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Nexus LegacyNewsPatch Notes: 21.08.2026. Activity Balance & Fleet Reliability
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Patch Notes: 21.08.2026. Activity Balance & Fleet Reliability

Nexus Legacy · published 21 Aug 2026, 14:26 UTC

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This update rebalances several PvE activities, introduces the approved anomaly diminishing returns system, and fixes a broad set of fleet and mobile UI issues.

System Surveys & Anomalies

  • The first 85 completed System Surveys per UTC day continue to use their normal discovery chances.

  • After 85 surveys, the chance of receiving a false signal gradually increases.

  • The increase is linear and reaches 99.9% false signals at 200 completed surveys.

  • This is added on top of the existing false-signal chance. The first 85 surveys are not guaranteed to discover an anomaly.

  • The daily counter resets at 00:00 UTC.

Leadership

  • The Scientist perk Anomaly Research Protocols has been clarified and reworked.

  • All System Surveys launched from a planet hosting a ready Command Vessel now take 30% less time.

  • The Command Vessel does not need to be attached to the survey fleet.

  • Leadership crew bonuses are now displayed using the same compact layout as module bonuses.

Mining

  • Newly generated Sentinel asteroid fields now have 0.70-1.00 richness.

  • Newly generated Open Space fields now have 0.80-1.60 richness.

  • Existing asteroid fields keep their current richness.

  • Mining Vessel plasma production has been reduced from 25 to 20 per cycle.

  • Excavator plasma production remains unchanged.

  • Dead Space marauder fleets encountered during mining have been slightly weakened.

  • Mining cargo displays now correctly include Cargo Expansion and universe mining modifiers.

  • Mining reports now show regular cargo and mining cargo in the correct fields.

Patrols & Expeditions

  • Resource loot from Salvage Patrols has been doubled.

  • Dead Space expedition resource loot has been increased:

    • Depth 1: +75%

    • Depth 2: +20%

    • Depth 3: +125%

    • Depth 4: +200%

  • Rift expedition resource loot has been increased:

    • Depth 2: +125%

    • Depth 3: +30%

  • Rift Depths 1 and 4 remain unchanged.

  • These changes affect resource loot only. Expedition risk and rare reward chances have not been reduced.

Fleet Reliability & QoL

  • Fleet-selection windows now keep separate ship data for every selected source planet.

  • Rapidly switching planets or typing exact ship quantities should no longer make a window jump to another planet or display ships from the wrong location.

  • This correction covers surveys, espionage, mining, wormholes, attacks, defenses, debris collection, hubs, outposts, mines, artifact transport and other fleet operations.

  • Fleet templates now automatically adjust unavailable ship quantities.

  • When a template cannot be loaded in full, the game shows exactly which ships were missing and what quantity was selected instead.

  • A warning is now shown when Carriers and compatible craft are selected without assigning any Carrier hangars.

  • Exact ship quantity inputs now remain within the number of ships actually available.

Wormholes

  • Repairable ships produced during an earlier wormhole battle are no longer lost if a later non-combat encounter damages the remaining fleet.

  • These ships will remain marked as repairable and return correctly after the run.

Minefields

  • Fleets returning to moons, outposts or stations will no longer incorrectly trigger a minefield located on an unrelated planet.

  • Minefields are now checked only at the location where the fleet actually docks.

  • If the original location no longer exists and the fleet is redirected to a fallback planet, that fallback destination may still trigger its minefield normally.

Mobile & Interface

  • Station storage has been reorganized on mobile so resource names, values and capacities no longer overlap.

  • Marketplace My Orders entries now stack correctly on narrow screens.

  • Long resource names and exchange rates no longer collapse into one-character-wide columns.

  • The Galaxy interface now uses the available screen height more effectively on tablets and large phones in landscape mode.

  • Leadership crew cards are more compact while keeping all effects visible.

  • New warnings and updated descriptions have been localized across all supported languages.

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