Solar Expanse News

Greetings Space Explorers!

As the Space Exploration Fest commenced, we are proud to announce that the new, refreshed demo is finally out and ready to be played! This time, you'll be able to play through 30 years of space expansion. Embark on the cosmic conquest!

Please keep in mind that the demo does not represent the final form and quality of the game. We are still in the alpha stage of development, and there’s still much to be improved and developed.

Last but not least, make sure to send us feedback after playing the demo - to do this, you may use the ‘SEND FEEDBACK’ button in the game’s main menu, which will redirect you to a feedback form. Your opinions are of uttermost value, and we’d love to hear them out!

Solar Expanse Dev Team

Greetings Space Explorers!

Thank you for your activity and patience. The last few months were full of intense work to make the game just as you wanted it, based on your demo feedback. Your opinions and expectations are of utmost importance to us, therefore we’d like to hear more of them! Here’s a link to the new feedback form (will be also available in-game from the main menu): SURVEY AND CLOSED DEMO/ALPHA TEST SIGN UP
It will help us greatly not only to shape further development, but also choose new demo and alpha testers among you!



Research Tree
One of your biggest concerns in our previous demo was lack of research. Now there’s plenty! With the new extensive research tree, you will be able to keep developing and improving technologies to gain the edge you need in the space race!



Marketplace
Out of resources? Need money? No problem at all - with the new improved marketplace system you can trade on any object touched by human foot. Grow your economical power with market strategies!



Space Competition
One of the biggest changes which made its way to the game are other space agencies - right now, you can observe their activities, race with them to complete contracts or even trade! They might still be working a little more behind the scenes, but who knows how much they will impact your future exploration.

User Interface changes
Previous interface, although sufficient, was in need of overhaul in order to present to you all the information needed to plan your space missions more clearly. We’ve reworked spacing, frames and visuals, so that you don’t have to look for necessary info for too long.



New demo
Last, but not least, we’d like to announce that a new, refreshed demo version is coming on September 2nd! Despite not expanding much on contracts or exploration time, it will contain all the aforementioned features and many more QoL changes and bugfixes.

See you during the Space Exploration Fest!
SolEx dev team @ Jutsu Games

Hi Space Explorers!
It's been awesome two weeks, and we are extremely grateful to each and every one of you who wishlisted, downloaded and played our game. Your reception exceeded our expectations and motivated us to work even harder to deliver the full game you all wish to play.



Final weekend
This weekend marks the last opportunity to play the demo, it will be closed afterwards. Make sure to have as much fun with it as possible before it expires! Use this time to explore more of what the game has to offer, show it to your friends, make screenshots or videos to share with the community or outside of it.
Add to wishlist now and recommend the game to your friends!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1369700/Solar_Expanse/

Final feedback request
To all of you who haven't provided any feedback yet - we'd like to tell you once again, that your opinions are invaluable to us, and we appreciate every voice of yours, as it helps us to set new directions in development. You can access the Demo survey in the game by clicking the button SEND FEEDBACK displayed in the main menu or click this link: Solar Expanse Demo Survey.

See you in space,
SolEx dev team @ Jutsu Games

COMMUNITY FEEDBACK

Since the very launch of the demo, and even before that, our community has provided us with tons of valuable suggestions, opinions, and directions which helped us to set a course for the development. But the more, the better!

FEEDBACK NEEDED

We still want to hear more from you, remember, your feedback matters!
You can provide us with feedback in several ways:

• Using the in-game button SEND FEEDBACK displayed in the main menu or click this link: Solar Expanse Demo Survey - it will take you to our survey, which is an invaluable source of information for us - this is the best place for your opinions and suggestions!
  
• Submitting a bug report - every time you are sure you've encountered a bug, make sure to use the in-game bug reporter, where you can describe your issue thoroughly, and send a report including a screenshot and logs straight to our devs.
  
• Steam Discussions - want to know more about the game or let us know what you think of current solutions? Feel free to start a new thread or answer another one in our Community Hub!
  

BUGFIXES

• Demo doesn't end upon finishing two contracts at the same moment.
  
• Tutorial buttons highlight left hovering after closing the Mission Planning window.
  
• Initial sum of money in the difficulty level description changed from 10M$ to $5M.
  

Let us know what you think!
SolEx dev team @ Jutsu Games

Thanks to all your feedback and bug reports, we have managed to address and fix the crucial problems, and our team will continue to do so!

Bug fixes:

• Spacecrafts and Launch Vehicles still in construction disappearing when the mission to which they were assigned is aborted.
  
• A possibility to add a negative amount of resources to cargo, resulting in an abnormal resource consumption.
  
• Mining Base, Mining Equipment, and Fuel Depot tooltips duplicating and not fitting inside the tooltip window.
  
• Abnormal costs of flights between moons, resulting in blocking porkchop plot.
  
• Spacecrafts not being able to come back from Luna during "Lunar Landing" contract,
  

Quality of Life changes:

• Building and Construction windows now don't close automatically upon selecting a module, facility, spacecraft, or launch vehicle to construct.
  

Known issues

• Incorrect value of Money at Start in difficulty settings, will be changed to actual 5M$.
  

We hope that now you will enjoy our demo even more and provide us with even more feedback! Feel free to write about your problems and suggestions in Steam Discussions, so that we can help you even better.
Have fun!
SolEx dev team @ Jutsu Games