Sorry for the delay! (I don't check here often.)

And sorry for the confusing AI behavior. That does sound like a bug, and hopefully you've seen by now that we patched the character creation UI to include a partner preference choice (which you can change later via any mirror). AI *should* be honoring that choice in all cases.

If it is still misbehaving, please post a bug on either our forums or Discord, and we'll see about getting it fixed. Thanks!

Hello.
I'm playing and loving the game, but something caught my attention. I clearly chose "him" as pronoun (so I assumed male and heterosexual), yet my character keeps having dreams about another man — at first I thought it was his father, but now I'm not so sure — and I just saw a log message stating he's attracted to everyone.
Let me be clear: I have no issue with the pronoun options, and I understand the game has mature themes, including this kind of content. But if I'm the one defining the character’s background, early life, and roleplaying his choices, isn’t it fair to expect the game not to contradict that?
I don't think this was intentional, but it does affect immersion. It feels like the game is making that choice for me, rather than responding to mine.
I’d like to suggest adding an "attraction preference" option during character creation, just like pronouns. That would help support different roleplay styles more clearly.

Hello, I have a question and a suggestion about the game, which I have outlined here.
https://v1.steam.hlxgame.cc/app/1022980/discussions/1/3075377162301952049/

Didn't see this until now, but hopefully you've sunk your teeth into the latest updates! The big one dropped in September, and we've had a handful since.

Yo. can we please get a dev update for Ostranauts. March was the last one On Steam. Limbo is nice and all but...

It's alright. We all have our moments. And I suspect they were indeed interested in starting something, or at least didn't care if they did, despite what they claimed.

My main thing is that I want my communities to be respectful to each other. And it's harder to ask one side to play nice while the other is throwing punches. So in this case, it was easiest to delete all the punches and set the record straight.

Thanks for the kind words, and I'll do my best to keep building my weird stuff! :)

I feel bad because I think me being so harsh on the dude with gender/sexuality issues caused you to lock the thread.

Though I felt it wasn't completely unwarranted, at the same time it is your product and your community and I did not mean to overstep.

I appreciate all of your work, the medium needs more developers like you pushing the boundaries.

Thank you for the good tidings! I'll do my best :)

may Odin be with you in your new venture, Ostranauts

Thanks! I'm glad to hear it landed well. I figure if players gain a useful bit of knowledge or trivia while playing my games, that's a win!

Well kudos to you -- that's the best choice possible there i'd say. 15E's have traditionally worked on either the RQ-7B Shadow platform or the Grey Eagle, and you get assigned one or the other upon graduating AIT. They've been talking for years about splitting the MOS' into their own unique MOS identifiers but as of yet I don't think that's happened.

Good eye! And no, I haven't been in any armed services. When I add things to the game, I usually try to find valid info to reinforce the game's believability.

In this case, I needed a character who worked on the UAVs in Camp Grayling. It seemed like 15E would be a good fit for the role!

I noticed part of the lore in NEO Scavenger -- a character's MOS in the Army is 15E. I was a 15E, and im curious about if anyone on the dev team was one of those or had any link to that MOS.

Instead of an area where I can type my message it says:
Posting privileges: Only group moderators and officers are allowed to post in this forum.

@will_iam8969, that's weird! I don't see you on any ban lists or anything. Are you getting a specific error message?

I'm trying to post a bug in your forum for ostranauts but I don't have the privilege to for some reason. Any way you can change that?

Im very glad that NEO Scavenger will be completed. I wish U inspiration, ideas and speedy implementation

Woohoo!

blue bottle games I tried on linux and it works really good thanks

I've had a few Linux users tell me they could run Ostranauts on their Linux box using Windows emulation software. (Might've been Wine?) But the game is currently only compiled for Windows.

does Ostranauts work on linux?

Hi mumbles6869,

Sorry for the issues with saving! Would you mind telling me more about the problem? E.g. which game is this, and which platform?

You're welcome to reply here, but I sometimes don't notice things here as quickly. I'm usually pretty on top of the Ostranauts Steam forums, as well as the BBG official forums and BBG Discord. (It helps to tag @devs if on Discord.)

You can also email me using the address listed here, if that's easier:
https://bluebottlegames.com/contact

im having issues saving properly. they either dont save or wont load, please help, or fix this please.

The current projection is that Early Access will finish late in 2022. There may be updates beyond that, but we aim to have a fairly complete game experience by then.

Also, if you haven't seen it yet, this 8-minute video talks a bit about what we've done, and what we're planning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE6ouu9PaFo

It's fairly high-level, but should give you an idea.

I'm trying to get a clear picture, but I'm not entirely sure after reading the store page. What's the ideal end goal for Ostranauts? When will you consider it finished?

I see. Well I will stay updated on the updates and reconsider my review then.

Thanks for the suggestion, ManBad! I think that's fairly similar to some things we discussed as a dev team.

Currently, we have a fixing/building/maintaining your ship loop, a salvage/resell parts loop, and a social/physiological survival loop. And as we get those complete, we'll be adding new activities onto those, whether they be paid missions for NPCs, aiding social contacts, or participating in story-like plots.

Still some basics to nail down, though, before we add more complexity. Hopefully, we'll have the existing stuff stabilized enough soon so that we can add more!

Regarding your reply to my review of Ostranauts: Just some smaller misison types. For example; a retrieve mission where you need to retrieve any sort of object from a derelict. It wouldn't really add anything that new and still be incorporated into the game loop. But would add some extra flair and spice for the game loop. And other smaller things like this that doesn't necesarily add new game loops but just adds to it.

Woohoo! Glad to hear it's treating you better now!

The new game I started in the new patch has not bugged out once so far. Even posted a picture of my upgraded pod in the discord screenshots channel.

@Mephizo, ah! That was going to be my next question: "do you have a save handy that I could try out?" It does sound a bit like a bug, and I'd probably have to poke it a few times to figure out what it is.

In the meantime, we have a patch planned for later this week or next, which might help. And it also will include some new gameplay stuff.

If you do give it a shot again, let me know how it goes!

Hello Sir, thank you for responding to my review so quickly. I have very high hopes that Ostranauts could be the best most unique space sim ever made. I tried changing the shifts around it did not work. and the character got stuck on the sick to stomach debuff and would not go off even after taking the anti nausea pills. all my character would do is try to find food and even open airlocks with no eva suit on repeatedly and would not do anything i told him to do. So needless to say i just deleted the save. Even with the bugs it's already a pretty unique game. I will certainly change my review when things get better. I played the heck out of NEO Scavenger since i believe 2014 although my hours on steam disagree.

Hello, will the game Ostranauts be translated into French? Thank you!