Starstruck Vagabond news & patch notes

The latest update will fix the crash bug caused by refrigerated crates.

New update! Changes for v1.1.1: - You can now destroy almost all pickups with your welder, to reduce the possibility of blocking yourself. Exceptions are quest items like lost bags and waste barrels, as well as anything required for the critical path (such as the fuel and Miraclium during the tutorial) - Destroying a crate will abort your current delivery mission (with the usual credit deduction) - Destroying fuel (in either raw or refined forms) will cause an explosion that hurts you and damages your ship (just for fun) - You can no longer sell waste barrels from an upgraded refinery (or anything else with a credit value of zero) - Fixed Hole's introduction bugging out Red Weed distress missions - Fixed Red's introduction causing a crash if you return to your ship midway through disposing of barrels - Fixed crash caused when a romanced Red tries to talk to you in certain circumstances - Fixed formatting in console exhibits menus - Fixed upgrades not resetting in post-post-game

First of all, thanks to everyone who has bought and been enjoying Starstruck Vagabond since its launch just over a month ago. And thanks for all the great feedback, which was very useful in compiling this, the first big feature update aimed at improving the gameplay experience all around. Here are the deets:

NEW UPGRADES!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44219962/eeef3534c724186444b7cf2c3e0a8b8cce5a9a11.png One of the most persistent issues with players who put in enough time was that there wasn't enough to spend money on and too many unused upgrade units kicking around in the late game. There's now a suite of new upgrades available to soak up some of that. Sprint shoes! Upgraded weapons! The ability to sell items directly from your processing plant! A new cockpit function to help keep track of your planet's collections in the post-ending! And more!

NEW SERVICES!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44219962/d0a6b2ccf9c0e442bd669b5ba9726fc069c75ef1.png Meet Fixbot, the cheerful shipyard robot who will happily take the burden of some of your workload. Say the word, and he'll fix every current issue with your ship AND refill the gas tank to boot! It's an expensive service, especially for something you can do yourself for free, but can you really put a price on free time? {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44219962/8f58741a9cc1488504fc558ea06a41bd6fb599ed.png On top of that, Freight Offices have now been overhauled, so there's an actual reason to go there after your first delivery assignment. Now, while taking new assignments over your comms will always give you an assignment geared for the size of your cargo platform, going to the freight office will let you choose the size of your delivery. Want to just do a quick three box run to unlock a new sector? Now you can! Want to take a massive 24-box delivery despite only having a tiny default cargo platform, because you're insane? You can do that too!

NEW APPEARANCES AND DIALOGUES FOR CREW MEMBERS!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44219962/a1eff5ac02dce2903e3049f4e4d91810ef4e8b31.png Now there's actually a reason to romance your crew besides bragging rights! Romanced crew members will put on alternative outfits and have alternative versions of standard dialogue reflecting your new relationship. They'll also request additional "private meetings" after the first, also with new dialogue, so get ready to try to keep up with them. PLEASE NOTE: On existing save files from old versions of the game, already romanced crew members will have their affection levels dropped down to 3 hearts with the 4th ready to pop, so you'll have to trigger their romance again to enjoy their new looks.

AND MORE!

• New distress call missions! Hoarding and red weed pruning
• Reward for distress missions increased
• Aborting delivery missions will now de-authorize any authorized sectors you haven't yet visited
• Map icons now show when a planet has an upgrade unit known to be available in any capacity (side job reward, left on the loading zone, etc)
• Map icons now show when a crew member has requested to visit a specific planet
• Hydroponic plants now have tooltips showing what produce they will drop
• Shipyards now allow you to view upgrade descriptions even if you don't have enough units to buy them
• Added graphics to crew menu differentiating 4 heart romance from 4 heart friendship
• Radioactive crates will now also damage adjoining refrigerated crates

Thanks again for playing Starstruck Vagabond! Remember, if you like the game and want to support it and future updates like this, a positive review on Steam goes a long way. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44219962/61e9a73ec782b59132d35d268ddb020ec1fe0a8b.png Update key art by El Cheshire Ilustracion

In case you missed it, the stellar soundtrack for Starstruck Vagabond by Sam Houghton and Joe Collinson is now available to buy from Steam for 7.99 USD! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3008940/Starstruck_Vagabond_Soundtrack/ You can also buy it bundled with the full game for a 10% discount: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/42251/Starstruck_Vagabond_Deluxe/ And if that weren't enough, there's a new update today. Changelog for 1.0.7.3 - Added low impact mode to settings (try this is you've had frame rate drop issues; still trying to get to the bottom of that) - Removed Eggsec jobs from no egg mode - Seeds and rocks added to things you can't microwave - Added failsafe to stop NPC pathfinding from hanging the game - You no longer receive jobs to deliver more crates than can fit on the source planet's loading zone

Today's update (1.0.7.2) has a small but significant gameplay change. Taking aboard feedback - and concern that some people have essentially softlocked themselves by forgetting where they left the crates for their current mission - the game's maps now display "crates for pickup" icons on any planets where crates are currently located, not merely on their planet of origin. Thanks again to everyone giving feedback and bug reports, continuing to help me scrape the last few rough edges off the game, and thanks to everyone else for their patience.

Couple of big fixes and some much-demanded gameplay quality of life changes today. If anyone after this patch is still getting one of those annoying crashes that make your save file crash the game every time you load it, please let me know in the discussion thread below, along with any log the crash provides and roughly where you were in the story when it happened. 1.0.7 - You now press the BACK button to talk to crewmembers rather than USE, so they don't interrupt you while you're working - Plants now don't block you, only slow you down - Wonders now appear on the PDA map - Fixed game locking up if you get a load of crates dropped on you - Fixed distress signals stopping after you go to the sector edge - Fixed PDA hints crashing the game in postgame mode - Various fixes all over the place straining out a few more cutscene hangs caused by blocked NPCs and crashes caused by saving at certain moments

I think we might be veering upon the end of thinking of updates in terms of "fixes" and can soon start thinking in terms of "quality of life improvements." Full changelog for 1.0.6: 1.0.6 - Cooking a recipe that is also a resource (like orange juice, potato salad etc) will now let you pick it up as an item if you choose the "eat by yourself" option - Fixed dummies in captain quarters resetting after ship upgrade - Default random seeds now don't always start with 0 (weird oversight on my part there) - Fixed possible crash in Second's story - Fixed story objectives potentially being too close to planets - Fixed crew members requesting to visit planets in locked quadrants - Fixed an egg and a fruit sometimes spawning on the same tile on wild planets

I'd say that hopefully this will be the last one for a while but I don't want to jinx myself. See, the headache is that what major bugs and crashes remain are mostly only ones that occur in highly specific scenarios with highly specific random seeds. Still, I continue to knock them out one by one. Full changelist for 1.0.5: - Fixed crew members requesting to go to the bar before you have 2 crew members - Fixed possible hang during ending cutscene - Fixed possible hang during Hole friendship scene 3 - Fixed possible hang during Magu story - Fixed derelicts spawning with no derelict after story end - Fixed blackout time/color not resetting if you reload a save during Syl's story - Fixed possible crash bug relating to kinesis gloves - Fixed potential crash during Burlap story - Fixed hang caused by using the cargo platform while dialog/the congrats message is up - Took steps to shore up a couple of potential memory leaks - Added personality type to main character status page

Y'know, I was afraid after I released the game I wouldn't have anything to do in my special hobby time anymore. But now my hobby is fixing bugs, so I guess it all worked out. Today's patch will sort out the issue with derelicts with upgrade units always being located at -1,0, and that one where the planet in the first sector kept getting unsurveyed after a quit and reload. That one took some tracking down, let me tell you. Full change list: 1.0.4 - Added map icon legend to the in-game manual to explain what all the symbols mean - Fixed derelicts with upgrade units always being at -1,0 - Fixed planets in certain sectors getting unsurveyed after quit and reload - Fixed a couple of hangs in Sarge's story - Prevented crew members from requesting ship upgrades when no upgrades are available - Fixed crash when trying to leave planet during Hole friendship scene 3 - Reduced health loss from having no stamina and added tutorial text for going to a clinic at low health AND added a red flash when losing health, now please stop dying all over the place

One last update for the first weekend - by popular demand, cloud saves have now been activated for Starstruck Vagabond. VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: The save file encryption system has been altered to accommodate this. Make sure you run the game at least once on a system you've already played it on before trying it out on a different system; this will ensure that your existing saves get converted to the new format. Again, you'll know you're playing the latest version from the "v.1.0.3" in the corner of the title screen. Full changelog for 1.0.3: - Implemented cloud saves - Fixed crash when visiting pub in postgame - Fixed plants being interactable from outside ship - You can no longer drop items on the hulls of other ships (trying to dispose of waste barrels like that is just rude) - Fixed rare hang in Melinda story scene - Fixed upgrade units not registering as found if you use them before taking them to your ship - Fixed hang + subsequent crash in final Kairos story scene

Another fix for the big things that have come up in the first day! Thanks to everyone who helped me track these ones down. Again, please make sure your version of the game on Steam is updated (look for the "v.1.0.2" in the bottom right of the title screen) Changes for 1.0.2: - Fixed items disappearing from cargo platform while boarding other ships - Fixed crash when going through Second's story on certain planets - Fixed issue with save/load menu cancel button - Fixed master volume setting not saving - Fixed objects coming out of the microwave wrong - Fixed Red scene 3 clashing with bar scene - Fixed purchases not appearing if you buy them too fast - Fixed missing meal commentary - You can no longer sit in the cockpit chair while carrying an item - Fixed fuel tanks overfilling from Hole's ability - Fixed red weed spawning in places it can't be cut off - Adjusted volume differential between in ship and on planet - You can no longer drop items in the space behind the impulse engine - Fixed dummies being interactable from outside ship - Red weed no longer blocks you - Fixed issue with closing console during Burlap introductory scene - Fixed hang during Magu scene 3 on certain planets - Removed the possibility of sector names randomly being slurs *QUICK ADDENDUM* - Fixed pickups disappearing / moving in portside galley

Well that didn't take long. The crash on complete loss of stamina should now be fixed, as well as some issues with the rebind keys menu. Please make sure your game is updated! You'll know you're playing the right version 'cos the title screen will have "v1.0.1" in the bottom right. Thanks to everyone who wishlisted and bought the game on day one! Really bowled over by the enthusiasm so far.