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Iron Dome Cruiser

  • Added the Dome Cruiser which has 2 Iron Domes but only 1 turret slot
  • Increased Iron Dome range from 80 to 90.
  • Decreased size of editor slot select buttons
  • Fixed the back button only being half clickable in the unlocked ships overview + added a note that people can find frames ingame. Ive also added this 'unlocked ships' button to the ship editor
  • Fixed some menu navigation issues
  • Added a button to go to the ship editor to the unlocked ships menu
  • Made building upgrades in the bottom of the screen vertical (in preparation of unit thumbnails of selected units being shown which is needed in preparation of campaign objectives being shown in the right spot)
  • Fixed building selection-beeps playing too often or with a weird delay

Ingame tooltip GUI fix + Point Defense Systems

I've added:

  • Added a Heavy carrier called Hive
  • Added a PD against fighters and bombers called Iron Dome
  • Added unlocked ships overview
  • Unlocked the work in progress campaign missions 3, 4 and 5 (i will finetine these in the upcoming week)
  • Added anti fighter/bomber weaponry to the Cruiser
  • Added anti fighter/bomber weaponry to the Corisant
  • Added anti fighter/bomber weaponry to the Manta
  • Added an alternative ship selector to the ship editor as part of a plan to make the ship editor a bit more intuitive in the future.
  • Hidden data on ships that have not been unlocked yet to encourage unlocking
  • Added the Iron Dome anti fighter/bomber PD structure
  • Added more discord buttons to the multiplayer to get people who want to play multiplayer to come here rather than get annoyed that they cant find opponents
  • Added ant-bomber defenses to campaign mission 3
  • Fixed mission 3 spawns & CWIS not working
  • Fixed a bug in mission 4 and 5, ran some tests
  • Fixed AI targeting
  • Improved turret and CWIS targeting
  • Working on scaling for 1366*766 resolution scaling of ingame tooltip. Already tested it on 4k, works perfectly there. Will check the smaller sizes now. This will hopefully ensure that tooltips are readable for everyone and wrap up the GUI scaling fixes
  • Testing ship editor on small resolution also works
  • Lowered the overall difficulty a bit. AI now only gets a damage boost above difficulty 35

Carriers, Fighters, Bombers

Carriers have been one of the most requested features for Stellar Warfare. I've spent the last month working to add them to the game.

Over the past few days you guys have seen me post a bunch of small updates regarding Carriers, Fighters and Bombers. While not perfect yet they are now functional and smooth running enough to be added to the game. While there is likely styll some balancing to do the current state is pretty good!

So hop in wave defense, singleplayer or multiplayer and have some fun!

You can also join the Discord here in order to more easily find multiplayer or coop players: https://discord.gg/KrWbsdX

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Here are some of the devlog notes from the last few days:

  • storage now gives +500 instead of +400 of each storage
  • fighter and bomber hangar structures now only spawn if done building
  • added fighters and bombers to the cinematic camera (untested)
  • singleplayer carriers are now a bit buggy, attempting to fix
  • Bombers and fighters keep respawning in SP. Fixing now.
  • fixed bombers respawning instantly in sp
  • fixed big explosions when fighters die
  • fixed ficghters now docking after killing all targets in sp
  • fixed construction lights not showing in sp
  • prevented fighters to set themselves as target and launching themselves as a result of them being in range
  • prevented fighters and bobmers from launching if the target is an inactive gameobject
  • fixed that the AI fighters kept respawning because they didnt check if the target was alive before launching
  • fixed fighters after respawning in SP return to carrier right away
  • doing 1 more multiplayer test and if it succeedds then i will upload it ot steam
  • coop is NOT tested
  • fixed fighters after respawning in SP return to carrier right away
  • uploaded the new version to steam
  • fixed; references not set for fighters and bombers causing bugs in multiplayer (i think, will test tomorrow)
  • fixed; craft health reference not set
  • fixed; able to target units with fighters
  • increased time warthog-rounds are visible in MP
  • made fighters and bombers more 3dimensional by having them go in more directions after attacks
  • fixed the bomber and fighter network reference not correctly set
  • fixed not giving enough data to the thing that sets the references for fighters and bombers
  • updated stellar warfare icon
  • much better
  • fixed fighter color trails
  • updated the Stellar Warfare big logo
  • not sure if we will keep it though
  • fighters and bombers finally seem to work as intended in multiplayer
  • i should really test singleplayer...
  • fixed bomber patterns and multiplayer bugs
  • lowered volume of bombs and the fighter cannons


So here we are! Let me know in the community forum if you guys have any feedback or cool new ideas!

Nerfed carriers

  • Fighter carriers now cost 350/350
  • Bomber carriers now cost 400/400
  • Fixed bug of height indicator always being visible

GUI improvements

I've updated the ingame menu to be more clear for new players. Especially highlighting which buttons to press for hiding/showing GUI (G) and healthbars (H).

  • updated stellar warfare icon
  • fixed fighter color trails
  • updated the Stellar Warfare big logo
  • fighters and bombers finally seem to work as intended in multiplayer
  • i should really test singleplayer...
  • fixed bomber patterns and multiplayer bugs
  • lowered volume of bombs and the fighter cannons
  • fixed harvester and surveyor not being attacked by bombers
  • Cant reproduce bug of audio volume being turned up again in the multiplayer menu after turning it off in the main menu.
  • fixed crystal not dissapearing bug
  • optimized height indicators in MP to prevent fps drops
  • flak should now damage fighters and bombers (even though it doesnt target them)
  • may have fixed bombers and fighters spawning when allies are in range instead of enemies
  • updated brontodon thumbnail (thanks algor)
  • fixed missing ship textures
  • Simplified the escape menu
  • spent a few hours trying to figure out how to upload new builds for @🥇 patreon Backer reward role to steam in order to give them the latest builds sooner