Frontiers: Patch notes November 11th 2022

• New design for Campaign Rewards
• Updated combat trigger parser
• Added functionality triggers for equipment and unit management
• Removed result and loading screens in between tutorial battles
• Taunt, Stealth & Concentrate Fire now trigger a line targeting visualizer to show which units are being targeted
• Units with Taunt, Stealth & Concentrate Fire active now have a separate icon indicator on their hex UI to show they are under a targeting effect
• Visual improvements and refinements to the combat grid textures to reduce aliasing
• Stealth applies new stealth shader to ships under its effect
• Optimized combat grid animation code
• Skills are now clickable in skill upgrade panel
• Animations added for upgrading
• Updated all patterns
• Added support for different types of patterns (Green, green with no effect on origin, and red)
• Added new pattern visualization in skill upgrade (full-screen animation)
• Fixed full screen animation interactable area
• Created new panel to change player name and avatar (Access by clicking the avatar in the homebase screen)
• Added support for promotional codes
• Added wallet item preview popup
• Added side notifications that notify the player of unclaimed rewards and give hints after a combat loss
• Added special offer pop ups

Updated the following units to have animated character portraits

• Ravager
• Valerian
• Liberator
• Hermes
• Chisel
• Wrecker
• Sefuba

• Small layout fix in upgrade equipment panel
• Skill upgrade panel UI updated
• Updated unit portrait assets
• Added bosses character keys
• Stretched sidebars in few sections
• Updated bounty UI
• Updated UI of loot items
• System Inbox UI redesigned

• Taunt, Stealth and concentrate fire now all show appropriate ripple effect instead of pink missing material
• Energy popup bugs fixed
• Energy tooltip going off screen fixed
• Energy tooltip text overflowing issue fixed
• Dialog corners' color changed
• Dialog backgrounds changed
• Bounty images are not white image anymore
• Affinity loading screen is not a white image anymore
• Dragging during a camera lerp no longer causes a jump after lerping is finished (both Starmap and Campaign)
• Clicking on an already selected stage node in the campaign stage selector will now do nothing (no unnecessary FOB warp in or UI refresh)
• Added more exposed variables for finer grain isometric camera control.
• Increased starmap camera pan drag speed
• Fixed starmap bounty portrait order
• Saturated starmap background and bounty smoke shader
• Shrunk and repositioned starmap bounties and anomalies
• Slowed down starmap anomaly particle effect
• Fixed issues with chapter ordering
• Changed starmap table geometry to fit with the lighting.
• Changed and fixed the lighting on the planets in the campaign nodes.
• Fixed broken ring texture under bounties.
• Fixed ring texture rendering above asteroids.
• Fixed click through happening on Starmap Rewards
• Fixed Double tap of nodes opening two Campaign scenes"
• “GO” button is now properly localized
• Fixed description of set bonus
• Bronze 1 bracket min rating changed from 1700 to 1800
• Gap between Bronze 1 and Silver 5 brackets normalized
• Quick tapping on the “Battle” button no longer breaks the game
• Fixed equipment prospecting popup showing wrong buttons on panel unfreezing
• Fixed missing icons in currency header
• Fixed currency header being visible during combat
• Fixed rank up panel glitch on max level
• Fixed missing Bounty Node Material
• Fixed campaign progress labels not updating dynamically
• Fixed combat info panel not accounting for buffs/debuffs that don't have a duration, but can stack.
• Fixed combat boss bar status effects being displayed wrong
• Fixed localization on promo code label
• Fixed arena league panel
• Fixed preview item gray out frame
• Fixed set icon miss match
• The time left label on the event popup now has more space to avoid text wrapping
• Fixed popup spam for older profiles
• Fixed unfreezing already unfrozen dialog causing issues
• Fixed issues with claiming trigger keys
• Better multi-box protection
• Fixed race condition “Claim single contract multiple times"
• Fixed arena lag when a lot of units are present
• Fixed the Achievements panel header label not being localized
• Fixed finishing daily tasks not showing you “YOU GOT STUFF”
• Fixed unit reward items showing rank indicator before being revealed
• Fixed an issue with the days-since-last-login trigger
• Live events are now ordered by status then date
• Enable fallback currency font
• Increased the time that notifications are displayed from 4 seconds to 6 seconds
• Challenge completed notifications now show the challenge description
• Moved the side notifications to the upper left corner of the screen
• Increased the size of the notifications
• Notifications are now queued up during tutorials and displayed at the end
• Fixed issue with opening star rewards through side notifications
• Updated the affinity loading screen and triangle to state chemical instead of plasma
• Playtime rewards label in the homebase now changes lines based on the time left
• Crit Rate and Crit Boost now show up during equipment preview
• Prices in the store are now displayed localized and with tax based on location
• Various bug fixes