Star Trader: Frontiers Update #50 Heir Apparent

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We've been burning the void engine hot to bring the latest and greatest updates to the galaxy. Update #50 resolves a big problem with the new story content, fixes Weapon Locker A5, and balances out a number of things across Talents, Crew Combat and contact services. The real Milestone ELDER Update was #47, but #50 just sounds important

Heir Apparent

Accidentally, Erik Faen was left in a state where he only wanted to talk to us developers. He was happy to spin his plots with Cory and I, but shy in the real world. Thanks to all the players who reported him, his story is now available. You can talk with him directly after dropping off the Arbiter at the Faen court the second time.

We've also fixed a set of other story bugs in the Undisclosed Location mission that were tripping some players up. Also, if you ran into the boss and he refused to attack -- that's fixed now!

Weapons Locker A5 Goliath

Is now worth the money!

Skip Off the Void

Among the Talents that help you avoid battle, Skip Off the Void is the most general and powerful, in that it does not care what type of enemy Captain you are facing. We've added one new limitation and one new cost to SOtV today to help keep it balanced within the list of Talents like Forged Signatures and Stiff Salute. Skip now burns Water-Fuel equal to a Hyperwarp jump, which is essentially what you are doing to escape combat. If you lack the fuel, the Talent cannot be used. In addition, Skip cannot be used if your Hyperwarp Drive component is damaged beyond 60%. It basically requires a functioning HW Drive to make the dangerous, short-ranged jump.

Crew Combat Meta

There will be on-going balance to the crew combat meta for a long time. With this update, we've toned down the overpowered Devastating Charge to cause 50% Stun instead of the madness of 75% Stun. Also, we fixed an issue where you could get to Initiative Penalty by using the Refocus (skip my turn) Talent which didn't seem fair.

v2.2.25 - 4/6/2018

- Fixed a story bug that was preventing Erik Faen's storyline from starting
- Fixed new ship component: Weapons Locker A5 provides Goliath-class weaponry
- Skip Off the Void cannot be used with a damaged Hyperwarp Drive (over 60% dmg) and burns HW Jump's worth of Fuel
- Can no longer achieve Initiative Penalty from using Refocus Talent
- Rebalanced Influence and Rep minimums for some higher level Contact services
- Reduced Stun on Swordsman's Devastating Charge to 50%
- Fixed issue with Patrol, Blockade and Spy accidents that could sometimes leave crew at 0 HP
- Fixed issue with Faen story arc boss not attacking sometimes, fixed crash with AOE attack
- Improved messages and HUD updates for bad Hyperwarp Jumps
- Fixed rendering issues with thumbs for some skin and weapon combinations
- Improved memory usage and eliminated out of memory crashes

[Cory Trese]

Found a bug with dead captains. Will fix in the next update.