I had originally planned for 8-12 months of early access, but it ended up lasting ~14 months. This was the case as I got so many great ideas from you guys that the originally intended features were flexed quite a bit. I am very happy it did, and very grateful for all your help - Nienix 1.0 would have been way less fun without it!
Brief summary of the year in EA:
On average, a player spent 20 hours in-game - 1 out of 10 played more than 100 hours.
On another note - I am far from done developing the game. You can expect alot of new content over the coming years!
/Hannes
Nienix: Cosmic Warfare 1.0!
Version 1.0
🎯 [Balance] Sensor range has been buffed, especially post level 30. 🎯 [Balance] Sensor range now fully stack with respect to buffs (e.g., the Founders T7 talent "Skill Shot"). The character information screen has been update to reflect this value. 🎯 [Balance] Bullet velocity and range has been increased for many weapons (when used by players). 🎯 [Balance] Stun has been reworked - there is now a cooldown of 10 seconds for players and 5 seconds for enemies. 🎯 [Balance] The crit multiplier cap has been raised to 3000%. 🎯 [Balance] Enemy damage has been reduced when playing on the normal and easy difficulties. 🎯 [Balance] Increased the loot rarity in one of the unstable dungeons in Act 1. 🎯 [Misc] Changed the music of some dungeons in Act 4. 🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed an issue in the input (gamepad/keyboard/mouse) system that could cause the input to become locked after starting the game from sleep mode on the Steam Deck (and possibly also other systems).
Misc update
Version 0.910
🎯 [Balance] The Vagrantis T3 skill Turret Damage Booster has been buffed. 🎯 [Balance] Elite enemy hull has been revised for the regular campaign. 🎯 [Balance] There is now a cooldown on stun (max once per 30 seconds). This applies to both enemies and players. 🎯 [Balance] The frozen condition is now less effective against bigger ships/hulls. This applies to both enemies and players, although the bonus is greater for players. 🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed a bug that could cause players to become invincible and gain wallhack when switching maps in the PvP modes. 🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed a bug in the Arena game mode that caused some enemies and bosses to fail to properly spawn. 🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed a crash issue that was introduced by patch 0.905. 🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed some incorrect texts.
Performance improvements
Version 0.906
🎯 [Performance] The performance in hectic locations such as the large space battles has been significantly improved. This should be especially evident when playing COOP.
Balance changes
Version 0.905
🎯 [Balance] The damage and range of many weapons have been buffed (only applies to newly obtained items). 🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed an error with the procedural spawn position of an entrance to an asteroid in Act 2. 🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed an issue in the path finding system that could cause a crash.
Performance improvements
Version 0.904
🎯 [Performance] The performance when playing multiplayer has been increased by optimizations to the synchronization of enemies and bullets. 🎯 [Performance] Optimizations to priority queue datastructures that should increase performance on overall.
Performance improvements
Version 0.903
🎯 [Performance] Increased the performance by replacing various blocking thread locks by a task queue. 🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed a race condition in the physics engine that on rare occasion could cause a crash.
Performance improvements, updates to particle effects and two new summons!
Version 0.902
🎯 [New Summon] A new Drone Summoner item called "Mechanical Worm Summoner" has been added to the loot table. 🎯 [New Summon] A new Drone Summoner item called "Mech WH-1 Generator" has been added to the loot table. 🎯 [UI] Updated the visuals of a few auxiliary items. 🎯 [UI] Particle effects have been revised for several weapons. 🎯 [Balance] Damage has been increased by 50% for the Hugger Worm Summoner. 🎯 [Performance] Increased the performance of various particle effects, such as those used by the Flame Thrower weapon. This should be especially evident in battles and similar crowded events 🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed a bug that caused some drones created through skill bonuses and item sets to despawn when using warp gates. 🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed an error in Level 3 of the "B-42" dungeon in Act 1 that caused doors to stay locked even when all enemies had been defeated.
A new Sentinel and balance adjustments
Version 0.901
🎯 [Sentinel] A new Vagrantis Sentinel has been added to the loot table. 🎯 [UI] Item tooltips have been slightly revised. 🎯 [Balance] The shooting range of summoned turrets has been extended for short-ranged weapons such as Flamethrowers. 🎯 [Balance] The Vagrantis T3 skill Damage Booster++ no longer has a prerequisite skill requirement. 🎯 [Balance] The Vagrantis T4 skill Damage Multiplier now also affects on-board turrets as well as all summons. 🎯 [Bug fix] Summons now compensate their aggro and shooting ranges based on current skill bonuses to bullet velocity. 🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed a bug that could cause Mecha arms to come loose upon unloading their main body from physics.
A new skill, a new event, and various other changes!
Version 0.900
🎯 [Skill] A new Vagrantis T3 skill called "Turret Damage Booster" has been added: On-board turret damage is increased based on the number of available turrets. Fewer turrets mean more damage. 🎯 [UI] Updated some particle effects. 🎯 [UI] Bullet spread is now shown in weapon tooltips. 🎯 [UI] Adding/removing a sensor now causes a smoother zooming effect. 🎯 [Misc] The map with the final boss in Act 2 has been revised to make it maneuverable with slightly bigger ships 🎯 [Misc] Several maps in Act 2 have been enlarged. 🎯 [Misc] Revised the tutorial map. 🎯 [Event] A new event has been added to Act 4. 🎯 [Performance] Performance improvements have been made by drawing less details for small entities when a low zoom is employed. 🎯 [Performance] Performance improvements have been made by changing some key data structures. 🎯 [Performance] Path finding has been made alot faster in cave-type events/maps. 🎯 [Balance] Removed the sensor debuff clouds in some maps in Act 2. 🎯 [Balance] Elite enemies in PvP maps now have significantly more hull. 🎯 [Balance] Bulk pickup range is no longer related to ship size (i.e., only to sensor range). 🎯 [Balance] The crit damage cap has been increased by 2x. 🎯 [Balance] Bullet spread has been reduced for the BF Cannon. 🎯 [Balance] Turrets effectiveness has been buffed for larger ships based on their number of turrets. Turrets on a large ship with few turrets are slightly more effective than those on a large ship with many turrets. 🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed the evaluation order of buffs to correctly convert active buffs for the Axiom T7 skill "Armament Transformer". 🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed a bug that caused some on-board turret buffs to not be applied correctly. 🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed a background tile that sometimes was rendered incorrectly. 🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed a bug in the tutorial - the correct dialogue failed to load upon equipping the dropped engine. 🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed an issue that could cause enemies and summons to follow incorrect paths.
