Please join us Monday, December 22 for the release of Obliviara Sector to the Almagest System!

🚀 Monday, December 22, 6 PM UTC
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**Story Spoilers!**

Our story has already begun – you have met the two brothers, Miro and Ivan. On their journey through the Almagest system they will cross paths with many different characters. Some of them will be friendly, others… not so much.

This is one of the friendly ones I personally am looking forward to meeting – Aya, a member of the Astronaut Without Borders (AWB) faction.

The vertical slice 3 “Water” is not only about volumetric, planetary scale water. The update will also need a lot of blocks and supporting features to make real water gameplay possible.

Without them, the water would be just an interesting physics gimmick. We have many gameplay designs that involve water – and our Art team is already on the task. Here are some of the recent concepts I had the pleasure to review.

What more can I show you? Maybe a small sneak peek at a unique backpack for a future story character:

And here is a behind the scenes video from the basic rigging of another story character.

Question to you: What water-adjacent features would you like to see?

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Features

• Opening the Debug Menu now shows a warning and marks your save as modified, with tagged saves showing a warning before loading.

Stability

• Fixed a crash that could happen when flying close to the ground in the Survival scenario on AMD graphics cards.
  
• Fixed an issue with GPU crashes caused by the SLUG shader by updating it to the latest version.
  
• Fixed a memory issue related to voxels to improve game stability and prevent crashes.
  
• Fixed an issue where the game would crash when Connector blocks tried to align or connect, especially after destruction or removal of grids.

Functional

• Fixed an issue where AMD graphics drivers were not detected correctly, improving compatibility for players using AMD GPUs.

Render

• Fixed an issue where in-game menus could become slow to open after playing for a long time.

Please keep in mind that VS2 is still an Early Access and Alpha version of Space Engineers 2. We are planning daily hotfixes after the initial release.

• Starting with this release, we will always keep previous versions of the game available after major updates. This means you can return to an earlier version at any time and, for example, save your blueprints or creations. You will find these builds in the Steam Beta tab.
  
• We also want to be upfront about one important thing. We already know that water will be such a monumental change for the game that you will need to start a new save when VS3 arrives. We try to minimize situations like this, but during the alpha stage of development they are sometimes unavoidable.
  
• Planet modding is not fully supported at this stage of development - we will bring you modding support for planets at later stages!
  
• Customizable Controls are coming in VS2.2!
  
• In rare cases, Procedural Voxel Generation may cause a Contract grid to spawn inside a voxel area. If this happens, you will need to start a new map.
  
• Tutorial Contracts can be broken by not following the task sequence; this will be reworked and mitigated in the future updates.

Thank you for helping us make the game better!

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