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[quote who="BionicDance" reply="15" id="3716275"] Oh. For some reason, I thought from this thread that people had already been tapped. Maybe I mis-read something. [/quote] The founders are in. Next phase is to begin bringing in preorders.

Yep. You’re set then. The next round is this month.

[quote who="BionicDance" reply="11" id="3716257"] Well, hmph. No closed beta for the BionicDance, apparently. Anyway, I do have a query: apparently we're getting weekly updates now, yes? How will we know when a new version is out? Is there an announcement somewhere? [/quote] We will be picking people who pre-order on Steam (which you can do now) to be part of the beta program. The idea is that we want to be frequently bringing in "fresh" eyes. Righ

Camera update (ore aggressive on zooming out). And if you look closely at Jupiter, Callisto is now there.

Greetings! To help keep track of your feedback that's in this thread . We are using this thread here to provide updates and responses to your feedback so that it doesn't get lost in comments. Last Update: 6/10/2018 Because of the sheer quantity I am going to start linking to the Google Docs with responses within. BETA 1A: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HpSjazquCNMt53AB9im9S

[quote who="SavageMind1" reply="46" id="3716180"] It is laggy for my system. The voice plays but the video is slow. It is odd though. I have had no issues with any games up to this point with framerate. I even have seams on planets when exploring. [/quote] Yea, your machine should be fine. I would bet that in settings.ini the terrain quality is set to 2 instead of 0.

[quote who="Doug Reed" reply="9" id="3716182"] It also says "If you are interested in being part of the Star Control RPG beta" - So does that mean we need to pre-order then? [/quote] Correct. Our beta team only has the branch PW. We don't have any Steam keys.

[quote who="kmedler" reply="4" id="3716132"] I got an e-mail saying as a founder my steam account has the new game already to beta but it isn't. how do I merge my account here into steam? [/quote] Thats odd. I’ll ask.

We’re having a blast!

[quote who="Mercy_Fornone" reply="33" id="3716093"] The first thing that I tried when I got my spaceship was to dive into the sun. I bounced. Why not blow up in a spectacular way? [/quote] It’s ok. You must have done that at night time..

Just creating this post for anyone who has any questions. You ask, we'll answer!

Greetings! I will try to keep these really short (as short as I can anyway). We'll be doing these every Friday until we ship. Beta Week 1: For Stardockians who have been with us for many years, you're in for a treat. Never before, in our 25 years, have we ever had one game with both game teams and the software team on it simultaneously. So you're about to see progress unlike anything you've seen fr

[quote who="Frungy_Party" reply="23" id="3715983"] Yep the change to zero did the trick (although it was actually set at 2 before I changed it). [/quote] We are an AMD shop here so I like those. Anyone who is running into perf issues at all should make sure that number isn't set to 2. 2 is not even designed for today's machines but rather designed for future 8K desktop resolutions. 1 is supposed to be the default and 0 will be a setting for non-discrete G

Yea, that video card is going to be tough. But fear not! try this: go to your my games folder in documents, open Star Control, open settings.ini a d change the terrain quality from 1 to 0 and try. Turn off AA also.

Right now, the easiest way would be to just look in the galaxy file. It might eventually be something you can search for but it just depends on time. Some of you have several versions of your names in there already because I have to manually name any new planets and there can't be duplicate names.

Great feedback. Re Aliens Now, with regards to the aliens, I think the story has to justify it. My issue with the Arilou in Star Control 3 was that they violate the entire purpose of the Arilou. The Arilou were supposed to be little green men. They were the "visitors" trope. And yet in SC3 they changed them. The Arilou in Star Control: Origins also follow the visitor trope. I.e. <a href="http://www.thinkaboutit

Heh!

[quote who="Frungy_Party" reply="68" id="3715323"] And PLEASE tell me that Frungy isn't dead. As you can tell by my username, Frungy must live on! Perhaps there could be a mission to resolve the conflict between the Zoq and the Pik? Maybe we could help them resolve their differences by introducing Frungy to the galaxy at large? [/quote] We'll just have to wait and see. But I think we can guess the ramifications of the Zoq and Pik splitting up.

[quote who="smoon53" reply="15" id="3715948"] 1. With 3440 x 1440 selected, screen is not correct. Background is zoomed in, and dialog box is off-center. Also, the game hesitates during dialog loading at this resolution (both of these issues were fixed by changing resolution to 1920 x 1080). 2. Getting the error with the info box not disappearing without selecting a dialog option. 3. The commander's face is not rendering correctly. There are artifacts around h

[quote who="Prof_Hari_Seldon" reply="13" id="3715921"] Do you need to buy a docking bay to get enough space to take both the Tywom and Earth Cruiser with you at the end of Ch1? Why can't I store modules at the starbase? Some of the planetary resources are hard to find because they are sunk into the terrain. [/quote] It probably just doesn't add it since that occurs probably one step later.

[quote who="johnyklatchian" reply="12" id="3715920"] Issue 6 I finished the chapter... Kept flying around the solar system. This dot is following me. What is it? It goes where I go... Answer: it is a background element... There is a perspective issue. when I went to the edge of the system

[quote who="jeremiahblanchard" reply="88" id="3715951"] Should we have received instructions if we asked to get in? I very much want to participate! [e digicons]:)[/e] [/quote] Just check out that beta post linked at the very top of the thread. :)

The lander gun auto-aims. As long as you're aiming it in the right direction it will target. Some speech still coming in. Every time we get a playthrough, there's a tweak or addition that gets added to the lines that will need to get recorded later. Scrap just got added (in fact, today). It gives fleet bonuses but the UI doesn't say what those bonuses are yet. That UI update is due next Thursday.

Greetings! I've uploaded a really quick tutorial to help with how to control your starship. [video]https://youtu.be/kei9nuKQ2Do[/video] Cheers!