View game pagePatch Notes – Sublight Demo 0.17.6 - Next Fest Hotfixes

Welcome aboard Captains.
There's been a incredible amount of interest and feedback, more so than I can actually attempt to address individually. (Sorry there's just one of me)

General response:

Thank you so much for playing and just breaking my lil' space ship game.

Whats next? I'll be looking at doing a Quality of life and Bugfix pass next week, in addition the first Major balance pass of weapons, Upgrades and ships will start taking place.

To do this effectively I'll be looking at making some new in game tools, such as a DPS meter to let players make the decisions that work for them, and help me balance weapons.

All these changes will be added to the demo, which will remain available after NextFest until further notice.

More updates soons.

Features

• Tier 2 Frigate

  • The Cutter Frigate has been signed off for combat duty providing an Uncommon frigate as an early game option

• Weapon & Balance changes

  • Fighters have been given some additional speed boosts when returning to craft

  • Escorts have been equipped with jump drives and scale with player movement better

  • Rapid fire chain guns have been given heavier ammunition to help them keep up

  • Fighters and Escorts have been given a new frame in the overlay interface to show the individual weapons

• Added a element to the armoury to display which mission has the next research tier unlock, as well as displaying if the next tier is unavailable in the demo.

Fixes

• Fixed more crashes than can write down

• Fixed an issue of passive weapon damage increases not reflecting in the overlay interface

• Performance increases when large number of enemies are still alive

  This should hopefully keep the frames in the 20-40 minute windows

  • Optimized how turrets pick targets when multiple are available in arc

  • Optimized how Explosions and AOE effect mass group

  • Reduced VFX spawns further away from player

  • More pathfinding optimizations.

• Fixed an issue where Loot Freighters would drop their chests outside the mission area.

• Fixed how Attackspeed buffs are displayed.

• Fixed an issue where Mission rewards would not clear between runs.

• Fixed mislabeled prices in the Armoury UI

• Fixed a case where opening chest and leveling up at the same time would cause the game to resume.

Known issues

• Keybinds not taking effect immediately.

• Performance issues on the ignite status effect.

• General Balance of anything that isn't a missile.

• Wording of some upgrades appearing negative.