Greetings Commanders! Today we bring you a large balance patch and a few polish improvements. Read on for the details.
Balance Update - The Whole Game is Easier
As mentioned in our last patch we looked over all of the player data to see if changes needed to be made. It seemed very clear from the data that there were multiple areas where the experience needed to be improved. Today we bring a large number of balance changes.
First off we lowered the difficulty in all sectors but the very first area. The first area we still feel is offering the right level of challenge to introduce players to the game.
Secondly, as we recently did for Ancient Frontier, we reduced the number of ships you face in the second half of the game so that portion is less of a grind.
Third, we increased the starting resources on both the Beginner and Veteran difficulties.
Finally, we made some under the hood changes to make the experience easier on Beginner and Veteran difficulties.
Voice Acting
First off we have been very pleased with the reception the voice acting work has gotten this time around.
We had more opportunity to think about improvements for this game after the lessons we learned doing Ancient Frontier. One of the improvements we made was to have the actors read short little command lines for their ships while they were recording.
Today we bring you this update. Now all of the ships with a character will sometimes speak when you give their ship a move order. This should make it easier to tell who is who on the battlefield.
We also added one short conversation that did not make it into the last patch.
End Credits Song
We were honored that the lead composer of the game, Mimi Page, wrote us a unique song for the end credits. We were very pleased with how this turned out. Several of you have asked us for the lyrics of the song.
With this patch we have updated the Credits screen so that it now displays the lyrics. You can now all enjoy Mimi's poetry as she helped us bring this world to life for all of you. We hope you enjoy this update.
And... that's it! We hope everyone continues to enjoy their adventures on the Frontier.
Thank you for playing our games!