0.5.0: the PvE update
Clans open Gates, boss swarms and the Tesseract mothership roam the Danger Sectors, and laser ammo gets a research tree. Steam updates the game by itself. If it has not started, restart Steam.
New
- Clan Gates: a co-leader or the leader opens a Gate from the clan bank (500,000 to 2,000,000 Credits). 4 to 10 clan members cross a maze, hold 4 loot zones and bring down the Warlord. Stage 3 pays each pilot 100,000 Honor, 17,500,000 Credits, 15,000 Thulium and 15,000 x4 ammo, once a day and at most 10 paid clears a week. Look for the new Gates tab in the clan window.
- The Tesseract: a mothership in Danger Sector 4 with 1,600,000 hull and 1,200,000 shield in Alpha. It mends 125,000 a second when left alone and calls up to 50 Facets while it is hit. A fight for a very large group.
- Three boss swarms: a Boss Phantasm and a Boss Goombah on x-3 and x-4, and a Boss Crystalys in DS-1 to DS-3, each with guards that heal it.
- Laser ammo research: Military Grade Ammo I and II open the crafting of x3 and x4 (the x4 is no longer sold). New ammo: Siphon Battery II, Antimatter Battery I and II (they pierce 20 %) and Dark Matter Ammo I and II (x1.5 to x5 a volley, x6 with a shield leech).
- Every alien has its own shot and its own sound: plasma blobs, spores, crystal shards, slugs, ion orbs and slag, with 32 new sounds. Your lasers are unchanged.
- Missions come back after a wipe: every mission you completed, the 50 Challenge missions too, opens for one Repeat a season that pays in full.
- Skylab: Solar keeps 100 % of its power while it upgrades, and a running upgrade can be cancelled for a full refund.
Changed
- Balance: Field Theory +4 / +7 / +10, Basic and Heavy Shield Core 50 / 55 %, Engine II and III 3 / 4 %, Adaptive Cores at half, the Afterburner +20 / 30 / 40 % for 15 s.
- Clan Wardens: every wave is now a mix of Phantasm, Bulwarks and Goombahs, and pays more.
- Danger Sectors: no respawn on the spot. You come back at your base or the nearest portal.
- Daily gifts: ammo and tier III rockets only, and the calendar is worth about 50 % more.
- Smaller: the Thulium Geode pays 72 to 168 Thulium, Moles can share an asteroid, special items are tiles in the Hangar inventory, and repair slots show their healing.
- Wiki: new pages for the Gates and the boss swarms, in 13 languages.
Good to know
- The update moves no Credits, Thulium or items.
- The next wipe is on Friday 6 November, just after 00:00 UTC. Your Repeats open at that wipe.
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