to fight round the edges of a sector

• If you knock an enemy off the edge of a sector, if you follow them now then theres a good chance they will be in that sector, depending on how quickly you do it - this needs more testing & work from me

• Selective Effect dampener fixed

• Some errors fixed