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The Tutorial Revamp Update! Patch Notes: Version 0.5.0.03

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.