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@rorychatt rorychatt released this 26 Sep 23:19
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SpaceCorps 2027 0.3.0 splits the galaxy into three separate worlds: Alpha, Beta and Gamma. Each has its own copy of every sector, its own aliens and its own pilots. Higher worlds have stronger aliens and pay more for kills and quests.

The game plays on the public server https://spacecorps-game.sliplane.app. Your pilot, ships, items, credits, clan and world carry over.

Download page: https://spacecorps.github.io/play/
On Hangar: https://hangar.sliplane.app/p/spacecorps/spacecorps-2027

What's new

Three separate worlds

  • Until now, pilots of every tier flew the same sectors and met the same aliens. Your tier only changed your pay and where you could fight. Now Alpha, Beta and Gamma are separate worlds. You fly only in your own world, and you only meet its pilots, aliens and company pilots. Chat and cargo stay in your world too.
  • Your account is shared by all three: your items, credits, clan, the season and the leaderboards.
  • The HUD shows your world before the sector ("Beta · M-2"). The station and the Dashboard say which world you are in.

Aliens and pay

Alpha Beta Gamma
Alien strength (hit points, shields, shield recharge, damage) 1.0x 1.5x 2.0x
Kill and quest pay (credits, thulium, XP, honor) 1.0x 2.0x 3.0x
Where pilots can fight each other only x-4 and 4-x everywhere but x-1 everywhere
  • Pay used to be 1.5x in Beta and 2.0x in Gamma. It is now 2.0x and 3.0x, so a higher world clearly earns more per hour, even with stronger aliens.
  • A kill pays by the world it happens in. A quest pays by the world you did it in.
  • Loot drops and company pilots are the same in every world.
  • Safe zones and the Peace Protocol (days 1 to 3) protect you in every world.
  • The galaxy map colors the PvP sectors by your world's rules.

Joining a world and moving

  • A new pilot picks a world at Setup, once per season. The game asks you to confirm first.
  • Each world takes up to 1,000 pilots per season. A full world can't be joined.
  • You move to another world only at the Blackhole Eruption (day 30), to the destination you pick under Galaxy Gates › Destination. If you don't pick one, you choose a world again at Setup.
  • Destinations count against the next season's room, so a full destination can't be picked.
  • Every pilot starts the new season at their company's home sector (M-1, T-1 or G-1), also when keeping the same world. So does every change of world.
  • A pilot without a world can't pick a destination.
  • There is no switching worlds during a season. The Travel Token has no use for now.

What happens to your pilot with this update

  • You keep the world you picked. Nobody has to pick again.
  • Alpha pilots: nothing changes.
  • Beta and Gamma pilots: you are moved once to your company's home sector (M-1, T-1 or G-1) in your world. This way nobody starts among the stronger aliens deep in x-3 or x-4. Your ship, items and everything else stay as they were.
  • A pilot without a world picks one at Setup before launching.

Pages

  • Season › Worlds (it was Server Status) shows each world's pilots this season, how many are flying now, and how many are heading there next season. Your own world is marked.
  • The Hall of Fame has a World column and can show one world's pilots (All, Alpha, Beta, Gamma).
  • The (i) help cards and the wiki explain the worlds. Everything is translated into all 10 languages.

Also in this release

  • SpaceCorps 2027 is on Hangar, SpaceCorps' own store: https://hangar.sliplane.app/p/spacecorps/spacecorps-2027. The downloads there are the same files as on the download page.
  • A copy installed with Hangar's desktop app is kept up to date by Hangar. Settings › About says so and offers Open in Hangar instead of installing updates itself. Copies from the download page keep updating themselves.
  • The game runs on the latest version of its engine. The engine's debug overlay (F3) is more compact and stays clear of the HUD.

Updating

  • From 0.2.1 or later: the game downloads 0.3.0 by itself. Click Restart to Update, or quit the game, and it installs. You can also look for it under Settings › About › Check for Updates. If you installed the game with Hangar, Hangar updates it.
  • From 0.2.0: download it once from the download page and replace the old app or folder. From then on the game updates itself.

Please update before you pick a world at Setup. Older versions of the game still connect and you still fly in your own world, but their Setup cards show the old pay (1.5x and 2.0x) under the new descriptions, and they show the old help texts and galaxy colors.

On macOS, keep the game in Applications. A game started from the disk image or from Downloads can't replace itself.

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 on a first install your system asks once before it opens the game. Updates the game installs itself don't ask again.

  • 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.
  • 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. Or unpack the tar.gz and start SpaceCorps2027/spacecorps2027.

Known issues

  • The builds are unsigned, so macOS Gatekeeper and Windows SmartScreen warn on a first install (see above).
  • The new texts in the nine other languages were not yet checked by native speakers. Please report anything that reads wrong.
  • 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.

Verify your download

SHA256SUMS lists every package's SHA-256 and is signed with the SpaceCorps release key
(SHA256SUMS.minisig, minisign). With both files next to
the package:

minisign -Vm SHA256SUMS -P RWRhY8TTCr07i1iOS7MT45OHD3LFJJnWXWCF19fy7hjV1RD8cwWlVKF1
shasum -a 256 -c SHA256SUMS --ignore-missing   # Linux: sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS --ignore-missing

Checksums

Package SHA-256
SpaceCorps2027-macos-universal.dmg a574d174772b3f2fcdc3d4272903b4a18de2e7ee1154820e103af54f15752f8b
SpaceCorps2027-windows-x86_64.zip d939e01f471fcfd115007e28c11f978ea653693924f6e079aedaec570d006699
SpaceCorps2027-linux-x86_64.AppImage ee23f124997e74b3fb5ba498e887c1f7c9676e92e6913eab6b0e8843ae03f40e
SpaceCorps2027-linux-x86_64.tar.gz 34dcb109ffcf827de75b8809a1ce0703e0c402fb56045464f1b7b1cb10c67607
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