Patch b1.0 – Change Log

New

• Animated avatars.
• Added localizable descriptions for card blueprints.
• Overhauled most sound effects but not all, count this as WIP.
• Raid combat report headers now display a special icon if the attacker’s total cargo wasn’t filled.
• Added flavor texts for all buildings and organizations.

Changes

• New Art in the Store panel.
• All organizations now have logos.
• New Art for a bunch of cards.
• New placeholder art for cards still missing original art.
• Renamed “Black Hole” sector to “Omega” sector.
• Store Bundles now automatically list their Claims, Avatars, Explosions, and Badges.
• Blueprints:
  • All blueprint levels have now been reset and refunded (including all cards that have been removed from the game).
  • Breaking down cards no longer yields blueprint fragments.
  • Blueprint fragments are now earned via the progression rewards (for reaching certain commander levels during a game) so you earn them simply by playing.
  • All card blueprint costs revised for Open Beta.
• Decreased the delay of switching zone playlists when you traverse the map.
• Queued items and movements should now display “Processing…” rather than negative timers if the server can’t update the client in real-time.
• Opening the reports panel now automatically loads the top-most combat report.
• Login rewards:
  • Now connected to player age rather than game age (players now claim login reward 1 for the first day they play regardless of how old the game was when they first logged in).
  • There are now 30 login rewards per game.
• Renamed Civilian Militia building to Docking Services.
• The vortex model made smaller.
• Broken planet models no longer all face the same direction.
• Top All-time Battles have been removed from view mode settings.

Fixes

• Premium indicator updates on start.
• Various spelling errors fixed.
• Updated old information in various tooltips and descriptions.
• Renamed “Aires Ice Belt” to “Aries Ice Belt”.
• Fixed an issue where account inventory items were being automatically claimed by the game server.
• Fixed an issue where players were unable to use the Founder’s Pack avatars.
• Welcome rewards are working again.
• Improved chat panel performance when switching to a channel that has a lot of messages.
• Chat messages are no longer cut off when the chat window is scrolled all the way down.
• Deselecting the chat by mouse click no longer submits typed text to the chat.
• The counter above the Notification list now correctly reflects the number of notifications in the list.
• Fixed a bug where several star IDs were missing from the list of solar flare hexe (all stars now properly spawn solar flares).
• All fleet cards now render in the logistics panel’s fleet details.
• Empire details no longer breaks when too many are opened at the same time.
• Combat round modifiers now affect outpost firepower.
• All movement indicators now use the correct icon and label.
• Fixed a bug where Dyson Shell had a level cap of 40 instead of 100.
• Fixed a bug so that Department of Acquisitions‘ cargo bonus is now calculated after absolute bonuses are added.