"Captain! Hark, it is another update from the team behind Star Traders: Frontiers."
"What, are they crazy?
"Yes! Eight years and 374 times certified!"
We're excited to keep working through the backlog of art, balance improvements, bug fixes and minor improvements with Star Traders: Frontiers. Another update has arrived - this one with a new background for molten worlds, improvements by community request to how sorting goes when looking at ships in new game, a list of new things that enemy ship builder can access, tweaks to drop rates for rare gear, fixed typos and some ship component pricing corrections.
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With each update, we are now working diligently to finalize and push any final pieces of art that were made for Star Traders: Frontiers over its long life into the game. There are a few more Contact faces, landing zone art boards and even outfits still to come. With Update #374, we added a new beautiful piece for wild molten worlds.
The sorting of ships in the game new screen has been improved. Previously they were not sorted very cleanly and the ships were a bit out of order - based on a confusing mismash of when you might buy them in the game, unlocks and price.
With Update #374, we have adjusted sorting in new game to simply be based on the price of the ship.
With Update #374, we've gone back over the latest additions to the game and pushed those that are ready into the hands of the enemy ship builder. This includes allowing enemy captains access to the Raptor Strikecarrier as one of its hulls, and allowing them to improve their boarding approaches with the Dagger Prow and Cloaked Boarding Assault component.
We've also tweaked the interest from the enemy ship builder in including cloaking components in their ships to better match the realistic rates we are seeing from player captains.
With each update, we are always watching certain factors and have found that the Ki-Karat Siazah (an epic 2-handed blade) was not really appearing enough for players and that the Cryoseal Mesh (armor) was showing up way too often in salvage. We've adjusted these rates which should help level out the things you can find in salvage.
A big thanks goes out to everyone playing and posting - we love our captains and are excited to keep updating Star Traders: Frontiers for you.
- Added new planet background for molten lava worlds
- Revised sorting in new game Ship list as requested
- Granted AI Captains access to Raptor Strikecarrier hull template
- Added Dagger Prow and Cloaked Boarding Assault to AI ship builder
- Reduced general AI ship builder preference for cloaking to match player rates
- Boosted drop rates for Ki-Karat Siazah (2nd Hand Blade)
- Reduced drop rataes for Cryoseal Mesh (Armor)
- Fixed typos and reported bugs in Captain logs related to missions
- Fixed Ship Component pricing on Duranium Coating IV