Weekly Star Atlas Newsletter #153

Welcome to our 153rd newsletter on Star Atlas! This weekly newsletter, published by Aephia Industries, focuses entirely on the development of this ambitious game. Here, we try to aggregate all the newsworthy tidbits revealed [mainly by the team] throughout the past week.

We had a very quiet week, with no official (minor) announcements of any kind. Fortunately, the team shared some nice visuals, Michael (CEO) was interviewed, and the Starvlog team published part 1 of their Singapore Report!

It’ll be short but sweet!

Calico Maxhog

The team published a beautiful one-minute cinematic video showing the final state of the Calicao Maxhog vehicle.

A Peek Behind the UE5 Development Curtains

Chip (Director of Game Systems Design) shared a 30-second clip on X, showcasing his work on Server-Side Rewind for Hit Detection. This basically allows a player experiencing lag to still get their hits registered.

Been working on implementing Server-Side Rewind for Hit Detection the last few days. Really excited to have a prototype working! Client (small window) is operating with 1000ms packet lag. You can see on the Server their hits being validated based on the target frame history. pic.twitter.com/sFhizLYU6i

— Chypto (@@Chypto_) 2024-10-27

Furthermore, if you would like to watch Chip and Brad (Gameplay Engineer) work on some UE5 features (in this case, a shooting range), then be sure to check out their 1-hour Live Development broadcast from this past Friday! Special Tip: Check out the last few minutes to get an idea of how Tufa will invade the

PlayToEarn Interview

Michael did several interviews while in Singapore, and this past week, PlayToEarn shared their Token2049 interview with him on their X account and YouTube.

Though most of the information shared won’t be news to those following along closely, they do manage to cover a lot during the 30-minute window, and as such, we felt it worth sharing with all of you.

News Bits

A few small updates:

Last week’s Atlas Brew had the Council members on to give an update on the DAO and their first 10 (or so) days on the Council.
In his latest video, Metaverse Explorer reviews a new Flipside Dashboard feature released by Aephia Industries that provides valuable insights into your SAGE performance.

Starvlog – Part 1

Community members AtlasTheory (Content Creator) and Shaddix1 (Moderator) raised enough funds through a crowdfunding campaign to be able to travel to Singapore and document the Community meetups, Breakpoint, and IMPACT!

They have now published the first of three parts (45 minutes) of their adventure on YouTube. If you did not manage to attend, or you’d like a bit of a nostalgia trip, you best give this one a look!

You’ve reached the end of this week’s (very short) issue! Thanks for reading!