Star Commanders,

The solar flares are flaring,
the Glorsnoofs are snarlinging,
and another BETA update has landed.

Star Command BETA v 9000.3 has arrived and it needs your beta testing!

Does it load?
Is it boring?
Who is your Daddy and what do they do?

Tell us! Help us! Love us?

HOW TO HELP:

Please go to your Library >> Star Command Galaxies >>> Right Click - 'Properties' >> BETAS >> betatesting - [down arrow] 'Beta Testing branch' AND THATS IT ... (no password needed)

Start the game... Play the game... Love or hate the game... Post your thoughts in this comment or in steam discussion board... Tell us about why it cheated on you with Volnar.

Psshh Volnar, what does it have that I don't... besides an armada and thousands of blood-oathed underlings at their every command.... damnit.

Here is a short list of the bugs we attempted to fix:

fixed big issue with enemy damage making objects unrepairable
fixed hull placement in buy menu
RMB = deselect character
fixed 'So Many Bugs' encounter
added verification to main menu popups
got rid of baddies prematurely triggering encounter steps (we hope)
Zombie Encounter should now work? I hope!
fixed tooltips so they work on way more objects
Had a big bad bug if you picked green nebulus ship
crew no longer auto leave posts
disabled quickjump whilst at station

The game is thoroughly tested until the Zombie Encounter.. then its kind of wild-west... still getting there.

Hi Folks,

I have spent the last couple of weeks reworking the insectoid monster models. These new models provide a much greater variety of shapes and colors.







I am also working on a new demo to replace the Combat Demo in early June. The new version will show the core gameplay with monster breeding (insectoids only), training, hiring, base management, and multiple tournaments to fight.

Unfortunately, the Kickstarter campaign is failed, so I will have to rework the reptile creatures and create carnivora monsters as well. This means delay. The early access release date is Q3 2021.

This is a smaller update but includes a lot of essential fixes to help the game become more stable:


-Fletching skill requirements reduced for the final 2 arrow types
-Fixed chalkboard texture to match the above change
-The chance of getting smithing skillup from hammering a blade has been reduced by approx. 17%
-No room in inventory message will now show exactly which inventory type it's talking about
-Target armor textures corrected for levels 960+
-There is now a level 1000. Achievement has also been fixed.
-New desktop icon for the game.
-The game can no longer autosave before the crank attaches to the door, leaving you in a stuck state
-Autosave on weapon create was removed, as it was a minor feature that was causing a bunch of problems
-You can no longer hit targets with fuel gems
-Parts on the mining machine will no longer slowly drift out of place
-Arrows level 900 - 1000 have improved visibility
-Improved sale price of ore, ingots, crafted swords. Now you will make more money off swords and less money off ore.
-Improved animation for the mining machines belt and conveyor
-Sword will no longer pop into your right hand if entering the time chamber with it in your left
-The lids of the crates now have collision
-Your sword handle will no longer collide with stuff when sheathed
-You can no longer kick around relics with your player
-The battle ring will now highlight when you are inside in first person movement mode
-Removed visual artifact/LOD change on elixir games logo at start
-Fixed the player belt pouches flipping around at certain angles
-Cloth on museum tables will now remove correctly when you reach level tiers
-Coins that explode off of bullseyes will now show as the proper type
-Sword duplication from time chamber finally squashed
-The time chamber can no longer alter a blades appearance on exit
-Can no longer get a relic more than once
-Melting ingots can no longer destroy the crucible - leaving your hands floating
-Improvements to the coin display on the reward coins, removing errors

More bug fixes coming very soon - (battle bugs)

Hi guys!

We are just a few months away from the release of Project Nightmares. That's why we decided to celebrate it with a 20% discount.



Thanks to everyone who is helping us with the translations.
We still need Chinese and Japanese.

https://steamcommunity.com/games/projectnightmares/announcements/detail/2986424032095324491

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Please read the following post: https://steamcommunity.com/games/projectnightmares/announcements/detail/1724202719262895003

The Steam version may differ from the Normal version. The following changes are written for general use. The RetroArch Playtest version will be updated at a later time today.

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PlayStation Vita users will be happy to learn that the issues with gpSP (Game Boy Advance emulator) are now resolved, and it should work as reliably as it did before 1.9.1 (and perhaps even better now thanks to increased performance). We hope you get a lot of mileage out of this core as a lot of work and effort went into it to really optimize the performance of this core over the past few months!

Text To Speech support is now enabled for the macOS Universal build. You can access this by going to Settings -> Accessibility and enabling ‘Accessibility Enable’.

Some nice changes under the hood that are more technical in nature: config file loading performance has been improved immeasurably which should help out with initial startup times of RetroArch, loading config files as well as loading shader presets. Core info file loading itself has also seen many performance improvements. We are aware that despite all this, loading all the assets in the more feature-rich menus like MaterialUI/XMB/Ozone can still take a long time on systems encumbered by slow disk I/O, but we have some special things in store for future versions that should increase asset loading performance significantly.

There is now multi soft-patching file support. We will explain this in more detail below.


If an IPS/BPS/UPS patch is found, will replace the last character in the filename with a counter and loop until another patch is found (in any format).

Example matching filenames:


Notice that if one filename breaks the loop, the following patches won’t be applied too. e.g.:



1.9.2 adds the same search filter functionality that currently exists for playlists to the file browser when selecting Load Content. This means:

• When navigating the filesystem via the file browser, the user can press RetroPad X (or /, etc.), and enter a search term
  
• This becomes a filter – all matching entries will be displayed
  
• The user can then perform another search to further refine the results. Up to 8 filters may be stacked in this fashion
  
• Pressing ‘cancel’ clears the last entered filter

For example:



In order to support file browser navigation, the search filter implementation had to be rewritten. Instead of having a single menu-driver-level search filter, independent search terms are now stored for each menu list. This is a far more robust solution, and means that filters can be enabled for other menus far more easily (and without any hacks). To demonstrate this, 1.9.2 also enables search filters when selecting shader presets/passes via the file browser (I will try to add this in more places as time permits):



Finally, 1.9.2 makes the following changes to existing search functionality:

• Entering a search term consisting of a single Latin alphabet character will now always jump to the first entry whose first character matches – i.e. we no longer apply search filters in this case, since a single alphabet character filter is not useful. This means single character searches can be used for fast alphabet navigation
  
• When searching file browser lists, the ‘utility’ entries (e.g. Parent Directory) are ignored, since they have no bearing on the actual list content (i.e. searching for p will now jump to the first p file – previously, it would always jump to Parent Directory…)
  
• When performing non-filter searches, the entry labels used in each comparison now exactly match what is printed on screen by the menu driver. Previously, raw file_list values were used, which are often the same, but not always (e.g. in a number of cases, this is the difference between searching against full file paths vs. path basenames, which can produce erroneous results)

In addition to all this, 1.9.2 also enables search filter support when using the file browser to select cheats and overlays.




At present, when using XMB/GLUI/Ozone, enabling the menu screensaver will cause the screen to be blanked when the screensaver timeout has elapsed. 1.9.2 adds three optional animations that may be displayed instead – these can be selected via the new Settings > User Interface > Menu Screensaver Animation entry; animation speed may be adjusted via Settings > User Interface > Menu Screensaver Animation Speed. The options are as follows:

OFF: Screen will be blanked

Snow:


Starfield:


Vortex:


These effects are rendered using font glyphs; the performance overheads of all the animations are therefore low. This should also give you some indication as to how we are planning to reduce file I/O overhead across the board when it comes to asset loading, but that is something that we will be unveiling for a future release!

When using GLUI/Ozone, the screensaver will be tinted (somewhat) according to the current menu colour theme (XMB uses a fixed screensaver colour, since it does not have a ‘proper’ colour theme implementation).


All devices running OpenDingux Beta have native support for both 60 Hz and 50 Hz display modes. 1.9.2 enables 50 Hz functionality in RetroArch. The refresh rate can be toggled between 60 Hz and 50 Hz via the Settings > Video > Output > Vertical Refresh Rate menu entry; the value can be saved on a per-core/content directory/game basis via regular config overrides.

This makes OpenDingux devices (running the Beta OS) pretty much the only affordable/easily available handhelds that can run both NTSC and PAL content smoothly. The VICE core in particular benefits enormously from this addition.


Further testing of the OpenDingux Beta port has revealed several more resolutions which are mishandled by the IPU hardware scaler. 1.9.2 updates the resolution blacklists accordingly, fixing scaling for the following content:

• Gameboy (+ Color)/Game Gear at native, x2 and x3 resolutions
  
• Neo Geo Pocket (+ Color) at x2 resolution

1.9.2

• 3DS: Enable graphics widgets / overlays
  
• 3DS: Load texture images as BGR colors
  
• 3DS: Change default asset directory
  
• CHEEVOS: Allow rcheevos_patch_address to be called on game without achievements
  
• CHEEVOS: Update achievement memory maps (add Supervision)
  
• CONFIG/FILE: Use hash map to optimise key/value lookups
  
• CORE INFO: Performance optimisations + code clean-ups/refactors
  
• CRT/SWITCHRES: Fixed CRTSwitchRes framebuffer bug
  
• DISCORD/RPC: Fix regression
  
• DRM: set the correct video mode
  
• FASTFORWARD: Enforce minimum fastforward_ratio of 1.0
  
• FONTS/FREETYPE/STB_UNICODE/BITMAPFONT: Prevent texture bleed when rendering text at non-integer scales
  
• INPUT: Ensure that ‘retro_set_controller_port_device’ is called when updating ‘Max Users’
  
• INPUT/XEGL/MOUSE: Fix xegl_ctx.c mouse activation
  
• INPUT/SDL: Fix crash in SDL input driver when analogs are bound
  
• INPUT/POINTER: Add scaling to pointer input
  
• INPUT REMAPPING: Fix regression on loading file
  
• INPUT REMAPPING: Fix regression where disabling input remapping would disable input
  
• IOS: Disable system button gestures on iOS 14
  
• IOS: Prevent potential crash on controller connect – randomly would get a crash when connecting a game controller while RA was running
  
• LAKKA: Add menu for time zone setting
  
• LOGGING: RARCH_LOG_V checking for verbosity level is not necessary and can cause issues; removed said check.
  
• LOGGING: Silence inappropriate cheatfile logging
  
• IOS/MAC: Add CPU VFP unit detection for Darwin
  
• MAC: Swallow ‘escape’ key being pressed – would previously make the game toggle between fullscreen and windowed
  
• MAC: Intel and ARM64 timer change proposal.
  
• MAC/ARM64: run_fast_mode disabled for 64 bits invalid instructions.
  
• MAC/OPENGL: Fix codesigning issue
  
• MAC/UNIVERSAL: Add TTS translation service support.
  
• MENU: Add optional menu screensaver
  
• MENU: Add search filter support to cheats and overlays file browser menus
  
• MENU/FILEBROWSER: Enhanced ‘Load Content’ file browser search functionality
  
• MENU/INPUT: Block accidental diagonals in menu navigation
  
• MENU/RGUI: Add option to disable menu transparency
  
• MENU/RGUI: Fix display of ‘Video > Scaling’ menu when ‘Lock Menu Aspect Ratio’ is enabled
  
• MENU/MATERIALUI: Add icon to ‘Turbo Fire’ menu entry
  
• MENU/OZONE: Ozone Dracula theme
  
• OPENDINGUX/BETA: Fix IPU scaling when running GBA-resolution content
  
• OPENDINGUX/BETA: Add 50Hz support
  
• OPENDINGUX: Enable ‘SaveRAM Autosave Interval’ by default
  
• PATCHES: Added multi-softpatching support + OSD messages for patches
  
• RHMAP: Track the complete string in rhmap
  
• VITA: Align VM block size to 1MB – should fix one of the issues with gpSP
  
• WINDOWS/GDI: Fix non-ASCII text rendering
  
• XEGL: Fix mouse not working when using OpenGLES with X11

The following actions have been taken.

* Increased the maximum number of simultaneous players to 5.
#The maximum number of players will be 5 when starting a new stage with no one in version 1.0.8.

* Fixed a bug that caused eggs to continue to exist when they shouldn't.

Join us for a limited-time (FREE TO PLAY) Open Alpha until 5/9! We're hosting a tournament for the best of the best and an Undefeated Exhibition featuring our top players tonight!


Rushdown Revolt is the next stage in Fighting Games. Move faster and strike more swiftly than ever before with the power of Spark to fuse your abilities together into unique and devastating combos.



Open Alpha Access:
https://www.rushdownrevolt.com/playnow​

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Small bugs fixed for PC and Mac version

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1545600

This update introduces a whole new customization system and more bug fixes and improvements.

-Added a whole new Customization System (alpha)
-Added 11 new skins (most skins can be unlocked with special codes, given during events).
-Added 3 more tutorial videos.
-The Unknown can now manipulate time when close to the player.
-The Unknown can now be stunned with a dunk-o-meter explosion.
-Added an area with the Unknown in practice mode.
-Added a few easter eggs.

-If you get shield shoved while stunned (from a previous shield shove) then you get killed.
-You now have more control over where you fall and look when shield shoved.
-Increased level bounds on most levels.
-Door and glass breaking sound effects now get affected by slow motion.
-FOV now also affects the third person camera.
-Adjusted the Dunk-O-Meter explosion vfx.
-Updated redeem code system.
-Updated a few main menu images.

-Enemy shooter no longer reloads when dead.
-Fixed bug with audio not saving
-Fixed a few more bugs negatively affecting performance.

-A few icons are missing from customization items.
-Shields temporarily can't be stolen due to grapple kick bugs.
-The explosion after reaching full Dunk-O-Meter doesn't affect enemy ragdolls.

If you find any bugs please let me know, I would really appreciate that.

Hi there!

This technically shouldn't be called a "hot-patch" given there are structural changes that people need to be made aware of, but it's a bit too late for me to change my version system. :)


The main reason for this update was to address a old bug which was causing settlers and animals to, sometimes, be teleported to the wrong side of a wall. Basically it would happen when something is pathing around a corner and gets worsened when a game is saved right when this happens. For barely half a second, the peon was technically "in the wall" which could force the engine to forcefully push it outside, not always on the correct side.

As such, instead of pathing diagonally through a the corner of a house, they'll path around it. It gives a more natural looking movement. There's a downside to this change, though. One movement type that was possible in previous versions is not anymore. Best way to illustrate is with a picture:



Moving between corner-adjacent obstacles is no longer possible. Settlers will go the long way around. If parts of your base is relying on people moving diagonally through a bunch of depots/walls, those parts have to be redesigned to allow access.



I know this fix is going to be slightly annoying to some of you. But at this point in time, it's the only valid choice I have to fix the issue.

There's an upside, some fairly frequent calculations (flood fill) done by the game are now a lot less CPU intensive, which should help with performances on very large maps.


Build mode keyboard shortcuts are now working in combat mode. As such, and assuming you know your shortcuts, it's possible to build, cancel and raze stuff from the combat UI now.

This should be especially useful with "special projects" that require active guards, like walling off parts of the sewers or securing a spawner to make a food or giant egg generator. You won't have to switch between build & combat mode nearly as often.

This is still a bit experimental, but so far my testing hasn't found any deal breaker.


Biomes can have their own weather patterns, and even weathers which are unique to them. For instance, in the scorched biome, "acid rains" have been replaced by a way deadlier "blood rain" version and cold waves can no longer happen.

In the same spirit, arid biomes no longer have cold waves, and rain is much less frequent. Swamps have no heat waves and it's raining more often. Most other biomes are left unchanged for now.


This is still a hot-patch, technically. As such, there's no compatibility problem to expect. Just keep aware of the changes in pathing.

Beside that, devlog about 0.8.3 incoming sunday :)

• Balance: Given all animals a very slow (only outside combat) health regen ability to compensate for the fact they can't heal on their own otherwise
  
• Change: It is no longer possible for agents to path through diagonally-adjacent walls/obstables
  
• Content: Weather patterns depend on the biome you spawn in (swamps get more rain and coldwaves, arid less rain and more heatwaves, scorched is hellish)
  
• Content: Scorched biome: acid rain replaced by blood rain (local mobs are generally immune to its effects) and the water there is now red.
  
• Engine: Slightly improved overall performances on large maps
  
• Engine: Switching to/from the world map is now near immediate instead of freezing the game for a good second
  
• Modding: Some mapgen/terrains files have a new "WeatherPatterns" field (see arid.json or humid.json)
  
• Modding: Weather pattern files have a "CanUseInProcGen" true/false setting, if set to false, this pattern will only show up if it's included in the terrain's data
  
• Modding: Added "CanSocial" true/false to npc files (to enable/disable relation tab/funcs on relevant npc types)
  
• UI: Updated some of the tutorial and game-tip messages with more accurate/useful information
  
• UI: Right clicking zones in the build menu will display a detailed info menu like it does for other objects
  
• UI: Added "Zones" category to the encyclopedia
  
• UI: Most of the build mode keyboard shortcuts are now working in combat mode (building, razing, cancelling and most menus)
  
• Fixed: Messages about brawls would incorrectly indicate that all brawls are from your survivors (even if it's between hostile people in a bunker)
  
• Fixed: The biome dropdown in custom game / underground menu was clipped incorrectly
  
• Fixed: Basements could spawn on the surface in some scenarios
  
• Fixed: Frenglish "recolt" changed to "harvest", and corrected other outdated information in the tutorial
  
• Fixed: On rare/specific occasions, agents could end up on the wrong side of a wall (after loading a save, especially), this *should* be fixed
  
• Fixed: Animals, zombies and robots spawning with the "social" module, unnecessarily consuming CPU cycles (not many, but hey)
  
• Fixed: Zombies weren't immune to the heavy version of acid rains.
  
• Fixed: In some underground scenarios, "surface events" (new recruits, traders...) could still happen before the player breaches the surface