The Space Birthday Update: Glory Missions & Clients

This post is about a feature of the free Space Birthday Update, out now! See this post for the details. The original idea for this update was just to add some optional harder missions for really well-equipped characters played by really clever players. We ended up adding a lot more besides, but Glory Missions are exactly that. 5 new levels of much harder missions that you do just to prove you can. Here's the deal:

• Glory missions come in 5 increasingly ridiculous difficulty levels, Glory I to Glory V

• Glory I, the easiest, is harder than Mistake-level missions

• Only characters who've completed a Glory I mission get access to Glory II missions, and so on

• Instead of pay, they just have a Glory score that reflects their difficulty

• Glory doesn't accumulate, it's just like a high score

• The character who's completed the hardest Glory mission in your galaxy is immortalised in the Legends menu

• There's also a leaderboard to compare your best Glory scores with your friends

• Glory scores are also affected by your character traits: picking a character with loads of positive traits will get you less glory, and characters with lots of challenging traits get more

• Glory V missions are special: we don't set a max difficulty for the mission generator, we just let it run wild

• Glory V missions also come with two unique properties other missions don't have: Toughened Hull and Glitch-Proof Hull. That means you can't shortcut the challenge by attacking the ship from the outside or teleporting in. We love both those tactics, but the very hardest missions in the galaxy have to ask more of you.

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Clients

As well as unlocking new mission types as you liberate the galaxy, you'll now unlock clients too. Each of these has their own mission listings board filled with missions of one particular type - to wit:

• Clause Clients: there's one client for each of the special mission clauses, so if you particularly like Ghost missions, for example, there's now a place you can go to choose from a wide range of those.

• The Thinker: none of this client's missions have a time limit or an alarm to worry about, you can always take as long as you like on these missions.

• The Soft Target: if you don't like having to deal with armour or shields, this client offers missions where the guards don't have those.

• Gloria: Gloria only offers Glory missions, and lots of them. Which is handy because these vary wildly in difficulty and reward.

Clients move around occasionally (each time the galaxy is loaded), just because we didn't want you to have to worry about unlocking them all in one ugly cluster and being stuck with that layout forever. This post is about a feature of the free Space Birthday Update, out now! See this post for the details.