This update feels quite overdue but it made sense to delay it until after item crafting was done. All legendary items in the game have been re-designed and 16 additional legendary items have been added.

All of these new legendary items can be found in the demo in Sector 1.

Not only are there new legendary items some can now be built from different base items and will retain their stats. For example, a Prism Ray used to come from a Freeze Ray but now it can be built from a Heat Rays, Freeze Ray, Caustic Laser or Skeran Laser.

The type of base item used will determine the Prism Rays stats and damage type. You can find these variants in your travels or intentionally build them using the Assembler. All legendary items now work in this way with lots of them having multiple possible bases.

Just wanted to take the time to mention that although I cannot human translate the whole game before Early Access (due to the financial cost and constant changes) in the next few updates I'm going to be working on categorizing and prioritizing language entries.

This should allow me to at least get all the UI and interface human translated before we enter Early Access and hopefully make the game more playable in other languages.

Lots of other changes below, hope you enjoy. Trading encounters will be in the next update!


New Features / Content

• Some legendary items can now be built from different base items.
  
• Added 1 new legendary shield.
  
• Added 3 new legendary primary weapons.
  
• Added 1 new legendary secondary weapon.
  
• Added 4 new legendary specials.
  
• Added 6 new legendary auto specials.
  
• Added 1 new legendary utility.
  
• New command added to consoles for spawning legendary items derived from new base items.

Balance Changes

• Existing legendaries now all have a new selection of default modifiers.
  
• Auto Tesla Coil and Auto Heat Ray can now have same modifiers as their primary versions.
  
• Drone bays can now get rare on kill modifiers.
  
• Gatling Gun legendary now comes from the machine gun, not acid gun.
  
• Prism Rays can now be built from other lasers changing their stats and damage type.
  
• Boomerangs can now be built from Shuriken Thrower changing their stats and damage type.
  
• Assembler replace modifier now unlocks at level 6 and increase rarity at level 12.
  
• Drones now despawn when parent ship phase shifts.
  
• Increased hull of all drones by +50%.
  
• Enemy drones now have the same aiming latency as other enemy ships.
  
• Reduced Auto Stinger Launcher range from 350m down to 260m.

Quality of Life / Accessibility

• Rather than default to yellow unequipped items now default to their type color.
  
• Legendary items now show the item base they were built from below their item image.
  
• Projectiles receiving crits from PDLs will now display the critical hit effect.
  
• Aim assist line now scales with HUD scale and camera zoom.
  
• Increased default size of minibars by 50%.
  
• New setting added to change scale of minibars independent from HUD scale.
  
• Pulse weapons and stalker launcher now change color more from their slots.
  
• Assembler UI now tells you why it rejects an item for destruction.

Bug Fixes

• Drones will now keep up with and harass moving enemies that are being kited.
  
• Playing an old version of the game will not reset save data from the newer version.
  
• Fixed some spelling mistakes in item descriptions.
  
• Fixed bug where unspent points notice below player avatar in HUD would vanish.
  
• Fixed bug where Auto Stinger Launcher would activate when significantly out of range.
  
• Fixed bug where enemy ships weren't being repulsed away from each other when stacked.
  
• Auto Specials should no longer activate as ships are jumping into encounters.
  
• Fixed null pointer when upgrading an item to legendary rarity.
  
• Fixed circular trails remaining after Boomerangs return.
  
• Fixed display issues with background artwork after invader transition.
  
• Added fail-safe exception if equipment is ever equipped to the incorrect slot type.
  
• Fixed arrival missions not being completed correctly when using developer auto-complete.
  
• Fixed using backslash as escape character in input boxes.
  
• Fixed bug where passive items could not roll increased effectiveness as a modifier.
  
• Fixed typo in on kill cold surge modifiers.

Just a quick update this time mostly made up of changes and fixes that were delayed to make sure item crafting came out as quickly as possible. A lot of this is based off feedback and testing on our Discord so if you've not joined yet come join us and let us know your thoughts.

Primary weapons by default snap inward to hit a target if the weapon slots are spaced towards the outside of your ship. This can now be disabled in the equipment panel if you'd prefer a broader range of fire to hit multiple targets.

The sector summary that is displayed during sector generation is now also visible at the bottom of the navigation panel as it contains some useful information.

There is also lots of other improvements and bug fixes. Not least of which is the rebound launchers were instant destroying enemies when they applied debuffs due to an error in their damage calculations.

The next update should include the new trader encounters and host of new legendary weapons!


Balance Changes

• Reduced level requirements of Assembler options from 8 and 16 down to 6 and 12.
  
• Increased number of intercept encounters in a sector by +66%.
  
• Rescue ships will now fire back at enemies who come into range.
  
• Small consumables now stop dropping at level 15.
  
• Medium consumables now stop dropping at level 30.
  
• Increased speed of grub launcher projectiles by 66%.
  
• Rebound launcher projectiles increase speed when returning.
  
• Reduced rate of fire and damage of Skeran Lice.
  
• Reduced range of drones from 250m to 225m.

Quality of Life / Accessibility

• Added latency to the camera's perceived ship velocity to make sudden velocity changes smoother.
  
• Added ship summary to bottom left of Mothership panel to make ship editing more obvious.
  
• New players will now be prompted to select between classic and twin-stick controls.
  
• Alpha Saxa, Novus Prime, Asgard, Genesis and Eden are no longer Waypoints.
  
• Destroying items in the assembler now has new animations and sound effects.
  
• Patch notes panel now includes the most recent 3 versions separated by tabs.
  
• Added glowing thruster to Big Blasta missiles to make them easier to see.
  
• Screenshot mode in ship designer now has a button to toggle equipment visibility.
  
• Navigation panel now includes a sector progress and contents summary.
  
• Primary weapons can now be set to parallel fire instead of focused fire.

Bug Fixes

• When fighting elite Orchids the one with the highest hull is now displayed below the radar.
  
• Fixed bug where rescue ships would just sit idle and not fly around.
  
• Engineer Relios dialog no longer pops up in sandbox mode.
  
• Fixed bug where rebound launchers would give debuffs for infinite damage.
  
• Fixed grub launcher incorrectly having 300% crit damage.
  
• Fixed bug where some items in Assembler didn't include slot color.