-Show correct HUD notifcations when receiving rewards from NPCs

-Re-implement Drone Pads. These can be used to locate Water drones on your rig. Apologies, these were removed in error in the prior update. If you started a run in build 0.76 I recommend a restart if you wish to specifically locate water drones on your rig. They will otherise centre on the player (in some cases may be acceptable, it depends how you want to play).

Greetings Scavengers,

It has been a busy week here, so I decided to post another update in addition to the Flashlight Update!

Lets get into it.

Grenades now have a visible 3 second countdown showing their area of effect. This makes it easier to get out of their damage radius and to better target enemies. They now also cause any mineable rocks in their area of effect to be destroyed!

As well as blasting Entity, the shotgun will now also have a chance to shatter any mineable rocks you hit with it. Level 3 shotguns could be a time saver.

Here's a Scavenger blasting some rock with a shotty before blowing some more up with a nade:

ScavCorp Fetch drones were an early tech designed to assist Scavengers by retrieving nearby trash. However, since the introduction of Trash-tor Beams (like tractor beams!) and pilotable rigs, they are no longer useful and tend to create confusion and poor efficiency. ScavCorp HQ has now made the difficult decision to retire this tech going forwards.

Existing scavengers will find they can still access these devices in legacy saves, however they are no longer supported and will not appear in new runs. Trash-tor beams combined with Conveyor Pads and Rig Piloting are now the recommended approach to automation input:

Through early access I had quite a lot of feedback that it can be frustrating when mined rocks fly off into space. This is now tweaked so that rocks will stay in the general area and not yeet into orbit.

Completing some quests will now give you more varied quest rewards besides just money, including Clarity (time slow buff), Defense (armour buff) and Thermal Grenades.

Here's the full changelog:


-Some NPCs give random items on quest completion.
-Grenades have audible countdown and expanding red holosphere to warn of radial damage area so you can avoid explosion.
-Grenades shatter mineable rocks.
-Shotguns blasts will shatter mineable rocks.
-Laser mined rocks will not fly off into space when mining.
-Increased explosion size of Entity.
-Fixed bug to prevent sparks floating in air for a few seconds if structures are destroyed
-Fixed bug where grenade splash damage is at correct point of collision
-Retired Fetch Drone

Thanks,

Al.

Greetings Scavengers,

Just a small but important update this time. I've had a lot of request for this so I've added a flashlight toggle key! This defaults to "Y", but you can change the binding along with any other controls in Options > Controls.

Make sure you remember to toggle it on when exploring those freight ships and deep mines in the later sectors! There were also a couple of other fixes. Here is the full changelog:


-Updated scanned asteroid entity base labelling behaviour to prevent mislabelling in various scenarios.
-Update labelling of "Mods" to be "Suit Mods" to avoid confusing some people.
-Added flashlight toggle options to Key Y
-Updated controls labelling for telescanner and flashlight to be clearer in rebind menu.

-Raised max force for thrusters, which should allow very large rigs to go much faster.
-Increase Thruster 3 max force
-Reduced time to burn 1 thruster cannister (as higher speeds now possible).
-Fixed issue with some drones increasing to twice normal size after leaving a conveyor

Build 0.59:
-Fix bug preventing drones being picked up when fabricated, and other errors.
-Update primary fire issue to adjust laser source to barrel tip correctly.

-Balance shotgun shell recipe
-Increase shotgun shell stack limit
-Balance sensor 2 recipe
-Balance sensor 1 and 2 price

Hi all,

It’s been a few weeks since the last patch, but we’ve been working away and are now ready to launch the next Major Update: Combat!

We’ve got more enemies, 30, new enemy patterns, more enemy behaviours, updated enemy attacks and even a new gun in this one.

Updating the combat experience for more variety a better experience was something I really wanted to get done, so I’m super happy to set this live.

Let’s check it out.

I’ve added a Kinetic Shotgun. Like the other weapons, there are three levels of increasing power for this gun, which uses a new ammo type of… shotgun shells (natch).

I don’t need to tell you that this weapon is specialised for dealing lots of damage up close, with limited range but a large spread. Try it out indoors!

The highest level shotty is pretty powerful and quite handy for entity base attacks or just generally outdoors too.

We’ve added a new spherical Entity with a fireball projectile attack. You can encounter them in the wild or during base attacks.

This hungry fellow will charge at you and try and take a chunk out. The attacks will also damage your base if they miss you, so take care!

Entity now have different patterns and appearances depending on what level they are. This amounted to 30 new patterns, with 5 variations per Entity type. Now you can tell how tough the enemies you’re facing are, more easily. Generally the more bright and alarming the colours, the more deadly!

Entity level is still displayed as a number above their health bar. The health bar, and often their attack lasers, now have a colour that matches their level and patterns.

The fearsome Entity Warden now has an updated attack behaviour. It now uses a laser sight to track the Scavenger, before unleashing a deadly ray of plasma when it finds its target.

In previous builds, base attacks would only consist of Squid Entity and Hunters. I’ve updated this so you can have different groups attack you now. It can be a mix of any enemy, or occasionally all of just one type, say Jellies, Wardens or Orbs, in addition to the Hunters who go for your base.

Attack duration has now been tweaked, to last longer depending on the Threat Level of the system you are in. You can see the threat level of a system on the galactic map when you jump there. Keep this in mind mind when choosing where to jump to.

Of course, if you are after a more chill experience, you already have the option to reduce or even remove base attacks, and to cap the max Entity level you face, in Options > Game.

I have made some various bug fixes and tweaks. Probably the nicest of these is fixing up the facing and shooting behaviour so that the player won’t fire a beam of laser off at the wrong angle now and then. This makes combat feel much better.

Another improvement is the health bar on enemies and damaged rig structures are now much smaller which looks neater and less distracting.

Once again I'd like to thank you for picking up the game, and especial thanks also if you dropped us a nice review on Steam. We’re a small team of two, and it really helps!


Entity and attacks
-Added New enemies and attack type:
-Added new Charger Entity with 5 levels. Charges at player and implements damage on player (or base) on impact.
-Added new Orb Entity with 5 levels. Slow moving entity that shoots fireball projectile type.

-Update Warden Aim and Fire Behaviour
-Warden uses slow targeting laser which tracks player before initiating powerful laser blast
-Update warden health to make more dangerous

-Added 12 gauge kinetic shotgun, recommended for close range:
-Added shotgun
-Added shotgun 2 and 3 with recipe and gates to mining.
-Added shotgun shells item types.

-Visually updated all Entity to have 5 distinct colours and patterns depending on their level:
-Added 5 levels of Jelly
-Added 5 levels of Squid and Squid Base attackers
-Added 5 levels of Tadpole Entity
-Added 5 levels of Base Hunter Entity
-Added 5 levels of Tadpoles
-Added 5 levels of Warden
-Updated all lasers and blast projectile colours to match Entity patterns
-updated all health bars to match Entity patterns

Misc gameplay
-Remove watered crop sound at distance.
-Half size of health bars on base and enemy (much neater)
-Updated base attacks to have variety of entity types and random mixes of different types. Base attacks can now feel very different (eg all Jellies, or Chargers etc)
-Sector danger level affects duration of rig attacks
-Laser Rifle 2 gated to mining as requires gold.
-Tweak Turret angle checks in effort to fix intermittent and unreproduceable fire failure

Misc bug fixes
-Fixed bug with entity base destruction triggering multiple fragment drops (laggy). This may have caused you to get excess entity base matter in existing runs.
-Fix strange Nan bug with collision point on seed 76.
-Fixed player shoot behaviour so you now correctly point when shooting and do not shoot off at wrong angle for a frame when firing
-Fix settings missing save handler preventing saving settings when changed in game

Until the next time, Scavenger!

Al.

-Fix bug causing potential issues with goals not completing or jumps to new sectors not working when you have completed certain questlines. You will need to jump sector to update erroneous goals or to move to correct sectors.