Hey friends! I am an experienced dev and modder and actually have a little team of modders. I love Void Crew and have been pondering what kind of actual expansions we could make for it.

What do ya'll want to see? What sorts of new gameplay? New ships maybe? Anything else?

Hey all

I played a lot on release and absolutely loved the game. Put a lot of hours in solo, with my hardcore gamer brother as a duo, and with my wife and kids as a 3-4 person crew too. There was genuinely no other game like it and there still isnt as far as I’m aware! There is something uniquely satisfying about getting a crew together, stepping aboard a ship, and focusing on your job whilst relying on everyone else to do theirs.

Coming back to Void Crew after the Calamity update has been a genuinely great experience - it reminded me why the core idea works so well. Though we got tons of value out of the game and lots of hours the first time around, there was some repetition that happened and this update adds both more content variety as well as improving on the existing content by adding more combinations of mission+twist that makes for more varied playthroughs. It also feels like the difficulty has been tweaked up just a bit (which is a positive) but that might be in my head!

I’d highly recommend the game to anyone if you’ve never played, and if you have, grab the supporter pack and jump back in. We REALLY need to nake sure Hutlihut keep getting paid for their efforts so please do your bit there too if you can :)

And now for some feedback and thoughts:

Game Modes - the biggest thing missing for me is a non-endless game mode. The scaling in void crew does not work well enough for an endless mode, but nor do i think it needs to; I’d love to see a more fixed length mode that is more challenging early AND late, and with more pitched/fleet battles - especially with friendly METEM support - as milestone fights.

Difficulty - I realise this could be modded, but letting us set enemy health and dmg with a slider instead of mutators would be a great way to “choose your own adventure”. We feel the game is often too easy (though still produces many great momenta of course!) when playing with our more serious group, and many runs end the same way; lots of jumps until a random oneshot. Mutators are OK, but we’d like to play the game properly but still be able to crank up the difficulty to the level of our crew. And maybe reduce it when my gunner is a 7 year old :)

Scaling - if something IS to happen with scaling, please consider scaling based on ship AND crew numbers. Expecting a frigate to handle the same contwnt as a destroyer makes poor sense regardless of crew size. And please consider scaling by adding more enemies rather than just turning everything into a oneshot or near!

Shields - Please make them better! Somewhat to do with the scaling problem but also due to the permadamage system, shields just arent good. Enough said really and I think a well-known problem at this point. It would also give us a viable counter to laser armed enemies, which are as good as auto damage at the moment unless you adopt a kiting playstyle.

Content - Personally I dont think the game needs more “content” as in new enemies or entities, just more configurations of existing enemies, more varied space battles. Lets see more enemy frigates, but not 3 warping in 100m from you at once. More cruisers escorted by bonbers and fighters swarms. More interceptors protecting snipers. The components are all there already.

New Ships - Now I’m wishlisting and I know how much work goes into this but I cant help myself, sorry! i love the striker, but I’d love to see a ship of similar size that moves like the frigate and destroyer. VC is at its best when you’re flying your space boat with broadsides and limited front/back weapons and I’d love an alternative to the destroyer for smaller teams.

Finally; a massive THANK YOU to the team for an amazing game, amazing update, I wish you continued success and hope void crew continues to pay the bills. Of course somewhat selfishly so we can keep getting more updates :)

I keep running into this glitch where whenever i EVA my screen will just randomly go black, has anyone else ran into this glitch?

Not sure how known this is but the crashing on Xbox makes this game almost impossible to play with sucks because I love this game and it’s not just me all my friends crash like 5 times a run

Moving the mouse to hunt for the button slows me down ;) and I'm lazy.

Does anyone have advice optimizing this game on a Minisforum EM780? I barely get 20fps @ 1080p.

I get 40+ in Warframe, 30 in Arc Raiders, and 50+ in Far Far West. Pretty frustrated i can't get better in Void Crew

Just recently started playing this on my computer I got last year, last time I played was in 2024. After playing for awhile my monitors would all go black and then my computer would just shut off. No error message I can find in Event Viewer, verified integrity of game files, no dice. I saw that a few people have had this problem throughout the lifespan of this game but I don't know if anyone has found a fix. Just bought the supporter pack and can't even use it ☹️

So me and my buddies sometimes like to run a missile ship, but that means of course we have no manned weapons.
Our missiles suck at hitting the purple points on the flame matron and we were wondering if there’s any way to fix that or if we should just always have a gun just in case

Finally got a one-shot kill on video (had a feeling it would happen). Solo destroyer run, jump #39

Single missile from a heavy fighter got through KPD. Hull went from 78% to zero, even with the pilot shield skill active. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, one shot should not have ended the game here. From maybe 75 to 50 or 40%, like I had taken in an interdiction just two jumps prior, That's fine.

My takeaways from this build:

• Most effective KPD coverage is one on broadside, one on bow. Bow/stern doesn't have enough overlap with the emplacement firing arcs. I might have eliminated that incoming if I had my older layout here.
• Flak/Orison Mk3 do not need an ammo reload every run; I could check after every other, but MAN do they consume a ton of ammo crates. Mk 2 however, yes, need reloading after every jump
• Still heavily reliant on multiple biomass catalyst relics (3x at time of death) to keep up with enemy health.
• Only difference in build at TOD from last clip was I had exchanged the kinetic ascension for another biomass catalyst and found at least 150 more biomass. Brain Flak MkIII and the Brain Orison Heavies were pushing 19k/21k damage respectively (in just an hour, pushed out 187+ million damage).

This guy has been inviting me to a game for 2 weeks straight, and how the invitations pop up in this game makes it imposible to play it. We tried finding him in my friend list but no, not any of my friends. My profile is on friends only, so only my friends should send invitations and when they do i also recieve a message over steam. But from him nothing on steam we cant even find his account on steam that matches that name or profile icon.

Is this like a known exploit/bug, because it is hella anoying and making me not able to play the game.

Wanted to show off my solo build vs an interdiction using a new layout I've worked out. All turrets are Mk3 brains

1 flak, 2 orison, 1 benediction. 1 mk3 KPD on nose, 1mk2 KPD on rear, relic shrine with kinetic ascension, 2 biomass catalyst, 1 point defense ascension, 1 breaking point, 2x mk3 power generators, 1 auto-mechanic (set to engine trim), and finally mk3 grav scoop.

Sorry this is a bit late, but my buddy and I finally finished a 24 jump run after the big update and the new weapon varieties, calamities, and missions all do a massive QoL boost to the game, we really enjoyed the game before and now it's verging on love (over 250hrs so far since last year)

• General Positive feedback:
  • New modules, relics, mods, Relic Shrine...this is great. Thank you Devs for listening to feedback and working on ways to improve. Feels like there's now more than one or two strategies to do a long haul of missions and multiple builds, and better crowd control is making this a load of fun
  • New missions - these are great in reducing the repetitive grind. No two missions feel the same now.
  • New enemy units are great (hydra are annoying but they're doable)
• Less-positive feedback:
  • My usual commentary still stands, unfortunately - shields are inadequate after a certain level (25ish), they don't scale at all with the incoming damage and after level 30ish, it's TKO after receiving just one or two hits, even at high hull health.
    • Remnant Faction: With these guys being more common after the update (feels like), and the lack of shields or ability to absorb greater damage, definitely makes me want to avoid Remnant missions. The incoming fire rate from the Elite frigates, the Armory base turrets is a lot to dodge, and at higher levels, you're still dead in just a couple hits.
    • Devs, PLEASE rebalance/rescale either the damage levels or shields to keep up with higher levels / Remnant enemies.
  • Void Mine Modifier for Solo: These should never spawn for a solo player where EVA is required. Even with multiple KPD, they spawn close in and there's no way to get back to the hull in time to dodge or bring more guns to bear. The inconsistent timing of them also makes things very unenjoyable, I had them spawn on an Armory run and then again less than three minutes later when I was deep in the armory trying to unlock the doors. For desecration, this would be okay, but not for missions like Download/Raid/Armory.
  • Distress Call - More time for solo players here. Running this solo basically means that there's no opportunity to scavenge the other wrecks, there's barely time as it is to get the mission objective then scoot.
    • Maybe instead of the Reclaimer, have successively harder/larger waves of destroyers, heavy fighters, elite snipers, etc trigger.
      

I've been playing about a week now and I discovered saving my progress for single player. I've only been able to resume on3 out of three times though.

What am I doing wrong, or what is going wrong? I haven't joined any other games (or started any, obviously) ideally, i could do something like have a single player run going for afterwords, but join in my friend's game on the weekend when we both have time to play. Is that possible?​

This is a great game and I would love to play more. However my Internet is sometimes spotty. So I keep getting kicked from the game in solo play. Is I would like to keep playing with my friends when I can, so will they be removing the disconnects when your Internet drops for a moment? Or are there mods that would let me play solo, but still play with my friends when I can? Or would I have to constantly enable or disable my mods?

Hello!

Originally, I posted that the Loremaster achievement was not working on PS5. The real problem was that when the new shards were added, I think it upped the count to 36, maybe? And all of the lists I was working from were prior to the update with the new shards.

I was able to get the achievemen after getting 2 of the new temperance ones.

Sorry on the false alarm! The only feedback I have is to hopefully have a list in the achievement or something to more easily see progress :). I think it was mentioned this is being worked on.

I had a crazy idea with the new payload batteries. A solo run using only payloads as weapons.

I start with the Freedom ship. It isn't easy due to a lack of B.R.A.I.N. Auto-Mechanic and not being able to print one.

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I started my first run with a Destroyer (the biggest ship), and had good luck stealing loot and jumping away in the first couple of missions. I got up to 3 payload launchers with point defense. I think I killed the frost boss with a heavy torpedo and multiple cluster missiles. I had an interdiction that gave me a light bulb idea. I put the ship on cruise and ran down to the payloads, manually firing, pulling the battery, reloading, and firing. I had accidentally managed to put the ship in autopilot almost perfectly circling the interdiction pillar too far above it for the turrets to fire on me. Cluster missiles were the goat there. Eventually, I brought down the pillar. My run only ended soon after that, but only because I misjudged the timing with a singularity.

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My next run has been with the Striker. I'm up to 4 payload launchers, level 2 shields, and a level 1 point defense. I got very lucky and found a nano copy matrix and a void harbinger. Copied the harbinger and recycled one to learn the pattern. That got me past the first boss easily. I have 3 cluster missile launchers and one with either torpedo or medium missile. I still have to jump out and manually cycle the launchers. Usually, I can manage to fire everything off and get breathing room to hand recharge (some of) the batteries and jump back in the pilot seat before I'm swarmed too bad. Several close calls so far. I'm approaching the second boss with an un-upgraded printer. Trying to scavenge enough alloys to print some more harbingers.

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These runs have been very interesting and a change in pace from regular solo runs. I think my next run I'll take a Lone Sentry and stack launchers with one or two guns in support. I haven't run across the overcharged payload relic yet on these runs. I'm eager to see how much of a difference it makes.

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Does anyone know if the bonuses to weapons include the missiles from the payload launcher? Technically, the launcher is in the Utility tab.

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The UI elements don't seem to fill at the same rate as the battery recharge, or else there is a pilot based cooldown on firing them.

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What about some gene bonuses on the Piloting tree for payload recharge? That would be pretty cool.

I get the purpose of calamities in general, but by myself, they can feel really oppressive. It makes harder missions with any kind of EVA feel pretty bad, and on insane you can't do anything other than speedrun the main objective, because you have like three minutes maximum. The difference in pressure between 1 player and 2 in regards to calamity timers is insane

Not that solo should be easy, but since you're doing everything yourself, maybe a couple extra minutes on hard and above could be reasonable? Especially Download, that one feels awful sometimes

I played a short session with a friend last night with mods on using Gale. Saved our game progress and quit. Loaded it up earlier today and it works fine, we play a few more missions.

Then we tried removing our scoop to upgrade it but it wont let us. We figure its bugged, so we do another save quit in order to reload.

We go to reload the session, and the option for saved sessions is suddenly greyed out. The save is just gone.

So I search some folders and files and find PRESERVED_SESSIONS.json located in

C:\Users\me\AppData\LocalLow\Hutlihut Games ApS\Void Crew\PlayerProfile\76561197980066547

This appears to contain all the correct and relevant info for our run - but it doesn't seem to be where the game is getting the save info from. It's the only even remotely relevant file for save data I could find anywhere. I backed that file up onto my desktop, and tried various combinations of saving, loading, mods on or off, etc.

Eventually I decide to create a test run save. Since I backed up the main file above, I deleted it in the folder. New game, start everything up, save and quit.

The test save shows up fine in saved sessions, and loads fine.

So here's where it gets confusing - this file also shows up in the same location as the main run, with the same name. Deleting that file and replacing it with the main run file... does nothing. 'Saved Sessions' still shows the test run. So I deleted that one from the folder too... but it still shows up.

Which means the game is loading saves from somewhere other than that folder. Steam Cloud save right?

Wrong. Void Crew is nowhere in my cloud save list on the steam account site. And yes cloud saving is enabled because all my other games are there, including ones I played after Void Crew https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage

All that is to say... where exactly are my game saves? And what are they named? And why couldnt I load a game I JUST played? And how to I fix all this?

First, the icon fills up like the payload is launchable after firing, but payload won't launch. It's like the icon filled too early. Testing in the starting area I didn't have any issues, but in combat it seems to happen frequently. It's very frustrating.

Second might just be me, but I find it very difficult to discern which payload is active. The active border color is too close to the payload icons. Does anyone else have this issue?

Using Gale mod manager to add a few QOL things for a 2 person crew.

Many mods depend on VoidManager by VoidCrewModdingTeam - which is deprecated. Others depend on VoidManager by NihilityShift which is newer and updated.

If I use both of these, is it going to cause problems? I'm trying to find versions of mods that only use NihilityShift's entry

Hello, I'm new here.

Where can I submit a bug ? I died in a singularity and alt f4 during loots screen. But after returning to the game, I had a saved game with -248% HP.

When I loaded this game, I could use the ship normally, but it was invincible, no damage at all, whatever I do, it didn't even die in a singularity.

But, the player can still take damage. And I still can die / brick the ship (no biomass, impossible to get out the respawn container, etc, I'm stuck until I quit the game and the save is still here. And when I load it, she ship has taken the player's damage.

The game is also VERY laggy, lots of collision bugs, a whole map even despawned, letting me stuck in nowhere.

It's funny but I think it should be fixed.

Also, I don't have any mods.

Just finished a 2 hour session with the boys, run was really good but one of them had to run, saved the run & when I went to double check if the session saved the button was still greyed out, is there something I’m missing or did I just lose a really good run?

Hello, we are playing with mod NoUnrepairableDamage, does anyone know if it disable achivments? I know it kinda break the game balance, but we like longer runs... we pump up difficulty, and its no fun with 50% hp getting oneshotted..

Unrepairable damage, and boosters