The Long Journey Home Introduces ‘Story Mode’ for Ease of Galactic Exploration!

What You Need to Know:

• Daedalic Entertainment has today announced the first major update to The Long Journey Home, the company’s ambitious space RPG, with the addition of a new ‘Story Mode.’
• Story Mode provides a far friendlier galaxy to explore, where resources are more abundant and valuable, where aliens are more generous with their trade agreements, and featuring far more planets with Earth-like conditions and fewer extreme hazards.Players are also equipped with a more resilient Lander and additional assistance for tricky parts of the game, such as easier orbiting around planets and reduced damage from celestial threats.
• Daedalic will continue to monitor player feedback on The Long Journey Home and implement improvements to enhance the game in order to deliver the best adventure space game experience for its players. Join our community to let us know what you’d like to see.

Source: Official Triple Point PR Press Release

Extra Information

New Mode: Story Mode

Reduced planetary difficulty conditions
More abundant galactic resources
Resources worth more in trade and for ship repair/maintenance
Increased Lander strength
Reduced impact/heat/environmental/drilling damage in the Lander
Reduced fuel consumption in the Lander
Enemies cannot lock player into Encounter
Aliens offer more credits and more generous deals in trade
Reduced flyover damage in event of failed orbit
Greatly reduced pirate presence
Larger orbit window

General Changes

Explorer mode renamed “Adventure Mode”
Devices now require timed button press to uninstall/destroy
Can now jump back to same system if required
Lander roation speed and thruster agility increased
Reduced pirate presence
Native fullscreen mode
Many bug-fixes and scripting tweaks

Screenshots

Latest Media

The Long Journey Home - Release Trailer [PC]

This sounds a pretty good journey worth traveling, especially with all of these changes being made.

Great to see the devs working alongside the community to make things better for the future of the game.