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Warp into a busy galaxy with nothing but your wits and a tiny ship. Explore sectors, mine asteroids, take on faction missions, sell resources and upgrade your loadout. Earn the respect of a faction to unlock new weapons and ships.

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Masteroid v1.6: New Ship & Weapons Overhaul!

10 Jun, 2023

Version 1.6 Release Notes

Version 1.6 overhauls every ship, weapon, and effect in the game! Ships are slightly larger and have a more established design pattern that will make it easier to create more ships in the future and enable new gameplay features such as ship upgrades and player-controlled fleets. Players can now customize their ship color in the Garage part of the Station menu.

All effects have been overhauled. Ship explosions are now larger and more interesting. Actual pieces of the ship break apart and explode separately.

Targeting controls have been overhauled. Aiming has multiple bug fixes and is more intuitive.

Factions now offer more weapon variety, more missions, and multiple UI issues have been fixed. A new "Simulation Service" now updates the prices and missions available each game day, which is currently 5 minutes long. This sets up deeper simulation options and more features in the future!

Note: your save file will be automatically backed up and upgraded when playing the new version. Since some ships and weapons don't have perfect one-to-one matches, your cash balance will be credited for the cash value of any ships or weapons that can't be converted!

QoL Features

Pressing shoulder buttons now changes tabs in the Station menu
Save menu now sorts by most recently-played save
Most recently-played save is now automatically selected
Game now sets a default deadzone that's greater than zero so UI isn't unusable on faulty controllers
Improved weapon comparison UI

Gameplay Features

Players can now change ship lights and exhaust color in the Garage menu
Created all new ships for both factions
Created new ship design data for both factions
Created mapping of old ships and weapons to new ships and weapons
Created save upgrade system that converts old ships and weapons to the nearest match
Added an internal ship designer tool that makes ship creation easier
Station defender turrets were removed from the game. These were technically treated as a ship, which was a mediocre solution, and will be revisited in a future update.
Created a simulation service that simulates the prices of all stations over time
Ships and weapons have better previews and details in UI
Weapons have more consistent sound based on their class
Stations now show ships and weapons that are beyond players' faction level so players can see future progression options
All effects in the game have been overhauled to be better and more performant. This includes weapon impact, ship explosions, engine effects, asteroid explosions, and warp effects.

Bugfixes

Fixed issues with text overflowing in ships, weapons, and outfitting panels
Fixed issue where you could equip a weapon to a ship that isn't selected
Fixed an issue where pressing Escape in the warp menu unpauses the game
Fixed multiple issues with aiming sensitivity
Fixed an issue where some ships and asteroids couldn't be targeted
Fixed an issue where your current mission card could disappear from UI
Fixed an issue where mission offerings don't update after faction level increase
Fixed issues with deadzones and stick sensitivity

As always, thanks for playing!

- Justin

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V-Sync or framerate limit

Could you please add the V-Sync or a framerate limit option? Otherwise the game runs on unlimited FPS and load the GPU for up to 100%

noncom

19 Mar, 2023 @ 3:03am

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Masteroid v1.5: Controller Support

20 Apr, 2023

Version 1.5 focuses on improving the Masteroid experience on Steam Deck and with controllers. This version adds twin-stick controller support (enable this in the Settings menu) and fixes several SteamDeck-specific issues with UI.

We also added some convenient gameplay features. You can now reset tutorials from the pause menu. The pause menu also now shows a mission reminder. The warp menu now has icons for your current sector and the sector your current mission is in.

Finally we fixed several bugs including an issue with uncapped framerates causing maximum GPU load and faster battery consumption!

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v.1.4.0 Major Update!

11 Mar, 2023

I started working on Masteroid on April 24th, 2017. I set out to create a space game that was in the vein of 4x games that I loved, but focused on a bite-sized experience that supported short-session play. I also wanted it to be atmospheric and relaxing over challenging.

I built Masteroid to be data-driven so that I could create a large amount of weapons and ships despite it being a mostly-solo project. Some of my ideas were really good but others had problems I didn't expect and those problems significantly impacted how I could expand the game. Additionally when I started, the UI system available in the FlatRedBall game engine that Masteroid is built upon lacked many features. In the almost-six-years since I began the project the UI technology has improved to be best-in-class.

In November 2022 I was playing Masteroid on a SteamDeck and decided I wanted to improve how the UI looked on the smaller screen. As I dug into this problem, I realized I couldn't achieve my goals without fixing some of the core problems that plagued Masteroid since early in development. I spent the next four months overhauling these core systems to support future expansion:

Core simulation model: how game objects are represented and updated as data over the course of the game
UI system: how game data is bound to UI and presented to the player
UI Look & Feel: how the UI looks in terms of art style, color, and layout
UI scaling: how the UI adapts to smaller screens while retaining crisp text and images
Save files: how data is saved to disk, which had to be changed due to data model changes

This was such a major overhaul that it required careful attention to how old saves were converted and extensive testing to make sure nothing was broken (some things will definitely be broken).

This release of Masteroid marks a major update to the game's core system. While many of these changes are "under the hood" and don't have a significant impact, we hope you enjoy the new UI and look forward to more features in the future.

I have a public roadmap here.[trello.com]

Please file bugs in this discussion thread!

Thanks for playing,
<3 Justin

Changelog

Game now has a public Trello roadmap: https://trello.com/b/ejULa3O3/masteroid-roadmap
Game no longer supports zoom, this was required to open the future path to different control mechanisms
Every piece of UI in the game has been redesigned
- Weapons menu now has comparison card to see weapon requirements vs ship capabilities
- Ships menu now has comparison cards to compare current ship with purchaseable ship
- Missions menu can now offer more missions
- Changing ships now has better messaging
- Weapons menu now shows weapon preview
- Ships menu now shows ship preview
- HUD is now on the left and has clearer status bars
- Better notifications when player levels up
- Loading screen has been redesigned
- Better messaging when player is too underleveled to buy ships, weapons, or take missions
- Improved warp menu UI
Game now has capability for deeper systems simulation (no specific gameplay changes yet)
Game now backs up old saves before updating
Game now has a formal system to upgrade older saves
Game has major logging improvements - log file has more detail, logs more frequently, and saves logs for nger. This will help me fix your bugs!
Save data and logs folder is now linked from the main menu
Game now has a formal place to log bugs, linked from the main menu
Game now has a formal, open roadmap, linked from the main menu
Indicator now points to the nearest dock instead of the center of the station
Minor improvements to UI sounds
UI sounds no longer play when hovering list items
Fixed issue with sector-wide attack against player happens too often
Fixed issues with game hints being no longer accurate
Fixed bug with notifications when player levels up/down
Fixed bug with saving a ship that has empty turrets
Fixed a bug where resources on a ship may not be saved when warping to a different sector
Fixed a bug where cargo UI can be inaccurate
Fixed a bug where cargo may not be saved when exiting game
Fixed issues with camera default zoom
Fixed issues with sound/music volume sliders

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Issues & Help

Hi there, I've had some issues I hope you can help me with. After that, I'm offering some help myself. Anyway: 1. Each click in the menu, even without starting an actual new game, is really, really slow. I'm a patient man, but even I get annoyed when waiting 10 seconds every single time I click. 2. I cannot select a resolution, and the standard resolution is like 800x600 or something. I didn't try starting the game, but in the menu, because of the tiny resolution, all buttons are totally pushed together. ...