There's a new Opt-in Beta available. This is a minor update:
First, it hopefully addresses a long standing bug that caused skill check modifiers after certain anomalies not to be reset, leading to weird modifiers, like +1530%.
Two, it implements necessary changes for future Workshop story content. That is, once the Creator Tool is ready, Creators will be able to share their content with other players via the Workshop.
As mentioned last week, I'm also preparing to make the Creator Tool publicly available for all players, so anyone who is interested in trying it out is able to, without me having to email a key.
Right now, the next step in making the Creator Tool publicly available is... figuring out how to make the Creator Tool publicly available. It exists in Steam as a "Tool" (which is a distinct product category from "Game"). But pressing the "Release" button doesn't seem to have added it to player's accounts, so there must be a second step I'm missing.
Since Starcom: Unknown Space is an already published application with lots of players I don't want to start randomly changing settings unless I'm sure I know what the effect is. I've submitted a support ticket with Valve so hopefully we'll get it sorted soon.
Until next week!
Kevin