Server/Client Patch – 09/28/2023 – Temporal Hijinks 1.2 · Star Sonata 2 update for 28 September 2023

* The T23 core skill missions in Paxian Foothold now properly indicate that they require Paxian Requisition Vouchers.

CXY-4000 Scoop has +100 scoop range, and +1 items scooped per second.
Red Rogue Reavers
- Red Rogue Repair Turrets healing weapons no longer splash, inappropriately damaging players. Red Rogue Blaster Turrets do significantly more damage.
- Added unique Exotic loot that can drop from Red Rogue Reavers.
- Can rarely drop a tracker for a unique miniboss.
Paxian Foothold
- Operative's gear will no longer require Imperiled items, but the number of Paxian Requisition Vouchers required to purchase the gear is increased.
- Operative's Sentinel doesn't require Mythic Defenders anymore.
Black Boxes dropped by Red Rogues can now be traded via AC for Paxian Peacekeeper's Recommendations once you have completed the mission they grant once.
Junior Operative Augmenter turn in mission now gives the player all 4 of the augmenters instead of a single random one.
The Five Piece's projectiles are no longer stacked, and its particles have been adjusted.
Peacekeeper's Panel is larger, and generates more electricity.
Operative's Nook gives -Recoil +Speed tweak bonus for 15 seconds.

* Added a new interference effect.

Client will automatically release key when not in focus. Shift + brake , thrust and fire still work as those are intentional, but any other key getting "stuck" due to the keyboard update not reaching the client should no longer work.
Possible fix for preventing non pinned tooltip getting stuck when client lose focus.
Fix for some scenario where background tile end up cutting at the top of the screen.
Modified the following engine graphics: Herbal Power, Mythos Pusher, Cara Sura/Sur'ara, Ayudhin Puccha/Puccharura, Dhatri Yantra/Yantradeva, Antu Zrgga/Zrggasamvita, Boson Blower, BFE/OS BFE/Giga BFE, Mercenary Drive, Glorious Resolve, Carrier Force.
Adjusted the particles/graphics for weapons from Fallen / Matriarch.

* Made it clearer that the repair cost increase from nanotech plating doesn't apply to items which don't take damage (e.g., fighters, drones).

* Changed any commodity crate cost to the average equivalent in commodity on Masala, Bisarme, Crystalline Shard, and Crystalline Chelonia Blueprints.

Updated the Fabricated Armada supers on Kalthi Commander and its two upgrades to modern DPS numbers for it's inbuilt fighters.
Decreased Envelopment V from 80 seconds to a 10 seconds duration and increased minimum diameter from 100 to 150.
Fixed spelling error in Empyreal Zenith ship description.
Fixed grammar and inconsistent wording in the augmenter blueprint pack items.
Fixed various spelling errors in supers.
Removed redundant [Extractor] tag from IC extractors and Added [Industrial (insert commodity)] tag to T12/14/16/18/20 built IC extractors to allow easier for inventory searching.
Added Warp graphic to Fallen Relocator.
Added sound and red graphic to Fallen Shelling Focus/Forerunner's Shelling Focus/Ruined Shelling Focus.
Added sound and blue graphic to Badger Blockade.
Empyreal Fragment now decays on universe reset again.
Increased T18 Fusion Fermium Extractor to 3814 per day.
Removed Neurobound tag from all drone controllers.
Added 1 Honey to the build cost of Honey Badger.

* Fallen Delquad now resets if all players wipe.

Removed its inbuilt diffusers on Alpha Platforms.
Removed the Solid Armor diffuser from Basils and Basilus.
Re-added Swordfish Skin and Jelly skin drops to Pretender Poseidon and Kraken.
Poseidon Whorls now have a lifespan of 60 seconds instead of 21 seconds. They no longer self destruct from the warhead they use when deployed from Pretender Poseidon.
Increased the charge time from 15 seconds to 20 seconds for Kalthi Engagement Device (Kalthi AI Mobility super).
Reduced the range of the Space Jelly's weapon drastically.
Added missing Pretender Hermes common/junk drops.
Anatolian Freighters no longer increase their targets electric tempering by 100% with their beam weapon.
Nerfed Slimebergs and their fighters. (Part of nerfs require a new universe).

* The T23 skills in Paxian Foothold now properly indicate that they require Paxian Requisition Vouchers.

Experimental Fighter Research and Experimental Missile Research now require Piloting 22.
Renamed daily mission "T23 Skills" to "Primordial Tokens: Target List".
- Reduced Estelle and Equinox kills from 5 to 3.
- Reduced Ascension and Analemma kills from 3 to 2.
Added a new weekly mission called ".Primordial Tokens: High Priority Target List". for killing the Fleet leaders that gives 9 tokens. (Note: An admin will need to add this and may take a day or two from patch.)
Doubled the credit rewards of nexus missions.

* Additional KD DG loot added.

* Added two rounds of KD bosses.

Reduced The Emperor's Drone Controller and The Emperor's Drone Controller trade in cost from 10 to 5 The Emperor's Drone Controllers.
Added T0 IC Factories to random AI station trade bays.
Earthforce capital ships in EF layer will now unteamed.
Drastically costs of the Capital Armageddon Lasers at Beta Antares.
Starting after this universe reset (aka they will exist into next universe not not the universe after) Earthforce black boxes will decay on universe reset.
Slightly increased vis and reflectivity of Hidden Lyceum Observation Platform in Olympus Entrance.
Increased drop rate of the Koto Rejuvenation in Nexus.
Added a Zebucart for sale to the Ferrite Research Alpha so so the mission to upgrade to a Heavy Zebucart can still be completed if you no longer have the starting Zebucart.
Created Advanced Plasma Extractor (t12) and Advanced Ablution Extractor (t16) for sale in Ring.
Vulcan zone systems now have targetable foreground suns allowing for solar panel charging.
Prism Paxian AI has been made non-hostile.
The stations in Bipolar, Nihilite, and Underworld have been unteamed.
Remote Control training to 16 in The End of the Universe has had its commodity cost reduced from 5 Giant Goblets to 3 per level.
Golden Augmenter no longer drops from DG Goldenboy Statues and but will now drop only from roaming versions in Earthforce and Wild Space.
Added additional roaming unteamed Hotrod Megas.
Refuse and Waste in Nexus has been reduced in scale by half.

* Updated team attack message from "Pillbox" to "Drone".

The Content Guide now has chapters for Drone Deployment skill training, as well as improved chapters for Remote Control training.

* Fixed issue with Sapphire Carrier and Sapphire Transport appearing as Red instead of Blue.

Star Sonata 2 update for 28 September 2023