Intro
This patch took a bit longer than I had hoped, for technical and personal reasons, but progress has been accelerating over the past couple of weeks, and I'm excited to jump right in and begin work on what comes next.
This update lets you unlock 5 new ships to play with. The goal with ships was to allow you to curate your playstyle a bit more toward your strengths or weaknesses, and allow you to focus on short or long term goals.
Some ships are better for powering through the base game, while others have more potential heading into endless mode. There are some additional upgrades planned in the upcoming Arsenal Update that should further support the slightly different play styles of the ships as well.
Patch notes for 0.70.00
Content
The Cobra Ship: The glassiest of glass cannons among the ships.
The Kingfisher Ship: The spiritual successor to the "Smol Ship" from Gunlocked 1.
The Tortoise Ship: For players that just want to plow through the base game with a chonky boy.
The Honey Badger Ship: Heavy risk vs reward vibes that will get even more powerful in the upcoming Arsenal update
The Spider Ship: Brought to you by Kickstarter backer, Synapse. If you build to support its abilities, it has great, late-game potential.
Quality of Life Changes
Critical damage now creates a larger damage popup so its more obvious when you deal critical damage (i'll likely update this a bit more in a future patch). This update also allows me to better tap into the critical damage systems for future upgrades (and the new Cobra ship in this patch).
There is now an "unlock" prompt that appears when you highlight locked pilots or ships
You can now see more detailed information about your equipped ship, including the exact size of its hitbox when selecting one
The Repair Drone now has a sound effect when it appears on screen (this may be too quiet on some setups, and I'll probably update this again)
Balance Changes
The Frog ship now also gets a bonus to data beacon charge speeds, making it a stronger all-around introduction to the game.
The Hull Service option from NPCs should now apply the max hull bonus before the repair
Bug Fixes
The Bombikaze's damage has been restored
Skill synergies will now correctly display in your inventory
Thor's metadata has been corrected in the pilot menu
Bugs related to your ship not flashing when invulnerable have been corrected
The achievements codex has been fixed, and now correctly displays all achievements in the right order
A handful of achievement related bugs have been fixed that had not been previously reported, and would only cause issues with specific ordering of events.