Hi everyone! ALPHA 15 is well under way. We are proud to finally be bringing Bridge components to the helms of every ship. Bridges will feature stats and abilities that make your other components shine. All bridges will have "enhancements". Enhancements are bonuses, penalties and other unique abilities that alter the characteristics of your vessel or the components that are mounted within. Additionally there will be "enhancement sets" that have some rules associated with them. Example:
These enhancement sets all have a "under ", "at " and "over " logic that we're hoping will make for some really interesting builds. You will only be able to have one enhancement of a specific type at any time, but it will be possible to have different enhancements that affect the same stat/capability/components active at the same time. That means NO: 2x 'Enhance 1', but yes: 1x 'Enhance 1' AND 1x 'Enhance 2'.
Also, the ability to Cloak is coming. Cloaking will visually hide your vessel. Firing your weapons or activating your shields will cause cloak to automatically drop. You will be able to move while cloaked, but exhaust will be visible and will show up on the scanner. We still need to make sure AI will behave accordingly. We've also been receiving a number of good bug reports (mostly minor, thankfully), and expect to have a majority of them fixed as well.
There have already been some really cool workshop entries, so please check them out, and feel free to contribute.
Check the official workshop guide for more information on how to upload your own vessels. NOTE: Due to a mistake on our end, the uploader tool wasn't properly available to all game owners. That has been fixed, so if you tried it before and couldn't download, please try again now.
We have also decided to shift around the other priorities/goals we announced when ALPHA 14 was released. We have decided that ALPHA 16 will be an entirely AI update. We will be going over the AI from bow to stern, improving their combat decisions, and hopefully make them more fun to engage with. No more half measures!
A Pre-Release will be done for ALPHA 15 as soon as its ready, probably in a week or two.