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Localization system, location pictures and a reworked location interface - Livin' La Vida Loca! Things are starting to get really interesting at this stage, as a lot of milestones are in motion and about to join the game step by step now. Our goals for 1.0 are getting closer and we are grinding towards the final polishing phase of the Caduceus Story Arc.

Thanks for all the positive reviews and the great community feedback so far!

• The first visit on Caduceus HQ is now 120% more polished :D - new events, new dialog, new sidequests, new achievement!
  
  
• New NPCs added, new dialog and new items (more readables, some can now be retrieved in the ISA Library)
  

To meet the wishes of many people, we have implemented the basics for an easy translation of the game. See how it works - any help is much appreciated!

• All names and descriptions, the biggest part of the UI and some first dialogs like the tutorial have been translated to german for beta-testing the localization system with the new patch.
  
  
• Along with this so-far translation, a lot of corrections and optimizations have been made to the original text.
  

The Zone, ISA Auditorium, J-12 Living Quarters

• Don Gorgon, Seraphim & ISA randoms, FTA Manager (old guy reworked)

• Visual upgrade levels for the default gun turret
  
• All weapons using this turret graphic are upgradable to 4 levels now
  
• Auxi's Top Gun is upgradable to a dual projectile weapon
  

• Shield shutdown
  

• General performance improvements
  

• [h3]Location HUD: BIG images[/h3]We figured out that full-scale location images provide a lot more atmosphere and immersion when traveling around on planets or stations. Therefore, the location hud has been fully reworked.
  
  • With the exception of 1-2 special cases, all location pics are now in full 4K resolution.
    
  • Factions assigned to the locations
    
    
• [h3]New weapon upgrade layout[/h3]
  
• [h3]Controller[/h3]
  • Support Combobox
    
  • Support the options menu
    
  • Support the landable location HUD
    
  • Exit start menu windows with B too
    
  • Support MultiColumnList d-pad iteration on blocking HUD windows
    
  • auto select first entry for a multicolumnlist
    
  • Always highlight the currently active focus window
    
  • Make the active focus window look like a selector
    
  • Unselect the last controller selected MultiColumnList item when the controller focus leaves it
    
  • New Game Menu: button A should confirm portrait selection
    
• [h3]More UI stuff[/h3]
  • Newsticker auto-scrolling
    
  • Add a skill tooltip icon
    
  • Scroll the newsticker
    
  • Radar HUD: draw improvements
    
  • Add minimal padding to the item tooltip description
    
  • Landable HUD: Hide "visitors" subhead when no visitors there
    
  • Replace the default GUI tooltip
    
  • Added missing shop marker to some ship traders
    
  • Added missing item descriptions
    
  • Characters in the person list are sorted by importance
    
  • Randomized planets in main menu (Earth, Mars, Venus)
    
  • Minor landable HUD changes
    

• Added the possibility to hack the locked door on Essex with hacking level 3 (thx @Keith_McD from discord for suggestion)
  
• Changed Billie Jean and Rufus NPCs from the Living Permit quest, so that the player will not break the quest if he attacks them before talking to them. (thx @Eckman Jones from steam community for bugreport)
  

• During the 4K optimization process, a lot of location images have been improved and polished to look fancy in the new resolution as well.
  
• Jupiter texture color optimization
  
• J-12 Station polishing and new lights
  
• Trash spawner around Earth
  
• Pluto clouds enabled
  

• Added new big shields (thx @HALOSHOCK from steam community for suggestions)
  
• Some ship & weapon balancing
  

Mr. Shiro, Kingston, Jerome, Dr. Cram Bokaj, Nortnex burning

• Landable HUD: Hide the Exit button when on a location
  
• Use the passive AI profile for planets and some stations leading persons
  
• Keyboard focus index fixes
  
• Trade HUD: support multi selection with the keyboard too
  
• Show the supported resolutions of the selected primary display
  
• AI: Friendly ship detection is only working partially
  
• Person sort key is not used when the drawable is missing
  
• Destroy the MultiColumnList custom tooltip correctly
  
• Update the MultiColumnList item tooltip when scrolling
  
• MultiColumnList page up/down should actually move a page
  
• MultiColumnList generic key handler can crash (rare)
  
• newsticker_group can have a 1 pixel gap/overlap
  
• Location quest person target on the same location is not updated instantly if they have a ship
  
• Options Menu: Show the correct shortcut type default assignment
  
• Improve the TabButton imageset sizes
  
• Change the TabButton Hovered/Pushed/Selected color
  
• Crash Course: if you already have the 9 Aluminium the quest counter should instantly trigger
  
• scripts: parse all files as utf-8 by default
  
• Savegame the message queue
  
• Savegame the perma noti state (tutorial info is lost)
  
• Options menu reload triggers the logo animation
  
• AI lands on the gate
  
• Get the correct image dimension if an image settings base is set
  
• Controller: Skills HUD focus order is broken
  
• Controller: pressing B in the main menu breaks it
  
• Loading hints formatting fixes
  
• Added some missing quest markers for special cases
  
• Some broken dialog (Kingston, Borg Johnson "Devi" question, Heimwehr and more)
  

• KinslayerUy has started a Gaia Beyond wiki - check it out!
  https://gaia-beyond.fandom.com/wiki/Gaia_Beyond_Wiki

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What's up everyone,

Take off your winter boots, slip into something comfy, turn up the heater and dive into the next update of Gaia Beyond. Also – we are on a 21% discount during the Steam Winter Sale!


Happy Holidays!

• Collect blueprints for the ISA
• Find and rescue the forgotten spacemen!
• Visit Nookrium on the Euphoria station
  ...and much more!

• Multiple skill trees available
  
• New 'Kalypso tree' including new skills
  
• Lines showing skill dependencies

• When equipped, activate it with the F key or controller button X
  

• Short range, long range and High tech Thruster
  
• These new thruster types allow the available energy to be portioned
  

Now available at your local Sphere ship dealer!

• 3 different kinds of Double Lasers
• Shell Breaker turret upgrade visualization
  
  

• Shin portraits
  
• 2 ISA females
  
• Another J-12 male, coming with a lot of variations!
  

• Harrison Cruise movie posters
  (Can be found in various location images)
  
  

• New sounds: Shield restore (small / medium / big), upgrade weapon, nanobot device, radar device
  

• Either after 5 minutes on events or after 10 minutes when no autosave event was triggered

• "No Tutorial for Old Men" – NPCs have feelings too!

• A lot of fixed and improved dialog
  
• Many old sidequests have been improved
  

• View and radar range balancing
  
• Dostavka visual fixes & improvements
  
• Aries boost animation for all 4 engines
  

• Some further balancing and upgrade options

• Wreck 4 polishing
  
  

• Outer Space radiation warning
  
• Device Tooltips
  
• Weapon upgrade HUD improvements
  
• Change the Ship Hold key to X
  
• The cargo tooltip description size is now dynamic
  
• Crash Course: Quest-target item counter improvements
  
• Cargo-sorting improvements for devices and thrusters
  

• A lot of polishing and updated backgrounds
  
• More random NPC variations
  
• Sphere & J-12 military portraits added to random portraits
  
• J-12 portrait randomizer refined – how it works now:
  1. pick gender
     
  2. pick base portrait
     
  3. pick variations (if available)

• Overall FX volume balancing and corrections
  
• Assignment corrections
  

• Save a separate info file for savegames (improves load performance)
  

• Savegames: Equipped weapon quality resets
  
• Double dialog bugs with the back button
  
• Rookie trade mission can delete the Pilot mission person
  
• Pilot trade missions are broken
  
• Zooming in/out of Map mode shows out of radar range sprites for 1 frame
  
• Player loses camera link when moving before camera target animation is finished
  
• 'A Letter for Jurgen' can now be finished at Xiao (FINALLY!)
  
• If the Character HUD is open the game crashes rarely when gaining XP
  
• Ship Is_Friendly() can crash
  
• Noob player-lock doesn't work anymore if you talk to another ship while locked
  
• Savegame size reduced a little bit
  
• After finishing Scheherazade Embargo, people on that station talk again
  
• A lot of cargo types had no light emitters assigned
  
• Some emitter time to live fixes
  
• Ship Trade HUD: Crafting: flickering when hovering a craft requirement icon
  
• Ship Trade HUD: random stray craft requirement icon at the top left
  
• Ship Trade HUD: ship name is over the ship render and can block icon tooltips (e.g. with Guardian)
  
• Landing sound appears to be "next to" Player (should be centered)
  
• Reduce the projectile hit sound max distance
  
• Ship engine volume is out of range when boosted
  
• Dostavka XP values (loaded/unloaded version) were swapped
  
• Physical shield damage should not be transferred over to the hull (H3L10S)
  
• Dialog pause with cam move can hide the player ship
  
• Weapon tooltip: comparing laser damage with a bullet type should use the dps
  
• Weapon tooltip: do not compare speed with lasers
  
• Weapon tooltip: do not show speed_initial_max when it's the same as speed_initial_min
  
• Weapon tooltip: compare initial speed (min/max) as one block
  
• Inventory HUD: Ship Landing/Leaving alpha should not be used
  
• Inventory HUD: Ship add_drawables positioned incorrectly
  
• Landable HUD: emitter rotation is based on in-space rotation
  
• The weapon tooltip data entry spacing for turret vs non-turret is off
  
• Don't start a FoW reveal for ships (only stations)
  
• Devices and shields don't use cargo emitters
  
• Cooldown HUD: Item counter is not shown if the new amount is over the max amount
  
• Ben Lilly: Wrong credits amount is shown when selling trash
  
• Don't draw lasers if out of radar range
  
• start_angular_vel is not set (stations/turrets do not constantly rotate)
  
• Error report: data/pixmaps/location_images/placeholder.settings.dds does not exist
  
• Shield pos is not set as collision offset
  
• Ship hull regen could go a little bit over max hull
  
• Correctly error log the json line number for large files
  
• Auxilium's restocking weapons should not have random quality
  
• Savegame Menu: Remove logger warning "Load_From_File: No Savegame found ..." if the "New Savegame" entry is selected
  
• Logging: Show if the person doesn't exist with the "Could not create Person" error messages
  

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Gaia Beyond is 25% off! (Offer ends November 10 at 5PM Pacific Time)

This is a small update – more content is on the way with the next update



Automatically synchronizes savegames with the Steam servers

• Some dialog corrections and optimizations
  

• All repair dialogs use a blend animation now
  
• Rajid equips the thruster on the player ship
  

• Allow collecting stacked items partly if the cargo is full
  
• Ship landing sound
  
• In-space Memorial: parallax background asteroid added
  

• Some emitter performance fixes
  
• npc_rufus.nut "Sleeping Pods for Three, No Pets!" script crash
  
• Savegame upgrade for Simon Boswell can crash
  
• npc_rufus.nut script can crash
  
• AA_Damokles_Station: Data version is broken
  
• Possible Lorca_Player_Left_Landable() crash fix
  
• Short range laser graphic is drawn incorrectly
  
• Inspace-triggered fight music with neutral npc doesn't stop
  
• Landable music can be played in space if land+leave is very quick
  
• Some shields shouldn't be spawned
  
• Stop fight music when docked and no ship is directly targeting the player anymore
  
• Fighting music only triggered during 1st Pluto pirate wave
  
• Do not handle player message requests when dead
  
• Defend state holding and moving_back can switch around endlessly
  
• Some behavior pos_target_reached fixes
  
• Autopilot Is_Weapon_Target_In_Range() is broken
  
• Ship garage: hide credits and cost
  
• Do not save in loading screens
  
• Do not play space sounds when loading
  
• Memorial collision geometry fix
  

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Traveler,

It's me again, Count Ixua. The Wicked have returned. But at least that gives you the opportunity to snatch one of those special halloween rewards. Send those pumpkin fanatics back to the land of the dead and have a look at my pumpkin full of presents!









It looked like the creatures from the wicked dimension had been banished forever, but due to a magical coincidence, new portals allow them to spread all over the solar system AGAIN! Destroy them, cut the link between the two worlds – and unlock some exclusive content:

• Pumpkin Shredder
  A dangerous new weapon straight from the wicked dimension, coming with custom sounds and a fancy skull turret!
  

• Mysterious Ghost Ship
  Scare the 🎃 out of your enemies with a vessel of the undead!
  

• First stage of randomized weapon qualities
• Six new quality levels (3 weaker / 3 stronger)
  
  More improvements coming soon!

• Escort the tyrant or kill him
• Helping the Isaac Family to get their place on Earth has new content
• Visit new locations like SMD Woodrow or Damokles Station

• Own faction logo
  
• New ships & faction spawner
  

• Quick travel sound effect
• Sound is played when Lt. Devi pushes you into the corner the first time you visit Caduceus Station
  

• Autopilot with target selection double click
  
• Weapon upgrade HUD: Show the weapon changes
  
• FoW should fully hide unexplored areas
  
• A lot station sizes were increased, giving them a more station-like feel!
  
  
  
  
• Mine spawners - pirate fortresses look even more inviting with decorative mine fields around them!
  
• Display and compare Laser dps on tooltips
  
• Ship Trade HUD: increase linked rendering fps to 60
  
• Landable HUD: Support rendering Emitter
  
• Menu: Draw the FoW
  
• Map Mode: Show the player ship radar range
  
• Neptune visual improvements
  
  

• Autopilot evasion with big sprites fail
  
• Engine emitter are sometimes drawn over the ship
  
• "E" dialog skip does not work sometimes
  
• Fix the "The Scheherazade Embargo"
  
• Limit the text width of in-space quest info tooltips
  
• Do not draw quest target icons for respawning ships
  
• Auxilium "Hey! Where are you going?" can still endless loop if Auxilium reached his target pos
  
• Menu ships lose emitter after a while
  
• Draw area spawner geometry over the FoW
  
• Menu ships can collide with the player ship
  
• Asteroid impact emitter scaling broken
  
• Do not autosave when the script crashed
  
• Low texture quality breaks fonts
  
• "Simon Boswell" without "teal_visit" respawns when the cad station explodes
  
• Savegame upgrade: Create_Simon_Boswell() can be called when the caduceus_station does not exist anymore
  
• "Devi's Datacube" dialog can repeat endlessly after savegame load
  
• "Can't Chat. Enemies are nearby." should not happen if low affinity ships are nearby but not attacking
  
• Save upgrade: Cad station is not unlocked if "Crash Course" has ended
  
• "Asuka Langley" script crash
  
• Venturas has a wrong identifier
  
• A message request calling the fail_callback with a null person crashes the script
  

• SKYju's and Nookrium's first quests!
• More sidequests
• Let us know what you would like to see

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Dear SPACE PEOPLE,

We are moving closer towards the 1.0 release, so we've got all hands full of stuff to do – and a few announcements to make. Scroll down to see the current status of the game and what has changed during Early Access! Join the adventure NOW and become part of the growing Gaia Beyond community.






A brand-new content update that has become pretty big, check out the trailer and patch note!
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]

• Explore an immersive and dynamic version of our solar system in the future
  
• Discover the hidden background story about a war fought not too long ago
  
• Dive into the Caduceus storyline with 10 missions and discover the truth behind the Ganymede Flu
  
• Find and solve around 40 individual sidequests (more coming!)
  
• Decision-making & consequences - influence the fate of characters in the world
  
• Fight pirates, hidden alien ships and bosses!
  
• Mine dozens of raw materials, upgrade your ship with devices, defensive shields and powerful weapons and turrets
  
• Buy OR build yourself over 50 new spacecrafts
• More storylines, sidequests, equipable stuff, ships and features are incoming - prepare yourself!
  

• Reworked beginning 💯
  
• More action, more speed, more decisions
  
• More NPCs with improved dialog flow
  
• Overall decision-making & consequences
  
• Bosses and secrets!
  
  📺 Watch gameplay videos
  

Miguel has finalized the official Gaia Beyond soundtrack, check it out! Also, meet him in the game at Bartholdy's Bar. ;)

• Hacking
  Currently used on freight containers, this feature is to be expanded in the future.
  
  
• Ship Crafting
  You no longer have to rely solely on ship dealers to expand your fleet - get new blueprints, collect the materials you need and craft them yourself, right in Rajid's garage!
  
  
• Carrier load of ships and weapons!
  • 50 purchasable ships and 40 craftable blueprints
    
  • Capital ships are now in the game (carrier functionality planned)
    
  • Upgradable weapons, growing weapon variety
    
  • Passive devices
    
    
  
  
  

• Locations
  We added more locations and moons to discover, got rid of a lot of placeholder images 🖼 and polished what was there from the start. A quick compilation:
  
  
  
  

Also, you will find more of the following:
• Local NPCs & traders, asteroid fields, plasma fields, war memorials, hackable containers, hidden chests & threats!
  

• Gamepad Support (steady improvements but working)
  
• Improved mapping options
  

The schedule was moved to the second quarter of 2020 – as we recognize a lot of community requests and want to make sure everything is right for 1.0! This is going to be only a part of the full vision (still a 'finished' game) and our post-release goal is to keep working on it for as long as possible. As you can read from this schedule, we see our game in an advanced state, it just hasn't reached all our goals for the full release yet.


The Halloween event is going to be activated any midnight now - take your chance to grab the special content this year!


We're proud to announce that we finally founded a company! After more than a year appearing on the store page with our real names, we felt like it was time for a little burocracy...






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