Stardust Vanguards just got a whole lot better with a ton of new features, effects, UI enhancements, event balances, and fixes in our v1.1 Prettiness Update!

The coolest feature: the new bounty target system! If a player suddenly gains a strong lead during the battle, we'll issue a bounty awarding 50 reinforcement points for that player's head instead of the normal 10. This new feature has been a blast during our tests and we know you'll just love it.

We also added a lot of really cool UI additions. You guys and gals asked for quicker menus and rematch options so we delivered on that. We also wanted to give you more info without forcing you to look away from your character, so we unified the player arrow labels to include both your earned RP as well as how much shield time you have remaining.

There's also a ton of new explosion effects, UI enhancements (better win screens and windows), fun extras (like dry firing your gun when it's empty), and a bunch of balances and fixes. Check out the entire changelist below to get the full picture on every change we made.

We really loved hearing your feedback and working on this new definitive version of Stardust Vanguards, so drop us a line and let us know what you think!

Hey everyone! Thanks so much for a great launch! We've been listening to your feedback and we've been hard at work on our first update, one that generally makes the game feel more polished, look prettier, and function in a more user friendly way. We've made a lot of fixes and adjustments, but probably the most fun one is a new gameplay feature called "Bounty Targets!" Players with decisive advantages in survival deathmatch will have a bounty issued on them. Killing a targeted player rewards you with 50 RP if you can kill them off! That's 5 times the reinforcement points from a single player kill since player kills are usually only worth +10 RP. It's a really fun system that acts as both a sign of prestige for good players and as a way for players that are losing to catch back up. During our tests it added a lot of fun to the game and we know you'll just love it!

We also have a lot of usability fixes and adjustments to the game's interface, effects, and user friendliness, like prompts that you have reinforcement points available, an overhauled and unobtrusive RP meter that follows your character around, a shield indicator to know how much shielding you have left, and a few other minimalist prompts to notify you when you've got maximum reinforcements (so you make sure and use them!). There's a lot of smaller fixes and modifications too ranging from cooler visual effects to balancing fixes. We'll have a massively detailed changelist coming soon for everything, but generally speaking the game feels more polished, prettier, and user friendly. We took a lot of user feedback into account and we're working on making the game play even better!

Timeframe should be soon-ish! It should be available within a few weeks, tops!

We're also gearing up for SXSW in two weeks where we plan to put our update through it's paces! We'll make sure to give you the latest info as things develop! And one last special thanks to everyone that's supported us! We're just about to near the one month mark since Stardust Vanguards released and we want to genuinely express our gratitude to our fans and supporters. Thanks ladies and gentlemen!

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Get your friends and start playing today!

Team Zanrai is happy to announce that Stardust Vanguards will be bringing local 4-player mecha battles to Steam on Friday, January 30th, 2015 for $9.99!

You'll be calling reinforcements and taking out space pirates in no time! See you on the battlefield, vanguards!