Hey everyone! Bringing some happy news before New Year, out first big patch is going live! Check out the devlog if you want to know the reasoning behind the changes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPowUnDqabo
Full change-log:
- Star Map added! You'll have to conquer all points on starmap before you can progress further.
- Star Map planets can be upgraded into three types: breeding (gives bonus to specimen growth), military (ship strength increase), supply (resource gain percentage boost)
- Star Map Planets can also be upgraded if you spend metal on them, this will increase their efficiency
- Star Map: infinite combat point on right bottom corner offers the way to fight enemies infinitely
- Balancing: reduced enemy difficulty: not it will scale at a much slower rate (i.e. level 300 had 3000 summed up enemy ship level (~each ship would be level 375), now it will have 2500 (each ship will be level ~312))
- E notation added (can be toggled in gameplay settings);
- added mass-upgrade tooltips to upgrade building / ships
- fixed a bug when cannons were not being properly displayed above ship
- ship list in hangar shows ship level + dismiss ship button (without sending into battle and retreating lots of times)
- bugfix: if you upgraded ship and it will cost _lots_ of money: the ship won't disappear from your starport anymore
- galaxy walker updated: gets %x percent bonus per max enemy level in infinite combat mode
- added downgrade button (can downgrade the ships in case they got too expensive)
- highlights added to ship purchase panel, should give better ui feel
- after conquering a point on star map, you can return your ships back home
- hotkeys added: B to enter / exit build mode; Tab to show / hide current objective
- new upgrade: jumper - allows you to "time warp", essentially restarting the game without advancing to next solar system. You get accumulated candy from experience (but not completion bonus candy). Useful if you want to stall or if you are stuck and want to do a soft restart.
- new upgrade: weird patterns - get 2% exp income for every conquered point on star map
- galaxy conqueror steam achievement should be working now
- found and fixed one of the potential causes why game could have been crashing occasionally during auto-purchase if it stayed on long enough
We've spent a lot of time testing it, but we obviously could have missed something. Let me know if you encounter any new problems / issues.
Cheers,
Vladimir