Death to the permadeath & patch 0.31.11

Posted by Erhune about 7 years ago

Death to the permadeath!

Gangs of Space has been designed from the beginning to be a permadeath game (even before we introduced the “roguelite” elements like subsystems; our inspiration is taken mostly from old arcade games).

Even though we - and many players - like it this way, it is true that losing a ship can be a demoralizing experience for a new player. So today, we’re introducing a permadeath protection designed to help beginners without changing the fundamental high-level game for experienced players.

From now on, newly built ships will be equipped by default with a new passive item: the Auto-Warp. This item warps you back automatically to the Motherbase when you would have taken a fatal hit, but it comes with a few drawbacks:

  • since it is a passive item, you cannot equip another item that would have given you nice passive bonuses;
  • it lowers all Sector Points (SP) and Credit gains by 25%;
  • it prevents you from warping to T5 or T6 systems.

Auto-Warp

You can remove this item at any time (and we encourage experienced players to do so!), but it will be destroyed in the process.

permadeathswitch

New base skins

To add some visual variety, all ships are now created randomly with one out of 3 base colors.

new-skins

Of course you can still customize your ship at any time (for free) in the Skin Shop.

10 new music tracks!

Alex, the composer of the soundtrack of Gangs of Space, has been touched by all your positive feedback about his compositions. So he has graced us with 10 more tracks, which triples the amount of music we now have in the game!

You can discover these new tracks everywhere, from an alternative Motherbase ambiance to different music for all 6 tiers, and even some music on the death screen! (another good reason to un-equip your Auto-Warp!)

Patch 0.31.11

As usual, all the details of the patch are available in the changelog.

A wiki full of treasures

Thanks to a growing team of motivated players, the Gangs of Space Wiki is now full of useful information:

wiki.gangsofspace.com

Items, ships, subsystems, drops, enemies… all there, ready for your eyes!

There is still a lot of translation work though, so if you speak another language like Spanish, Russian, Chinese, German, Portuguese… then join the Wiki team on Discord! You will be more than welcome!

A new Conquest: Cinquo Vaporis Galaxy

The Empire has started the construction of a new Motherbase in Cinquo Vaporis Galaxy. Enemy forces have been evaluted to about 17,000,000. Get ready for the cleaning, and maybe the Empire will reward the most valorous of you!

Summary of the previous Conquest

Shark Investor Pack

The Imperial Bank has computed dividends for the conquest of Quatro Vaporis Galaxy. Each Share will be awarded dividends of 168 Credits, for a total of 8,400 Credits for the 50 Shares of the Shark Investor Pack.

Ladders

Congratulations to all players that exterminated the Pirnat faction in 1 week, 12 hours, 18 minutes, and 7 seconds.

The players and Gangs that will receive Imperial awards for this Conquest are:

Souvenir

A last glimpse of Quatro Vaporis Galaxy accompanied by a group picture of the winning Gang:

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STATUS

Server status: ONLINE

 
 

GALAXY

Sisyphus Medior
Started: January 7, 2022
Ended: November 1, 2022
Enemy forces in this Galaxy:
PirnatPirnatEXTERMINATED
 
 

R.I.P.

Commander No Fucks Given
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TOP GRIND

PlayerSector Points
#1Save Game 1992 Save2,397,244 SP
#2Storm Pirates JayJayYT863,109 SP
#3UNS Jakala184,944 SP
#4I go Solo Joe Void141,546 SP
#5imdie 0406129,064 SP
#6Acrylic Dream Genetic124,294 SP
#70O0 Empty106,890 SP
#8Acrylic Dream Strega92,580 SP
#9Mew gang FOXYN1GHT82,800 SP
#10Acrylic Dream rymeilema61,387 SP
 
 

TOP SKILL

PlayerSector Points
#1Save Game 1992 Save32,987 SP/h
#2Acrylic Dream Strega24,139 SP/h
#3UNS Jakala19,570 SP/h
#4Storm Pirates JayJayYT19,230 SP/h
#5TurnUp German Elite16,818 SP/h
#6Acrylic Dream rymeilema16,356 SP/h
#7Hello Charlotte free cookies14,669 SP/h
#8imdie 040611,108 SP/h
#9Oblivion CaptNight3 V310,871 SP/h
#10I go Solo Joe Void9,264 SP/h
 
 

TOP GANGS

GangConquest Points
#1Save Game 1992 Save Game 19921,212,638 CP
#2Storm Pirates Storm Pirates352,668 CP
#3Acrylic Dream Acrylic Dream163,820 CP
#4UNS UNS161,461 CP
#5imdie imdie90,963 CP
#60O0 0O086,454 CP
#7I go Solo I go Solo74,957 CP
#8Mew gang Mew gang66,362 CP
#9Flying Dutchman Flying Dutchman59,475 CP
#10GoS Forever GoS Forever45,371 CP