Balancing changes

Weapons and slot ammunition

• The amount of energy burned increased to 5000 pts;

• Base spread reduced from 4.5 to 3.0 degrees.

• Damage to your own ship is removed;
• Projectile damage, speed and size increased by 30%;

• Critical damage bonus increased from 50% to 75%;
• Maximum spread reduced to 1 degr.;
• Projectile flight speed increased to 7000 m/s;
• Weapon ranks changed to 7-17.

• Projectile speed increased from 1450 to 1800 m/s.

• Damage increased by 10%;
• The drones durability increased by 600 pts.

• The drones range reduced from 12,500 to 7,000 m.

• Energy consumption reduced by 33%.

• Projectile flight speed has been increased from 2500 to 3250 m/s.

• Range reduced:
  • Ranks 7-9 to 2500 m;
  • Ranks 9-13 to 2650 m;
  • Ranks 12-17 to 2800 m;
• Time to overheat reduced from 11 to 8 seconds.

• Durability increased to 2250 pts.

• The amount of additional temporary damage to the enemy reduced to 1000 pts/s.
• Now the amount of additional temporary damage to the enemy doesnt change depending on the size and distance to the enemy ship.

• The cooling time of the weapon has been reduced to 1.5 seconds.

• Missile rotation speed increased by 10 deg/s;
• Damage increased by 15%.

• The ball's flight speed has been increased to 125 m/s;
• The rate of fire of bullets has been increased by 20%.

• The rate of fire has been reduced from 90 to 70 shots/min.;
• Flight speed reduced from 4000 to 3000 m/s;
• Damage reduced by 10%.

• Damage increased by 10%.
• The duration of the nanobot colony has been reduced from 3 to 2 seconds.

• Speed increased by 30%;
• Rate of fire increased by 2 times;
• Damage per shot reduced by 2 times;
• Projectile speed has been increased to 3500 m/s.

Special modules

• The wormhole is now displayed in the interface.

• The rotation speed of the special module gun during firing has been increased by 75%.

• Modulecooldown is reduced from 30 to 25 seconds.

• Fixed a bug that caused the ship to be destroyed by remaining damage if the shield was turned off due to lack of energy.

• Shield recovery increased from 4000 to 6500 pts;
• Passively increases the shields resistance to all types of damage by 20 pts.

• Cooldown reduced from 40 to 35 seconds.

• Now, after exiting invisibility, the damage increases by 10% for 5 seconds.

• The preparation time for drone activation has been reduced from 30 to 20 seconds.

• Damage increased from 850 to 1500 pts./s;
• Active time has been increased from 6 to 8 seconds;
• Now the rotation of the enemys weapon is blocked while the module is active.

• Now restores 500 pts./sec. of the shield while the special module is active;
• The number of charges has been increased to 15.

• The amount of drained energy has been increased by 100 pts./s for regular ships and to 500 pts./s for destroyers.
• Now passively increases the hulls resistance to all types of damage by 20 pts.

• Cooldown time reduced to 12 seconds.

• Turret mode: now increases resistance to all types of damage by 10 pts.
• Turret mode: projectile rotation increased to 12 gon/s (now about 10), damage reduced by 400.

• Attack mode, hunting mode: increases resistance to all types of damage by 10 pts.

• Reduced the coefficient of explosive damage received by the swarm.

• Now the description considers the last repairing tick;
• The amount of the restored hull pts. has been increased to 4500.

• Now the cooldown time of the special module depends on the rank of the ship:
  • Ranks 7-8 35 seconds;
  • Ranks 9-10 34 seconds;
  • Ranks 11-12 33 seconds;
  • Ranks 13-14 32 seconds;
  • Rank 15 30 seconds.

• Now the modules cooldown time depends on the rank of the ship:
  • Ranks 9-10 40 seconds;
  • Ranks 11-12 38 seconds;
  • Ranks 13-14 36 seconds;
  • Rank 15 35 seconds.

• The drones flight speed has been increased to 1500 m/s.

• Energy consumption at all levels of improvement has been increased by 100 units/s.

• The charge preparation time has been reduced to 25 seconds.

Active modules

• The duration has been reduced from 15 to 10 seconds.

• Ion diffuser no longer destroys the mail drone.

• The penalty to the hull resistance has been reduced from 75 to 50 pts.

• The cooldown at all levels of improvement has been reduced by 5 seconds.

• Maximum distance reduced to 1600 m;
• Speed increased to 550 m/s.

• Fixed a bug that caused the main charge to not hit the target.

• Plasma turrets: projectile speed increased to 3000 m/s;

• Induction charger: energy recovery increased to 125 unnits/s.

• The flight speed of missile turrets has been increased to 2000 m/s.

• Fixed a bug that caused the second shell in the volley to not hit the target.

• Now the maneuverability penalty is not affected by implants and modifiers;
• Now the module repairs 2 pts. of an allys hull for each point of reduced durability of its hull.

• The amount of energy recovered when the module is activated is increased by 2 times.

• The working time has been increased to 15 seconds.

• Now the energy consumption during activation depends on the rank of the ship:
  • Ranks 3-7 175 pts;
  • Ranks 6-10 195 pts;
  • Ranks 9-13 220 pts;
  • Ranks 12-17 250 pts.

• Now, when one of these modules/modifier is activated, the others start to reload.

• Now, when one of these modules is activated, the other starts to reload.

• The restoration time decreased by 2 times (to 3 seconds);
• The restoration rate increased by 2 times;
• Now the restoration affects all the allies within its effective range;
• Reloading time decreased from 41 to 35 seconds.

Modifiers

• Now the activation of the modifier is accompanied by a visual effect;

• Speed threshold increased to 35%.

• Minimum rank reduced to 8.

• The shield volume bonus has been increased from 17.5% to 25% (for rank 17, Mk.4).

• Now the amount of hull restored increases with upgrade;

• Rate of fire increased by 2 times.

• The activation threshold has been increased to 30%.

• Energy-compensating projectile
• Now the explosion radius and the projectile flight speed are indicated in the characteristics.

• Now the range of the module is indicated in characteristics;
• Now the description indicates which missiles are affected by the module.

• An indication of drone preparation similar to Wazgot special modules has been added.

• Now the characteristics indicate the speed of flight and rotation of missiles.

• Now the description states that it blocks the afterburner (not the boosters).

• Now the power consumption of the module is indicated in the characteristics.

• Now the characteristics indicate the fire rate.

• Now the characteristics indicate the durability of the station.

• Now the characteristics indicate the damage and range of independent segments.

• Now the description features the interceptors characteristics.

Miscellaneous

• The amount of resources required for production has been reduced by half.

• The amount of the restored hull has been increased to 200 pts/s;

• The amount of the restored hull has been increased to 300 pts/s;

• An increase in the shields resistance to all damage by 10 units has been added to a number of initial ship bonuses.

• Now, when the ship is in the landed state, it can launch homing missiles.

• The hulls resistance to all damage increased by 20 pts.

• Guided thermosphere 12-17
• Branching laser 9-13
• Eradicator X 10-15
• Destabilising mortar 8-12
• Draccar nanobot colony 10-15
• Active screen 10-15
• Sensor DDoS 8-12
• Prometheus defence 8-12
• Repelling shield 8-12
• Mass charge accelerator 10-15
• Explosive restoration 4-9
• Pendulum 8-12
• Active missile shield 10-15
• Sinobi jump 11-15
• Balanced defence 11-15
• Dual shields 11-15
• Thermoprojector 11-15
• Neutron emitter 8-13

• Now Front blaster, Geyser and Bow EM laser wont be installed on AI-controlled ships.

• Destroyed Station location is available for conquest again.

• The amount of penalties is returned to the previous value: -20% to the speed and -20 pts. of resistance.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug in the designation of some key elements in PvE.
• Fixed a bug with the inability of factional AI-players to deal damage to the player under certain conditions.
• Fixed a bug of resetting the capture from the Nordstorm ship when it activated a special module.
• Fixed a bug that caused some modifiers to have no Mk.5 upgrade.
• Fixed a bug of inability to trade blueprints of some Mk.5 modifiers.
• Fixed a bug that caused the Auxiliary generator on the Federation dreadnought to not appear at its place.
• Improved a number of texts and descriptions.