Hopefully this means most of the bugs have been squashed if they're comfortable putting it out publicly. :) Not that I've encountered many; in over a year's time in-game a friend and I only had freezes or crashes maybe three times, plus a few non-serious visual and audio glitches.

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Quoting: liamdaweThe co-op is online.

Thanks Liam, that's interesting to know! ^_^

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Wait, it has co-op? Huh, I've watched Let's Plays of this that never mentioned that fact. Is that a recent addition? Is it local co-op only, or remote?

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Fun as this game was before, it's even better in multiplayer. Been playing with a friend since the beta came out, we've made it through our first year so far and have been having a blast.

And if you're feeling mischievous, there are so many ways to mess with your friends, too. Wait for them to come running back late at night then block the path to their bed with furniture, leave horses in places where it'll block them coming out of a building, run around and be silly in their cutscenes, if you're the host you can instantly move their house around anywhere you want for free, etc., etc. :D

Edit: Forgot to say, the new non-multiplayer-exclusive content is pretty neat too. The Autograbber makes it a breeze to collect from cows, sheep and goats, the Night Market is a cool event where you can buy all different kinds of seed during the winter (good for green houses), the ability to grow cactus now is nice, etc.

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Very interesting looking, I'll have to keep an eye on this.

Though I got a bit confused at one or two points watching the trailer because it uses some of the exact same sound effects as Creeper World 3, so I heard the sound of a Spore Tower about to launch and momentarily panicked because I hadn't built any Beams yet! :P

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Been playing a lot of Stellaris lately—I'm getting back into it seriously for the first time since the game-changing 2.0 patch, and while I one of the people who were initially skeptical about the changes I find I'm actually enjoying the game a lot more now, especially the war side of things. Previously I tended to play really pacifistic empires as I found the war system confusing and cumbersome (compared to other Paradox grand strategy games), now I'm in the middle of a campaign as an empire of Determined Exterminator robots, trying to cleanse the galaxy of all organic life (and enjoying it a lot). :)

Some funny moments have occurred, such as when the Fanatic Xenophile fallen empire awoke, then their rivals the Fanatic Xenophobes awoke a few years later and started a War in Heaven. I tried to stay neutral (as I wanted to wipe both of them out), but the Xenophiles declared war on me and forced me to become a vassal, drawing me into their war. In revenge I continued expanding peacefully and upgrading my tech, eventually taking out the Xenophobe empire they were fighting (while also fighting off attacks from the Fanatic Spiritualist fallen empire every decade or so because one of my sectors colonized one of their holy worlds). And while all this was happening, The Contingency (an ancient machine empire trying to destroy all advanced life in the galaxy) awoke and because of how much of the galaxy I owned three out of four of its initial expansion sites were near my borders, so I had to destroy them. All this finally left me strong enough to break free of my masters, then conquer them in turn…which transferred all of their vassals (which was most of the rest of the empires in the galaxy by this point) to me :O. Now I'm the undisputed master of the galaxy, having wiped out two more fallen empires along the way, just waiting to conquer or integrate my vassals to get that sweet, sweet achievement.

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Was that a giant blue pangolin they were fighting? One of my favorite animals, never seen one in a game before! :D Now if I could just play as one… ^_^

Also that art style is fantastic. I'm a huge sucker for that kind of stylized representation. This isn't the type of game I'd normally play, but I'm definitely gonna keep an eye on this one. The online co-op multiplayer is an extra bonus.

Also that tagline of simply "Be a fox with a sword!" is pretty funny. :)

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Never played the first one but I watched a few Let's Plays of it, and it looked hilarious. Hopefully they get cross-platform multiplayer sorted out though or I don't have much reason to buy it. :|

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Quoting: PortariusSorry for the late reply, I haven't received the email notification although I explicitly subscribed to them.

Thanks for the kind words! You're definitely not the first one to comment on that, and that's is something we're looking into. It's not hard to implement, but we're afraid it'll make it too simple, that being said - stay tuned and it might come in one of the next updates!

Just out of curiosity, what distro are you using? Have you had any issues so far?

No worries. I don't think it's a bad design choice, necessarily, I just wasn't expecting it and didn't realize it for a few levels; maybe having some sort of help right at the beginning explaining it would be nice, but it wasn't that difficult to figure out. And when I did I realized I need to play a bit more strategically, which was different. Though I wouldn't mind it being that way, perhaps as an option for people to choose.

I'm on Debian testing, updated every few days. Haven't had any issues so far. I thought it froze the first time I loaded it up so I force-quit it, but I think I just didn't give it enough time to get to the main menu (I wasn't expecting it to take so long to load).

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As an astronomer I'm so happy to finally see multiple-star systems in the game! :D

I also really enjoy the Leviathans (I picked up that story pack pretty much entirely for the Ether Drake :)), so I'm definitely picking this one up.

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