Manual Quick Save Update

Heyho Captains, ....and sometimes things just fall in place and you are done faster than you anticipated - Welcome to today's "Manual Quick Save" Update (Ingame Version 1.4)! Since this is what you have been waiting for - at least a good portion of you - I'll spare you my rambling and cut right to the case:

Highlights / Summary

Manual Savegames

• Players can now save manually in the pause menu.

• Manual saves have one savegame slot that will be overridden.

• This slot is independent from the recently implemented autosave slot.

• When loading the game, players can choose which save game they want to load.

Balancing

• Several systems were adjusted to feel more accurate and/or intuitive

• Additionally, the Adventure difficulty level was adjusted to feel a little less stressful.

User Experience

• The visual representation of several characters was corrected

Detailed Change Log:

Added manual Savegame System

• Added distinction between manual saves and autosaves

• Ensure manual saves are only available in safe areas and the game communicates why saving is not possible

• Clear distinction between Continue, Load Manual, and Load Autosave

• Added “time since last save” display in pause menu

• Added manual save override warning

• Added confirmation messages for saving and returning to main menu in pause menu

Graphics & Visual Improvements

• Improved Planet Class N shaders to have more details

• Added additional Borg Neuro Electric Field Generator room FX

• Improved the eye metal part skinning of the Generic Borg to no longer generate unnatural deformations during animations

• Ruined rooms now correctly show life support FX

• Danara Pel now wears blue Starfleet uniform

• Telek now wears blue Starfleet uniform

• Talax ship model reverted to Talaxian freighter

• Tuvok and Nunez adjusted Rank from Lieutenant Commander to Lieutenant

• Improved the hair skinning of Seska (Cardassian) and Marla Gilmore to no longer clip into the outfit during animations

Balancing

• Increased building and upgrade cost for combat rooms

• Increased energy consumption of combat rooms

• Increased energy reduction for the tech “Holodeck Energy Efficiency"

• Advanced Living Standard tech now properly affects Crew Quarters

• Added hero impact on warp core repair rate

• Reduced chance of terrible POI outcomes for Shuttles

• Adjusted phenomena spawn chances in later sectors

• Reduced maximum size of storm phenomena

• Difficulty Adventure

  • Increased the base storage capacity for Deuterium, Duranium, Food and Tritanium

  • Reduced Homesickness penalty

  • Increased chance of positive POI outcomes

• Difficulty Survival

  • Slightly increased chance of positive POI outcomes

Quests & Events & Missions

Main Missions

Caretaker

• Fixed minor branching issue in dialog

State of Flux

• Tuvok now won't get resurrect when he died during a certain stage of the questline

Loyalties

• The threat level is reduced to 0 after completing the mission allowing players to prepare for the challenges in the following sectors

Old Friends New Enemies

• Janeway will no longer receive too much XP in one branch during the dialog

Dark Frontier

• Set the correct outcome text for one of the endings.

Uprising

• FixedAway Missionfixed a trait constraint in a challenge

Endgame

• Solved a branching issue

Side Missions

Medical Ethics

• Solved a branching issue

Live Fast and Prosper

• Now requires Tuvok and Chakotay to at least be available in the sector for story consistency.

Good Shepherd

• The rewarded tech is now correctly tied to the DLC

Events

Duranium Infestation

• minor fix in selectable options

Homesickness

• is now reported by Chakotay/McGuiness

Mission: Entrance Exams

• Cycle count won't reset anymore when loading a save

Mission: The Romulan Risk

• Cloaking Shield Matrix will now be given out when choosing to upgrade the tech.

Mission: Event: Reap What You Sow

• Will no longer be triggered by a Vidiian ambush

Mission: Holodeck Malfunction

• Both heroes now return after loading a save

Quest: Mind Over Missiles

• Ship Events now trigger again as intended when the quest is abandoned.

Fixes

Combat & Systems

• Torpedoes no longer collide with each other

• Radial menu HUD restore fix

• Combat variety updates (multiple passes)

• Target reticules no longer block clicks

• Fixed torpedoes not being deducted after firing

• Fixed regeneration alcoves deconstruct resources

Audio

• Fixed duplicated sentence in Log Sector 8 (Tom Paris)

UI & UX

• Improved Mouse & Keyboard camera movement in sector overview

• Savegame popup animation reduced from 8s to 4s

• Sorted Main Menu button to bottom of pause menu

• Fixed energy hover tooltip

• Fixed hull hover tooltip description

• Fixed missing main deflector upgrade description

• Fixed selected & currently researched tech being not readable

• Fixed hero overview issues

• Fixed hero unavailable popup behavior

• Fixed Main Deflector being highlighted when hovering over Life Support

• Fixed Issues in construction menu

• Fixed Main Engineering being deactivated

Tech

• Fixed timer crashes