Galactic Crew II, a lovechild of FTL and XCOM will be released soon
Galactic Crew II had its Early Access release in early 2021. In the past two years, a lot of content was added, bugs were fixed, and new members joined this galactic crew every month. The game’s development will now come to a conclusion with the release on 8th May 2023! Support and bug fixes will follow after the game’s release, but feature development will be officially concluded. Not only were all promises from the Early Access campaign fulfilled, but the continuous stream of new players and increased ratings show the game’s success. Here are some of many highlights from the Early Access campaign. Economy & Colonization
The first major update featured a complete overhaul of the tutorial system based on the feedback of this amazing community. The process of creating new games was enriched by new character backgrounds and professions.
The colonization system was the major feature addition in Galactic Crew II and the first major update added new rooms like the workshop to craft your own items, a botanical garden to grow your own crops, a drone bay to send out mining drones and a landing pad that enables you create automated trade routes to NPC space stations to buy and sell goods!
Exploration
The following update had exploration as a theme, adding mutants as a new playable race that could be unlocked by playing a brand new story line. It was accompanied by new items like the beloved flak armor and grav armor, stimpaks, or medpacks.
New dangerous planets were added as a new hazard for your voyage along with new dungeon rooms that introduced boss fights and destructible terrain. New buildable colony rooms like chemistry labs, fusion reactors and recruitment beacons offered new ways to enhance your colony.
Combat
The third update not only focused on improving the combat system but it also added a new story line, introduced robots as a playable race and added new enemies like the robotic spider that was even deadlier than its organic counter-part.
You even were able to craft your own robot crew member in the brand-new med lab room which got available for all your colonies. Upgrading weapons was added to customize all your firearms with the latest tech to add armor piercing, bleeding damage and more. New race and class skills expanded the existing RPG system and using it was rewarded with new achievements.
Modding
The game is hopefully fun to everyone. If not, feel free to add your own content by modding it as you like. A new modding API offers you a wide range of customization and ways to add new content.
Full Steam Workshop integration enables you to share your creations with others – or use the creative work of others.Engine update
Galactic Crew II uses a custom game engine and this update focused on improving the overall quality of features by optimizing game mechanics and overhauling all underlying components such as shaders, renderers, and processing of models. Not only did it improve the visual qualities of the game, it also improved the resource load drastically!
New treasure maps and an improved level editor brought additional content.Going online!
The last updates all focused on bringing the community together by adding a new persistent universe in which players can trade, help each other and fight for the best highscore.
New weapon and mining turret upgrades were added in addition to new items, new crafting recipes, new planetary content, an all-new skill overview, advanced officer careers and so much more.
The first major update featured a complete overhaul of the tutorial system based on the feedback of this amazing community. The process of creating new games was enriched by new character backgrounds and professions.
The following update had exploration as a theme, adding mutants as a new playable race that could be unlocked by playing a brand new story line. It was accompanied by new items like the beloved flak armor and grav armor, stimpaks, or medpacks.
The third update not only focused on improving the combat system but it also added a new story line, introduced robots as a playable race and added new enemies like the robotic spider that was even deadlier than its organic counter-part.
The game is hopefully fun to everyone. If not, feel free to add your own content by modding it as you like. A new modding API offers you a wide range of customization and ways to add new content.
Galactic Crew II uses a custom game engine and this update focused on improving the overall quality of features by optimizing game mechanics and overhauling all underlying components such as shaders, renderers, and processing of models. Not only did it improve the visual qualities of the game, it also improved the resource load drastically!
The last updates all focused on bringing the community together by adding a new persistent universe in which players can trade, help each other and fight for the best highscore.
