It’s been a year since release, so let’s roll out an anniversary update and celebrate:

• Improved visuals in the Habitat, Factory, Maintenance, Heart, and Shuttle Bay
  
• More exploration and interactions
  
• New and expanded dialogues
  
• New music tracks and portraits
  
• New inventory filters
  
• Balance improvements and fixes

To new players, we hope you'll enjoy the game. To 'old' players, thank you for your faith and support over the years. You helped us realize our dream and we’ll always be grateful to you.

- Improved visuals in Habitat residential areas, added more interactions.
- Faction slides images improvements.
- Blue hair is clearly blue.
- Increased resistances of enemies in the faction rooftop defense fight.
- Tweaked Mathias and Garret equipment and level on the final fight.
- Added video to the death timer tutorial.
- Polished several dialogue interactions in the habitat.
- Fixed wrong weapon skills on faction rooftop defense fight enemies.
- Fixed hydro red door missing when loading a save from the main menu.
- Fixed characters entering the reactor without the hazmat suit when they had it equipped.
- Fixed issue with grey crate in the armory not being visible in the first visit.
- Penetration Mod vs Creatures now applies to all party members.

Welcome to the 4th (and the biggest) 'ask and you shall receive' content update since release. Some of you wanted to go out with a bang, so we added a 'war hero' ending and a tough-as-nails (and completely optional) fight to go with it. Tell your faction leader that you don't want a desk job and he'll hook you up.

Other players asked for more exploration in Hydroponics Red (the Red Zone). Now they can enjoy new areas, interactions, and fights.

We also added 3 new implant upgrades, a new music track for the mutant town, reworked the pulse grenade based on your feedback, improved several locations (the visuals), added new dialogues, and enabled custom portraits.

Now you can finally play the game as Sailor Cyber Moon, so there's no excuse not to play anymore.

- Improved walking civilians animation when turning around, and added more variety.
- Fixed not being able to report to Carlos on CH3 that you killed Morgan.
- Fixed potential issue with Warring Kingdom quest door not properly closing if player is right next to it.
- Fixed potential issue with Morgan quest door not properly closing if player is right next to it.
- Minor text fixes.

It’s been six months since Colony Ship was released and three years since we launched on Early Access. It wasn’t an easy journey and we’re grateful for the overwhelming support and encouragement we’ve received at every step of the way.

We’ll continue improving the game throughout 2024 and making your experience aboard Starfarer more enjoyable and memorable. This update (the seventh since release) adds:

• Improved Heart location (new quests and events)
  
• Improved ‘rooftop’ and ‘train station’ levels
  
• New and expanded dialogues
  
• New weapons and portraits
  
• More interactive events
  
• New world map
  
• Minor fixes and improvements

- Fixed not being able to ask the mutant trader about the rifle after the first dialogue.
- Fixed civilians walking in place when loading a save on the same map in the middle of combat.
- Fixed Hargrave having two energy SMGs.
- Fixed some lockpick checks in hydroponics giving less LP than intended.
- Fixed minor issues with dialogues.

Colony Ship wouldn’t be here without all of you who supported us in Early Access. It’s a huge help to indie devs, and a unique opportunity to shape a game and see it evolve.

Cyber Knights: Flashpoint is a squad tactics heist RPG by the Trese Brothers that started Early Access in October and I think is worth checking out. They’ve been getting some fantastic reviews comparing it to games like XCOM, Shadowrun, and Invisible Inc. It’s less of a cRPG than Colony Ship, but much more of one than most XCOM-likes, with squad member backstories and character-driven storylines playing a big role in the missions you can take on.

Like Colony Ship, it has in-depth combat and character build systems. It’s not possible to do total pacifist playthroughs but they do have extensive stealth and hacking options; you can go full ninja, guns blazing, or anywhere in between. Enemy units are independent, so you can pull off a lot of great ambush and diversion tactics; you just have to stay ahead of each levels’ ruthless security AI trying to detect intruders and use guards and security devices against you.

They’re aiming for some major replayability, and the Trese Brothers have a great reputation as developers. I’d say they’re off to a good start in EA with already over 40 updates since launch. If you’re looking for another game to help turn into a lasting gem in your collection, check it out.

https://steamproxy.com/steamstore/app/1021210/Cyber_Knights_Flashpoint/

The first update of 2024 is focused on the party members (we expanded the existing conversations where appropriate and added new ones). We'll continue adding more conversations throughout this year, but we don't want to overdo, so we'll go step by step and evaluate your feedback after each update.

Other notable changes:

- improved visuals in several areas
- improved journal entries
- minor balance changes (Controlled and Focused Bursts, Annihilator, energy SMG magazine size)
- new implant upgrade (Stress Response: when HP drop to 13 or less, Action Points +4, Evasion +12)
- bug and typo fixes
- engine optimization

if you're an existing player we'd like to thank you for your support and assure that we'll keep improving the game throughout 2024 and pay close attention to your feedback. If you're just discovering the game and wondering if it's for you, try the demo first or watch one of the impression videos:

The first major update is now live. It adds many ‘quality of life’ improvements requested by the players:

• Customizable difficulty (for players who thought that playing on Underdog was too hard and playing on Hero mode was too easy)
  
• Animation speed slider (for players who wanted to speed up combat and stealth; you can set up it for all characters or enemies only)
  
• Follow and focus camera options
  
• Walking/running toggle
  
• Different inventory grid options
  
• Chapter ending slides
  
• Improved font readability (work in progress)
  
• Improved the help screen
  
• When leaving the Pit and the Habitat, listed quests that will be auto-resolved, giving you a chance to go back and finish them
  
• When fixing Romeo, listed the missing parts
  
• Numerous minor improvements, balance changes, and fixes.

Thank you again for your support. Happy New Year to you and your families.