This weeks update is going to be focused primarily on post-reset woes and the Tech 22 Alien Ship revamp and a new UI feature! Keep reading to find out more!
The universe reset wasn’t without its share of difficulties; I ended up spending the first few days of last week just sorting out bugs, missing content, etc. But, that is to be expected. With the launch of a few major new features there is always going to be something missed during our testing. I am pleased to say that all of the immediate issues found have been fixed — and patched in via a micropatch last Wednesday. There is still one transwarp issue waiting on patch, but it shouldn’t be long ’till that’s live as well. As always, I’ll keep my eye on tickets and the bug forums and make sure to continue fixing any issues that might come up.
I started working on this last week, but I got the bulk of the work for the Tech 22 Alien Ship revamp done this week. All the ships got upgraded in some way and should be a little more desirable now. I am sure you are interested; so here is a rundown of exactly what I did. Note that these changes do not include any stat changes, I am still considering some but at this time I haven’t made any.
- Rajanicar’ayu’s fighters now have cloaks, more shielding and damage as well as copy the owners name.
- Subhatt’ayu has a new inbuilt that increases hostility, resistances and rate of fire with a forced thrust ‘charge’ effect.
- Isvas’ayu had the range on the microwarp inbuilt increased and the microwarp stops the player. It also has a new inbuilt similar to the Subspace Submerger.
- Bhisajayu had the max shield bonus removed from it’s Overcharger. It also has a new superitem that injects a very powerful healing parasite into it’s target and reduces its transference resistances.
- Samgrahak’ayu had the max energy bonus removed from it’s Overcharger. It also has a new superitem that injects a powerful energy recharge parasite into it’s target and increases the targets resistances slightly.
- Antuayu has a new ‘Siege Mode’ superitem that significantly reduces speed, thrust and turning but greatly increases rate of fire.
- Vaziayu has a new superitem, the ‘Nest Drone’, which deploys a drone to buff and heal nearby fighters as well as launch additional fighters.
Now for the new UI feature. As I always seem to do, I’ll announce it with a screenshot!
Tooltips for item-form ships will now display a preview of the ship’s model! I think this will be especially useful for newer players in identifying what is what when it comes to ships and stats. Perhaps more importantly though, is how useful this preview will be if (or when…) we add a ship skin system. For those you concerned about performance, I might add a graphic option to turn this off. Regardless, expect to see this feature live in an upcoming patch.
That’s it for this week’s update, feel free to post questions, comments or just discuss this post in the discussion post!
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