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Eleon Game Studios has partnered with Funcom to publish its co-op space survival sandbox game Empyrion. The indie studio tried but failed to raise funds for the game via Kickstarter in 2014, but surprisingly still managed to launch the game to positive reviews in August 2020. Now, its managed to secure support from the Conan Exiles and Dune: Awakening developer. [...]
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In true survival game fashion, Empyrion: Galactic Survival has received dedicated servers as part of Pre-Alpha 4.0. In addition to providing a server that can—theoretically—run 24/7, the introduction of dedicated servers is bringing with it the end of the "playfield limitation" era in Empyrion. Players no longer have to gather together and travel to another "playfield" together. Each player can [...]
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It's sometimes easy to forget that Empyrion's planets were all hand-designed before now. They're so incredibly vast—and have deformable terrain, at that—that you don't really think about it much. Pre-Alpha Update 3.0.0 changes that, however, and you probably will notice the difference. This update marks the first pass at procedurally generated planets. You can generate a planet from a seed, [...]
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