[Major Features]
- Introduced the Ship to Ship Trading system.
- Introduced the AeonLabs Modular Construction System.
- Drones & The Engineer class has received a major rework focused on Neurobound drones.
[Ship to Ship Trading]
- Players can now trade items and credits directly between ships in a dedicated UI.
- This is performed by using the dock keybind while your ships are overlapping with theirs. This must be done while stopped and cannot be done in combat.
- Items with half lives cannot be traded
[AeonLabs Modular Construction & Dilutions]
- Introduced the AeonLabs Modular Construction System.
- Added new AeonLabs station components, blueprint packs, extractors, Command & Control kits, and construction items.
- AeonLabs blueprint packs have been added to all tech 12 and above player obtainable station kits.
- Common augmenters can now be dissolved into Dilutions, displaying their outputs directly on the item. This is done by selecting then opening the context menu on any number of common augmenters while docked, then selecting the new “dissolve” option. This is cannot be reversed.
- Pre-installed blueprints for drones constructed from industrial commodities have been moved to be held within the technology tree of the AeonLabs system.
- The blueprints to build X/Y/Z gear on stations using Industrial commodities that came pre-installed on most station kits have been removed.
More information can be found HERE.
[Drone & Engineer Revamp]
- Added the Neurobound Drone system allowing drones to be modified with selectable mods.
- This is performed by opening a context while selecting a single drone while docked, then using the neurobind option.
- Added three new drone skills:
- Insatiable
- Watchful
- Fortified
- Different drone mods now apply different fractions of these skills.
- Drone duration and charge times have been reworked.
- Drone duration is drastically lower, and drone charge time is drastically faster.
- Drone skills can now be trained up through The Acropolis, Platonic Academy, Olympus Entrance, Lyceum Research Concourse, and Paxian Foothold.
- Added Honorary Doctorates and a related turn-in mission in Platonic Academy.
- Some Tech 23 blueprints have been tagged appropriately so that they can be turned in for Honorary Doctorates.
- Nanobot Repair Drone has been removed.
- A, temporary, free Augmenter Reset has been added to Lush Incision in Shadow that is available for all players. This will be removed at the end of the universe following this current universe at the time this blog post is released.
- Engineer class 1 now allows engineer to scoop drones they tractor regardless of distance.
- Engineer class 1 now allows engineer to repair drones at all time while out of combat.
- The Advanced class subskill “electrical engineer” no longer increases drone charge rate.
[Client Changes]
- Fixed buff icons displaying vertically on userbases. (Requires client update.)
- Improved hotbar responsiveness when items are added or removed from inventory.
- The hotbar now considers item mods and equipped state when matching items.
- Fixed issues with right-click transfer when selecting ships further down the list.
- Fixed an inventory confirmation issue where inventory changes could cause actions to apply to the wrong item.
- Improved blueprint load error handling.
- Added galaxy linking to “base under attack” team chat alerts.
- Galaxy names in mission completion messages now convert into autopilot links correctly.
- Fixed galaxy linking in mission event messages.
- Fixed action bar compatibility with the live server.
- Added three new content guide entries:
- Anatolia: Exchanging Crests
- Anatolia: Gathering Influence
- Anatolia: Call to Arms Surge Event
[Item Changes]
- Weapons with Splash and AoE On Hit effects do 20% more damage, and the range of their On Hit effects is 20% larger.
- The Oppa Stoppa‘s stats have been changed.
- Ancient Pax Medals now automatically become Paxian Medallions and the exchange missions at the first Paxius station that performed this action has been removed.
- Removed extra skill requirements from the Emperor’s Behemoth, Massif III, and related blueprints.
- Singularity Sphere and Battle Sphere blueprints now require Steel Girders instead of Metals.
- Warden’s Lasso is now Shipbound instead of Sticky.
- Fixed incorrect Electric Tempering values in Rewired capacitor descriptions.
- Added effect description to the Singularity Shield Device built into the Golagoay Vazaha Archetype X.
- Pax Gladius, Spatha, Pugio, and Scutum have had their stats adjusted.
- Build requirements for Neutralizing, Earthshaking, Lacerating, Demolishing, Burning, Lancing, and Smashing weapon blueprints have been reduced.
- Grand Eclipse Pavise, Total Eclipse Pavise, and Total Eclipse Array blueprints have had their build requirements reduced.
- Changed the stats and super items of the Empyreal Total Eclipse and the super items Empyreal Grand Eclipse.
- Empyreal Total Eclipse Upgrade can now apply to both the Empyreal Grand Eclipse and the Empyreal Eclipse.
- Added several new Exotic items and blueprints as drops from the instances in Celestial Encampment.
- Wallaby now uses Wallaby’s Ambush and Wallaby’s Bite, replacing the Marsupial Bank.
- Adjusted Wallaby super item sizes and qualities.
- Honey Badger Incinerator on Honey Badger Drones no longer causes self-damage, and have had their damage reduced as a result.
- Splendid Troves rewards have been adjusted.
- Adjusted stats for Lustrous Focused Ordnance Assemblage.
- Adjusted stat spreads for several Lustrous and Luminous augmenters.
- Adjusted build costs for Rare blueprints from Celestial Encampment instances.
- Lustrous and Luminous blueprints can be exchanged for other Lustrous and Luminous blueprints at a 5:1 and 10:1 ratio in Celestial Encampment, after completing the prerequisite mission chain.
- Reduced the damage and resistance bonus, and removed the projectile velocity bonus granted to assets by the Scarra’s Oppressor super item “Scarra’s Temporal Doom“.
- Reduced the damage bonus granted to drones by the Ruined Kuhani’s super item “Forerunner’s Shelling Focus“.
- The drop rates of unique items from the Kalthi have been increased.
- Adjusted the descriptions of super items on Empyreal ships.
- Added Dark Shrimp, Golden Shrimp, and Honey Badger skins to the Tiger Prawn.
- Reduced the amount of Venusian gear needed to build Mercurian gear.
[Universe Changes]
- Electrified Georg Ohm’s guards now despawn after five minutes of idling or when the boss is killed or reset, and will no longer count towards the boss’s damage immunity when they fly too far away from the boss.
- Carmine Cutter and Scarra the Crimson instance limit increased from 4 to 6.
- The Heist Across Dimensions
- Made adjustments to the galaxy Sterwyn Aervin resides in.
- Increased decay timers on several Red Outpost commodities including Volatile Musk Catalyst.
- Reduced spawn time for the Zaphragi Musk Synthesizer and Zaphragi Musk Packager.
- Zaphragi Musk Packager requires 2 Zaphragi Musk instead of 10 Zaphragi Musk in order to make a Crate of Zaphragi Musk.
- Tiger Prawn and Giant Space Alien drop 2 of their commodities instead of 1.
- The mission A Touch of Dementia will no longer appear and remain locked after completing Team up with Orange. Instead it will remain hidden until Scan EVERYTHING Too is completed, which leads into and unlocks it.
- The mission target Mob Boss Black in Prism Empires is now teamed with the nearby Black Defender drones in Pitch Black.
- The wormholes in Pisidia in Anatolia have been swapped around to match the direction of the other galaxies on the map.
- Made multiple balance adjustments to Kalthi mobs that roam the Kalthi Depths.
- Significantly increased the drop rates of items from Celestial Encampment and Ruined Sanctuary instance bosses
[Server Changes]
- Fixed ships becoming stuck while turning and low turning speeds.
- Improved blueprint loading error handling.
- Fixed several crashes related to galaxy loading and drone behavior.
- Userbases can no longer apply Gunner Mark to targets.
- Crates that give items will now use their Cargo size to determine whether or not they can be opened.
- Item size 0 can no longer be flagged as cargo.