Hope the kick starter goes well for you Lumbering troll.

Made a topic about this game in the "Free and Open Source" section before realizing all of the mistakes involved in that. Duh. 😳

Anyhow, I just wanted to say that I backed this project. You've got $35 from me in the Kickstarter. I tried the demo, and I enjoyed it. Just, please, please, make the camera automatically center itself onto your ship. It would make things so much easier.

Thanks!

The kickstarter is down to the final 9 hours. They've gained a lot of momentum, but it still looks like they'll need a late surge of support to get funded.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sea ... netic-void

The $30 tier now includes alpha access.

Congrats to the devs they made funding 🙂

Indeed congratulations to the team on making their goal. 😀

Kinetic Void has made steam greenlit http://kineticvoid.badlandstudio.com/greenlit/

What's been going on in Kinetic Void, looks like you can pr-order the game now http://badlandstudio.com/kinetic-void/

50% off on Steam for the next 19 hours

LINK 😆

Probably missed it.

I must get around to ordering this although god knows when I will be able to download it.

Seems to have been quite a bit of activity with Kinetic Void over the last month or so .

Check the youtube site as their are some more vid on it.

I was very interested in this when it first announced. I like the planned feature set. Though it seems to be taking longer than anticipated since those features are quite a mountain of work to get right for a small team.

I've been content to just forget about it until release. I wasn't impressed by the initial showings of the alpha, but it seems to be shaping up nicely. I wll definitely be trying it post release. The ability to design your capital ship is a big draw for me.

I am just wondering how much fun the exploration and dynamic unvierse will be as it is another big draw.

ATM looks a little like eve offline 🙂

The way combat seems to work and microwarp drives?

It seems to a fairly common problem for most Kickstarters as they underestimate how long a game will take to do.

Been meaning to buy this for ages and have never got around to it.

 Bought a copy of this last week and downloaded it from Steam but I have been having problems getting to grips with it. could do with a manual that could be downloaded and printed out.

New vid

Update from Kinetic Void about weapons also check out the YouTube channel for a couple of other videos including a tutorial one.

Big update by Steam for KV.

Hey everyone! As of Monday, the D10 patch is officially live, with new weapon types and more! Here's the details:

Added:

• New Stations! The previous old and crappy trade stations have been replaced by new assets. We think you will agree when we say that they look just lovely.
• Added a separate icon for mining stations to differentiate them from trade stations.
• Added Beam weapons - Have a high energy load, will do their damage over time.
• Added Missile Weapons - Requires Ammo. Have guided (Homing Missiles) and non-guided(more like Kinetic slugs). Makes a nice boom on impact. 
• Added Hardpoint/Subsystem Weapons system - Turrets (Hardpoint) and Weapons (subsystems) have been split into two systems. The turret (hardpoint) will have how far the turret can reach in an arch as well as how fast. You then will equip a Weapon (subsystem) to it to dictate what type of weapon it is and what type of damage it will do. Old Weapons(non-hardpoints) will have a “base” value set to them for their damage type. It is advised that all users begin swapping out old turrets for the new hardpoint systems. Older turrets will be phased out as we add more replacement weapon systems. 
• Ammunition Resources, three types currently. (Only available in the store. Remember to move from Station Inventory to your Ship Inventory after you purchase if from the store. When you purchase items from the store they just go to your Station Storage, not to your Ship Storage)
  • Creative Mode has unlimited ammo. Ships do not require to have ammo put into their inventory. The Creative Galaxy Ships circumvent the ammo requirement code and will display Inf on the hud. 
  • Kinetic - used for any Kinetic Type Weapons
  • Non-Guided Missile- used for any Non-Guided Missile Weapons
  • Guided Missile - used for Guided Missile Weapons.

• Major Map Updates:
  • By default, Star system names are now highlighted to indicate ownership. Gray systems are unclaimed, other colors correspond to factions as shown by the map legend.
  • By using the popup list in the lower left, highlighting can be switched to show hostility toward the player. Keep in mind that sectors tend to spawn more ships belonging to the ruling faction.
  • As factions go to war over territory, icons on the map will give the player general information about the conflict. A ! icon next to a Star System’s name will indicate a faction is currently trying to invade it. Within the system, sectors currently under the owner’s control will have a blue flag. Sectors that have been captured will have a red flag, and sectors currently experiencing a battle will be marked with a ! warning icon.
  • Right click menu: if a system is in conflict, the sectors in the list will have an icon next to them identical to the one above it’s sector object. When mousing over a sector’s button, the sector’s object is highlighted blue. The button for the sector the player is in is colored green. The notes field is player editable, its contents are saved per sector.

• Sectors currently under conflict are more likely to spawn factions involved in that conflict.
• Buy and sell prices at stations are affected by the player’s standing with the faction that own’s the station, as well as the availability of raw sources (via mining stations) in that sector.
• Opening fire on a ship will lower your standings with that ship’s faction. Killing a ship will greatly lower standing from the owner, but will slightly raise standing from the owner’s enemies.

Changed:

• Asteroid Spawning: Previously, asteroids were spawned individually and culling operations were carried out on them to reduce impact on performance. To further increase performance while allowing for more interesting asteroid fields, asteroids are now spawned in clusters, and spawn/despawn dynamically to drastically improve both physics and rendering performance. These clusters should still be visible from a distance, but will only have a single radar icon until the player comes closer. 
  • Asteroid] Spawning Preview

• Adjusted all module and subsystem values (This will be ongoing) 
  • NOTE: Your subsystems have been changed/removed. You need to open the subsystems of your HULL (at least) and verify you have the right

• Inventory/Store Main Categories(Subsystems/Ship Parts/Trade Goods) have been switched over to radio buttons. Only one Main Category can be selected at a time.
• Weapons (except Energy) require Ammo to be fired. The weapon size will determine how many resources it uses each time it fires. (Size 1 = 1 usage, Size 2=2 usages, etc)
• Camera’s Settings: Now should be able to zoom in to an acceptable closeness without too much clipping. Camera is now centered in middle of ship.
• Radar Sensor subsystems have been limited to 1 per ship. Their ranges and durability have been adjusted to reflect this. 
• Massive improvement to performance when asteroids are in the same sector. 
• Greatly increased base sensor range. 
• The hull indicator now displays raw value instead of percentage for the player hud and target indicators.
• The Warp Effect is scaled by the size of your ship.

Fixed:

• Fixed a couple misaligned cubemaps for the skybox generator. 
• Fixed a bug where Shared Hull Subsystem Capacity was being miscalculated shared hull space will be lowered due to this fact.
• Fixed issue where modules would gain space if modified.
• The faction standing menu (visible in sector, default key is K) has been fixed.
• Fixed a bug that caused some NPC ships to be idle.
• Stars will no longer appear to be rendered on top of planets. 
• Fixed a few minor memory leaks in Sector.
• The galaxy and ship name fields no longer accept special characters or punctuation. (Next patch will allow _ or spaces, no other special chars)
• Fixed bug in laser damage timing. 
• Fixed bug in Turret seeming to take to long to engage. 
• Fixed an bug with the warping system that caused the ship to sometimes overshoot the target.
• Fixed a bug where the camera would offset itself.
• Fixed a bug where Inventory weight was not being calculated correctly allowing you to remove cargo subsystems after filling cargo hold.
• Fixed a bug where you were unable to buy resources other than ammunition.
• Scale of stations
• Removed rotation on station rings - this was causing huge performance hit. 
• Clipping distance between near and far camera.
• Factions not updating on new galaxy creation.
• Recalculated how beam damage is applied, increase in performance.
• Fixed an issue where Inventory would not display the correct values in Sector until you cycled thru the main categories.

Known Issues:

• Inf displays for all ammo in career mode, however that does not mean that there is ammo available. Purchasing and placing ammo in the ship will result in a # being displayed instead of Inf. (fixed for D11)
• C&C Modules do not spawn initially in Career Mode

 

D11 has gone live now and it's a big update to the game over the 100 meg size patch.

Development Patch D11

New Galaxy Required
All Weapon Modules have been removed from all ships and will need to be re-installed
Added

• Main Menu
  • Starter ship: In new Career Mode galaxy, the player gets a list of pre-built ships to start with instead of a random set of parts. Starter ships are determined by which ship files are present within SaveFiles/Starter. Ships in this folder are loaded on first run, but are never saved over.

• Weapon
  • 8 new hardpoint/weapon mounts added. These are animated and require an activation time when engaging an enemy. They deactivate on their own after a certain amount of time without a target.
  • 25 new weapons have been added as subsystems for new hardpoint system. Each weapon has unique stats and behaviour. This is an ongoing effort and will be updated as development continues for gameplay/balance.
  • Anti Missile System (AMS) Subsystem - Attaches to hardpoint/weapon mount, tracks and destroys incoming missiles. Cannot be manually controlled or assigned to weapon groups.

• Sector Display:
  • UPPER LEFT: In sector, added a Selected Object Information Panel with the following info:
    • Distance
    • Selected Object’s:
      • Name
      • Icon
      • Classification
      • Faction
      • Faction Hostility towards player

    • Image of Object

  • UPPER RIGHT CORNER: Target Lock Indicator(s) with the following info:
    • Distance
    • Faction Hostility towards player
    • Health Bar
    • Shield Bar
    • Weapon Groups Assigned
    • Tooltip text is available on hover.

  • Locking onto targets now has a delay based on Sensor Speed. “Acquiring Target Lock” displays until lock is complete, and the blue selection bracket will fade over to the red locked bracket.
  • Selected Locked Target now has an animation to indicate which target is selected.
  • Maximum lock targets is now based off the Sensor stats.
  • Warp Gate System: Use warp gates (designated in specific sectors) to travel to other star systems. Each has a specific destination within each star system. The Warp Gate Icon is always visible, regardless of your distance from it. Approach the Warp Gate, enter the gate and a menu will appear on the right, giving you the choice to warp to the Sector listed. If the gate has multiple destinations, you can use the drop down menu (click the Sector name) to select which Sector to travel to. This is currently the only way to move between Star Systems. The Sector warping on the map will only work for Sectors in your current Star System.
  • When warping to another sector or star system there is now an actual effect instead of just loading the new sector. When using a warp gate, the ship will enter being warping once the player uses the warp menu to initiate it. When warping to another sector from the map, the map will close and the ship will align to face the destination sector before entering warp. This alignment phase is identical to using the align or warp to function, and as with those cases, user input will interrupt the process and return control to the player.
  • New AI behavior: Small ships can now turn off their drag and face another direction while shooting.

Changed

• Shipyard Changes
  • Ship names may now have spaces or underscores_ in them.
  • Changed Engine Subsystems so that the Engine Module can only hold a single Engine Subsystem, but still can hold multiple Boosters.
  • Removed old weapon models. Note: All stock ships have been updated for the new weapon systems
  • Weapon Manager has been updated. Weapons will default to Weapon Group 1 and Manual, as well as their default weapon type. Left clicking on weapon name will highlight that weapon blue and set the camera’s pivot point to the weapon, right clicking on the weapon name will open the Subsystem Manager for that module. Hovering over the weapon name will display weapon stats in a tooltip if the weapon has a Subsystem applied to it.
    • Added a toggle for animated weapons in the shipyard manager, this will toggle all weapons with an activation/deactivation animation. Weapons will reset upon closing the Weapon Manager

  • Moved the Hanger Manager Window to the right side of the screen and stacked the window. The ship will be more visible without the manger window over top giving a better view of which hangar bay you have selected.

• Sector/Game Changes
  • Upon creating a new game, the game will start the player in a non-hostile sector, not just the first sector it finds with a station.
  • When choosing which ship to spawn, the AI will prefer ships closer in size to the player’s ship. Larger ships may still spawn, but this will hopefully provide a reasonable difficulty curve in campaign mode. Ships with an extreme module count will be penalized in the spawn chance calculation and spawn more rarely.
  • Ships that spawn upon loading into a sector will typically belong to the faction that owns the Sector. Loading in to find a group of hostile ships should only happen in hostile Sectors (but will be more likely than before if you are in a hostile sector).
  • The Station Docking prompt is now a slide out menu (like the new warp prompt.)
  • The Planetary Warning has been repositioned the lower left corner of the screen (rather than centered)
  • When selecting an object out in space the icon will now move to the lower right hand side of the selection/target bracket so that the object is visible.

• Map Changes
  • The right click menu on the map now always appears centered, instead of over the mouse position when you clicked.
  • The map’s right click menu has been changed. When you click on a sector in the list, instead of immediately warping, a new menu element appears to the right to display information about warping to that sector. If the player can warp there, the big red button will initiate warp. If the player is already in that Sector, or the Sector is in another star System, the button will be grayed out and text below the button will explain why it is disabled. The information panel in the upper left displays what warp connections, if any, that sector has.

• We have updated our GUI middleware to its latest version. This will hopefully resolve some minor bugs (such as render depth issues). GUI assets, especially text, should be noticeably improved in appearance.
• Armor plating is now more effective at preventing engine damage.
• Kinetic Ammo - Reduced the cost and increased the quantity purchased.

Fixed

• Shipyard
  • Shipyard will no longer set ship names to all lower case when you load into the scene. If you have ships that have been renamed to lower case, rename them once with the desired capitalization and it should stick now.

• Sector
  • Bug where Laser beam sounds would cut out after a while.
  • Bug where Target Out of Range would stay on locked target after target was clearly in range.
  • Bug where Out of Ammo turrets were able to attempt to fire causing performance issues.
  • Enemies the player attacks with manual fire will now become hostile to the player. Ships will use a 3 strikes policy before attacking.
  • Issue where weapon fire spread was not calculated correctly when in manual fire.
  • Issue where the align functionality would do nothing if the target to align to was exactly behind the ship.
  • Bug where Tab and Z would not cycle to the correct target.
  • Bug that would allow the sun to shine through planets.
  • Bug where the Drone Management button would be visible when the ship did not have any drone capacity.

 

Long game play video of the feature of the D11 release.

Must try and have a go at getting into playing this.

Fast off the mark as D12 has now gone live, 150 odd meg download.

D12
New Galaxy Required

Warning: Parts May be Disconnected from Old Ships and will need to be reconnected. Known Issue: Hardpoint Placement: If you can’t get a hardpoint to accept its position, enter freeform mode (tab) and adjust it to be able to fit, then click “Connect Part to Ship”

Added

• AI can now warp and turn off drag to while travelling or when closing distance with a hostile target. This should be quite noticeable to players compared to the constant slow-boating they used to do.
• Shipyard - Added the ability to place modules singly or mirrored, flip the mirrored modules as needed
• Damage readouts in Sector. Icon will appear when a system has reached 75% health, with the color transitioning to red when it reaches 25% health. A tool tip has been added to give exact percentage of health.
• AI ships can now make use of attack drones.
• Jump drives: The jump drive subsystems are now functional. Instead of only being able to jump to sectors within your current star system, a jump drive allows you to make jumps based only on distance. The star map now displays how far a sector is from your current position in light years, and how far you can jump using your ship’s currently equipped jump drive. If you don’t have one, you’re stuck with jumping to same-system sectors and jump gates.
• Ships now retain their damage upon return to shipyard. The new repair window allows the player to recover hull damage and repair subsystems for a cost. If the player lacks funds, their balance will go into the negative, representing debt. While in debt, repairs can still be purchased, but the player is unable to spend money in any other way. This is a temporary implementation pending further development passes.
• Paint Styles are now available (beyond Color Profiles) - to add textures to colors on the ships.
• Module counter in the lower left corner of the shipyard displays how many modules are on the ship as well as the ship module count classification (low/medium/high/extreme). As players add more components, a warning will pop up showing when performance may begin to be impacted by module #’s

Changed

• Shipyard UI has been overhauled. The top bar is now controls: Reset, Save,Load,Workshop,Info,Store,Inventory,Repair Window,and all ship stats divide by classification.
• The new right hand slide out controls Modules (Cockpits,Hulls,Engines,Misc), Weapons both hardpoint/weapon mount placement and assigning weapons to mounts, Drones placement of Hanger/DCM and hangar management. And last but not least is the customization of colors and styles.
• The new left side slide out Shipyard Tools, Gizmo Controls, Mirror Placement, and Mirror Tools.
• Modules are now placed on a grid system in Shipyard rather than a node system. Pressing Tab will still enable freeform mode.
• Significantly decreased spread of all kinetic weapons
• Doubled damage rating of all kinetic weapons
• Reduced the mass of all ammunition
• Reduced the volume of all ammunition, it should now be viable to stock your ships with it.
• The AI aggro mechanic has been fleshed out a bit. Enemy ships smaller than you may run instead of fight, and larger ships may not see you as worth their time. Proximity is also taken into account, and distant ships may not bother with you.
• Asteroids will now be of random scale.
• Faction standings are now reciprocal. It is not longer possible for faction A to love faction B, while faction B hates faction A.
• Drone collision avoidance has been updated
• Warp effects modified

Fixed

• Fixed a bug that occured when holding a directional input while opening the map.
• Fixed bugs affecting some particle effect scales.
• Fixed a performance issue while warping that was introduced in D11.
• Fixed a bug where auto warp would move the player away from their intended destination if they tried to warp to a large object while inside that object’s safety perimeter.
• MOONS? MOOOOOOOOOONS! Moons. (Moons have been added back into the scene)

 

D13 went live last week as I only turned Steam on this morning it updated the game along with a couple of hot fixes as well.

A new galaxy is required for this build!

Added

• Economy first pass: This patch includes the beginning of our new economy simulation. With the simulation, it should now possible for players to make profit through arbitrage (taking advantage of price difference in separate markets). Each sector has a market which simulates the trade of 5 different commodities, and the prices of modules, subsystems, ammunition, and trade goods are tied to one of these. This is greatly simplified compared to our final plans, and we will be posting a detailed write up on the subject soon.
• Mining Laser Weapon Subsystem. These weapons are not able to be aimed at and fired at enemies, nor are they available to be able to manually control currently.
• Planets now have a gravitational field around them, the closer a ship gets the stronger the effect, the total mass of the ship is also a factor, large ships should be advised to stay away from planetary bodies. Micro Warp, and use of a ships KFG will allow you to escape the gravitational pull of a planet.
• If a hardpoint/weapon mount does not have a weapon attached to it, it will now highlight yellow. The icon in the right side weapon window will also be highlighted yellow.
• While in Sector pressing
  + [ B ] will do the same as right click and align to. *This will be bind-able later researching an issue with it currently.
• The rotation tool in shipyard now was a degree increment tool. The degrees are: 5, 15,45,90,180.
• A Main Menu button has been added to both Shipyard and Sector.
• Ship Inventory in Shipyard now has a Unload All button, this will dump the current contents of the ship to your station storage.
• A Missing Subsystem Warning system above the launch button in Shipyard.This is a quick reference to see if you ship is missing any of the critical subsystems.
• Added a load screen between scenes with hints on them.
• Added a Overlap Tool to turn off an off the overlap. Meaning you can now have 100% overlap if you so desire. This is located in the shipyard tools fly out.
• Added a Zero Rotation tool, this will allow you to zero out the rotations of the part after it’s been placed off the mouse. But before it is connected to the ship. This is located in the shipyard tools fly out.
• New DCM Module modes and icons.
• Added a Sector label for available cargo space so you do not have to open the inventory while mining in order to see how full your cargo is.
• Added keybinding for increasing and decreasing grid size in shipyard Defaults are [T] and [G]
• Added key bindings and UI buttons to increase and decrease rotational degree snapping, default keys are [Shift]+[T] and [Shift]+[G]
• Added Kinetic Field Strength to the KFG Info display in shipyard
• Holding [Shift] While confirming the placement of a part will duplicate that module for rapid placement of the same module.
• New module highlight effect

Changed

• Updated Sector UI. To be more cohesive with the Shipyard UI.
• Module and subsystem balance and scale - All modules and subsystems have been adjusted, they now follow a more logical scaling factor, this is not final and will be subject to many changes for balance and play ability.
• Players should notice a sizable increase in performance this patch due to changes in our camera rendering and the way we are handling materials.
• Missile AI has been improved they will no long fly in a spiral pattern.
• Added a career option to the New Galaxy Menu.
• The camera should start farther away from the ship when loading into the Shipyard.
• Improved the Mirroring tool location of mirrored part.
• Shipyard tools that are a Toggle now stay lit up to show if they are on/off.
• Modifying a part now just goes to the 3D movement tools instead of attaching it to the mouse.
• Reset button has been moved into the shipyard tools.
• Weapons & DCMs will start with their bases down toward the part you are attempting to place them on.
• Cockpits, Hulls, and Engines will start with their backs toward the part you are attempting to place them on.
• Subsystem - Increased Jump Drive mass, reduced base charge time. Range and Recharge time now scale with tier
• Adjusted max and minimum brightness of skybox nebula.
• Removed crew quarters and crew requirements, these systems will be re-implemented later.
• Right Click Menu > Modify now enables fine tune mode with transform and rotation gizmo.
• Increased ambient lighting on the underside of ships in the shipyard.
• Changed the Rotation and Translation Gizmo, the new tools are much cleaner looking.
• Moved the ship reset button to the Shipyard Tools flyout

   

Fixed

• All stock ships have been rebuilt and equipped to function under the current changed.
• Game Guide has been corrected so that it is accessible in the shipyard. *Note images still need to be updated.
• Fixed button not following sound settings.
• Fixed an issue with the Subsystem Manager filter when closing/opening it would not display the correct filter list.
• Fixed an issue with camera’s overlap rendering should increase performance across the board.
• Fixed an issue with the store that would take the credits but not give the goods to the player.
• Fixed a bug with warp gates not being spawned.
• Fixed Hardpoints 9/10 this should no longer have placement issues.
• Missiles should now once again trigger their audio when firing.
• Station inventory tooltip no longer displays ERROR! the first time it's displayed.
• When loading a ship some parts will no longer display the error hologram, even though they are in legal placement.
• Fixed issues with the weapon manager tab not displaying module size properly.
• Resolved scrolling issues with the weapon manager.
• Your ship will no longer continue flying away when you open the main menu.
• Corrected calculation error in the warp-to command, it was adding an extra zero to the distance it allowed the ship to warp to.

   

Known Issues

• In-store prices are not affected by the economy simulation right after creating a new game and before leaving the station.
• Star fields are not rendering, once it is fixed we'll hot patch the live build.