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January chapter of Odatria is now up!
https://www.patreon.com/posts/smugglers-of-20-120498347

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Finally had a major breakthrough on an issue with the Ship Shop, so that’s now rolling quickly and smoothly after a prolonged battle with the gamepad support.

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ALPHA 1 Patch 5:

Been a bit! Sorry about that, but I bit off more than I could chew on the fixes and they got away from me. A lot happened since patch 4, both personally and in the development. Gamepads remain very hard for me to test and develop for, but I also have two new ships and a whole new voiced intro mission that got pushed into the development cycle at the same time.

I was able to finish developing two of the ships, one of them will have its first sighting in this patch. It needs lots of tuning, but I think you folks will love it. I had to cut the rest short if I was ever going to get a new patch out, so that will be coming along in following patches.

There’s also a new package format that should make patching easier, and updates smaller. There will be 2 files instead of just one. Ignore the package file, launch the .exe/x86_64 file to start the game.

Fixes and improvements in this patch :

  • The Hangar Bay landing is pretty close to done now, but landing is still a bit harder than I’d like.

  • Upgraded to Godot 4.2.2 with double precision. No more jitter! This was a massive bit of work.

  • New ship! The training mission will eventually use la libélula class ships to teach folks to fly. For now it’s pretty rough, but take a run in it if you like.

  • Added yet more assets preparing for the next patch.

Known Bugs:

  • Landing is hard, especially in the new ship.

  • Brand new ship chooser, could have some bugs that need fixing!

  • Ship chooser is a bit smushed on the Steam Deck.

  • Esc exits all the way back instead of properly exiting the menu

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Check out the latest Fireside Fedi video stream by @ozoned, featuring Smugglers: Smuglers of Cygnus Alpha 1 - Space Smuggling Alpha with Special Guest Miguel of Longplay Games - Livestream 2025-02-12 - Fireside Fedi
(don’t forget to check out his regular streams, too, they’re lots of fun!
https://stream.ozoned.net/

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Fixes just went up for the Steamdeck formatting issue, and the “esc exits to main when in chat or tablet” mode.

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Patch 5 patchnote stream: (unfortunately this was removed due to network issues, and wil be re-done)

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New wallpaper up:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/march-wallpaper-124008152

Spaceship cockpit view showing another ship off their wing
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Quick recap, for the folks following this thread:

  1. The Patreon decom has completed: Welcome to the Next Chapter

  2. Forum logins are now driven through the new site, making it a central passwordless place to handle updates, subscriptings, backing, and accounts.

  3. The chapters of Odatria are now available on the forum, and easier to find: https://forum.longplay.games/c/player-lounge/cygnus-books/23

  4. There’s a newly re-tooled wallpaper gallery, with a full downloadable archive for all backers: https://forum.longplay.games/t/wallpaper-gallery/306/4

  1. Patch updates are being consolidated to the new site: Patch Notes - Longplay Games: Dev Log but of course they will all have a forum thread associated as well. This will hopefully make it easier to discuss the patches and report any follow-ups or bugs.
  1. Finally - this thread will now be closing, so it won’t just be a 5 year long trudge to get to current details!