Update 1.0 (05 November 2020)

Hello to all of you!

Big day is here – this is update log for release version 1.0 ! We know many of you were anxious for any further news and updates, so here we are, with some good news! Hopefully new waves of pandemic didn't impact you too much. Apologies for not updating you sooner, but we had many closely linked parts of the game in development pipeline recently, so we had to proceed ahead very carefully. This update will change the game a lot in many aspects, and combines both version 0.900 and everything else for version 1.0! Game will change significantly after this mega update. Old save files should still work, but due to many differences in game versions, there is a possibility of some problems with very old saves, so if you can, starting a new game is advisable, but not necessary. Game now includes all planned content for version 1.0, but our work doesn't stop there. We're continuing to improve and expand on number of features and all of that will be released in post release updates. In the end, big thanks to all that participated in this development process, be it with praises or criticism, feedback or ideas. We wouldn't be here without you!
CHANGES:

ADDED: Unlocked entire storyline

ADDED: Player owned capital ships mechanics

ADDED: NPC capital ships now have special abilities

ADDED: New rewards for exploring Alien Ruin

ADDED: Unlocked path to additional Alien Ruins

ADDED: New weapon blueprint: Gaul

ADDED: Legendary unique light weapons

ADDED: New player ship modules

ADDED: Blueprints for legendary light weapons

ADDED: Significant experience points for investigating Alien Ruin

ADDED: Energy pack equipment

ADDED: New clusters of derelicts in numerous sectors

ADDED: New borehole torpedo for blasting huge chunks of asteroids when mining

ADDED: Darwin sector objects, paths, blueprints and asteroid fields

ADDED: Dogon sector opened

ADDED: More places with opened freeroam during campaign

ADDED: NPC capital ships AI rebalanced (movements, abilities and weapon setups)

ADDED: Enemy fighters rebalanced, tuned regarding weapons loadouts and dmgs, shields

ADDED: Tutorial hints for weapons and game mechanics

ADDED: Tutorial hints for opened freeroam during campaign

ADDED: Saturn sector objects, paths, blueprints, asteroid fields, entire scenery and missions

ADDED: Hunter missiles now knocks out ship's engines

ADDED: A number of stations in campaign now have armed defense platforms

ADDED: Visual notification for enemy ship strength on target lock

ADDED: Visual notification for advanced blueprints

ADDED: Anomaly data items to all anomalies

ADDED: Loot to various objects within radiation nebulas

ADDED: Encounter quest Spy satellite

ADDED: Pirate's Harbor station now has weapon turret defense platforms

ADDED: Security patrols near several stations

UPDATED: Hit boxes modified: easier to hit smaller targets at larger distances

UPDATED: Encounter Quests, added new challenges with rewards

UPDATED: Cruise speed visual effect

UPDATED: Loot drop rebalanced to include helpful equipments and missiles

UPDATED: Barman quest system with new mission flow and new rewards

UPDATED: Entire economy rebalanced in terms of both income and prices

UPDATED: Torpedoes rebalanced, speed increased

UPDATED: Dumbfire missiles will explode and deal radius damage even if they miss target

UPDATED: Dumbfire missiles spread decreased

UPDATED: Increased speed of weapon switch in combat

UPDATED: Encounter Kill mission nerfed

UPDATED: Encounter Survival quest improved

UPDATED: Encounter quests rewards improved

UPDATED: Derelicts on level now have proper destruction stages

UPDATED: Align to plane option works properly now

UPDATED: ADAH targeting system and movement

UPDATED: Roll movement of player ship is now more smooth

UPDATED: Miner ships improved AIUPDATED: Missiles now deal intended damage to objects and asteroids

UPDATED: All capital ships now have working weakpoints

UPDATED: Enhanced power of virtual weapons in Prasad faceoff campaign mission

UPDATED: Adjusted the locations of a number of Nav Buoys

UPDATED: Expanded localization kit and translations for supported languages

UPDATED: Revamped trader inventories on numerous stations

UPDATED: New rear turrets on Berzerker capital ship

FIXED: Mission timers don't show in ingame menu anymore

FIXED: Derelict encounter missions can now be completed properly

FIXED: A number of typos in sentences and game menus

FIXED: Encounter quests won't spawn inside a planet anymore

FIXED: Credits display while in trader panel now works correctly

FIXED: Eliminated infinite blueprint bug

FIXED: Customization emblems now display properly

FIXED: Gas pocket extraction now works properly

FIXED: Krieger capital ship now has proper explosions

FIXED: Dialogues stop when game is paused

FIXED: Barman missions now display correct objectives

FIXED: Scattergun damage info in trader and inventory panels is now correct

FIXED: Barman missions on Nadym station now work properly

FIXED: Not possible to have a single use of equipment with 0 count

FIXED: Music background switch now works properly

FIXED: Gas collector now has a proper final explosion

FIXED: Orbit camera won't pass through objects anymore

FIXED: Bug with uncollectable blueprint eliminated

TWEAKED: Difficulty of enemy drones on campaign missions

TWEAKED: Prolonged timers on several campaign missions

TWEAKED: Increased distance for loot collection

TWEAKED: Sensitivity of controls on gamepads decreased

TWEAKED: Reputation of ships and objects in Outlaw's life scenario adjusted

TWEAKED: Transporter beam improved

TWEAKED: Trader panel improvements

TWEAKED: Death panel options improved

Enjoy and stay safe! LGM Games team
Update 0.600.0 (23 March 2020)

As one awesome man once said: „ That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. “, our Starpoint Gemini 3 development process is currently at one such crossroad. With Roadmap milestone 5 being reached, we're entering the second half of the entire process.

First of all, you've probably noticed there was a longer pause between the last two updates. That was planned since the amount of assets and features needed for this cross into the beta stage was really huge. After all, you'll get the chance to check it all out!

The roadmap originally called this milestone „Narrative“, but we'll call it „Beta“, since the size of this update grew significantly in the past months. Everything planned for the Narrative update is here, but so is a lot of other cool stuff.

So, what's new? Well, to check this out, you'll need about 5 seconds of playtime - starting with the main character. Jonathan Bold was given a complete overhaul, from the 3D model to animations. The old model has been removed, since, you know... Gemini isn't big enough for two Bolds.

What's more important is that Bold's journey continues further with this update. For the first time after Early Access launch, the main campaign is unlocked several steps further. There are new places to visit, new characters to meet, new intrigues to uncover... In the new missions you'll be able to start noticing changes in the main character’s personality. These changes will become more and more significant later on as we near the final stages of the campaign. The beta game version does not enables the entire storyline, but pushes it several steps ahead.

All of you that already played through the game, will also notice that the first part of the campaign has also been upgraded with new animations and scenes. This is the plan till the end of development - to upgrade and polish everything, including the already implemented game elements.

For destruction-oriented addicts we also have a couple of treats. The first is the arrival of anti capital ship combat mechanics. You now have weakpoints to target and exploit on these juggernauts, but beware - they also bite back and usually aren't alone. Note here that this system is just a small part of what we'll need later for player commanded capital ships. The second treat in this category is the addition of ADAH combat mechanics - our sweet drone can now encounter bad drones and waste them. ADAH can also find and gather loot on her away missions. Oh, and did I mention that the ADAH model is also replaced with a new enhanced one?

Of other important news - we've revamped the loot reward system, mining rewards including „rich asteroids“ system, made changes to the UI and added a number of UI elements, added lots of events, encounters, between-faction events... Basically, the freeroam dimension of the game is also getting a serious boost. More places to visit, more stuff to see and more events to participate in. All of that will generate more opportunities for experience and level gains and ship improvements.

Before we post the intricate details of this mega update, one information for all players - as we already mentioned as expected situation earlier - from this update you, unfortunately, you won't be able to use your old saves. We tried our best to keep the consistency of save files throughout all updates since September last year, but this massive update simply changed too much, both in the campaign and the freeroam mode. Forcing old saves to work with this version would cause a lot of unforeseen issues, so it was unavoidable. If all goes according to plans, this will be the only such situation during development, and we figured it's better to do this synchronization now rather than later when much more gaming hours could be in jeopardy. We hope you understand why we had to do this.
CHANGES

ADDED: New campaign missions

ADDED: New main character model

ADDED: New storyline characters: J.J Digins, Vassily Ratbone, Night Watchman, Glenn Curacao

ADDED: New interior and exterior locations

ADDED: New character animations and voiceovers

ADDED: New interface elements and notification systems

ADDED: New hint and notifications

ADDED: New quest tracking and information panels to Starchart

ADDED: New encounters and random events throughout maps

ADDED: New loot system with more frequent drops

ADDED: New „rich node“ asteroids system for much more lucrative mining

ADDED: New weakpoint system for anti-enemy capital ships combat

ADDED: Enemy capital ship combat mechanics

ADDED: Hostile drones in interior maps

ADDED: ADAH drone combat mechanics

ADDED: New ADAH drone movement mechanics

ADDED: ADAH drone inventory

ADDED: Option to use quick interact button when using drone

ADDED: New loot and reward system for drone interior missions

ADDED: Enemy drones to fight against in interior missions

ADDED: HUD markers for discovered mining and scavenging objects - gas pockets, rich nodes and derelicts

ADDED: Asteroids HP bar visible to player

ADDED: New collisions with asteroids and other objects

ADDED: Ships can now destroy smaller asteroids by ramming into them

ADDED: Collisions from other objects now also add damage to player

ADDED: Large batches of new sounds linked to actions and objects

ADDED: New indicators when locked and targeted by enemy missiles

ADDED: New voiceovered chatter lines for number of events throughout maps

ADDED: Outlaw Guerilla special ship design

ADDED: Outlaws Stalker special ship design

ADDED: Options to scan the scenery objects

ADDED: New cutscenes for additional storyline missions and some revamped old ones

ADDED: Large batches of chatter voices for NPC ships and stations

ADDED: Additional sounds for HUD, cockpit and cutscenes

ADDED: Almost all asteroids yield loot now

ADDED: Encounter system when attempting to use TGate

ADDED: Encounter system when using NavBuoy

ADDED: Enemy space drones spawn system on various locations

ADDED: New Mars sector map, along with objects, encounters and characters

ADDED: Additional civilian and military traffic to various sectors

ADDED: Lock on enemy missiles as they are approaching

ADDED: New hints and HUD feedback information regarding missions and events

ADDED: HUD element - weapons fire range indicator

ADDED: Ship convoys near space stations

ADDED: Ship convoys near structure clusters

ADDED: Ships entering and exiting Starpoint

ADDED: Ships entering and exiting T Gate

ADDED: Ships using Nav buoys

ADDED: New information to stations and planets

ADDED: More additional variety in appearance of derelicts

ADDED: Scanner ship module now has new and upgraded stats

ADDED: New explosion visual and sound effects

ADDED: Derelicts now have special ambient sounds

UPDATED: Revamped experience rewards system

UPDATED: Revamped quest system with barmans

UPDATED: Shortened duration of damage effects on player ship

UPDATED: Modified visual particles when viewing game from cockpit

UPDATED: AI agression levels with ships in fleets

UPDATED: Firing weapons is now disabled in cruise mode and while charging cruise as well

UPDATED: Optimizations to physics system

UPDATED: Lens flare visual effects now depend on surrounding ambient

UPDATED: Weapons targeting against objects is now more precise

UPDATED: Revamped lighting effects and ambients in multiple sectors

UPDATED: Starchart received additional direction lines showing the path of jumps

UPDATED: Prices of numerous missiles reduced

UPDATED: Loot prices and availability increased throughout sectors

UPDATED: Rebalanced difficulty to adjust for new enemies and capital ships

UPDATED: Rebalanced prices of weapons and equipment

UPDATED: Rebalanced experience gain system

UPDATED: Rebalanced enemy weapons and rate of fire

UPDATED: Almost all crafting blueprints are rebalanced

UPDATED: Spin up cycles for Cyclone and Sorm modified

UPDATED: Increased the price of wing ship modules

UPDATED: Increased how much additional turrets influence wing module price

UPDATED: Music system now plays all tracks scattered in various sectors

UPDATED: All missions and other planned actions now yield experience points

UPDATED: T-Gate now has correct hit collision sphere

FIXED: Issues with releasing of 3D sounds

FIXED: Enemy weapons fire sounds now have correct ranges and volumes

FIXED: Mission and object markers on Starchart now are now saved correctly

FIXED: Corrected waypoint tracking and position on Starchart

FIXED: If already initiated, quick action cannot be started again

FIXED: Soundtrack is now properly played throughout sector maps, both combat tracks and ambiental ones

FIXED: Sound issues with playing multiple sounds at the same time

FIXED: Sound issues related to distance of the sound origin

FIXED: Multiple issues and desync during character animations

FIXED: Encounters will now spawn on correct positions

FIXED: Encounter ships will use correct predefined faction

FIXED: Several bugs during Jeepers Creepers Boss fight

FIXED: Lynx wings module now has correct stats

FIXED: Magellan refinery quests now work correctly

FIXED: Trade convoys follow correct paths and behaviour

FIXED: Autosaves now work correctly during campaign mission stages

FIXED: Cutscene on Pyros campaign mission doesn’t cause camera to offset

FIXED: You cannot accidentally sell quest items anymore

FIXED: Vfx from boost engines now shuts down correctly when disengaged

FIXED: Post processing effects from radiation now shuts down properly

FIXED: Iolia factory is now placed in the correct sector

FIXED: Crafting process now has more info on what is gained and invested

FIXED: Skipping cutscene doesn’t break the game anymore

FIXED: NPC AI behavior doesn’t halt indefinitely

FIXED: Target sphere on loot objects increased for easier selection

FIXED: All wings now have correct turning speed information

TWEAKED: Decreased energy recharge of weapon batteries

TWEAKED: Increased energy cost of scattergun weapons

TWEAKED: Increased inventory size for all hull modules

TWEAKED: Increased loot drop value of “ore nodes” and derelicts

TWEAKED: Repair and scan sounds now have normal volume

TWEAKED: Enemy structures now cannot be interacted with

We'd also like to note that, despite the fact that the game is now largely improved and expanded on, development is still some ways off from being finished. All features included in the beta update will now be polished and tweaked according to requirements and feedback from players, plus we still have some major stuff to add, like player capital ship, remaining maps, rest of the campaign etc... A very busy schedule is ahead of us, but hopefully this update will give you all a taste of what's to come soon!

And just like last time, fly safe!

LGM Games