Weekly Update: August 9, 2024

It's been a very busy week here. As I mentioned two weeks ago, I took a mini-holiday last week, which was nice. The day after I got back I posted the announcement of the 1.0 graduation date (Sept 2) and have been hard at work ever since.

First of all, there's a new opt-in on the Beta branch. It's not a huge update, but it did have some changes necessary for graduation. Full list of changes here:

• Two new mini late-game exploration void regions

• Minor adjustments, additional hints to guide players in a few stuck points

• Adjust discovery sound volume

• Patch for the prevented completion of Tomb of Ock Juk if Ermyr ally in late game

• Fix for missing localization strings on one mission

• Fix for negative fighter count

• Fix for NaN on specific projectile

• Fix for rare mission bug in Forbidden Planet

• Suppress non-critical exceptions appearing in console, added instructions for closing console via F11

• Gamepad specific help notifications

• Refactor analytics to collected detailed only on opt-in branch

• Removed Early Access pop-up, FPS indicator

• Update game icon

• Several typos

If I don't get any reports of serious issues from unstable branch players, expect this branch to be promoted to default in the next few days.

Besides this build, there's a lot of work that isn't directly related to development, including:

• Updating the Logo versions and Steam store assets (and then updating them again a few days later when Steam increased the default resolutions)

• Updated Trailer

• Reaching out to streamers for possible coverage

• Misc PR stuff

• Preparing the game for release on GOG

Thanks for reading, until next week!

• Kevin