Weekly Update: August 9, 2024

It's been a very busy week here. As I mentioned two weeks ago, I took a mini-holiday last week, which was nice. The day after I got back I posted the announcement of the 1.0 graduation date (Sept 2) and have been hard at work ever since.

First of all, there's a new opt-in on the Beta branch. It's not a huge update, but it did have some changes necessary for graduation. Full list of changes here:

• Two new mini late-game exploration void regions
  
• Minor adjustments, additional hints to guide players in a few stuck points
  
• Adjust discovery sound volume
  
• Patch for the prevented completion of Tomb of Ock Juk if Ermyr ally in late game
• Fix for missing localization strings on one mission
  
• Fix for negative fighter count
  
• Fix for NaN on specific projectile
  
• Fix for rare mission bug in Forbidden Planet
• Suppress non-critical exceptions appearing in console, added instructions for closing console via F11
  
• Gamepad specific help notifications
  
• Refactor analytics to collected detailed only on opt-in branch
  
• Removed Early Access pop-up, FPS indicator
  
• Update game icon
  
• Several typos
  

If I don't get any reports of serious issues from unstable branch players, expect this branch to be promoted to default in the next few days.

Besides this build, there's a lot of work that isn't directly related to development, including:

• Updating the Logo versions and Steam store assets (and then updating them again a few days later when Steam increased the default resolutions)
  
• Updated Trailer
  
• Reaching out to streamers for possible coverage
  
• Misc PR stuff
  
• Preparing the game for release on GOG
  

Thanks for reading, until next week!

- Kevin