Frontiers Reach update for 17 September 2023

This weekends update is the first of a series of updates that are being made to touch up the WARMAP. As such various tweaks and fixes have been made to it.

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First and foremost is that the WARMAP refresh rate has been slowed down. It will now refresh every 6 seconds instead of every 3 seconds. To balance this out the Sol Confederacy AI has been modified to be a bit more aggressive on the WARMAP.

In addition each node now has a Strategic Value. These values will be changed in the future but what this means is that you will receive a small amount of salvage relative to total number of nodes held and the value that each node is worth. Right now Strategic value is only applicable to the player. This will eventually be propagated to the AI bots rolling dice over each node that if one side takes a node of strategic importance it will get a significant bump in its resource pool for fighting across the entire map.

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Also, the WARMAP has been updated to refresh the mission selection menu when the defcon level changes.

There are now 2 new scenarios available on the WARMAP.

TRAIN ASSAULT - Both independent and Confederacy held planetary nodes have a train track that supports a scenario where a train will enter the sector enroute to a location to delivery supplies or sensitive equipment. Your objective is intercept and destroy the train.

PROPAGANDA SATS - Both Independent and Republic held space nodes have propaganda satellites that are heavily armed and armored that play an audible message on loop. You're objective to search for and destroy them.

Last but not least this update brings a couple of small fixes.

• fixed a bug where some particle effects were blown out.
• fixed a bug that could stop the player from respawning.