Patchnotes 1.0.2

New Features

• Ice planets with new missions and enemies
  
• Tutorial / Introduction for survival mode
  
• New Intro for the survival mode (Outro coming soon)
  
• New final corp planet for the survival mode
  
• New corp enemies
  
• New pirate enemies
  
• New missions for jungle and lava planets
  
• New drone effects, obtainable as rewards at the end of galaxies
  
• New sandbox mode options
  
• Mothership upgrades and drone effects can now be activated in sandbox mode
  
• Sandbox mode options can now be changed in already existing saves
  
• Added 34 Steam Achievements
  
• Added unlockable Corp Drone skin
  
• Added options to in-game pause menu
  
• Added customizable background and grid colors to the drone workshop
  
• Added planet and racetrack testing scenes (accessible from the test simulation)
  

New Drone Parts

• Added sniper weapon
  
• Added spark thrower weapon
  

Improvements

• Changed fonts to support more languages
  
• You now damage the terrain if you collide with enough speed. This was added to address the problem of single pixels of terrain blocking you.
  
• Added area indicator in which boombugs and lavabombers deal splash damage
  
• Toned down the heat area indicator for heat bubbles
  
• Functionally identical weapons now stack, except for researcher, as you might want to equip different upgrades
  
• Added option to disable the border in the test simulation
  
• Added velocity and angular velocity display to the test simulation
  
• Added sandbox-option to toggle free mothership upgrades
  
• Reduced tooltip font size
  
• Improved and balance final corp mission
  
• You can zoom in more while in the test simulation.
  
• Default language when playing for the first time is now the device language
  
• Sandbox settings can now be changed directly on the mothership upgrade screen
  
• Adjusted behavior for Hammerhead, Lava Stonemanta, Icemanta: They return to the planet if they stray too far into space
  
• Added possibility to rename savefiles after they are created
  
• Added translators to credits
  
• Added the Nimbatus Container to a separate sensor detection layer
  

Balancing

• Bio Barrels difficulty scales with how far you traveled
  
• Stonemanta Caves have 1200HP instead of 2000HP
  
• Lava Bomber Caves have 2000HP instead of 3000HP
  
• Small Magnet now has a radius of 15 instead of 10 meters
  
• Lava Bomber deals 250 damage instead of 600, in 23m radius instead of 30m
  
• Lava Cores heat drone parts up by 40°C instead of 50°C per second
  
• Heat capacitor has more health and heats by 5°C instead of 10°C per second
  
• Cryo Pod has more health
  
• Lowered the amount of Lava Bomber hives to destroy on easy difficulty
  
• Cost of hull repairs now increases each time up to a certain limit
  
• Threat increase scales now scales with your progress
  
• Amount of resources obtained through rewards now scales with the difficulty level
  
• Improved distribution of upgrades on randomly generated weapons
  

Bugfixes

• Fixed bug where the rotation mode of the weapon gets reset
  
• Fixed angle offset of multiple beam laser
  
• Fixed bug where corp battery tower spawned inside the shield of the corp laboratory
  
• Fixed translation for air resistance downgrade
  
• Stonemantas now show Healthbar when damaged
  
• Lava Bombers now show Healthbar when damaged
  
• Fixed bad performance of proximity sensor
  
• Fixed bug where “mission failed” popup wouldn’t show up when mission was previously completed
  
• Fixed bug where lava fountains didn’t register certain collisions
  
• Mines are now detectable as enemies
  
• Fixed weapons being able to shoot through terrain
  
• Fixed tooltip flickering when displaying weapon details
  
• Fixed bug when exporting drones on linux (they ended up without file ending)
  
• Not unlocked weapon upgrades now stay installed but display an "?" icon and won’t work
  
• Threat increase scales now scales with your progress
  
• Fixed projectile detection of proximity and distance sensors. Due to the new quicker method it can happen that some projectiles are still undetected.
  
• Added second larger Grid to drone workshop for better orientation
  
• Changed min / max ranges for certain weapon attributes so that they are upgradeable
  
• Fixed Hammerhead Collision, they should no longer glitch into the terrain
  
• Fixed ice spikey dens and jumpfish nests not working on certain planets
  
• Fixed bug where manual race had fully autonomous precondition
  
• Fixed bug where manual race button was not clickable
  
• Fixed a crash when entering the test area 
  

Patchnotes 1.0.1

• Added options to in-game pause menu
  
• Added customizable background and grid colors to the drone workshop
  
• Added planet and racetrack testing scenes (accessible from the test simulation)
  
• Added sandbox-option to toggle free mothership upgrades
  

• Reduced tooltip font size
  
• Improved and balance final corp mission
  
• You can zoom in more while in the test simulation.
  
• Default language when playing for the first time is now the device language
  
• Sandbox settings can now be changed directly on the mothership upgrade screen
  
• Adjusted behavior for Hammerhead, Lava Stonemanta, Icemanta: They return to the planet if they stray too far into space
  

• Cost of hull repairs now increases each time up to a certain limit
  
• Threat increase scales now scales with your progress
  
• Amount of resources obtained through rewards now scales with the difficulty level
  
• Improved distribution of upgrades on randomly generated weapons
  

• Not unlocked weapon upgrades now stay installed but display an "?" icon and won’t work
  
• Threat increase scales now scales with your progress
  
• Fixed projectile detection of proximity and distance sensors. Due to the new quicker method it can happen that some projectiles are still undetected.
  
• Fixed size of achievement icons 
  
• Added second larger Grid to drone workshop for better orientation
  
• Fixed velocity display so it’ll display 0 instead of nothing
  
• Changed min / max ranges for certain weapon attributes so that they are upgradable
  

Patchnotes

New Features

• Ice planets with new missions and enemies
  
• Tutorial / Introduction for survival mode
  
• New Intro for the survival mode (Outro coming soon)
  
• New final corp planet for the survival mode
  
• New corp enemies
  
• New pirate enemies
  
• New missions for jungle and lava planets
  
• New drone effects, obtainable as rewards at the end of galaxies
  
• New sandbox mode options
  
• Mothership upgrades and drone effects can now be activated in sandbox mode
  
• Sandbox mode options can now be changed in already existing saves
  
• Added 34 new Steam Achievements
  
• Added unlockable Corp Drone skin
  

New Drone Parts

• Added sniper weapon
  
• Added spark thrower weapon
  

Improvements

• Changed fonts to support more languages
  
• You now damage the terrain if you collide with enough speed. This was added to address the problem of single pixels of terrain blocking you.
  
• Added area indicator in which boombugs and lavabombers deal splash damage
  
• Toned down the heat area indicator for heat bubbles
  
• Functionally identical weapons now stack, except for researcher, as you might want to equip different upgrades
  
• Added option to disable the border in the test simulation
  
• Added velocity and angular velocity display to the test simulation
  

Balancing

• Bio Barrels difficulty scales with how far you traveled
  
• Stonemanta Caves have 1200HP instead of 2000HP
  
• Lava Bomber Caves have 2000HP instead of 3000HP
  
• Small Magnet now has a radius of 15 instead of 10 meters
  
• Lava Bomber deals 250 damage instead of 600, in 23m radius instead of 30m
  
• Lava Cores heat drone parts up by 40°C instead of 50°C per second
  
• Heat capacitor has more health and heats by 5°C instead of 10°C per second
  
• Cryo Pod has more health
  
• Lowered the amount of Lava Bomber hives to destroy on easy difficulty
  

Bugfixes

• Fixed bug where the rotation mode of the weapon gets reset
  
• Fixed angle offset of multiple beam laser
  
• Fixed bug where corp battery tower spawned inside the shield of the corp laboratory
  
• Fixed translation for air resistance downgrade
  
• Stronemantas now show Healthbar when damaged
  
• Lava Bombers now show Healthbar when damaged
  
• Fixed bad performance of proximity sensor
  
• Fixed bug where “mission failed” popup wouldn’t show up when mission was previously completed
  
• Fixed bug where lava fountains didn’t register certain collisions
  
• Mines are now detectable as enemies
  
• Fixed weapons being able to shoot through terrain
  
• Fixed tooltip flickering when displaying weapon details
  
• Fixed bug when exporting drones on linux (they ended up without file ending)
  

Help needed to translate Nimbatus

Patchnotes 0.9.4

• This update resets the save files, however your drones should be safe. We extract them from your old save files and place them into the global drone list. You can find your drones inside a new Sandbox save or in the competitive modes.
  
• We had to reset the Brawl drone pool, because we changed how this mode works. Please play the brawl mode again and upload your drones so we have enough opponents available
  

• Nimbatus mother ship upgrades
  
• Added first Steam Achievements and unlockable drone skins. We will add more achievements in the next update. Please note that the corp skin is not yet unlockable
  
• New captain: Programmer
  
• New save file management (freely create / name / delete save files instead of having fixed slots)
  
• Added difficulty settings to the survival mode
  
• New Jungle Ruin location
  
• New Garage and Weapon-casino locations
  
• Added new rewards when advancing to the next galaxy.
  

• Temperature probe
  
• Audio part
  
• Small Hollow Block
  
• Programmable LED 
  

• Adjusted spawn rates for missions, planet themes and planet events
  
• Reworked the brawl-mode
  
• Added new travel events
  
• Added Ambient soundscapes on planets
  
• New music for the galaxy map
  
• Options are now also accessible from the galaxy map
  
• Snakes are now detectable with sensors as danger zone
  
• Added detection layer for enemy projectiles
  
• Added mission target as detection layer to detect mission relevant objects
  
• Added container as directional sensor target
  
• Added nearest enemy as directional sensor target
  
• Added mission target as directional sensor target
  
• Added fallback target to directional sensor and vtol thruster in case no direction could be calculated
  
• Reworked drone skin selection
  
• Drone skins can now be applied to all drone parts
  
• Added ability to flip and offset skins
  
• Added time slider to test area
  
• Added ability to rotate the drone core and made the visuals symmetrical
  
• Added option to hide sensor visualization
  
• Nimbatus now supports wider than 21:9 aspect ratios
  
• Added radius indicator for heat bubbles
  

• Increased inventory for shops
  
• Decreased prices for shop items
  
• Heat bubble radius increased by 50%
  
• Default radius of TnT is now 10
  
• Improved effectiveness of heat-seeking and laser-guided rockets
  
• Adjusted captain starting parts
  
• Rebalanced weapon upgrade prices and tech tree
  
• Jungle chests now give 80 rare resources instead of 200
  
• Made grenades heavier, less bouncy
  
• Made meteors stay hot for longer
  
• Increased radius of small magnet from 5 to 10
  
• Lowered boombug hive HP from 3000 to 2500
  

• Fixed bug where timer on ore planet would not work
  
• Fixed bug where the travel screen would break while in creative mode
  
• Fixed bug where Heavyweight perk effects weren’t applied correctly
  
• Used tag list is now correctly updated when deleting parts or switching the drone
  
• Several UI fixes where descriptions sometimes got cut off
  
• Fixed collider size of "select drone", sometimes blocked the mouseover for rewards
  
• Lava Heat Capacitor doesn’t radiate heat anymore when frozen
  
• Fixed bug where you could use wireless fuel / energy by decoupling a subdrone using a factory part that has fuel tanks behind a decoupler
  
• Fixed bug where sawblades would erroneously trigger overlap detection
  
• Fixed bug where decouplers and factory parts stopped working correctly
  
• Fixed bug where you could still access fuel and energy after destroying a parent decoupler
  
• Fixed looping player container sound effect during loading screen
  
• Fixed bug where you could assign the same upgrades multiple times to a weapon
  

• Added support for Metal graphics API for Mac
  
• Upgraded Steam API to fix compatibility issues
  
• Added link to help us with the translation of the game
  

Patchnotes 0.9.3

• Drone skins should no longer be locked again if you have the steam achievement.
  
• Homing missiles no longer work as programmer captain
  
• Upgraded Steam API to fix compatibility issues
  
• Fixed bug where Hull did not take damage
  
• Fixed bug where beating the bossfight wouldn’t unlock neighboring systems
  
• Fixed upgrade slots display in captain select screen
  
• Fixed bug where no drone parts were available in the tutorial
  
  

• Added support for Metal graphics API for Mac
  
• Added bossfight navigation arrow
  
• Added tooltips for drone launch window
  
• Improved End of Galaxy UI
  
• Added threat decrease visualization
  
• Made torches detectable by temperature probes
  
• Adjusted spawn rates for missions, planet themes and planet events
  

Patchnotes

• Fixed crash when exiting the game
  
• Fixed bug where batteries and fueltanks would not recharge after the factory part that created them was destroyed
  
• Fixed drone editor bug where you could attach a part to it’s child and make them independent of the drone core
  

Patchnotes

• Added Small hollow block, audio part and programmable LED to mission reward pools
  
• Added Sound Effects to Nimbatus Landing Animation
  
• Added Sound Effects to End of Galaxy Reward Scene
  
• Removed purely defensive AI brawl drones.
  

• Fixed bug where sawblades would erroneously trigger overlap detection
  
• Fixed Sumo Skins width and height settings
  
• Fixed bug where decouplers and factory parts stopped working correctly
  
• Fixed bug where you could still access fuel and energy after destroying a parent decoupler
  
• Fixed bug where an endless amount of pirates spawned 
  
• Fixed looping player container sound effect during loading screen
  
• Fixed bug where you could assign the same upgrades multiple times to a weapon
  
• Fixed endless loading screen when starting with a programmer or engineer captain
  
• Fixed bug, where the connection between parts was not updated anymore
  

• Lowered boombug hive HP from 3000 to 2500
  
• Happy testing!