Update 12 Released

Infinite Mode Rework:

• Infinite Mode has been reworked so the goal is to progress through stages rather than waves survived. Still a work in progress, expect future improvements to balance, pacing, mission variety & mechanics.

• There are now 3 stage types: mining zones, mission zones and boss encounters.

• Mining Zones work like before, hold out as long as possible to mine resources. You can jump out as soon as the drive recharges.

• Mission Zones have a secondary objective that must be completed before you can jump away, objectives with a fail state let you jump away without earning the mission bonus.

• Boss encounters pit your fleet against unique and powerful enemies. There’s a cooldown period after defeating the boss, allowing you to regroup and jump to the next area when ready.

• Improved notification system for objectives received and completed, letting you know when you can jump, and boss alerts.

General Improvements:

• Upper HUD overhaul, with separated elements to display jump status and remaining resource asteroids.

• Reworked buy buttons to improve clarity, added audio feedback to ship buying.

• You can now group sell ships in command mode using the sell hotkey (default: g). Doesn’t sell mission critical ships, free perk ships, or ships being flown by players. Refund income is split amongst the team in multiplayer.

• Replaced Mothership repair beam with area heal, updated repair/healing effect.

• Improved capital ship AI, larger ships will try to space out from each other.

• Improved AI target leading for Freebee, Dragon, Swordfish & Raven. Improved AI autocannon accuracy across the board.

Fixes:

• Fixed Command Mode box select collider interacting with projectiles.

• Fix for non-controllable turrets resetting the UI target lead distance, Ranger and capital ship aiming reticles should be back to normal.

• Point defense turrets should no longer try to target Dragon bombs.

• Fixed selling ships awarding fleet xp.

• Fixed impact sfx that weren’t respecting the master volume setting.

• Centered dialog text element to avoid clipping in ultrawide.

• Fixed HUD radar vibrating when the camera moved on the Y-axis.

• Fixed several more objects with light layers that were strobing in command mode.

• Fixed fleet perks running after Mothership is defeated.

• Fixed broken buy button selection animation.

• Fixed Shark ragdoll skeleton.

• Fixed incorrect turret platform audio offset.

• Corrected Paragon boost type.

• Adjusted Hydra missile cruiser camera position.

• Fixed Beam weapon description using old string in buy menu.

• Adjusted Paragon spawn point to prevent spawns from getting stuck.

Balance changes:

• Converted Refinery to fighter style movement.

• Standardized Seeker Missile lock angle at 20°.

• Increased Sabre missile damage from 10 to 20.

• Increased Slingshot Nuke burn time from 7 to 10 seconds, thrust by 5%.

• Increased Slingshot & Hydra AI optimal range.

• Increased Slingshot torpedo damage from 30 to 40.

• Reduced buzzer health from 75 to 70.

• Reduced Talon speed & boost thrust ~20%

• Reduced Talon rocket damage from 30 to 28.

• Fixed Torpedo infinite ammo bug and UI inconsistencies. Removed reload penalty when firing to empty. Increased Slingshot anti-fighter torpedo hitbox.

• Reduced Revenant damage from 150 to 130.

• Leviathan bio torpedoes are now interceptable.

• Reduced enemy spawn frequency on stage 5 ‘Metallic Clouds’.