Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown news & patch notes

Greetings Captains,

You probably thought traversing the Delta Quadrant was already enough of an adventure … but apparently we are only getting started.

Past

Over the last weeks, we’ve seen countless stories, screenshots, feedback posts, theories, bug reports (yes, many discussions about manual saving and difficulty levels), and an incredible amount of passion from all of you. Seeing the Star Trek community embrace Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown the way it has, continues to be surreal for everyone here at gameXcite & Daedalic.

Since launch, we have already updated the game several times with a variety of fixes, balancing and quality-of-life improvements based directly on your feedback, new content and new features including:

• Manual saves

• The option to customize your difficulty

• Additional Ship Quests

• The Delta Flyer

Tom Paris’ legendary shuttle was added as a free update and can appear in missions and points of interest - including its own dedicated ship quest. And we are not done yet!

Present

With today’s update, we are officially launching the Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown Expansion Pass as well as the first of 4 DLCs: Delta Chronicles.

At the same time, Patch 1.8 is now live for all players, continuing our ongoing efforts to improve and expand the game experience for everyone aboard the U.S.S. Voyager with numerous balancing changes and bug fixes as well as 7 new ship quests/events ("The Replicator Bypass", "Gel Pack Dilemma", "To Eat or to Empty", "Prixin", "A Lesson of Ethics", "A Soul Divided", and "Forever the Ensign").

But first things first…

Delta Chronicles DLC

Delta Chronicles brings five new side missions inspired by some of the most beloved episodes in Star Trek: Voyager history.

Without spoiling too much, you’ll revisit themes and ideas from episodes such as:

• “Distant Origin”

• “The Omega Directive”

• “Homestead""

• “Cold Fire”

• “Inside Man”

As always, your decisions matter - and some of them might have consequences you absolutely did not see coming.

Additionally, two new heroes are joining your roster:

• Reginald Barclay (holographic Barclay, anyone?!)

• Professor Forra Gegen, a Voth molecular paleontologist

Both come with their own unique combat abilities and playstyles.

We are also expanding the galaxy itself with new NPC ships and encounters, including:

• the mighty Voth City Ship

• a Ferengi Marauder that can potentially become your ally

• additional faction ships and encounters across the quadrant

And of course: new technologies and other surprises waiting to be discovered.

Future

Free Updates

Beyond the Expansion Pass content, we are continuing to work on additional free updates for all players. This includes:

• more ship quests

• additional improvements and balancing

• and later this year… a completely new game mode

We are not quite ready to fully talk about that last one yet.

But let’s just say: the Delta Quadrant may soon become even stranger than before, adding many more hours of gameplay, challenging even seasoned Captains!

Expansion Pass

The Expansion Pass itself is our roadmap for the months ahead.

In total, it will include four premium DLCs, adding major new content to the game:

• new story missions with all the “What If” Scenarios the game is known for

• new playable characters, among them some fan-favorites

• the U.S.S. Equinox as a playable ship (for the soon to be announced game mode)

• a new sector based on one of Voyager’s most famous episodes

We will reveal more details over the coming months - step by step, as we get closer to each release. For those of you that don’t own the game yet and don’t need, or rather, want to wait for further information, you can already purchase the Captain’s Collection, which will give you immediate access not just to the base game, but to the Deluxe Edition Content and all four Expansion Pass DLCs, when they go live.

Thank You

None of this would have been possible without the incredible support we’ve received since launch.

From launch celebrations in Discord, to bug reports, fan theories, memes, emotional mission reactions, and all the discussions around choices and consequences:

You continue to shape this game together with us.

The Delta Quadrant is vast.

And our journey through it is far from over - most importantly, because there’s always coffee in that (next) nebula!

gameXcite & Daedalic Entertainment

Patch 1.8 — Patch Notes \

DLC \

• Added Expansion Pass (containing four premium DLCs) and upcoming DLCs to the main menu

• New DLC “Delta Chronicles” with new Side Missions “Distant Origin”, “The Omega Directive”, “Homestead”, “Cold Fire” and “Inside Man”, two new heroes (“Reg” and Forra Gegen), new NPC ships (Voth City Ship, Ferengi Marauder, Nacona’s Ship, Allos’ Ship) and new techs (Limited Omega Power, Advanced Neutron Microscope, Evolved Plant Seeds, Interphase Cloaking Device, Geothermal Charging Stations, Delta Quadrant Ambassador)

Tech Tree

• Improved description for navigational deflector techs

• Renamed tech "Talaxian Delight" to "The Survivalist's Cookbook"

• “Ultra thin reactor plating” tech: Decreased warp core damage reduction from 25% to 20%

Away Missions

• Only one holo hero is allowed in away missions (due to single mobile emitter)

• Hovering over a hero in the away mission loadout screen now highlights that hero’s abilities/traits and recommended traits

Ship Events

• Ship Event “Outbreak” is now more managable: The sickness now only spreads 3 times after the initial event

• Added 7 new ship quests/events ("The Replicator Bypass";"Gel Pack Dilemma"; "To Eat or to Empty"; "Prixin"; "A Lesson of Ethics", "A Soul Divided" and "Forever the Ensign")

POI

• Point of Interest “Crashed Borg Probe” Holodeck option: Decreased excellent outcome chance and reduced Borg Nanites reward

• PoI “Glaciated Planet”: The option using the Borg Cutting Beam now won’t appear before sector 7

UI

• The battery resource tile in the HUD now shows the total energy amount stored in batteries, even if these are switched off

• Added a visual indicator to the UI to show the influence of the Limited Omega Power tech

• Removed - and + for values from tech tree descriptions since the words in the text already describe increase or decrease, which resulted in a double negative

• Added a separate analysis bar to the tech tree button in the HUD for science lab item analysis

General

• All Ending Scenes now include a pop up for Joe Carey if he made it to the end

• Point of Interest “Marginal Planet” Option 2: Increased excellent outcome chances

• The grey mode tutorial is not assuming anymore that the player is out of Deuterium

• Significantly increased phenomenon “Ion Storm” warp core damage per cycle since its effect barely had impact and could be negated too easily

• Leaving an POI event to revisit later no longer increases the autosave counter

• “Old friends new enemies”: Increased morale when receiving letters from home

Bug Fixes

• Ship Quest “Hunter's Due”: The quest now accounts for the Heroes death or unavailability and assigns random outcomes properly

• “Innocence”: Rivus’ portrait now looks more suited to his condition

• “Scorpion”: Kes is no longer visible after she already left the ship during the final dialogue

• “Eye of the Needle”: The crafting recipes in the dialogue options are now displaying their correct name

• “Prey” and “Old Friends New Enemies”: The dialogue of “Prey” now correctly changes if the player already met Hirogen through the main mission

• “Tomorrow's Yesterday”: The diplomat’s ear technology is no longer automatically researched when unlocking the tech. This won’t affect already unlocked techs of existing save games

• “Child’s Play”: Janeway now acknowledges the existence of Nine of Nine during dialogue

• "Alliances”: Added missing text so the dialog option "Claim a planet" makes sense

• “Loyalties”: Characters now appear and disappear at the correct time during the final bridge dialogue

• “Dark Frontier”: Morale reward during dialogue is now correctly displayed

• “Uprising”: Fixed an issue where Borg were unable to surrender

• “Tribble Trouble”: The research quest can now be completed when attempting it after a failed first attempt

• “Cold Fire”: Fixed quest tracker counter for Kes being assigned to Hydro Bay

• Fixed being able to navigate to resource HUD (and potentially opening notifications or overview) outside of sector/system/side view

• Fixed an issue with homesickness being delayed

• After "Game Over", the last save will now be loaded, regardless if it's manual or autosave

• Fixed an issue with cycle calculation when saving manually during a flight

• Fixed an issue with hull repair not working properly with two work teams

• Fixed an issue where combat reticules were getting too big

• Suppressed calls are now properly cleared when returning to the main menu

• Fixed Biolab in certain circumstances removing resources without progressing

• A skill check now correctly requires Seven of Nine

• Ensured that removing a room only grants resources once

• Loading save games now correctly retains progress on some multi-cycle tasks where it didn’t before

• Activating batteries now immediately updates the UI

• Dialogue text now always only displays the typewriter effect once

• Fixed an issue where Voyager was unable to fire upon the Think Tank from certain sides

• Removed false surrender Threshold from Borg for the sector: Endgame

Heyho Captains! We have a plethora of new bits and pieces for you in this new Update (1.7)! Most prominently, the long awaited Delta Flyer! Built in the Shuttlebay, the Delta Flyer brings a brand-new questline with Tom Paris in Sector 7, construction mechanics, and a combat ally role that won't split your rewards. There are also new Delta Flyer-specific branches in several existing quests, including "Old Friends, New Enemies", "The Drone", and "Uprising". Beyond the Delta Flyer, 1.7 is a hefty quality-of-life and stability pass - overhauled bridge UI, PlayStation gamepad support, a wave of quest fixes across some of the game's bigger storylines, and a bunch of crash and save game fixes. Console players will have to wait a little longer, as (unfortunately) is usually the case - the patch is coming to consoles in early June. PS: (While we are at it - Are you at FedCon? We are! So come around and say "Hi!" and chat a bit about the game) Here you can find the patch notes: Patch 1.7 Changelog

Patch 1.7 introduces the Delta Flyer, including a new questline with Tom Paris, construction mechanics, and combat support functionality. The update also adds new Delta Flyer events and quest branches. 

Delta Flyer & Shuttle System

• Added the Delta Flyer as a new game mechanic!

• Added a new Delta Flyer introduction questline in sector 7 with Tom Paris.

• The Delta Flyer can be constructed in the Shuttlebay.

• The Delta Flyer is limited to one and requires a Shuttlebay level 3.

• The Delta Flyer can be used as a combat ally without splitting combat rewards!

• Added new Delta Flyer-related event options across several points of interest and sometimes adjusted balancing of normal shuttle options.

• Added Delta Flyer-specific branches to selected quests, including Old Friends, New Enemies, The Drone, and Uprising.

• Updated shuttle naming: “Standard Shuttle” is now “Class 2 Shuttle”.

Quest & Event Fixes

• Fixed several blockers in existing quests, including Duranium Infestation, Friendship One, Equinox, Dark Frontier, Scorpion, Good Shepherd, Innocence, State of Flux, Think Tank, and Live Fast and Prosper.

• Fixed cases where questlines could become stuck after loading older savegames.

• Fixed incorrect or missing POI visibility in several missions.

• Fixed several incorrect dialogue branches, missing conditions, and wrong outcome priorities.

• Fixed morale questline issues related to dissatisfaction, final warnings, and mutiny.

• Fixed cases where heroes could become unavailable incorrectly after events.

• Fixed several missing or incorrect quest tracker texts.

• Improved handling of questline resets for patched savegames.

• Fixed some multiple choice event options not being usable at high difficulty settings

UI & UX Improvements

• Reworked Bridge combat ally room management UI.

• Added HUD indicators for recruited combat allies.

• Improved Shuttlebay room management visuals.

• Added warning when switching production options to prevent accidental progress loss.

• Added cargo icons to Cargo Bay room overlays.

• Improved room descriptions for Sickbay, Bio Lab, Borg Alcove, Waste Deassembler, and other rooms.

• Improved custom difficulty UI text handling.

• Updated tutorial images to match the current UI.

• Improved gamepad tutorial images and controller input detection.

• Reduced visible gamepad cursor flashes between events.

• Fixed several text overflow issues in UI.

• Fixed missing or incorrect hero impact descriptions.

• Added support and icons for Playstation gamepads

Balance & Gameplay

• Fixed shuttle build cost and build time tech bonuses.

• Adjusted morale penalties and morale quest timing.

• Weakened the second tutorial fight to better match shield balance.

• Adjusted threat level changes in selected quest outcomes.

• Fixed several room limit and resource modifier issues.

• Improved Borg encounter behavior so certain enemies can no longer flee or surrender repeatedly.

Stability & Bug Fixes

• Fixed crashes related to loading screens and game close.

• Fixed room widgets not reacting correctly after room removal or cancelled construction.

• Fixed room deactivation/destruction issues that could cause unintended resource loss.

• Fixed cases where inactive rooms still allowed UI interaction.

• Fixed resource modifiers not stacking or resetting correctly in some cases.

• Fixed build limit display issues.

• Fixed duplicate crew names.

• Fixed several localization, typo, and text formatting issues.

• Fixed missing explanation for Contamination Cloud phenomenon

Visual & Audio Updates

• Updated endgame visuals.

• Improved hull bar UI visuals and feedback for low hull. 

• Fixed visual issues in several rooms and cutscenes.

Heyho Captains, 

Today we have another great update tackling your feedback that came in during the first weeks after launch - no April's Fools - promised.

In this update specifically we present you - among another batch of technical improvements, bug fixes, balancing refinements and quality of life enhancements - most importantly, new tools to shape your own journey through the unknown.

With the brand new customizable run settings, you decide how Voyager survives the Delta Quadrant. Fine-tune resources, change difficulties, quest balancing, and story pressure to match your playstyle - whether you want a tense survival challenge or a more strategic, story-driven experience.

Adapt the rules. Rewrite the odds.

Detailed Changelog

Game Difficulties

NEW: Custom Difficulty Setting

• Added a custom difficulty setting that is selectable as a fourth option when starting a new game

• The following variables can be customized for new runs:

  • Challenge Mode (manual saves disabled; auto-save after every event)

  • Mutiny

  • Homesick morale penalty per sector

  • Spent too much time in the sector penalty

  • Spent too much time in the sector penalty start

  • Resource deposit size

  • Base storage capacity

  • Enemy combat power

  • Dialogue checks difficulty

  • Points of interests positive outcomes

  • Away mission challenges

  • Away mission XP

  • Construction times

  • Research times

  • Crew treatment time

Balancing for standard Difficulties

Adventure

• Reduced resource deposit size

• Reduced construction times

• Reduced research times

• Reduced crew treatment time

• Spent too much time in the sector penalty starts later

Years of Hell

• Slightly reduced enemy combat power

• Slightly increased resource deposit size

• Increased construction times

• Increased research times

• Increased crew treatment time

Gameplay & Systems

• Bio Laboratories will now stop producing when the storage of the produced resource (bio-neural gel packs or nanites) is at maximum capacity.

• Available work teams are now automatically assigned if room operations would be interrupted because the current work team is no longer available.

• Heroes are now properly prioritized in sickbay.

• Disabled nebulas for sector 11 (“Uprising”).

• In Caretaker when the hull feature is not yet active, players can no longer accidently assign work teams to hull repair.

• Moved "Equinox Antimatter Injector" tech from tier 5 to tier 3 and adjusted costs.

• Moved “Scientific Milestone” and “History of Humankind” techs from tier 4 to tier 3 and adjusted costs. 

• Moved “Friendship One Remnant” tech from tier 3 to tier 4 and adjusted costs

• Increased effect for two techs: 

  • “Scientific Milestone” research rate increased from 15% to 20% 

  • “Friendship One Remnant” research rate increased from 15% to 25% 

• The damage reduction provided by a hero in the navigational deflector is now applied correctly.

Combat

• Reduced Dilithium gained after the final fight of the side mission “Think Tank”.

• Borg are now no longer able to surrender or flee.

• Increased the strength of Malon vessels to be closer to their in series counterparts.

• Updated the fights against the Equinox to make sure the ship won't be incorrectly destroyed in the first combat.

• Phasers in combat are now fired from the phaser banks and the related charge up animation was added.

• The Borg Cutting Beam and the Disruptor Beam no longer share their weapon locations with the phasers in combat.

• The target reticles around enemies in combat now get disabled, if an enemy gets destroyed or flees.

• The U.S.S. Voyager has the ablative armor now deployed in combat, if the related tech got unlocked in Endgame. Balancing-wise this was always the case, but the visual representation was missing.

Quests & Narrative

• Scorpion

  • Fixed missing feedback during dialogue when unlocking Borg tech if Kes is not available.

• Dark Frontier

  • Added 2 missing alternative dialogues for Lani so she doesn’t introduce herself as Lieutenant Torres

• One small step

  • Fixed Workshop room widget displaying a blank name for the item “Shuttle Shield Adjustments.”

• Infinite Regress

  • Fixed availability handling for Seven in the last part of the mission.

• Infinite Regress 

  • Side Mission dialog choices are no longer incorrectly marked as important choices.

• Friendship One

  • Changed the Torpedo crafting step of the “Photon Torpedo Modifications” from requiring a unique item to the base torpedoes, as Voyager already crafts photon torpedoes anyway with the base recipe.

• Friendship One

  • Added side mission icons to the scannable planets to make this step easier to complete. 

• Think Tank

  • Changed the “Communication Jammer” Tech reward from already researched to unlocked only in the Tech Tree.

• Homesickness

  • Fixed the morale malus in “Old Friends New Enemies” to be applied correctly again.

UI / UX

• Added a menu entry in graphics settings for invalidating shader precache: Activating this setting causes shaders to be recompiled the next time you start or load a save game. This can reduce hitches after GPU hardware or driver changes.

• The combat hero selection now uses correct localized text to display combat abilities.

• Fixed an issue where some hero combat ability descriptions didn’t mention their cooldown. 

• Fixed a size issue with portrait icons of heroes when assigned to bigger rooms.

• Added a sound notification when the quest tracker is updated. 

• Fixed a display bug with the ally list on the bridge.

• Fixed an issue with UI layering.

• Added max capacity to dilithium tooltip.

• Loading screen text no longer gets cut off in some languages.

• Visually improved production and energy production in tooltip UI.

• Hover tooltip UI improvements for: resource production, energy production and battery.

• Added deuterium production from bussard collectors to deuterium tooltip.

Graphics / Rendering / Art

• The hull damage visualization now also gets applied to the U.S.S. Voyager in cutscenes for a more coherent experience

• The hull damage visualization is now correctly initiated when arriving in a new sector.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where free crew beds were not calculated correctly.

• Fixed wrong homesick modifiers for easy difficulty.

• Fixed combat hero selection not being cleared when returning to the main menu.

• Fixed an issue where the message "deflector offline" was triggered incorrectly.

• Fixed combat autoresolve not accounting (visually or functionally) for game difficulty.

• Fixed combat overview tab's average enemy power not accounting for game difficulty.

• The borg cutting beam control room no longer clips through adjacent rooms to the side.

• Fixed an issue where players couldn’t continue after having the call list open when arriving at a story Point of Interest that starts another dialogue.

Release Notes – 1.5.23732.006cd2ad

• Fixed incorrect Room Management widget headers in German (now correctly displays “Raumbeschreibung”)
• Fixed a Russian localization issue where occurrences of Work Teams (Бригады) were replaced with a very long descriptive text, e.g. in Crew Mouse Over Widget.

Hello Captains.

With this patch we are happy to deliver a package full of improvements in all aspects of the game. Among those are some important technical fixes, a few balancing adjustments, several quality of life improvements and tons of polishing and fine tuning on our missions, user interface and localization. 

Here is a the detailed changelog for a complete list of contents:

Detailed Change Log

Start up Issues & Shader Precaching

• Fixed an issue that could result in extended boot times and occasional crashes 

• Improved startup performance and overall stability significantly

Savegames & System

• Fixed a bug that could result in issues if a room had less than max crew when loading

Gameplay & Balance

• Rebalanced firerate from Kunut’s ability.

• Increased ally spawn distance in later sectors to prevent movement issues with huge allies

• Reduced all shield charge effects by 5, thereby reducing shield generator combat power.

• Adjusted trade offers of trading stations in sectors 2, 3 and 4.

User Interface

• Fixed a bug that could result in an incorrect indication for insufficient power when activating a room that consumed exactly the remaining power

• Fixed a bug that could result in an incorrect indication for insufficient crew when activating a room consumed exactly the remaining idle crew.

• Fixed gamepad navigation from the main menu’s "restart sector" button.

• Adjusted Aeroshuttle Bay room management UI - added "new trade offer in X cycle" text.

• Adjusted size of the assigned hero portraits in different zoom levels in the side view so they don't get bigger if the room is higher than 1 deck.

Visual & Assets

• Updated the story portraits of Danara Pel and Telek R’Mor to wear blue starfleet uniforms. 

• Updated the image of challenge 2 with a reworked version.

• Fine tuned the display of various character portraits.

• The neck skin of Chakotay no longer clips through the outfit during certain animations.

• Borg cutting beam control room side elements no longer clip into adjacent rooms.

• Ruined rooms no longer clip into other rooms.

• Fixed background crew of rooms being active during the building and damaged state of rooms.

Localization & Text

• Fixed combat UI localization issues - set some textblocks to scrollable so they don't grow into other elements if the text gets too long.

• Fixed main mission complete info widget to display localized string for "Complete" 

• Fixed room management UI - Small & Large Cargo Bay (level 2) to display the correct room description

• Fixed wrong "good" outcome text of the shuttle option in the POI "Marine Ecosystem".

• Fixed room and upgrade descriptions of shield matrix displaying the wrong damage reduction amount.

• Fixed room level enumeration, starting from 1 now instead of 0.

• Fixed away mission challenge result text sometimes having a vertical offset.

Missions & Events

Blink of an Eye

• Changed condition to require the mobile emitter when sending down the doctor.

Caretaker

• Adjusted camera focus on the array.

Critical Care

• Added a condition to only allow the POI to be accessible when the mobile emitter is researched.

Dark Frontier

• Added 2 missing alternative nodes with text for Lani.

• Fixed misleading text in dialog to now mention the correct upcoming wait time.

• Set B'Elanna to video call when she should call from engineering in part 9a.

Friendship One

• Added missing text to selectable option.

• Added missing dialog to resolve the questline in one of the endings correctly.

Good Shepherd

• Added feedback to the last two dialogs to display which rooms were damaged.

Innocence

• Applied minor text change and removed duplicate text.

Loyalties

• Fixed skill check of nucleogenic biobed in a dialog.

Old Friends New Enemies

• Fixed text in the “Mission Complete” pop-up to no longer suggest you to go outside. 

• Changed condition from item to tech instead.

Phage

• Away mission: Prevent the hero from getting killed prematurely while they get their lungs stolen.

• Fixed hero remaining unavailable when deciding to not pursue the aliens: The mission ends now and the hero that got their lungs stolen dies.

Rations (Ship Quest)

• Changed event titles to match the current quest step.

Scorpion

• Fixed item name in the quest tracker text.

Spent Too Much Time in Sector

• Changed speaker from Tuvok to Chakotay in reward events.

Tomorrow is Yesterday

• Fixed an issue that previously set heroes available during the main mission when they were set unavailable/preoccupied by another mission or event.

Uprising

• A quest step no longer asks you to "request COMMS request" but to "accept COMMS request".

Achievements

• Fixed "Happy ship happy crew" ship quest being unlocked in the first sector before the morale system is enabled.

Technical

• Added and assigned Game Splash Screen asset to game startup.

• Fixed shader precaching getting stuck if the game window is not focussed

• Extended the shader precache system to potentially eliminate glitches in some specific situations. Forces existing players to regenerate the shader cache once again when playing the game.

• Fixed finished side missions potentially preventing other missions from starting until end of sector, and fixed savegames that are loaded in that state always prioritizing the same follow-up missions.

Heyho,

we just uploaded a quick hotfix for the Friendship One mission:

• Friendship One can now be completed (torpedo branch)

Heyho Captains, ....and sometimes things just fall in place and you are done faster than you anticipated - Welcome to today's "Manual Quick Save" Update (Ingame Version 1.4)! Since this is what you have been waiting for - at least a good portion of you - I'll spare you my rambling and cut right to the case:

Highlights / Summary 

Manual Savegames

• Players can now save manually in the pause menu. 

• Manual saves have one savegame slot that will be overridden. 

• This slot is independent from the recently implemented autosave slot. 

• When loading the game, players can choose which save game they want to load.

Balancing

• Several systems were adjusted to feel more accurate and/or intuitive

• Additionally, the Adventure difficulty level was adjusted to feel a little less stressful.

User Experience 

• The visual representation of several characters was corrected 

Detailed Change Log:

Added manual Savegame System

• Added distinction between manual saves and autosaves

• Ensure manual saves are only available in safe areas and the game communicates why saving is not possible

• Clear distinction between Continue, Load Manual, and Load Autosave

• Added “time since last save” display in pause menu

• Added manual save override warning

• Added confirmation messages for saving and returning to main menu in pause menu

Graphics & Visual Improvements

• Improved Planet Class N shaders to have more details

• Added additional Borg Neuro Electric Field Generator room FX

• Improved the eye metal part skinning of the Generic Borg to no longer generate unnatural deformations during animations

• Ruined rooms now correctly show life support FX

• Danara Pel now wears blue Starfleet uniform

• Telek now wears blue Starfleet uniform

• Talax ship model reverted to Talaxian freighter

• Tuvok and Nunez adjusted Rank from Lieutenant Commander to Lieutenant

• Improved the hair skinning of Seska (Cardassian) and Marla Gilmore to no longer clip into the outfit during animations

Balancing

• Increased building and upgrade cost for combat rooms

• Increased energy consumption of combat rooms

• Increased energy reduction for the tech “Holodeck Energy Efficiency"

• Advanced Living Standard tech now properly affects Crew Quarters

• Added hero impact on warp core repair rate

• Reduced chance of terrible POI outcomes for Shuttles

• Adjusted phenomena spawn chances in later sectors

• Reduced maximum size of storm phenomena

• Difficulty Adventure

  • Increased the base storage capacity for Deuterium, Duranium, Food and Tritanium 

  • Reduced Homesickness penalty 

  • Increased chance of positive POI outcomes

• Difficulty Survival

  • Slightly increased chance of positive POI outcomes

Quests & Events & Missions

Main Missions

Caretaker

• Fixed minor branching issue in dialog

State of Flux

• Tuvok now won't get resurrect when he died during a certain stage of the questline

Loyalties 

• The threat level is reduced to 0 after completing the mission allowing players to prepare for the challenges in the following sectors

Old Friends New Enemies

• Janeway will no longer receive too much XP in one branch during the dialog

Dark Frontier

• Set the correct outcome text for one of the endings.

Uprising 

• Away Mission: fixed a trait constraint in a challenge

Endgame

• Solved a branching issue

Side Missions

Medical Ethics

• Solved a branching issue

Live Fast and Prosper 

• Now requires Tuvok and Chakotay to at least be available in the sector for story consistency.

Good Shepherd

• The rewarded tech is now correctly tied to the DLC

Events

Duranium Infestation

• minor fix in selectable options

Homesickness 

• is now reported by Chakotay/McGuiness

Mission: Entrance Exams

• Cycle count won't reset anymore when loading a save

Mission: The Romulan Risk

• Cloaking Shield Matrix will now be given out when choosing to upgrade the tech.

Mission: Event: Reap What You Sow

• Will no longer be triggered by a Vidiian ambush

Mission: Holodeck Malfunction 

• Both heroes now return after loading a save

Quest: Mind Over Missiles

• Ship Events now trigger again as intended when the quest is abandoned.

Fixes

Combat & Systems

• Torpedoes no longer collide with each other

• Radial menu HUD restore fix

• Combat variety updates (multiple passes)

• Target reticules no longer block clicks

• Fixed torpedoes not being deducted after firing

• Fixed regeneration alcoves deconstruct resources

Audio

• Fixed duplicated sentence in Log Sector 8 (Tom Paris)

UI & UX

• Improved Mouse & Keyboard camera movement in sector overview

• Savegame popup animation reduced from 8s to 4s

• Sorted Main Menu button to bottom of pause menu

• Fixed energy hover tooltip

• Fixed hull hover tooltip description

• Fixed missing main deflector upgrade description

• Fixed selected & currently researched tech being not readable

• Fixed hero overview issues

• Fixed hero unavailable popup behavior

• Fixed Main Deflector being highlighted when hovering over Life Support

• Fixed Issues in construction menu

• Fixed Main Engineering being deactivated

Tech

• Fixed timer crashes

Heyho Captains, At some point we are running dry on jokes about how fast time is passing by when you are having fun … It has already been roughly a week since we released Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown and the reception has been extremely positive (and that is even an understatement).

Past

Thanks to your exceptional dedication, we were able to sell 100.000 copies of the game in 4 days! This is a tremendous number for any studio, but especially for a small indie developer from Germany. National radio stations have been speaking about us and interviewed the Dev Team, CNN has (shortly) mentioned us, a concurrent user peak of over 9000 (insert Vegeta Meme)... It has surely been a great launch.

Present

But surely as well, that doesn't mean we can lay back and relax - as you were able to read in our recent blogpost(s) we are tinkering on a manual quick save to counter the feedback you have given us in the first days after launch, that the auto save system needed some refinement. This patch still needs to be finalized and then checked internally (so it doesn’t break anything else in the meantime) - and then we can send it live - so have some more (work)days of patience with us, please.

(closer) Future

Afterwards (not mentioning smaller bugfixes along the way) our focus will shift from save games to crashes/performance and difficulty level/harshness. Even though a rough estimate of ~60% of you seem to be fine with the difficulty, we surely want to see if we can adjust some things to make it more pleasant for the other 30-40%. If you want to give us your opinion, why don't you hop onto our Discord Server and check out the Poll in the announcement channel. Regarding Crashes/Performance, please always mention your hardware set up/speccs when reporting crashes. If you have already reported your problem, please, add them eventually. And as always, even though you probably already know: a good portion of cases can already be solved by making sure everything has the most up-to-date drivers and/or adjusting your settings in game. Another good portion is due to FSR - so lowering your graphics settings and in the worst case, turning off upscaling, will prevent crashes from happening. We are in contact with AMD to get closer to this issue. Thanks again for this absolutely wonderful welcome to the Star Trek Family, the respect and wholesomeness this community has shown prior to launch as well as in the first days after (for example a whole MMO clan from ST:O coming over to “say hi” in our Discord - shoutout to StarFleet), surely makes this an experience for everyone involved. See you in the Delta Quadrant! gameXcite & Daedalic Entertainment

And heyho again, 2 blogposts in a day? Yes - not just that, 2 small patches in a day! We’ve increased the autosave frequency so the game now saves at least after every fifth Point of Interest, and we’re preparing a manual quick save system for the upcoming patch. Best Regards, gameXcite & Daedalic Entertainment

Heyho Captains, Without further ado, here is our first, albeit small, Patch, focussing on some individual issues. As mentioned yesterday in our recent blogpost, this is only the first step before a bigger Update which will then be focusing on the save system. Here are today's patchnotes:

• Added the timestamp of the last savegame to the pause menu to improve visibility as a first step to address savegame-related feedback.

• Fixed a progression blocker in Maneuvers that could occur if Tom Paris was unavailable in a specific branch.

• Resolved an issue causing empty pop-ups when crew members were injured in Main Engineering.

• Adjusted balancing.

• Updated Chakotay Maquis Profile Picture

• Fixed potential crashes when exiting to the main menu from combat result screen.

• Fixed a potential crash that could occur when the ship was auto-focused at the end of traveling between systems.

See you in the Delta Quadrant, gameXcite & Daedalic Entertainment

Heyho Captains!

We knew the Star Trek fandom is a dedicated one - but what happened yesterday broke the boundaries of even our biggest, utopical dreams - you guys rock!

Thanks to everyone as well who celebrated the launch together with parts of the team in our Discord. You weren’t there? Don’t worry, you can still join us and use the “@ask a dev Ping” to voice your feedback.

Talking about feedback, the team is already working on a fix for two of the main issues:

Saving

We have heard you - very loudly… no for real, our ears are still ringing. It is a little bit more complicated than “just allowing saving whenever” - But we have seen what your desired outcome is and we are doing our best to find a solution that brings you there - without diminishing crucial game design decisions.

Crashes

The game might crash at certain points (e.g. red alert bridge) on lower spec hardware when using FSR Upscaling (e.g. on Ryzen Z1 / Z2, nVidia 1000 series). This can be solved by reducing the graphic settings to medium / low and cap at 30fps or by deactivating FSR.

We are working on a longtime solution, it might not be the first thing we can fix, though.

Additionally, there are some other smaller issues we already have found a fix for or are right now in the process of creating one - we will send out a smaller Patch before we can tackle the bigger stuff (Save solution).

Thanks again for your awesome dedication and hype you are generating!

See you in the Delta Quadrant!

gameXcite & Daedalic Entertainment

Heyho everyone,

The waiting has come to an end - it is time to take the helm of U.S.S. Voyager, the most beautiful of starships of the federation they say (well, at least we say that).

Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown is out now!

The team is absurdly excited to show you what they have been working on - and await your feedback. We will be closely monitoring the next days/week and see what can, needs or wants to be done - So come say “Hi!” on our \ or leave your thoughts in the steam forum, either way - we will see it.

Well, for now there’s nothing more to do than to wish you good luck and say…

…Make it so! - Wait - No - wrong Series.. (Where is my Coffee?)

See you in the Delta Quadrant, Captains!

Daedalic & gameXcite

Heyho everyone,

Time is a wibbley wobbly… thing.. It’s already release week and on Wednesday you can finally put your hands on Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown. The team has been cherishing their baby over the last years and can’t wait to hear what you think!.

If you missed some of our recent information, you can look it up here or here - but for now it's time to start celebrating the upcoming addition of “a game made for fans - by fans” to the wide world of gaming titles!

Heyho everyone,

Perfectly timed for the last weekend before we all venture off into the Delta Quadrant, we can deliver the announced Steam Demo Update - with a little surprise.

We not just added the (rather finetuned) changes from the console demo - we even added the first Voice Over into the demo mission (This time only spoken by Tom Paris, as narratively Tuvok is not yet involved - logically he will be featured in the following missions in the full game. You can read up on the original announcement “here”)

But not just that - there might be something unexpected happening in the main menu…listen closely and you might hear a familiar melody.

Check out our “Personal Log: Tom Paris” Trailer featuring …well … Tom Paris (Robert Duncan McNeill)

Heyho everyone, 7 more days! We would lie if we would say we aren't getting a little excited already... This short announcement is just meant as a headsup before the actual launch period, summarizing a few infos regarding often repeated questions. Will there be a Steam Pre- Order? No, but this doesn't mean that you are missing out on anything (content/sales) - it just changes the time you actually can buy the game. Everyone plays the same version at the same time, on the same sale... which leads me to the next point: Why is there no Steam price public yet? Different platforms have different criteria when it comes to "when information have to be nailed down" - but be reassured, that the price will be similar to the already known console prices - with the normal differences between consoles and PC versions and regions, obviously. Where is the updated Demo? It's coming before launch - a little more patience please. What about the Voice Over? Well... Finally we can make it official: Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown features fully voiced logs by Tuvok and Tom Paris at the beginning of each sector. These logs recap recent events and set the stage for the mission ahead, helping ground each mission in the ongoing journey of the Voyager crew.

It was important to us to bring back the original actors, Tim Russ and Robert Duncan McNeill, and to work directly with them in a way that felt authentic and true to these iconic characters. Even though this day and age brings interesting new techniques, focusing on performances recorded by the actors themselves allowed us to create something personal and meaningful within the scope of the project. Want to know a little more? Why dont you check out the interview our team gave NintendoLife? Stay tuned for more information - or join us on our Discord Server! See you in the Delta Quadrant! gameXcite & Daedalic Entertainment

Heyho everyone, it's only 2 weeks until we release Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown and we want you best repared and ready to go - so here is our Deep Dive Video about the reconstruction of the ship:

See you soon! gameXcite & Daedalic Entertainment

Heyho everyone, only less than 3 weeks until we release Stark Trek: Voyager - Across the Unkown and with it, you - into the Delta Quadrant! And to help you find your path back home in the most efficient, most combative ... or most interesting way - the Dev Team prepared another Deep Dive Trailer - this time focussing on Exploration:

See you all on February 18th! gameXcite & Daedalic Entertainment

Heyho everyone,

If we look on our list, there's one specific thing we still owe you (No, not a release date?! What makes you think that? - You surely are a funny one). Today's (small) update delivers the promised Combat Voice Quips! Ok, ok - We might not yet have a release date to talk about - but at least we can give you a summarized list of frequently asked questions and their answers:

• When does the game release? Will it have Early Access? Unfortunately, we cannot reveal the release date at this time. However, we’ll share all the information about it in the near future. What we can already say at this point is that an early access release is not planned. Star Trek: Voyager – Across the Unknown will be released as a full version. TL;DR; It's further away than you want - but closer than you think.

• On what platforms will Star Trek: Voyager – Across the Unknown release? The game is being developed on PC and will also be released for Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5. Additionally, we are continuously working on expanding that range, so all of our players can enjoy our game on their preferred platform - updates soon to follow.

• What similar games/genres are there? Star Trek: Voyager – Across the Unknown is a unique mix of narrative adventure and base management, that has never been synthesized in this fashion. However, you may recognize some familiar elements from other Science Fiction games, like the FTL, Frostpunk and the XCOM Series. The game blends exploration, ship & resource management, (some) roguelite elements, and meaningful choices. Experience crew dynamics and a fresh take on a beloved sci-fi universe — with what-if scenarios that open up new possibilities.

• Is there a reason to start over after finishing a run? Is there replayability? Clear answer: Yes! Star Trek: Voyager – Across the Unknown offers players tons of decisions on the narrative as well as the strategic level that will have a lasting impact on each play through. Equipment, crew and even Voyager itself can change completely, based on the choices made along the way. While there are fixed cornerstones in the story which will be encountered on each iteration of your journey - how they turn out is up to you...

• Where is the Voice Over? The demo is a pre-release version and we always planned on delivering some form of VO in the full release. But - as you can imagine, with a text-heavy game like ours it would not be very feasible to have a 100% Full VO, especially for an Indie-Studio. Right now we are looking into finding a worthy solution. TL;DR; The final game will have partial VO. More information to follow.

• Where are the original Sound Effects? The sound effects are not yet final. Legally it is not possible for us to “just copy” the existing sounds from the show (or the internet) and there is no official, digital library for them available - but we are looking at the moment into replicating them as identical as possible. We will keep you updated here as well on how well this works out.

• Where is my language? While the demo is only in English, the full version will be localized into more languages including German, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Russian and Chinese.

• How free can I be in Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown? The overall premise of the game is to not just relive the ship's and the crew's story from the TV Series - but to make it your own. This said, the game is no sandbox with almost unlimited possibilities - we are still a small indie developer, that can't really pull this weight. But what you can expect though, is consequences of your own decisions pulling through each of your playthroughs, making them unique in themselves - even when encountering some fixpoints in the story. How you deal with them is up to you - every time anew.

• Can I save Tuvix? You sure can try! Whether you will succeed depends on the choices you made up to that point. Things don’t always go as planned, but the result will be interesting either way. And if everything goes completely off the rails, there is always next time…

• Im a creator - how can I contact you? If you are a content creator or press, please contact our Marketing Manager “Shexi” on our Discord.

More Info as always will follow. Best Regards, gameXcite & Daedalic Entertainment

Heyho everyone,

As you maybe already noticed, we uploaded the announced patch for today.

Unfortunately the combat voice quibs have not made it into this small patch - but we will deliver them as soon as possible in an individual one. In this patch today you can find:

• Implemented hardware cursor

• Fixed several rich text formatting issues

• Replaced Talaxian Stand-in for the quarteless shipmanagement quest - so no more confusion with Neelix!

And now for something completely different: I already said, you guys are crazy - but I wasn't even beginning to understand how crazy... You downloaded the Demo over 100.000 times in less than a week!

The whole team is so thankful for the warmest welcome we could have wished for! Eventhough we want to make it right for everyone, we know for sure that some expectations won't be met. Being open with what the game is really about is crucial because of that, which is why we want to add one more answer to one of the most frequent questions going around (All information will be summarized in a general FAQ soon):

How free can I be in Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown?

The overall premise of the game is to not just relive the ship's and the crew's story from the TV Series - but to make it your own. This said, the game is no sandbox with almost unlimited possibilities - we are still a small indie developer, that can't really pull this weight. But what you can expect though, is consequences of your own decisions pulling through each of your playthroughs, making them unique in themselves - even when encountering some fixpoints in the story. How you deal with them is up to you - every time anew.

More information will follow soon - don't forget to wishlist and if you can't wait - why don't you join us on our Discord? Best Regards gameXcite & Daedalic Entertainment

Captain's Log, stardate 000.4 after the emergence of the Demo,

First off, let me start by saying - you guys are crazy! We knew that the Star Trek community is a very strong and dedicated one - but the positive feedback, congratulations and especially review score (and amount) that has come our way on various platforms is just flabbergasting! Obviously there are still open questions, bugs or important wishes that you have brought up, which we are now concentrating on tackling. This patch for the Demo, that we will be testing one more time over the weekend and plan to implement on Monday, will contain following fixes and adjustments:

• Implemented hardware cursor

• Fixed several rich text formatting issues

• Added combat voice-overs

• Replaced Talaxian Character for the quarterless shipmanagement quest - so no more confusion with Neelix!

Additionally to those first fixes, we want to answer some of the most burning questions that have been repeated basically everywhere, by everyone:

• The demo is a pre-release version and we always planned on delivering some form of VO in the full release. But - as you can imagine, with a text-heavy game like ours it would not be very feasible to have a 100% Full VO, especially for an Indie-Studio. Right now we are looking into finding a worthy solution. TL;DR; The final game will have partial VO. More information to follow.

• The sound effects are not yet final. Legally it is not possible for us to “just copy” the existing sounds from the show (or the internet) and there is no official, digital library for them available - but we are looking at the moment into replicating them as identical as possible. We will keep you updated here as well on how well this works out.

• While the demo is only in English, the full version will be localized into more languages including German, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Russian and Chinese.

Thanks again for your overwhelmingly positive and warm welcome into the huge Star Trek Family - we are looking forward to giving this sentiment back to you with a great 1.0 Release! Until then - feel free to join our evergrowing community on discord. Best Regards, gameXcite & Daedalic Entertainment

Heyho everyone, Today we bring you our very own Timo from GameXcite - and yes, we didn't know either that he’s packing this sweet narrator voice. Timo leads you in this “What if…”- Video through one of the many scenarios you are able to encounter in Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown.

During the events of the “Message in a Bottle” episode from the original TV series, the U.S.S. Voyager is coming into contact with the Hirogen, who are quite unhappy to see our crew interfering with their relay network - did you like how the conflict was solved in the TV series? Or maybe you would prefer a rather active solution via the strategic use of a black hole? Perhaps you even prefer an even less conventional path that makes all resistance futile? Say no more - we got you:

In Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown you are the captain - but be aware that all decisions have their consequences.

Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown: Demo out now!

Captain on the Bridge! 🚀 We’re thrilled to announce that the Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown demo is now live on Steam!

Step aboard the U.S.S. Voyager and set a course for adventure in this first look at our upcoming game. In the demo you will be able to:

• Explore and re-build the iconic space ship to be prepared for the challenges that lie ahead of you.

• Engage with your crew through story-driven dialogue and choices that affect the mission.

• Encounter strange anomalies and make tough calls, shaping the story of your Journey.

• Enter the saga right at the beginning. Meet the "The Caretaker" once more, and decide how you want to solve the conundrum.

• Experience the thrill of navigating uncharted space – because in the Delta Quadrant, nothing is ever as it seems.

Whether you’re reliving the adventures of Captain Janeway and her crew or you’re just stepping into the world of Star Trek: Voyager for the first time, we can’t wait for you to try it. After all, as any good Starfleet officer knows: there’s coffee in that nebula. ☕✨

Download the demo today, and let us know what you think on our discord. Your feedback will help shape the journey ahead – and remember, in the Delta Quadrant, every decision matters. Engage! 🖖

Star Trek: Voyager – Across the Unknown: First Gameplay Trailer The first gameplay trailer for Star Trek: Voyager – Across the Unknown has arrived - and with it, a glimpse into the choices that will reshape the U.S.S. Voyager’s journey. This isn’t just about reliving the series. It’s about asking: What if…?

• What if Neelix leaves, but Kes stays?

• What if Seska joins your crew instead of betraying it?

• What if the U.S.S. Voyager arrives home with a completely different lineup than it started with?

Your command decisions don’t just affect resources and systems - they decide who survives, who remains loyal, and what version of the U.S.S. Voyager you bring back to Earth. Along the way you’ll rebuild the ship, manage scarce supplies, and face battles that demand tough choices. Every sector in the Delta Quadrant opens new branches, new allies, and new dangers. See you across the Unknown!

Set Course for the Delta Quadrant!

We’re beyond excited to announce Star Trek Voyager: Across the Unknown, a brand-new story-driven survival strategy game that puts the fate of the U.S.S. Voyager in your hands. Developed by gameXcite and published by Daedalic Entertainment, the game is officially licensed by Paramount Consumer Products and coming soon to PC and consoles.

For the first time, you’ll decide how the legendary journey unfolds. Will Captain Janeway’s crew stick to Starfleet principles—or embrace riskier paths to survive?

Key Features:

l  “What if?” Storytelling: Rewrite the journey of the U.S.S. Voyager with choices that matter.

l  Deep Ship Management: Rebuild, expand, and optimize systems to keep the crew alive.

l  Exploration & Survival: Chart dangerous courses through the Delta Quadrant, searching for resources while facing unexpected challenges.

l  Ship Combat & Away Missions: Command tactical battles and assemble crews for high-stakes planetary missions.

l  “Roguelite” Elements: No two journeys are the same - each decision can change the fate of iconic characters and the ship itself.

With every decision, you’re shaping the U.S.S. Voyager’s path home - or sealing its fate. The Delta Quadrant is vast, mysterious, and unforgiving. Will you bring the crew back to Earth? Add Star Trek Voyager: Across the Unknown to your Wishlist today and be the first to step onto the bridge when it launches!

gameXcite & Daedalic Entertainment