New Gameplay Update #3

Hi there,

New death mechanic

• If you get defeated by another ship they will steal all your tech progress!

• The enemy that defeated you is marked with purple colour on hud and has purple electric discharge VFX

• You can get back your lost progress by defeating this enemy

• Progress will be retained if you crash in a collision with a static object or during boss fight.

• Consequence of death for will be specific to a given boss fight, starborn nexus will respawn one yellow shell and terran nexus will regenerate a large portion of it's armour

Gameplay changes

• The AI director will now do a better job of scaling the AI difficult in larger fights. Decreased AI aggression and accuracy when fighting multiple enemies while retaining difficulty of smaller fights

• The enemies will defend - deflect or dodge more often

• Combat encounters with threat above 100% will become significantly more difficult

• Gold tier enemies will spawn more often

• Silver enemies will use shield counter infrequently

• Gold enemies will use shield counter quite often

• Enemies that can counter will do it only if they clearly see the projectile coming, you should be safe from counters when flanking or shooting them in the back

• Countering now instantly fails if you got recently damaged or received a shield hit

• Failing a counter will render the shield inoperable for a short while

• Countered projectiles are much more accurate

• Enemies won't intentionally deflect or dodge incoming countered bullets, making counters more effective

Encounter changes

• Doubled the size of the smallest iris rings, tpp camera made it hard to fly through, resulting in frustrating collisions and deaths

• A hud indicator will now point at the next iris ring - most of the players got lost or had trouble fiding the last few irides, especially after crashing and dying

Gamepad improvements

• Analog stick rotation is much more precise

• Added analog stick acceleration, quick turns during a flyby are now possible

• The reticle becomes sticky when using gamepad, it sticks to hud targets making it easier to aim or pick fast travel targets

• When shooting the reticle will quickly start pointing directly at the enemy

• The whole UI is again fully supported and usable via gamepad

Bugfixes

• Limited the maximum length of enemy health bars. If the limit is exceeded the bars will get thicker