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Blackstar Ranger is a high-octane immersive first-person space shooter. From the seat of your advanced fighter, you will complete contracts for BLACKSTAR, the most esteemed Private Military Faction in the solar system. With 6DOF capability, you will battle threats throughout the system.

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Demo Update 01/25/2025

25 Jan

This is a small QOL update:

Continued refinement to the mouse steering system for those without joysticks. The combat in BSR is geared toward HOTAS control, but the game has a mouse steering system as well that I haven't been completely happy with. This update scraps the more math-based sensitivity ramp that the previous system had and now uses a curve-based approach. The increase and decrease in sensitivity when dragging the mouse gizmo is now much smoother and less dramatic. I'm not a mouse using space simmer, but for those who are, I hope this feels better. REMEMBER: The lower difficulty levels (Level1 and Level2) will lower the AI maneuverability and armor rating that will help when using mouse control.

Added a new option in the graphics list, at player request, to toggle the ambient space dust if desired.

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Mouse controlls?

Firstly, I want to thank you for this fantastic demo on Steam. However, I've encountered an issue with steering the spaceship. While I'm able to use the thrusters for up, down, left, right movement and Q and E for rotation, I noticed that mouse control for steering isn’t available. As mouse input is a standard feature in many space and flight simulators, it significantly enhances the ease and fluidity of control. Is there a technical reason why mouse steering is not currently supported? If it’s possi...

Rust

28 Feb @ 6:48pm

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EMERGENCY HOTFIX

22 Jan

Fixed an option menu bug in the demo that caused all radio button options not to save their state on menu exit. This was accidently introduced in the update build a week ago. Thanks to Steam user "Dating" for bringing this glaring issue to my attention.

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DEMO UPDATE 3

17 Jan

RELEASE NOTES:

This "should" be the final build before the February Steam Next-Fest.

Removed the old target arrow system that relied on an overlay canvas and wrote a new system. The new system moves the pointer into 3D space. This makes it more graphically in line with the rest of the holographic HUD.

Reworked some menu UI elements.

Enabled the intro text screen. It will only play on the first session run. (unless you do a full character reset)

The Private Messages screen is now active with the default message included. It will not receive any new messages in the demo.

The Compendium page layout is now visible when the button is selected but has not been populated with any information.

A new option to unlock all contracts has been added to the options page. The normal flow of gameplay is the player unlocks the next contract after completing the previous. This being a single player experience and me believing in player choice, this option will make all contracts available when selected. This is not functional for the demo.

Tweaked the AI pilots to be a little more aggressive.

Various minor bug fixes.

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Full game variety?

I'd like to start off that this demo has me VERY excited, this is an incredible effort! For supporting HOTAS out the gate I'm inclined to throw the money your way on the spot :D That said, I am curious - I see the controls talk about "High velocity AP" and "IR missiles" (of which you get precisely two)... are there plans for the final design to have varying ships and/or loadouts, or is that set of details just 'setting fluff'? I'm hype. I'm also hype for a heavy fighter with too many missiles and a dump...

Reiver

1 Mar @ 2:47pm

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Really tough

Is it supposed to be this difficult? I'm struggling on the first mission. I don't see how you can avoid damage long enough to clear all of the pirate squads. I'm playing with a HOTAS the way it was intended. You die really easily.