Anniversary Patch 3 - v0.7.16.6

Update Patch Notes

September 17, 2026

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Features

• Backpack Persistence One Way: Your backpack contents are now saved when heading into a mission from the hangar, so you won't lose your loadout on the way in.

• Shield Break Damage Reduction: When your shield is fully depleted by a hit, you now receive a 70% damage reduction for 1 second afterwards, and excess damage from that hit will no longer bleed through to your health.

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Improvements

• Mission Recovery Overhaul: Mission recovery now awards all ingot types, not just crude ingots. Additionally, recovery rewards are now additive — if you disconnect and rejoin the same session, you will no longer lose previously earned rewards. The recovery screen text has also been updated to be clearer.

• EMP Shield Restore Rebalance: The EMP Shield Restore module now has a short cooldown before it can trigger again, and its proc chance has been reduced by 10% per rarity tier to bring it in line with other modules.

• Sniper Drone: The sniper drone's attacks now deal shield bleedthrough damage. In other words, it ignores the above Shield Break Damage Stopper, because a sniper is meant to deal large damage in a single shot.

• Ruptured Armor: This effect now correctly scales based on your remaining health rather than your maximum health.

• Reflective Wrath Artifact: Buffed and made the area-of-effect more consistent.

• Virus Siphon & EMP Shield Siphon: Both modules now correctly trigger when dealing melee damage.

• Lobby Information: Lobby details in Lobby Browser are now properly restored when using the Continue option.

• Updated Splash Screen: The splash screen has been refreshed for the Anniversary update with a red aura.

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Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where items purchased from vendors with instant pickup were not correctly filling existing stacks.

• Fixed an issue where level ventures were incorrectly appearing on the venture screen.

• Fixed a missing objective text string in the Lost Components mission.

• Fixed an interaction issue with the transporter in the Lost Components mission.

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Balance

• High Threat Level Ships (Threat 7–8): Reduced squad sizes by 1, lowered the damage multiplier on status effects, and reduced the number of simultaneous attacks enemies can perform.

• Gunships & Heavy Fighters: Reduced overall damage output.

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Miscellaneous

• Adjusted the volume of the "What's New" UI sound effects.

• Various performance improvements to enemy visual effects handling.