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July 2948

MESSAGE FROM THE CEO

Reflecting on the Past, Focused on the Future

History ebbs and flows, often washing away what came before only to replace it with something more resilient, refined, or dynamic. To avoid the dustbins of history, one must ‘adapt or die.’ Whether a business, species, or even a star-spanning empire, constant evolution is an essential component to success and survival.

This month reminds us that an ambitious long-term vision is not new for Shubin Interstellar. Four hundred years ago, then-CEO Bernard Cousins received an offer from Fulcrum Mining Associates to purchase all of Shubin’s assets in the Centauri system. Back then, Shubin was a relatively small terraforming outfit struggling to survive in a highly competitive market. The company was hemorrhaging money, so Cousins made a bold choice: instead of selling and settling for a short-term gain, he risked everything to

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UnnamedCharacter

has pulled off a very neat trick! He's experimented with higher quality ship sprites in Wing Commander 1 and managed to get them to appear as a sharper looking vessel in the game. It's an exciting development, but there's a couple of caveats here: a higher resolution Tiger's Claw happens to exists for cutscene use, but it's not carved up in various sprite angles and it's only one ship. And this only seems producible in the Kilrathi Saga rather than DOS, so don't expect a full HD conversion of WC1 to be immediately forthcoming, but this shows there's certainly some very interesting potential for future digital exploration!

Ships are represented as a series of individual sprites which are scaled as needed. This becomes obvious as you get closer to a ship since they become very pixelated.

This first row of images is the standard ship sprites.

This second row uses ship sprites which

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This report presents the latest data on starports experiencing technical issues as a result of Thargoid Sensor related interference.

The following starports are currently closed:

Brashear Landing, Jabugaly

Collins Station, Huichi

Dampier's Progress, Jabugaly

Ford Platform, HIP 41022

Griffiths Horizons, Ruchbah

Israel Port, Mudrama Kaze

Jeury Silo, Obambori

Lindblad Hub, Venexo

Scott Station, HIP 93685

Thomas Orbital, Wolf 1241

Wisniewski-Snerg Prospect, Anagorovici

Meanwhile, the following starports are on the brink of closure:

Brady City, Shouvul

Cerulli Port, Setet

Chiang Port, Gero Kiaku

Flagg Station, 41 Upsilon-4 Eridani

Nagata Port, Setet

North Dock, Amaunet

Riebe Enterprise, Checha

Russ Landing, Segon

Schmitt Platform, BD+08 642

Tani Hub, Ainunnicori

van der Riet Woolley Orbital, Jabugaly

Vinci Ring, HIP 91085

Younghusband Station, Miku

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Celebrated author Olav Redcourt has abandoned the promotional tour for his latest novel, halfway through a two-month circuit of fifty systems.

Reporters managed to catch Mr Redcourt as he was storming off the passenger liner where he has spent the last four weeks. He told them:

"I'm sick of churning out historical-romance garbage, especially now that readers can change the damn story to suit themselves! I'm going to write the book I've always wanted to write – a science-fiction saga set in the future."

A statement was released by Bonespire Publishing:

"Unfortunately this incident constitutes a breach of contract, as Mr Redcourt has only produced fourteen Corsair King novels, rather than the twenty-five we agreed. We hope we can convince him to resume the tour and continue with the series."

Margaux Hist, the author's agent, commented:

"Olav's a true artist, so I'm sure fans will understand that

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Hello everyone,

We are continuing to focus on safely addressing the highest priority issues reported by the community. As always, thank you for playing the game and taking the time to report any issues you encounter!

We have now released update 1.53 to PC, which includes the fixes detailed below. We’ll be rolling out these fixes to other platforms as soon as possible.

Bug fixes:

• Fix to restore savegames for players affected by a specific issue with freighter expeditions
• Fix for an occasional white screen crash during loading
• Fix for frigates not reporting their damaged state correctly
• Fix for an issue that could block players in the “fuel the warp drive” stage of the tutorial
• Fix for repairing broken ship slots in Creative Mode
• Improvements to exocraft laser damage
• Improvements for animations while turning, jetpacking, and standing on objects
• Memory optimisations to improve stability
• Preventative fix for potential

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Pix

recently managed to locate a really awesome

review

of Wing Commander 3 from the magazine PC Zone. In line with the game's branching paths and dialog choices during cutscenes, the article actually lets you read through and jump to individual subsections based on what you think. In the end, these choices lead to two different conclusions and review scores! That's pretty clever. And there's a bonus interview with Mark Hamill afterwards. For more awesome finds like this for Wing Commander and other Origin series, check out Pix's

Origin Adventures

website.

I love this Wing Commander 3 review from the February 96 issue. It’s written in the form of a choose your own adventure complete with a choice of final scores. As much as I like the game, the comments on performance on lower performance machines are fair enough.

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Every week, designers, engineers and other developers from our five offices around the world answer backer questions submitted on SPECTRUM and voted on by YOU.

You can submit your questions for consideration in future episodes of Calling All Devs here.

And for info on becoming a subscriber, go to: Subscriptions - Roberts Space Industries | Follow the development of Star Citizen and Squadron 42

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In-game screenshot by Corsair62

Hello everyone,

First off, congratulations to our winners of the RSI Apollo Astromedics Contest. The RSI Apollo is still available in the pledge store through August 22nd, so check out the Ship Shape and RTV to learn more about this Guardian Angel. We’ve also collected the top-voted questions from our Q&A gathering thread, presented them to our designers and will be posting the answers in a Comm-link soon.

From footraces, to massive FPS battles, we’ve thoroughly enjoyed watching the variety of events taking place in-game, organized by communities around the globe. We’ve been highlighting a few of the best in Around the Verse lately, so make sure to share your next event on social media using #StarCitizen so we catch it. We can’t wait to see what you all come up with next.

With that, let’s see what’s going on this week:

Every week on Calling All Devs, designers,

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It’s almost time for the biggest Star Trek fan gathering of the year, and the team behind Star Trek Online will be there! Star Trek Las Vegas is next weekend! If you’re coming to the show, there’s going to be plenty of opportunities to interact with the Star Trek Online developers. If you can’t make it down, we’ve listed some ways that you can hear about what’s coming next in world of STO. *** STAR TREK ONLINE ON THE CONVENTION FLOOR Star Trek Online will be on the convention floor in a big way this year, make sure to stop by and check out the booth! There will be a regular rotating selection of STO developers hanging out at our Age of Discovery-themed booth this year, so please drop by and say hello. You can also play a demo of the game (bring your friends who haven’t tried it yet), sign up for a special set of holographic bridge officers based on the cast of Deep Space Nine and

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Stinger

took a break from development of

WCDX

to package up some of the nifty sub-programs he's put together to help make his modding easier. He has a couple apps that extract and convert material embedded within Kilrathi Saga, and he's also put together a super cool music player that can access the tracks from WC1&2. If you'd like to give it a try, Stinger could also use some help naming and categorizing some of the audio files. Read up on the overview below, and find more details at the

CIC Forums

.

I have uploaded a new file: wctools.zip. This contains a few tools that I've been tinkering on as I develop wcdx. The tools were originally written as I was figuring out the data formats used by the games and have been extremely useful for figuring out what the game is doing. They were originally just hastily thrown-together programs designed to verify my assumptions and make my life a little easier, so

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Hello everyone,

We are still working to address the issues reported by the community. Thank you for playing, thank you for reporting issues, and we hope you’re continuing to have fun playing NEXT!

We have now released update 1.52.1 to PC, which includes the fixes detailed below. We’ll be rolling out these fixes to other platforms as soon as possible.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a case where invalid characters could cause saves to fail to load
• Fixed the Base Restoration mission failing to find a proper site for your legacy base
• Fixed an issue where players would not know the Living Glass recipe after upgrading their save
• Fixed an issue where players would not know the Blueprint Analyser after upgrading their save
• Fixed an issue where players would not know the Frigate Fuel blueprint if they undertook the fleet tutorial in multiplayer
• Fixed a number of issues with Galactic Commission missions that involved freighters
• Fixed an

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Hello everyone,

We have released a second hotfix patch to PC today – 1.52.2 – which addresses an uncommon but important issue, and includes some localisation improvements. We’ll be rolling out these fixes to other platforms as soon as possible.

Fixes included:

• Fixed an issue with freighter expeditions where, under very specific circumstances, a certain pattern of loading and reloading within a limited timeframe could cause saves not to be loaded (Fix to recover saves for those affected will follow).
• Improvements for text translations, especially Japanese

If you experience any issues, let us know by submitting a bug report.

Thank you,

Hello Games

The post NEXT Patch 1.52.2 appeared first on No Man's Sky.

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The days keep ticking down to the CIC's 20th Birthday Party! The big event is now just three weeks away, and preparations are in full swing. Because this year we're moving to

Discord

to chat, you might want to come visit beforehand. Install the

program

and use

this invite

to visit the new #Wingnut channel. There's already lots of activity there, so you're more than welcome to join the fun now! Then you'll be all set when the party starts on Saturday, August 18, 2018 at 7:00 pm EDT (4:00 pm PDT and 11:00 pm GMT). See you there!

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Anatoly Shashkin

posted some pretty nifty preview images of the canceled Origin game, Prowler. This was a mech combat game that some of the Super Wing Commander team worked on in the mid '90s. It never saw the light of day, so there's not much info out there, but the CIC has archived the game's

box art

,

concept sketches

and

back story

. It looks pretty dated today, and these are still pre-release shots from early in development, but this had the potential to be another neat Origin sci-fi series along the lines of MechWarrior. Thanks to Pelinal for the tip!

Promo shots from the cancelled ORIGIN #NotDOS game Prowler (Prawler/Storm Troop)

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Here are this week's major stories.

The League of Reparation has been dismantled, according to the tri-superpower taskforce investigating the organisation. The announcement followed a successful operation to remove League forces from two systems – one in Federal and one in Imperial space. Riri McAllister, the League's central coordinator, has been charged with multiple terrorism-related crimes.

The Church of Eternal Void, a fringe group that venerates the Guardians, has been declared illegal in every system where it operates. Cardinal Hieronymous and other senior members of the Church have been arrested for inciting acts of violence against the so-called 'Far God' sect, which worships the Thargoids.

Meanwhile, members of the Rochester family have come under attack following the engagement of Federal Ambassador Jordan Rochester to Princess Aisling Duval. Jordan Rochester's niece Kali Rochester

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Jump Point Now Available!

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Attention development subscribers: the July 2018 issue of Jump Point is now available in your subscription area. You’ll learn about the development of the Drake Vulture, meet the team behind upcoming AI combat enhancements, learn about the Vasil Fragment Stone and more!

Interested in becoming a development subscriber? You can learn more here.

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It’s the end of the week, so we’re going to kick back, hang out and play Star Citizen Alpha 3.2 with the Lore Team.

Okay, it’s the highest voted thread in Spectrum history, Jeremiah.

To watch Reverse the Verse LIVE each and every week, tune into Twitch.

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Here are a couple of different cool updates for the Secret Ops

Model Upgrade Pack

. The first shot shows off a more refined version of the new Piranha cockpit.

DefianceIndustries

has added emit mapping to all the gauges and buttons, but he's been careful to balance them so they don't overpower the actual HUD elements. There's also a sampling of the newly recreated missiles that Confed fighters will launch. Lots and lots of new ships have been introduced over the past couple years, but these enhancements will help increase immersion for the pilot whether or not they've got a target on screen. The next big release for the project is scheduled for August 18 - just in time for the CIC's 20th Birthday Party!

Welcome MUP-fans to the "Things You Rarely See" edition. Let me ask you a question: Do you hop into your shiny MUPetized Panther and head out ready to kick some high-poly thorax; you line up your

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Mass Effect’s galactic boyfriend Garrus Vakarian is finally setting aside those pesky calibrations and finally joining you in the bedroom…as an adorable plush! Announced via Twitter post by nerdy online retailer Sanshee, the Garrus plush is official BioWare merchandise that will launch at some point this October. Check him out in all his glory below:

The best thing ever – I mean the Garrus plush – stands at approximately 11 inches tall, and also comes with a special collector’s card. The Garrus plush on its own is now available for pre-order, on sale at the time of writing for $29.99. As mentioned in the above Tweet, though, Sanshee also has a special ‘Galactic Boyfriend Bundle’ available for those looking for a little bit more Krogan in their lives. For just $10 more than the cost of Garrus alone, the Galactic Boyfriend Bundle includes both a Garrus and Grunt plush, for top-tier amounts of cuddling!

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A children's entertainment show that achieved great popularity 40 years ago is being remade for modern audiences.

The animated programme, which featured spacefaring camel-like lifeforms from another galaxy, was titled Andromedaries. After many years, its devoted fanbase has raised funding for an independent entertainment company to purchase the rights.

A press release from Blackshadow Productions stated:

"This new incarnation of Andromedaries will delight fans both old and new. We'll be going on a dark, blood-soaked journey of psychological discovery, showcasing all the trials and pressures of intergalactic travel."

Vienna Langhorne, the creator and head writer of the original show, commented:

"It's about camels in space, for goodness' sake! What are these morons doing to it?"

Ogden Smith, president of the Andromedaries Superlative Society, told the media:

"With all due respect to Vienna