Hello, Space Fleet Commanders!

After five stellar years and nearly two million brave explorers journeying across the cosmos, we are thrilled with the success of Crying Suns. Our CEO and Art Director Frédéric Lopez thanks the fans by saying "We have been amazed to see how passionate the community was during the whole process from launching the Kickstarter back in 2018 to the Last Orders update. As a big thank you to all of the members and to mark the special occasion, we have some exciting surprises to share with you!”



To celebrate this milestone, Crying Suns will be on sale for 70% off on Steam from September 18th through September 25th. Dive into the full Crying Suns experience and explore all previously released DLC at an unbeatable price. Whether you're a seasoned commander or a new recruit, this is your moment to join the ranks and unravel the secrets of the fallen empire!

Additionally to continue the festivities you can now enter an exclusive giveaway (here) for a chance to win a physical Crying Suns artbook signed by the team at Alt Shift!



The team here at Alt Shift is hard at work on our next project in collaboration with publisher Dotemu. The upcoming project is an ambitious title that shares many elements of the Crying Suns DNA but is set in a different universe that will surely surprise players. “We are so excited and we can't wait to share more about our new project with you in the future," said Frédéric. To stay up to date with the Space Fleet and get the latest news about our next project, join our community Discord Server.
Thank you for being a part of our community—See you in the stars, Commanders!

That’s it! The version has just been updated with the “Last Orders” extension.

As a reminder, this update includes 2 new character factions mentioned in the story and the downloadable Artbook but not previously included in the game itself, the Prag Mah (a caste of relentless imperial judges and executioners) and the Phalanx (an order of deadly mercenary warriors), as well as much more new content to discover or unlock in your next run.

Here is a short teaser showing a glimpse of the update:



And here is a more detailed overview of what’s included in this free extension:

• 2 New playable Battleships with a totally new playstyle for each faction
  
• 4 New special officers (2 for each faction)
  
• 12 New battlefield items (weapons, units, auxiliary systems, etc.)
  
• 30 New events related to the new factions
  
• New Achievements to unlock
  
• New “quality of life” features and other various improvements

Check the full changelog here.

We sincerely hope you will enjoy this very last major update to the game!

Don’t forget to join the discord server to discuss directly with the team and give your feedback!

After a temporary pause on Crying Suns to focus our work force on a new pre-production (stay tuned, we will talk about that in the near future!), our team was able to dive back into the project and finalize this long-awaited update including 2 new factions: the Prag Mah and the Phalanx, and more!

This update titled “Last Orders” will be the final free extension for Crying Suns. As previously said, it will include not only 2 new character factions with their playable Battleships, the Prag Mah (a caste of relentless imperial judges and executioners) and the Phalanx (an order of deadly mercenary warriors), but also new content, including weapons, units, special officers, events, and more. You can already read the full changelog here.



If you already own a version of the game on any of the available platforms (PC / Mac, iOS, Android or Switch), the game will be automatically updated on your next launch after May 17, without any impact on your current save.

In the meantime, don’t hesitate to join the discord server to discuss directly with the team and the community about this last addition!

You can find it here on the Apple App Store.


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Main Features:

• Space exploration in a procedurally-generated universe,
  
• Tactical fights between battleships and their squadron fleets,
  
• More than 300 story events,
  
• A deep and dramatic storyline structured in 6 chapters,
  
• New: A revamped interface and intuitive touchscreen interactions.
  
• Supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Simplified Chinese & Japanese

The “Advanced Tactics” extension is not included yet but will be added as a free update within the next few weeks.

Price: $8.99 / 9,99€ (no in-app purchases, no ads). All the future updates included.


iOs minimum requirements:
iOS 13+, iPad mini 4, iPhone SE (2016).

Android minimum requirements:
Android 6.0+, openGL 3.1, devices with good gaming GPU are recommended to play Crying Suns (Adreno 530 or Mali T760 MP2 minimum)

Discover the launch trailer below!

The “Advanced Tactics” update is a free extension that includes a wide series of new battle features and other support abilities:

• New weapons, new squadrons, new auxiliary systems for battleships and brand new officers abilities.
  
• Unlockable battleships are now equipped with a unique and specific technological modifier, requiring players to adapt their strategies depending on battleships’ strengths and weaknesses.
  
• Players will also find additional neutral units on the battlefield that each opponent can “capture” to gain territorial advantage.
  
• New AI enemy behaviors have been added, requiring players to carefully adapt and vary their tactical response.
  
• Finally, players will find a new type of POI (points of interest) where they will be able to upgrade their squadrons: The “OMNI Forge”.

We also worked with our localization team to add a new language: Japanese!

Watch the trailer below:


And a gameplay video (an epic boss fight):


Come and say hi to the DevTeam on Discord!

Our "Advanced Tactics" free update will be officially available on June 15, 2020!

If you already own Crying Suns, it should update the new content automatically.

To know more about this future massive update, here is a reminder.

Stay tuned!

Hello fellow space explorers!

Big news! We will release a mobile version of our game Crying Suns on June 25!

During the last few months, we carefully redesigned the whole experience for iPads, iPhones and high-end Android devices, including a revamped interface and intuitive touchscreen interactions.




This version will include English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Simplified Chinese & Japanese languages, and, of course, all the future updates and DLC.


To make sure you don’t miss the release, don’t forget to subscribe to our newsletter here.





Platforms: iOs (iPhones & iPads), Android

Price: $8.99 / 9,99€

Hello Crying Suns fans,

We have just opened the beta version of "Advanced Tactics" update!

You can now activate it via your Steam client:
-> Go to your Steam library, right click on Crying Suns -> Properties -> betas tab -> select "Advanced_Tactics_beta" branch.

Here are the main changes that you will be able to test:

• Each Battleship will have a specific technological modifier (that you can't sell) that will greatly impact the strategies and builds
  
• Reworked all enemy battleship setups to use a larger array of weapons/officers/squadrons/auxiliary system and offer more variety and challenges
  
• Player battleships have been reworked
  
• Some difficulty settings have changed
  
• A new type of POI where you can Upgrade you squadrons Marks: the OMNI forge
  
• 3 new categories of neutral units on the battlefield that can be "activated" during the fight.
  
• 8 new types of weapons with brand new effects
  
• 4 new auxiliary systems
  
• 5 new types of squadrons
  
• 3 new officers abilities

This beta is for both Windows and MacOs but only includes 64 bits versions for the moment.

This version already includes English, French, Spanish, German, Russian and Simplified Chinese, although you might find some visual glitches as we didn't finish our QA phase on the last 4 of them. We are on it.

An important info involving your save files: We manage the beta files in a different folder called "betaSaves" next to the normal game save. If you want to use save files from the normal version, you can paste those files in this new folder "betaSaves".
- On macOS, your save files are here:
/Users/%your_user_name%/Library/Application Support/unity.Alt Shift.Crying Suns/saves/save0
- On Windows, they are here:
C:\Users%your_user_name%\AppData\LocalLow\Alt Shift\Crying Suns\saves\save0

If you encounter any bug (except text glitches in German, Russian, Chinese and Spanish), you can click on the bug report button at the bottom left of the screen and explain what happened.
Don't hesitate to describe the situation with as many details as possible.

Don't hesitate to share your thoughts on the #beta-adv-tactics channel of our Discord server https://discord.com/invite/jgdQ7X.
Or on the sub-forum here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/873940/discussions/1/

Have fun!
The DevTeam

Greetings Crying Suns fans,

Crying Suns digital artbook is finally available here!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1271330/Crying_Suns__Digital_Artbook/

In this PDF file, you will find 100+ pages of lore and art showing our work on Crying Suns' universe, including exclusive key art, pixel art, but also extensive commentary from our writers about the background story, underlying power games, characters factions, and many other details behind this dystopian universe inspired by Dune and Foundation.



If you prefer something that you can proudly display in your bookcase, you can also pre-order the physical version on our backerkit boutique here. It should be sent shortly after the end of the Covid-19 problems, production and delivery services being stopped during the outbreak.

Another good reason to stay safe at home ;)

Enjoy!

The Crying Suns development team

Some of you may have already noticed that we updated the game a few minutes ago.
The main change is the addition of new screen ratios, including widescreens, but not only.
Here is the complete changelog for this version:

Interface, Graphics and Sounds

• [MAJOR] Added support for widescreen and a greater variety of aspect ratio (4/3, 21/9, 32/9, 16/10)
  
• Improved the run customization screen to display patched squadrons properly in the list

Story, events and texts

• Various small corrections and rewrites

BugFix Minor

• Fixed an issue where the dialogue bubble was not placed properly on Sister Kalypso
  
• Changed the planet displayed during run customization as it wasn't Gehenna
  
• Fixed an issue where sometimes a "dead" squadron was still displayed in a dock as active

META

• Various optimizations to lower memory consumption and reduce the game size on disk

Besides those changes, a much bigger update called "Advanced Tactics" is still under development as mentioned in previous posts, and should be released in beta testing within a few weeks, so a little later than expected. Here is a glimpse of what's to come:

• A new type of POI where you can Upgrade you squadrons Marks: the OMNI forge
  
• 3 new categories of neutral units on the battlefield that can be "activated" during the fight.
  
• Each Battleship will have a specific technological modifier (that you can't sell) that will greatly impact the strategies and builds
  
• 8 new types of weapons with brand new effects
  
• 4 new auxiliary systems
  
• 5 new types of squadrons
  
• 3 new officers abilities
  
• New A.I behaviors
  
• Overall fight balancing

Here is a small example, the new "juggernaut" unit, soon available:



And finally, the artbook is almost ready! Here is another glimpse of it:



In the meantime, don’t hesitate to post your review on Crying Suns store page, it’s one of the best ways to support the devteam!