Demo update 4

After doing some extensive playtesting and getting feedback from the players, I am pleased to present a new demo update.

Content:

• Planet random events/status effects
• New NPC vessel classes - Destroyers, Carriers, Fiend
• New equipment: weapons, body parts, drones, and more!
• More high-level encounter lists
• Reputation has additional gameplay effects now
• More pilot behavior packs
• New mission types (Pirate Carnage and some other)

When speaking numbers, it's around 30 new NPC vessel templates, 10+ new equipment parts, 10+ new encounter lists, 20+ bot behavior programs.

This update moves the endgame mark when the game has no new content to offer from ~2 hours to around 4-5 hours. It's still not even half of what's planned for a full release, but I'm getting there.

Gameplay:

• A much better period report screen
• Negative events are hidden from the journal until the report is revealed
• Most NPC squads have a captain assigned

UX/interface:

• Combat overlay (pause, fast forward)
• Reworked vessel validation - it's non-blocking now
• Added post-battle per-weapon damage stats
• Show current reputation level in reputation change tooltips
• Can repair vessels even when not entering the vessel screen not from a shop
• More tooltips (hover over Android and Mercenary tags, etc.)

Game balance:

• Better experience reward curve
• Adjusted planet research rates
• A slightly improved equipment pricing
• An attempt to improve the difficulty scaling curve

Bugs:

• Fixed <1% HP bug
• Fixed repair bugs
• Added some missing translation strings (e.g. "weapon_fire_arc")
• Fixed "empty" target selection