Items can now unlock different skills! Also new keybinding options and fragments
Version 1.0436
🎯 [Item affix] Legendary+ tier engines and ships can now roll with unlockable skills (up to tier 5)! Some skills only roll for certain kinds of ships/engines. 🎯 [Continuum Entity] Ext-S Fragment: Extracts all skill bonuses from an item and stores them in a Continuum Entity. The item is destroyed in the process. 🎯 [Continuum Entity] In-S Fragment: Inserts the skill bonuses in the In-S Fragment to a desired ship or engine. Any existing skill bonuses in that item are replaced. 🎯 [Controller radial menu] Controller shoulder and trigger buttons can now be used for selection in radial menus. 🎯 [Keybindings] You can now bind all toggles in the radial menu (toggle the active skill, auto-fire weapons, auto-use auxiliary items and auto-boost engine) to keyboard/mouse keys. These options are available under Options -> Auto-use controls. 🎯 [Balance] The Founders T5 skill "Berserker Rampage" has been buffed. 🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed several issues related to skills that did not reset appropriately. 🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed a race condition that could cause items to not be equipped correctly. This was particularly common for coop clients when switching skill trees/ship hulls. 🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed a few incorrect tooltip texts.
Revised fixed-point weapon offsets on the new Dreadnaught-class ship
Version 1.04351
🎯 [Misc] The fixed-point weapons on the new Dreadnaught-class ship are now located at the front of the ship.
A new Dreadnought-class ship and performance improvements
Version 1.0435
🎯 [New ship] A new Dreadnought-class ship has been added to the loot table. The default variant of this ship is narrow and 1100m long. 🎯 [Performance] The particle effects system now generate fewer particles when a high sensor range is employed. This should improve performance for builds with high sensor ranges in hectic scenes (e.g., battle-type events). 🎯 [Particle effects] The screen flash effect is now less distracting. 🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed an issue that could cause loot containers on transports to remain invisible until the transport was destroyed.
Major buffs to skills!
Version 1.0434
🎯 [UI] The local player map icon is now presented in the transparent map. 🎯 [World bosses] The behavior of the world bosses has been revised. In particular, they have been given more distinguishable attack patterns. They now also have a unique map icon. 🎯 [Balance] Most skills that provide fixed buffs (e.g., the Xinthu skill "Warp Plasma Replenisher") now scale with player level. Some of these skills have also been buffed. 🎯 [Balance] Most skills that provide % increased damage or % attack speed have been buffed. 🎯 [Balance] Several skills that provide increased resistances have been buffed. 🎯 [Balance] The Xinthu T7 skill "Warp Enhanced Weapon Array" has been buffed. 🎯 [Balance] The Axiom T7 skills "Divine Saviour" and "Grim Reaper" have been buffed. 🎯 [Balance] The Founders T4 skill "Killing Spree" has been buffed. 🎯 [Balance] The Founders T7 skill "Mind vs Body" has been buffed. 🎯 [Balance] The Xinthu T1 skill "Enhanced Shields" has been buffed. 🎯 [Balance] The T4 Founders skill "Wormhole Mastery I" now reduces the warp plasma cost by 50% per point spent. 🎯 [Balance] Enemy damage has been slightly increased pre-Continuum mode and slightly decreased for Continuum XL and XXL. 🎯 [Balance] The spawn rate of world bosses in Continuum XXL has been increased (by 5x). 🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed a bug that enabled equipping arbitrary items in the secondary ship slot. 🎯 [Bug fix] The controller-specific radial menu is no longer activated when pressing the button to switch weapons config. 🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed an issue that could cause the "Press to set skill as highlighted" to overlap some skill descriptions given some font scales. 🎯 [Bug fix] The "Mix Colors" Continuum Transmuter recipe now no longer works if any of the slots are filled by non-applicable items.
Misc update
Version 1.0433
🎯 [UI] Many popup texts have been made less pronounced (e.g., the level up text). 🎯 [Misc] You can now rebind back/escape. 🎯 [Misc] Extracting the mod from ships no longer destroys the custom weapons equipped on the on-board turrets of those ships. 🎯 [Balance] The enemy speed boost in Continuum XL has been reduced by 50%.
Revisions to the controller radial menu
Version 1.0432
🎯 [UI] The controller radial menu has been revised. It now behaves more closely to the variant used in Diablo 3. 🎯 [Bug fix] A few issues that could lead to the main quest being set to an already completed quest have been fixed (this previously required manually setting the desired quest again in the quest log screen).
A new radial menu and master server status information
Version 1.0431
🎯 [UI] A new (gamepad-only) radial menu has been added that enables more easily enabling/disabling game screens that previously required two hotkeys pressed in combination (e.g., the inventory or map). The previous keybindings remain as-was; the radial menu is only enabled if the start-button is clicked (rather than pressed). 🎯 [UI] There is now information regarding the connection status to the master server in the public server listing. 🎯 [Balance] The final boss in Act 4 no longer resets if you move far away from it. 🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed a few incorrect texts. 🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed an issue that could cause events to trigger (for example doors to open) without going through all required stages of boss enemies.
Three month update!
It's now been three months since Nienix reached 1.0!
I am so happy to see so many people playing and enjoying the game! The months past the release (especially the first week) have been intense, but reading your feedback and watching you play really makes it all worth the effort.
So, what is new since 1.0?
There have been 54 patches deployed since 1.0, and significant new features are presented next. The full patch notes, that includes various other added features, bug fixes and balance changes, are available in the community pages as well as on Discord.
Continuum XXL and World Bosses
A campaign mode above Continuum XL has been added. It is unlocked upon completing the game on Continuum XL. Among other things, Continuum XXL includes five unique world bosses. These are rare and extremely powerful end-game enemies that provide Uber-tier loot when defeated. Each boss has a custom loot table.
A second skill tree
A second skill tree has been added! You can toggle the activate tree at any time outside of combat (or even during combat, if you have allocated points in the Axiom skill Quick-Swap!). The two skill trees are tied to the two ship hull configurations.
Encyclopedia
The encylopedia contains information about all in-game items and item modifications. You can check which items that support what mods, which effects they provide on different items, as well as read their descriptions.
Loot filter
A new loot filter has been added! Access it from the inventory (next to the encyclopedia). This new filter is separated for each character. In addition to specifying various filters for all kinds of items, it is also possible to override the default colors for different items and grades. Color overriding is done by manually editing the loot filter for the desired character. The lootfilters are XML-files located under /Data/Save. For instance, the loot filter for the third character (third row) is named "char2_lootfilter.xml".
Instanced loot
It is now possible to designate loot as instanced. The following options are available: 🎯 Free for all: Each loot drop is free for anyone to pick up. (This setting is what was previously available). 🎯 Distance: Each loot drop is locked to a randomly selected player that is located in the sector. Player loot filters are considered for this evaluation. 🎯 Locked: Each loot drop is locked to a randomly selected player regardless of where the player is located. Player loot filters are considered for this evaluation. The variant called "Distance" is the default value. This can be changed in the Loot section of the main menu options. Item locks are removed once the item has been picked up.
Continuum Transmuter
The Continuum Transmuter UI has undergone revisions to make its components more distinguishable. For example, there is now a preview of the outcome of a transmute. Newly unlocked recipes are now also better highlighted in the UI.
New skills and item sets
🎯 [New skill] Tiny but Deadly, a Founders T4 skill has been added: If using a Fighter-class non-Sentinel ship, all fixed-weapon bonuses to attack speed, critical hit chance, critical hit damage and elemental damage are increased by 4 (1 point)- 20% (5 points) of their current amount. At max level, this means that a base buff to attack speed of 200% becomes 240%. 🎯 [New skill] Pocket Pulverizer, a Vagrantis T1 skill has been added: If using a non-Sentinel ship that has a diameter less than {0} metres, fixed-weapon damage is increased by {1}%. 🎯 [Item set] A new item set called "Grandius Obliteratus" has been added. This set is especially useful for those who want their drones to wreak havok. 🎯 [Item set] A new item set called "Pocket Deathmachine" has been added. This set has been designed to make Fighter-class non-Sentinel ships stronger.
Russian localization
All text in the game has been translated to Russian! This work was single-handedly done by @Alekseyzz2078. Many thanks for your help! You can find him on Discord if you have any questions.
Quality of life
🎯 [UI] Properties of drone summons (all but proc-type summons) are now shown in much greater detail - especially in the modal/comprehensive tooltip variant. 🎯 [UI] A new bold font has been added - Noto S Bold. This font also supports Chinese and Russian. 🎯 [UI] When an item is compared to another, the icon of the equipped item is now highlighted in the tooltip. 🎯 [UI] An option to disable the white screen-flash has been added. This is located under the General section of the main menu options. 🎯 [UI] Text scale options are now per default increased for systems with low resolutions, such as the Steam Deck. 🎯 [UI] Text in the quest log screen and the dialogue screens now account for the desired text scale. 🎯 [UI] Most UI numbers are now prefixed when their value is really high. For example, the hull bar would show "113 K/221 K" instead of "113232/221233". 🎯 [Misc] You can now sort all inventory tabs by right-clicking (X on a controller) the sort button. 🎯 [Misc] Entity icons in world space are now presented at lower sensor ranges/zoom. 🎯 [Misc] Resetting a skill tree at the vendor no longer disarms any items. 🎯 [Misc] It is now possible to rebind the left and right mouse buttons. 🎯 [Misc] There is now a dedicated hotkey for dropping inventory items. The keybinding is located under "Menu controls". 🎯 [Misc] It is now possible to let the camera track the cursor. Adjust this setting in Options -> Control Schemes -> Camera. 🎯 [Misc] You can now use your summons (including those summoned through procs), on-board turrets and Sentinel ships in the Arena game mode. 🎯 [Sound effects] It is now possible to adjust weapon sound effects (fixed weapons / summons and on-board turrets / enemies). These settings are available in the audio section of the main menu options.
Again, thanks for playing and giving me your feedback! You can expect a lot more content in the time to come!
/Hannes
Continuum XXL in main branch!
Version 1.043
🎯 [Continuum XXL] A campaign mode above Continuum XL has been added. It is unlocked upon completing the game on Continuum XL. Among other things, Continuum XXL includes five unique world bosses. These are rare and extremely powerful end-game enemies that provide Uber-tier loot when defeated. Each boss has a custom loot table. 🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed a race condition in the input manager that, for some very uncommon controllers, could cause a flicker in the evaluation whether mouse or gamepad is active. This could result in a screen lock. 🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed a few incorrect texts.
World boss updates and revised sound effects
Version 1.0428
🎯 [Sound effect] Several item pickup and equip sound effects have been revised. 🎯 [Sound effect] The "beeping" sound effect for homing-type Vagrantis weapons has been replaced. 🎯 [Balance] Collision damage of the first boss in Act 4 has been increased. 🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed an issue that on rare occasion could cause summoned drones to target incorrect locations. 🎯 [Misc] A few new events have been added to the open-world part of Act 2.
---------Beta branch--------- 🎯 [World bosses] Five new world bosses have been added. Different world bosses are more/less common in different areas and different acts. Each world boss has a custom loot table.
