UPDATED - Ground loot drops - reduced SHIELD drops, increased WEAPON drops. UPDATED - Space skill experience. Weaponry, Piloting, Electronics and Targeting now gain bonuses from INT applied to crew in ship stations. Increased the base EXP gain overall for space skills. UPDATED - The default FPS and VSYNC state for a newly downloaded game that has never been launched before is now set to 60 FPS/…
FIXED - End game achievements Answers from the Void and achievements for end game options were not being triggered. If you already completed the end game missions, just load that save and wait a little while and the achievements should trigger. FIXED - A bug that was not triggering dialog with Dr. Jensen the first time you entered Achmedius Trade. FIXED - A possible fix for degraded performance…
I'm posting a few fixes and updates today. The biggest change is that you can now update the appearance of hair styles and colors in-game. Additionally, as I posted in March, the price of the game is being increased from $19,99 to $24.99 today. Here are the notes: UPDATED - Game resource files. This makes for a large download for this patch ADDED - You can now change crew hair, hair color and b…
Make sure to verify your game through Steam after installing. Fixed - Crouch shortcut key was not working while in combat. Fixed - Cyborg dialog on Ghornath Command Ship 2 was repeating after completion.
UPDATED - Removed new portraits from the game. Since I cannot confirm that these were not generated by AI, they have been removed. When you reload a save, the old portraits will be assigned. If you don't like the assignment, open the inventory , select a crew member , and click the portrait in the upper left of the screen. This will open the EDIT CREW panel. Scroll through the portraits, select…
Today is the day. Nearly 10 years have been dedicated to this project, and I hope you enjoy the game. v1.0 is now live on Steam! Stellar Tactics has a large universe with many interconnected systems. In general, it does not hold your hand much or force any particular style of play. Starting on the Dauntless provides background for the game story, some nice equipment and tutorials that will help…
VER 0.907c Hotfix: ROLLED BACK THE FIX FOR THIS BUG. I'll look into this again for the next patch. It was causing problems with missions where multiple objects needed to be clicked. -- "It was possible to save a game after activating a mission object, reload the game, and the mission object would once again be clickable, even though it's mission stage was already completed. (e.g. Dauntless Vats…
ADDED - Added Universe Map legend to lower left of the map. UDPATED - Lowered default ambient sound volume when launching game first time and writing default settings. FIXED - A bug related to the advanced options SPACE EXP slider. At +15%, when mining ore, ore was not being spawned. FIXED - It was possible to save a game after activating a mission object, reload the game, and the mission objec…
VER 0.906 ADDED - Mini tutorials for salvaging, crafting, psionic amplifier and Azimuth. UPDATED - Ghor enemies now generate more Azimuth. UPDATED - Tips displayed on loading screen based on recent changes. UPDATED - In-game guide to reflect recent changes and added a few details that were not previously covered. UPDATED - Aznari Scanner missions - Scanner % complete value displayed in mission…
I’m thrilled to announce the release date of Stellar Tactics 1.0. The result of years of hard work, refined by feedback and suggestions from the community, 1.0 has become more than I could have ever imagined. Stellar Tactics will leave Early Access on March 30th, 2026. None of this could have been accomplished without you. Thank you providing feedback, reporting bugs, and offering suggestions d…
FIXED - Blocked dialog on Unregistered Research Base. FIXED - Border rollover highlight for lockers on several trade stations. FIXED - Radar on stations. FIXED - Mercs recruit NPC's could fall through geometry when walking around (rare). They get reset to their spawn point if that happens. FIXED - A few collider errors on stations.
UPDATED - Faction agent missions and NPC missions from stations now display the factions they are associated with in the log under OBJECTIVE. "Faction - House Aralion" for example. UPDATED - Player is notified when reaching level 40 that an AP BONUS is applied from 8 to 10 BASE AP and that at level 80, AP increases from 10 to 12 AP. UPDATED - Message to log and audio queue - resource depleted,…
ADDED - I now generate 10 rolling save game TOC/user options backups (sav_dat.xml) in your /Users/YOUR USER NAME HERE/Documents/My Games/StellarTactics/ folder. If you are ever in a situation where you cannot load your saves because of save corruption, you can recover a recent sav_dat file from this folder and overwrite the one in your game install folder. Just rename one of these files to "sav…
UPDATED - You can now destroy (trash) devices like the translocator, hacking tool etc, just in case you buy too many. The Psionic Amplifier and Aznari Scanner cannot be destroyed. UPDATED - Increased schematic drop rates slightly. UPDATED - Increased the amount of time you have to select a key when hacking. UPDATED - Added an advanced option for free STAT resets in the options->gameplay setting…
UPDATED - Resetting STATS is not free/unlimited anymore. You can respec at Achmedius Trade Port. In the cantina area, leaning against a wall next to the vendor, speak with Wallas Northrop. He charges 50,000 credits and a single Aznari Ether Relic (rare). Once a reset is purchased, you can reset your stats by opening the character information screen and selecting the "RESET STATS" button below t…
UPDATED - Implemented simple tutorial tips. Regardless of whether you start a new game or load an existing save you will see new tutorial tips related to various topics. Others are trigged through dialog to help new players understand various mechanics. Tutorials can be turned off in the options->gameplay tab. UPDATED - Increased the value of weapons, shields, mods and armor based on quality ti…
UPDATED - In game guide - Added information about +2AP rollover bonus (for next turn) when ending turn with 2 or more AP remaining. UPDATED - In game guide - Added clarification about melee movement AP cost and full attack AP cost applied when melee must walk to target to get in range to execute a weapon special attack. Melee special attacks must be in range to execute an attack without expendi…
ADDED: Under advanced gameplay options, you can now disable auto-reload after combat. Auto reload is on by default. UPDATED - Automated certain crafting tasks. When crafting there are two new options on the crafting UI. Both are off by default. --FAST ASSEMBLY AND IGNORE CONDITIONS. When you begin crafting and select the icon next to ASSEMBLY AND CONDITIONS, all clicks are automated and status…
UPDATED - When in a star system or ground location where the system level is greater than the players average CHARACTER LEVEL or greater than the players ship crew at crew stations average SKILL level, a message is displayed showing details. UPDATED - The trade window slider when purchasing stacked items like ammo etc. now responds to the mouse wheel. UPDATED - Increased star system (+30%) and…
UPDATED - Further reduced the number of items you need to salvage to unlock schematics. UPDATED - The Aznari Scanner mission - increased the % complete values for every area cleared in Aznari Ruins. FIXED - Bad material in Coven mission locations. FIXED - A bug related to the display of progress towards schematics. FIXED - A bug related to the timing of the schematic completion display. FIXED -…
UPDATED - In the ship cargo list, you can now hold CTRL and RIGHT-CLICK DRAG to mark items for salvage. You can hold ALT and RIGHT-CLICK DRAG to mark items for sale. FIXED - Merchant career - NEGOTIATOR and CHARISMATIC career bonuses were not being triggered correctly. FIXED - An edge case with Aznari shard values. At one point, negative values were assigned to the number of stacked shards/ston…
FIXED - Additional edits to Aznari ruins collision and navigation. FIXED - Rolled back enemy NPC optimizations until I can look into issues like enemies falling through floors and enemies not ending combat correctly.
UPDATED - Performance improvements in ground locations. UPDATED - Increased camera movement speed. UPDATED - When entering a star system (not FTL space), the system info panel (upper left) is automatically displayed so stellar objects can be selected/targeted. UPDATED - Recruited MERCS will now always have the main characters level and current EXP toward next level. UPDATED - Hacking skill tier…
I've added EXP from missions. Many of you have commented that crew members level slowly. Indeed, that was the case. Now, with this update, you will also receive experience from missions. I think, with this change, players will feel a better sense of advancement through the game, especially if they focus on the main story. That is not to say that cruising around taking faction missions, incursio…
FIXED - Gas grenade damage messages will no longer spam the log if resisted. FIXED - A bug with "Continue" on main menu related to manual saves. FIXED - Crew Manager - Drag and drop should now be easier. FIXED - Edge case with "The truth about Jensen" mission. FIXED - Localization fields where text would not fit (ongoing). UPDATED - Unloading ammo from weapons has been moved from SHIFT-RIGHT CL…
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