Sector Six Release Countdown: 1! news

About 3 years and 8 months ago, I have started working on Sector Six. And now it's finished.

When I started working on Sector Six, I thought that I'll complete it in 3 months. It was supposed to be a small sequel to Sector Seven. I wanted to make it just because I promised I'll have a sequel to Sector Seven.

It was 2015 January or February when I have released an alpha version of Sector Six.
I didn't expect anything and I was surprised to get positive feedback.

It was enough for me to thinking about making Sector Six into a bigger game than I initially planned.

I said to myself: "People like this, and I can do much better so why not do it?"
So I started working harder.

Hundreds of times I decided to rework something because it wasn't as good as I could do, and I'm very glad I did.

Sector Six is not perfect, but it is about 10 times better than I imagined it in the beginning.
And it is like that because of feedback. Every "Great game, but X could be better" made Sector Six better.

I always wanted to be a game developer and make games like Sector Six and I'm incredibly happy and grateful that it happened.

I hope that this is not the end of Sector Six. I hope I'll be able to continue working on it and make it even better.

Sector Six was finished on 21st August. 22nd August was a bad day - I had problems with a monitor, so I had to spend an entire day fixing them.

This day I was testing Sector Six. I have already spent like 8 hours testing the game, and I have only completed half of the story.

Tomorrow I hope to finish testing and with luck, Sector Six version 0.9.9 will become available for everyone to play in the weekend.

Here's a full list of what changed since the last Sector Six update:

Completed:

• New save system.
• Compressed part rework: Parts received from drops, removed manual compression, added super compressed parts.
• Added 70 new achievements.
• Arcane Arsenal: Endgame activity.
• Infinity Instances: Endgame activity.
• Restoration War: Endgame activity.
• Added mission 14.
• The Machines.
• Loot rework: Bigger enemies now drop better parts, difficulty level makes enemies drop better parts.
• Ether rework: Ether properties now scale with level, ability ether costs increase with ability levels.
• Weapon rework: Nodes now reduce ability ether costs and pylons reduce ability cooldowns.
• Ability rework: Abilities now use same damage type and are unlocked as spaceship level increases.
• Added 12 relics.
• Added mission 13.
• Rebalanced ability points: 1 ability point per level.
• Added mission 12.
• Added mission 11.

Completed – Minor changes and improvements:

• Mission 6 boss fights now end earlier.
• Improved controller support.
• Added new particle settings: Now you can tone down particles, instead of turning them off completely.
• Improved optimization: Game will now run better.
• Moved tips to separate interface.
• Added evolving minion tutorial.
• Reworked evolving mechanic: Now minions evolve while attack abilities are not on cooldown.
• It’s no longer possible to use weapon amplifiers on engines.
• It’s no longer possible to sell items that have no value.
• Now it’s possible to use anodes on compressed parts.
• Rearranged achievements in the achievement interface.
• Improved Ionize ability: Now adds extra 2 alloy per ionized enemy, glitch free.
• Awakening of Inner Power ability now supports all mission types.
• You can no longer install alloy containers if their level is higher than your spaceship level.
• Now locked until the spaceship level is higher than 4: Difficulty system, set interface, item management, new missions button.
• Improved/replaced certain sound effects.
• Secured region changes: Removed manual compression from secured region interface, added highlight toggle button.
• Improved shield particles, sounds, and animations.
• Shields now destroy ruins.
• Spaceship collisions with certain objects are now better.
• Improved cooldown and effect timer text: Now shows second fractions.
• Improved number conversion.
• Improved damage text.
• Reduced amount of units dropped.
• Improved region rewards: Now includes uncommon and rare rewards, such as five fractal parts, +200% experience, etc.
• Replaced gauntlet missions with new retrieval missions.
• Changed music system: Now tracks in side missions play regardless of area status.
• Changed time vortex: Improved dialogue, can only reset story, made it more accessible.
• Changed contribution system: No longer saved between missions, must be claimed immediately.
• Improved region destruction.
• Expanded dialogue box.
• Improved cathodes.
• Improved loot box: Up to 170 looted items visible, glitch free.
• Updated boss mission.
• Improved arena mission: Better loop, supports The Assault of the Modified and The Rain of Fire modifiers.
• Improved siege mission: New blocks, minor graphical improvements.
• Expanded credits.
• Graphically improved loot.
• Added region select screen and map key.
• Improved mission overview interface.
• Improved mission 1.
• Improved mission 3.
• Improved text input.
• Reworked tutorial.
• Reworked introduction.
• Added avatar customization: Name your character and choose how it looks in dialogues.
• Improved spaceship building interface.
• Reworked Super Shield ability: Shield lasts 8 seconds and increases armor generated on kill while active.
• Fixed inventory leak.
• Adapted backgrounds to screen shaking.
• Improved dialogue avatars.
• Improved settings interface.
• Added button that resets settings to default.
• Added button that resets controls to default.
• Modular difficulty system changes: Flow Stagnation maximum level changed to 1, rebalanced rewards, removed diodes.
• Reworked Creation of Energy and Channel abilities.
• Improved achievement interface.
• Repositioned mission interface.
• Fixed weapon amplifying.
• Improved ability bar.
• Made better ability icons.
• Heavy Shield rework: Now called Power Shield, no longer slows down spaceship.
• Improved ability and effect icons.
• Improved Kithalia’s Blight set penalty
• Improved barrager.
• Toggle XP gain feature has been removed.
• Improved Sector transition cutscene.
• Improved pausing.
• Improved HUD.
• Improved ability level scaling.
• Improved item management and filtering.
• Repositioned item management buttons.
• Stat page improvements.
• Virtual and physical weapon clarification and stats.
• New part properties.
• Improved part names.
• Higher grade parts are now more common.
• Relic dismantling rewards.
• Parts give less damage reduction and reflect chance.
• Parts give fewer wave chances.
• Improved item generator: Now produces more random items.
• Item changes: Changed diode cost, changed certain item sprites, improved item use error messages, improved tooltips.
• Fixed story mission X glitch.
• Reworked phase break mechanic: Gain additional damage after taking a certain amount of damage.
• Channel ability’s ether cost reducing effect now lasts 3 seconds, making Channel much easier to use.
• Cataclysm ability has been replaced with passive anti-shield ability: Breach.
• Renamed Phase to Phasse, to differentiate it from phase mechanic.
• Improved Aggression, Resistance, and Capacity: More powerful, more interesting, and consistent with other abilities.
• Decreased starter part limit to 6.
• Decreased starter maximum ether to 50.
• Starter engine now gives less maximum armor.
• Increased starter ability points to 10.
• While Guardian of a Thousand Worlds ability is active, Concentrated Fire recharges instantly.
• Improved alloy containers: New property, increased sell and buy price, reduced city stock.
• Removed filled alloy containers.
• Corrected W. warning button tooltip.
• Fixed engine glitch.
• Improved missiles that appear when player's spaceship leaves the enemy range.
• Guardian is now more mobile.
• Potentially fixed Black Rain projectile problem.
• Region update flashes are now brighter.
• Veteran's and revenant factory’s ballistic attacks are now slower.
• Improved dialogue system graphics.
• Oesa's Radiance set effect changed, now base maximum armor is equal maximum ether.
• Damage bonuses now are applied to damage while Lodeon's Ultimatum set is active.
• Fixed and improved certain set descriptions.
• Fixed many glitches.

Until the release!