Unofficial Official Patch 1.09 Update!

[Skenners]

*** THE PATCH IS FINISHED. A NEW THREAD IS CREATED HERE: https://steamcommunity.com/app/246090/discussions/0/3761104498514249525/ ***

Horry cow!

Welp, its been a while! Ive been largely busy doing other things and moving countries and the rest of derelict games kinda relied on me to do a large chunk of the heavy lifting to keep things going!

So in saying that, I did mention a while back that I (we) will be doing another patch, the final one, v1.09.

Its mostly a bug fix patch and to add in a few features that should have been in the game in the first place, maybe fix up the save game stuff a bit as well. Im not too sure on adding new items as im no 3D graphic designer and our best one we ever had (ed!) is off being a gfx superstar.

Ill be starting in early feb and should take about 2ish months or so to complete. Ill keep you folks posted on what ill add in and what ill be fixing up. I remember that we had a huge bugfix list on the github where the code is listed, so ill run through all of that and clean it up as much as humanly possible so others can add in their own item mods and whatnot. It'd be great to see others add in their own items to the spacebase collection.

As troubled as the past has been with this game, forum and people, I and Derelict Games did love every minute of it and never let the haters get the best of us... much :D

So, Ill keep you folks posted in this thread!

-Skenners

*** THE PATCH IS FINISHED. A NEW THREAD IS CREATED HERE: https://steamcommunity.com/app/246090/discussions/0/3761104498514249525/ ***

[Chuckmeister85]

1.08 was fantastic, it vastly improved the game giving players more to do and hopefuly 1.09 continues the trend.

[Kidd]

Originally posted by Chuckmeister85:

1.08 was fantastic, it vastly improved the game giving players more to do and hopefuly 1.09 continues the trend.

I think it will and I, too, look forward to it.

[Skenners]

Well, its mostly bug fixes, so dont get the hopes up too much in terms of more things to do. I COULD do more with it, but it'd take longer than 2 months to get done. Ill see how Im travelling in the next couple of months in terms of adding new stuff into the game.

thanks for the feedback!

-Skenners

[Skenners]

SUDDENLY THERE WAS A KNOCK AT THE DOOR ... and it was promptly ignored *badoom tish!* (I had to make a crack over it :D )

ok, so ive gone through some of my old notes and being that its been about a year since ive looked at the code, im checking the git repos to see what needs to be done.

What I want to look at over the next 2 months is this:

- Load/Save functionality (i think that might be done by one of the Derelict guys)
- Remove the save and quit (and add on the save game warning)
- Check through the Learn to Play to make sure it makes sense
- Go through the Buglist
- Write up a quick Savegame reader (So i can see what the hell DF has done and why ours are doubling up so much).
- Janitor stuff. I actually started this entire thing because I wanted a janitor in my gameplay. Funnily enough, never got round to it over the 4 or 5 patches we made.
- Remove the credit system (I really cant be bothered finishing the economy i was going to write)
- Glass Walls. We did some tests with glass walls and floors in the past which were really cool. They werent implemented because our superstar was busy.
- Check the Difficulty Settings to make sure they're actually working (in the galaxy screen)
- Check the tech tree (make sure its still good to go and balanced enough).
- Check Pathfinder.lua file to see if i can optimise that sucker or just cry while looking at it again.
- New Rooms? (Observation room/deck, Happy Room?)
- Check the Oxygen freakout settings to see if i can get them to snap into action to run away or something.

Thats a huuuuuuuuuuge amount of work (the bug fixes alone are a ♥♥♥♥♥), but if i can manage to get through that, Ill see what else I can implement. If not, im not worried. My biggest concern is the bug list.

so yeah, groovy! See you in a couple of months.

-Skenners

[Rephyr]

Thanks, Skenners!

[Kidd]

Groovy

[Kronos007]

Thanks Skenners, If you could add anything that will help modders add items it would be fantastic.

But just a big bug fix would be really appreciated.

[Skenners]

we added in an easier modding thing in patch 1.07 i think. Where you just add in the json of what the object is and the pictures and stuff and it reads it. Cant remember off the top of my head how it works, but i know its just adding in the files into the mod directory and runs similar to reading the modding zip file that comes with the game.

Ill see if theres anything else we can do to have a look at making it a bit easier too.

-Skenners

[PCGNeurotic]

Skenners old chap, I came here to see if Derelict were still around, and lo and behold! Perfect timing. :D Thank you for everything so far, and thank you in advance for whatever you can do in 1.09.

If you could, it would be great to update the News section on the webby to reflect the possibility of 1.09. I'm sorry to hear that Derelict has been set adrift, but such is life. All of the team's hard work is the perfect tonic to the masses of bitterness and resentment that orbit this game. Thanks again!

[Skenners]

hah no worries mate. The team is still around, but they're off doing their own things for the most part. I have a "if you want to do something, go ahead and do it" philosophy with those guys and this game, so they might add some stuff in. I can only say "this is what im going to do" and get to work on it.

as for the site, ill see if one of the guys can update it. ill write something up at some stage. All the thanks goes to the team though, they're a massive influence and hard working bunch that got some of the better patches happening (1.08.1 for example).

thanks!

-Skenners

[Marshall]

umm where can i find this update?

[Skenners]

Originally posted by Ncmarshall:

umm where can i find this update?

in about a month and a half (hopefully!) :)

im going through it now.

-Skenners

[Quickhand69er]

Skenners you are the man! Would love some bug fixs.

The haters hated because you made a awsome game but bugs made it unplayable at some point. It your game was crap you would not have gotten much or any hate.

So just remember, haters hate out of love for the game. So never let that get you down.

[Skenners]

well, wasnt my (our) game to start with. I just had time and inclination to add in a janitor and it took off from there. The haters doubted I could do anything, then doubted derelict could do anything and we proved them wrong. Its all good, we're just here to fix up some of the mess, thats all.

But after that, it'll be time to move on. Thanks for the support!

-Skenners

[Kidd]

Originally posted by Skenners:

well, wasnt my (our) game to start with. I just had time and inclination to add in a janitor and it took off from there. The haters doubted I could do anything, then doubted derelict could do anything and we proved them wrong. Its all good, we're just here to fix up some of the mess, thats all.

But after that, it'll be time to move on. Thanks for the support!

-Skenners

Well I appreciate what you have done so far and look forward to what this unofficial patch will bring to the table.