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[splad]

Oh, this looks interesting. Somehow flew under my radar, heh.

What's that about CPU leaks and the likes? Anyone knows if the new/upcoming version any more stable?

The latest version 0.3.3.10 isn't perfect by any account, it's going on early access after all, not a final release. However it is orders of magnitude more stable than versions that were out only a few months ago, and compared to the game that existed when I made that original forum post It's pretty much an entirely new beast.

We've gone from the point where the game ran 6-8 processor cores at 100% with 8-10 ships battling and crashed pretty regularly from random thread synchronization issues, to a place where 20-30 ships isn't a really big deal and your save game file might last weeks before being replaced due to a minor bug or an update that makes the game better.

In this video I talk about some neat engineering stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3kMyIVWlPs

[Gabeux]

This came out today. I bought it the first minute it came out since I turned my computer on 2 minutes before it unlocked. That was funny.

I could only play an hour and a half today, but I enjoyed it. It feels more raw and Early Access than what I had in mind, but it really has the potential to be the Open-World Action Oriented FTL-like I wanted.
I'm still flying the second ship (the first one with guns) and the designer feels a little bit intimidating when looking at it for the first time (and I don't think there's any in-game tutorial about it yet), but I still have to play more to see what the game really has to offer.

I did fire at the butt of an unarmed ship, boarded it, murdered the captain and took his stuff (found research data).
And also explored a derelict station, and almost got wrecked by a stupid turret (found a gun and more stuff).
So that already brought up my hype up for more adventures!

And hi Splad.  I'm hoping we can get to sabotaging ships from the inside, not sure if that's in yet, but I really have a weird urge to board things and kill them from the inside on games. My best run (and the one I had the most fun) on FTL was actually with a boarding+ion setup.