Jun 17, 2024

Skye: The Misty Isle - Aurora Game Studios

Official Early Access Trailer

The time has come to grab your axe and set sail for distant lands!

We are thrilled to unveil our latest trailer and announce that Skye: The Misty Isle will be available for Early Access on June 19th, 2024! This marks a significant milestone as we transition into Patch 0.3, the beginning of our Alpha development phase.

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1710180/Skye_The_Misty_Isle/

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Alpha Development

Alpha development focuses on enhancing performance, incorporating player feedback, and expanding core gameplay mechanics to refine and improve the overall gameplay experience. We’re excited to take this next step with our community and continue shaping the game together.

Performance Improvements

During our demo, we received so much incredibly valuable feedback on the game, especially regarding performance and optimisation. We want you to know that we’ve heard your concerns and are actively working on solutions:

Performance Fixes
We are currently working on a significant patch aimed at addressing the bulk of issues we have identified, including:

optimising the new landscape, which was introduced in Patch 0.2.8
improving the way in which Metahuman details are handled
resolving issues surrounding Nanite, which we believe have been causing a bottleneck

Updating Minimum Specs
We will also be updating our minimum specifications to better reflect the hardware needed to play the game at this time; as always, these will be subject to change over time, and we will endeavour to ensure the lowest possible minimum specs for full release. These new specifications will include recommended texture quality settings and the expected FPS players should be seeing. We hope this provides a better understanding of the game's current performance capabilities.

Automatic Quality Settings
To help every player achieve the expected performance for their specifications, we have implemented code that automatically detects your machine's hardware and applies the recommended quality settings. While you can override these settings in some cases, we highly recommend using auto-detection to allow for optimal gameplay.

GeForce NOW Partnership

We are excited to officially announce that we partnered with NVIDIA to bring Skye: The Misty Isle to GeForce NOW. This will allow players to stream the game using NVIDIA’s cloud servers, allowing players, even on lower-spec machines, to play the game smoothly.

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Community Feedback

Your feedback is crucial to us. We want to ensure that every player is fully informed throughout all stages of our development and is able to share their feedback and experiences. We are committed to transparency and want to ensure that all players are happy with the game in its currently available state before making the decision to purchase.

Demo Availability
To achieve this, we have decided to keep our demo live for the foreseeable Early Access period. The demo will be updated with the most stable version of the base game and will include performance, optimisation, and quality-of-life updates as they become available. While the playable area in the demo will not expand, this will allow players to track our progress through development and personally experience the game for free before deciding to buy the game.

Your Feedback Matters
We understand the challenges of entering public access at such an early stage in development. However, as a small, self-publishing team of only five, community feedback is vital to helping us make the game the best it can possibly be. We will continue to post regular updates documenting our progress, and we want everyone to have access to this journey without financial commitment.

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/2875590/Skye_The_Misty_Isle_Demo?snr=1_7_15__13

Note: This is a pre-release demo. May contain bugs, and features may be limited.

Thank you for all the support and understanding you have shown us so far. We’re so excited to continue working with you all as we move into the next chapter of Skye: The Misty Isle!

Skål,

The Aurora Team 🌙

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Jun 17, 2024

THE ROADTRIP UPDATE

ASTRONEER - Ginapedia

The Roadtrip Update brings new missions, schematics, and improvements to Astroneer. We've also made important adjustments and fixes to ensure a smoother and more enjoyable experience. Dive in, embark on new quests, and see what secrets the cosmos has in store for you!

Feature Updates:

New Missions

Alert: New Structures Detected!

Missions have been added to guide curious Astroneers to new discoveries.
Recruits must complete the following missions in preparation for this new endeavor:
- G. desolo: Verification

New Schematics

Upon collecting requested Data Circuits, two new schematics will be unlocked

Extra Large Resource Canister
- Recipe: 1 Diamond, 1 EXO Chip, 2 Nanocarbon Alloy
- Printer: Large
Large Rover Seat B
- Recipe: 2 Plastic, 1 Compound
- Printer: Medium

Miscellaneous

Adjustments have been made to the Tapper. Most organic production rates have been slowed. This should leave a bit more breathing room for other power production methods in the early-to-mid game
Tooltip updates for certain items
Experimental: Save File Repair Settings
- These settings can be used when saved files cannot be loaded.
- WARNING: These settings will DELETE certain items from the save in an attempt to make them able to load
- More about these settings can be found here.

Bugs:

The following bugs have been fixed as of version 1.31.76.0

AS-18105: In multiplayer during Rail Missions the host's performance degrades when a client joins when certain Rail Missions are active
AS-19640: Clients in a Multiplayer session do not receive the PUM-KN Shelter from the Fall LTE
AS-19502: Backpack Aux Slot does not autopull next bundle of Power Extenders when auto-connecting the the last extender in a bundle
AS-19639: The PUM-KN shelter hologram in the catalog is missing mouse collision
AS-19998: The full screen Message of the Day image is poor quality and squished
AS-20202: The Breakdown Event item tooltips still list printers and say they can be sent via Exo Request Platform Recovery Rocket after the event is over
AS-20204: The EXO Recovery Platform does not drop packaged Resource Canisters on launch and consumes/loses them
AS-20210: The Exo Request Platform’s progress bar in Control Panel does not match expected values during Repeating Stage in the Summer Event
AS-20511: Several items when drilled into non-terrain will not properly slot into the backpack when quick stowed

Jun 17, 2024

Wesnoth 1.18.1

Battle for Wesnoth - Wesnoth Inc.

Campaigns

Eastern Invasion
- Prevent Dacyn from picking up a different staff (issue #8885)
- Reduce Barrow/Pyre Wight vulnerability to arcane
- Many minor bugfixes

Heir to the Throne
- Li'sar is no longer renameable.

Sceptre of Fire
- S7: Fewer and slower enemies, to balance the buff to the Elvish Outrider unit type

Tutorial
- Better timing for some of the hints

World Conquest
- Fix World Conquest's Help dialog showing double scrollbars due to the left tree having it's vertical scrollbar disabled. Changed both vertical and horizontal scrollbar modes to automatic. (issue #8576)

Editor

Allow loading .mask files

Packaging

Fixed building with Boost 1.85.

Translations

Updated translations: Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Russian, Slovak, Ukrainian

User interface

Added a button to the build info dialog to rerun the 1.16 to 1.18 migration tool (issue #7936)
Overhauled the Language selection dialog to make it more informative, including displaying translation progress and making it easier to select highly-incomplete translations.
Made the Changelog option in the macOS app menu link to the changelog for the particular Wesnoth app version rather than the Git master branch changelog.
Add a Community button to the title screen to link to the forums, discord, etc.

Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes

Fixed replays marking achievements as complete (issue #8858)
Fixed build with Boost 1.85
Fixed a crash in the recall dialog when turning off all sorting options (issue #8878)
Fixed clicking on a trait in the sidebar sometimes opening the wrong trait’s help page
Removed wesnothd’s unused threads commandline options
Trying to load an image filename ending ".jpg" will now automatically try ".webp" if the ".jpg" isn’t found.
Fix: releasing a mouse button at the same time as a dialog pops up sometimes dismissed the dialog immediately (issue #8644)
Fixed macOS saves going in the wrong directory.
Fixed unit portraits being too large in the in-game help when a pixel scale multiplier was set but disabled.
Fixed the unit idle animation preference not being saved correctly.
Fixed multiplayer games not entering linger mode after the scenario ends due to a turn limit.
Fixed achievements being marked completed when only watching a replay.
Fixed Wesnoth crashing when reloading a multiplayer game in debug mode.

Jun 17, 2024

Contest for the Best Guide!

The Braves - Mary

Brave Ones!

The villagers proudly tell tales of Martina's exploits, which with its intimidating methods fighting have saved them time and again from the invasions of dark forces. Her name is spoken with admiration, for Martina is a true heroine, a defender of the mysterious world of Singoru, and an inspiration to the young brave ones.

Thick lumps of viscous, sticky mud fly towards their targets, blinding and knocking down the foes. Martina effortlessly dodges the retaliatory strikes, using her superior mobility and knowledge of the area

Contest Announcement!

Conditions: Write a guide about the hero "Martina". Describe her strengths and weaknesses, and highlight the key gameplay aspects that you consider important.
Post your work in the dedicated Guides section with an appropriate title.

Attention: Don't forget to include your in-game ID along with the guide.
Deadline for submissions: June 22 19:00 UTC.

The winners will be announced on June 23, when the sun shines bright once more, revealing the splendor of the world of Singoru.

Jun 17, 2024

Store Unvaulting: The Phoenix Returns

New World: Aeternum - timmyopa

Greetings, Adventurers!

Some of your favorite skins like the Sunblaze Apparel, Phoenix Weapon skins, and the Glorious Phoenix pet will cycle into the Store throughout this month. Once live, each wave will be available for 2 weeks. The final June unvaulted selection will run until 6AM PT (1PM UTC) on July 2. Items can be obtained in exchange for Marks of Fortune. Preview the full collection, including armor skins, weapon skins, emotes, and more below.

WAVE 1: JUNE 11 - 25

ROYAL COURT SKIN BUNDLES