We\'re almost there! Octron the Deep launches November 7. These are the final patch notes so you can plan your builds ahead of release.

New Content

Octron\'s Arena

A new Sector where you can fight Octron, the Pinnacle Boss of the Endgame and the most demanding Boss Fight in the game. This Sector is Rank 8 and Monster Level 200.

The great risk is rewarded with Exclusive Drops, only obtainable by completing this encounter. The Arena is designed to be a viable endgame strategy that can be customized by the Marble Machine Skill Tree, very much like Abyss.

Nexus Shards

Golden Shard Goblins have been spotted all over the Endgame Sectors. If you manage to destroy them on a Mission you will be rewarded with a guaranteed Nexus Shard Drop. Nexus Shards are a new type of Dice, that can augment your Nexus with a Major Skill Tree Node. There can be only one Nexus Shard Augment on a Nexus.

Sector Chips

You can now find Sector Chips, which can be placed into the Marble Machine Skill Tree. Their Affixes influence Sectors within the Marble Machine. Uncommon Sector Chips can have 1 Prefix and 1 Suffix, Rare Sector Chips 2 Prefixes and 2 Suffixes. Sector Chips can be crafted through Dice. There is a Limit of 3 active Sector Chips.

Changed Game Mechanics

Time

Overlapping Time Bubbles no longer stack with each other. Instead, the highest increase of overlapping Flows of Time is applied.

Time is now inherited by your Minions and Parasites.

Mass

The physical Mass of ships no longer scales linear per Mass, but instead with a square root function per Mass. Tooltip stays the same (1% reduced Acceleration). However, navigating Ships with a lot of Mass will feel less cumbersome.

Energy

1% more Thermal Damage per Energy was not calculated properly. Depending on calculation order it could lead to less or more Damage than expected. This is now fixed, we\'ll see if Energy is now too strong or not.

Enemy Resistances

Previously, Enemies had 25% (bosses 50%) to all Resistances starting at Monster Level 70, and gained 1% to all Resistances per Square Root of 20 x (MonsterLevel - 70). This was capped at 90% Resistances, but Enemies could still overcap their Resistances at very high Monster Levels.

Now, all Enemies gain 1% to all Resistances each Level after Level 70. This stops at Monster Level 145, where enemies have 75% to all Resistances.

There is a new Ship Setting, which can be enabled to use the current Monster Level in Preview.

Knockback

All Knockback related effects are applied if a Hit would Knockback an Enemy, even if the Enemy is Knockback Immune (e.g. more Damage/Leech on Knockback).

The Preview System now calculates an average Knockback Chance considering all Weapons that Knockback and also now accurately previews Knockback related Effects.

All Knockback related Effects have been massively buffed.

Corpse Explosions

Previously Enemy Corpses exploded as soon as they were destroyed. Now, Enemy Corpse Explosions are triggered after a short delay.

Spirit Animal Changes

Huli

• Atomic Conversion has been removed

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• Atomic Barrier grants +5% to maximum Nuclear Resistance (unchanged), 50% Damage taken as Nuclear Damage (new) and no longer grants +25% to Nuclear Resistance

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• Thermal Fusion grants 50% Explosive/Electric/Plasma Damage converted to Nuclear Damage (unchanged) and 25% Explosive/Electric/Plasma Damage as extra Nuclear Damage (new)

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• Thermal Fusion grants 50% Kinetic Damage converted to Nuclear Damage (unchanged) and 25% Kinetic Damage as extra Nuclear Damage (new)

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• Meltdown grants 20% more Nuclear Damage (previously 10%) and Damage dealt has -60% to Nuclear Resistances (unchanged)

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• Muli the Evil Twin grants +1 additional Attack (unchanged), +1 additional Attack at Level 50 (new), +1 additional Attack at Level 75 (new) and 20% less Attack Speed (previously 20% less Damage)

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• Zuli the Evil Grandpa grants 120% increased Critical Strike Damage (previously 80%), Luck applies to your Critical Strike Rolls (new) and no longer grants 250% increased Critical Strike Chance and 20% reduced Attack Speed

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• Added Hidden Waste, which grants Radiation deals 1% increased Damage per Radiation Stack, up to 2,000%

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Vorak

• Masochist grants 60% more Damage if not on full Armor (previously 50%)

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• Heavy Impact grants Hits have 40% Chance to deal Double Damage (previously 50%), Non-critical strikes deal 80% more Damage (new) and no longer grants Deal no Critical Strikes

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• Zealot grants +10 to Level of Socketed Mod (new), Weapon is modified by Socketed Mod if only one Weapon is equipped (unchanged)

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• Soloist grants 180% more Damage if only one Weapon is equipped (previously 150%)

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• Colossus grants 24% increased Mass (previously 16%), 1% more Kinetic Damage per 1 Mass (unchanged)

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• Debris Wasteland grants +40% Debris Chance (previously 50%), 80% more Debris Damage (previously 70%)

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• Danger Zone grants 50% increased Area of Effect (unchanged), 50% increased Area Damage (previously 20%)

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Balu

• Thick Fur grants 8% more Armor (new), 30% Thermal Damage taken as Kinetic Damage (previously 25%), +5% to maximum Kinetic Resistance (previously +4%)

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Shae

• Infection Infusion grants Parasites spawn 50% faster (unchanged), 50% more Parasite Damage (previously 30%)

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Ivy

• Upload transfers all Player items that do not belong to another Minion

  Upload removes Minion AI when uploading into one of your Minions, allowing for better controls

  Upload has a fixed order of looking for nearby Minions: Left Weapon, Right Weapon, Core

  Damage taken from Minions does not apply when the Player\'s Corpse is damaged

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Skill Tree Changes

• Leprechaun grants Luck applies to Damage Rolls (unchanged), +1 to Double Damage Rolls per Multicrit (new), Deal no Critical Strikes

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• Reverse Knockback can be reached directly, no longer grants 100% more Knockback Damage

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• Knockback Damage grants Knockback Hits deal 16% more Damage (previously 10%)

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• Knockout grants 80% more Knockback Damage (previously 30%)

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• Knockback Damage per Mass grants Knockback Hits deal 0.4% more Damage per Mass (previously 0.1%)

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• Mass Impact grants Knockback Hits deal 1.6% more Damage per Mass (previously 0.4%)

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• Bulldozer grants Knockback Hits deal 120% more Damage (previously 40%), Hits that don\'t knock back deal 20% less Damage (unchanged)

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• Added Hull Rattler, which grants Knockback Hits have 12% to Death Threshold

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• Nuclear Deflection can be reached directly

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• Added Celestial Mantle, which grants 12% more Deflector Shield

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• Added Nebular Ward, which grants +60 Deflector Shield, +4% to Dodge

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• Added Starforge Shielding, which grants Regenerate 3% of maximum Deflector Shield per Second

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• Damage Discharge can be reached directly

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• Added Quantum Thrusters, which grants +2 Dash Slots, 8% chance to not consume Dash

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• Added Void Dash, which grants 28% more Engine Damage

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• Added Winds of the Void, which grants Recharge 6% Dash per Second

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• Added Thrustwave, which grants 40% increased Engine Damage, 24% increased Area of Effect

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• Host Dominance grants 30% more Parasite Damage (previously 16%)

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• Parasite Damage grants 8% more Parasite Damage (previously 4%)

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• Parasitic Rush grants 24% more Parasite Damage (previously 12%), Parasites spawn 20% faster (unchanged)

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• Thermal Absorption grants 20% Thermal Damage taken as Kinetic Damage (previously 16%), +2% to maximum Kinetic Resistance (previously +1%)

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• Firewall grants 12% Kinetic Damage taken as Thermal Damage (previously 6%), +2% to maximum Thermal Resistances (previously +1%)

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• Heat Shield grants +3% to Thermal Resistances (previously +2%)

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• Heat Shroud grants +3% to Thermal Resistances (previously +2%)

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• Kinetic Fortress grants +15% to Kinetic Resistance (unchanged), +2% to maximum Kinetic Resistance (previously 1%)

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• Titanium grants 28% increased Armor (previously 20%), +8% to Kinetic Resistance (unchanged), +1% to maximum Kinetic Resistance (unchanged),

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• Split Nuclear Fortress into Nuclear Fortress and Nuclear Evasion

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• Nuclear Fortress grants +15% to Nuclear Resistance (unchanged), +2% to maximum Nuclear Resistance (previously 1%)

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• Nuclear Evasion grants +4% to Dodge, +8% to Nuclear Resistance, +1% to maximum Nuclear Resistance

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• Split Dash Infusion into Dash Armor Infusion and Dash Shield Infusion

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• Dash Armor Infusion grants Restore 0.4% Dash on Hit (unchanged), Leech 0.2% of Hit Damage as Armor (new)

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• Dash Shield Infusion grants Restore 0.4% Dash on Hit (unchanged), Leech 0.1% of Hit Damage as Deflector Shield (new)

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• Split Fierce Ammo into Fierce Ammo and Ravager Ammo

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• Fierce Ammo grants 50% increased Projectile Damage (previously 46%)

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• Ravager Ammo grants 64% increased Projectile Damage (previously 46%)

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• Split Outbreak into Outbreak and Plague

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• Split Quantum Barrier into Quantum Barrier and Entropic Barrier

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• Quantum Barrier grants 20% increased Armor and Deflector Shield (previously 15%), Deflector Shield can deflect 25% Nuclear Damage (unchanged)

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• Entropic Barrier grants 15% increased Armor and Deflector Shield (unchanged), Deflector Shield can deflect 25% Nuclear Damage (unchanged)

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• Split Reach into Reach, Snipe and Grasp

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• Melee Damage grant 18% increased Melee Damage (previously 15%)

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• Projectile Damage grant 16% increased Projectile Damage (previously 15%)

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• Neck Punch grants 60% increased Melee Damage (previously 50%)

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• Faster and Slower Radiation now work as described

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Mod Changes

• Added Purity, which grants 50-100% more Damage, cannot convert Damage

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• Added Overdrive, which grants 40-120% more maximum Weapon Damage

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• Knockback has Knockback Hits deal 40-80% more Damage (previously 10-40%)

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• Debris has +25% to Debris Chance (unchanged), 40-80% more Debris Damage (previously 20-50%)

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• Contagion has +20% Radiation Chance (new), Radiation spread now scales with AoE and Range, first spread is instant, follow-up spreads happen 4x faster than before

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• Amp has -40-60% to Electric Resistance (previously -20-40%)

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• Burst has -40-60% to Explosive Resistance (previously -20-40%)

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• Crumble has -40-60% to Kinetic Resistance (previously -20-40%)

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• Flare has -40-60% to Plasma Resistance (previously -20-40%)

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• Nuke has -40-60% to Nuclear Resistance (previously -20-40%)

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• Guardian Drone has 40% Minion Power (previously 50%), 20% less Damage (previously 40%), 20% less Attack Speed (new), Drone Count Thresholds reached faster at lower Mod Levels and slower at higher Mod Levels

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• Hunter Drone has 40% Minion Power (previously 50%), 20% less Damage (previously 40%), 20% less Attack Speed (new), Drone Count Thresholds reached faster at lower Mod Levels and slower at higher Mod Levels\nHunter Drone AI has been improved, Hunter Drones now prioritize targets closer to the Player

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• Titan Bulwark has 60% Minion Power (previously 70%)

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• Grim Bulwark has 60% Minion Power (previously 70%)

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• Aurora Bulwark has 60% Minion Power (previously 70%)

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• Hop has 30% less damage taken while hopping and 3s after (previously 15%)

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• Unseen Strike scales with Mod Level instead of Ship Level (it now does what the tooltip says)

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Item Changes

• Added Shuriken, a new Kinetic Weapon that has intrinsic additional Attacks and Chains

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• Hullbreaker has 480% Damage Efficiency (previously 240%), now deals damage every second while colliding with an Enemy, this scales with Time (previously one hit per collision)

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• Afterburner has been reworked to emit Flames that deal Damage over Time, has improved steering and now has 25-50% increased global Area of Effect while active (new)

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• Warp has 400% Damage Efficiency (previously 300%), 400-800 Range (previously 300), about 8x Base Damage at Eternal Tier, its Nova Area now is always identical to its Range

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• Fusion Drive has 280% Damage Efficiency (previously 100%), 500-700 Range (previously 400), 200-500 AoE (previously 200), 2-7 additional Attacks (previously 2)

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• Black Hole Warp has 240% Damage Efficiency (previously 50%)

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• EMP has 8% Base Crit Chance (previously 5%) and about 5x Base Damage at Eternal Tier

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• Blast Mine has 100% Damage Efficiency (previously 40%) and about 2.4x Base Damage at Eternal Tier

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• Waste Mine has 80% Damage Efficiency (previously 40%) and about 1.2x Base Damage at Eternal Tier

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• Plasma Mine has 100% Damage Efficiency (previously 40%) and about 2x Base Damage at Eternal Tier

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Unique Item Changes

Slotfather

Blastgun / Exclusive Drop

16-24 to Level of Socketed Mods

Lee\'s Tempests (TomatoYoghurt)

Turbine Blades / Exclusive Drop

800-1000% increased Kinetic Damage

Kinetic Damage can cause Shock

20-30% Chance to deal Double Damage

40-60% more Effect of Shock

Octron\'s Tangle (Vehn)

Unknown Nexus / Exclusive Drop

+2 to Level of all Mods

Mass grants more Thermal Damage instead of Kinetic Damage

Time grants more Kinetic Damage instead of faster flow of time

Energy grants more Nuclear Damage instead of Thermal Damage

Infestus (Milkyslice)

Baryte Nexus

Parasites can attach to your ship

Enemies can have +1 additional Parasite attached to them

5-8 to Level of Parasite Mods

Glass Shield (Milkyslice)

Phantom Shield / Exclusive Drop

Weapons are modified by Level 10-25 Range

-20% to all Resistances

Inflicts Blind within 500 range

Goblin Crown

Amber Nexus / Exclusive Drop

Can be augmented with 2-3 additional Nexus Shards

Chaos Circuit (Entity)

Unique Chip / Exclusive Drop

Limit: 2

Has one of the following Affixes, that grants per Skill Node on the shortest allocated path to another Chaos Circuit:

• 1% increased Time

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• 1% increased Mass

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• 1% increased Energy

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• 1% more Kinetic Damage

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• 1% more Electric Damage

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• 1% more Plasma Damage

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• 1% more Explosive Damage

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• 1% more Nuclear Damage

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• 3% increased Deflector Shield

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• 3% increased Armor

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• 1% more Damage over Time

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• 1% more Minion Damage

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• 1% more Parasite Damage

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• 1% more Engine Damage

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• 1% more Melee Damage

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• 1% more Melee Damage

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• 1% increased Attack Speed

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• 1% more Luck

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• 1% more effect of your Fields

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• 1% increased Minion Attack Speed

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• 1% increased Area Damage

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• 1% increased Area of Effect

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• 3% increased Critical Strike Chance

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• 3% increased Critical Strike Damage

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• 3% to Kinetic Resistance

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• 3% to Electric Resistance

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• 3% to Plasma Resistance

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• 3% to Explosive Resistance

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• 3% to Nuclear Resistance

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• +1% Radiation Chance

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• 1% more Radiation Damage

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• +1% Aftershock Chance

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• 0.5% more Aftershock Damage

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• +1% Blind Chance

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• 1% more Effect of Blind

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• +1% Shock Chance

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• 1% more Effect of Shock

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• +1% Debris Chance

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• 1% more Debris Damage

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• +1% to Dodge

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Dragon Eye

Unique Chip / Exclusive Drop

Limit: 3

Has one of the following Affixes that grants per Dragon Eye:

• 10-15 to Time

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• 10-15 to Mass

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• 10-15 to Energy

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• 3-5% more Deflector Shield

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• 3-5% more Armor

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• 20-30% increased Critical Strike Damage

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• 30-50% increased Critical Strike Chance

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• 8-10% to all Resistances

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• 1% to all maximum Resistances

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• Viruses have 10-15% increased Effect

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• +1 to maximum Venom Boost

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• +1 to maximum Turbo Boost

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• +1 to maximum Shield Boost

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• +1 to maximum Focus Boost

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• +1 to maximum Forge Boost

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• 3-5% increased Minion Power

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Bastion

• Maximum Resistance Roll changed from 2-5% to 2-7%

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• Damage Conversion changed from 10% to 25%

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Big Bertha

• Damage per Mass now also applies Mass from other Items and Fields

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• Area of Effect per Energy now also applies Energy from other Items and Fields

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Sector Changes

• Added Slice of the Spiral

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• Added Wulfric\'s Lair

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• Added Moon Base

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• Added Carlo\'s Nightmare, a new chase unique Sector

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• Added Kiki\'s Lucky Loop, a new chase unique Sector

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• Added Shard Den, a new chase unique Sector with Exclusive Drops

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• Added Roost of the Star Eater, a Rank 7 Sector with Exclusive Drops

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• Added Roost of the Iron Gale, a Rank 7 Sector with Exclusive Drops

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• Added Roost of the Sun\'s Wrath, a Rank 7 Sector with Exclusive Drops

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• Added Roost of the Storm Reaper, a Rank 7 Sector with Exclusive Drops

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• Added Roost of the Detonator, a Rank 7 Sector with Exclusive Drops

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• Added Octron\'s Arena, Rank 8 Pinnacle Boss Sector with Exclusive Drops

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• Seventh Tentacle now rolls an additional Affix - Rank 7 Sectors have 4-8% chance to drop as Octron\'s Arena instead (existing Sectors can be upgraded with an Infinity Dice)

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• Shard Goblin Chance can roll on Sectors

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• Monster Crit Chance changed from Suffix to Prefix

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• Infinity Dice can be used on Sectors

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Marble Machine Skill Tree Changes

• Added 7 Sector Chip Sockets

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• Added Goblin Fever, which grants Missions have 6% chance to contain a Shard Goblin

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• Added Goblin Echo, which grants Shard Goblins have 20% chance to appear in pairs

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• Added Kiki\'s Goblin Trick, which grants Kiki Missions have 24% chance to contain a Shard Goblin

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• Added Goblin Grav, which grants Shard Goblins have 20% chance to spawn 2 clones on death

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• Added Shard Struck, which grants 30% chance to augment Nexus Drops with a random Shard Affix

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• Added Shard Hatchery, which grants Turtle Eggs have 14% chance to drop with a Nexus Shard

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• Added Shard Shop, which grants Carlo\'s Shop has 24% chance to offer a Nexus Shard after a Carlo Mission

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• Added Unleashed Octron, which grants Octron\'s Arena has +80 to Monster Level, Octron drops +1 Exclusive Item

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• Added Contained Octron, which grants Octron\'s Arena has -80 to Monster Level, Octron drops no Exclusive Items

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• Added Rank 8, which grants Rank 7 Sectors have 8% chance to drop as Octron\'s Arena instead

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• Added Echoes of the Eighth, which grants 18% chance to drop Octron\'s Arena after completing it

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• Added Entangled Loot, which grants Octron\'s Arena contains 2 additional Kiki Mission

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• Added Entangled Eggs, which grants Octron\'s Arena contains 2 additional Carlo Mission

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• Added Octronics, which grants Affixes of Socketed Sector apply to Octron\'s Arena

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• Added Machine\'s Bounty, which grants Non-unique Sector Chips have 100% increased drop chance

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• Monster Level grants +3 to Monster Level (previously +1)

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• Monstrosity grants +9 to Monster Level (previously +3)

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Balancing Changes

• Big Asteroids split into 3 Clones for 6 Times (previously 4 Clones for 5 Times)

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• Items with 4, 5 or 6 Slots are now rarer, this increases the average amount of Slot Dice needed when crafting items with these Slot amounts

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QoL Changes

• Added Ship Setting to Preview a Boss Enemy

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• Added Ship Setting to Preview the current Monster Level

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• Hovering over items now shows how many of this item you have in your Stash

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• Reduce map size of certain Carlo Missions

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• Better display of AoE damage radius in stats

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• Improved Death Threshold Preview, it now applies the best Death Threshold of any Weapon to total DPS only

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• Can search for Sector Rank in Stash

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• Pressing ALT on Octron Affixes that \"Add Virus on Hit\" shows information about the Virus

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• Improved the in-game Glossary description of Fields

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• Improved memory layout for better cache locality

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• Reduced memory allocations of preview calculation

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• Improved Controller interaction in Settings

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• Improve layout of Resume Game screen so that the Steam Overlay does not interfere with its buttons

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• Improved Main Menu

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• Reworked Kiki / Koko assets

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• Improve error message when placing things into skill tree sockets is not possible

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• Unique Chips with a limit can be swapped without first having to remove the socketed chip

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• Singularity can be removed without deallocating the Chip Socket holding it, if the skill tree would still be intact afterward

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Bugfixes

• Fix visual artifacts when multiple Parasites are attached to an entity

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• Fix rotation of Flame Slinger Projectiles

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• Fix Damage Preview for Hullbreaker + Unseen Strike

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• Fix Matilda to be a Unique Enemy

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• Fix wording of Drop Effect (it is more, not increased)

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• Fix controller interaction with Dice Slots in stash, incompatible Dice Slots are skipped

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• Fix glitch when cancelling language selection

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• Damage per Field is now previewed correctly for Parasites and Minions

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• Fix name of Crystal Nexus

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• Preview full more damage against Blind as soon as Blind Chance is > 0

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• Consider attacks per seconds and Blind Chance for less damage taken preview

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• Add missing Multicrit Glossary description to stats

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Thanks for playing Astroloot in Early Access. I hope to see you all next Friday!