🛠️ PROLOGUE UPDATE 🛠️

Citizens, this update contains several improvements and fixes driven by your field reports.

[New Features]

BASE

• Added the Aged status for soldiers. Soldiers in the final stage of their lifespan will have reduced movement speed and lower work attributes.

• Soldiers will now go to Victory Square after reaching adulthood, where they will wait for formal enlistment.

MISSIONS AND STORY

• Added a tutorial sequence explaining that melee kills drop ammo.

• Improved side mission dialogue and added brief interaction texts.

UI

• Added a remaining crafting time display to the HUD. The game will now automatically pause when a full-screen UI is opened.

[Improvements and Optimizations]

COMBAT EXPERIENCE

• Reduced the damage reduction applied to allied soldiers' attacks against Elites and Bosses, and increased Elite and Boss health.

• Adjusted capture success rates. Elites and Bosses are now more difficult to capture.

• Health-locking skills no longer prevent players from killing targets with melee attacks. Soldiers will now stop attacking targets marked for capture.

• Reduced the healing efficiency of allied and enemy Elite and Boss Medics.

• Adjusted the trigger logic for missiles and electric orbs.

• Adjusted the description text for Weapon Core Fragments.

• Optimized auto-assign logic. Soldiers with higher relevant stats will now be prioritized for assignment to corresponding buildings.

BASE SYSTEM

• Using captives as soldier rank-up materials no longer causes negative effects. Using soldiers as materials, however, will affect other soldiers.

• Added base event records. A pop-up notification will now appear when a soldier dies.

• The Prison and Tier Upgrade inventory screens now support drag-and-drop operations. Captive status display has also been unified.

• Added vocal tone sound effects to soldier conversations, and extended the display duration of dialogue bubbles.

• Optimized upgrade materials for the Weapon Research Center. Crafting now requires the corresponding building level.

• Added product source information to ingredient descriptions, and adjusted food recipes.

• Reduced the probability of soldiers fighting in the base.

VISUALS AND AUDIO

• Added animations and cane assets for the Aged status, with support for all races.

• Added combat sound effects for drones and all troop types, and added soldier footstep sounds.

• Adjusted the default background music volume and optimized distant sound culling.

• Improved the music muffled effect while the game is paused.

• Optimized shadow animation during jumps.

• Removed the experience reward from the Glory Assembly.

UI AND INTERACTION

• Reworked the design of difficulty selection buttons.

• Added UI animation effects for obtaining high-tier items.

• Added an animation effect for blueprint unlocks.

• Added a confirmation pop-up when the corresponding weapon for a Weapon Core Fragment is not equipped.

• Removed soldier damage number displays and removed the virtual force-field animation before combat.

• Optimized brightness display on the Research screen, and added tutorial buttons to building detail screens.

• Pressing ESC in Construction Mode now returns players to the construction UI.

• Work assignment pop-ups can now be closed by clicking on an empty area.

• Name input fields now automatically remove spaces.

MISSIONS AND FLOW

• Optimized the resource shortage issue after skipping the tutorial.

• Adjusted the unlock timing for Dash Jump and Weak Point Marking.

• Improved the save protection mechanism.

• The default resolution has been adjusted to 2K.

[Bug Fixes]

• Fixed an issue where the prologue boss could have multiple affixes.

• Fixed an issue where the Core that increases grenade radius did not take effect.

• Fixed an issue in the tutorial combat level where the first enemy would not drop bullets when killed with a grenade.

• Fixed abnormal drop rate behavior across different difficulty levels.

• Fixed broken geometry and lighting issues in certain scenes.

All corrections have been verified and authorized.