Hi Let's go straight to the content included in this patch:

Quests:

Now you can go to a station and receive a quest per system, these quests were also made to show the new mission types: Raids and Bounty Hunting.

Raids:

In raid missions you'll have to manually carry loot from containers to unloading areas using your soldiers while at the same time dealing with enemy reinforcements:

Bounty Hunting:

In Bounty missions you'll have to kill one or more targets in a map. Usually these targets will be a bit stronger than regular enemies.
Accepting these quests will make them appear in the map as a golden icon, once you finish the mission you can go back to the station to get paid.

New Maps:

- Lava planet: a corporate faction is digging alien ruins and artifacts from a lava planet. Release them of their burden for great profit.
- Hangar scenario: belonging to a hostile station, this is a ship hangar that you can raid but be wary of unlimited enemy reinforcements.
- Derelict ship: a ship that's seen better times, this is used by a scav captain that you need to hunt. Besides new maps I also modified the snow scenario to make it less flat and modified some maps so soldiers start in a randomized starting location instead of a fixed one.

New Mechanics:

I had to make some rearrangements In the Station Panel, now the Guild tab will only show Quests. For new recruits you'll need to go to the new Bar tab:
As you can see this panel not only has the recruits list but a "Pay Round" button, with this button you can spend a small amount and have a 50% chance (per soldier) to increase loyalty a bit.

Detailed Patch Changes and Content:

- Added basic Quests mechanics. - New Mission(Normal): Lava Planet/Alien Ruins. - New Mission(Raid): Raid Hangar of Rogue Station. - New Mission(Bounty): Hunt Scav Captain. - New Mission(Space Combat): Destroy Traitor flotilla. - New enemies: Scav Leader and Heavy Scav Leader. - Added Bar panel with Pay Round button. - New Reinforcements mechanic (used in raid mission). - Modified list of recruits to show starting trait. Moved to Bar panel. - Modified Snow Map to be less flat and use snowed materials in most props. - Added new environment props to several existing maps. - Added animated sprite to show currently selected soldier. - New loot: Alien Artifacts. - Increased width and visibility of movement range lines (blue and orange). - Reduced Pay Scale formula so soldiers are a bit cheaper per mission. - Added icons for soldiers in Overwatch or Final Firing Position stance. - Now FFP action can't be applied if it's already in use. - Slightly reduced framerate drop when selecting a soldier by improving performance of pathfinding search. - Fixed a bug where melee wouldn't trigger if it was selected too quickly. - Fixed a bug where evacuating soldiers would leave their weapons floating in place. - Fixed a bug where losing the last soldier during an evacuation wouldn't trigger the retreat panel. --------------------------------------------------------------- This is just part of the content I want to add, now that the Quest mechanics are working I can start adding more raid and bounty missions instead of the typical "Kill Everything" missions. I'm also planning new enemies, including a new minor faction called "The Alien Diasporah" which should add more variety but also help make the campaign longer by addding a new type of star system with its own encounters. Regards, Jorge

[ 2023-03-12 02:32:20 CET ] [ Original post ]