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Genre: Shooter, Role-playing (RPG), Arcade

Nienix

New Continuum Fragments and a new Axiom skill for large ships!

Version 0.55509165


🎯 [Balancing] Damage of on-board turrets of player-controlled ships has been increased by 50%. Note that this only applies to new obtained loot.
🎯 [Skill] A new Axiom skill called "Heavy Plating" [1:4] has been added. It increases Hull regeneration based on the size of the ship (at max level with a big ship, it gives a 800% boost), and should make life easier when playing with larger ship types.
🎯 [Continuum Fragment] Sp-1 Fragment has been added. It provides a specific modification to a given auxiliary item.
🎯 [Continuum Fragment] Sp-2 Fragment has been added. It provides a specific modification to a given weapon or drone summoner auxiliary item.
🎯 [Continuum Fragment] Sp-3 Fragment has been added. It provides a specific modification to a given ship.
🎯 [Continuum Transmuter] A new recipe that can be used to extract item modifications (and store them as SP-[1,2,3] Continuum Fragments) has been added.
🎯 [Continuum Transmuter] The tooltip on the Transmute button now describes what recipe that is active, given that the recipe is known.

UI update!

Version 0.55509164


🎯 [UI] Information indicators are no longer hidden by the Hull/Warp Plasma bars.
🎯 [UI] The campaign game mode now has an appropriate text description

Hardcore Mode!

Version 0.55509163


🎯 [Hardcore] A Hardcore mode has been added. If a character playing on Hardcore dies in the campaign, it is moved to the Softcore campaign. Characters that play on Hardcore have their own shared Storage. Coop play is possible between Hardcore and Softcore.
🎯 [Achievements] A bunch of new achievements related to the Hardcore mode has been added.
🎯 [Misc] The doors in Act 1 and Act 2 have been revised.
🎯 [Act 2] Some Brain Summoner enemies have been nerfed.

Major changes to Act 2!

Version 0.55509162


🎯 [Act 2] The second act has been significantly revised. In particular, some areas has been made less cramped, the Brain Summoners are less frequent, and the Hive Mind boss encouter is easier.
🎯 [Misc] The loot filter text input is no longer case-sensitive.
🎯 [Misc] The sort buttons in the Storage and Inventory now account for the loot filter.

Loot filter search field!

Version 0.55509161


🎯 [Loot filter] It is now possible to set a loot filter using text (using a regex).
🎯 [Loot filter] The highlighting of items in the inventory has been improved.
🎯 [Map] The map can now also render sectors that have been unloaded from memory.
🎯 [Bugfix] Fixed a minor issue related to UI widget highlighting.
🎯 [Bugfix] Sound effects volume is now correctly set to the saved value when the game starts.
🎯 [Bugfix] The steering mode no longer changes when the cursor is above UI widgets.

Misc update

Version 0.55509160


🎯 [Skills] The state of the focused skill is now saved to disk.
🎯 [Misc] Quick play previously required first stopping the currently running game if it acted as host. This is no longer necessary.
🎯 [Misc] Left-clicking UI elements is now more responsive.
🎯 [Misc] Zoom is now disabled for the transparent map mode. To change the zoom for this map mode, zoom in/out in the full screen map and then switch back to the transparent map.
🎯 [Misc] It is now possible to hold right mouse button when selling items in the shop, and when moving items to/from the Continuum Transmuter.
🎯 [Misc] It is now possible to trigger multiple active auxiliary items if they are bound to the same key.
🎯 [Bug] Fixed some incorrect texts.

Improving dual-specs!

Version 0.55509159


🎯 [Bug] Fixed an issue related to particle effects that sometimes were rendered incorrectly.
🎯 [Bug] Fixed a graphical issue for the map when playing with a resolution greater than 1920x1080.
🎯 [Misc] Items can now be moved between the Storage and Inventory by holding the right mouse button.
🎯 [Skill] A new Founders skill called "Reinforced Plating" [1:1] has been added. This skill increases the total hull by 2% per level.
🎯 [Skill] A new Founders skill called "Enhanced Damage" [2:3] has been added. This skill increases damage by 2% per level.
🎯 [Balancing] The Vagrantis skill "Demolition Mastery" [3:5] now increases all kinds of damage.
🎯 [Balancing] The Imperius skill "Freezing Touch" [2:4] now increases all kinds of damage.
🎯 [Balancing] The Founders skill "Ignited Warp Plasma" [3:4] now works with all weapon types. The dependency to the skill "Energy Damage Booster" has been removed.

New Act 1 station event

Version 0.55509158


🎯 [Graphics] Added normal and gloss maps to the doors in Act 1.
🎯 [Station] Added a new station event to Act 1. This station can be easily explored with larger ship.

Coop softlock bugs fixed

Version 0.55509157


🎯 [Bug] Fixed a networking error related to content loading that could cause a softlock for clients when exploring dungeons.
🎯 [Bug] Fixed a softlock that sometimes could occur for the Space Station event in Act 1.

UI hotfix

Version 0.55509156


🎯 [Bug] Fixed errors related to navigating drop-down lists using arrow keys/gamepad.