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Good lord, this one is full of win. There's so many various bugfixes and balance tweaks that again we'll just hit the highlights here, so be sure to read the release notes if you're wanting details.
- Autocannon Minipods, Zenith Chameleons, and Tachyon Microfighters have been majorly buffed.
- The reclamation ability of parasites and leech starships are now shiplevel-limited, and reclamators have to do a certain damage threshold on a target ship before a reclamation event will take place. All mark V ships are blanket non-reclaimable now. On the plus side, their shots have become more focused and a lot higher-DPS, and they now are much more intelligent about actually targeting ships they can reclaim.
- Advanced Research Stations now give both a new bonus ship type in a campaign and free mark II of that bonus ship.
- Mark III/IV fleet ships now cost an additional 1000 knowledge compared to before.
- Mark IV ships and mark V ships are now a lot cheaper in terms of metal/crystal. They are now only 6x and 10x that of a mark I ship in their line, rather than 8x and 16x. This also means that mercenaries are now only 60x a mark I ship's cost, rather than 80x.
- Engineers now take quadruple damage while in enemy territory.
- Mobile Repair Stations now have to spend 60 seconds recharging after moving before they can do any repairs.
- Core Shield Generators, after much heated (and partially unfortunate) debate, have been made an optional feature that is default-on, but which won't be in existing saves. Any existing saves that already have them will have them removed.
- New major mechanic with regards to player deep-striking. Essentially, when it notices your military ships straying more than four planets away from your (or neutral/ally) territory, this causes the AI to really freak out for a while and start churning out ships to attack you.
- Numerous other changes.
This is a standard update that you can download through the in-game updater itself, if you already have 4.000 or later. When you launch the game, you'll see the notice of the update having been found if you're connected to the Internet at the time. If you don't have 4.000 or later, you can download that here.