The Chaser's Voyage

Patch Notes for Update 0.9.0.14:

• Battleships:

• The Battleship laser shots now cast more light on nearby objects.
  
• After communicating in a Space Battle, your allied Battleships will no longer fire when near the player.
  
• Battleships in Space Battles now move their guns slower and have a delay before moving them again after shooting.
  

• Bounty Hunters:

• Bounty Hunters will now switch to Lasers if they notice the player has not moved recently.
  

• Clients:

• In Client Selection, planets that are not yet unlocked in the journal will have a yellow mark next to them to indicate that they are new.
  
• Clients offer 1.15 times their original money (instead of 1.3).
  

• Crew Journal:

• Edited the "Guide to Battleships" Entry to better reflect the player's ability to sense Battleship Cannons in storms.
  
• Changed the names of the Entries: "Auxiliary Systems", "Follow-Up Report on Auxiliary Systems", & "Intercepted Bounty Hunters Guild Message" to "Initial Report on Auxiliary Systems", "Initial Report on Repair Drones", & "Intercepted Guild Message".
  

• Cutscenes:

• Styx is now in shadow in the end game victory cutscene after the player delivers their 1.5 million bounty.
  
• Flipped some sprites to face towards the center.
  

• Death Notice:

• Added a reworded version of the Tutorial's Death Notice that pops up the first time the player dies in the main game.
  

• Docking:

• Repairs now start automatically when docking with a fleet or space port.
  

• Mines:

• Mine Explosions now move like all other explosions.
  
• Added shock waves when a mine explodes. These shock waves can trigger other mines to explode after a short duration.
  

• Missiles:

• Sped up missile movement speed for when the player's engine speed is below 4.
  

• Performance:

• Simplified the collision boxes for almost every collidable object or ship in the game.
  
• Removed unnecessary collision checks between things that should not be able collide.
  

• Player:

• Slightly lowered the fire speed between burst fired volleys for the player's guns.
  
• Increased the damage of the player's Level 4 laser shots from 7 to 12.5.
  

• Space Battles:

• Hostile Fighters will now immediately start shooting the player instead of waiting until the encounter has progressed for a bit.
  

• Ship Graveyard:

• Increased the Health of large debris from 40 to 60.
  

• Ship UI:

• The Live Feed display that appears for your crew mates when being chased off by a Bounty Hunter now displays their name instead of their system.
  

• Sensors:

• While the player has Sensors active (Level 2 Aux), obstacles that will collide with them will flash as an early warning system.
  
• Sensors will now display the distance of enemy Pirate and Bounty Hunter ships, similar to how Battleship distance is displayed.
  

• Sentries:

• Increased Sentry health from 10 to 80.
  

• Sound

• Increased the volume of the enemy weapon sound effects.
  

• Tutorial:

• After the first time the player completes the Tutorial, they will immediately go into a Captain mode game instead of a Voyager mode one.
  
• Reordered the Death Notice screens in the Tutorial.
  
• Added back buttons to the Death Notice screens in the Tutorial.
  

• Bug Fixes:

• Client Money offered now displays the correct amount of money they will pay you instead of displaying less money.
  
• Diplomats in Client Slot 2 now have their affiliations properly set to only Imperial or UGS when using the Bright Crown Insignia.
  
• Fighters should now properly attempt to avoid running into guns on battleships.
  
• The Tutorial Ship's collider now better matches its sprite.
  
• Changed Tai's face from Sad to Excited for the voice line Enemies Defeated #4.
  
• The Records for the correct Insignia will now be properly saved when the player Bookmarks a Voyage with one Insignia equipped, equips a different Insignia in the Main Menu or Flight Simulator, and then Resumes the Voyage.
  
• The game no longer thinks it is in the Tutorial if the player quits the Tutorial via the Death Notice tutorial menu.
  
• Radiation and Hail Storms now correctly disable the Distance display during Battleship Pursuits.
  
• Enabled lighting on some sprites that didn't have it and disabled lighting on some shadows that did.
  
• Battleships in Space Battles should no longer not fire when they otherwise should.
  
• Fixed a rounding issue causing Client money offered to be 1 unit more than the money they actually gave the player.
  
• The Crew Journal category scrollbars no longer awkwardly jump into the correct position when exiting out of an entry.
  
• Friendly and Neutral Sentries will no longer be selectable in the Flight Simulator when the Jolly Styx insignia is equipped.
  
• When the Jolly Styx Insignia is equipped, the player will now correctly be treated as if they are an enemy to the Empire and the UGS at all times.
  
• The Restart Tutorial, Quit Tutorial, & Quit Game Confirmation windows in the tutorial now properly close when unpausing the game while they are open.
  
• When there is only a radiation storm and sentries, the voice line for Radiation Storm should now always play instead of no line playing.
  
• Fixed a Null Reference Error with the docking animations code that occurred when the player beat the game with the Skip Victory Credits option on.
  
• Docked repairs will no longer occur in the background while in a cutscene, now preventing a bug that put players back into the game after the victory cutscene ended.
  
• Fixed an issue with the Day 100 Cutscene's space background being the wrong size on different resolutions.
  
• Fixed a Null Reference Exception when beating the game after receiving Styx's bounty and encountering a Bounty Hunter.
  
• The "Dock With Neutral Fleet" line will no longer play when there is a neutral fleet in a Radiation Storm.
  
• Pirates 21-25 can now appear.
  
• Autopilot no longer increases certain timers by double in certain situations.
  
• The Tutorial Battleship's cannon shot is now the correct size.
  
• The Tutorial Battleship now waits the correct amount of time before moving vertically after it fires its cannon shot.
  
• Smoothed out the animation of the right blue bars in Planet and Species Crew Journal Entries.
  

• Typos:

• Added the missing second t to that in "I see that you will..." in Monk Client Story #15.
  
• Fixed the incorrect pronoun use in Medical Transport Client Story #1: ". . . no one on this planet can seem to help him/her/them . . .".
  
• Fixed typos in the sentence: "Thus, he would have been no match for the bounty he was trying to steal, let alone from someone like Vatch." in the Crew Journal Entry: "Intercepted Bounty Hunters Guild Message"
  
• Added the comma before "but" in the following entries of the Crew Journal:
  
  
  
  • "...of the Empire, but criticized by..." in Entry: "Galactic Ceasefire Finally Signed".
    
  • "...this whole time, but we were..." in Entry: "Senator Barku's Conflict of Interest".
    
  • "...received substantial damage, but fortunately were..." in Entry: "Fatal Disaster in Illegal Minefield".
    
  • "...on the planet, but was captured..." in Entry: "The Truth of the Battle of Yeppa".
    
  • "...Bounty Hunters Guild, but had been..." in Entry: "Blaster McKannon".
    
  • "...few more pages, but I don’t..." in Entry: "Imperial History XXXV".
    
  • "...UGS would have, but... wait... focus Wolfe..." in Entry: "Wolfe's Log #75".
    
  • "...It stung at first, but I had friends..." in Entry: "Wolfe's Log #256".
    
  • "...couple nights ago, but I told him..." in Entry: "Wolfe's Log #682".
    
  • "...I sound angry, but... you remember Balks?" in Entry: "Subject: Thoughts on the Guild".
    
  • "...spotted on Padisa, but has since gone..." in Entry: "The Mark of Death".
    
  • "...evade Imperial taxes), but haven’t seen any..." in Entry: "Territory Cheat Sheet".
    
  • "...for criminal conduct, but managed to escape..." in Entry: "The Empire's Most Wanted List".
    
  • "...“spooky” or “haunted”, but they’re actually big..." in Entry: "Chlik".
    
  
  

Patch Notes for Update 0.8.0.03:

• Flight Simulator:

• Fully enabled the Flight Simulator.
  
• The Flight Simulator contains all hostile encounters, obstacles, and storms, allowing the player to practice any encounter they want.
  
• The player also can customize the damage the Chaser has at the start of the Simulation, to better reflect a mid-voyage encounter.
  
• As is the case with the main game, there can only be 3 Obstacles chosen at a time, and some obstacles are not compatible with others.
  
• Pressing Start on a Gamepad will move the button selection indicator to specific buttons on each screen.
  

• Obstacles:

• Mines now will be set off by any laser shots, not just powerful ones.
  
• Mine explosion damage will now rapidly decrease after 0.08 seconds.
  

• Bug Fixes:

• Pirates over Space Ports will now have the correct chance to be friends with the client.
  

• Typos:

• Changed the name "Talin" to "Talis" to in the Crew Journal Entry: Famed UGS Battleship to Receive Third Award For Heroics
  

• Bug Fixes:

• Background Asteroids and Sentries now spawn correctly in the Tutorial.
  
• When using a PlayStation gamepad in the Tutorial, once the player has fully repaired their hull while docked, the Start/Stop Repairs notice should correctly be replaced by the Repairs Completed notice.
  

• Typos:

• Changed the subtitles for Tutorial Line 4 in Scene 5 from "Of they they do" to "Of course they do"
  

Patch Notes for Update 0.7.0.05:

• Clients:

• Clients now offer 1.3 times more Units. This is to offset the longer in-game time it now takes to finish a jump due to fixing the Autopilot time bug.
  

• Crew Journal:

• Edited "KTC CEO Defends Illegal Minefield After Fatal Disaster" to match up with the fact that Battleships can pursue the player through a Minefield.
  

• Damage:

• Lowered the Hull Damage taken by the Chaser by 10%.
  

• Obstacles:

• Radiation Storms and Stars can no longer appear together. (Hail Storms already could not appear with a Star.)
  
• Added Obstacle Combos, where multiple obstacle types are active at the same time.
  
  
  
  • As you get further into the game, Obstacle Combos become more common, and you can get up to 3 obstacles active at once. This is part of the Tier system, so it does not affect the Ace, Voyager+, and Captain+ modes. Obstacle Combos are available from the start of those modes.
    
  • Stars cannot combo with Sentry Fields or Minefields.
    
  
  

• Sound:

• Added minor randomized pitch shifting for most sound effects.
  
• Increased the volume of the explosion sounds for when Asteroids, Debris, and Sentries get destroyed.
  

• Space Battles:

• Added the destroyed Battleships found in the background of Ship Graveyards to the background of Space Battles.
  

• Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a Quality Compression issue with the Difficulty Selection Screen's Background.
  
• Fixed a bug regarding Storm chances in Tier 2. (Storms were slightly more likely to be chosen in Tier 2 than intended.)
  
• Reduced the default scrollbar scroll speed when used with a mouse.
  
• In the Voyager and Captain modes, Outlaw Scientists should no longer have the Empire nor the UGS as enemies when the player finishes the first batch of encounters before reaching the end of Tier 1.
  
• In the Voyager and Captain modes, Clients should no longer offer Tier 2 payment amounts when the player finishes the first batch of encounters before reaching the end of Tier 1.
  
• In Tutorial Scene 7, using the Jump Drive at full charge will now end whatever line is currently playing and start the end of the tutorial correctly.
  
• The Pause Screen should now always slide in immediately when the Pause input is pressed.
  
• The Day Timer and the Life Support gauge will now properly increase or decrease when using Autopilot, instead of progressing at half speed.
  
• The Unlock Progress for the Corrupted Entry in the Crew Journal will now properly update.
  
• The Voyage Updates Entries in the Crew Journal should now properly continue to unlock if you unlock some in a Voyage and then restart the Voyage.
  
• Missiles and Ion Shots will now always spawn hit animations when they collide with an object.
  
• Foreground and Background Battleships in Space Battles should no longer spawn with frozen explosions on them.
  
• Background Battleships in Space Battles should no longer display explosions behind the ship itself.
  

Typos:

• Added a space between "Dr." and "Xiima" in the Crew Journal entry: Article From “The Cartographer Issue #600: New Theory About the Ancients”
  
• Added a comma to "Name’s Wolfe by the way." in the New Game Cutscene Line #35 .
  
• Fixed pronouns for the knight in Defector to the Empire Client Story 19.
  
• The "s" in "Imperials" in Client Stories will now also be purple when color coding is on.
  
• Removed the extra l in traveller / travelling in the subtitles for the following lines:
  
  
  
  • Non-Event 20: Edwin: "We always dreamed about traveling through space, seeing all the stars and planets, but... I don’t think ever like this."
    
  • Merchant Fleet 6: Tai: "These merchant ships are pretty brave to be traveling all the way out here."
    
  • Pirate 3: Bargaining Success 2: "Draugmeer will take pity on you today. Farewell, travelers." / "Draugmeer will take pity on you... for today. Farewell, travelers."
    
  • Imperial Fleet: Neutral Landing 5: "It’s been a while since we’ve had a traveler. We’ll try to make your visit here comfortable."
    
  
  

• Bug Fixes:

• The Unlock Progress for each Alphabetical Planet Category will now update correctly.
  
• Rapidly pressing the Confirm button on a gamepad after opening the Crew Journal via the Select button will no longer cause button navigation issues.
  

Patch Notes for Update 0.6.0.06:

• Crew Journal:

• Added the Crew Journal, a collection of over 300 written lore entries that unlock as the game is played. Each entry in the Crew Journal also has written commentary from your crew.
  
• The Crew Journal is accessible from the main menu and the pause screen. On Mouse & Keyboard controls it is also accessible on the mid jump screen.
  
• During gameplay with a gamepad, the "Select" style button (or touchpad on PlayStation controller) can be pressed to open up the Crew Journal without needing to pause first.
  

• Cutscenes:

• Slightly reduced the flicker effect on Lady Styx's hologram.
  

• Options:

• Reduced the max speed of the Scrollbar Speed slider to more reasonable levels.
  
• The gamepad type shows up under Gamepad Controls (for testing / feedback purposes).
  

• Voice Lines:

• Almost all of the crew's voice lines will now no longer be repeated until every other line of that type has been used.
  

• Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug that cause some lighting on Mines to be incorrect when fighting an enemy using Ion weapons.
  
• Fixed a bug that would cause incorrect cutscene text to reappear in the text box when Lady Styx's hologram was turning on.
  
• Fixed a color issue on Lady Styx's red hologram effect.
  
• Hunters will no longer be able to chase the player off of a Space Port shortly after they have jumped away from a fight over the same Space Port. They now will wait the full in-game day before being able to chase the player off of the port.
  
• Fixed a Null Reference error that would occur when in an Encounter with a Space Port and an non-Allied Fleet.
  
• The Outer Space Planet Sprite for Space Ports will now correctly be able to be the White Water World versions 2 & 3, instead of just White Water World version 1.
  
• The System Info screen will no longer be whited out.
  
• The player can no longer depart early from the Imperial docking sequence in the Tutorial while using a gamepad.
  
• The Depart Prompt during the Imperial docking sequence in the Tutorial will now properly close when departing via a gamepad.
  
• Insignia Info in the Pause Screen will no longer be selectable during the Tutorial.
  
• Pausing during the Tutorial now works correctly.
  
• Starting the Tutorial while having Bookmarked Voyage Data now works correctly.
  
• Jumping out of the first scene in the Tutorial now works correctly.
  

• Typos:

• Changed "You got to help." to "You've got to help me." in Fugitive client story #2.
  
• Changed "I got to go in person" to "I gotta go in person." in Fugitive client story #10.
  
• Changed "All I got to do now" to "All I gotta do now..." in Bounty Hunter client story #11.
  
• Removed an extra space between "food and water" and the period in Altruist client story #6.
  
• Uncapitalized "Galactic Ceasefire" in Merchant client story #14 and Imperial Supply Officer client story #14 & #19.
  
• Removed the extra "a" from the "Achilles Fetch was a like a father to Tai." loading screen text.
  
• Fixed the spelling of the second "retreating" in Enemy Retreat Line 06: "They’re retreating? They’re retreating! That means we won!"
  

• Obstacles:

• Made it less likely that the big ship pieces in the background will be overlapping in Ship Graveyards.
  

• Voyager Mode:

• The player can now change their system power and activate the Space Jump Drive while the Chaser is respawning.
  

• Bug Fixes:

• The Docked Options and Save Data UIs in the Tutorial will now correctly be the default UI color, rather than the player's custom color.
  
• The Space Jump Drive's progress bar will no longer sometimes be empty when the Jump Drive is damaged while it is fully charged and flashing.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented the Space Jump Drive from activating if the player's cursor was over the Jump Drive while respawning, and had not moved off the Jump Drive.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the Space Jump Drive to light up when the cursor was near it, but not yet within the activation range of the button.
  
• Fixed a bug that would cause the wrong insignia to be used in certain situations if the player made a bookmark save, changed their insignia, then resumed the bookmarked save.
  
• The Main Menu Theme will no longer keep playing after loading a Bookmark Save that was on a planet.
  

• Typos:

• Added "met" to "but you haven't met {him/her/them}" in Defector to the UGS client story #17.
  

• Clients:

• Updated almost all stories for each client type, except for Aligned Cartographer.
  
• Added new stories for each client type, except for Aligned Cartographer.
  
• Client Stories will now no longer be repeated until after every other story for that client has been used.
  

• Obstacles:

• Renamed Debris Fields to Ship Graveyards.
  

• Bug Fixes:

• Edwin's part of Debris Field Line 5, where he says "G-g-g-ghosts?" now correctly uses his scared face.
  
• On the Records Screen, changing your insignia or difficulty inside the insignia selection menu will now update the record display screen appropriately.
  
• The Pause Screen is now no longer hidden behind a black screen if the Gamepad Connect Notice appears at the very start of the Tutorial.
  
• The Tutorial Ship will now start with the proper amount of power in each system when the Tutorial is started automatically.
  

• Typos:

• Replaced ' with ’ in the Aligned Cartographer client stories.
  

• Clients:

• Diplomats will now always be aligned when the Tyrant's Demise or Imperial Shadow Legion Insignias are equipped.
  
• Added a new Client type, Aligned Cartographers.
  

• Mid-Jump:

• Changed the warp speed lines in the background.
  

• Bug Fixes:

• Moved the Client faces in the client details portion of the Cient Select menu so they no longer overlap with the Client Type: "Imperial Supply Officer".
  
• Fixed a bug that caused some player lasers to not deal the correct damage if the player changed Weapons power during combat.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the Jump Info screen to not update after the player picked up a client with the same Client Type as the previous client.
  
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused music to continue to play when entering Mid-Jump scenes, especially from loading a Quicksave Bookmark.
  
• In Voyager Mode, Longest Life records will now be properly recorded when the player does not die in a voyage.
  

• Bounty Hunters:

• When a Bounty Hunter chases the player off of a Space Port or Merchant Fleet, the Bounty Hunter's hull will be fully recovered.
  

• Docking:

• When using a gamepad, the Repair and Depart Buttons are instead now labels, and show the inputs used to Toggle Repairs and Depart.
  
• When using a gamepad, the Toggle Main/Info input now works while docked.
  

• Mid-Jump:

• When using a gamepad, the Save and Quit Button and the Crew Journal Button are instead now labels, and show the inputs used to Save & Quit and Open the Crew Journal (not yet available).
  

• Options:

• Changed some of the gamepad control's input names to better match different types of controllers.
  
• Added D-Pad icons that will now be shown instead of text for gamepad controls that use the D-Pad.
  

• Ship UI:

• Info Panel:
  
  
  
  • The Info button is no longer intractable while choosing a client.
    
  • While using a gamepad, the Main, Info, Autopilot, and Comms buttons now show the input to activate them when they are usable.
    
  
  

• Bug Fixes:

• When the player enters the custom control menu after their gamepad gets disconnected while customizing the controls, the Custom Gamepad Controls will now properly be the previously saved controls.
  
• The Keyboard controls should no longer be incorrectly active when opening up the options menu while using a gamepad.
  
• The A Button on the Nintendo Switch Controller now properly works with menus.
  
• Customizing gamepad controls will no longer change the default gamepad controls as well. (To reset the default gamepad controls to normal, use the "Reset Defaults" button in the "Gamepad Options" menu in options.)
  
• When using a gamepad, the Next and Previous alerts on the Repair and Auxiliary Prompts in the Tutorial will now always be activated by pressing Right and Left on the D-Pad respectively, regardless of the player's custom controls.
  
• The Tutorial Prompts will now display the default gamepad instructions instead of keyboard instructions when the player has custom gamepad controls on.
  
• The input for Space Jump on Custom Gamepad Controls will now properly be set when restoring the defaults.
  
• The Increase Power and Decrease Power arrows in Remaining Power will now animate smoothly when Autopilot is enabled.
  
• When the Info Screen is showing the Comm Info, the Comm Button will now correctly have the Selector lit up.
  
• Bounty Hunters chasing the player off of a Merchant Fleet should now work correctly.
  
• Bounty Hunters should now fire their weapons properly after chasing the player off of a Space Port or Merchant Fleet.
  
• The de-docking animation that plays after a Bounty Hunter chases the player off of a Space Port or Merchant Fleet will no longer be cut off.
  
• Merchant Ships will no longer spawn in the middle of the screen after docking with the fleet.
  
• The Jump sound will only play one time when fleets jump while Autopilot is enabled.
  
• In Voyager Mode, restarting an encounter where the player died to a Bounty Hunter that chased them off of docking will no longer result in Null Reference errors.
  
• Missiles now use the correct explosion sprite again.
  
• Fixed a Missing Reference Error that would occur after the player destroyed a Pirate or Bounty Hunter and then died via Hull Depletion or destroyed a Bounty Hunter in the same encounter.