Hey everyone! Captain, Pilot, and Engineer have all received plenty of attention in our previous updates, so now it’s time to give the Gunner some love—along with a host of other improvements. Here are the details:
Improvements
- Cannon: - Rate of fire increased from 1/s to 3/s. - Overheat threshold raised from 5 shots to 7 shots. - Cannon rounds are faster and easier to hit with. - Improved visual indicators for round trajectory.
- Laser: Damage increased from 15/s to 30/s.
- Missile Pathing: Overhauled to make missiles faster and more direct.
- Ion Lance: Damage increased from 50 to 150 across all regions it passes through.
- Engineer: Repair speed has been significantly increased.
- Pilot: Cloaking now charges faster (45s → 30s) but also depletes faster (30s → 20s).
- Captain: Scan rate doubled.
- Enemy Ship Balancing: Adjusted health across all enemy ships for better balance.
- Dialogue Timeout: Dialogue options now have a timeout feature to prevent abuse; a random option will be chosen if none is selected in time.
- Captain's Log: Now opens automatically for all other roles as a reminder that it exists.
- AI Behavior: Improved collision avoidance and general behaviors.
- Scrollwheel Control: Added scrollwheel icons for Gunner's Laser color and Engineer's Shield color, both of which can now be controlled via the scrollwheel.
- Particle Efficiency: Improved for better performance.
- Aether Eggs: Now available in all 3 demo levels.
Bug Fixes
- Client Captain: Now has access to the correct dialogue options.
- AI Fixes: AI no longer gets irrationally angry while in call with players and won't decide to fly off indefinitely.
- Gun Vibration: Significantly reduced.
- Pilot Log Scrolling: The W and S keys no longer scroll the Log for the Pilot.
- Death Mission: Improved edge case handling.
- Soft Shadows: Fixed on planets.
- Pre-Mission Screen: No longer impacted by mission lighting and is now correctly scaled for all resolutions.
- Captain’s Transmission Marker: Now correctly disappears in some unusual edge cases.
- Dialogue Tweaks: A variety of small dialogue tweaks.
- Miscellaneous Fixes: Several other small bug fixes.
As always, thank you for playing and for all your feedback! Now, it's time to get back to working on missions!
-Silenced Mage-