Weapon & Ammo System Overhaul & More | Demo Update 0.13.0

Content

• Weapon & Ammo Overhaul (See this post for details)

• One new weapon with a new status effect that will be used more and more

• Several upgrades have been reworked or rebuilt completely to accommodate the new weapon system.

• New United Trade Federation reputation mechanic.

UI Redesign

• Full map shows other details to the players (like max ammo values and past log messages) than standard game UI

• Ammo UI completely rebuilt to accommodate the 4 new weapons types

• Health UI now has a better indication of what Armor charges do

General Changes

• AdjustedRerolling item container interaction has been reworkedYou now hold [F] to reroll an item container and just press [F] once to open it. Copy has been adjusted to better indicate that you don’t have to pay to open them.

• New shield generator animation and sprites

• Star Former ability does not change the controls.

• Trade dialog has been slightly tweaked to make it more clear what you get out of a trade.

• Multiple trade options have been removed due to the weapon system overhaul.

Balance Changes

• You cannot take damage shortly after exiting a warp.

• Most large ships have had their health buffed a small amount to compensate for the ammo rework.

• Several enemies have higher turn speeds to ensure they won’t get left too far behind by the pack.

• Mine enemies will throw their mines in your direction instead of dropping them behind themselves.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a turret crash for modular ships warping out of the system

• Fixed a bug where spamming clicking buttons would cause them to perform their action repeatedly

• If you are transferring resources and the target changes you will no longer continue transferring to that new target without additional input.

Additional changes as of 12/14/20:

• You can find ammo boxes scattered throughout the systems

• Enemies will have a much higher chance to drop ammo (except for extremely weak enemies, they will have a lower chance)

• Asteroid health reduced a bit to make it not eat up so much ammo

• Ammo boxes will refill based on your max ammo (10% of your max) so as you increase your max you will get more from boxes.

• Ammo max increased to 250 at the beginning (And you start with that much in your starting weapon).

• Some optimization changes aimed at increasing performance in larger systems.

Additional changes as of 12/22/20:

• Six new weapons to help balance out the ammo types.

• Some other weapons have been moved to different ammo types to help balance out the ammo types.

• Drastically reduced armor of ship debris to match the armor reduction of asteroids.

• Fixed a bug where buttons where not clickable when you went to the pause screen and back.

• Fixed a bug where cooldown reducing effects were not displaying correctly on the UI.

• Fixed a bug where travel pod was not showing it's input key for activation.