Release Day! — Ascent - The Space Game Steam update #38855

Ascent has LEFT THE BUILDING. Well, Early Access. Sales so far have been great, and we're also seeing our Wishlist score growing at the same time which is always positive. Best of all, my inbox is buried with press key requests :) http://www.thespacegame.com/1.jpg In addition, 1.4036 is now in Beta. Numerous small bug fixes and performance optimisations Several new Audio files of Dave and Susan Steele have been activated, and should help guide our new players onto the right paths. Megatextures have been live since 1.4034 - you can turn these on in the Options menu. Megatextures demand a huge amount of CPU, RAM and will slowly fill up your hard drive - but for people with a powerful PC they're the ultimate Ascent graphical experience. If you stay near an outer planet long enough, it will build and cache a Megatexture set, which will load whenever you fly back to this planet. Megatextures ...