Starmancer’s next update, The Wilderness, is now available on the “earlier access” branch on Steam for testing!
Play it and give us feedback! Is the Drink Bot too annoying because it hooks all your dudes on the sauce? Is the C4 spawn rate too low? Is space rock an acceptable cure for Cuddler infections?
Instructions
Here are instructions for accessing the Beta branch on steam
Right click Starmancer in your Steam library
Go to properties > Betas
Select “earlier_access” from the dropdown menu
Steam will automatically update your game. If it doesn’t, try uninstalling and reinstalling
Note: Colonists are now grown by clicking on your core
The Wilderness
The Wilderness is our first content update. It massively changes the gameplay and core systems.
- Asteroids and other stations now spawn around the player’s base. They spawn enemies and resources. You can purchase objects found in stations, including cosmetics.
- New Stations: Waste Station taken over by slimes, Medilab filled with the undead, The Lucky Kernel—a robot mob operated casino ship
Medilab — With Cuddler action shot
- Draft Mode: Order your colonists to do anything. Lasts until canceled
- Skill Revamp: They now cap at 99. New skills: Health, Strength, Researching
- Combat Update: Now “turn” based. Damage numbers are shown. Food can be eaten directly from a colonist’s inventory, in real-time, to heal during combat.
Drinkbots have a very high chance to intoxicate your colonists
- Added relics—rare items with special abilities. Remote Uplink: Colonist teleports back to base instead of dying (item consumed in the process)
- Rebalanced the tech tree, item prices, morale, competence, temperature, and pretty much every system in the game
- Colonists can now be picked up and dropped anywhere. This is great for rescuing “stuck” or “broken” dudes. And great for airdropping colonists to rescue their compatriots from Mang0.
- C4. Arm this and run away. Blows up all walls and floors in the vicinity. Damages anything in the blast radius.
- All items in the game can be cheat-spawned by right-clicking in the item selection window (after enabling in the options menu).
- Way more
Waste Station (check out that slinker in the top right corner)
Old Saves
Old saves will not work anymore. We changed so many underlying systems in The Wilderness that there was no way to keep old saves working. This stinks, but you can always activate cheats and rebuild your old base in all its glory.
But honestly, so much has changed in The Wilderness. It’s really fun and worth playing over from start.
Weekly Dev Stream
We stream Starmancer playtests every Friday at 11:00am (gmt -5). This is the same timezone as New York City.
Come watch and share your ideas with us!
Link to stream
(I’ll even show you my code)
Okay, that’s it
This update is really really fun and we’re incredibly proud with how it turned out.
Try it out on Steam’s earlier access branch and give us feedback!
Thanks!
- Tyler
