- Patch 1.7 - 29 April 2024
After a long time, I'm thrilled to announce a new patch! I've incorporated all the valuable feedback you've provided. The camera behavior has been improved to feel more dynamic and engaging. The early stages of the game have been adjusted to offer a gentler learning experience for new players. The in-game text has been carefully reviewed and refined for better clarity and flow. As always, your feedback and bug reports are highly appreciated! Feel free to share them on the forums. Version 1.7 Updated unity to fix scrolling issues for linux version. Improved camera for singleplayer. In settings you can now set camera rotation, camera zoom and move depending on ship speed. Polished most of the texts for missions and tutorial. Correction module is now build into the ship. Decreased price of the correction module. Medium and hard difficulty now have FTL failure event at the end of the first…
- Patch 1.6 - 5 August 2021
Version 1.6 - Fixed camera shuttering for multiplayer games.
- Patch 1.5 - 16 March 2021
Version 1.5 - Crew members with immortality special upgrade can now have children at any age (as if they were 20 years old)
- Patch 1.4 - 13 March 2021
Version 1.4 - Fixed dying from old age with immortality special upgrade
- Patch 1.3 - 10 March 2021
Hello guys. Because of your useful feedback, I am happy to announce newest patch with many changes to make your adventure trough the space more enjoyable. Thanks for everyone's feedback and feel free to write to the forums anytime you encounter an issue or bug. It really helps to improve the game. Version 1.3 Added manual landing gear options to bridge module, default hotkey set to E. Lowered jets power down to 1 while the landing gear is opened to discourage flying with opened landing gear all the time, this change will also help more precise ship rotation correction while landing. Lowered mass of the massive asteroid mission from 100 to 90 to help taking off with non-upgraded engines. Fixed ships lift off bug where the ship would lost its connection during mission resource collection. Mass of the black hole lowered from 5000 to 3000 to decrease difficulty of landing on the base astero…
- Patch 1.2 - 7 March 2021
Controls screen in settings is now recreated to allow players configure their controls for singleplayer mouse and keyboard. PS: Except mouse wheel for trigger switch. Mouse wheel does not want to listen. I tried to talk to him. I really did.
- Patch 1.1 - 6 March 2021
Version 1.1 - Added possibility to switch off camera rotation for singleplayer in settings. - Fixed bug where you could found story that couldn't be taken.
- Release date - 19 February 2021
I am happy to announce, that after two ears of development, I am finally ready to launch my first game. Towards The Stars is coming out on March 4th. I would like to thanks everybody who helped with the game development. You are remembered in the credits of the game.
- Upgrades - 12 February 2021
You already now about ship modules and crew management. Today I'd like to show you how to upgrade them. Only way to get upgrades for your ship is to research specimens you'll find during mining or as a reward for finishing the quests. So how do you upgrade your ship? First you have to find a specimen. Mining it will create a new research possibility in your science section. Depending on amount of time to complete the research and work speed of a assigned scientist, the research will take some time to finish. Working crew members consumes double the life support so I would recommend to always assign fastest one. After the research is finished, a new upgrade possibility for your ship modules or your crew members will appear in your engineering section. From there, to build the upgrade, you need to mine the resources, assign engineer or medic for a job (depending on type of an upgrade) and…
- Ship systems - 5 February 2021
Last time for singleplayer I was writing about your crew management. Today I would like to write something about managing your ship systems. There are three main ship systems. Fuel, energy and life support. Most of the fuel is used on engines and jets, but some of the fuel is also necessary for secondary modules to work. Main producer of fuel is the refinery. This module is responsible for producing fuel from oil resource that you can gather mining asteroids. If you run out of fuel your engines and jets stop working and you may find yourself stranded in space waiting to run out of resources. The next main system is energy. Most of the modules are using energy either continually or on trigger. If the energy levels are depleted, modules dependent on energy will stop working. Some of the modules that use energy continually are responsible to keep your life support levels up so make sure yo…
- Multiplayer - Weapons - 29 January 2021
"Free for all" and "Deathmatch" multiplayer modes are full of action, and for that you will need weapons and defense systems. Let's learn about them in this article. Difference between these two modes is that in FFA you may respawn right after your death where in deathmatch or team deathmatch it is last ship/team standing. Minigun Good old minigun should not miss in on any battle ship and it doesn't change in space either. It is very versatile gun. It has medium projectile speed and medium damage with high cadency. This weapon can be fired just by holding it, but it will overheat very quickly so be careful or you'll have to wait for the weapon to cool down. Laser Laser is similar to the minigun, but it will hit instantly. Its damage is a bit lower, but it will take to overheat a bit longer. It is a best weapon for shutting down projectile weapons like missiles and canon shells. Because…
- Multiplayer - Race mode - 22 January 2021
Even thought singleplayer campaign is main part of the game and I spent majority of time developing it, you may have noticed that there is also the local multiplayer part. That means that you can play it with your friends only locally on one computer. If the multiplayer part will be popular enough, it may get an online patch in future. If you are locked down alone in your house, there is also multiplayer mode that you can practice by yourself. Race mode. Every good race game should have a ghost mode. That means that you can race against your own best time. This way practice by your own is much more fun and it will help you to beat your friends next time you meet. And last but not least, the replay feature shouldn't be missing as well. Here is the gameplay video featuring me racing against my ghost from a months ago. It took me some time to beat it.
- Sleep or stay awake? - 15 January 2021
One of the problems you encounter on your journey trough space is that your crew is getting older every interstellar jump. Even thought you are flying much faster then light, every 1000 light years will take your engine to make in one year. You can notice that your crew has tree parameters. One of them is age. Every time you come out of the ftl your crew gets older. So how to prevent your crew to die out before you find your new home? In your first level you will find the cryogenics module. Using it, you can put your crew members to sleep. Sleeping crew members will not age during travel and they do not consume any life support. But someone will always needs to stay awake to manage the ship. There is a second option. In a bridge you can allow your crew to make children while traveling. How many children will be born depends on the number of awake crew members, their age, gender balance,…
- Achievements - 8 January 2021
In many games, you probably encountered steam achievements to be something like finish the first level or complete the main story quest. Achievements that you will receive just by playing a game. So when steam recommended to me that I should have achievements in my game, I didn't want to have these kind of achievements. I made a decision to made them a little bit more fun. There is one achievement for every level. They are more of a playful challenges. For example, in one of the levels you jump out of the hyperdrive right next to an unstable star that is producing solar flares. The first one hits you very soon, so you have to run. After the flare is over, you should return to nearby base and recover the necessary technology. You may try to land on the base and discover the technology before the first flare hits you. In this case, most probably you will not have enough time to get out an…
