Giants - Patch 1 has dropped on the Beta Branch. It features a few things but the most important are:

• Inverting the Y axis
• FPS Cap at a custom value
• Fix for auto targeting

Invert Y Axis: Like the title says - toggle it to invert the Y axis for ALL supported controllers. Custom FPS Cap: Lock the game at your desired FPS, be it 30, 60, 90, 200 or what ever number floats your ship! Auto targeting is fixed in Battle Designer and Missions Some ships would end up not being marked with a red target when close by! This has now been fixed. This is just the first patch for this week! A few more will drop before the weekend when the patches will be merged with the public branch. You can switch to the Beta branch through the steam client! P.s. report your feedback here. Thank you for your patience, Giants!

[ 2019-08-07 19:28:57 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello Giants! We've celebrated the release of the game over the weekend. At this current point in time, the game sold ~295 copies really within our expectations. This means we're almost 40% of the way towards my goal of having Bearded Giant Games 100% independent and focused on original game creation and client/freelancing work. But enough about this, let's talk about what you can expect from the game this week! For Space Mercs - we will going to establish a weekly routine of releases in a Tik-Tok fashion.

• On the Tik week, the game will see patches that contains bug fixes and quality of live improvements.
• During the Tok week we will be working on content updates and new features.

Patches and updates start going up on the game's Beta branch during Tuesday or Wednesday and should become available in the default branch on Friday or the Weekend! So if you want to help out and test things - you can jump on the beta branch!
In the first patch, we're focusing on solving issues raised by you guys over the weekend. On the first patch we're focusing on fixing the following issues:

• Resolution duplicates when scrolling through the resolution list Some of you have duplicate resolutions in the options menu when you scroll through the list making it seem that the Next and Previous buttons are stuck.
• View mode saved between sessions Your last view (cockpit or exterior) will be saved and the game will default to it on the next mission.
• Multiple FPS Cap targets We heard you loud and clear on this one - multiple FPS locks will be available to be set from the options menu if you want to cap it. 30, 60, 90, 120 FPS sounds like a good target for me!
• Invert Y axis No need for explanation here - we're enabling it for all control modes
• Improve readability for Hull and Energy values
• Fix for auto targeting non-objective enemies in range
• Fix for audio slider defaulting to 0 on hitting the apply button for the first time

Mouse support (or work on it) will start with this week and will rollover into next's week content update! You can checkout progress on the feature via twitter - as I'm about to start a thread on the issues I'm having with Unity and Mouse axis behavior in and outside the development environment! Let's get to work! P.s. for more details and progress reports on what we are doing - you can always join us on our Discord Server!

[ 2019-08-05 11:06:15 CET ] [ Original post ]

Giants - I have something special for you on release day! It's called the Battle Designer and it allows you to setup custom battles of up to 4000 ships each. If you ever wondered how many ships of a given type you can take on yourself well, now you can! Setup your own custom 1000 Light fighters vs 200 Heavy fighters battle or go all out and just setup a Battleship war - it's up to you!
I designed this game because I wanted to feel like I'm part of a huge scale war, I wanted to fly around ships who are fighting each other and I think the Battle Designer brings the game ever so closer to that goal! With further updates I believe we can extend it to setup custom community challenges for the game! If you have any ideas, drop by the forums and let us know. We're shaping it together! The Battle Designer unlocks after completing the campaign missions!

[ 2019-08-02 16:00:41 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello space mercenary Giants! Valve has approved our launch build and it brings me great pleasure to announce that Space Mercs will be available for purchase on Steam starting with August 2nd 2019 (today)! Im pressing the big launch button around the hours

• 10:00 AM PDT
• 13:00 PM EST/EDT
• 20:00 PM GMT + 2.

The game will be available on Steam for Linux and Windows for the price of $9.99 USD or the regional equivalent! Bellow you can find a couple of freshly taken screenshots from the game! Don't rub your eyes and don't change your prescription because you're seeing right! A 2000 vs 2000 gigantic space battle is taking place!
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Screenshots were taken on a PC with an nVidia GT 960 - game was running at 75-80 FPS at a resolution of 1920 x 1080!

[ 2019-08-02 07:38:12 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello Mercenaries! The steam page and trailer received an overhaul as we have managed to secure optimal graphical performance even on the lower end computer spectrum. Both the video bellow and the attached images were recorded on a laptop with an integrated gpu (Intel HD 4000) and represents the minimum graphical quality of the game! Users with computers that surpass the minimum specs can toggle additional graphical effects. At launch, on the minimum hardware specifications, you can enjoy the following post processing and hardware based effects available by default:

• Screen Space Reflections
• Anti Aliasing
• Ambient Occlusion
• Bloom
• Color Grading

The optional toggleable enhancements that can be used by people with more beefier specs include, but are not limited to:

• Depth of Field
• Real Time Shadows
• Eye Adaption
• Chromatic Aberation

We're working on delivering the most extreme arcade space combat game with epic scale battles that you can be apart of! Check out the video bellow for a sneak peek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5mq001OfWU&feature=youtu.be

[ 2019-07-04 07:50:47 CET ] [ Original post ]