Star Traders: Frontiers Update #88: Full Launch in 5...4...

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Tonight, Star Traders: Frontiers is rising up out of Early Access and into its full launch status on Steam. Throughout these 8 months, the community response and level of engagement has been phenomenal. We’ve worked closely with so many of our players to improve the game across the 88 Early Access updates. While we are thanking people who helped make the game what it is today, we can’t miss a chance to thank all of our KickStarter backers who supported the vision for STF from the very beginning.

Early Access may be over but this is far from the end. We will shut down the Early Access Dev Roadmap but will be spinning up a new one with any remaining feature copied over. If you know our studio and our games, you know that we love supporting them and updating them. Star Traders: Frontiers will be no different, so you can expect the updates and continual improvements to continue.

To celebrate the launch, Star Traders: Frontiers is 20% off for the week. There is no better time to tell a friend, leave a review or share the game with your neighborhood streamer, gamer or games community. Thank you as always for helping Cory and I get the word out.

Celebratory Hat

It wouldn’t be a real celebration without a free hat. So -- Update #88 has added a new military-styled hat to the mix.

We’ve also added 2 more environmental art boards to different landing zones -- a new radiation wilderness and a major urban zone that appears on either garden or jungle worlds.

Original Soundtrack

We are proud to announce the release of the Star Traders: Soundtrack as well. Thanks to Peter Venne from Viking Studios, the soundtrack includes 11 minutes of completely unreleased new music for a total of 33 minutes across 6 tracks. The new music will be coming to the game soon but for now you can check it out in the soundtrack. Thanks to everyone choosing to support our efforts and composer through this DLC.
store.steampowered.com/app/912470/Star_Traders_Frontiers_Soundtrack/

Bounty Hunter Missions

Edict-bearing hunters gained 2 missions in the last update and now 2 more extended fugitive hunt missions have been added, featuring tracking down a target across multiple urban and wilderness zones. More Edict-specific missions will be rolling off the assembly line over the next few updates, so get your blood badge and get ready to ride!

Enemy AI Gains Ships

We always release new ships to players-only first in order to make sure there isn’t a lurking balance issue or problem that enemy captains and AI could unfairly use against your captains. With enough time for extra testing and metrics under their belts, the Aeternum Vindex and Palace Interceptor have now been handed off to enemy captains to use. Which also opens up a new possibility of getting one of these locked ships -- using a Prize Ship Talent to pick on up!

As always, a huge thanks to our community and captains for giving us such momentum and energy through Early Access. We’re carrying that energy forward into the next phase and onto the next dev roadmap!

We hope you’ll take a moment to press ‘F’ to leave a review or tell a friend.

v2.3.27 - 8/1/2018

- Star Traders: Frontiers launches out of Early Access!
- Released Original Sound Track -- 33 minutes across 6 songs
- Added new hat type -- military cap
- Added 2 new environment arts (radiation wild, garden or jungle urban)
- Added 2 new Bounty Hunter mission types -- multi-hop fugitive hunts among urban and wilderness
- Added Smuggler and Pirate AI that uses the Aeternum Vindex
- Added Bounty Hunter and Pirate AI that uses the Palace Interceptor
- Improved several Crew Combat sound effects for weapons and damage
- Talents "Menacing Demeanor" and "Red Badge" no longer incorrectly fires against Independents
- Fixed bugs in some unlocks not showing correct eligiblity
- Fixed bugs with Talent cooldown display

[divini]

Congratulations!

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Aug 1, 2018 1:04:28 GMT -5 divini said:

Congratulations!

Thank you! It's been an epic 8 months

[Zer0Winds]

What's that? Out of EA? Well, who needs sleep anyway... Back to the computer!

[Cory Trese]

Thank you everyone for your support!

[athios]

Congrats guys on all your hard work coming to fruition. What a major milestone. Man, it feels like it's been a long journey, and I'm glad that us players were able to be a part of it.

Time to celebrate — Free vudka and spice for all!

[fallen]

Aug 1, 2018 14:31:18 GMT -5 athios said:

Congrats guys on all your hard work coming to fruition. What a major milestone. Man, it feels like it's been a long journey, and I'm glad that us players were able to be a part of it.

Time to celebrate — Free vudka and spice for all!

It really has been... almost 2 years of Alpha + Early Access. But we did it right

[ntsheep]

Glad to see all the hard work pay off. Now it's time for FREE THE TB's! Most so called 'professional' game studios barely release any updates or work with their customers the way you do. 80+ updates over several months. Weekly live chats. Interaction through all you forms of websites and social media. The world dosen't deserve gamers\developers as talented and kind as you are. We all must have done something really good in our past lives to be given the chance to play and help support you brothers on your journey to bring great games to the modern gaming era. Have a beer, play with the dogs, and sit back and smile knowing you have made so many of us happy.

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Aug 1, 2018 18:00:49 GMT -5 ntsheep said:

Glad to see all the hard work pay off. Now it's time for FREE THE TB's! Most so called 'professional' game studios barely release any updates or work with their customers the way you do. 80+ updates over several months. Weekly live chats. Interaction through all you forms of websites and social media. The world dosen't deserve gamers\developers as talented and kind as you are. We all must have done something really good in our past lives to be given the chance to play and help support you brothers on your journey to bring great games to the modern gaming era. Have a beer, play with the dogs, and sit back and smile knowing you have made so many of us happy.

Thank you for your kind words

FREE THE SHEEP!
FREE THE SHEEP!
FREE THE SHEEP!

[saltin]

Awesome job guys, it looks like the game has been very well received on Steam, so many players there showing interest.

And now it's time (hopefully) to settle back into our android roots again, yay us !  

[brentaur]

Congratulations, sirs!

Thank you for the amazing work you do. I've played a lot of games that were fun, but youse are the only ones that are nearly as much fun seeing and even being a tiny part of behin the scenes as they are to play. Best game makers ever!

[athios]

Oh, I was just looking to install Steam on my new laptop and noticed that STF was one of the Featured & Recommended games on the Steam main page! Hope this brings in extra traffic. Good luck!

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Aug 3, 2018 5:09:02 GMT -5 athios said:

Oh, I was just looking to install Steam on my new laptop and noticed that STF was one of the Featured & Recommended games on the Steam main page! Hope this brings in extra traffic. Good luck!

Yes, very exciting! That Featured list is personalized by gamer, but still extremely cool!

I think this other list, New and Trending is only personalized by region --

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Aug 2, 2018 7:45:01 GMT -5 brentaur said:

Congratulations, sirs!

Thank you for the amazing work you do. I've played a lot of games that were fun, but youse are the only ones that are nearly as much fun seeing and even being a tiny part of behin the scenes as they are to play. Best game makers ever!

Thank you. It has been such an honor for Cory and I to work so closely with all of you on these games. I hope everyone in the community who has stuck with us, pushed us, given feedback and helped grow the community can take pride in what we've all done together. No hyperbole -- we would not be here without this community.

[tenbsmith]

Congrats y'all!