Starfarer 0.52a Release
I’m happy to say that the 0.52a release is finally available for download. Here’s a high-level overview of what’s in it:
- Accidents
- Music!
- Greatly improved ship and commander AI
- Significant ship and weapon balance changes
- Lots of UI improvements
- Bugfixes
If that looks like a copy-and-paste from the previous post, that’s because it is – the last week was mostly spent polishing things up and playtesting.
The full patch notes are here.
The new version is, once again, not save-compatible. This is likely to be the case with new releases for the foreseeable future – things are simply changing too much at this point. On the bright side, I don’t think any mods are incompatible with this version, though they’ll probably need some rebalancing.
You can download the new version using the buttons below. You’ll have to reinstall the game, but shouldn’t need to enter the activation code again.
Congratulations Alex on getting this out! I’m going to try it over lunch today haha!!
Hell yes! Been looking forwards to this! 😀
OMG, Thank you very much!!!! I can’t wait to play this 😛
Wohooooo!
Congratulations on a speedy & efficient release of such an exquisitely feature-rich update. Fractal Softworks ROCKS.
Anyone *not* playing Starfarer today? [Mr. T]I pity da fool![/Mr. T] 8D
Woots! Time to start up another save. This time I think I’ll go with all low-tech ships. Heavy armor, BALLISTICS!
No! I was hoping this wouldn’t happen until my finals were over…
DOWNLOADING NOW WEEE 😀
I’ve been checking your blog every day for a month. Thanks for the hard work! I’ve got probably 300+ games on Steam/Origin/Impulse/Battle.net and outside of a certain dungeon crawler coming out in a couple weeks yours is the one I’ve been following the most.
HOLY HELL I CAN’T WAIT TO PLAY 😀
Oh boy, this is gonna be a long night!
Muito obrigado, amigo! (or awesome!!)
Very nice update! A noticeable improvement of the ship AI. It was a blast fighting enemy ships.
Really Really Really good update. Took me 30sec after lunching game to be chocked.
Love it but have a questin. In the cargo menu, in the right bottom there are 6 squers and it says Jettison over. What is that?
Thank you a thousen time for the game Alex!
Thank you guys!
@Sebastian: If you drop cargo there, it’ll be ejected into space (and gone forever).
Yay thanks a bunch. This is truly the best pc game ive ever played, with cool devs that actually care!
The AI improvements were immediately evident when I started a new game! Nice! =D
Really loving this game so far. I’m very excited to play the new build! The quality of this game is unbelievable.
Just a quick question: would it be possible in a future update to choose which ship you start out with?
@anon: Yeah, that’s very likely.
cool, I was just wondering how I was going to entertain myself tonight. Now I know.
Thanks guys.
Oh my god, that menu music is glorious!
Great fun! The mechanics that are there feel well polished. Can’t wait for more
Huzzah! Thanks for another update that will keep me satiate for a while.
Wow, after spending a few hours on it last night I have to say you’ve done a great job!
Loving the music!
I still find it frustrating that I can’t flee from engagements with far superior foes and without officer progression or anything there’s little point to continue playing with a character after losing a fleet, but I know a lot of these systems will eventually make it into the game..
BEE N PLAYING ALRIGHT BUT i JUST OPENED IT UP AND its not fitting the whole screen! Help please?(Sorry didnt mean to have caps on)
Love the game but can I have the containers on the ship to get extra cargo space or havent they been put in game yet? 🙂
there is a slight problem with damaged fighter wing trying to repair in carrier when out of supplies
if only 1 fighter of the wing pops out it will instantly go back since the wing is “damaged”
resulting in that one wing spamming the carrier creating a ton of message pop ups and denying any other fighter wings access
Hmm, weird, thought I took care of that – will take another look. Thanks for bringing it up!
at least thats what i think happened to me earlier
i only have one carrier and it started spamming fighter goes in and comes out messages 2 every second
i didnt look what was exactly happening though i was bit too busy with a lasher and a hound
the new ai is beast (most of the time)
@Ironcode: It’s the bit at the end of the logfile – the last 30 lines or so. The log file is Starfarer/starfarer-core/starfarer.log
@Farlarzia: Thanks, I’ll take a look.
@Vzq: The AI fleets use the same supply mechanics as the player fleet, and they can (and do!) have accidents. As far as the fleet point limit, in a future release it’ll be influenced by your command skill – I think it’ll make more “sense” then. As far as the Hegemony fleet – I think that’s about the only fleet in the game right now that doesn’t have the same limit as the player. Let’s just say they have a very good admiral in charge 🙂 Or, that being near an orbital station they own provides some logistical bonuses. I can see either becoming an actual game mechanic, so I wouldn’t look at this as unreasonable, even now. You’re at a disadvantage, sure, but it’s a reasonable one.
Re: fighter messages – silly question, but you did upgrade to 0.52.1a, right? That was one of the bugs fixed – at least, under one set of circumstances.
@Farlarzia: Can you post more details in the support section of the forum, if you’re still having trouble?
@Vzq: That sounds right, I probably just missed it.
I cannot express just how happy I am at the inclusion of the abandoned storage site and the ability to set rally points from the map.
Also, do you have any timetables for when you plan to add in additional sectors/systems?
Why do we only have 100 fleet points to get around with now instead of 200? =( since the lvling up stuff aint in there yet. or is it? >.^
Gah, Hounds are almost too good at staying out of range!
Sorted out resolution issues! I agree with Scroll with the hounds! Some times they don’t retreat but just wont go close to your ship so you cant kill them!
@anon: Sorry, no timetables of any sort. Unless “when it’s ready” counts 🙂
@ValkyriaL: Short answer: adjusted to fit in with overall vision for game. Will be moddable.
Re: Hounds – yeah, they can be a bit annoying. I recommend Salamanders to take them out – especially with Expanded Missile Racks, it really does make it a lot easier.
Can I buy containers for bigger cargo space yet? If I can how do I buy it?
Great update, the new features really make this a different game. Whereas before you could just buy everything and win but now you really have to be more measured with your approach.
The changes to the sound effects and music give it a much more classy feel too.
Fantastic game keeps getting….fantasticer
to anyone having trouble with hounds
get thunders
Yeah, no longer having issues with hounds at this point. Took on two at the same time and Salamanders made all the difference. I also love that they try to flank you and get behind all the time.
just a way to trick them
turn your tail towards them and theyll come right at you then just turn and fire
some AI controlled ships seem to saving missiles. Is it possible to order them to shoot missiles as often as possible?
They save them for a good opportunity. If they fired “as often as possible”, they’d waste all of them in just a few seconds.
Why doesn’t fuel work? i have been flying around for an hour with 0 fuel and i am still running. could you look into this Alex?
Fuel isn’t used right now (the current plan is to only have it be used for interstellar travel).
Hey guys! TO counter the hounds you can also you the 30K frigate ship from tritachyon and just kill them with that! Its super quick and amazing! If you take all weapons of and but focus on boosting flux discharge and capacity you can make it a hard to hit fast tank that can you run them to discharge! Also i have found when doing this that if i keep ramming ships sometimes it will hit my hull! Any ideas about this? Doesn’t really matter anyway! Well sorry for the super long post! KayThanksBye
some bits of that idnt make sense sorry, I meant run away
Sorry for all the posts but do you think you could put up a video of how to install mods? It would really help thanks!
I must say I am happy with this update. All i thought it will be just some balance tweaks but u surprised me.Oh and good choice of music
Farlarzia, installing mods is very easy, simply extract the files directly in the into the Mods folder within the Starfarer Folder. Atleast that’s how its done with every mod I’ve used.
>They save them for a good opportunity. If they fired “as often as possible”, they’d waste all of them in just a few seconds.
but it is hard to tell when is the good opportunity. sometimes, it is better to shoot down all the faster enemy ships as quick as possible; sometimes, you have to shoot all the missile at the same time to overwhelm enemy point defense; sometimes, there is only a few slow enemy ships left, so no reason to keep saving missile; surely, other times, it is better to save missile. it depends on which strategies the players are using, so I think an order to shoot/save missile may be useful or you may make the AI even smarter.
I like that you have made the pirates stronger, they pump out a LOT more Armadas now, but they are still *weak* i think you should make a *Pirate Invasion Fleet* that contains outdated versions of the onslaught, otherwise you just get massive farm by sitting on top of their planet. or would that like be outside of their economical reach? 😛
I agree. I farmed 200000 money buy just siting on there planet with 2 medusa’s and selling what i got. Now because of that i have a paragon and soon to have the 3 carrier bays one.
and also i cant find any folder called mods! Looked for AGES. i dont know
It’s right in the Starfarer directory. If you still have trouble with it, I suggest dropping by our forums – someone will be able to help you out 🙂
Thanks a lot
found it
I extracted the mod in to the folder but it does not show up as a mod in the mod menu at start up
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=2106.0
Scroll down all the way to the bottom of the first post – there are instructions there.
Btw i have this very annoying bug
Somtimes My ships balistic cannons get bugged and take a turn before firing with the assault chaingun and some flak cannons . the chaingun fires 5 times and changes to the other 😀
Is this a bug or am I just an idiot
Sounds like you’ve set a weapon group on “alternating” mode without intending to.
New update is amazing! Ai is sweet and accedents add a fun new challange. However fleet cap at 100 is a drag. I’m already maxed out and I feel like my fleet has no variety. I know this is for balance reasons but I have to admit it makes the game less fun for me. Keep up the good work!
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Thank you. This is an awesome game. Just so you know it is too easy to auto resolve (let second in command handle it). I can win against equal or slightly better fleets without any causalities.
I wonder if it’s of any use, but I found a bug.
If you run out of supplies while attempting to repair at a station, buying more of them while docked doesn’t allow further repairs.
I hope you get this game done good, it’s very promising!
@Rajamonni: Yep, that’s a bug. Fixed for the upcoming bugfix release.
@Michael S: Hmm… yeah, need to do something about that. Not entirely clear what, though – don’t want auto-resolve to be particularly *bad*, either. Am going to save the random seed used for it eventually, btw – so that reloading a save will produce the same results.