A new Sector Alpha update adds pilot ranks and makes combat damage easier to read.

Earn your rank

As your pilot gains levels, your rank advances from Cadet to Supreme Commander. Each rank adds a bonus to XP, credits, overall damage, and shields. The bonus starts at 1% and increases with each level, reaching a maximum of 20% at level 20. That bonus stays capped at 20% as you continue leveling.

Your rank badge now stays visible beneath your ship, with your ship’s name beside it, so you can keep track of your pilot identity during a fight.

Read the fight more easily

When several laser hits land on the same alien during a frame, their damage now appears as one combined number instead of multiple individual popups. This makes busy fights easier to follow and reduces the extra work created by repeated damage visuals. Multiplayer combat shares the combined damage…

Sector Alpha’s multiplayer development has taken a big step forward! Players can now create a room, share its code, and join another pilot for cooperative campaign gameplay. Recent updates have focused on getting both players into the same fight—and keeping their view of the sector in sync. :milky_way:

:handshake: Create a room and bring your squad

The multiplayer lobby now uses room codes to connect players. Hosts can manage joining players, and the campaign squad queue shows who has joined and who is ready.

Testing has confirmed that two players can connect, see each other’s ships, and move together through the sector.

:boom: Shared combat is coming together

Guest pilots can now deal damage and take damage during multiplayer combat. Several fixes have also improved how weapons and their effects appear across both players’ screens:

Pilots, C-1: Conflict Outpost is expanding! 🚀 Here’s what’s new in the latest build:

🏢 Human Research Lab

A new docking location gives you access to the mission terminal. This station focuses on missions, with no store or armory.

🛰️ Lunar Wreckage

Explore a massive wreckage area and uncover more of the story behind the conflict. We’ll leave the discoveries to you!

👾 Frontier Raider Mothership

Vanguard pilots, A-4: Rift Expanse is ready to explore! This update introduces ancient alien warships, a major boss, solar radiation, and valuable engineering rewards.

☀️ A sector exposed to solar radiation

Outside protected areas, A-4’s radiation gradually drains your shields, then damages your hull once those shields fail. Gateways and docking areas offer shelter, while on-screen warnings show when your ship is exposed.

Drifting amber haze and diagonal crimson solar waves give the sector a dangerous atmosphere. These background effects use lightweight rendering to keep battles running smoothly.

⚔️ Meet the Rift Hunters

Ancient Rift Hunter warships patrol A-4, attacking with lasers and defending themselves with regenerating shields. Defeating them awards XP, credits, and one regular missile, with chances to recover crafting materials for Xal’s market.

Vanguard pilots, A-3: Nebula Frontier has received a major update! Expect more alien encounters, a tougher mini-boss, new rewards, and secrets waiting to be discovered.

🐝 More Nebula Wasps

There are now 40 regular Nebula Wasps spread throughout A-3. Destroying each one awards one regular missile directly to your ammunition inventory, helping you stay supplied during longer combat runs.

👾 A tougher Gravemaw

Gravemaw now has 100,000 HP and releases 10 tiny Nebula Wasps per wave during nearby combat. These creatures pursue your ship, but your lasers, drones, and missiles can destroy them.

Defeating a Gravemaw awards 10 regular missiles, along with credits and XP.

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Development continues on Sector Alpha, our browser-based space combat and exploration project. With development build v7.59, we've reached an important milestone: A-2 Saturn Orbit has reached its current playable state, allowing us to begin shifting development toward A-3 Nebula Frontier.

Building A-2 wasn't simply about creating another combat map. The work involved expanding several systems that will eventually support a much larger connected universe—including Travel Gate navigation, enemy behaviors, protected locations, persistent progression, alien loot drops, and Xal's engineering economy.

One of our goals with Sector Alpha is to see how far we can push an accessible browser game while continuing to add the kinds of interconnected systems normally associated with larger downloadable games.

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Explore Beyond Alpha Command

The journey begins in A-1: Alpha Command, but players are no longer limited to the starting sector.

Development on Sector Alpha continues, and this latest series of updates brings some of the biggest changes yet to the game’s progression, combat, economy, and universe.

The goal has been to make Sector Alpha feel less like a collection of individual maps and more like a connected space adventure where exploring new sectors, fighting different alien species, completing missions, collecting rare materials, and upgrading the Vanguard all work together.

Here’s what’s new.

🪐 A-2 Saturn Orbit Is Becoming Much More Dangerous

A-2 is no longer simply the next destination after Alpha Command.

Three different alien species can now threaten pilots in Saturn Orbit, each designed around a different combat style.

Sector Alpha continues to grow!

The latest development build introduces one of the biggest expansions we've made to the game so far: the beginning of a much larger Alpha Space Network. 🌠

Players can now travel between multiple sectors using physical Travel Gates, transforming Sector Alpha from a single massive combat environment into the foundation of a connected universe.

With Sector Alpha v7.33, all eight current Alpha Space maps now have their own environments, alongside important improvements to Travel Gates, enemy persistence, shields, and the universe system.

Here's what's new! 👇

🌌 Eight Alpha Space Regions