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EmptyEpsilon

A Co-op spaceship bridge simulator where you form a crew of 3 to 6 players serving in various roles like Captain, Helms, Relay, Weapons and Science officer. It's designed to run on almost any system and to be highly customizable due to it's extensive GM screen and powerful scripting capabilities.

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EmptyEpsilon on steam is available NOW!

10. des. 2024

After quite a lot of time, it has finally been done. The launch button has been pressed, and anyone on steam can download and play EmptyEpsilon for free.

With this launch comes the latest set of changes:

The French and German localizations have gotten quite an update.
The server browser menu has some changes where it no longer makes a difference between LAN and Internet games, it always shows both now.
A few scenarios got fixes and updates.
Surf's Up! scenario has been added, which is a more complex wave defense scenario.
Early Evaluation Exercise scenario has been added, which is an practice scenario for the basic tasks.
Liberation Day scenario has been added, which is an advanced multi-player ship scenario that changes every time you play it.

Now, there have been a few questions that are repeatedly asked, so let me answer them here:
Will there be steam workshop support?
While modding and custom scenarios are an important feature for EmptyEpsilon, there is currently no plan to add steam workshop support. The reason for this is that while Steam is great for a lot of things, there are also many occasions that steam is not the proper solution for running EmptyEpsilon. And for those cases, it shouldn't be impossible to get those scenarios and mods.

How can I play online with friends?
It was mentioned it before, but it is good to repeat it. EmptyEpsilon can be played online, however, it currently requires a public IP address/port forwarding. This is not the best situation, and Steam has a feature called the "relay network" to make this unnecessary. However, attempts to use this have not been successful so far.

I want realistic physics!
No.

Is this the ECS version?
No. The ECS update is not ready yet. A lot of hard work has been put into this. But as it is all free-time development, there is no timeline on when this will be available.

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Network Game

I am assuming that to connect networked we need to message IP to other players over steam chat? Or is there an easier steam 'friends' menu way to click and connect to running game?

vpelss

10. des. 2024 kl. 14.37

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Almost there!

3. des. 2024

Well people, there we have it. A brand new trailer thanks to Terandir, this marks an important milestone for the steam release. The actual release will be a few days from now, as we are still wrapping up some translations.

What to expect in this release? The full game as we already have on github, with version compatibility between the releases there and on steam.

Currently non of the matchmaking features of steam have been implemented. There is some groundwork done to allow easier joining games on the internet with friends, but this code is not working yet. As this is all done in our own personal time, things go as fast/slow as they go.

The next major thing happening is the ECS update, and you can read all about that on the github wiki: https://github.com/daid/EmptyEpsilon/wiki/ECS

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Finally another bit of info.

17. juni 2024

It has been very silent on the EmptyEpsilon Steam front. Life has caused me to focus on other things, but it is not all bad.

Steam release

While the previous steam release that was reported did not happen yet. The reason for this was that steam requires you to publish a trailer with the game, and that has been a bit of a drag. Where perfection gets the better of me. And then other things in life happened causing me to lose track of this plan for a while.
So the plan now is, instead of trying to make a really good trailer, I will just make a short 20-30 second trailer and release on steam with that.

Update: ECS

During the past year and a half, I've slowly been engineering at the major engine update. And I am finally at the point where I can happily say that most things are working again. This is a major overhaul of the engine. While the core gameplay is the same, it allows for untold customisation. As someone recently mentioned on discord:

A steerable black hole might be really awesome

And, with the ECS version of the engine, this is actually possible.

Now, this version of the engine is not done yet. As mentioned, most main gameplay works, but the following bits are still broken or unfinished:
* GameMaster screen tweaking
* DMX512 Hardware control
* Remote HTTP server API
* Not all script bindings are implemented yet

Also, a lot of code is not properly tested yet. So the plan is to get this out to people in the next few months to actually start testing and fixing all the bugs that arise.

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DMX512 Control

is dmx512 control going to be a part of the finished game as i recently got some theatre lights, or is the control already part of the game. thanks in advanced.