Underspace News

[p]Hello starchasers! It's been a hot minute or two since we last talked, huh? What was it, April? April seems like it was years ago. I bet you've been starving for cat pics, huh? It's taken quite a bit to get this update out, seeing as these two damn things want my attention at all hours of the day.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]In between being forced to sit on the floor with these things, I've been hard at work on Underspace's next big milestone update, which is due to arrive soon. Originally this was meant to come with Intergalactic Architecture, but given just HOW MUCH is in this update it's taken quite a while, but we're finally gearing up for release at the end of the month. This next big milestone is called The Color Out In Space. And, appropriately, it is heavily themed around customization.[/p][p]I won't try to spoil every big thing that's coming, but this update will include a ton of new character clothing options, tons of new places to explore, tons of new detail in the world, tons of new ship customization options (such as decals, hood ornaments) and of course housing, housing decoration, cockpit decorating, and a ton of other stuff. The patch notes are almost four pages long so there's a lot.[/p][previewyoutube][/previewyoutube][p][/p][p]The Color Out In Space plans to launch June 26th, we've got a sale going on right now too. I'll see you then![/p]

New Update!

Intergalactic Architecture!

Check it out the details:
Intergalactic Architecture Update

Hello starchasers! Today's April Fools so normally I'd be announcing something silly like selling ships for real money or adding battleships. But I don't make jokes, ever. So to that end, I'm releasing patch 1.42.0 for Underspace. This has a few new features but mostly it's implementing a bunch of background technology in preparation for our next milestone update, which has stuff like being able to decorate these houses.


Will you be able to put a picture of my cat in this house? Yeah probably.


It'll also have additional detailing and stuff for stations (as it was originally part of last milestone's feature list), however some stations are getting detailed now, like UHC-1.


Onto the changelog!



[h2]NEW FEATURES[/h2]

• Added more loading screen tips.
  
• Added a 1% for your save icon to have something special happen to it.
  
• Added a new alternate rendering system for on-foot sections. This can sometimes improve framerates on certain computers, and I have literally no idea why. Game development! Using it requires you to reload a save or restart the game once enabled/disabled.
  
• Added more detailing to UHC-1, including the statue of Bellimar. Why does he get a statue? Well, you know.
  
• Bellimar will now show up on UHC-1 after completing his quest.
  

[h2]CHANGES AND REBALANCES[/h2]

• Buffed the Manyship’s health to make it more appropriate for a boss of that stage.
  
• Shrunk the quest objective menu and changed the graphics slightly.
  
• Shrunk the tutorial prompts slightly.
  
• Changed camera angles for the Rival’s Fighter.
  

[h2]FIXES[/h2]

• Fixed some mismatched pieces on stations.
  
• Fixed some floating and clipping party member placement nodes on stations.
  
• Fixed issue with some ships that were rotated incorrectly in trade menus.
  
• Fixed issue where the Haywire Hulk was disappearing.
  
• Fixed issue where icons on the map wouldn’t appear while on stations.
  
• Fixed various items on stations that had no colliders.
  
• Fixed issue where hull hit sounds weren’t affected by sound settings.
  
• Fixed issue where Ballden heavy fighters had more shield recharge than intended.
  
• Fixed issue where the Nova Runner was rotated the wrong way.
  
• Fixed issue where having more than 17 ships made you unable to scroll down all the way.
  
• Fixed skill display issues displaying some useless floating point nonsense.
  
• Fixed some issues with trains on planets not moving. This was unacceptable.
  
• Fixed rendering issues with flickering shadows.
  
• Fixed rendering issues with camera clipping.
  
• Fixed issue where some optimized areas deleted a bunch of meshes by accident.
  
• Fixed issue where some stations wouldn’t have the proper skybox cubemaps in the background.
  
• Fixed issue where Rival Reflection wouldn’t start.
  
• Fixed issue where the Manyship wouldn’t reflect being defeated.
  
• Fixed bad logic gate during assassination missions.
  
• Fixed bad logic gate during multi-stage missions.
  
• Fixed objects that were visible outside of nebulas that were not meant to be visible.
  
• Fixed issue where some rifts were visible in areas they weren’t meant to be.
  
• Fixed some rotated ship icons.
  

Welcome to March, starchasers! I hope you're having a better time of it than our cats did, seeing as they spent most of this month sneezing and being sick.

They're better now though. Back to being normal weird furry things that never stop screaming.


So! I've got good news and bad news.

I'll start with the bad news: This milestone update had to be divided into two parts. What? If Warframe gets away with it we can too! I've been working nigh nonstop on this update but even with as run-ragged as I've been, there's physically no way I can do everything on the original agenda and get things out before the deadline (which is today, obviously). So, we've now split it into two parts, with the second part (featuring things like player housing, player customization, a pet system, an absolute metric ton of new little detailings, NPCs to talk to, full cockpit customization including the ability to dye said cockpits, non-capital planets, and more).

The good news: Everything else is in and ready to be explored. Welcome to our first big update of the year: Intergalactic Architecture!

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[h2]New Ships[/h2]
First up on the block are something people are always asking for: New ship types to fly. We've added over 15 new ships across six new ship archetypes, several of which have unique abilities. Like before, they come with full cockpits, customization options, and more.


Starting players can rake in some serious stellar dough with the corporate line of starfighters, which have a native bonus to mission payouts, while those in a more culty mood can take advantage of the Washer assassin ships (which are excellent at dodging and dueling). More unique ships, such as the Rival's mysteriously familiar Firmament superfighter or the racetrack champ's custom racing buggy Nova Runner can be acquired through new quests, which expand upon both their lore and the background of the characters involved.



You can acquire and find these ships throughout the galaxy, so keep an eye open.

[h2]Capital Stations, Planets and Homeworlds[/h2]
As the trailer and name of this update implies, the big big thing here is all kinds of new interiors you can explore now. From the vast underground pirate city of Zel, to the moonlit beaches of Clearhome, to the irradiated oceans of Zatedem, the lakes of Planet Ijunus, and everything in between. There's a lot to see here.


The crown jewel of the whole thing is, of course, the Axle. As the game's capital city of capital cities, it was important to give this thing a sprawling amount of space to explore, as well as its own unique exterior model.

As a side effect this means that entire star system also has much better performance,

The interior's no slouch either, with a lot of side areas and a whole shopping district. Currently, many aren't open. But I think canny players will have a clear idea of what they're going to sell in the future.


There's a lot to see and do here, and let me tell you I am sick to death of placing down bottles in bars. Let's get into the patch notes!



[h2]NEW FEATURES[/h2]

• Added the Corporate line of fighters and freighters.
  
• Added the Washer Missionary line of fighters.
  
• Elite Washers now fly Washer Missionary ships.
  
• Added the Rival’s fighter as a flyable ship.
  
• The Rival can now be encountered as a potential ally starchaser during storms, after his quest.
  
• Added the Champion’s fighter as a flyable ship.
  
• The Champion now flies his own custom fighter during his race.
  
• Added a new quest to acquire the Rival’s fighter.
  
• Added a new quest to acquire and repair the Champion’s fighter.
  
• Added full planetary detailing for Planet Zatedem.
  
• Added full planetary detailing for Planet Arran.
  
• Added full planetary detailing for Zel.
  
• Added full planetary detailing for Planet Ijunus.
  
• Added full planetary detailing for Planet Clearhome.
  
• Added full station detailing for Variom Station.
  
• Added full station detailing for Planet Demendrere.
  
• The Axle’s exterior has been redone completely, and now has a unique model, appropriate to being the capital city.
  
• Added full station detailing for the Axle.
  
• You can now ask the Largeboys questions.
  
• You can now ask the Washer priesthood questions.
  
• You can now talk to the Denmenvani.
  
• Added the ability to talk to the Parliament of Flesh.
  
• Added more on-station NPCs to talk to.
  

[h2]CHANGES AND REBALANCES[/h2]

• Rebalanced some aspects of deployable drones for NPCs, including damage rebalances and adding a cooldown to their attacks.
  
• Added more random names for Helioliches.
  
• Adjusted the volume of some room ambiences.
  

[h2]FIXES[/h2]

• Fixed issue with regional pricing for lobsteroids.
  
• Fixed issue where Ticker and Geode warp objects could be used in places they shouldn’t be able to be used.
  
• Fixed issue where some ships weren’t being sold by some stations that normally sell ships.
  
• Fixed various quest typos in dialogue, cutscenes, and descriptions.
  
• Fixed issue where the runaway train mission wouldn’t work, and improved it being nonhostile at the end.
  
• Fixed issue where mission ships had much larger leading pips than intended.
  
• Fixed some floating Zets.
  
• Fixed issue where Union lanelines in the capital could get disrupted, despite there being no pirates around.
  
• Changed some shadow rendering to prevent on-foot flickering stuff.
  

And that's all for this patch! We timed just in time for the Steam sale so it's also on sale now as well. If you want some more cats, take some. I got too many.


We'll see you soon for the next part of the milestone update. There's some neat stuff coming there.

Welcome back starchasers! It's been a hot minute since I dropped a hot steaming patch onto your laps, how you holding up? Doing okay? Want to go back to sleep under the covers?



That's fair. But let's talk patch stuff.

We're aiming for our next big milestone update: Intergalactic Architecture is still on its way. We're aiming for a mid-March drop for it, and most of the interior models are complete, they just need implementation and decorating. We've also got lots of new ships coming, along with cockpits and everything.



As for this current and latest patch, it's pretty small. Don't judge me too hard (my cats already do that), because it comes with a big new feature.



That feature? Multiple missions at once!



This was one of our most requested features that was actually implementable, and was originally meant to come with Faces in the Fog, but due to the sheer amount of work involved in making it happen (a lot of mission stuff was based around the assumption that only one mission happens for a player at a time) it took a while to get there. By default, you can take up to three missions at once (this may change in the future), and your previous saves won't load missions you're already on (but will still load correctly).

Are there going to be some crazy issues with this? Gee, I sure hope so, I was amazed it even worked to begin with. Anyway, onto the patch notes!



[h2]NEW FEATURES[/h2]

• Jump collapses now have an hour long cooldown to prevent repeated trips into the abyss. This doesn’t apply to guaranteed void holes (such as Hardturn and black holes).
  
• You can now accept multiple missions at once! By default (and for the sake of balancing) you can take a maximum of three missions now.
  
• As part of this multi-mission overhaul you can now track individual missions, which makes them display update messages and waypoint to any objectives (if it’s a mission that does that).
  
• Battleships now drop a whole host of equipment upon exploding, which you can loot and use for whatever sick purposes your heart desires.
  

[h2]CHANGES AND REBALANCES[/h2]

• Mild optimizations done to AI ship logic.
  
• AI weapons now report their use and cooldown times instead of energy usage.
  
• Retooled aspects of the Choir’s elite mission to work better.
  
• Mission objective messages when launching to space now have a slight delay and wait for your ship to be oriented before displaying.
  

[h2]FIXES[/h2]

• Fixed issue with tutorials cutting into cutscenes. I’m stupid sometimes.
  
• Fixed issue where the Motherlode bounty couldn’t be completed.
  
• Fixed some issues with dungeon meshes.
  
• Fixed hazard reduction skill calculations, in order to make them work properly and more consistently.
  
• Fixed issue where Gammus could not be selected as a racetrack sponsor.
  
• Fixed some ships that were scaled wrong in hangars.
  
• Fixed issue where some campaign ships could be sold via the quickaction menu.
  
• Fixed issue where the engine customization UI section wouldn’t properly reflect the player’s engines.
  
• Fixed dialogue typos in various high level quests.
  
• Fixed some display issues when you couldn’t accept missions.
  
• Fixed issue where opening the radial menu wouldn’t close some on-station UIs.
  
• Fixed issue where some map elements wouldn’t clear when zooming in on a system.