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Update 45

An update with some content additions and some balance tweaks.

  • Campaign: added a new hidden anomaly marker, treat it as a hard-to-detect treasure spot
  • Campaign: added a new black hole marker - a challenging combat with artifacts and items reward
  • Campaign: added a new option to Conflict/Peace envoy: you can now manipulate their outcome
  • Campaign: increased war declaration chance for -5 <-> -5 relationships
  • Campaign: added more variance to the pilot levels available for hire at planets
  • Campaign: Prodigy trait improves pilot's behavior in addition to INT
  • Campaign: the first non-protagonist pilot will always have Prodigy trait
  • Campaign: many NPC fleet captains will have a Prodigy trait
  • Visuals: improved Overloader shader
  • Equipment: added a new artifact
  • Equipment: added 2 new engines
  • Balance: Photon Bolter nerf -10% fuel, -10% damage vs drones
  • Balance: Plasmaflare boost -1 battery cost/use, recoil power increased, damage 4->5
  • Balance: Magenta weapon cost decreased by ~10%
  • Balance: all overdrive-class engines now also have extra max fuel penalty
  • Text: Last Resort Funding event now properly mentions the starting faction instead of Radix
  • Text: extended flagship upgrade tooltip, it now mentions the extra gates