Early Access Build #932

New Azurene Loyalty Challenge: The Caves

• Earn a Solo Victory with Azurene to unlock The Caves Challenge

• Location: The Caves

• Spiral Traps Will Appear

• Enemy Speed Multiplier 2

• Enemy Hull Multiplier 2

• Gold Per Pickup -0.85

• New 3D background

• New music track

• 3 New Enemy Types

• New Loyalty icon will replace Solo after earning The Caves Victory

• To play, select Azurene as the Captain then select The Caves from the Select A Challenge screen

• Added Unlock Missions & Steam Achievement

• More Loyalty Challenges may be added in future updates

Loyal Crew Azurene

• Get The Caves Challenge Victory with Azurene to unlock

• Loyal Crew Azurene can immediately join the crew at the start of a run

• Azurene must not be Banished to join your crew

Enemies

• Elite Time Destroyer speed increased by 25%

• Elite Time Destroyer needs to get closer to the player before firing weapons

• Battle Royal Circle Enemies max speed reduced by 12.5%, now reaches max speed at Wave 50 instead of 70 (will get closer to the player due to the friction change)

Performance Optimizations

• Player ship optimized for colliding with multiple enemies at the same time

• Reduced friction to 0 on all enemies

Sound Effects

• More accurately synced to music track beat

• Reduced Mine Explosion volume by 50%

Gamepad Support

• Optimized how Steam is loaded at startup which may possibly fix issues with gamepad not being detected, achievements not activating and the overlay not appearing

• Investigating switching non-XBox Gamepads from Steam Input to Native Input, may be included in a future update

Outposts

• Planets have been renamed to Outposts

Early Access Build #934

• Fix - Captains Luna & Rosanova Not Unlocking caused by renaming Planets to Outposts

Early Access Build #938

• Adjusted Spiral Trap White Enemy Spawn rate to reduce number of enemies spawning on high frame rates (waves 70, 90 & 110)