[b]Hello again starchasers! I've returned to you with further news regarding our upcoming early access launch! [/b] I don't remember if I said it or not (I don't remember most things now) but regarding our previous announcement with early access we talked about how multiplayer was going to be launching in a very early state. Furthermore, there was a LOT of it that was super, super, super broken. Like... not even being able to connect correctly broken. [img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//35321791/d628b4901fc8789f2f32a270ccfff84b29717158.jpg[/img] The good news is that multiplayer's major components are now working. You can connect, customize characters, participate in PVP, etc. But it is insanely buggy. And as anyone who has developed a persistent open world multiplayer spaceship fantasy RPG can attest to: Testing and fixing the bugs for that component takes a LOT of time. [previewyoutube=FYPheOAnxyo;full][/previewyoutube] [b]We've made the decision that, when multiplayer launches, we want it to be the full multiplayer experience.[/b] That means NPCs, the entire main campaign for multiplayer (which trust me has a TON of cool moments), grouping, world persistence, being able to pirate other players. The works. [b]With that in mind and with so much of time of our time being spent testing things, we have decided to delay multiplayer until the main campaign for it is ready.[/b] [img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//35321791/4d020b612b3f82736269cef0d9fc07b4ca3038b3.png[/img] [img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//35321791/9b7af199b0752609fe2531093b1338e21821c293.png[/img] This allows us to focus on making the game as whole far stabler as well as optimizing the already enormous singleplayer portion, of which a large majority of multiplayer's content also pulls from. [img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//35321791/dc540324924111c1ae21505f348cf3ec93593a90.png[/img] [img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//35321791/4bf5153222d5fe2a9351a68795c2a8badf143ab1.png[/img] I think you'll be quite satisfied with what's being cooked up for all this, and in time your patience will pay off. [img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//35321791/58ebed349362eefd604b545c9031a2c937b3b4c0.png[/img] [img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//35321791/f4a8c0c0469ae607f73635e13c1cd727e5457efc.png[/img] [img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//35321791/1e51af5facbc02929323076b23654a2960e63034.png[/img] That's all! See you all on launch!