Hey everyone!
Beta 15.3 is now out!
The game can now autosave while you play! It will keep the last 10 autosaves, and you can determine how often it saves in the game settings menu.
Screens can now overload and burst into showers of sparks if the ship takes a lot of hull damage. These screens will damage nearby crewmembers and may also start fires.
Besides that, we’ve spent some time working on a few quality of life features, such as being able to load from a previous save during game over. Neural Rewriters are also available at major hubs to allow players to reset talent points in-game.
If all goes well with this update we’ll continue forward onto Beta 16, which will add a new faction with a whole lot of flavor!
Additions
-Autosaves: the game will now autosave your game by default. You can determine the frequency of autosaves in the game settings
-Screen overloads: screens will now explode into sparks when taking large amounts of hull damage, temporarily disabling them and damaging nearby players
-Can now load a saved game at the game over screen to continue with the same crew
-Neural Rewriters can be found at major hubs. These allow players to reset and reallocate spent talent points.
-Can now toggle private or full games from displaying in the join game menu
-Captain now starts with Advanced Operator talent to allow use of mega turrets
-Expanding component view in the tab menu shows some ship stat bonus information
New Talents
-Engineer Talent: Reactor Calibration: increases core reactor output by 2% per rank. Needs to be researched.
-Engineer Talent: Reactor Cooling Specialist: decreases core reactor heat output by 2% per rank. Needs to be researched.
-Captain Talent: Screen Defensive Measures: increases friendly screen capture time by 5% per rank. Needs to be researched.
-Captain Talent: Screen Safety Systems: decreases chance of ship screens exploding in battle. Needs to be researched.
-Weapons Spec. Talent: Screen Hacker: decreases enemy screen capture time by 5% per rank. Needs to be researched.
-Weapons Spec. Talent: Reloader: small chance of gaining some ammo every shot. Needs to be researched.
Changes
-Maximum distance players and AI bots can interact with a screen has been reduced
-Long Range Warp Station can now be found at the Colonial Union Hub
-Teleportation screen can now handle more targets
-Tweaked some UI textures to not scale resolution at low settings
-Escape menu visuals tweaked
Fixes
-Fixes to menu stacking / rendering in certain situations
-Fixed chat bug that could cause players to accidentally break chat formatting
Thank you for your time!
Best,
The Leafy Games Team