- Escalation building granting boosts before being built
- Manual target switch being too slow
Stellar Warfare
Hotfixes
It's time to achieve something
Strategic icons for buildings and options menu fix
- Strategic icons for buildings
- Drauki medium ship frame
Reworks
- Main options menu was reworked to always keep proper alignment
Additional mod functionality, better performance
- Mod menu
- Mod editor now has support for engine flames, selection circles and different color schemes of main ship texture
- Mod editor now can add utility modules including built-in, visit discord #modding channel for more information
- Color coded ship armor types in the fleet editor
- F1, F2, F3, F4 now can be used to select all units of a specific type
Reworks
- Added ship tester spawn buttons to the GUI culling logic
- Power and Metal affinity now has no downsides, grant +50% of storage and cost 500 of resource.
- All resource icons and values are color coded now
- Unit Promotion SFX now should play regardless of distance to promoted unit.
- Multiplayer lobby minor rework
- Resource counter now will update faster for larger difference values
- Ships now can broaside-roll at manually set target if necessary
- Reduced turn rate of the Wave Defense Boss ship to 1 from 4
Fixes
- Fixed unlimited population cap outside the ship tester
- Fixed error leading to infinitely doomed ships in Single Player game modes
- Fixed modules and weapons grouping being wrong in some rare occasions
- Fixed building in construction not counted for price calculations
- Fixed colliders for Nest and Colony carriers
- Fixed rare error related to clearing unused move markers
Performance
- Improved logic behind storing and updating global unit lists
Fixing issues found on the last playtest session
- Replaced overcomplicated calculations for immobile targets (idle ships or structures)
- Beams now also fire through shields that have no hp
- Eradicator damage increased from 5 to 6
- Annihilator damage increased from 24 to 30
- Magma Cannon damage increased from 24 to 30
- Magma Devastator damage increased from 16 to 20
- Magma Repeater damage increased from 16 to 20
- Stationbuster damage increased from 20 to 25
- Weldcannon damage increased from 72 to 90
- Krautak damage increased from 12 to 16
- Mini Repeater damage increased from 5 to 10
- Rattler Cannon damage reduced from 12 to 8
Fixes
Shield domes, UI fixes, ranking additions and more
Additions
- Created drag and drop for ship slots, you can now switch ship slots by drag and drop (without animation for now)
- Added new shield generator defensive building
- All updates from the live game build
Reworks
- Gauss shotcannon now deals 22 damage (44 before) per shot
- Shipyard anti-building missile Volley size reduced to 3 (5 before) Damage increased to 80 (50 before)
- Cutter damage increased to 45
- 'Ratler' (medium weapon) renamed to Rattler Cannon to avoid further confusion with Rattler (heavy weapon). All players that had it unlocked will have it properly replaced
- Hunter Seekers now explode upon death damaging everything around
- Hunter Seekers will not ignore shields anymore. But will deal damage remaining after defeating the shield to the hull instead
- Eradicator's shield's now won't block projectiles, missiles and beams that misses them but hit the ship's body
- Ship self repairs will now work only outside the combat (10 sec since the last danage received)
- Reduced price for all self repair ships by 30 for light ships, 80 for medium ships and 300 for Heavy ships
- Fighter formation now properly sets last damage credit of their carrier on an enemy bomber or fighter formation
- CIWS now properly sets last damage credit of their owner unit on an enemy bomber or fighter formation
- Regular AOE explosion should now properly set attacker credit on an bomber or fighter formation
- CIWS and Fighters now can benefit from a rank of the ship they are stationed on
- Fighters now grant 150 + carrier rank exp bonus per craft shot down
- Bombers now grant 100 + carrier rank exp bonus per craft shot down
- Disabled separate resources storages
- Unlock menu now has 3 new items. Additional metal storage space, Additional power storage space and reset button for storage changes
- Resources text is now color coded. Icons color depends on if resource affinity is on or off
- Gave some Torpedo aiming 101 lessons to ship captains using WW2 submarine manuals knowledge of the ancient ones. Now they know how to lead their targets
- Added GUI cull mask for strategic unit icons and health bars. Resource panel, build/unlock/ability menu buttons, control buttons, tooltip, selected units thumbs now properly cull hp bars and strategic unit icons.
Fixes
- Fixed modding multiplayer capability
- Fixed fleet editor weapon description being too close to weapon stats in some cases
- Fixed Zabu boost lines generating another 'UFO' in the middle of the map
- Fixed Sunna tooltip
- Fixed shipyard anti building missile upgrade being disabled in a new if player unlocked it in a previous game
- Fixed bug preventing beams from dealing damage in some situation
- Hunter Seekers now should properly work in multiplayer
- Removed potential shield damage duplication. Made sure that damage vs shield will be calculated relative to the owners armor type
- Fixed Reinforcement beacon, Nano distributor and Repair station working before being completed
- Fixed turrets rotating like crazy when target out of range or dead
- Fixed turrets landing highly likely missing shots cause of firing before even aiming at target
- Fixed torpedo having too low speed
- Fixed objects behind the UI rewriting the UI tooltips
- Fixed tooltip override bug (when tooltip was shown for an object behind the hover target)
- Fixed issue preventing from putting selected units thumbs on the UI layer
- Fixed bug preventing HP bars to be shown for buildings
- Fixed unit strategic icons showing when GUI should be off
Performance
- Removed some excessive unit list iteration
Speed calculations rework
- Weapons and Ships now use same speed calculations logic and their values can be compared directly
Medium ships speed minor rebalance
- Updated thumbnail icon for the Light Frigate
- Updated model for the Eradicator ship frame
- Updated the tooltips for matter storage, power storage and the storage station
- Updated the name for the storage station
- Increased loot re-rolls to 15 from 5
- Reduced Conscript HP to 350 (from 650), cost to 250/250 (from 400/400), build time to 5 s (from 10)
- Set base turn rate for medium ships as 5 (6 before)
- Set base turn rate for heavy ships to 3 (4 before)
- Base speed for Medium ships now 75 (80 before)
- Set rank experience requirement as unit total cost multiplied by 2 (3 before)
Fixes
- Fixed ship thumbnail tooltip being stack in some rare situations
Hotfix for multiplayer weapons and some balance changes
- Fixed bug preventing regular weapons from firing
- Fixed thumbnail icon for Repentful
Reworks
- Dreadship price is reduced to 750/500
- Relentless price is reduced to 2000/1500
- Tweaked cinematic camera random values. Now we have 4/6 of a chance to look at unit that firing and 2/6 at its target. Also now, if cinematic camera chose the carrier - it will always look at it's strike/fighters group if there are any spawned.
Super Ship Sunna, Tactical Pause, VSync and more
<*> Added 'tactical pause' that can be toggled by pressing P or Pause keys
<*> Added "Sunna" experimental escort Super Ship with the Particle Beams that deal 'true' damage
<*> Added True damage type mini weapon icons variant to the ship thumbnails
<*> Added green helper lines for eco buildings placed in valid range near the Matter Refiner and Energy Synergizer
<*> Added buttons spawning AI Super Ships in the ship tester mode
<*> Ship tester now allows to spawn 5 Light, Medium or Heavy ships at once if player will hold L.Shift button while clicking on spawn button
<*> Added spawned ships counter for a Ship Tester mode
<*> Camera movement speed now can be multiplied when player holds Ctrl key. Just like it was with a zoom
<*> Returned the ability to build separate Power and Matter storages. Will cost only in corresponding resource and has 5 seconds less building time compared to the Storage
Reworks
<*> Enabled VSync (option to control it will be added if tests will grant stable results)
<*> Added more 'space' for a ship frame description in the Fleet Editor inspector window
<*> Default order for weapon options in the Fleet Editor is now Type -> Name instead of just order by name
<*> Weapon type icons now color coded according to the damage type they deal
<*> Ship Test mode now allows players to spawn own Super Ships multiple times
<*> Flak weapons (AOE) now can have different damage for direct hit and AOE
<*> Reworked move markers to ensure they always stay visible when they should
<*> Laser Shield now has 4 bursts with a 40 seconds cooldown
<*> Avenger price is reduced to 2300/2900
<*> Destroyer MKII price is reduced to 2000/2200
<*> Heavy Corvette price is reduced to 400/350
<*> Pulverizer volley size reduced to 6 missiles, damage increased to 6 per missile
Fixes
<*> Implemented changes that should fix Drainer Beam being visible when it shouldn't be
<*> Fixed escalation boosting lines not showing for the opponent's refiner
<*> Fixed potential memory leak in the Fleet Editor
<*> Located and removed UFO (white glowing object at map's center added with previous playtes patch) from the map origin
<*> Fixed shipyard anti-building missile unlock bug
<*> Fixed error preventing from properly setting last damage dealer on target if ship that fired the shot already dead
<*> Fixed HP bar showing 0 values when unit health or shield are between 0 and 0.5
<*> Fixed wrong behavior of thumb icon selection for the Super Ships