New Gameplay Update #4

Hi there, In this patch two new crowd control mechanics have been added:

Kinetic blast

• Full shield has been improved with new functionality!

• When activated it charges with incoming bullet kinetic energy

• Once released it explodes with the stored energy knocking back everyone around

• The more massive the enemy the less affected they are, the fragile ones will be hit most hard

• Can be life saver if you find yourself overwhelmed by the enemy numbers

• Can be used to smash enemies into asteroids or other static objects

• The kinetic blast becomes weaker with distance, having no effect at 4km, with biggest kick at point blank

Explosions

• Staggered ships (glowing in yellow) explode when destroyed

• When performing glory kill you are immune to this explosion

• The explosion strength is proportional to the ships health bar length

• Only regular stagger-able enemies explode, lesser minions and bosses do not

• As with kinetic blast the explosion strength depends on distance from the epicentre, fading completely at 4 km

Bugfixes

• Dynamic objects like destructible asteroids or Irides were sometimes not stationary and flied away when the player arrived at the scene

• Scenery static elements like megastructure parts or asteroids would occasionally pop out of place when approached