Customizable Difficulty Settings & more

Heyho Captains,

Today we have another great update tackling your feedback that came in during the first weeks after launch - no April's Fools - promised.

In this update specifically we present you - among another batch of technical improvements, bug fixes, balancing refinements and quality of life enhancements - most importantly, new tools to shape your own journey through the unknown.

With the brand new customizable run settings, you decide how Voyager survives the Delta Quadrant. Fine-tune resources, change difficulties, quest balancing, and story pressure to match your playstyle - whether you want a tense survival challenge or a more strategic, story-driven experience.

Adapt the rules. Rewrite the odds.

Detailed Changelog

Game Difficulties

NEW: Custom Difficulty Setting

• Added a custom difficulty setting that is selectable as a fourth option when starting a new game

• The following variables can be customized for new runs:

  • Challenge Mode (manual saves disabled; auto-save after every event)

  • Mutiny

  • Homesick morale penalty per sector

  • Spent too much time in the sector penalty

  • Spent too much time in the sector penalty start

  • Resource deposit size

  • Base storage capacity

  • Enemy combat power

  • Dialogue checks difficulty

  • Points of interests positive outcomes

  • Away mission challenges

  • Away mission XP

  • Construction times

  • Research times

  • Crew treatment time

Balancing for standard Difficulties

Adventure

• Reduced resource deposit size

• Reduced construction times

• Reduced research times

• Reduced crew treatment time

• Spent too much time in the sector penalty starts later

Years of Hell

• Slightly reduced enemy combat power

• Slightly increased resource deposit size

• Increased construction times

• Increased research times

• Increased crew treatment time

Gameplay & Systems

• Bio Laboratories will now stop producing when the storage of the produced resource (bio-neural gel packs or nanites) is at maximum capacity.

• Available work teams are now automatically assigned if room operations would be interrupted because the current work team is no longer available.

• Heroes are now properly prioritized in sickbay.

• Disabled nebulas for sector 11 (“Uprising”).

• In Caretaker when the hull feature is not yet active, players can no longer accidently assign work teams to hull repair.

• Moved "Equinox Antimatter Injector" tech from tier 5 to tier 3 and adjusted costs.

• Moved “Scientific Milestone” and “History of Humankind” techs from tier 4 to tier 3 and adjusted costs.

• Moved “Friendship One Remnant” tech from tier 3 to tier 4 and adjusted costs

• Increased effect for two techs:

  • “Scientific Milestone” research rate increased from 15% to 20%

  • “Friendship One Remnant” research rate increased from 15% to 25%

• The damage reduction provided by a hero in the navigational deflector is now applied correctly.

Combat

• Reduced Dilithium gained after the final fight of the side mission “Think Tank”.

• Borg are now no longer able to surrender or flee.

• Increased the strength of Malon vessels to be closer to their in series counterparts.

• Updated the fights against the Equinox to make sure the ship won't be incorrectly destroyed in the first combat.

• Phasers in combat are now fired from the phaser banks and the related charge up animation was added.

• The Borg Cutting Beam and the Disruptor Beam no longer share their weapon locations with the phasers in combat.

• The target reticles around enemies in combat now get disabled, if an enemy gets destroyed or flees.

• The U.S.S. Voyager has the ablative armor now deployed in combat, if the related tech got unlocked in Endgame. Balancing-wise this was always the case, but the visual representation was missing.

Quests & Narrative

• Scorpion

  • Fixed missing feedback during dialogue when unlocking Borg tech if Kes is not available.

• Dark Frontier

  • Added 2 missing alternative dialogues for Lani so she doesn’t introduce herself as Lieutenant Torres

• One small step

  • Fixed Workshop room widget displaying a blank name for the item “Shuttle Shield Adjustments.”

• Infinite Regress

  • Fixed availability handling for Seven in the last part of the mission.

• Infinite Regress

  • Side Mission dialog choices are no longer incorrectly marked as important choices.

• Friendship One

  • Changed the Torpedo crafting step of the “Photon Torpedo Modifications” from requiring a unique item to the base torpedoes, as Voyager already crafts photon torpedoes anyway with the base recipe.

• Friendship One

  • Added side mission icons to the scannable planets to make this step easier to complete.

• Think Tank

  • Changed the “Communication Jammer” Tech reward from already researched to unlocked only in the Tech Tree.

• Homesickness

  • Fixed the morale malus in “Old Friends New Enemies” to be applied correctly again.

UI / UX

• Added a menu entry in graphics settings for invalidating shader precache: Activating this setting causes shaders to be recompiled the next time you start or load a save game. This can reduce hitches after GPU hardware or driver changes.

• The combat hero selection now uses correct localized text to display combat abilities.

• Fixed an issue where some hero combat ability descriptions didn’t mention their cooldown.

• Fixed a size issue with portrait icons of heroes when assigned to bigger rooms.

• Added a sound notification when the quest tracker is updated.

• Fixed a display bug with the ally list on the bridge.

• Fixed an issue with UI layering.

• Added max capacity to dilithium tooltip.

• Loading screen text no longer gets cut off in some languages.

• Visually improved production and energy production in tooltip UI.

• Hover tooltip UI improvements for: resource production, energy production and battery.

• Added deuterium production from bussard collectors to deuterium tooltip.

Graphics / Rendering / Art

• The hull damage visualization now also gets applied to the U.S.S. Voyager in cutscenes for a more coherent experience

• The hull damage visualization is now correctly initiated when arriving in a new sector.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where free crew beds were not calculated correctly.

• Fixed wrong homesick modifiers for easy difficulty.

• Fixed combat hero selection not being cleared when returning to the main menu.

• Fixed an issue where the message "deflector offline" was triggered incorrectly.

• Fixed combat autoresolve not accounting (visually or functionally) for game difficulty.

• Fixed combat overview tab's average enemy power not accounting for game difficulty.

• The borg cutting beam control room no longer clips through adjacent rooms to the side.

• Fixed an issue where players couldn’t continue after having the call list open when arriving at a story Point of Interest that starts another dialogue.