Star Explorers News

[h3]A Few Issues have been addressed:[/h3]

• The sonic cannon should once again be working!
  
• Crash when shooting spider webs was addressed ... this may have only been an issue in the development build, but it was fixed nonetheless
  
• Alien parts should no longer fly through cave wall, but should remain visible after aliens die
  
• Alien breath attacks were interacting with players bullets in caves, this should no longer be a problem
  

Well, once again my self from 5 years ago has outsmarted me. My attempt to allow main menu access has been unsuccessful. It seemed to be going fine, until trying to load a game from a planet, or from a UFO, and the game would crash unexpectedly. I attempted to find the cause, but there were no error messages to learn where to look.



Even when a load was successful, the view screen in the ship stopped working.

After roughly two weeks of vain efforts, I have decided instead to focus on improving other features of the game, and to accept that this issue will not be resolved. I have rolled back the change accordingly. Access to the main menu, after starting a game, will again restart the program. I guess the good news is that this approach works...

All the updates to the star chart remain in place, and should improve ease of navigation.

The main menu should now allow loading of saved games after dying. Previously this would not work properly.

If you're been following the testing branch, you'll know that there are major changes underway in Star Explorers. The idea is to get the game more user friendly and stable in time for the big 5.0 update, which will also include lots of new content as well.



Right now, changes to the star chart and menu system are being attempted. This is the first time I've touched some of this code in many years, so I am expecting the testing branch to get worse before it gets better :) I just want everyone to be aware of this, and not be surprised if they encounter some issues while testing out the new features.

Of course you are always welcome to try it. Grab the password for the testing branch over on the discord server...

https://discord.gg/vU9Q5ta

But if you are not prepared for running into some bugs and reporting them, it may be best to sit this out a bit longer.

I expect the 5.0 release to be ready some time in the Fall.

A bug in the last update caused the star map to stop working properly. It was a small oversight that was quite easy to fix. Thanks to awesome players who pointed this out so quickly.