Maintenance Update

With this patch we are happy to deliver a package full of improvements in all aspects of the game. Among those are some important technical fixes, a few balancing adjustments, several quality of life improvements and tons of polishing and fine tuning on our missions, user interface and localization.

Here is a the detailed changelog for a complete list of contents:

Detailed Change Log

Start up Issues & Shader Precaching

• Fixed an issue that could result in extended boot times and occasional crashes

• Improved startup performance and overall stability significantly

Savegames & System

• Fixed a bug that could result in issues if a room had less than max crew when loading

Gameplay & Balance

• Rebalanced firerate from Kunut’s ability.

• Increased ally spawn distance in later sectors to prevent movement issues with huge allies

• Reduced all shield charge effects by 5, thereby reducing shield generator combat power.

• Adjusted trade offers of trading stations in sectors 2, 3 and 4.

User Interface

• Fixed a bug that could result in an incorrect indication for insufficient power when activating a room that consumed exactly the remaining power

• Fixed a bug that could result in an incorrect indication for insufficient crew when activating a room consumed exactly the remaining idle crew.

• Fixed gamepad navigation from the main menu’s "restart sector" button.

• Adjusted Aeroshuttle Bay room management UI - added "new trade offer in X cycle" text.

• Adjusted size of the assigned hero portraits in different zoom levels in the side view so they don't get bigger if the room is higher than 1 deck.

Visual & Assets

• Updated the story portraits of Danara Pel and Telek R’Mor to wear blue starfleet uniforms.

• Updated the image of challenge 2 with a reworked version.

• Fine tuned the display of various character portraits.

• The neck skin of Chakotay no longer clips through the outfit during certain animations.

• Borg cutting beam control room side elements no longer clip into adjacent rooms.

• Ruined rooms no longer clip into other rooms.

• Fixed background crew of rooms being active during the building and damaged state of rooms.

Localization & Text

• Fixed combat UI localization issues - set some textblocks to scrollable so they don't grow into other elements if the text gets too long.

• Fixed main mission complete info widget to display localized string for "Complete"

• Fixed room management UI - Small & Large Cargo Bay (level 2) to display the correct room description

• Fixed wrong "good" outcome text of the shuttle option in the POI "Marine Ecosystem".

• Fixed room and upgrade descriptions of shield matrix displaying the wrong damage reduction amount.

• Fixed room level enumeration, starting from 1 now instead of 0.

• Fixed away mission challenge result text sometimes having a vertical offset.

Missions & Events

Blink of an Eye

• Changed condition to require the mobile emitter when sending down the doctor.

Caretaker

• Adjusted camera focus on the array.

Critical Care

• Added a condition to only allow the POI to be accessible when the mobile emitter is researched.

Dark Frontier

• Added 2 missing alternative nodes with text for Lani.

• Fixed misleading text in dialog to now mention the correct upcoming wait time.

• Set B'Elanna to video call when she should call from engineering in part 9a.

Friendship One

• Added missing text to selectable option.

• Added missing dialog to resolve the questline in one of the endings correctly.

Good Shepherd

• Added feedback to the last two dialogs to display which rooms were damaged.

Innocence

• Applied minor text change and removed duplicate text.

Loyalties

• Fixed skill check of nucleogenic biobed in a dialog.

Old Friends New Enemies

• Fixed text in the “Mission Complete” pop-up to no longer suggest you to go outside.

• Changed condition from item to tech instead.

Phage

• Away mission: Prevent the hero from getting killed prematurely while they get their lungs stolen.

• Fixed hero remaining unavailable when deciding to not pursue the aliens: The mission ends now and the hero that got their lungs stolen dies.

Rations (Ship Quest)

• Changed event titles to match the current quest step.

Scorpion

• Fixed item name in the quest tracker text.

Spent Too Much Time in Sector

• Changed speaker from Tuvok to Chakotay in reward events.

Tomorrow is Yesterday

• Fixed an issue that previously set heroes available during the main mission when they were set unavailable/preoccupied by another mission or event.

Uprising

• A quest step no longer asks you to "request COMMS request" but to "accept COMMS request".

Achievements

• Fixed "Happy ship happy crew" ship quest being unlocked in the first sector before the morale system is enabled.

Technical

• Added and assigned Game Splash Screen asset to game startup.

• Fixed shader precaching getting stuck if the game window is not focussed

• Extended the shader precache system to potentially eliminate glitches in some specific situations. Forces existing players to regenerate the shader cache once again when playing the game.

• Fixed finished side missions potentially preventing other missions from starting until end of sector, and fixed savegames that are loaded in that state always prioritizing the same follow-up missions.