🎯 [Misc] You can now highlight bullets. The following options are available: Friendlies, Enemies, All, and None (default). Highlighting is green for bullets fired by friendlies and red for bullets fired by enemies. 🎯 [Misc] Many popup texts presented in-game are now less distracting (e.g., those presented when toggling auto-casts). In addition, some popups are now completely disabled when the "Show hints and tips" option in the general section of the main menu is unchecked. 🎯 [Graphics] The shader used to highlight items, enemies and bullets has been slightly revised. 🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed an issue that caused some tooltip texts to be incorrectly presented when below an active drop-down list.
Warped Continuum Events Update!
Warped Continuum Events
The Warped Continuum Event is a new kind of end-game procedural challenge that gets more difficult the further you progress. They are all large enough to accomodate the biggest ships (although some ships modded with the "Big" mod still will require some maneuverability skills :)).
As the difficulty of these events for the most part is linearly increased based on how far you progress, there should not be any huge difficulty spikes (such as the difficulty gaps between the Minor, Grand, and Uber Continuum Events).
The Warped Continuum Event loot table differs from regular Continuum Events. In particular, they have a higher likelihood of dropping items that add bonus skill points. They are also the only way to gain In-S Fragments, which add bonus skill points to items (you previously had to find an item with bonus skill points and extract the skills through an Ext-S Fragment). The quality of these items depend on the difficulty of the Warped Continuum Event. The more difficult events have a chance to drop Uber-tier items.
They start to drop in the Continuum difficulty. You can also craft them using the Random Warped Contained Continuum Event recipe.
There is a high-score system in place for these Warped Continuum Events. The difficulty of dropped Warped Continuum Events depend on this high-score. There is also a Continuum Transmuter recipe to reduce the difficulty of a Warped Continuum Event (see Downgrade Warped Continuum Event).
Infinite Warped Continuum Events
I wont say much about these events, apart from that they only drop in Warped Continuum Events...
Major overhaul to the English localization
The English localization has received a complete overhaul, with more than 3000 words having been revised and many entries added! This was done single handedly by Morgan Walter (@syovere on Discord). Many thanks for your hard work!
Customize your Uber rewards
You can now set an item that is desired as reward for completing a given Uber Continuum Event. See the recipe "Set Uber Continuum Event Reward". The idea is to make it easier to farm specific items.
Imperius enemies
You can now encounter Imperius enemies! A total of 16 new Imperius enemies have been added. You can presently encounter these in the Warped Continuum Events.
New items!
🎯 Two new hangars that summon Imperius fighters have been added to the loot table. 🎯 A new hangar that summon Imperius cruisers has been added to the loot table. 🎯 A new Imperius fighter-class ship has been added to the loot table.
Performance in caves
I have read your feedback on the performance issues in caves (especially in Act 2).
This patch provides overall performance improvements to caves. Additionally, you can now also opt to render caves walls at a lower resolution (see the image below). This provides greatly increased performance at the cost of a minor (often negligible) reduction in the image quality of cave walls.
Misc changes
🎯 Many enemy death animations have been polished. 🎯 The Continuum Transmuter UI has received a minor update. 🎯 The names of some world events have been changed. 🎯 A menu battle scene featuring Imperius vs Axiom has been added. 🎯 The final boss in Act 4 no longer summons any turrets. 🎯 Loot has been improved for the final boss in Act 4. 🎯 The "Recommended level" for Continuum Events has been revised. 🎯 Better profiling of hardware info (GPU and available RAM) to reduce the effort required to debug related errors. 🎯 The warp gate button has been moved (see below image).
Bug fixes
🎯 Fixed an issue that could cause an infinite loading screen when disconnecting from a PvP or fleet commander game while a map switch was being made. 🎯 Fixed multiple localization issues. 🎯 Replaced an incorrect portrait (the second boss in Act 4). 🎯 Fixed an item duplication bug related to Continuum Events. 🎯 Fixed an issue that could cause caves/asteroids to not render correctly if playing with a shadow quality of medium or lower. 🎯 Fixed an issue that could cause the map to fail to update correctly when some kinds of entities with map animations were destroyed (e.g., some rocks and walls).
Thanks for your support - I hope you enjoy the new content!
/Hannes
Bug fix
Version 1.082
🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed an issue in the description of the skill "Colossal Engine".
End-game augments update!
Version 1.081
🎯 [Augment] SK-1 Augment: Adds bonus skill points to high-level skills. These augments can only be added to ships. The highest tier (dropped in Uber Continuum Events) include bonus skill points to the highest-tiered skills (T7). 🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed an issue related to the binding of mouse buttons 3-5 to toggle/autocast keybindings. 🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed an issue related to the binding of left/right mouse buttons to some keys.
Bug fixes
Version 1.080
🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed an error in the description for the skill "Not Feeling so Blue". 🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed a floating point issue concerning item ship size requirements.
Misc update
Version 1.079
🎯 [Misc] You can now dye your Imperius ships. Ships dyed previous to this patch should now have their desired color presented. 🎯 [Misc] The check boxes in the "General" loot filter tab that toggle the value of different settings for all five tabs have been slightly reworked: they are now checked if at least one the corresponding values in the five tabs is checked. For example, if "Artifact" is enabled in the Ship-tab, but disabled in all other tabs, then "Artifact" in the General tab will be checked. 🎯 [Bug fix] Turrets with beam-type weapons no longer lead their shots. 🎯 [Bug fix] The loot filter is now disabled when a character slot is deleted (given that the loot filter is kept). 🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed several issues that could cause the loot filter UI to contain stale values. This could previously for example occur when switching between characters. 🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed several localization issues.
Imperius ships!
Greetings voyagers!
One of your most common requests has concerned the addition of Imperius ships. This update (v1.078) includes exactly that: 10 Imperius ship variants! A few of these can drop right from the start of the game, but most are unlocked at around level 20.
The added Imperius ships concern the following classes: 🎯 Scout (1) 🎯 Frigate (1) 🎯 Light cruiser (1) 🎯 Heavy cruiser (1) 🎯 Battle cruiser (1) 🎯 Battleship (1) 🎯 Dreadnought (3)
Apart from the new ships, this update also includes two balance adjustments: 🎯 On-board ship turrets now disregard weapon warmup time. Among other things, this should fix the issue of "warm-up turrets" not being able to perform well against hordes of low-hull enemies. 🎯 The range of the "Frost Touch" weapon has been increased by 50%.
Keep the requests coming! While I do not have the time to answer each request, I do read them all.
Thanks for reading & playing the game!
/Hannes
New Continuum Transmuter Recipe and bug fixes
Version 1.077
🎯 [Recipe] A new Continuum Transmuter Recipe has been added - Reroll Augment. 🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed an issue related to custom colors not being applied for some Continuum Entities. 🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed a few incorrect texts.
Bug fixes and balance changes for the As-I Fragment
Version 1.076
🎯 [Balance] The drop rate of the As-I Fragment has been increased. 🎯 [Balance] The quality of the stats rolled on the item created from usage of As-I Fragment now depend on the two input items. Higher quality items as input means a higher quality item as output. 🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed an error related to two affixed rolled by the As-I Fragment Continuum Transmuter recipe. 🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed an issue related to drops from world bosses.
New Continuum Entity
Version 1.075
🎯 [Continuum Entity] As-I Fragment: Creates a new item with affixes based on those that the input items share. Item events and skill points are ignored. If less than 3 affixes are shared, then random affixes are added. Shared mods and sets are kept. Augments are removed. 🎯 [Misc] You can now re-roll Uber-tier items through most applicable Continuum Transmuter recipes. 🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed an error related to the repair rate statistic in the item highlighter. 🎯 [Bug fix] The skill "War Carapace" now gains the buffs provided by item % hull bonuses.
