Star Traders: Frontiers - Update #29 + 20% Sale!

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Gather round the spice hall, Captains, for we've got another update to share. With Update #29, we've put another major hole in the bottom of the v2.1.x family of the EA roadmap. We're also pushing through some new character designs and the first big round of character art cleanup and animation smoothing.

As always, we're here every day on the Steam boards, Discord and on our own forum fielding bugs, suggestions and feedback. A lot of those issues and small tweaks made it into this build, so thank you for your input!

Finally, welcome new Captains as STF is 20% down for the week! Call it a Surplus Rumor and tell a friend!

New Character Elements + Cleanups

We've added two new female faces to the roster with Update #29 as well as two new armbands. The military bars and the red badge of a hunter both warn your enemies of the risk they take to tangle with someone of your rank, circumstance or reputation.

We've also started chipping away at a larger project -- improving the character animations and art. We're working our way back through the models and animations and working to clean up little issues, mismatches and bad connections. In this update, you'll see that all the female characters had their elbows rebuilt and a number of shoulder joints are working better. It's not glorious work, but it does look way better! Of course, at the same time we're adding new ones and the plan calls for at least double everything related to character visuals!

New Ships in Starport

Rounding out the rebuild of the starport, we've now included critical details about ships you are considering purchasing. Their component counts and mass totals are shown in the offer for a new hull, helping you to quickly compare ships and consider what type of build you'd be able to get into the new super structure.

With the improvements to the New Ship screen, we've officially knocked the starport rebuild off the v2.1.x roadmap. Of course, there is always more to do and improve and we'll be adding sorting and more filtering down the line. But for now, we've hit all the high points and are moving on to the next big milestones.

v2.0.73 - 1/29/2018

- Added more details and component counts to New Ship offer in starport
- Added two new Female faces to the crew rosters
- Added two new armbands to crew customization options -- military bars and hunter's badge
- Cleaned up and improved character art and animation, fixed many elbow joints
- Improved ship combat repair Talents Ordnance Overhaul and Engine Reboot to have better minimum repairs
- Increased duration for multi-jump missions
- "Treasure Hunters" Rumor no longer blocks Exploration missions
- Corrected bonus mission offer for joining in Negotiations -- 15% bonus credits
- Fixed issue replacing Mass reducing components allowing overmass, improved messages for such components
- Fixed issue with Weapon Lockers not swapping when swapping ships in dry dock
- Fixed issue with Big Trade buying and Trader's Reciprocity
- Cargo and credits update properly while trading in Black Market
- Pardons now correctly appear on Contact services list
- Fixed issues with Stash icon display in orbit screen