We've just released a new update. Highlights include a new player ship and a difficulty selection. Have fun playing!
New Features
- Added new player ship: Colonial Scout
- Added difficulty selection before each run (Easy/Normal/Hard)
- Added a few codex entries
- Added chance of finding enhanced weapons (weapons with random stat bonuses)
- Added new enemy: Okkar Scan Drone
- Added new consumable: Nano Injector
- Added centered crosshair option for mouse controls (drag mouse to aim, could be useful for custom joystick controls)
- Added equipment info tooltips to equipment stats screen (PC / Mac)
- Added new "large" asteroid
- Added new nebula textures
- Added new structures
- Added option to switch between Xbox and Playstation style button icons
Tweaks
- Replaced Energized Boost with Weapon Overdrive as starting device for Colonial Interceptor
- Introduced player ship class restrictions: Cloak is now only available for Colonial Scout, Weapon Overdrive is only available for Colonial Interceptor
- Consumables floating in space can now be used directly
- Added swappable equipment slots to compare screen for better overview
- Game now pauses when using the selection wheel instead of just slowing it down
- Jump gates are now activated automatically after some seconds when close
- Automatically use surplus nano bots when nano bot limit is reached, health is not full and new nano bots are collected
- Slightly increased ship component damage chance
- Slightly increased sensor range for containers
- Decreased max speed perk effect and added one more level
- Increased Plasma Torpedo and Shield Breaker missile damage radius
- Slightly reduced Heavy Missile damage radius
- Slightly reduced Shock Rifle I & II charge damage multiplier
- Added spread to Coil Guns
- Increased energy allocation of Mk2 and Mk3 passive devices
- Downgraded fire rate mods to put them on par with damage mods
- Reduced Energized Boost energy consumption
- Increased pickup pull range + pull range for all tractor beams
- Increased amount of dark energy needed to craft ARC-9000
- Increased Teleporter energy consumption and slightly reduced teleport distance
- Slightly increased outlaw sniper aim and doubled uncloaked duration
- Okkar Corvettes now travel through the location and are faster
- Okkar Corvette Mk1 will now call reinforcements when low on health.
- Okkar Corvette Mk2 now fires plasma cannons and uses an Energy Discharger when enemies are close. It also uses combat drones instead of shield charge drones
- Freighters now come in different flavors: credits, fuel, equipment, resource and supply.
- Grey Goo will now do hull damage to ships that are very close
- Changed some consumable icons
- Challenges now have different credit rewards that are displayed next to them
- Tweaked lightning field VFX
- Tweaked sector colors
- Blueprints and "enhanced" pickups will now have a special particle effect
- Show signal strenghts of all jump suppressors being present, not only closest
Bugfixes
- Fixed slowmo not being correctly ended when switching weapons
- Fixed bug with selecting an empty equipment slot with the gamepad
- Fixed damage not showing in Plasma Mine stats
- Fixed player wreck spawning outside of level bounds and if run was successfully finished
- Fixed missing Coil Gun weapon meshes
- Fixed some keymapping issues
- Fixed high frequency tone in a certain ambience track
- Fixed "Kill a drone by ramming it" challenge
- Fixed bug where failed challenges were achieved when continuing the game
- Fixed a bug where outlaw stations would not spawn enemies
- Possible fix for GPU particle related crashes
- Fixed occasionally wrong explosion impulse direction
- Fixed freeze when pressing tab while using jump gate
- Fixed hacking sound sometimes not stopping
- Fixed some generic missions related bugs