Heyho Captains,

....and sometimes things just fall in place and you are done faster than you anticipated - Welcome to today's "Manual Quick Save" Update (Ingame Version 1.4)!

Since this is what you have been waiting for - at least a good portion of you - I'll spare you my rambling and cut right to the case:

Manual Savegames

• Players can now save manually in the pause menu. 

• Manual saves have one savegame slot that will be overridden. 

• This slot is independent from the recently implemented autosave slot. 

• When loading the game, players can choose which save game they want to load.

Balancing

• Several systems were adjusted to feel more accurate and/or intuitive

• Additionally, the Adventure difficulty level was adjusted to feel a little less stressful.

User Experience 

• The visual representation of several characters was corrected 

• Added distinction between manual saves and autosaves

• Ensure manual saves are only available in safe areas and the game communicates why saving is not possible

• Clear distinction between Continue, Load Manual, and Load Autosave

• Added “time since last save” display in pause menu

• Added manual save override warning

• Added confirmation messages for saving and returning to main menu in pause menu

• Improved Planet Class N shaders to have more details

• Added additional Borg Neuro Electric Field Generator room FX

• Improved the eye metal part skinning of the Generic Borg to no longer generate unnatural deformations during animations

• Ruined rooms now correctly show life support FX

• Danara Pel now wears blue Starfleet uniform

• Telek now wears blue Starfleet uniform

• Talax ship model reverted to Talaxian freighter

• Tuvok and Nunez adjusted Rank from Lieutenant Commander to Lieutenant

• Improved the hair skinning of Seska (Cardassian) and Marla Gilmore to no longer clip into the outfit during animations

• Increased building and upgrade cost for combat rooms

• Increased energy consumption of combat rooms

• Increased energy reduction for the tech “Holodeck Energy Efficiency"

• Advanced Living Standard tech now properly affects Crew Quarters

• Added hero impact on warp core repair rate

• Reduced chance of terrible POI outcomes for Shuttles

• Adjusted phenomena spawn chances in later sectors

• Reduced maximum size of storm phenomena

• Difficulty Adventure

  • Increased the base storage capacity for Deuterium, Duranium, Food and Tritanium 

  • Reduced Homesickness penalty 

  • Increased chance of positive POI outcomes

• Difficulty Survival

  • Slightly increased chance of positive POI outcomes

Main Missions

Caretaker

• Fixed minor branching issue in dialog

State of Flux

• Tuvok now won't get resurrect when he died during a certain stage of the questline

Loyalties 

• The threat level is reduced to 0 after completing the mission allowing players to prepare for the challenges in the following sectors

Old Friends New Enemies

• Janeway will no longer receive too much XP in one branch during the dialog

Dark Frontier

• Set the correct outcome text for one of the endings.

Uprising 

• Away Mission: fixed a trait constraint in a challenge

Endgame

• Solved a branching issue

Side Missions

Medical Ethics

• Solved a branching issue

Live Fast and Prosper 

• Now requires Tuvok and Chakotay to at least be available in the sector for story consistency.

Good Shepherd

• The rewarded tech is now correctly tied to the DLC

Events

Duranium Infestation

• minor fix in selectable options

Homesickness 

• is now reported by Chakotay/McGuiness

Mission: Entrance Exams

• Cycle count won't reset anymore when loading a save

Mission: The Romulan Risk

• Cloaking Shield Matrix will now be given out when choosing to upgrade the tech.

Mission: Event: Reap What You Sow

• Will no longer be triggered by a Vidiian ambush

Mission: Holodeck Malfunction 

• Both heroes now return after loading a save

Quest: Mind Over Missiles

• Ship Events now trigger again as intended when the quest is abandoned.

Combat & Systems

• Torpedoes no longer collide with each other

• Radial menu HUD restore fix

• Combat variety updates (multiple passes)

• Target reticules no longer block clicks

• Fixed torpedoes not being deducted after firing

• Fixed regeneration alcoves deconstruct resources

Audio

• Fixed duplicated sentence in Log Sector 8 (Tom Paris)

UI & UX

• Improved Mouse & Keyboard camera movement in sector overview

• Savegame popup animation reduced from 8s to 4s

• Sorted Main Menu button to bottom of pause menu

• Fixed energy hover tooltip

• Fixed hull hover tooltip description

• Fixed missing main deflector upgrade description

• Fixed selected & currently researched tech being not readable

• Fixed hero overview issues

• Fixed hero unavailable popup behavior

• Fixed Main Deflector being highlighted when hovering over Life Support

• Fixed Issues in construction menu

• Fixed Main Engineering being deactivated

Tech

• Fixed timer crashes

Heyho Captains,

At some point we are running dry on jokes about how fast time is passing by when you are having fun …

It has already been roughly a week since we released Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown and the reception has been extremely positive (and that is even an understatement).

Thanks to your exceptional dedication, we were able to sell 100.000 copies of the game in 4 days! This is a tremendous number for any studio, but especially for a small indie developer from Germany.

National radio stations have been speaking about us and interviewed the Dev Team, CNN has (shortly) mentioned us, a concurrent user peak of over 9000 (insert Vegeta Meme)... It has surely been a great launch.

But surely as well, that doesn't mean we can lay back and relax - as you were able to read in our recent blogpost(s) we are tinkering on a manual quick save to counter the feedback you have given us in the first days after launch, that the auto save system needed some refinement.

This patch still needs to be finalized and then checked internally (so it doesn’t break anything else in the meantime) - and then we can send it live - so have some more (work)days of patience with us, please.

Afterwards (not mentioning smaller bugfixes along the way) our focus will shift from save games to crashes/performance and difficulty level/harshness.

Even though a rough estimate of ~60% of you seem to be fine with the difficulty, we surely want to see if we can adjust some things to make it more pleasant for the other 30-40%. If you want to give us your opinion, why don't you hop onto our Discord Server[discord.gg] and check out the Poll in the announcement channel.

Regarding Crashes/Performance, please always mention your hardware set up/speccs when reporting crashes. If you have already reported your problem, please, add them eventually.
And as always, even though you probably already know: a good portion of cases can already be solved by making sure everything has the most up-to-date drivers and/or adjusting your settings in game.

Another good portion is due to FSR - so lowering your graphics settings and in the worst case, turning off upscaling, will prevent crashes from happening. We are in contact with AMD to get closer to this issue.

Thanks again for this absolutely wonderful welcome to the Star Trek Family, the respect and wholesomeness this community has shown prior to launch as well as in the first days after (for example a whole MMO clan from ST:O coming over to “say hi” in our Discord - shoutout to StarFleet), surely makes this an experience for everyone involved.


See you in the Delta Quadrant!
gameXcite & Daedalic Entertainment