New Azurene Loyalty Challenge: The Caves
- Earn a Solo Victory with Azurene to unlock The Caves Challenge
- Location: The Caves
- Spiral Traps Will Appear
- Enemy Speed Multiplier 2
- Enemy Hull Multiplier 2
- Gold Per Pickup -0.85
- New 3D background
- New music track
- 3 New Enemy Types
- New Loyalty icon will replace Solo after earning The Caves Victory
- To play, select Azurene as the Captain then select The Caves from the Select A Challenge screen
- Added Unlock Missions & Steam Achievement
- More Loyalty Challenges may be added in future updates
Loyal Crew Azurene
- Get The Caves Challenge Victory with Azurene to unlock
- Loyal Crew Azurene can immediately join the crew at the start of a run
- Azurene must not be Banished to join your crew
Enemies
- Elite Time Destroyer speed increased by 25%
- Elite Time Destroyer needs to get closer to the player before firing weapons
- Battle Royal Circle Enemies max speed reduced by 12.5%, now reaches max speed at Wave 50 instead of 70 (will get closer to the player due to the friction change)
Performance Optimizations
- Player ship optimized for colliding with multiple enemies at the same time
- Reduced friction to 0 on all enemies
Sound Effects
- More accurately synced to music track beat
- Reduced Mine Explosion volume by 50%
Gamepad Support
- Optimized how Steam is loaded at startup which may possibly fix issues with gamepad not being detected, achievements not activating and the overlay not appearing
- Investigating switching non-XBox Gamepads from Steam Input to Native Input, may be included in a future update
Outposts
- Planets have been renamed to Outposts
Early Access Build #934
- Fix - Captains Luna & Rosanova Not Unlocking caused by renaming Planets to Outposts
Early Access Build #938
- Adjusted Spiral Trap White Enemy Spawn rate to reduce number of enemies spawning on high frame rates (waves 70, 90 & 110)