News categories list

Quote from No Man

Hello!

Thanks for continuing to share your feedback and reporting issues to us – we’ve been working hard on our next patch which is coming to both PS4 and PC today! Here’s a look at the fixes and changes you can expect:

• Fixed an issue where large numbers of portal visits would be added to save files, greatly increasing the save size and impeding the ability to save the game. We’re aware there are still some players experiencing this issue, and we’re currently investigating any remaining reports.
• Prevented the terrain editor draining in charge when editing empty voxels
• Prevented players being able to edit terrain outside their base radius for free while standing inside their base
• Fixed responses made to Artemis and Apollo at times being incorrectly tracked
• Prevented players being blocked from progressing if they decline to enter glyphs into a particular story portal
• Fixed instances where Atlas text was appearing

Quote from No Man

Hello Travellers!

Today we’re releasing Patch 1.33 on both PS4 and PC. It addresses a number of reported issues – here’s a full run down of what to expect:

• Fixed issue where player bases were given the name “Unknown Base” rather than a generated name
• Fixed S-class ships having incorrect pricing and numbers of slots
• Added rockets to starting ship in creative default save game
• Added new icon for solo difficulty AI ships
• Fixed Albumen Pearl plants using the wrong name on their interaction labels
• Fixed the landing marker being visible in some fighter cockpits
• Fixed texturing issue seen with some combinations of AMD GPU and drivers
• Added and improved audio at the ending of the Atlas path
• Added and improved audio for terrain editing
• Improved audio for missions
• Improvement to vehicle boost timings
• Made marker for rare graves stay up for the same time as other object markers
• Prevented trees in frozen biomes

Quote from No Man

Hello!

Thanks for your continued feedback following the release of Atlas Rises! Today we’re releasing Patch 1.32 on PS4 and PC, which addresses the following issues:

• Fixed an issue that could cause cargo slots not to unlock after purchase
• Players who had previously learned all alien words are now able to progress through the story
• Players who’ve unlocked all general exosuit slots can now unlock tech and cargo slots as intended
• We’ve fixed an issue that caused base NPCs to stop responding after claiming a new base location. This will prevent new occurrences of the issue, a fix for those who have already experienced it is under investigation
• Fixed an issue preventing players from being able to finish farmer and exocraft missions
• The base terminus teleporter will now display mission objectives, allowing you to select the correct system. It will also no longer ‘forget’ mission critical systems. This will prevent

Quote from No Man

Hello!

Thanks so much for all of your feedback following the launch of Atlas Rises, it’s great to see so many of you enjoying the update.

Today we’re releasing Patch 1.31 on PS4, and it will follow soon on Steam. This fixes a number of issues including:

• Fixed an issue causing some players to crash when accessing the galactic map while having too many waypoints active
• Fixed a crash some players experience when pinning certain tech
• Fixed a crash which occurs when players with particularly long play-throughs attempt to save the game
• Fixed an issue that sometimes resulted in guild missions not crediting correctly

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

Thanks!
Hello Games

Quote from Wing Commander News-Bot

TV Spot Movie Fan has just posted a fun collection of television ads from the March 1999 marketing campaign for the Wing Commander Movie. We've essentially got these same clips in our video archive, but in some cases ours lack the temporal bits. For example, at the 13 second mark of the 4th video and 19 second mark of the 4 5th video, there is an "in XX days" countdown reference. Other clips refer to the upcoming "March 12" release date or the movie being "out now." I had the extreme privilege of catching these countdown commercials as they were broadcast live in real time back in the day, so they really trigger some fond memories here. It's nice to see them again!

Quote from Elite Dangerous Galnet News-Bot

The Alliance Assembly has agreed to hold an internal vote on President Gibson Kincaid's proposed changes to the constitution.

Kincaid has lobbied for the role of president to be invested with executive powers, and for each presidential term to last six years.

Prime Minister Edmund Mahon told the media:

"After much discussion, the Assembly has agreed to vote on President Kincaid's proposals in mid-October, at the same time as the presidential election. We will announce any amendments to the constitution shortly afterwards."

Milo Vesper, editor of The Alliance Tribune, discussed this development:

"President Kincaid's proposals are seen by some as a long-overdue restructure of the political system. Compared to the current bureaucratic procedure, having a single person make all executive decisions has an obvious appeal. But some in the Assembly are concerned that such changes could imbue the

Quote from Mass Effect News-Bot

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is ushering in a new era for the franchise adding more RPG elements and choices to their already outstanding run. With more dialogue options, players can immerse themselves in game and engage in romance options and protagonist choices. Overall the changes are bringing in a fresh experience for a long running series of games.

For fans worried that the narration may have lean a little heavy on pure drama, Ubisoft Narrative Director Mel MacCoubrey opened up to EDGE Magazine about the wide emotional range of the game. In the interview she talked about the difference between Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and other AAA games. Here is what she had to say about the tone of the upcoming title:

A lot of AAA games take themselves very seriously, and it’s the same grimdark tone throughout. It’s stretched out, but in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey you have these huge moments of emotion, of euphoria and

Quote from Star Trek Online News-Bot

Introducing Tier VI Reputations! We’re excited to announce a new addition to our reputation system, Tier VI! With the new Tier comes new powerful and useful rewards. Our Tier VI additions focused on expanding on an already extensive number of options for Captains. Things such as, alternate energy type weapons, new vanity shield coloration options and improved reputation traits are some of the rewards you can expect. We didn’t want to just give power and variety though. With the release of Tier VI reputations we will also be streamlining the process of reputation sponsorship. Reaching Tier V of any reputation will now automatically sponsor that reputation for your account. That’s not all though, for every Tier 6 reputation that a player achieves they will be able to claim a Fleet Ship Module and a Retrain Token. We didn’t want to give all of these options without making it easier to try

Quote from Wing Commander News-Bot

ParadiseRegaind has posted an extremely cool and unique collectible. He worked with apesincaves to commission an awesome diorama cube of the key original Wing Commander art and Hornet cockpit. The artist also makes them for Tie Fighter, Doom and many other franchises. You can even pick one up for yourself for about $42!

Picked up these really cool diorama shadow boxes on eBay recently. The maker/seller is great and made the Wing Commander one at my request. I’m trying to get him to make a Descent one now!

He has a ton of these for various classic games and series. Well worth a shout out!

Quote from Wing Commander News-Bot

AtolmAzel is an artist over on DeviantArt who specializes in sci-fi art. Among their many galleries is a special section with sketches inspired by Wing Commander. Check out some of their slick pieces below! The sampling below shows off the Dralthi, K'ha'haf, Rapier, Longbow and a handful of capships. They incorporate some very distinct familiar themes with some smooth artistic license. You can find all of their sketches here!

Quote from Wing Commander News-Bot

Let’s take a moment to recognize an often forgotten Black artist whose incredible work influenced a lot of us: Glen Johnson, who was responsible for a lot of the look of the original Wing Commander!

Mr. Johnson was a veteran of the comics industry and would be called a concept artist in games today. Love the wingmen? He created them! He drew 11 potential character portraits and the writer then chose 8 to develop into the wingmen you know. He also did the animated ‘talking heads’ pixel art you’re familiar with!

But that’s not all! He also concepted all of the ships. His art was then sent off to an outsource contractor to be 3D rendered as game assets. And this is a case where there was so much good art that it was hard to pick four favorites.

... and don’t forget the Kilrathi! The original pitch for Wing Commander called only for the bad guys to be ‘alien mutants’... his concepts for the enemy aces

Quote from Wing Commander News-Bot

The long awaited Artemis mission has finally lifted off! If you were like all of us in #Wingnut, you were glued to your screens to watch the historic event. But since everything went down at nearly 2 am US Eastern time, here's a quick recap video if you haven't had the pleasure of watching the Space Launch System rocket launch. This marks the beginning of a 26 day mission to reach and circle the moon. Crewed missions will follow, and with steady progress, this could be a big step towards reaching Mars. Congrats to all of the many people who helped make this possible!

Quote from Wing Commander News-Bot

Mike Winterbauer reports that he's finished putting together the dedication page in his Wing Commander

Art Portfolio

with all of the project backers who pledged at the appropriate $25+ Book threshold. For a limited time between now and when the material soon goes to print, he's put out a call for anyone who missed the end of the campaign and wanted to upgrade to be included. If so, send

Mike

a

message

. There were at one point quite a few folks who hadn't input their addresses for the rest of the project rewards, so if you missed that cutoff, be sure to send a quick message regarding that too!

The exciting news is I have added the book pledge backers names to the second page of Wing Commander Art Portfolio!

If you want to get your name in the book, you can still upgrade your pledge, send me a note and I will work with you, but time is running out.

Thank you all cool backers for making Wing Commander

Quote from Wing Commander News-Bot

Artist Mike Winterbauer's Wing Commander

Art Portfolio

campaign came to a successful conclusion this week. The project collected $3,986 from Wingnuts who are passionate about classic WC art. Mr. Winterbauer will now go on to produce his behind-the-scenes look at painting the SNES Wing Commander box as well as create a variety of very cool collectible displays. We can't wait to see them in person! Here he is with the mockups!

WOW! The last 24 hours of the Wing Commander Art Portfolio were amazing!

The campaign really picked up and we ended up being almost 800 percent funded!

Thank you all for your awesome support and I look forward to getting the rewards out as soon as possible! Thanks!!

Mike

Display More

Quote from Wing Commander News-Bot

Concept Art

Early in Wing Commander's development, Origin artist Glen Johnson created a series of schematics showing the 21 ships the game's designer had planned to include. Each schematic was created using a traditional draughting technique which resulted in five different views: front, back, side, top and bottom (only three for the Star Post). Origin didn't yet have their own 3D artists and so the schematics were sent to the team of Mary Bellis and Steve Spear in New York City who rendered out the in-game sprites using an Amiga.

We recently published a selection of the images scanned from Claw Marks and modified to show both the top and bottom views of the ships (available here). That project prompted us to take a look at the history of how these original 103 ship views were reused over the years and to inventory exactly which remain lost to time.

Claw Marks

Sixteen of the schematics were reproduced in

Quote from Wing Commander News-Bot

To tie into yesterday's WC4 Remake news,

DefianceIndustries

continues to pump out some very impressive post-war ship designs. He's got two new flavors of the Arrow up today, including the rich Confed green and red/blue Pirate variant. They'll fit nicely with his

Black Hellcat

,

Southampton destroyer

and

Caernaven frigate

. Be sure to zoom in on these to see all the great detail. They might look like typical Arrows in the thumbnails, but they're pretty slick up close!

It's a quiver full of arrows! Well ok maybe 2 isn't really that many. We have two flavors of F-27 on the menu today, the WC4 Confed green version (now with extra arugula) and the under gunned but over-painted Piratical version: which really doesn't get nearly enough love in my opinion, either WC4 where I think it only cameos in a single mission; or in fan productions in favor of more distinct ships like the Razor or Demon.

Quote from Elite Dangerous Galnet News-Bot

An officer in the Federal Navy Engineering Corps has been arrested for sabotaging the presidential vessel Starship One.
A statement was made by Milandu Okoro of the Federal Attorney's Office:
"Chief Technician Rory Webster was a department head of engineering for Starship One. Testimonies from members of Mr Webster's team claim that he ordered unauthorised adjustments to the ship's hyperdrive systems while in drydock, shortly before its launch in May 3301 and subsequent destruction."
"This case is now being brought before the Federal High Court, where Mr Webster will stand trial for mass murder and attempted treason."
There has been no comment from President Zachary Hudson, but Shadow President Felicia Winters told the press:
"This was a truly horrific tragedy, and there must be justice for all those who lost their lives on that sad day."
The apparent death of many Federation leaders aboard

Quote from Star Citizen News-Bot

In the Alpha 3.4 finale, we come face to face with the new character customizer, check in on updates to Star Marine and get a look at gameplay in the new patch.

Quote from Star Citizen News-Bot

This week we light up the Area 18 plaza, dine on ArcCorp’s finest street meat, and get a first look at the new Drake Corsair.

Quote from Star Citizen News-Bot

This week we get holographic in Area 18, dodge thousands upon thousands of bullets, and party down with the Lore team.