Minor Patch 1.4.2.0 Beta — Astra Protocol 2 Steam update #456783

Attention Captains, We have uploaded a minor version to the beta branch that allows those who are a little more technical minded to tinker with Astra Protocol 2. There are two main components to this patch: Ability to seed the game's random numbers. Ability to configure most of the game's variables. The biggest change of this build is that you can set the value that the game uses to seed the random number generation, this means that on boot (and boot only) you can ensure that you always start in the same sector, location, and initial spawn without needing to mess around with save files etc. This can be enabled by putting the value "seed=X" (where X is a non-zero, positive number, e.g. seed=5) into the Launch Options in Steam - however this only occurs on game boot. If you die and restart in the same session, you will not start in the same sector. The other change was actually introduced ...