Stellar Tactics - Developers Log #2

The Developers Log #2 answers some questions about character creation:

Some have asked about character creation. So, a few answers and a video for everyone:

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[Q] Can I create my own character?
[A] Yes (see the video below). At the start of the game you will create a team of four combat specialists, genetically modified remnants of past wars hidden in a chamber on the Dauntless, one of four ships heading into the deep of space seeking a new home for the human race.

You can customize your characters appearance and that avatar will not only have a custom visual portrait, it’s appearance is actually reflected in the characters 3D model in the game. There are around 1700 visual combinations based on gender, face, hair, hair color and complexion. Beyond that you can assign unique voices to each of your team members.

[Q] Can I customize my characters. 
[A] Yes, Stellar Tactics is a full-featured party based RPG with classless character progression. Every member of your team can be customized in countless ways. Skills improve through use, so, equip a weapon of a certain type and use it and you will gain skill in that weapon. Use First Aid and you will improve in that skill. At various “Tiers” of skill, you will unlock perks that allow you to further customize your character. As each character levels up, they are giving bonus stat points that can be allocated to Strength, Agility and other base statistics.

In addition to the base stat’s and skill customizations, you will be able to customize each your character’s further through your equipment. There are literally millions of possible equipment permutations. Equipment comes in five Tiers of quality, each providing stat bonuses, adjustments to accuracy, critical modifiers and more. In addition, there are “Mod’s” of many kinds that allow you to upgrade your weapons through slotting mod’s to change their fire-mode packages, expand their clip size, provide stat bonuses and more. Mod’s affect both ranged weapons and melee weapons.

[Q] Is Stellar Tactics a RPG Lite game 
[A] No, Stellar Tactics is a Classic Full-Featured RPG. It’s similar in many ways to games that I enjoy like Baldurs Gate, Fallout 1 and 2 and games I have worked on like Wizardry and Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura. It breaks the mold of traditional fantasy RPG’s and moves the setting to space, gives you a ship and a team of space faring mercenaries and set’s you loose in a sandbox universe where you make your own choices and live or die by your own decisions.

What I’ve been working on: 

• The Prologue is now content complete!
• Polishing and tweaking game assets
• Testing and tweaking the prologue story and missions
• Refining dialog
• More asteroid mining
• Ship inventory management and hud
• Fixing minor bugs
• Adding flavor text and log entries

-> Steam page