- The Last Universe ! [Gangs of Space Closing] - 26 November 2018
Gangs of Space was our child and became the prison of our hopes. Gangs of Space was a stroke of madness that arrived one day, or maybe a night, in Tokyo in the middle of an amusement arcade full of Shmup classics! Gangs of Space it was quite an adventure! You have understood, it is with great regret that we announce today the upcoming closure of Gangs of Space. Closing schedule November 30, 2018: commercial closure (end of the sale of the DLC).May 31, 2019: official servers and support closed. And after ? Total blackout? We will see, but we can not guarantee anything and in any case, it will be outside of Steam. Why do we close? Maybe one day Erhune will have the courage to do a long post-mortem on the dev and the reasons for the end of Gangs of Space, but by then we will try to give you the main reasons: No money! After all these years of work on Gangs of Space, the launch in Early Acc…
- 8 new Skins to collect - 5 October 2017
With the start of the Sixo Vaporis galaxy, we have added 8 new skins. All these skins are linked to special codes that you can activate in your account management area. The Skin code hunt is open! Lord British & Lord Chaos These two skins are a tribute to Ultima Online and two of its creators: Richard Garriott and Starr Long. They refer to the two characters they incarnated: Lord British and Lord Blackthorn. So if you meet one of these ships, maybe you have the chance to meet a legend (Richard Garriott is also an astronaut)! https://forum.gangsofspace.com/uploads/default/original/2X/0/0edae74270dd8a1cb69c431a062f6463b02d71dc.jpg How to get this skin: No idea, but they have codes and can do what they want ;-) Drifting Lands Drifting Lands is a SHMUP Hack’n Slash graphically superb and with very interesting game mechanics (the auto-warp is inspired by one of their system). And to make thi…
- 8 new Skins to collect - 5 October 2017
With the start of the Sixo Vaporis galaxy, we have added 8 new skins. All these skins are linked to special codes that you can activate in your account management area. The Skin code hunt is open! Lord British & Lord Chaos These two skins are a tribute to Ultima Online and two of its creators: Richard Garriott and Starr Long. They refer to the two characters they incarnated: Lord British and Lord Blackthorn. So if you meet one of these ships, maybe you have the chance to meet a legend (Richard Garriott is also an astronaut)! https://forum.gangsofspace.com/uploads/default/original/2X/0/0edae74270dd8a1cb69c431a062f6463b02d71dc.jpg How to get this skin: No idea, but they have codes and can do what they want ;-) Drifting Lands Drifting Lands is a SHMUP Hack’n Slash graphically superb and with very interesting game mechanics (the auto-warp is inspired by one of their system). And to make thi…
- Death to the permadeath - 21 September 2017
Death to the permadeath! Gangs of Space has been designed from the beginning to be a permadeath game (even before we introduced the “roguelite” elements like subsystems; our inspiration is taken mostly from old arcade games). Even though we - and many players - like it this way, it is true that losing a ship can be a demoralizing experience for a new player. So today, we’re introducing a permadeath protection designed to help beginners without changing the fundamental high-level game for experienced players. From now on, newly built ships will be equipped by default with a new passive item: the Auto-Warp. This item warps you back automatically to the Motherbase when you would have taken a fatal hit, but it comes with a few drawbacks: since it is a passive item, you cannot equip another item that would have given you nice passive bonuses; it lowers all Sector Points (SP) and Credit gains…
- Death to the permadeath - 21 September 2017
Death to the permadeath! Gangs of Space has been designed from the beginning to be a permadeath game (even before we introduced the “roguelite” elements like subsystems; our inspiration is taken mostly from old arcade games). Even though we - and many players - like it this way, it is true that losing a ship can be a demoralizing experience for a new player. So today, we’re introducing a permadeath protection designed to help beginners without changing the fundamental high-level game for experienced players. From now on, newly built ships will be equipped by default with a new passive item: the Auto-Warp. This item warps you back automatically to the Motherbase when you would have taken a fatal hit, but it comes with a few drawbacks: since it is a passive item, you cannot equip another item that would have given you nice passive bonuses; it lowers all Sector Points (SP) and Credit gains…
- Update v0.31.11 - Patch Notes - 21 September 2017
Version 0.31.11 Tiesday, September 19, 2017 FEATURES Added permadeath protection as a passive item Auto-Warp that is equipped by default on all ships. While the Auto-Warp is equipped, any fatal damage will warp you back to the Motherbase instead. The Auto-Warp prevents you from equipping a passive item, it gives -25% to Sector Points & Credits during sector conquest, and prevents you from warping to T5 or T6 systems. Unequipping the Auto-Warp destroys it permanently for this ship. 10 new music tracks! New ships are now built with a random skin out of the 3 basic skins. SMALL CHANGES Added an option (enabled by default) to lock the mouse cursor to the game window. Display MAINTENANCE IN PROGRESS instead of RESTRICTED TO ADMINS when trying to connect to the server during maintenance. BALANCE Rounding all Credit gains up, so you always get at least 1 Credit for conquering a zone. BUG FIXES…
- Update v0.31.11 - Patch Notes - 21 September 2017
Version 0.31.11 Tiesday, September 19, 2017 FEATURES Added permadeath protection as a passive item Auto-Warp that is equipped by default on all ships. While the Auto-Warp is equipped, any fatal damage will warp you back to the Motherbase instead. The Auto-Warp prevents you from equipping a passive item, it gives -25% to Sector Points & Credits during sector conquest, and prevents you from warping to T5 or T6 systems. Unequipping the Auto-Warp destroys it permanently for this ship. 10 new music tracks! New ships are now built with a random skin out of the 3 basic skins. SMALL CHANGES Added an option (enabled by default) to lock the mouse cursor to the game window. Display MAINTENANCE IN PROGRESS instead of RESTRICTED TO ADMINS when trying to connect to the server during maintenance. BALANCE Rounding all Credit gains up, so you always get at least 1 Credit for conquering a zone. BUG FIXES…
- Update v0.31.10 - Patch Notes - 15 September 2017
Version 0.31.10 Friday, September 15, 2017 FEATURES Added a setting to make the mouse cursor bigger (4 different sizes). Added a facultative key binding to open/close all Warehouses at once. The name of drops that are reserved for other players is now darkened to differentiate them better in a big pile of loot. SMALL CHANGES Added a confirmation window when quitting the game. The Skin Shop is no longer opened automatically after building a new ship. Do not display a conquest time estimate during the first 10% of the Conquest. The ladder reward tooltip is now scaled up for players playing in high resolutions. Made Send to Warehouse and Convert to DNA dropzones a bit more visible. Improved errors messages in many different situations when you cannot connect to the game. You can now cancel modal windows with the Escape key. Made the description of some controls more explicit. BALANCE The +…
- Update v0.31.10 - Patch Notes - 15 September 2017
Version 0.31.10 Friday, September 15, 2017 FEATURES Added a setting to make the mouse cursor bigger (4 different sizes). Added a facultative key binding to open/close all Warehouses at once. The name of drops that are reserved for other players is now darkened to differentiate them better in a big pile of loot. SMALL CHANGES Added a confirmation window when quitting the game. The Skin Shop is no longer opened automatically after building a new ship. Do not display a conquest time estimate during the first 10% of the Conquest. The ladder reward tooltip is now scaled up for players playing in high resolutions. Made Send to Warehouse and Convert to DNA dropzones a bit more visible. Improved errors messages in many different situations when you cannot connect to the game. You can now cancel modal windows with the Escape key. Made the description of some controls more explicit. BALANCE The +…
- END OF THIRD CONQUEST - 10 September 2017
https://forum.gangsofspace.com/uploads/default/optimized/2X/3/30e7c6832672eb68b8d4fddd93718de6b7442fa2_1_690x281.png Galaxy Tertio Vaporis has been conquered in 10 days, 11 hours, 1 minute et 6 seconds! On the ladder side: DJOKKATAJA wins the TOP GRIND with a very impressive score of 1,174,894 SP. A new record! But Zed is just behind… on purpose, maybe? Because on the TOP SKILL side, Zed improves his previous best score, and reaches almost 33K SP/h! Jhirin and kragnir beat their previous records too, but it wasn’t enough this time. On the TOP GANG, 8-bit Warriors get their first victory, pushed by their leader and their very active members. They almost reach the previous record set by Meta in the previous Galaxy! SUMMARY During this Conquest, we have banned 15 accounts for cheating. We remind everyone that modifying the game client or the game memory is forbidden by our Terms of Service…
- END OF THIRD CONQUEST - 10 September 2017
https://forum.gangsofspace.com/uploads/default/optimized/2X/3/30e7c6832672eb68b8d4fddd93718de6b7442fa2_1_690x281.png Galaxy Tertio Vaporis has been conquered in 10 days, 11 hours, 1 minute et 6 seconds! On the ladder side: DJOKKATAJA wins the TOP GRIND with a very impressive score of 1,174,894 SP. A new record! But Zed is just behind… on purpose, maybe? Because on the TOP SKILL side, Zed improves his previous best score, and reaches almost 33K SP/h! Jhirin and kragnir beat their previous records too, but it wasn’t enough this time. On the TOP GANG, 8-bit Warriors get their first victory, pushed by their leader and their very active members. They almost reach the previous record set by Meta in the previous Galaxy! SUMMARY During this Conquest, we have banned 15 accounts for cheating. We remind everyone that modifying the game client or the game memory is forbidden by our Terms of Service…
- Update v0.31.9 - Patch Notes - 9 September 2017
Version 0.31.9 Sunday, September 10, 2017 FEATURES The Empire News Network is now the Galaxy Conquest window: All 3 ladders are now displayed in the game: Grind Ladder, Skill Ladder and Gangs Ladder. The estimated time until the conquest ends is now computed and displayed in the game and on gangsofspace.com! A tooltip has been added to show the ladder rewards. Please note that the skill ladder still lacks its Skin reward, it will be added in an upcoming version. Small tooltips have been added to indicate what each ladder is about, and how to get SP and CP. The progress tooltip when docking to the Motherbase has been reworked to be more readable. The “Send to motherbase” and “Convert to DNA” drop zones have been moved far away so you don’t mistake one for another. You can now also add a key binding to these actions. Added tooltips: On the danger bar in the top right. On the warp button i…
- Update v0.31.9 - Patch Notes - 9 September 2017
Version 0.31.9 Sunday, September 10, 2017 FEATURES The Empire News Network is now the Galaxy Conquest window: All 3 ladders are now displayed in the game: Grind Ladder, Skill Ladder and Gangs Ladder. The estimated time until the conquest ends is now computed and displayed in the game and on gangsofspace.com! A tooltip has been added to show the ladder rewards. Please note that the skill ladder still lacks its Skin reward, it will be added in an upcoming version. Small tooltips have been added to indicate what each ladder is about, and how to get SP and CP. The progress tooltip when docking to the Motherbase has been reworked to be more readable. The “Send to motherbase” and “Convert to DNA” drop zones have been moved far away so you don’t mistake one for another. You can now also add a key binding to these actions. Added tooltips: On the danger bar in the top right. On the warp button i…
- Update v0.31.8 - Patch Notes - 7 September 2017
Version 0.31.8 Thursday, September 7, 2017 PERFORMANCE Significantly reduced the number of server lags. BALANCE Reservation time for jettisoned items has been increased from 1s to 3s (to let you fix an erroneous jettison, without impacting trading convenience too much). SMALL FEATURES Hide inaccessible maps in the Navigation window. Do not allow to rebind the left mouse button, in order to prevent unfortunate accidents. BUG FIXES Do not allow players to kill themselves by unequipping a +x% max structure passive item when on low structure.
- Update v0.31.8 - Patch Notes - 7 September 2017
Version 0.31.8 Thursday, September 7, 2017 PERFORMANCE Significantly reduced the number of server lags. BALANCE Reservation time for jettisoned items has been increased from 1s to 3s (to let you fix an erroneous jettison, without impacting trading convenience too much). SMALL FEATURES Hide inaccessible maps in the Navigation window. Do not allow to rebind the left mouse button, in order to prevent unfortunate accidents. BUG FIXES Do not allow players to kill themselves by unequipping a +x% max structure passive item when on low structure.
- Update v0.31.7 - Patch Notes - 5 September 2017
Version 0.31.7 Monday, September 4, 2017 SMALL FEATURES Hide other players docked in the same dock as you. The game music is now properly stereo and MUCH higher quality! (sorry Alex, wrong settings on my part >_
- Update v0.31.7 - Patch Notes - 5 September 2017
Version 0.31.7 Monday, September 4, 2017 SMALL FEATURES Hide other players docked in the same dock as you. The game music is now properly stereo and MUCH higher quality! (sorry Alex, wrong settings on my part >_
- Update v0.31.6 - Patch Notes - 1 September 2017
Version 0.31.6 Saturday, September 2, 2017 SMALL FEATURES You can now see the history of previous Conquests on the website. Added to the game many of the namings for crews, sectors & systems that were provided by Pack buyers. You can now always see your individual and Gang rank in the ingame ladders, even if you are not in the top 1000. Improved the wording of some ingame tips, and added some others. They are now displayed in the chat after you warp, if you didn’t have to time to finish reading! BUG FIXES Stop gate proximity sound when taking a gate back to the Motherbase. Optimized encoding of ladder & item data, which should reduce the bandwidth a little bit.
- Update v0.31.6 - Patch Notes - 1 September 2017
Version 0.31.6 Saturday, September 2, 2017 SMALL FEATURES You can now see the history of previous Conquests on the website. Added to the game many of the namings for crews, sectors & systems that were provided by Pack buyers. You can now always see your individual and Gang rank in the ingame ladders, even if you are not in the top 1000. Improved the wording of some ingame tips, and added some others. They are now displayed in the chat after you warp, if you didn’t have to time to finish reading! BUG FIXES Stop gate proximity sound when taking a gate back to the Motherbase. Optimized encoding of ladder & item data, which should reduce the bandwidth a little bit.
- End of second conquest + patch v0.31.5 - 29 August 2017
https://forum.gangsofspace.com/uploads/default/optimized/2X/a/a9570f63c70de07fca805ed590582f2d84de49cf_1_690x281.png Congratulations all, you have eliminated 15,000,000 Pirnats points in 7 days, 6 hours, 13 minutes and 30 seconds! OVER THE TOP Without further ado, let’s examine the top of the ladders: On the TOP GRIND, Zed sets a new record with 576k SP. Congratulations! On the TOP SKILL we also find Zed. It’s the proof of a great talent! With 27k SP/h, he will be quite the challenger to beat. Will kragnir, Jhirin or Brotspinne, who also show promising results, manage to reach his level? The TOP GANG, has been swamped by Meta who entered the competition and left no hope to the other Gangs. With 1,484,800 CP, they have annihilated almost 10% of the Pirnat forces all by themselves! Our previous champions Esports drop to #4, while the 8-Bit Warriors show great promises for the future conqu…
