New Features
Battles
- Player’s companions can now be brought into cities and battles.
- Added Buff Enhancer and Chaotic Copier to the battlefield.
- Added Thunder and Laser Cannon affixes.
- Added troop skill for Augmented Primate that can be activated when interacting near a troop unit.
- Troops now possess attributes for damage, defense, movement speed, durability consumption, and Federal Credit costs for upgrades.
- Added 'Prism,' 'Flash Strike,' 'Missile,' 'Aura Strike,' and 'Hatred Strike' to battle buff chests.
- Pirate Hideout now has higher difficulty levels, with explosive barrels and buff chests added to the battlefield.
- Buff chest and buff machine locations in battle are now randomly distributed.
- Added overheating effects to Gauss Pulse Cannon.
- Added enemy indicator feature to the radar.
- New Cobra model.
Balance
- Added new profession proficiency categories. Reset profession proficiency levels, with related compensation to be issued.
- Added Data Core blueprints as unlockable content in the Common proficiency category.
Star View
- Added small, medium, and large camps. Rewards can be acquired after clearing nearby threats.
- Added Fractured Gates, interact with specific locations as guided to obtain related rewards.
- Discovered space station locations will be displayed in radar and map views.
Interface
- Added Album feature.
- Added Rifts Ranking.
Missions
- New side mission for Elysia.
- Expanded main mission’s prologue chapters with sub-missions "Refuel," "Emergency Repair," and "New Hope."
- Added plot videos for the main mission’s prologue chapter.
Improvements & Optimizations
Battles
- Hidden the affix information for elites and bosses.
- Hidden interaction options on the battlefield while the player is in the reviving state.
- Optimized visual effects for Gauss Pulse Cannon’s Alt Fire.
- Increased the number of affixes for elites and bosses.
- Headshots no longer deal extra damage when both enemy and player troops have shields, and fatal damage no longer immediately causes death.
- Optimized explosion effects for barrels.
- Optimized shield display.
- Optimized throwing animations for barrels.
- Optimized display of weapons’ ballistic trajectory.
- Optimized visual effects to distinguish between enemy and ally for Empath affix.
- Optimized shattering effects for Incendiary affix.
- Optimized soldier behavior in battle.
- Reduced lag during troop generation.
Star View/h3]
- Adjusted the distribution of certain recycling and mining locations.
- Increased recycling speed.
[h3]Interface
- Optimized the icon for auto-repair in the inventory.
- Optimized the chat channel filter button.
- Increased combat power is now displayed when allocating attribute points.
- Optimized item tracking display.
- Players can now use the mouse to click on HUD shortcuts to access the corresponding interface.
- Added combat power recommendations to the Star Core Cube challenge interface.
Missions
- Adjusted the objectives of the "Preparation for Expedition" mission.
- Adjusted unlock conditions for the Star Core Cube missions and the Elysian side missions.
Cities
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- Added Dash Thrusters for quick sprinting in cities.
Balance
- Adjusted the unlock content order for the Agility proficiency category.
- Adjusted the unlock condition for the Anti-Urslan Program event.
- Adjusted the quality of materials dropped at certain rift levels.
- Reduced the experience required for proficiency upgrades.
- Adjusted unlockable content for soldiers’ proficiency categories.
- Lowered the experience required for level-up at levels 2, and 11-30.
- Optimized descriptions of methods to obtain purple and orange-tier materials.
- Increased Federal Credits rewards for daily missions and daily rift challenges.
Others
- Performance optimization.
- Bug fixes.
