Pixel Starships 2 Feature Update. May the Fourth be with you!

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Pixel Starships 2 — May Feature Changelog

⚖️ Balance Changes

• Captains are now placed in factional collections by default

• New cat crew sets inbound

• Slight balance tweaks and fixes to storyline missions

• New lolita and cat collection crews added

• Beacons now increase defence bonus

• New warehouse levels and reduced build times

• New weapon sets available such as the power set

• All crafts now only take 1 space regardless of type

• Craft capacity updated to account for space change

• Top eSports league no longer gives trophy rewards for out of league matches.

🧑‍🚀 Crew Features

• Character Ability UI — Fixed exceptions when activating abilities in ship and ground battle; fixed detection of whether a character can use an ability

• Character Delete — Delete button now only appears when you own the character and it's not your captain

• Character Floating Face — Fixed characters with no mouth/eye traits getting incorrect death face overlays

⚔️ PvP & Battle

• Show Target Selected — Now enabled by default in PvP crew display

• Cooldown Display — Fixed action overlay button not showing cooldown/reload progress when a room is selected while the crew tab is active

• Support Room Fix — Fixed support rooms being incorrectly selectable during PvP

• Crew Inventory Arrows — Fixed arrows being blocked by spacing/layout issues in the crew inventory panel

• Extra Scan Time — After successfully scanning the opponent's ship, the battle countdown timer now resets for extra prep time

• Battle Damage Labels — Now render on top of world elements correctly; negative damage label display added

• Revenge/Replay Fix — Fixed revenge button incorrectly triggering a replay; fixed replay perspective so your ship appears on the left

• Battle Training Skin — Fixed a crash when loading skin data in battle training mode

• Ship Damage Panel — Now requires an explicit button tap to close; fixed accidental closing of the mission damage panel

🎨 Ship Skins

• New Feature — Ship skin customisation launched

• Skin State Management — Added logic to track whether the ship skin research feature is unlocked; promo banner only shows at the required level

• Skin Panel Improvements — Refactored into a shared base, consolidating change detection, save-on-close dialog, and notification handling

• IAP Skin Fix — Fixed locked skins showing a bogus purchase popup (now shows "go to bank"); multiple other skin display bugs fixed

• Federation & Qtarian Skins — Fixed various display bugs with level 3 skins

• Camera Fixes — Several camera-related fixes tied to skin panel interactions

• Loading Indicator — Improved behavior when fetching skin assets

🎒 Inventory

• Inventory Overhaul — All inventory scrollers changed to horizontal scrolling; fixed drag-out vs. scroll detection across all panels

• Room Inventory Overlap — Fixed room cells overlapping in inventory when moving a room from the ship

• Delete Item/Crew — Added two-step delete flow (quantity slider → confirmation) for items and crew

🚀 Shipyard & Ship

• Interior Toggle — Fixed incorrect display when entering/exiting interior mode

• Module Placement — Fixed camera pan/zoom freezing after dragging a module from inventory

• Nearby Ship Profile — Tapping nearby ships in the world now shows the user's profile

💳 Bank & Store

• Daily Sale Cost — Fixed sale price calculation to use the correct discounted price formula

• Bank Layout — Fixed grid layout going off-screen on wide/safe-area devices

• Bank Bundle UI — Hide expiry text when pack expires in over a year; promotion descriptions now show in detail panel

• Promotion Banner — Tapping now opens the bank panel; Easter theme added with swappable theming system

• Promotion Bonus Fix — Fixed bundle cells incorrectly showing bonus tags

• Starbux Display — Fixed counts showing abbreviated values (e.g. "1K") instead of exact numbers

🏆 League

• Reward UI — Added text labels for lower reward tiers ("Top 20%", "Others")

• League Splash Fix — Fixed splash screen sometimes showing when it shouldn't

⚡ Speed-Up & Resources

• Speed-Up UX — Clicking quick-use rush without a pre-selected item now auto-selects one and performs the rush

• Resource Display — Fixed reserve resources showing stale/incorrect data

• Rearm Loop Fix — Fixed a crash causing an infinite rearm loop when the alliance resource icon failed to load

📖 Tutorial & Missions

• Tutorial Level 4 — Galaxy Navigation Research tutorial added

• Mining Tutorial — Fixed a bug in the mining tutorial flow

✨ New Content

• Ship Skin Research — Skin customisation tied to a new research tree

• Singularity Shield & Laser — New weapons/abilities added

• Warehouse Levels 11–18 — New levels with profile images

• Liftwall Levels 14–15 — New rooms added

• Missile Launcher Levels 13–15 — New tiers added

• Visiri Berg — High-resolution character art added

• Deep Linking — pss2:// URL scheme added on iOS and Android for opening specific in-game panels

🖥️ UI Polish

• News Panel — Fixed Starlog cells not updating; added sale item display

• Daily Gift Red Dot — Notification now updates correctly

• Shop Room Panel — Fixed Mining and Operations tabs showing each other's content

• Research Panel — Fixed null exception and stale update logic in the research cleanup flow

• Intro Battle HP Bar — Fixed oxygen room HP bar not updating during the intro battle

• White Texture Bug — Fixed rooms occasionally rendering as a white rectangle

• Item Name Font — Fixed font/width mismatch in the Fabricate menu panel