This major update for The Chaser's Voyage contains huge changes to the tutorial, a few quality of life changes, and quite a few bug fixes!
Patch Notes for Update 0.5.0.03:
• Battleship Pursuit:
- Updated the Battleship Distance UI to include wire frames of the Battleship and the player's ship.
• Cutscenes:
- Changed the text for the second half of the Into Cutscene.
• Ship UI:
- Added arrows that appear in the Remaining Power UI to indicate when the Increase Power and Decrease Power inputs are active while using a gamepad.
• Tutorial
- The Tutorial has been revamped and now has new encounters, new prompts, and new voice lines.
- The Tutorial Pirate's Engine Systems are no longer breakable.
- PS4 and PS5 gamepads will now properly show a purple light during the tutorial when no character is talking.
- Updated the Tutorial Death Notice to match the new prompt designs.
- The Tutorial Death Notice now informs the player of the 3 Game Over conditions.
• Bug Fixes
- Lighter, bigger Capital Ships will no longer spawn in the background during Hostile Fleet encounters.
- The large Capital Ship that appears after docking with a Fleet will no longer appear multiple times after the player passes it by.
- Capital Ships will no longer be too grouped up together for a short while after docking with a Fleet.
- The Restart Jump options in the Death Notice in Voyager Mode now work correctly.
- The Tutorial Ship's engines will now correctly be off when the Player has 0 power in Engines at the start of an encounter.
- System Buttons will no longer stay highlighted or pressed when docking with a Fleet if they were highlighted/pressed before docking.
- Bounty Hunters and Pirates will no longer stop dodging the player's shots after a while.
- Fixed a Null Reference error that would occur when in an Encounter with a Space Port and an Allied Fleet.
- Fixed a bug that caused the player to sometimes be hit by a Pursuing Battleship's Particle Disruptor Cannon after they had successfully dodged it.
•Typos:
- Capitalized all instances of "imperial" in client stories.
- Replaced ' with ’ in the Tutorial Death Notice.
- Removed unnecessary capitalizations of "Vyxidril" in client stories.