Colony Ship Early Access Release Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Pink Eye]

It'll be a hot minute until they get around to adding all the bells and whistles. Right now the developers have the arduous effort of implementing system changes, feat reworks, balance passes, nerfs/buffs, enemy AI, et cetra. After that. They need to work on Habitat. Which is going to be gigantic in nature. However. If I remember correctly. They plan on doing another pass on the maps after they're done with adding them all.

Second beta patch is live:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/648410/discussions/0/3200367934437011794/

General:

- Fixed door not closing during Braxton fight
- Added grenades and stims to Braxton and Regulators
- Added grenades and stims to Jonas' militia. Buffed the allies a bit.
- You can now tell Jonas and Braxton that you are not a fighter (to get an alternative quest) after agreeing to frontal attack or taking time to prepare.
- Fixed Energizer using blade skill.
- Fixed Maryam not taking 3 frog brains.
- All knives get +10 penetration, Machete and Chopper +1 damage and +10 graze.
- Fixed Master Trader not requiring CHA 8 and not appearing on the character creation.
- Fixed characters missing CoverObjects on combat start when loading from main menu.
- Fixed tutorial window remaining open when closing screens.
- Fixed being unable to extract implants if there is no items loot.
- Added difficulty name to savegame description on GuiSaveScreen.
- Added all tutorial videos.

Psi Tweaks

- Psi attacks always hit. No misses or grazes.
- Psi damage is reduced by Neural Resistance %. If neural resistance is 55, it's reduced by 55%. Min damage is 1.
- Panic: Reduces AP by 10, Reaction and Evasion by 50. Does 5 psi damage per turn, lasts 3 turns, reduced by Neural Resistance. A character with 50 NR gets AP -5 and reaction/evasion -25.
- Zen Stim: Neural resistance is increased by 40 for 2 turns - Reduces applied panic penalties (recalculated with new Neural Resistance). -1 to STR, DEX, PER for the duration of combat when used.

 

[Anonymous Wife Scholar]

It'll be a hot minute until they get around to adding all the bells and whistles. Right now the developers have the arduous effort of implementing system changes, feat reworks, balance passes, nerfs/buffs, enemy AI, et cetra. After that. They need to work on Habitat. Which is going to be gigantic in nature. However. If I remember correctly. They plan on doing another pass on the maps after they're done with adding them all.

Give me cute implementing wifes! Give me cute bells and whistles wifes!

 

[Deadass]

i wish unarmed was still in

 

[Elhoim]

Elhoim When are you adding more sound design, ambience, music tracks and AI scripting routines like walking around doing stuff out of combat? is that Q1/Q2-2022 or later?

Hard to say. Music tracks we add as our composer makes them, but his hometown was having a bit of trouble so his output slowed down. Civil AI programming once we finish more pressing gameplay tasks, and sound design probably a bit later.

 

[Anonymous Wife Scholar]

Elhoim When are you adding more sound design, ambience, music tracks and AI scripting routines like walking around doing stuff out of combat? is that Q1/Q2-2022 or later?

Hard to say. Music tracks we add as our composer makes them, but his hometown was having a bit of trouble so his output slowed down. Civil AI programming once we finish more pressing gameplay tasks, and sound design probably a bit later.

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Spoiler

 

[gothfox]

Gonna agree with the font complaints on the previous page, an option to use a font designed for UI (something like Noto Sans) would be great. Either that or maybe pick a different one, which is more readable, while retaining sci-fi aesthetic.

 

[Pink Eye]

If anyone is interested. A dedicated player from Steam Forums for Colony Ship has compiled data, along with fancy graphs, on the type of builds people have been using since the game first entered Early Access. This data is based on the builds people posted on builds thread. I think it's interesting to see how popular certain feats are. For example, I thought Mastermind would be far more popular than other feats, but the data is actually more varied than that.
Anyways, here's the post:

Since we are a community of budding mathematicians, here are some stats I've compiled from the 'Player-submitted builds' thread. If there's any sort of positive feedback for this, I'll dig in and chart some more parameters from the steam page. If there's some really positive feedback for this, I'll go dig on the ITS/RPGcodex forums as well.

Do note, this does not account for any balance changes. Some feats have been nerfed/buffed/changed altogether since EA release.

Here are some handy charts:

Total unique builds: 188
Unknown feats (not visible, link broken): 4
Heroics:
Gifted – 38 Juggernaut - 21 Healing factor – 10 Fast runner – 13 Dodge this - 20 Mastermind – 43 Cult leader – 7

As we can see, [Mastermind] is the most popular starting feat, with 43 occurrences (23% of total). The most popular non-heroic is [Educated], with 8 occurrences (4% of total), right above the least popular heroic, [Cult Leader], with 7 occurrences and 4% of total.

Heroics are by far the most popular choice, accounting for 81% of all builds, 17% non-heroics, and 2% unknown.

On a whim, I also decided to chart which user posted what. Therefore, I'd like to give Pink Eye a cookie, since he's been by far the most active poster, with 31 unique builds! That's 17% of all builds posted!

I'm thinking of also looking up party distribution, seeing how many solo/duo/trio/quartet builds there are. Or anything anyone would like to see.

 

[Anonymous Wife Scholar]

If anyone is interested. A dedicated player from Steam Forums for Colony Ship has compiled data, along with fancy graphs, on the type of builds people have been using since the game first entered Early Access.

Give me cute wifes builds!

 

[Pink Eye]

Not that kind of game!!!!

 

[Anonymous Wife Scholar]

Not that kind of game!!!!

No!

 

[Pink Eye]

By the way. The guy created a google sheet of the data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12NcgaokZzvH-OInrVGo5KpTU1Vpny83E-HU7XzLJHZE/edit#gid=0

 

[Anonymous Wife Scholar]

By the way. The guy created a google sheet of the data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12NcgaokZzvH-OInrVGo5KpTU1Vpny83E-HU7XzLJHZE/edit#gid=0

Give me cute google sheet of data wifes!

 

[Tyranicon]

Could someone direct me to a development roadmap if one exists?

 

[Pink Eye]

Could someone direct me to a development roadmap if one exists?

Sure. Here's the general roadmap:

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?
“Approximately 18 months. We're planning to add improvements on a monthly basis and add new locations as follows:

Jun - Factory (released)
Aug - Mission Control (released)
Oct - Shuttle Bay (released)
Dec - Improvements, tutorial, difficulty modes (released)
Feb 2022 - Habitat and the end of chapter 2 <-- this is what's going to get released soon!
Apr 2022 - ECLSS (the House of Ecclesiastes)
Jun 2022 - Heart (the mutant town)
Aug 2022 - Bridge and the end of chapter 3, all locations are done.
Nov 2022 - Endgame (chapter 4)”

Here's what they're currently working on right now:

What we are working on (January 2022)
Some stuff we are working on and will go in the next update:

- Added combat autosaves.
- Added roll information for cloaking field detection checks in combat.
- Quick Fingers now gives +5 initiative.
- Added a custom background on the implant machine dialogue.
- You can now use stims on allies.
- New models for energy turrets.

 

[Anonymous Wife Scholar]

Sure. Here's the general roadmap:

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?
“Approximately 18 months. We're planning to add improvements on a monthly basis and add new locations as follows:

Jun - Factory (released)
Aug - Mission Control (released)
Oct - Shuttle Bay (released)
Dec - Improvements, tutorial, difficulty modes (released)
Feb 2022 - Habitat and the end of chapter 2
Apr 2022 - ECLSS (the House of Ecclesiastes)
Jun 2022 - Heart (the mutant town)
Aug 2022 - Bridge and the end of chapter 3, all locations are done.
Nov 2022 - Endgame (chapter 4)”

Here's what they're currently working on right now:

What we are working on (January 2022)
Some stuff we are working on and will go in the next update:

- Added combat autosaves.
- Added roll information for cloaking field detection checks in combat.
- Quick Fingers now gives +5 initiative.
- Added a custom background on the implant machine dialogue.
- You can now use stims on allies.
- New models for energy turrets.

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[FreeKaner]

This game needs couple more melee weapons. Maybe adding a sabre (for that ww1 / interwar space aesthetic) and a katana as the two-hand option and because it goes with space would be good.

 

[Ninjerk]

This game needs couple more melee weapons. Maybe adding a sabre (for that ww1 / interwar space aesthetic) and a katana as the two-hand option and because it goes with space would be good.

Or the basket-hilted broadswords of the noble Gaels

 

[Pink Eye]

Maybe a flail too. Or a two handed spear with those awesome executions from Dungeon Rats/Age of Decadence.

 

[jackofshadows]

Pls for the love of fuck, no katanas. But some cool blunt wep like a flail, yeah or fist-based, futuristic or not would be a good addition I think.

 

[Ihavenoidea]

I want our guys to focus on mechanics and story, adding flails/knuckles/spears/we would be cool, but i'd rather see that as a full game update.
Right now the milestones they outlined are met iirc, so everything seems to proceed smoothly.

 

[Pink Eye]

I want our guys to focus on mechanics and story

Well don't worry. They won't be focusing on new weapons until they're done with Habitat. See:

Right now all 3D efforts go toward the Habitat, so until it's done all new weapons are on hold.

Developers have their priorities.

 

[Twiglard]

Reloading your guns or equipping other ones during pre-combat shouldn't cost APs. Only using drugs and enabling shield emitters should. Am I the only one being annoyed with this?

Also, the arena should have starting positions distant enough from the enemy that they don't get to melee swarm you.

 

[FreeKaner]

Now wait a second, I don't think we should add a whole menagerie of medieval weapons or such. I think sabres are good because they have been in use in the ww1 and interwar era. Katanas because they generally are used in modern settings also.

 

[Pink Eye]

I don't think we should add a whole menagerie of medieval weapons or such

On the contrary. I believe we should add weapons that are exotic and or interesting. For example, flails.

 

[lukaszek]

Reloading your guns or equipping other ones during pre-combat shouldn't cost APs. Only using drugs and enabling shield emitters should. Am I the only one being annoyed with this?

didnt they implement auto reload post combat?