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Update 0.5.3

Hello, commanders! A week ago Deuterium Wars has released to Early Access. How time flies! We want to thank again everyone for your feedback. Positive reviews inspire us, negative ones make us get better to get your favor anyway!

Today we present an update that is fully based on your feedback about the game. We have improved the balance of weapons, drop and "friendliness of the hangar" to the player.

The most important

  • We have added acid bombs, mines and rockets. There are over 100 new items!
  • The weapon balance has been reworked: including rocket launchers, shotguns and machine guns (see Item Balance)
  • Added the 3rd and 4th missions of the Campaign: “In the mansion” and “Test of the Four”.
  • Reduced cost for many actions in the Hangar.
  • The value of the containers has been increased. Now, in addition to the main item and resources, there will be a drawing in them. At the same time the frequency of containers drop is reduced.
  • Added German localization of the game.

Item Balance

  • The initial flight speed of missiles launched by rocket launchers was reduced by 30%. The range of their flight was reduced by 66%. These changes also affected the missiles that are produced by large rocket turrets in the Arena.
  • The drop of the damage from a shotguns has been increased by 58%. Now the damage done by them at the maximum distance is 4 times lower than the initial damage.
  • The maximum distance of fire from machine guns and SMG was increased by 10%, and the loss of damage from their shells was reduced by 13% (that is, the damage at long range is now 80-85% of the original).
  • The repulsive force for machine-gun bullets was increased 4 times, and for SMG bullets 5 times. Now the owners of such weapons can effectively repel the enemy from a squall, preventing them from approaching.
  • Now on combat items of ordinary rarity there are all slots for combat modifiers, which are available on similar items of unique rarity.
  • Now the number of triggers of Heat Traps is unlimited, and the safety margin of each charge launched by them is also unlimited. This means that the charges of heat traps are no longer destroyed by missiles and can fully protect during the entire time of their life.
  • The direct and periodic damage of the Flame of War flamethrower is rebalanced in such a way that it destroys an enemy of equal strength in about 5 seconds of continuous fire. At the same time, the duration of the Fire Effect applied by it was increased to 10 seconds, and the frequency of ticks of damage was increased by 312%.
  • The duration of the Corrosion Effect applied by acid meters was increased to 10 seconds, and the frequency of damage ticks was increased by 151%. However, they now do not deal direct damage.
  • The recovery time of stealth generators has been increased from 2.5 to 3.5 seconds.
  • Added an additional fire effect for exclusive BomBum! Bombs and Surprise exclusive mines.

Hangar

  • Now new players get 2 more rows of Warehouse cells for free.
  • The cost of expanding the Inventory sections now increases by 10% slower with each subsequent expansion.
  • The cost of expanding the Slots Market has been reduced by 50%.
  • The term for placing lots in the Market has been reduced to 3 days.
  • The cost of expanding the Book of Drawings has been reduced by 2 times.
  • The experience gained for assembling items has been doubled.
  • Now you can get a small amount of experience for disassembling items.
  • The scheme for assembling exclusive mines Surprise has been changed: now instead of tin cans, there are used bronze sheets as a resource.

Other

  • Notification of the imminent start of technical work will now appear in advance right in the game.
  • The Hammer cannon received an updated sprite.
  • The ice shelters in the Ice Grotto have been removed to make navigation easier.
  • On the “Slum” map in TDM mode, the large Machine Gun Turret was replaced with a large Flame Turret.
  • The result of the battle "Draw" in the Trials is now counted in favor of the player.
  • Improved marking frameworks.
  • Added the display of the status of "you noticed" in the line of buffs, if the enemy team sees the hovercraft in stealth mode.
  • The icon of the Flame series rocket launchers on MK-1 has been improved
  • To reduce the load on the video card, the maximum limit of FPS was set to 240 frames per second.
  • Reworked the display of “Special effects” in the hints of gadgets of missiles, bombs and mines.
  • Added the ability to disable the effects of the combat interface (bullet holes, burning screen) in the Settings for additional optimization on weak graphics cards.
  • The system for awarding first battles has been improved.
  • All bombs, mines and rockets can now take periodic damage (Acid, Fire, Electricity).
  • The position of awards notifications in the Event window has been fixed.
  • Added a difference limit for divisions in the Platoon - now high-ranking players will not be able to play in low-ranking platoons.
  • The rarity of the “Old Tire” trash item has been changed to “useless”.

Bugfix

  • Fixed assembly schemes for reinforced frames MK-2.
  • Old gains not falling out of the containers were removed from the production table.
  • The bug of multiple overlapping of the same buff / debuff has been fixed - now in this case the time counter on the current buff is simply reset.
  • Fixed the bug with the disappearance of some players in battle
  • Fixed a critical error in the filter, which led to his absolutely chaotic work.
  • The icons for the achievements “Need more power” and “Overflowing power” have been fixed.
  • The bug of the infinite freezing of the flamethrower's sound at the death of a hovercraft was fixed.
  • Fixed a critical error due to which messages were duplicated in personal chats.
  • The popup was removed with a request to fill in the Questionnaire when leaving the game.
  • Fixed a bug with the “Invalid price” window when placing goods on the Market.
  • Fixed a bug with the “jumping” hint of an item in the Market.

Thank you for reading. We continue to work actively. The next update will not take long. If you like this update, please email us a positive review on Steam or change your negative feedback to positive if you are satisfied with the work we have done! And this is a promotional code as a gift: 8NJD-DQHP-XXA6 (1000 activations)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/455300/Deuterium_Wars/