Frontiers: Patch notes November 11th 2022

Fri Nov 11 2022 (Updated: Fri Nov 11 2022) - 3 min read

Frontiers Update

Mechanics/Features:

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

Transition to animated characters:

Updated the following units to have animated character portraits

Ravager
Valerian
Liberator
Hermes
Chisel
Wrecker
Sefuba

UI:

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

Bug Fixes:

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