🛠️ PROLOGUE UPDATE 🛠️

Citizens, this update introduces many optimizations, progression, and quality-of-life improvements fueled by your field reports. Please review the following changes with pride:

[New Features]

COMBAT

• The Gratov Quantum Longbow now has piercing capabilities. However, its damage is reduced after each enemy pierced.

• Added a health bar to the Shield Grenade, its maximum health depends on the player's health. Once depleted, the shield will break and disappear.

TUTORIAL

• Added a guidance popup explaining how the Leader can become stronger after defeat.

• Added a tutorial for the Aged soldier status.

BASE

• Added tutorial buttons to building detail panels, allowing players to quickly view related tutorials.

• Added a bookshelf and six interactive books to the Command Center Office.

• Added soldier lifespan display.

[Improvements & Optimizations]

BASE

• Improved several base cutscenes.

• Improved soldier work assignment logic.

• Improved connection lines in some technology tree interfaces.

• Improved soldier healing logic at the base.

• Adjusted Core Fragment unlock levels. The Core Fragment Codex now displays the unlock level of each Core Fragment.

UI

• Improved the interface displayed after exiting the game.

• Improved the expedition interface.

COMBAT

• Reduced the difficulty of the Elysia Oasis Decisive Battle and adjusted turret positions.

• Improved large-scale battlefield population limits to ensure soldiers spawn near special units.

• Improved enemy spawn frequency in some battles.

• Increased turret Weak Point hit detection range.

• Improved the display of the player's damage HUD.

• Improved allied grenade explosion visual effects.

• Improved enemy behavior and aggro logic.

• Improved Sniper projectile visual effects.

PROGRESSION & BALANCE

• Improved enemy configurations and completion requirements for certain battles.

• Slightly reduced the strength of red-rarity weapons.

• Slightly increased the base attack power of all enemies.

• Increased the accuracy of Elite and Boss units.

• Reduced the chance of obtaining high-rarity equipment from Sector drops.

• Early-game quests now provide certain special materials.

• The rewarded Strike Squad soldiers' rarity has been increased from white to green.

• Slightly increased the rate at which Sector Danger Level increases.

• Increased Strike Squad damage and increased Sniper attack range.

• Improved overall combat difficulty balance.

• Reduced the maximum number of bullets that can exist simultaneously.

• Increased weapon and armor crafting times and increased the material requirements for Capture Rounds.

• Reduced the damage of the Starfire Bowblaster.

• Reduced the attack frequency of the Auto-Defense Device affix and increased the length of laser-type affixes on Elite enemies.

• Reduced Potion drop rates.

• Adjusted Mobile Fleet rewards.

VISUALS & PRESENTATION

• Improved side inventory information display.

• Improved the performance of projectile barrage effects, as well as standard bullet and weapon firing visual effects.

• Improved soldier spawning effects.

• Improved bullet trail effects for Scourgeborn Gunners.

• Improved the overall visual presentation of some environments.

• Enhanced visual indicators for enemy Weak Points.

OTHER

• Improved performance in the Drakon Mercenary Camp city area and some large-scale battlefields.

• Added additional UI sound effects.

• Improved some environmental visual effects and collision.

• Added new sound effects.

• Improved performance.

[Bug Fixes]

• Fixed a display issue when viewing captives in the inventory.

• Fixed an issue where soldier skills were not displayed correctly after tier upgrades.

• Fixed an issue where some interactive object models were not displayed on the Star Map.

• Fixed several text issues.

• Fixed incorrect buff icon displays.

• Fixed an issue where returning to the base after leaving the Office could place the Leader in an incorrect location under certain conditions.

• Fixed an issue where the second-floor model of the Prison building could disappear.

• Fixed an issue where Core Fragment chests could fall outside the boundaries of some battlefields.

• Fixed an issue where some combat objectives required an incorrect number of kills.

[Known Issues]

• During the first expedition's mission "Space Resources", completing tutorial steps out of order (not completing mining before entering combat) may cause a softlock. We are aware of this issue and are working on a fix. Please complete the steps in order to avoid this issue, and if you encounter this problem, please restart the expedition and it should resolve itself.

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