Survive, Fight, Explore, Terraform, Dig, and Build. In Edge Of Space you change the world to serve your needs in this unique mix of survival, defense, exploration, base building, Reactive world, dynamic sandbox. At the Edge of Space, you will need all your wits about you. Take your tools and start changing the dangerous world you have landed on. As one of the Elite ArkCo recruits, you must create outposts, power stations, weapons, gather resources, find lost technology, and turn the world into a livable environment. Build a small bunker to a giant science station, and perhaps grab the attention of the lumbering Ark ship. Can you dominate the Edge of Space?
This represents the first installment of the “REBIRTH” of Edge Of Space. A lot of new things and some things are gone that will come back soon. We are taking huge steps to establish the polish you the players deserve in Edge Of Space. Patches will be coming back more frequently from this point on.
Physics
Complete rewrite removing old physics
Unified all physics math
Added more values to allow more control of players/vehicles/creatures and effects on them
Rendering
Overhaul on rendering from the ground up
Pixel perfect drawing now
Character's size was reduced to 3 units tall instead of 4
Lighting has been optimized but still under construction
New implementations of how textures are handled for optimization
World Management
World loading is changed to allow for easier control of world events
The world size has been adjusted to 2000x8000 in order to allow for instanced worlds to be viable
Instanced “pocket worlds” are functional but not available yet
Single player is now available and multiplayer has been temporarily disabled
Any single player can jump to any local world made by the player as long as version are compatible
Main Menu has been updated to be consistent with the game’s art style.
New options have been added which are available in the main screen and in game by hitting ESC
Crafting screen has been completely reworked to be more user friendly. Is still under construction but available.
Player can now view their schematics and requirements at the same time
Player, if the item allows, can adjust the number of the item they want to make and the requirements will automatically adjust for the player.
If the player moves a mineral into a slot that is not viable a red X will pop up to indicate this can not be used.
Old Tool Bar has been removed and changed into the streaming Toolbar. Which can be modified by opening up your inventory.
This tool bar represents a reference to what is in your inventory instead of inventory slots themselves.
You can modify this list by opening up your inventory R and using the reference there or by click and then dropping it in the shown list in the upper left
Use keys Q & E to move up and down the list. The item in the largest square is selected.
Hit SHIFT in order to toggle seeing the full action bar or the compressed one
Double clicking a toolbar slot auto empties it
Placement tool that will also have the type of material you are holding represented in the tool. Clicking Right Click will change from foreground mode to back tile mode.
Formation system has been put in place
Controls growing plants and tree like plants
Sprite based effect system has been put in place
Updated beam effect system is in place
New creature API for internal use has been implemented
Exposure is working but not fully implemented
Armor is under construction
Power system has been temporarily disabled
Creature spawning is in but still under construction
Power Required Items are not powered at the moment
Gun Sound Fx first pass are going in with available guns
Projectile hitFx first pass going in
Updated Jelly and new behavior in ( for now they are mostly harmless... but not
forever!) - Updated Crab logic ( A bit nicer )
Effect system Temporarily disabled
Refining is in but the stat propagation has been temporarily disabled.
Refining/Crafting has been auto propagated to the action bar while character sheet is currently disabled.
Resources are going through a new distribution settings
Crafting “SCIENCE!!” Will return it is just taking a break
Some Items will not be craftable at the moment due to not being able to acquire some of the resources this is temporary
Some Items have been temporarily removed from the crafting starting list
Refining Kit
Enhanced Laser Pick
All armors are temporarily not available
Crafting when inventory is full will cause the item to be auto deleted currently
Character creation is in
The current selection is not final just the starting set for now
This was a reimplementation and polish pass on a lot of features all of that stuff is going to be coming back in we wanted to the the core of the changes out to you asap
While it's good to know they will return this kind of seems like a case of one step forward and two steps back. There really isn't anything to do now so I don't see why pushing the changes "asap" was necesarry. The game will likely be better for it in the long run, but all we see right now is that it is basically unplayable until the next patch.
I haven't played in a while, but is it just me or has world gen been cut to the bare bones?
wut? No Armors? :p
This was a reimplementation and polish pass on a lot of features all of that stuff is going to be coming back in we wanted to the the core of the changes out to you asap
While it's good to know they will return this kind of seems like a case of one step forward and two steps back. There really isn't anything to do now so I don't see why pushing the changes "asap" was necesarry. The game will likely be better for it in the long run, but all we see right now is that it is basically unplayable until the next patch.
Of course now my foot is in my mouth when I find out you've already patched things back in.
Vehicles? What vehicles?
Vehicles were in for a short bit then removed while we focused on more core mechanics they will return soon =-P