Warning: This is a short story meant to be played in a single sitting.

Play as a DOG V4 drone, a newly activated maintenance bot who is assisting in the terraforming effort on Mars. After a predictable yet unfortunate accident DOG finds himself uncovering the past of a seemingly barren planet.

Gameplay

The games current state includes the first environment (~15 minutes of gameplay) and an introduction to the second environment. The main goal of this release to get feed back on the player controls and game mechanics.

Story

We're trying to bring the "science" back to science fiction. We also wanted to explore a scenario humanity might really encounter on the first planet we aggressively try to terraform.

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Lights, Camera, Screenshot Event!!!

New DOG VII model

We commissioned Ionut, the original designer of DOG, to make an ultra hi-poly version that leveraged Unreal Engine 5's nanite mesh Technology. The resulting model is about 500,000 polygons and is a huge improvement in terms of fidelity and detail. Game Description Image

Screenshot tool

We were able to implement PULSAR BYTES Cine Cam as a screenshot tool so players have a lot more control over their in-game screenshots.

You can see the screenshot tool in action here:

Optimizations

Even though this game has substantially higher minimum requires over the first - Game Description Image

I think it's still important to keep optimizing where we can.

We've reworked a number of the lighting components that should improve Chapters 1 and 5.
We've made some improvements to the Chaos Physics System. This allows us increased collision resolution and almost double the number of debris while still hitting 120fps.
We've also totally reworked the navigation system which will prevent a number of navigation issues.

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Screenshot Competition

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What you've all been waiting for!!!
The winners will get an in-game achievement added based around the screenshot they took, a free Steam gift key, and a call out on the next update! The two categories are:
[b][u]The Surface[/u] - best screenshot capturing Chapter 2: The Surface's environment
[u]DOG VII[/u] - Best screenshot capturing the new DOG model[/b]

This Event is open to everyone that ones the game. Additionally, I'll be offering 20 free game keys on our twitter account . We've also invited invited the the members of Beautiful Screenshot Lovers to take part in this.

All you have to do is post your screenshots to the community page. Good Luck!

We are accepting screenshots of the base game but highly encourage you to use the _ue5 beta branch with enhanced features and environments or the separate application available here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1684710/CAT_Interstellar_Recast/

[ 2021-09-03 14:55:41 CET ] [Original Post]