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@rorychatt rorychatt released this 26 Sep 09:58
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SpaceCorps 2027 0.2.0 brings new graphics, company pilots flying alongside you, cargo to pick up, a new sound system, and the whole game in ten languages.

The game plays on the public server https://spacecorps-game.sliplane.app, which runs 0.2.0 too. Your pilot, ships and items carry over from 0.1.0.

Download page: https://spacecorps.github.io/play/

What's new

Graphics

  • HDR rendering with tonemapping and bloom. Engines, canopies and lights on the ships glow.
  • GPU particle effects: engine flames and ion trails, explosions with smoke, hull hit sparks and warp effects.
  • Settings › Graphics has new Post-Processing and Bloom options. Turn Post-Processing off on older machines.

In flight

  • Friendly company pilots: small squads of your company patrol the company maps, fight aliens and help you in fights. Your fire never moves onto one of them by itself.
  • Cargo drops: alien loot and ship salvage drop into space as cargo boxes. Left-click a box to pick it up. Hover over a box to see what it holds. Boxes show on the minimap and disappear after 3 minutes.
  • Ships turn to face their targets.
  • Name tags stay steady over the ships.

Sound

  • A new sound system with original music that follows the fight, and every sound levelled to the same loudness.
  • Overload protection: big fights no longer distort, and close explosions dip the music.
  • Button sounds can be turned off under Settings › Audio.

Interface

  • The whole game in 10 languages: English, Svenska, Deutsch, Français, Русский, Español, Português (Brasil), 日本語, 한국어 and 简体中文. Quests, items and server messages are translated too, and Chinese and Japanese text wraps correctly.
  • The (i) help cards are translated and name the keys you have bound.
  • Key caps show your own keyboard layout (AZERTY, QWERTZ, Dvorak, JIS and others).
  • A tighter interface: smaller text and controls, a more compact HUD, target panel and station pages. The hotbar keeps its width in every language.
  • An update notice: from this version on, the start screen and the station tell you when a newer version is out.
  • Opt-in crash reports: when the game crashes it saves a report on your computer. Turn on Settings › General › Send Crash Reports to send saved reports to the developers. It is off by default, and reports never include your name or a screenshot.
  • Delete your account under Settings › Account › Delete account. This asks for your password first.

Rules (server)

  • PvP points come from player kills only. Alien kills used to count too. Existing points were recounted.
  • Rewards are paid by your own tier. A tier you pick in flight applies at once.
  • Friendly fire costs honor. Company mates who destroy each other both pay.
  • Each tier has its own PvP sectors. The Ship window shows whether you are in a safe or a PvP sector.
  • Seekers drop a Ship Fragment about one kill in five.

Updating from 0.1.0

0.1.0 doesn't check for updates. Download the new package from the download page and replace the old app or folder. Your account and settings are kept.

Platforms

Package For
SpaceCorps2027-macos-universal.dmg macOS 12 Monterey or later, Apple silicon and Intel
SpaceCorps2027-windows-x86_64.zip Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit
SpaceCorps2027-linux-x86_64.AppImage Linux x86_64, glibc 2.35 or newer (Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, Fedora 36 and later), Vulkan
SpaceCorps2027-linux-x86_64.tar.gz the same Linux build, as a folder to unpack

Graphics need Metal (macOS), DirectX 12 or Vulkan (Windows), or Vulkan (Linux, Mesa 22 or a vendor driver). The game needs 4 GB of RAM (8 GB recommended) and 400 MB of free disk space.

First launch

The builds are not signed by Apple or Microsoft yet, so your system asks once before it opens the game.

  • macOS: open the dmg and drag SpaceCorps 2027 onto Applications.
    • macOS 15 and newer: open the app once and click Done. Then go to System Settings › Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway next to "SpaceCorps 2027 was blocked".
    • macOS 12 to 14: right-click (Control-click) the app, choose Open, then Open again.
    • Or run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/SpaceCorps 2027.app" in Terminal.
  • Windows: right-click the zip, choose Extract All, and start spacecorps2027.exe from the SpaceCorps 2027 folder. The assets folder must stay next to it. If SmartScreen says it "protected your PC", click More info, then Run anyway.
  • Linux: run chmod +x SpaceCorps2027-linux-x86_64.AppImage, then start it. If your system has no FUSE, run it with --appimage-extract-and-run, or unpack the tar.gz and start SpaceCorps2027/spacecorps2027.

To check a download, compare its SHA-256 with the table below or with SHA256SUMS (sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS --ignore-missing).

Known issues

  • The builds are unsigned, so macOS Gatekeeper and Windows SmartScreen warn on first launch (see above).
  • The Windows build and the Intel slice of the Mac build passed automated checks but were not play-tested on real hardware before this release. Please report anything that goes wrong.
  • There is no Windows installer. Use the zip and keep the assets folder next to the game.
  • Below 1024×640 the default HUD windows can overlap the hotbar dock. Move them, or use a larger window.
  • Fullscreen from the HUD button works on macOS only. On Windows and Linux, use your window manager's fullscreen.
  • There is one public game server with limited capacity. It may restart for updates, and your ship is saved when it does.

Report problems at https://github.com/SpaceCorps/play/issues or on Discord.

Checksums

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SpaceCorps2027-macos-universal.dmg fca611cd39fa8fdd0ac5fadec87471c68a91b408628fb233b775469139a8a61d
SpaceCorps2027-windows-x86_64.zip d7aad21b4518ee299f2b91f05ecd5ffafca5bd51332bb93bca3e9cef399adb4f
SpaceCorps2027-linux-x86_64.AppImage 962206ce91663b9cddc4986e57b069a944554d1893e616e966dccb8be556fe23
SpaceCorps2027-linux-x86_64.tar.gz 0efe0b3ba5b5417f166ffbdc1a21e911846ca82f87c64a716d6e98f4ad3e2a3b
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