Happy Easter everyone!

This update contains balance tweaks, a whole batch of improvements and the most powerful unique Chip the game has seen so far! But wait... there's more. Somewhere out there hides a mysterious Easter Egg. And of course Carlo wants to have it. No spoilers - you'll have to find it yourself.

New Chip Possibilities

A brand-new chase unique Chip item has been added to the game. It comes in 66 different variants and is probably the most powerful Chip in the game. Also, a new set of Affixes can roll on chips now!

• Range T2: 3-4%
• Range T1: 5-7%
• Area of Effect P2: 3-5%
• Area of Effect P1: 6-10%
• Area Damage P3: 4-8%
• Area Damage P2: 9-18%
• Area Damage P1: 19-32%
• Crit Chance S3: 4-10%
• Crit Chance S2: 11-20%
• Crit Chance S1: 21-30%
• Crit Damage S3: 4-8%
• Crit Damage S2: 9-16%
• Crit Damage S1: 17-25%
• Damage over Time S3: 8-14%
• Damage over Time S2: 15-21%
• Damage over Time S1: 22-34%

Audio Enhancements

Some users experienced loud Audio crackling noise after playing for a few hours. Apologies to your ears! A few measures have been implemented, to hopefully fix this problem.

• All OpenAL library calls now happen on a dedicated thread
• Unused Sound files are removed from the sound pool and disposed after each mission
• Offer an alternative Audio library in beta mode (choose 'miniaudio' in settings, if the issues with OpenAL remain)

Crafting Enhancements

Users with lots of dice could experience massive freezes, when crafting with the Wheel of Fortune.

• The Wheel of Fortune search has been put onto a background thread
• While searching, dice keep rolling and the dice count increases steadily
• You can always abort search by clicking 'prev' or changing craft mode
• Search now always stops if max modifier slots are reached (Slot Dice)

Time Enhancements

Users with a Time Stacking build experienced uncontrollable movement of their ships, since everything was moving so fast.

• Time can accelerate movement of entities only for a maximum of times two, not more
• Intrinsic base velocity of engines does not increase after Relic item quality
• Reduce intrinsic velocity affix on Siebenmeilen unique item from 80-100% to 10-30%

Bugfixes & Improvements

• Only Fields work with and can be put into DIY Workshop
• Enemy objective hints fade in and out and don't appear / disappear abruptly
• Fix double damage chance to scale with Luck
• Add range tag to Plasma Nova
• Nova attack range scales with AoE damage radius
• Radiant Annihilation does not affect DoT in preview damage
• Fix weapon base damage on item info. Damage Conversion is applied later - it was confusing and sometimes wrong, when it happened here before.
• Display actual range on Viral Nexus item info

Happy Easter and have fun with the egg hunt!

[ 2025-04-18 18:58:50 CET ] [ Original post ]