Episode 6 of StuffPlus building stuff in Blockade Runner!

- Aaron

Atmospheres in Upcoming 0.74.0

A new feature we've been working on for 0.74.0 are atmospheres for entities!  Atmospheres around entities will provide oxygen for the character when you start the game and give a bit of a planet feeling on much smaller interstellar objects.

Building Atmospheres

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Space Command as I understand it is an attempt by a few film veterans to air a sort of cheesy sci-fi TV show. All I could think of with the visual effects shot was hopefully Blockade Runner in the future. ;D

- Aaron

Internet may be up for a bit this weekend (ISP's upgrading the wireless connection, apparently), so I'm going to quick try to sneak this in before it goes out again!

Here's a signature image I made for Blockade Runner last night.  Tell me what you think, and maybe what signatures/avatars you'd prefer to see to help spread the word about Blockade Runner!




Edit:

Added full transparency and a spot for a username!

- Aaron

Also, don't forget there's only two days left to Tactical Gamer's ship building contest to win a free giftcode!

3 Days Left for Tactical Gamer Contest

Straight Raider from Tactical Gamer conducted an interview with us a week or so ago, and was kind enough to put up a ship building contest for everyone to earn free giftcodes! There's only three days left, so get your friends to start building some ships with the demo and nab a free copy of Blockade Runner!

Multiplayer Hunt Video

Micah narrates, as all six of ZanMgt attempt to capture Gabriel in 0.71.0c!

Blockade Runner - Multiplayer Hunt - Mod DB

Micah's Tanker

Micah had some fun building a tanker ship of sorts while messing around with the new glass inside of prefabs. Take a look at the cockpit below to see the glass in a prefab!

This version was already up last Friday, just wanted to upload the "full write-up" that went missing during an internet blackout at the office over the weekend.

What's New?

Aside from more stability fixes for the multiplayer (still a ways to go though), we've opened the solo option up, put a "start server" option in the multiplayer menu, added new glass transparency blocks, and have a bit of a sneak peek of the inventory menu by pressing "[I]" in solo/multiplayer!

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Glass Blocks

Voted as a top priority item by the community, translucent glass has been added!  It's missing its Fresnel and anisotropic shaders (Gabe’s working on it!), so it may look kind of dull at the moment.

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Internet went out at the office over the weekend preventing us from putting up the “c” version quicker, however you can update/download the latest version now to resolve the crash on startup problem you ma have experienced during 0.71.0!

Mazelion Assault Frigate

created by Imaus

 

 Ravion Shipyards

 

Unified Kinetics TC-10 "Spearhead"

created by Sofa499

 FSC Navy Fleet and Space Expeditionary Corps

 

BN LA – MAC

created by Hsad

BN Industries