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New patch: More win conditions, easy mode and settings

Strife of Stars - Demo · published 4 months ago

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This patch has been focused on a few things. Adding more win conditions to the game. Adding a new easy mode in an attempt to better onboard new players. Adding more QoL settings such as windowed mode full screen, different resolutions, and as usual, a lot of bug fixing and balancing.

Features and interesting changes

Phasing reworked - exiting phasing now reduces 1 max HP for the rest of combat. Phasing is still strong, but chaining kills on a phased ship is no longer perma-invulnerability.
Armor and movement modifier rework - these items can now be applied to any ship type and propagate fleet-wide (apply a move modifier to a Ptah → all your Ptahs get it). They also stack with themselves, so allows further fleet customization and late-game scaling.
Difficulty selection - new Containment level 0 easy-mode
Settings menu - Fullscreen / Borderless Windowed / Windowed modes, with resolution options when windowed
Sobek: new "Swap" ability - Gave Sobek a new ability to make it more interesting and raise its skill ceiling. Swap: change positions with any pylon on the board.

New items

Ankh of Endless Mornings (Court, mid/late game) - apply to any ship. If it dies in combat, it returns to your inventory on battle win.
Scarab of Endless Advance (Court, mid/late game) - fleet-wide. All player Ptah ships move at zero action cost.
Ankh of Eternal War (Court, mid/late game) - apply to any ship. When that ship gets a kill, all your Court ships gain +1 damage that turn.
Antimatter Munitions Plant (SMI) - as long as it's in your inventory, all Hunters get +1 antimatter missile capacity and refill 1 missile each sector. Stackable.

Various Minor changes

Ptah now costs 0 fleet capacity (still 1 deploy capacity) - keep them as cannon fodder, pairs with Scarab of Endless Advance
Overclock no longer increases movement
Containment level display order tidied
Various bug fixes, UX and UI improvements
Remove ability to save scum and reroll events and trades

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