Update 2.2.3 (Updated 23 Nov)

Greetings, commanders! The Update 2.2.3 is now LIVE.

Patch Notes:

• New Explosive Asteroids spawn chances:

• ---- Relaxed Mode: Never

• ---- Normal Mode: Only in Asteroid Rush sectors.

• ---- Hardcore Mode: Asteroid Rush and mineral Medium+ sectors (no minimum level required).

• Maximum chance of spawning explosive asteroids (mineral Very Rich) reduced to 4% instead of 5%.

• Added perk to small ships (up to Corvette size): Overcharge - When a hardpoint would overheat, it instead gains 30% fire rate for 2.5 seconds. Beam weapons gain 20% damage bonus instead. Cooldown: 30 seconds. Dodge rolling through enemy fire reduces the cooldown.

• AI ships use Overcharge when over level 15 OR in Hardcore mode.

• Novacat Fragment (special crew member) received its remaining bonuses and is now completed.

• Added special crew member: Gai of the Sea’s Age

• Remade Trader Codex. Now it shows lowest and highest prices for trade goods in up to 3 different ranges, based on the codex version. You no longer have to visit sectors to know their prices.

• 'Global Trading' changed to 'X% better (or worse) prices when trading equipment" (weapons included) to properly state it no longer applies to trade goods. Perks and Crew bonuses were boosted to compensate. 50% base price is both the cap when selling and the minimum when buying equipment, in order to prevent infinite money exploit.

• Added starting equipment to all background perks except Outis.

• Repairing NPC ships to full now grants XP, reputation and credits based on how much was repaired.

• Reduced Simple Repair Beam Tech Level from 3 to 1, making it available in any low level station.

• Standard crafting is now possible in any station with a Fabricator module instead of Workshop. Therefore, you can craft in AI Mining bases, Factories, Laboratories, Agristations...

• Added one more song to the 'tense' setlist.

• Changed Sloppy Perk to '6 times, cause a Civilian ship to become hostile, then retreat.'.

• Fixed Fleets only attacking enemy turrets and not stations, preventing acquiring Legionary Perk.

• Fixed piercing modifier not working on weapons with no aoe.

• Fixed crewman tooltip being off the screen.

• Fixed destroyed stations collecting derelicts.

• Fixed corrupted crew member as fleet ship captain BUG.

• Fixed enemy ships camping when the player is docked.

• Fixed ship hardpoints stats showing outside the tooltip bounds.

[Base Building DLC]

• Increased HP and added damage resistance to Loot containers dropped by Assault leaders.

Follow up patches:

Patch 2.2.3a

• Fixed BUG when capturing hideouts.

**Patch 2.2.3b **

• Built-in Equipment are now properly installed using default keys defined by the user.

• Reduced Adaptive Converter base conversion time from 12 to 10. Improved Converter time remains at 8 but its energy cost was reduced by 20%.

• Increased flat amount of credits gained from repairing other ships and reduced the amount per HP repaired. This should improve early game while balancing late game gains.

• Fixed galaxy generation to spawn more Rebel stations on Pitch Black sectors, as intended (This only affects new saves).

• Fixed destroying civilian stations not granting rep, XP and perks.

[Base Building DLC]

• Engineer ships now have Repair Drones built-in.

• Production icons on the galaxy map now stack closer when too many.