Captain, welcome back!

Behind the scenes, we've been working a new update that substantially improves the planet visuals.  Along the way, we've squashed a few aliens, I mean bugs along the way.

To enable the opt-in, please do the following:

• Select "Star Control: Origins" in your Steam Library list
• Right-click and select Properties
• Select the BETAS tab

From the dropdown, select opt-in and click "Close." If you don't see this option, restart Steam.

Please read below for some of the upcoming changes:

Change Log

Lore

• The "Observers"  are now known as the "Arilou."

Visuals

• Updated planet surface textures to be more detailed.
• A small improvement of the terrain rendering system to improve the frame rate.
• Improved lighting of the planet surface
• Improved the textures on many props (glowing tentacles, glowing mushrooms, bones )
• Make the Bull critter appearance a bit brighter
• Improved the lander texture to make the windows stand out better
• Updated the magma hazard visual effect to improve performance

Bugs

• Listener orientation is no longer backward in a true 5.1 setup
• Fix for some particles not being correctly aligned to the surface
• Fix for a particle sorting and disappearing issue
• Fixed several crashes related to the particle effects trying to escape the bounds of known reality.