Hi everyone!



Unity Awards Finalist

Satellite Reign is a finalist in the 2016 Unity Awards, in the Best Desktop/Console Game category! We were blown away by this, it caught us completely off-guard! Voting is now open, so go ahead and vote for your favourites in each category at the official site: https://unity3d.com/awards/2016 (the page seems to be under heavy load at the time of writing, so try again later if it doesn’t work for you)

Mod Support

We’re also please to report that Satellite Reign now has some basic modding support. Please bear in mind that we haven’t actually created modding tools—rather we’ve opened up the ability for tinkerers out there to write their own code to interact and modify the game in any way they please. Mods are packaged into .DLL files which the game will execute on load.

We’ve made a basic example mod you can grab from GitHub here.

We look forward to seeing what cool things the community can do!

5 Lives Team.

Hi everyone!



Unity Awards Finalist

Satellite Reign is a finalist in the 2016 Unity Awards, in the Best Desktop/Console Game category! We were blown away by this, it caught us completely off-guard! Voting is now open, so go ahead and vote for your favourites in each category at the official site: https://unity3d.com/awards/2016 (the page seems to be under heavy load at the time of writing, so try again later if it doesn’t work for you)

Mod Support

We’re also please to report that Satellite Reign now has some basic modding support. Please bear in mind that we haven’t actually created modding tools—rather we’ve opened up the ability for tinkerers out there to write their own code to interact and modify the game in any way they please. Mods are packaged into .DLL files which the game will execute on load.

We’ve made a basic example mod you can grab from GitHub here.

We look forward to seeing what cool things the community can do!

5 Lives Team.

Hi everyone,

We've just released an update for Satellite Reign. This build contains some significant changes to the networking backend. Basically, it allows players to connect to one another directly, rather than via the Unity relay servers (though the relay servers are still there as a fallback). This not only allows for significantly lower latency, but it should also get around some player's inability to play together from different regions.

Having said that, while this should allow friends in different regions to connect, they still won't show up in the default server list. However, if you change your filter to "Friends" you should see any games being hosted by people on your friends list, regardless of their region.

When you're connected, you'll see one of the following in the menu, next to the version number:

[DC] - Direct connection. Exactly as it sounds, you're communicating with the host directly over the internet.

[PT] - NAT Punch-through. A service hosted on our own server facilitates the connection between the client and host, after which point they will communicate directly.

[RL] - The Unity Relay servers. This is the existing communication method, where all traffic is routed through Unity's relay servers.

Let us know how it goes!

5 Lives Team.

Hi everyone,

We've just released an update for Satellite Reign. This build contains some significant changes to the networking backend. Basically, it allows players to connect to one another directly, rather than via the Unity relay servers (though the relay servers are still there as a fallback). This not only allows for significantly lower latency, but it should also get around some player's inability to play together from different regions.

Having said that, while this should allow friends in different regions to connect, they still won't show up in the default server list. However, if you change your filter to "Friends" you should see any games being hosted by people on your friends list, regardless of their region.

When you're connected, you'll see one of the following in the menu, next to the version number:

[DC] - Direct connection. Exactly as it sounds, you're communicating with the host directly over the internet.

[PT] - NAT Punch-through. A service hosted on our own server facilitates the connection between the client and host, after which point they will communicate directly.

[RL] - The Unity Relay servers. This is the existing communication method, where all traffic is routed through Unity's relay servers.

Let us know how it goes!

5 Lives Team.

Hi everyone.

We've been working on improving the network performance for Satellite Reign, as well as trying to help people in different regions play together. We've updated the beta channel we used before the Co-op release with a build which allows players to connect directly instead of via the Unity relay servers. In our small-scale testing, it has been a massive improvement, but we'd like to test it on a larger player pool before setting it live for everyone.

To try it out, right-click on Satellite Reign in Steam, select Properties, and go to the BETAS tab. From there, click the drop-down box and choose coop_beta from the list. You will then update to the latest build.

Just note, while this should allow friends in different regions to connect, they still won't show up in the default server list. However, if you change your filter to "Friends" you should see any games being hosted by people on your friends list, regardless of their region.

Let us know how it goes!

5 Lives Team.

Hi everyone.

We've been working on improving the network performance for Satellite Reign, as well as trying to help people in different regions play together. We've updated the beta channel we used before the Co-op release with a build which allows players to connect directly instead of via the Unity relay servers. In our small-scale testing, it has been a massive improvement, but we'd like to test it on a larger player pool before setting it live for everyone.

To try it out, right-click on Satellite Reign in Steam, select Properties, and go to the BETAS tab. From there, click the drop-down box and choose coop_beta from the list. You will then update to the latest build.

Just note, while this should allow friends in different regions to connect, they still won't show up in the default server list. However, if you change your filter to "Friends" you should see any games being hosted by people on your friends list, regardless of their region.

Let us know how it goes!

5 Lives Team.

Hi everyone!

We've updated the main branch with the co-op build of Satellite Reign, so now everyone will have access be default! We're not "officially" launching until the end of the week, but we wanted to get a few days of it being tested by everyone, now that we've addressed the most critical issues.

First thing you'll notice, is you'll be greeted with a choice between Singleplayer and Multiplayer. To play co-op, simply select Multiplayer, and either load up your own existing save as a host, or join someone else as a client

We were having issues for some time with random disconnections, as well as an issue where clients would suddenly see everything stop (e.g. agents not responding, enemies and civs standing still), but everything is fine for the host. We're fairly confident we've solved this issue, but if anyone experiences this, please let us know! It haunted our dreams for so long, we're almost finding it difficult to believe that it's fixed!

We're also aware that you may not be able to see games hosted in other regions. We're using the Unity networking system, which uses their own relay servers, located around the world. Currently, games hosted in other regions don't seem to be showing up in the server browser—however games hosted by overseas Steam friends should be visible if you change the filtering to "Friends." We've contacted Unity about possible solutions.

We've made a feedback thread for this build. Post here if you've got any feedback!

https://steamcommunity.com/app/268870/discussions/0/359543542234630557/

Thanks so much for your support!

5 Lives Team.

Hi everyone!

We've updated the main branch with the co-op build of Satellite Reign, so now everyone will have access be default! We're not "officially" launching until the end of the week, but we wanted to get a few days of it being tested by everyone, now that we've addressed the most critical issues.

First thing you'll notice, is you'll be greeted with a choice between Singleplayer and Multiplayer. To play co-op, simply select Multiplayer, and either load up your own existing save as a host, or join someone else as a client

We were having issues for some time with random disconnections, as well as an issue where clients would suddenly see everything stop (e.g. agents not responding, enemies and civs standing still), but everything is fine for the host. We're fairly confident we've solved this issue, but if anyone experiences this, please let us know! It haunted our dreams for so long, we're almost finding it difficult to believe that it's fixed!

We're also aware that you may not be able to see games hosted in other regions. We're using the Unity networking system, which uses their own relay servers, located around the world. Currently, games hosted in other regions don't seem to be showing up in the server browser—however games hosted by overseas Steam friends should be visible if you change the filtering to "Friends." We've contacted Unity about possible solutions.

We've made a feedback thread for this build. Post here if you've got any feedback!

https://steamcommunity.com/app/268870/discussions/0/359543542234630557/

Thanks so much for your support!

5 Lives Team.

Just a minor update to the co-op beta today.

• New main menu, to clearly choose between single-player and multiplayer modes.
  
• Fixed an issue with the server browser only allowing a total 3 people per game.

Enjoy!

5 Lives Team.

Just a minor update to the co-op beta today.

• New main menu, to clearly choose between single-player and multiplayer modes.
  
• Fixed an issue with the server browser only allowing a total 3 people per game.

Enjoy!

5 Lives Team.