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Early Access Player Survey & Fornax Beta Update

Have you played Starcom: Unknown Space? I've created a quick survey to hear where you'd like me to prioritize my efforts for the next few updates:

Starcom: Unknown Space Player Survey

Also, there's a new opt-in beta available, Fornax. This is not compatible with Draconis saves (the current default build), but if you're about to start a new game, you might want to consider switching to this branch. From early tester reports it is at least as stable and offers a number of improvements over Draconis.

Instructions for switching betas are here:

http://wx3.com/early-access-updates-and-save-games/

Some of the combined changes from Europa and Fornax:
  • New mid-game content, anomalies, factions and side-quests
  • Changes to skill checks and skill system
  • Several new technologies & modules
  • Player can rename crew
  • Factions now gradually recover or lose resources over time to return to baseline
  • Misc. changes to trade system
  • Changes to NPC AIs
  • Changes to thermal efficiency
  • Fix for music volume issue
  • Includes "built-in" save that allows skipping of the opening prologue story line for players who have already played a previous build
  • Numerous typo and bug fixes

Finally, I'd like to remind everyone that if you have questions or suggestions, a great place to post them is in the Steam discussion forum, which I read regularly. It's also where I post regular weekly progress updates:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1750770/discussions/0/

There's also an official Starcom Discord, which I pop into from time to time. I don't always participate, but I do often read discussions there:

Starcom Discord

Thanks for reading and thanks for playing Starcom: Unknown Space!

- Kevin