Star Traders: Frontiers Update #165: Solar Flare

[fallen]

Update #165 adds a new carrier ship to the mix, fixes a critical story bug plaguing the Faens, drops a new rare lootable relic, updates the Pirate default starting templates and improves the ship displays in new game, drydock and new ship to include more of the critical fields.

The updates keep coming, so be sure to leave a review and tell a friend.

Obsidian Carrier

The Obsidian Carrier lifts off from the nearest starport with a void shaking rumble. While lightly armored, the Obsidian's best-in-class Hull and high shielding makes a hull with high endurance. Built with redundant launch bays and capacity for all 4 craft right off the tarmac, the Obsidian is one of the most focused carriers available on the open ship hull market. It's sale is locked behind the Press Gang unlock

Faen Story Bug

An important Faen story bug was introduced two updates ago, which causes some missions to suddenly disappear after their first step. We're very sorry for the issue and would like to talk to any player who is having the problem - we will help resolve. This update fixes the issue for all future captains.

Updated Pirate Start

Thanks to En1gma and LordofSyn on our discord.gg/tresebrothers for suggesting some improvements to the starting Pirate template. With some adjustments to priority, changes to Skills and Attributes as well as a ship swap, the Pirate template has never been more ready to fly and dive into ship combat.

Please note that these changes to the template will only appear in new installs.

Ship Stats

Across the game where you're looking at a ship without being able to see all of its components, a wealth of new roll-up stats are available. Where before you could see the hull's base fuel, now you can see its final fuel, cargo as well as prisoner cells and passenger cabins. In addition, you can see the exact count of crew and officers who have bunks on the ship as well as the hull's maximum for crew and officers. This extra info is a great boon when planning a build and considering a new ship purchase!

And More

A new rare relic can now be found during Salvage, the Voidsealed Heavy Jack. We've also reduced the chance of encounter xeno slightly in Explorer, with some weighting to the early game experience as well. And, we've fixed a bug with the Longbolt having a missing tag line.

A huge thanks to everyone posting bugs, feedback and reviews!

v2.5.65 - 7/11/2019

- New Unlockable Ship: Obsidian Carrier (7000M)
- Added Unlock Reward info for "Press Gang" Award -- conscript 20 enemy crew
- Fixed bug causing some story missions such as Erik and Zette's to disappear suddenly after finishing one step
- New Relic: 'Voidsealed Heavy Jack' (Military Gear, Salvagable Rare)
- Replaced Pirate Template with updated and Improved version putting more focus on the right Attributes, Skills and improved ship choice
- Improved Ship Details display in new template to include final cargo and fuel capacity as well as maximums for crew and officers, prisoner and passenger cabins
- Improved Ship Details display in New Ship/Dry Dock to include the same additions as new template
- Fixed missing description of Longbolt starting ship
- Fixed Crashes in Unlock Display in some conditions
- Slight reduction in Xeno encounter rates during Exploration

[Aesop]

I've never really used the conscript crew feature as it seems to give me demoralised poor stated crew. Also, I try and pick my battles and avoid combat if I think I'm going to have a hole blasted in the side of my ship and some crew sucked out.

That's one thing I really like about the achievements, it encourages me to try a different style of play.

Maybe it's too late now, but I'd love to see more achievements and unlocks, especially at higher levels. It would be nice to unlock a choice of weapons/armour/equipment that you can choose one of at the start of your game - part of your uncle's inheritance. Or to unlock officers you can start the game with.

[daveal]

The trick with conscripting is to have Welcoming Conscription on your Quartermaster, and only conscript one crew at a time. Especially at higher difficulties, this gives you crew at same or even higher level as your own crew.

[plataoplomo]

maybe we should try the new pirate template to attempt the Press Gang unlock? I'm just trying to connect the dots here

[contributor]

The thing about press gang is you should really be making throw-away captains and using strategies that wouldn't really be good for the long term. It might take a few captains to get it so don't get attached to them. Fire your fighting crew conscript 5 crew each ship fight and then fire them ASAP and do it all over again.

[n3ctaris]

Hey Trese Bros!

Any idea when the enemy ships will be using carriers fighters? Is it something that's going to drop soon? or probably a while away from release?

I'm trying to temper my expecations, hopes, desires, etc...

Thanks!

[fallen]

No ETAs, sorry!

[n3ctaris]

Jul 17, 2019 15:03:33 GMT -5 fallen said:

No ETAs, sorry!

Fair enough... just looking forward to actually having to put guns on my ships!  Because evasion stacking plus boarding = eaaaaaaaasy win's.