As we hone in on the end of the Early Access period, we're working hard to finish out the Talent sets for every Job. There are only a few left, and this release caps Explorer with a new rank 11 Talent and adds the first rank 11 Pilot Talent. In addition, we continuing to work on the carrier-and-fighters features here at Trese Brothers HQ, so we're making a number of additional ship combat balance changes in prepapration for that and 6 Talents have been tweaked or renamed.
Veteran Combat Talents
Forward Thrusters came right out of of the community suggestion threads (thanks @drspendlove!) and is a great Talent for a captain who is ready to commit to battle. It must be used from range 5 and effectively nukes your ability to escape but imparts a long lasting buff as you commit to the battle. Tag the Beast represents the Explorer captain's long experience with Xeno and grants a powerful xeno-only debuff that can help you either survive or escape the alien. Look to your Explorers to help handle these fearsom foes!
Evasive Maneuvers, Bombardment, Raking Fire, Burner Skid have all had some rebalancing done with this release, most of them losing a small number of points to some of their effects in order to maintain the curve of combat Talents. As we move close to the carrier-and-fighter release, expect more tweaks in preparation for everything new!
Grinding Quality
With the new landing zone task bar now fully in use, we've received a number of additional bug reports. We've fixed everything reported with this release, including issues with Trait Mutation and the paying wages issue. We've improved the Dry Dock display and fixed a number of places across the game where a component could end up with over maximum 100% damage. Thanks to everyone sharing bugs -- we're knocking them out about as fast as they are coming in!
We hope you will take a moment during the Steam Spice Festival to leave a review, tell a friend about Star Traders: Frontiers or check out our other titles in the same universe. If you love the STF lore, don't miss Templar Battleforce which shows the galaxy from a completely different perspective. Lead an elite unit of mech pilots against the xeno in deadly close combat!
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v2.2.87 - 6/24/2018
- Added rank 11 Pilot Talent "Forward Thrusters" -- close range without purpose!
- Added rank 11 Explorer Talent "Tag the Beast" -- xeno-only Ship Combat Talent packs a powerful debuff
- Small balances to "Evasive Maneuvers", "Bombardment", "Raking Fire", "Burner Skid" Ship Combat Talents
- Flipped names of "Devastating Approach" (Pilot 8) and "Disabling Shot" (Pirate 11) to "Disabling Approach" and "Devastating Shot"
- Fixed bug where hyperwarp jumps and some other conditions were damaging components over 100%
- Fixed issues with dry dock ship list under ship status reporting incorrect distances
- Fixed issues with Pay Wages, trait mutations when using fast click
- Fixed all reported bugs with new landing zone task bar
- Performance optimization and improvements for map views (all OS)
- Fixed reported crashes and text formatting issues