Starting today, May 23th, and lasting the entire weekend, until May 24th
the epic unit Wisteria is guaranteed after 40 Specialist Beacons have been used for recruitment during this event.


Wisteria is an Epic Gelecek Chemical Attacker
specializing in Damage over Time effects, mainly Corrosion,
andis often called the mini-Valerian.


A great addition to any corrosion-focused team.
Good luck, Commanders!

Starting May 22nd and lasting until June 2nd, 9 AM GMT
Fight Mamma Maglienze together with the whole community!

Earn loads of rewards, compete for amazing prizes, and ultimately unlock the Abyssal Bounty stage for Mamma Maglienze.

You can find some more details about the event in this dev blog post[starborne.com] we released recently.

Starting today, May 16th, and lasting the entire weekend, until May 18th
the legendary unit Frontline is guaranteed after 100 Specialist Beacons have been used for recruitment during this event.


Frontline: a Legendary Atlas Syndicate Electric Attacker
Frontline is a freshly reworked shield-focused brawler attacker and
first to show us what it means to be an Atlas Syndicate unit in the new age


Don't miss the chance to get your hands on this freshly revamped unit
Good luck, Commanders!

Greetings Commanders

Today I’m excited to introduce you to our second ever Global Event. Your target is Mamma Maglienza, matriarch of the Maglienza mob family. Take her out and as a community unlock level 16 of the Abyssal Mamma bounty permanently.

• Event: 22nd May, 15:00 GMT - 2nd June 09:00 GMT
  Community goal: Destroy Mamma, fill the global bar before time runs out, unlock Abyssal Mamma bounty stage permanently!
  
• Rewards: Mamma exclusive avatar for all contributors, Abyssal avatar for reaching personal milestone and chance at winning a raffle for 100 specialist beacons
  
• Leaderboards: Top 10 alliances and top 100 players earn prize packages (see table)
  
• New Gear: Piercer set (2 set bonus) +7% Ignore Defence
  
• New Daily Missions: Earn energy cells and points towards your personal and global tally daily

[media.discordapp.net]Driven by greed, Mamma, the matriarch of the Maglienza mob family, sent her goons into the Abyss. When none returned, she descended in search of the motherlode alongside Capo, the only henchman she hadn't made cry. There, an encounter with an anomaly exposed her to the Abyssal Virus. Now, as madness consumes her, you must put aside your differences and unite. As a Community, end her suffering to unlock the Abyssal Mamma stage.



There will be 2 progression tracks active at once:

• Community: Defeat Mamma Maglienza Bounty. Each kill earns points for the global bar and your personal tally, the higher the bounty, the more points.
  
• Personal: Reach the point cap to claim the Abyssal Mamma avatar. The personal track stays open for the duration of the full event, even after the community bar is full.

Compete against foes (or friends) and earn your spot at the top of the player and alliance leaderboards. Checkout prizes details below.


Once the event reaches 100%, the leaderboard will close, so use the opportunity to make your mark on the Frontier. Everyone who participates individually and finishes the individual progress event will also enter a raffle for 100 specialist beacons. The top 100 players will get 2 raffle entries.




This time around, we're introducing daily missions as part of the global event.
By completing dailies, you can earn 2 energy cells and 500 points towards your personal and global progress bar. The tasks are as follows:

• Kill Capo 10/ 15/ 30/ 50 times
  
• Deal 1 million/ 2 million/ 5 million/ 10 million cumulative damage to Mamma
  
• Complete 2 Incursions
  
• Finish all Daily Challenges

You can also look forward to unlocking the 2nd part of the Abyssal Bounties. When the global progress bar reaches 100%, all players will be able to work their way to Mamma 16.

Of course, what good would a new bounty be without new gear to work towards? We will also be adding a new Piercer gear set. Check out the details:

Pieces: 2 per set

Stats: +7% Ignore Defense


That’s all we have to share for now. We look forward to seeing commanders join forces and watching that progress bar climb.


Ruxster,
Player turned Game Director, Solid Clouds

Starting today, May 9th, and lasting the entire weekend, until May 11th
when recruiting epic units from Specialist beacons in this recruitment rush event,
there is a 20x greater chance of these units being one of the following three:


Stalwart is an Epic Frontier Legion Electric Attacker
calling in focused fire from his allies and viciously striking back
against foes foolish enough to attack him directly.

Arum is an Epic Gelecek Thermal Debuffer
who will severely reduce the damage output of enemies,
and is able to hit many enemies at the same time.

Volk is an Epic XAOX Thermal Supporter
who can increase the offensive capabilities of your team,
and at the same time provide repair for himself and a friendly unit in need.


Good luck, Commanders!

Today, I want to inform everyone about Anemone and Frontline getting some sorely needed buffs and upcoming combat mechanics changes to provide context and clarity. The first part of the devblog is a shorter version, then we head into the details and for eager theorycrafters like me, scroll even further for the numbers.


What is changing?
Releasing the next patch on May 12th.


Anemone

• Lower charge cost, stronger self‑repair, tougher against foes suffering Damage over Time.
  
• New ability to grab Taunt when the target is already bleeding from three or more DoT effects.
  
• We intend this to make Anemone a sturdier DoT specialist that synergizes better to tank within Gelecek.

Frontline

• Damage now scales with its own shield, and every hit stacks even more shielding.
  
• Starts combat with a chunky shield, gains Shield Penetration on every attack, and gets a beefy defence boost while the shield holds.
  
• We intend for Frontline to live up to his actual name, while still satisfyingly packing a punch.

The same patch will also tweak 2 core combat mechanics, Shield Bypass (to be replaced with Shield Penetration) and Ignore Defense (This will become a passive ability). Again, more details and specifics below.

If this where we say goodbye, I’m Ruxster, the Game Director at Solid Clouds, thanks for stopping by. For the rest of you, read further for a more detailed overview of things.


Why are we doing it?
Both units have fallen behind the meta curve. Rather than dial everyone else down, we are lifting these two up so that corrosive playstyles and shield‑centric tactics feel powerful again. We also acknowledge that these units are current battle pass and upcoming recruitment rush units. Ideally we would not be touching these units around this period. However in order to support the bigger picture evolution of combat, this became a necessity. Hence I am here today, to provide you with as much information as possible so that you can make informed decisions.

One of our core goals is to ensure you can play the way you want to play, and feel powerful and rewarded for doing so. But over time, we’ve seen certain strategies fall behind as others, notably direct damage as a byproduct of power creep, continue to outpace them. This growing imbalance limits the diversity of effective strategies, and that's something we intend to address. Expect more love for under‑represented strategies in future updates.

Our focus is dominantly on lifting underused strategies up, not bringing others down. We want to enhance the tools of playstyles that have fallen behind. I want to reassure you that we are being especially mindful to minimize any disruptions to your current farming teams.

In addition to this, factions across the Starborne universe should feel distinct in theme, mechanics, and playstyle. This is something we believe we can do better, so we're taking steps to bring that back.

• Additional unit reworks are in the pipeline.
  
• We are working on changes to how Increasing and Decreasing critical damage operates. However in order to not disrupt your teams for upcoming global events (More info Friday), these shall be delayed until early June.
  
• Building upon these mechanical changes, you can then expect to see exciting new faction specific characteristics be introduced alongside our next major content update, Voidbringers. More info on that next week.
  
• This is the first step toward a stronger foundation for ships, strategies and factions alike that supports deeper, more varied content, new encounter types, and challenging new game modes in the near future.

Upcoming Unit Reworks:
We believe every unit should have a place within the game. Whether it be in vault runs, endgame pvp, or pushing bounty times to the limit. Anemone and Frontline are two units we believe to have fallen behind the curve, either as a limitation of their intended strategy or through being outscaled. So we are addressing them immediately. There are several other units on our radar that in the near future will also see some additional reworking.

Both unit reworks will be live next patch, currently scheduled for the 12th of May.

Anemone

Current Ability Set

Active: This unit Deals 165% Damage, inflicts Out. Dot Damage Down II and Corrosion I, both for 2 turns.
Charged: (4 charges) This Unit Deals 215% Damage and, if the enemy has a debuff, applies Provoke for 3 turns and inflicts Corrosion III on them for 2 turns.
Passive: This unit receives 15% less Damage from debuffed enemies. When an enemy takes Damage from a Damage over Time effect, repair 10% of the damage dealt.

Reworked Ability Set

Active: This unit Deals 140% Damage, inflicts Out. Damage Down II and Corrosion I, for 2 turns.
Charged: (3 charges) This Unit Deals 200% Damage and inflicts Corrosion III for 2 turns. If the primary target has 3 or more Damage over Time effects, Gain Taunt for 1 turn.
Passive: This unit receives 25% less Direct Damage from enemies debuffed with Damage over Time effects. When an enemy takes Damage from a Damage over Time effect, repair 5% of this units Max HP.

FrontLine

Current Ability Set

Active: This unit deals 190% Damage bypassing enemy shield and gains a shield equal to 10% of the Damage Dealt.
Charged: (1 charge) This Unit deals 230% Damage bypassing enemy shields and gains a shield equal to 15% of the Damage Dealt.
Passive: This unit gains Attack Up III for 2 turns after damaging an enemy with an affinity advantage bonus. When an enemy uses their charge skill, deal 80% Damage bypassing enemy shields once per round.

Reworked Ability Set

Active: This unit deals 80% Damage with additional damage equal to 60% of its current shield. This unit gains a shield equal to 30% of the Damage Dealt.
Charged: (4 charges) This Unit deals 160% Damage with additional damage equal to 120% of its current shield. This unit gains a shield equal to 40% of the Damage Dealt.
Passive: This unit’s attacks have 20% Shield Penetration.
This unit starts combat with a shield equal to 25% of its Max HP.
While shielded, this unit has its defense increased by 2500. When an enemy uses their charged skill, this unit deals 80% damage and gains a shield equal to 30% of the damage dealt. This can occur once per round.
Base Stats
HP: 11535 → 21042
DEF: 2924 → 3282
Crit Rate: 16% → 12%
Crit Power: 98% → 90%


As well as reworking several units, we are also modifying several combat mechanics.

Changes to Shield Bypass

The following changes will be implemented for FrontLine and all Non-obtainable NPC units' next patch, currently scheduled for the 12th of May. All other shield penetration changes for obtainable units shall be implemented in the following week, currently scheduled for 19th of May.

• Bypass Shield will be removed in its current implementation. It shall instead be rebranded as ‘Shield Penetration’.
  
• Shield penetration operates as a percentage based shield bypass. For example, a unit with 20% Shield Penetration that directly damages a unit with a shield, will deal 20% of its damage to the unit's HP, and 80% of its damage to the unit's Shield.
  
• All obtainable units that currently have bypass shields will see balance adjustments to compensate for this change, particularly in areas where shield bypass currently shines such as in the Eelun Naphula bounty.
  
• There will also be additional units that did not have bypass shields previously, that will now obtain varying percentages of shield penetration innately.
  
• Any unit with shield penetration will have it tied to their passive instead of abilities directly. This means that units with a reactive damage passive will also operate using the same shield penetration as the rest of their abilities.
  
• A complete list of units impacted by this change is as follows:
  
  • Liberator
    
  • Medved
    
  • Laska
    
  • Iridium
    
  • Opal
    
  • Xcellence
    
  • Frontline
    
  • Crucialis
    
  • Apex
    
  • Luxx
    
  • Malvex
    
  • LeSabre
    
  • Curator
    
  • Sustainer
    
  • Vindicator
    
  • Guardian
    
  • Provider

Changes to Ignore Defense:
The following changes will be implemented for next patch, currently scheduled for the 12th of May.

• All units that currently have Ignore Defense on their active or charge shall have it removed from their active and charge abilities.
  
• In its place, Ignore Defense shall now appear on a unit's passive directly.
  
• This means a unit with Ignore Defense innately as part of its skillset shall have this benefit applied globally (i.e, Judge will now ignore defense as part of his passive).
  
• Currently the only unit impacted by this is Judge. But this change adds clarity and consistency to our unit descriptors moving forward.

See you on Friday for some exciting information on the next Global Event, and then again next week to talk all things Voidbringers!

Ruxster
Player turned Game Director - Solid Clouds

Our latest patch introduced our first step in our localization efforts, our German (beta) version.

Get your translation software or your German great-grand-uncle ready if you want to read the rest, because it's all going to be in Deutsch.

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Ab sofort können sie Starborne: Frontiers auch auf Deutsch genießen.
Einfach beim Start des Spiels, oder wenn schon online, in das Einstellungsmenü navigieren und im "Game"-Untermenü die Sprache umstellen.

[media.discordapp.net]Wie Sie hier sehen können, handelt es sich bei der deutschen Übersetzung, momentan noch, um eine Beta-Version.
Das bedeutet, dass wir uns bewusst sind, dass einige Änderungen und Korrekturen noch nötig sein können.
Wenn Sie einen Fehler entdecken, sei es Rechtschreibung, Grammatik, Satzbau, Logik, oder einfach eine Platzierung, dann würden wir uns freuen, wenn Sie uns das bitte melden.
Dies können sie einfach mit einem offiziellen Support Ticket oder live im Discord Chat im Supportkanal tun.
Ihre Hilfe sowie ihr Feedback sind wie immer willkommen.

Nun eröffnen wir damit ein neues Kapitel in der Geschichte von Starborne: Frontiers, und unsere deutschen Kommandeure sind hier die Vorreiter.
Bestreitet viele Schlachten, rekrutiert neue Einheiten und rüstet für zukünftige Herausforderungen auf!

Kommandeure, wir wünschen Ihnen viel Glück und Spaß!

Starting today, May 2nd, and lasting the entire weekend, until May 4th
players have a 50% chance to recruit the new legendary unit Howler whenever recruiting a Legendary unit using Specialist Beacons in this Recruitment Rush event!

Howler is a Legendary Marauder Thermal Supporter
who can repair her allies while also increasing their offensive stats significantly.
Howler is uniquely able to cleanse and apply "Blast" to allies who critically hit enemies.
This unit will push her allies to success!

Don't miss out on this brand-new aggressive supporter!

Good luck, Commanders!