As Blade Dancer came flying out in Update #202, a wave of more updates is certain to follow in the wake of the practitioner of one of the oldest art of the Star Traders people. Update #203 releases a new class of primary melee weapon -- the Straightblade -- improves a zone Rumor, adds custom window sizing for Linux
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Straightblades
A very specific design and manufacturing process is used to create the straightblade, a lighter shorter weapon that is still used as the primary blade. All classes of Straightblades rely on Quickness over Strength for attack accuracy. Straightblades like the Stywrit and Crass are for sale from Contacts who sell weapons while other powerful Straightblades can be recovered from Orbital Salvage relic weapon cards. Aside from relying on Quickness for attack, Straightblades also feature higher Piercing %, lower Damage and a more balanced Accuracy and Parry set.
Recruiting during Starport Closed Rumor
Many Rumors have impacts on recruiting availability or levels. Thanks to @Dr. Spendlove for the great suggestion to improve the generally negative Starport Closed Rumor with a recruiting bonus. With work halted at the starport, skilled mechanics are looking for other work and willing to go offworld to get it. Any Mechanic recruited in the hall or from Contacts gains +2 bonus levels.
Negative Jump Cost
While there was a valid strat for a while to achieve a negative Jump cost for your ship and then generate Water-Fuel by hyperwarping -- this bug is now closed. Your jump cost will never drop below zero with Update #203.
Custom Window Sizing
On Windows and Linux you can now use command line arguments to define your own window size. You can set these directly in the Steam client. There are 4 arguments used in order, such as:
winwidth 1820 winheight 900
These have been available on Windows for a while but are now available on Linux as well.
v3.0.47 - 3/3/2020
- Added new type of primary blade weapon -- the Straightblade relies on Quickness instead of Strength
- Added 2 high level Straightblades for sale from weapon selling Contacts
- Added 2 high level Straightblades to the relic weapon card from Orbital Salvage
- Starport rumor increases level of Mechanic hired at Spice Hall by +2 levels
- Fixed: Negative Jump Cost can add Water-Fuel when jumping
- Fixed: Issues where "Brooding Jyeeta Spore" could generate too many artifacts
- Slight increase in Retrain Costs, fixed Custom Difficult Retrain Costs to equal "Hard"
- Added custom window size command line support for Linux (winwidth, winheight)
- Fixed typos with Blade Dancer Talents