Star Traders: Frontiers Update #62: Hunter's Bloodbadge
May 10, 2018 13:49:11 GMT -5
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Post by fallen on May 10, 2018 13:49:11 GMT -5
As mentioned in the last update, we are working hard to accelerate our pace of additions to the game to continue to fill out the later game content, pile in on story, and every other type of space frontiers awesome. We've expanded multiple Contact services, added a new Contact type, more Contact art, and 10 new weapons and armor for your crew combat teams.
Relentless Pace but a Short Break
On average, we are publishing a new update packed full of goodies every 2.83 days which is down from the 2.91 average before the big Update #47 and ELDER crew combat upgrade.
We decided to launch Star Traders: Frontiers into Early Access for exactly this reason. We believe strongly in a tight iteration loop, tons of exciting updates, and constant communication with the player community. So a huge thanks to everyone who is posting, discussing, suggesting ideas, reporting bugs and more! And also, thanks to everyone leaving a review on the game!
However, we are on the edge of a 10 day break before the next update. With a tiny team of 2, we each have some travel coming up and there will be break from regularly scheduled updates for a few days. However, trust that means the next update will be a big one.
High Rank Edicts
Up until this point, no contact was willing to offer higher than a Edict tier 4. With Update #62, we've extended that reach up to the top level Edict, rank 9. We'll be working on getting the specialized faction names for the highest edicts in future releases so you can bear the Thlun Death Rose, Rychart Crimson Seal or Steel Song Bloodbadge.
As more bounty hunter missions come online, these higher Edict levels will be important for more than just their generous mission payment bonuses and basic lockout of missions. The biggest, baddest bounties will only be given to hunters bearing high level Edicts.
Top Tier Weapons and Armor
While the A5 Weapons Locker may have contested the tier 2 contact weapons and armor for the best spot, Contacts have it again! With tier 3 armaments rolling out, you're combat teams are going to want to make some friends in the factions!
A recently popular map seed, st-v01-40-2-133598485
QoL and Polish
We've received a trove of great feedback from players this week and are hard at work putting those ideas into the game. All of the card games have had their Risk and Reward factors recalculated so that the percentages shown are now cleanly out of 100%. We've adjusted the display of the Crowned Smuggler story mission to be more obvious and fixed issues with selling negative amounts of cargo if your ship's cargo hold is toast. We've got a boat load of additional improvements coming in the next update, so keep posting the great ideas!
v2.2.53 - 5/10/2018
- Added Edict ranks 5 through 9, rebalanced Contacts who can offer Edicts
- Contacts gain service tier 3 for selling Weapons and Armor
- New Contact: Salvage Broker; Scouting Missions, Sells Armor, Recruits Quartermaster, Discounts Upgrades
- Added 7 new crew combat weapons
- Added new crew combat weapon types: shortblade chopper and assault snubber
- Added 3 new crew combat armors
- Added 4 new Contact character faces (new games and new contacts)
- Improved card game risk and reward factors to be shown as percent (%) out of 100%
- Adjusted Crowned Smuggler missions to clearly display as story missions
- Fixed bug with Quartermaster's "Reliable Hand" Talent using Command instead of Intimidate
- Fixes issues caused by completely destroyed Cargo Holds
