Build 26299089

Squadron Survivors: new

• High Scores: a top 10 for each player count, ranked by time survived, then XP

• Steam leaderboards for 1 to 4 players, with Friends and Near You views

• 10 new Squadron Survivors achievements

• New challenge: fly a full squadron of 48 to unlock Veterans in the Hangar

• New space backgrounds: galaxies, star clusters, asteroid fields, a distant sun and the odd convoy far off, tinted by the run's planet. Everyone in an online game sees the same sky

• New Space Detail setting (Off / Low / Medium / High)

• Every run now has a planet near the start

• B117 explains the Squadron Strike the first time your meter fills, and has new lines for Quad Carrier arrivals

Squadron Survivors: balance

• Flatter XP curve: levels keep coming through the late game, and a fully upgraded Hangar can fill the whole squadron

• Hangar Training: +10% XP per rank (was +5%)

• Hangar Veterans: +10% wingman damage per rank (was +5%)

• Healing in a station's shield brings back every lost wingman

• The Squadron Strike fires one missile and drops one mine per ship

• Each Strike or battleship call makes the next one cost 5% more

• Stations need a little more salvage the longer the run goes

• A downed pilot is picked up after 10 seconds solo, plus 5 seconds per extra player (was 25 seconds)

• A stronger salvage magnet also catches salvage more easily, so it no longer swings past your ship

• The battleship arrives closer, on screen

• Boss warnings come 5 seconds before a boss (was 10)

Squadron Survivors: interface

• New XP bar, Strike meter and boss health bars

• New boss warning alarm with a countdown

• Easier-to-read menus, and long text now fits its panel

• The supply carrier is now called the Special Jack

• The run summary shows where your run placed

• Losing or retreating returns to the Squadron Survivors menu

Sound

• Positional sound is back (all modes): explosions, cannons and enemy spawns pan left and right and fade with distance, as in the original game

• A big wreck no longer plays a wall of overlapping explosions (the Quad Carrier's death sounded like an echo)

• New Squadron Survivors sounds: station warp in and out, level-up and card pick

• Squadron Survivors sounds are louder

All modes

• New Settings screen: every setting on one list

• Online co-op: every player needs this update to play together