Slipways News

Almost there!

The last two months were very busy, but I'm happy to announce: the second update is coming in just three days on December 22, 2021!

To get into the spirit of the holiday season, the game will also be 15% off once the update hits - so if you know somebody who doesn't have Slipways yet (why?), this is a good opportunity to get the best version of the game yet for less than it usually costs.

The update itself is free and it's going to be available to all new and existing players.



[h2]What's in it?[/h2]

The biggest chunk of new content is the second act of the campaign: four new missions tackling the mystery of the forebears' fall and setting up the final, third act coming down the road. Each mission features a new gameplay twist, and they're all pretty massive this time around!

There are some fun additions outside of the campaign as well:

• rebalanced perks and tech tree - lots of changes and a few new technologies, all of it intended to enable more strategies on how to approach the game
  
• new sector types and tons of new sector quirks - intended to spice up both your standard runs and the ranked mode
  
• imperial hubworlds - rewarding you with a unique planet modifier for getting a council member to level 4
  
• new ruins events - exploring forebear ruins now offers new options, ranging from rewinding time to reactivating an ancient weapon
  
• many smaller fixes and improvements
  

[h2]What's next?[/h2]

Unless there are game-breaking bugs still lurking in there (hopefully not too many!), I'm going to take a good long rest. Getting this done was another long push and the new campaign missions were really tricky to get right. In the end, I'm very happy with the end result and can't wait to see you play them.

With the holiday season coming, I hope you're able to relax and get some rest as well, and I'm sure a few rounds of Slipways can help with that!

In the meantime, see you around the galaxy!

This is a bugfix patch that fixes the following issues:

- UI: The income/happiness view modes would sometimes display stale information for planets/structures that changed indirectly as a result of your action.
- UI: The 'known seed' warning message would disappear after going forward to the council select screen, then back again.
- UI: The end year banner counted upkeep differently than the actual game does, resulting in it sometimes displaying lower income than the one actually applied (if an upkeep-changing action rolled over to the new year).

This patch brings the version numbers up to 1.1 (b830) on Windows and 1.1 (b831) on Mac.

Hi everyone!

I'm here to quickly let you all know that the break is over and the second update is now in active development. I'm making good progress and I expect you should have the update in your hands soon: in time for the winter sales in the second half of December!

This update is not DLC and will be free to all existing and new players of the game.

[h2]What's in the update?[/h2]

The centerpiece is of course the second act of the campaign, consisting of four new missions that will shed new light on the mystery of the forebears (and feature fun new gameplay twists in the process). Here is a sneak peek at one of those:



In addition to the big chunk of new campaign content, the update will also expand other areas of the game. Here is my current working list:

• new sector types and sector quirks to spice up standard and ranked
  
• a few new perks and technologies to give some of the council more choices in strategy
  
• new forebear station events and council tasks to improve variety during the game
  
• new modifiers for planets that will be encountered even in "normal" sectors
  
• balance changes to make some less-used perks and techs more viable (and curb some of those that are a bit too dominant)
  
• as always, smaller fixes and UI improvements
  

I can't promise everything on the list will make it into the update. With a deadline in mind, I might have to prioritize some ideas and discard others, but I'll try my best to deliver as many goodies as I can before the update drops. I'm always eager to hear feedback, so if there is something on that list that feels particularly important to you (or if there is something else you'd like to see in future updates), do let me know in comments or on Discord!

Thank you for reading and see you around the galaxy!

This is a bugfix patch that fixes the following issues:

- Undo: Multiple issues where performing a probe scan or colonizing a planet, then quickly performing another action and undoing it caused inconsistencies.
- Tasks: The Ba'qar "explore area" task could sometimes get stuck if another action was quickly performed, then undone after the region was revealed.
- Lensify: The upkeep for the lensified relay would not count for the first year after it was built.
- Map: Ruins and structures discovered at the very edge of your field of view could sometimes show up as "uncharted" when you attempted to connect ot them.
- Menus: The stats screen would needlessly pop up again if you finished a run, then went forward and back through the selection screens.
- Researchers perk: If you went through the technology tab to find an upgrade tech for which the parent tech hadn't been invented yet, the invent button would be clickable. Clicking it resulted in a crash.
- Economic zones: The bonus from economic zones would not immediately show up in the income/upkeep view mode after connecting planets.
- UI: Pinned colonization choices would sometimes be hard to click due to UI refreshes caused by probes/discovering signals.

This patch brings the version numbers up to 1.1 (b827) on Windows and 1.1 (b828) on Mac.

This is a bugfix patch that fixes the following issues:

- Controls: After rebinding map-scrolling to the left mouse button, it was impossible to carry out actions needing additional input like eg. moving planets with gravitic tugs or building sensors on planets.
- Quirks: High birth rate had a buggy interaction with techs adding new needs (like Elysium Project), resulting in disappearing trade routes and general wonkiness.
- Technology: Elysium project will no longer add culture to Legendary planets obtained via other means.
- Technology: Economic Zones used to incorrectly take structures into account when calculating the bonus.
- Crash: Entering Steam overlay would sometimes make the game freak out since Unity couldn't find the mouse anymore. The game is now more zen about it when it happens.
- Crash: Exiting out of planet closeup view could sometimes crash if you made a rare combination of inputs.
- Achievements: "Get in a standard run" achievements will now trigger on the run end screen to avoid confusion (used to be awarded only after proceeding back to menu screens)

An earlier version of this patch caused crashes when placing infrawave stations - this is now resolved.

This patch brings the version numbers up to 1.1 (b815) on Windows and 1.1 (b816) on Mac.