Part 2 of the ''Many Good Things'' update is here. And it is massive! Think: Weapons! Ships! Modules! Boss Fights! Events!

Enjoy a huge assortment of new content, as well as significant UI/UX improvements and bug and balance fixes – all powered by feedback from the community, meaning YOU GUYS!

The update introduces…

• A new ship, the Pumpkin Hammer!
• The option to (spiritually or otherwise) commemorate lost crewmembers and contemplate meaning of life (or enjoy sensual hedonism) while you're at it
• Many new narrative paths and a new (minor) game ending to be encountered
• New game mechanics for gardens, shields and overloaded modules
• Many new ship weapons & modules, including an arsenal of EMP-guns
• Many new single-shot Nukes (bringing their total number to 21+)
• A new epic boss fight, awaiting players in Sector 4

We've introduced significant stability/UX upgrades over the past months. This allowed us to start working on some of the most interesting unannounced features... first of which can be seen in this update.

New Content & Features

• Major update: New playable ship, the Pumpkin Hammer! (Pumpkin Hammer will now be unlocked if the player had the Atlas ship unlocked before this update)
• Major update: New narrative paths and sub-events to 200+ ingame events
• New weapon: DIY EMP raygun
• New weapon: dual EMP raygun
• New weapon: smaller rat missile launcher
• New DIY and other nuke modules
• New biofish nuke module
• Reduced damage area radius of all nukes
• Game now has 21+ different nukes implemented
• Many new modules added (containers, bridges, gardens, artifacts, etc)
• All garden modules now work differently
• New crew skill: gardening
• All shields now work differently (causing more damage than shield has shield points will now overload all shield(battery) modules that are not turned off)
• New game end type (if player leaves all crew behind)
• New bossfight in sector 4. The Lair is now sector 5 bossfight
• New module type: Auto-operating module (does not need crew or bridge to work properly)
• New feature: game now has events which boost max HP of crew
• New event type for commemorating dead crewmembers
• Added 10+ new events into game, and also new event images, updates and renames
• Added a couple of new ship-specific events for the new ship
• Added some discoverable events to sector 6
• Added a new shuriken cannon perk to Fierce Sincerity ship
• Atlas ship update. Added new weapon, internal layout updated, removed some walls
• Rogue Rat ship update. Added 2 internal slots, moved nuke slots, removed walls
• Many new artifacts added
• Updated many perks and added some new ones into game
• Added new ship-specific perks
• Added new station types (including drone shops)
• Updated shop price hover texts and prices (everything is now a bit more expensive)
• New revisitable gas giant type planets to sectors 1-6
• Added new sun-centered asteroid circles to sectors 1-6
• New hostile slaver/pirate ships in sector 6
• Updated enemy Rat Cruiser ship
• Updated what the cat might be thinking about :)
• Added option to scrap modules for resources during merchant encounters
• New combat-capable pet: the Moleculaati

Balance

• Rebalanced all ships. Beginner ships are better now
• Updated ship selection order
• All player ships have more hybrid module slots now
• ECMs now also fit into hybrid module slots
• Reduced hull HP of some player ships
• More robust modules (like engines, shields, batteries) now add between 1 and 4 ship HP
• Changed some ship and Point Defence stats
• Increased range of Point Defence modules
• Rebalanced loot from ship combats
• Rebalanced sector 4 boss ship
• Some boosting and nerfing to intruders and ships in hostile fleets
• Reduced crew in enemy ships
• Sector 3 quest now requires less resources
• Some metals containers now give +1 ship HP
• Increased DIY drone prices
• Ship repair price now always costs 25 credits per HP in shops and repair stations
• Reduced speed of warp drives
• Starmap camera now allows greater zoom out
• Increased garden module importance for AI
• Made shields slightly better
• Cat now has operating skill but may stop operating at random moment due to being a cat
• Updated module loot of all events
• Updated stealth decryptors
• Updated crew damage in events
• Selling exotics earns now less credits
• Renamed and minor rebalanced all sensors and sensor prefabs
• Updated SOS signal enemies
• All weapons have AoE damage now
• Auto-gatling guns and red-beamer lasers now need operators
• Reduced nuke slots on Atlas and Bluestar motherships
• Reduced decoy nukes speed
• Lowered scrap values and speeds of nukes. Increased turnspeed
• Nuke lifetime is now 25 seconds instead of 15. Added potential for rat shops in sector 1 and 2
• Removed option to sell large amounts of synthetics for 2 credits which made players super-rich by sector 4

Bug Fixes

• Loading games overall stability increased and many issues resolved
• Crew load from save game works better now
• Updated level generation to be more compatible with savegame
• Refactored sector end to be more savegame friendly
• Quick select now disabled by default after loading the game
• Refactored how sector warp lines are drawn and saved
• Fixed POI revisit button "not working" after game load. Now the game also unpauses when clicking after loading
• Save game system can now detect fresh installs and it won't unlock ships while updating save folder any more
• Fixed saving & loading during second part of the battle result panel won't give extra resources each time the game is loaded again
• All cases that disable accelerated internal time now have a warning icon on screen
• Weapons can be more accurate now with good operators
• Garden module shroomery animation overhaul to fix repetition
• Fixed some pathfinding and visual glitches
• Starmap and sector radar don't have glitchy visuals any more
• Species encounter popups at the end of ambusher events won't prevent POI from finishing its flow * Whenever comtip is shown a log message about queue size is shown too
• Fixed a buggy violent sly gas giant
• Crew (intruders) won't enter the ship under a module any more. Also no hand weapons are visible any more when crew is outside the ship, in space pod
• Module actions panel now works as it should when selecting overloaded modules on enemy ship
• Text animation now works better at line ends
• Now K-key can't be used to forcefully turn on modules that state that they can't be turned on. Fixing the free fuel from warp issue
• Fixed some problematic module status visualiser issues
• AoE damage area visualiser size is now correct
• Comtip about fuel and other resources running low won't be shown multiple times any more
• Comtip about enemy escape attempt is now closed a bit earlier during battle end
• Comtip about enemy warping is now shown when the enemy actually starts loading warp module
• Fixes to starsystem map radar
• Firefighting crew now keeps distance from fire cell center
• Improved module disruptor animation
• Fixed an issue with "Store all and close" button in tutorial
• Fixed Pirate Sekvoia weapon placement
• No-resource and resource-full warnings now handle dump-excess and no-containers case better
• Fixed some navblockers on containers
• Rogue Rat slot numbers fixed
• Organics-only engine can now be used when no fuel is left
• Fixed module-getting related issue in battle results panel that caused POI to lock up

UI, UX and audio updates

• Major update: Ship attack cursor now shows number of shots and their AoE size
• Major update: Module status visualizers now have hovertexts
• Major update: New "Revisit" button for revisitable events
• Hovering ship HP now shows from where max HP comes from
• Removed sound notification from all the green warning signs
• Overhauled almost all audio sources, fixed panning and loudness issues
• Added sound for "being chased by enemy fleet in star system map"
• Added second menu background image
• "Show Ship Exterior" button now has an animation
• More projectiles have shield collision explosions now
• Updated intro text for game start
• Added latest updates summary to main menu
• Added DIY drone nuke thruster visuals
• Removed double spaces and typo’s from texts of all events
• Fixed shop visuals appearing twice when resuming load game
• Installing a module now shows seconds next to the install bar
• UI element with log panel is now always on top
• Added tutorial image
• New difficulty images
• Modules sold is shop should now be sorted by type
• All perks now have small title letters again
• Opening sector map won't lead player to help page any more
• Added two warning signs: "enemy ships present" and "player fleet jammed"
• Disabled "normal", "hardcore" and "tutorial" title texts from new game panel
• Changed color palette of some drones
• Fixed a typo that caused unlocked items to disappear after game update
• Updated metal low warning
• Repaired health bar issues in module status visualizers
• Game now tries to regularly find "bugged out" crew and revive them. Adds log line too
• Selecting module attack command manually now displays attack hover over player ship
• Crew healing animation in medbay now only works when the module works
• Organics pack is now green
• Garden animations now diversified
• Added a hover text to "ship evasion icon/stat" telling how evasion probabilities are combined
• Added a hover text to ship deflection and evasion hover
• Status visualizer icons now slowly blink if red
• Logtext in a better spot now
• Ship evasion chance is now everywhere shown as percentage
• Crew now moves away from medbay after healing
• Not selected crew outline is now yellow and less thick
• Logtext now tells the names of crew that stayed behind
• Integrity modules visually affect floors now
• Warning sign if sensor range is reduced in starystem view due to being inside gas cloud
• Shop panel hover texts now show average prices of resource
• Shop buttons that select critical and in-wall damage token deselect other damage tokens now
• Crew skills are now white (or red if hungry) in multiple crew selection
• Help panel updates contain doors, organics & gardens, matconvertors and tuned/fixed some other small stuff due to late changes
• Module actions panel now shows overload status instead of buttons
• DIY EMP nuke has overcharge icon
• New cursors
• Other small UI fixes