Endless Leaderboards Update

Endless Leaderboards

The Endless mode now features leaderboards.

• View Local, Global, Around Me, and Friends rankings

• Access them directly from Endless mode screen or Game Over screen (Endless).

Gameplay Changes & Balancing

Planets & Gravity

• Increased base gravity of planets.

• Reduced excessive Cold planet frequency.

• More Verdant, Heat, Lunar and varied planet types will now appear.

• Added new planets, including new Lunar variants.

• Small planets have been adjusted for better gameplay consistency.

Endless Mode Scaling

• Aliens now scale better over time to avoid excessively long “endless” runs.

Alien Spawn Balance

• Moon and Heat alien types now spawn more frequently.

• Overall spawn imbalance across alien types has been corrected.

Star Heat

• Heat damage from stars has been increased.

• Fixed an issue where being inside a star could delay normal waves indefinitely.

Planetary Log Update

Added a Planets Harvested counter in the Planetary Log so you can track how many unique planet types you have discovered and depleted.

New Mission: Untouched & New Artifact: Wave Disruptor

Wave Disruptor makes wave aliens spawn farther away from the player, giving more reaction time and strategic space.

Living Sun Rework

• Previously too stackable.

• Now converted into a strong Active Item with increased damage.

Star Crucible Upgrade

Can now output multiple items at once.

New Item: Arcane Book

New Mythic item added to the pool.

Rift Merchant Update

Once all relics are collected, the Rift Merchant now sells 3 different fallback items instead of 3 revivals.

Missions & Achievements

• Reduced grind requirements for certain missions and achievements.

• Improved overall progression pacing.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed softlock when playing as Neptune using The Hunt and dying by repeatedly crashing into planets during a swarm.

• Fixed visual bug with incorrect displayed levels on equipped artifacts.

• Fixed overlapping UI panels.

• Fixed locked spaceship exploit that allowed selection of locked ships via details panel.

• Fixed missing Game Over music.

• Fixed issue where being inside a star could prevent wave progression.

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