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

[agris]

Pink eye will be missed. He was a quality example of weaponized autism.

 

[lukaszek]

Pink eye will be missed. He was a quality example of weaponized autism.

I thought it was Goral

 

[Mauman]

Huh....what happened to Pink Eye?

 

[Eyestabber]

Huh....what happened to Pink Eye?

His logout button wasn't working so he asked mods for help. He will (hopefully) be back.

 

[The Wall]

Pink eye will be missed. He was a quality example of weaponized autism.

Agreed! Codex is bleeding quality posters. Jew is winning

 

[Jrpgfan]

Pink eye will be missed. He was a quality example of weaponized autism.

I thought it was Goral

Goral doesn't play the game, he just shills.

 

[FriendlyMerchant]

Jew is winning

We were chosen by G-d to win.

 

[Dadd]

Jew is winning

We were chosen by G-d to win.

Ged? Gud? Gid? Gad?

 

[Modron]

Gyd.

 

[Daedalos]

Colony Ship will be GUD

 

[Jaedar]

Colony Ship will be GUD

This is nice, but it's not quite the same as Pink Eye.

 

[luj1]

Jun 2023

Damn, thats longer than I expected. Thanks

tbh im expecting it even later

we know how these things end up

 

[Chanel Oberlin]

tbh im expecting it even later

we know how these things end up

At least it won't be AoD type development (in b4 development hell phase)

 

[Daedalos]

Colony Ship will be GUD

This is nice, but it's not quite the same as Pink Eye.

If you keep running your mouth, you will get a Pink Eye.

 

[Daedalos]

Anyway, just found out that the GF has a due date of april 10th with our second child. How the fuck will I even have the TIME to play this GOTY RPG of 2023?
The woe of it all.

 

[CoronerZg]

Anyway, just found out that the GF has a due date of april 10th with our second child. How the fuck will I even have the TIME to play this GOTY RPG of 2023?
The woe of it all.

Yeah, you're fucked. But in a nice way. But still fucked.

 

[Salvo]

Anyway, just found out that the GF has a due date of april 10th with our second child. How the fuck will I even have the TIME to play this GOTY RPG of 2023?
The woe of it all.

Co-op playthrough with new child, get him/her starting early

This way you can get shat on, both in combat and not

 

[Goral]

Pink eye will be missed. He was a quality example of weaponized autism.

I thought it was Goral

Goral doesn't play the game, he just shills.

Go back to jrpgs. I've played the beta up till the Habitat update got released, I don't want to spoil myself and prefer to wait till whole game will be out. With Age of Decadence I didn't care since it was perfect from start to finish, CS is not as good IMO (although it's still great) hence I don't want to get bored before the full game will be released.

On a different note check out Unreal Engine coding standard: https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/epic-cplusplus-coding-standard-for-unreal-engine/

• Do not use metaphors or similes that reinforce stereotypes.
  This includes those that contrast black and white, such as blacklist / whitelist.
• Do not use words that refer to historical trauma or lived experience of discrimination.
  This includes slave, master, and nuke.

• Refer to hypothetical people using the pronouns they, them, and their, even in the singular.
• When you refer to anything that is not a person, always use it and its. For example: a module, plugin, function, client, server, or any other software or hardware component.
  Do not assign a gender to anything that doesn't have one.
• Do not use collective nouns like guys that assume gender.
• Avoid colloquial phrases that contain arbitrary genders, like "a poor man's X".

These are your usual fucked up leftist mental diarrhea but this one you don't see every day:

• Remember that your words will be read by a global audience that may not share the same idioms and attitudes, and who may not understand the same cultural references.
• Avoid slang and colloquialisms, even if you think it's funny or harmless. These may be hard to understand for people whose first language is not English, and may not translate well.
• Do not use profanity.

 

[Marat]

Progress Update
Systems update:

The update grew in scope (twice as big as what was planned originally, if not more) and as a result took a lot more time than anticipated. On the plus side, it's a very comprehensive and thorough overhaul, so it was time well spent:

- New weapons
- New feats
- New music
- Reworked feats
- Reworked implants
- Reworked evasion
- Reworked armor
- Reworked weapon balance
- Reworked Grazes and Criticals
- Improved tooltip information
- Improved inventory sorting
- Improved AI
- Improved visuals of the Habitat and the Pit
- Added unified looting and scrapping common items
- Added many new stealing opportunities
- Death Timer (you can save your downed party members if you end combat in 3 turns). That's a big change and it works surprisingly well.

Now, the good news is that it's finally done (at this stage we need players' feedback to improve further), but there are several critical bugs affected old save games (items that were changed or replaced, XP recalculated the wrong way). Nick's been working on it, but the war has disrupted the energy grid, so he's without power since yesterday. Hopefully, it will be restored soon and we'll be able to release the beta within two days.

The Pit content update:

We're a bit behind due to the systems update taking longer, so we'll probably need 2 extra weeks to finish it. Right now it looks like we'll be able to start the beta on Nov 1 and do a full release on Nov 15.

 

[Tsubutai]

The beta of the system update is now available.

 

[Sòren]

sry that i have to ask the same question again, but is the system update not available on GOG currently? i got a bunch of updates in the last days, but it doesn't seem to include that. (and yes, activated public test channel).

 

[CoronerZg]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/648410/discussions/0/3454842785099977424/#c3454842785102359577
Man... this is so depressing. Why can't we have nice things? ITS is my last hope for pure, genuine quality RPGs.

Anyway, I need one poor codexer who wants the game and has Steam account. Just message me.
One more copy won't do shit, but it'll make me feel better. And don't be cheap fuck please,
message me only if you couldn't/didn't plan to buy the game yourself.

 

[Jaedar]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/648410/discussions/0/3454842785099977424/#c3454842785102359577
Man... this is so depressing. Why can't we have nice things? ITS is my last hope for pure, genuine quality RPGs.

I don't know how much cause for worry this is. Games drop off in sales. Hopefully the game sells well when it has its full release.

I wonder how AoD releasing impacted its sales figures.

 

[Vault Dweller]

sry that i have to ask the same question again, but is the system update not available on GOG currently? i got a bunch of updates in the last days, but it doesn't seem to include that. (and yes, activated public test channel).

Not yet. Apologies for the inconvenience but due to the strikes on the power grid in Ukraine our programmer's working hours are very limited.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/648410/discussions/0/3454842785099977424/#c3454842785102359577
Man... this is so depressing. Why can't we have nice things? ITS is my last hope for pure, genuine quality RPGs.

I don't know how much cause for worry this is. Games drop off in sales. Hopefully the game sells well when it has its full release.

I wonder how AoD releasing impacted its sales figures.

It's very hard to compare since AoD had a lot of media attention whereas Colony Ship has none. I emailed everyone who covered AoD but got zero response, so we're flying under the radar right now.
:stealth mission:

 

[Goral]

I've bought 4 copies (3 on GOG and 1 on Steam) but I'll buy a couple more, although it seems it might not make much of a difference. It's annoying that shit like Disco Elysium is selling so well and IT games barely cover the costs of development.

One more copy won't do shit, but it'll make me feel better.

Giving it away (here especially) is stupid, you'll probably give it to someone who would have bought it otherwise. It's better to have additional keys for yourself, on patreon.com people pay a monthly fee (often as high as 50 USD but it can be much more) just for a small update/new video/new render so paying less than 20 USD from time to time isn't that much.

Anyway, buying more copies is easier on GOG because you just tell them to what email account they should send the key. I don't see an option to buy another copy of the same game on Steam though (using the same account).

(...)
It's very hard to compare since AoD had a lot of media attention whereas Colony Ship has none. I emailed everyone who covered AoD but got zero response, so we're flying under the radar right now.
:stealth mission:

Biggest Polish gaming site has covered it but it's only a 40 million country and a niche game so it won't make much of a difference.
https://www.gry-online.pl/S018.asp?ID=3325&STR=9