Following our roadmap publish, we are now hammering down on the content expansion goals and marching toward our next big feature addition -- Salvaging Orbitals and Wrecks. With this update, we've added a new mission giver type as well as 8 new missions -- you can now start to actively support the Hunna. There will be a lot more coming in this department on both sides of the line. We've made some exciting changes to further widen the availability of Contact recruits and different Job types, improved some M2400 ship engines, and caught up with the most requested fix for the Faen storyline -- confirmations on branches! It's a big release with balancing, new content, bug fixes and more.
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Support the Revolution
Despite the best efforts of the faction militaries, the Hunna Collective's revolutionary effort continues to eke out an existence of the edge indie zones and harsh wilderness environments. With Update #96, your Star Trader captain can chose to become further involved with the shadowy, violent revolutionaries. We've added 8 new mission types to help support the Hunna, mostly in the form of dropping off a variety of dangerous or high value goods to their camps in the wilderness. It is a good place to start and opens the door to all kinds of more pro (and anti!) Hunna missions in near term updates.
Notably, any Contact who has the Hunna Agent Trait will also start cycling these missions into their set.
Wider Recruitment
We have heard a lot of feedback about the challenge of re-hiring basic crew (Pilots, Navs, E-Techs) as the best you can get out of a spice hall is often level 1 to 3. When your crew is already level 20, this can be a hard pill to swallow. With this update, we've now cycled more of the core jobs into Contacts, allowing you to possibly recruit these characters to your crew at as high as level 8 or all the way up to 11 with the right set of Rumors or Contact Traits.
If you're looking for E-Techs, find an Intelligence Officer or Archivist. For Hyerwarp Navs, check with a local Spicetender, as the navigators are known for their love of the spice hall. Finally, Flight Academy Provost (Alta Mesa only) now hire Pilots instead of Quartermasters.
We've boosted the Starport Boom Rumor now to all provide Engineers in the spice hall if you visit the faction holding. And one more -- Science Officer Contacts have gained the ability to hire out Engineers as well.
Overall, its an exciting set of changes, making core crew more accessible and also widening the total number of Contacts offering the Recruit service which is fun for all.
Mass 2400 Balancing
Both the Aeternum Vindex and Scout Cutter ships have received improvements through their components in this release. We've increased the Navigation, Pilot and Safety Rating on 2400 Mass Void Engines to reduce critical accident damage. This will allow both ships to take better advantage of their Speed, pass more tests and overall be more effective in travel, combat and operations.
Faen Branching
We have now added confirmation steps along the way throughout the Faen storylines when you are about to take a major branch. The power players in the Faen court are jealous and some will not brook you working with other members of the court. At these points when you are about to limit your future options for the story, we now have helpful warnings in place to allow you to weigh your decision accordingly.
v2.3.46 - 8/22/2018
- Added new mission giver type Hunna Supporter -- support the revolution!
- Added 8 new stash mission types, delivering supplies to Hunna camps
- Hunna Lieutenant Contact and any Contact with Hunna Agent Trait may assign these missions
- Engineers are now available for hire at spice hall during Boosted Starport Rumors
- Contacts offer new recruit options: Intelligence Officers and Archivist hire E-Techs, Science Officer hire Engineers, Spicetenders hire Hyperwarp Navigators
- Flight Academy Provost now hires Pilots instead of Quartermasters
- Added clear warnings and confirmations at major branches in Faen storylines
- Improved support for offline Steam Achievements
- Clarified rules for ship repair Talents like Rushed Patches and Unrivaled Patch
- Rebalanced prices for medium slot missiles
- Fixed occasional crashes on specific mission generation on small maps
- Buffed Aeternum Vindex and Scout Cutter ships
- Increased Safety Rating on 2400 Mass Engines to reduce critical accident damage
- Fixed missing SFX on some UI elements
- Additional game performance improvements, crash fixes