Hello guys! Today we fulfill one of the last and the biggest features we had promised for the Early Access phase: World Level 5! Level 5 buildings · Defense Tower: Boom. Enough said :-) · Docking Bay: More supply and demand slots. Level 5 ships and merchants can dock here. · Jump Portal: Allows to jump to Jump Portals inside 500 blocks range. Can be used by Level 5 ships. · Mining Tower: Extrac…
Hello guys, you know, one big to-do besides the release of level 5 is that stupid purple screen bug, which happens to some people, when lighting is enabled. Unfortunately it did not happen on any of our test machines. Now, we finally have an idea where and why the purple screen bug occurs and added a lot of debugging behaviour to that code passage, but we need your help! Please, if you're affec…
Hello guys, we know, some of you are still waiting for our final update which releases Level 5 and finishes our Early Access phase. With this update we want to give you an insight, what it means to create content for an entire world level: First of all, there are the buildings · For each building, we need to create 3D models, three kinds: The part which has the material texture, the parts with…
Hello guys, not only the development approaches the finish line of Early Access phase, but also some other to-do's for the shop page had to be done. The two major tasks have been new trailers including the updated graphics engine and a professional voice over (people probably got bored hearing my voice :-P). The two trailers can be watched on the shop page, but you can also have a look at them…
Hello guys, nice you're still around! There hasn't been an update for a long time for two reasons: What's happening right now 1. We are re-writing the entire game client to increase performance . With more hardware instancing and therefore less draw calls, we can drastically increase the FPS. This requires so much of refactoring and different organization of data, that we decided to re-write th…
Hey guys, today we release another upgrade to the Galactineers Editor, which raises the level of the editor features up to the current development level of the game itself. In details, this means: * You can now configure the new Lightbox item in the editor with a nice color picker. * You can now set outgoing connections and transported item types for transmitters. That way, you can ad partial t…
Hello guys! Today we're proud to release a big game update, which we've been working on for weeks. It significantly improves the overall visual quality of the game. Lighting improvement At first, we added bump mapping to all blocks an buildings! This increases the level of detail dramatically and creates a more three-dimensional surface for all blocks and building walls. At second, we added lig…
Hello folks, today we released a little new build which improves a few things suggested by the community: - The overall colour for energy has been changed from yellow to blue. - The colour for energy sphere items has been saturated into a greener tone. These two changes were made to make the different transmitter lines more visually distinguishable. Gold, Energy and Energy Spheres were all in a…
Hey guys, today we published a little bugfix build. It fixes some crash causes and small issues with the combat engine. Furthermore, the API has been extended by a few new functions for mission scripting. You can find all functions of the API documented in our wiki: Cheers and have fun!
Hello guys, it's been since Christmas that we posted the last update to the game and you probably wondered, what's going on. After 4,5 years of developing Galactineers we took a well-deserved month off everything to regain some energy for the finalization of our game. This is what lies ahead: - We're currently finishing implementation of the 'Jump Portal' PVE mission, this one will be released…
Hello guys, the Galactineers development team wishes all of you a Merry Christmas! We'd like to thank you all for the great support and feedback in the past months and hope you'll all have a nice holiday. As a little Christmas present, you might want to try out our Christmas tree ship: It's a level 3 ship with high speed and pretty good weapons. For all not-yet--Galactineers-owners, we have a l…
Hey guys, this is our third update regarding player aids to help players to better get into the game. This time, we introduce a new feature: The In-game Wiki The in-game wiki explains the basic concepts of the game with images and text. You get all nessecary information like the controls, economy and trading basics, or information about building mode and unlocking stuff. Last but not least, it…
Hey guys, with the latest update, we've put more live into the NPCs! Devastators With last weeks update, we introduced 1vs1 battles. You knew the Harv's and the Pirates, and maybe even found one or another Devastator : With today's update, Devastators get their own biome, so you can find more of them to fight! Devastator biomes usually can be found at the edge of magma regions and their ships j…
Hey guys, with today's update we introduce a brand new feature to the game: Quick Challenges With this new function, you can now challenge any hostile NPC ship on the map for an instant 1vs1 battle. Ever wondered how to get rid of all the Pirates and Harv's in sandbox mode? Here's your chance! Just right-click them with your battleship and click "Challenge". If you can beat them, they might hav…
Hey guys, with today's patch, the Galactineers economy gets a big upgrade. In the 'Automation Lab' building, you can now buy two additional items: Relay Station The relay station allows you to split a transmitter connection which transmits energy to supply a building, into three connections. That way, you can supply multiple buildings with just one powerblock and don't need to build one connect…
Hello folks, finally it's the time, our BIG CONTENT UPDATE is here! New PVE missions There are two new PVE missions in the game . The first one, 'Rosinante' is a two-player coop mission for Level 1 ships, but it can also be played in solo, too! Escort Rosinante, the human trade ship back to its home base after a coordinated assault on its latest mission. The 'Rosinante' mission can be found at…
Hello folks, before we publish the content upgrade, we've been working on the trailer videos and the store page. #prepareThingsForRelease There's a new fast-cut action trailer posted as the landing page video of the game's store page, which can be used if you want to post about the game in forums or social media. You'll also find the trailer on YouTube: Galactineers Trailer The previous trailer…
Hello folks, before the upcoming biiiig content upgrade (introducing Level 4 and new PVE missions), we dealt with the problem to get into the game. We are aware that due to the complexity it is sometimes hard for newcomers to know what they *can* do and what they *should* do. So here's the update: Interactive Tutorial There's a completely new and playable tutorial, which guides the player throu…
Hey there! Big patch day was yesterday, but this is worth another news: A small but pretty much wished feature from the community, the possibility to destroy built ships, has been implemented with today's update. Just open the ship list (button on the left, or L-button) and use the new button. It will remove the ship instantly and permanently. With the new Hangar feature coming with level 4, th…
Hey guys, today we uploaded a little balancing patch as preparation for the upcoming big upgrades. The following things have been changed: * Aspects research (to increase world tech level) in general is now cheaper. * Level 2 docking bays will now be served by level 2 merchants, if a level 2 jump portal is around. Level 3 merchants will visit level 3 docking bays via level 3 jump portals, and s…
Hey guys, prior to the release of the next PVE mission, we upgraded the Galactineers API once again (because we use it ourselves to create our missions :-) ) and added an option to run and debug your mission script directly from Visual Studio while playing it in Galactineers. For that purpose, you can install our new Galactineers Visual Studio Add-in , which provides a project template, automat…
Hey guys, today we're releasing a bugfix build which fixes several issues and crash causes reported by the community. Thanks for all the emails and messages to help to make this game better! :-) We're working on a big content update, which is planned to be released in the upcoming weeks. It will unlock world level 4 including all level 4 buildings, and of course, the level 4 ship designer with…
Hey guys, today we deployed a bugfix and improvement build, which you get via the auto updater with Steam. Several issues with the foundry and research lab have been fixed: * Synchronization problems with material multiplication slots and foundry ingredient slots, while a production was in progress * Lost material with material multiplication slots, while a production was in progress * Wrong di…
Hello guys, today we release a new update for Galactineers, which is available via auto-update through Steam. WINDOWS 10 PERFORMANCE We know, some rare cases of Windows 10 update installations caused major lags and freezes in the game. We have found one issue to the problem and added a new setting to the game: If you were affected by major lagging and freezes in Galactineers, try to disable thi…
Hey guys, due to an injury in the 3d modelling department we swapped the order of features we're implementing, so here's a really BIG one: the Transmitter system The transmitter system allows you to connect buildings to automatically transport items from a production source to a receiver. That way you can -for example- automatically connect mining towers or solar panels to a local storage. Also…
Hey guys, if you relaunch the Steam client, you'll see a new update for the game coming in. The most important thing we did was refactoring the components to be able to use a different graphics profile ("Reach") without losing visual quality. The performance of some graphics devices should increase visibly. Other small performance improvements have been integrated as well. In preparation to the…
Hey guys! The beta testing has been very successful, we could eleminate some bugs and increase performance significantly thanks to the testers who played online and offline. I'd like to thank everyone for their effort, we're really glad to release a stable and performant version :-) Today I'm uploading one of the last builds before the Early Access release. It will contain lots of new features…
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