Our next big update is targeted for Oct. 16th!
As promised, here's a preview of what's coming in the next patch...
Focus On: The Mobs & Much More!
Mob health, damage, and player weapon damage has been rescaled. The new system allows for more gradual increments between levels. Additionally, the following mobs have acquired new abilities and will change their abilities and tactics as your team levels :
- CorpSec Drone Mk. I
- CorpSec Hoplite
- CorpSec Imperator
- CorpSec Observer
- CorpSec Rare Spawns
Armor and Shields
Decay is dead! After a lot of experimentation and discussion with the community, we’re reverting the Shields and Armor system to the previous mechanic of blocking flat amounts of damage. With that in effect, there is no more need for the decay mechanic.
Items
- Level requirement has been removed for all items.
- Weapons, Armor and Shields using the old damage system will automatically rescale to match similar stats for items using the new damage system. They will also gain new type specific bonuses...
New Features
- STIX has received additional visual polish. We hope you like it :D
- The Black Market is open for business. Draal has ‘acquired’ a shipment of Mystery Crates and will sell them to Crawlers (no questions asked). Additional Black Market services will be added in future updates.
- Chems are now available to enhance your abilities. Please use responsibly.
- Consumable items can be purchased and found.
- Syndromes have arrived. Syndromes are special status effects that persist either permanently for until the end of the next mission. Events, enemies, items and various other things can apply syndromes to your crew.
- Junk items are now Loot items and the primary way to gain credits at low levels.
- Some environments have high-value Loot items that are owned by the map’s faction. Stealing them will net you a valuable Loot item and negatively affect your rep with the target faction.
- Vendors now have an Auto Sell Loot button. Any Loot items that can be sold, will be. Note this will only sell items that have no use other than to sell for credits.
- Click-To-Move option added to Controls menu. Enabling will allow either single clicks or holding down the LMB to move forward when exploring. It’s back!
Corp Environment Makeover
We've identified the Corp office environments as the most pressing need for environment improvement - expect to see big changes to the amount of events, items, secrets, and trouble you can get into in Corp maps.
- Corp map events and interactive items
- Secret rooms and caches
- Corp specific loot and enemies
- Reputation based events
- More stuff to steal
- Navigation & objective improvements
The Corp maps will be a jumping off point for spreading some love to the other environments - we're listening to your feedback :D
And more!
There are some more exciting additions coming in the next patch...
Watch for the update Oct. 16th and thanks for playing!