We're back! It's a Frameshift Live kinda week and we're excited to see those of you who'll be there to join us for it!
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When? : Thursday May 18 at 16:00 BST.
Where? : Elite Dangerous official Twitch and Youtube channels, as well as the Frontier Twitch channel too.
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**PLEASE NOTE: THIS STREAM WILL BE FULL TO THE BRIM WITH SPOILERS AROUND UPDATE 15 CONTENT**
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This week's show is a bumper packed one, set to include all you've come to expect with the usual waffle at the start - sorry - the in game news rundown, Stellar Screenshots highlights and Community content shares, but wait! There's more!
Special developer guests! That's right, more than the one I said we would have in the last communication you had on this!
She has already visited us once during our First Anniversary, but now, Chelsea returns to brighten the Shelter with her, perhaps slightly naive, but golden-hearted and decidedly alluring presence!
But, who is our lovely South-American beauty...? Well, Overseer, you might be surprised to learn that her story is, in fact, quite similar to yours in many respects... After all, it's not like your bunker was the only bunker in existence, right?
Come, let her seductive, confident smile and deep, hazel eyes captivate you, and who knows... Maybe, if you play your cards right, you can give her an experience she could only dream about...!
Hey All, I am Pleased To Announce A New Game Mode "Rift Mode" to Come into Void, Please Enjoy.
Change Log:
Rift Mode is To Survive as long as possible until the timer runs out while aiming to achieve the highest score Auto Generated Levels and Creatures ( Mobs )
Loot Table: Drops Additional Consumables for General Loot Table and Epic Loot Tables Drops Equipable Items
1 - 4 Minutes Auto Gen Timer Rifts Start at Level State 1 and Score Is Reset to 0
Time Fragment: -Gives Bonus Time if Found (1 Minute) -Spawns Between 1 - 2 Minutes -Increases Level State (+1) , Increasing New Spawns To Scale To The New State. -Time Fragments have a 50% To Give Bonus Time and Despawn after 60 Seconds
Rare Elites Will Increate Level State by +1 For Each Slain. Rares Spawn Between 1 - 3 Minutes From Random Spawners Rares Will Spawn More Mob Variations upon Slaying Rares Provide 1 Minute Bonus Time Once Slain
HitBoxes: Some Hitboxes Have Been Adjusted to improve accuracy and Damage Dealt has been amended to reflect the changes done. The Mob(s) that have been adjusted are, Undead, Rats, Imp Explosive, Imp, Earth Elemental.
Hello everyone! We wanted to announce that we have released the new Villain's Legacy update! The new update contains 30,000 new words, 500 new pictures, 10 new animations and 4 new achievements.
We also fixed a bug that did not allow some scenes in the new update to be played using old saves.
Thanks to the new update you will also be able to play on Steam decks!
Please stay tuned for more news by following our Steam page.
Galactic Paragons and the first hotfix have been released on all PC platforms, and we're working on a balance and bugfixing patch that we're currently targeting for the end of the month. Please keep on providing your thoughts and feedback.
Based on the feedback you've all provided thus far, we are creating a plan for fixes and improvements. While it's possible that we may release a stability hotfix before the balance patch, it will not include any design changes.
Cooperative Mode and Out of Syncs
The 3.8.2 hotfix took care of a number of out of sync issues, but there are more to hunt down. The programming team is focusing heavily on clearing these up, so every bit of information we can get is helpful.
If you're running into frequent out of sync issues, you can help us out a lot by having the host add these startup parameters to their game:
Then, if you run into an Out of Sync, please post in the Bug Report forum and give us the Host's OOS logs as well as at least one of the clients that the popup mentioned. (OOS logs can be found in Documents\Paradox Interactive\Stellaris\oos near your save games.) Any details you can provide about what you were doing at the time is also helpful.
This setting has some performance implications (which is why it's not on by default), but if you're running into OOSes reliably, it can really help us track them down.
Tell Us More About the Balance Patch
Here are a few selected notes.
SPOILER: A FEW OF THE THINGS PLANNED FOR 3.8.X [expand type=showmore]Balance
Legendary leaders no longer count towards Leader Capacity.
Admirals that command fleets hired from marauders no longer count towards your Leader Capacity.
Added the Leader of Opportunity trait, leaders that have this trait do not count towards Leader Capacity while under Level 4.
Assigned some event spawned leaders the Leader of Opportunity trait.
Aptitude Tradition "Champions of the Empire" now gives bonus per Leaders' levels.
Effect is now a flat -2 Empire Size per Governor level, and 0.5% Exp per Scientist level and 2 Naval capacity per Admiral/General level.
Autocannons are no longer valued at three times their intended military power.
Bugfixes
Fixed a bug where ships would sometimes stop following its target when they entered a hyperlane
Leaders can no longer start the game with traits that produce resources. This should stop machine leaders from keeping a bonsai tree garden as a hobby.
AI
AI will now wait until it has at least 5 planets and 25 years before choosing a specialization designation for its homeworld
Performance
Leader view performance optimizations
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There will, of course, be more.
Next Week
Our next dev diary will be Thursday, May 25th, when we'll be going over a more complete list of the preliminary patch notes.
Hello, hello - long time no hear! We've got a lot to share with you today, so grab a cup of coffee and get ready for some exciting news!
Digital Dragons
Let's start with the current stuff. We’re now at Digital Dragons 2023, showcasing two of our games: First Dwarf and Lumencraft. Both titles are finalists in the Indie Showcase, but we’re aiming even higher (at least as high as Ragna can fly ;))!
Remember - your votes matter, so it will be amazing if you show us your support!
Oh, and let's not forget to give a shoutout to Predator Polska, who's been supporting First Dwarf throughout the event. We appreciate the help and thank you for working with us!
It’s alive!
We prepared something really special for you... A 3D-printed model of the First Dwarf’s main character from the game! You can check it out at Digital Dragons 2023, and it'll also be accompanying us on other events. Don't forget to say hello to our little friend!
Speaking of events… We're thrilled to announce that First Dwarf has been nominated in two categories at Pixel Heaven:
Indie Grand Prix
Big Bang
We're truly honored and excited to be a part of it and we’ll share more info soon!
But wait…
There's more! We've got an exclusive treat for you! Completely new, never shown before, 4K gameplay footage from First Dwarf! Check it out and let us know what’s your favorite part.
In the end, thanks for being with us, gamers! The upcoming months are going to be filled with even more exciting news and events. Stay tuned and stay awesome, gamers!
If you've got any questions or suggestions regarding First Dwarf, feel free to reach out to us. We're here for you, our awesome community, and we always love hearing your feedback.
Before you go - visit the Discord 👾 server of the game and follow Star Drifters 🚀 on FB, Twitter 🐦 and Instagram. 📷
Version 0.93 will be released today in a few minutes. Work on 0.94 continues, to update the statistics, we need to make small changes to the already finished scenes. In the meantime, we're also parallelly rendering new prepared images.
-Already finished scenes: 2 out of 12 -Rendered images: 134 -Processed images: 0 -Posed animations: 0 -Rendered animations: 0 -Processed animations: 0 -Scenes assembled and in code: 0 out of 12
ChangeLog v0.93b: Story Scenes: Ellen, Amelia, Alexandra, Elena New Images: 288 New Animations: 25 +Added German translation +Fixed minor bugs +Two crashes in Russian version fixed
All the best, Super Alex.
P. S. This update did not come out very big, as we focused on technical improvements. But the next two updates will be truly epic...
P. S. S. A friendly reminder: check the new app on your smartphone