Full list of version 0.9.9 changes

[Phoebe]

Completed – Major changes and new content:

• New save system.
  
• Compressed part rework: Parts received from drops, removed manual compression, added super compressed parts.
  
• Added 70 new achievements.
  
• Arcane Arsenal: Endgame activity.
  
• Infinity Instances: Endgame activity.
  
• Restoration War: Endgame activity.
  
• Added mission 14.
  
• The Machines.
  
• Loot rework: Bigger enemies now drop better parts, difficulty level makes enemies drop better parts.
  
• Ether rework: Ether properties now scale with level, ability ether costs increase with ability levels.
  
• Weapon rework: Nodes now reduce ability ether costs and pylons reduce ability cooldowns.
  
• Ability rework: Abilities now use same damage type and are unlocked as spaceship level increases.
  
• Added 12 relics.
  
• Added mission 13.
  
• Rebalanced ability points: 1 ability point per level.
  
• Added mission 12.
  
• Added mission 11.

Completed – Minor changes and improvements:

• Improved Concentrated Fire and Spread Mines abilities.
  
• Mission 6 boss fights now end earlier.
  
• Improved controller support.
  
• Added new particle settings: Now you can tone down particles, instead of turning them off completely.
  
• Improved optimization: Game will now run better.
  
• Moved tips to separate interface.
  
• Added evolving minion tutorial.
  
• Reworked evolving mechanic: Now minions evolve while attack abilities are not on cooldown.
  
• It’s no longer possible to use weapon amplifiers on engines.
  
• It’s no longer possible to sell items that have no value.
  
• Now it’s possible to use anodes on compressed parts.
  
• Rearranged achievements in the achievement interface.
  
• Improved Ionize ability: Now adds extra 2 alloy per ionized enemy, glitch free.
  
• Awakening of Inner Power ability now supports all mission types.
  
• You can no longer install alloy containers if their level is higher than your spaceship level.
  
• Now locked until spaceship level is higher than 4: Difficulty system, set interface, item management, new missions button.
  
• Improved/replaced certain sound effects.
  
• Secured region changes: Removed manual compression from secured region interface, added highlight toggle button.
  
• Improved shield particles, sounds, and animations.
  
• Shields now destroy ruins.
  
• Spaceship collisions with certain objects are now better.
  
• Improved cooldown and effect timer text: Now shows second fractions.
  
• Improved number conversion.
  
• Improved damage text.
  
• Reduced amount of units dropped.
  
• Improved region rewards: Now includes uncommon and rare rewards, such as five fractal parts, +200% experience, etc.
  
• Replaced gauntlet missions with new retrieval missions.
  
• Changed music system: Now tracks in side missions play regardless of area status.
  
• Changed time vortex: Improved dialogue, can only reset story, made it more accessible.
  
• Changed contribution system: No longer saved between missions, must be claimed immediately.
  
• Improved region destruction.
  
• Expanded dialogue box.
  
• Improved cathodes.
  
• Improved loot box: Up to 170 looted items visible, glitch free.
  
• Updated boss mission.
  
• Improved arena mission: Better loop, supports The Assault of the Modified and The Rain of Fire modifiers.
  
• Improved siege mission: New blocks, minor graphical improvements.
  
• Expanded credits.
  
• Graphically improved loot.
  
• Added region select screen and map key.
  
• Improved mission overview interface.
  
• Improved mission 1.
  
• Improved mission 3.
  
• Improved text input.
  
• Reworked tutorial.
  
• Reworked introduction.
  
• Added avatar customization: Name your character and choose how it looks in dialogues.
  
• Improved spaceship building interface.
  
• Reworked Super Shield ability: Shield lasts 8 seconds and increases armor generated on kill while active.
  
• Fixed inventory leak.
  
• Adapted backgrounds to screen shaking.
  
• Improved dialogue avatars.
  
• Improved settings interface.
  
• Added button that resets settings to default.
  
• Added button that resets controls to default.
  
• Modular difficulty system changes: Flow Stagnation maximum level changed to 1, rebalanced rewards, removed diodes.
  
• Reworked Creation of Energy and Channel abilities.
  
• Improved achievement interface.
  
• Repositioned mission interface.
  
• Fixed weapon amplifying.
  
• Improved ability bar.
  
• Made better ability icons.
  
• Heavy Shield rework: Now called Power Shield, no longer slows down spaceship.
  
• Improved ability and effect icons.
  
• Improved Kithalia’s Blight set penalty
  
• Improved barrager.
  
• Toggle XP gain feature has been removed.
  
• Improved Sector transition cutscene.
  
• Improved pausing.
  
• Improved HUD.
  
• Improved ability level scaling.
  
• Improved item management and filtering.
  
• Repositioned item management buttons.
  
• Stat page improvements.
  
• Virtual and physical weapon clarification and stats.
  
• New part properties.
  
• Improved part names.
  
• Higher grade parts are now more common.
  
• Relic dismantling rewards.
  
• Parts give less damage reduction and reflect chance.
  
• Parts give fewer wave chances.
  
• Improved item generator: Now produces more random items.
  
• Item changes: Changed diode cost, changed certain item sprites, improved item use error messages, improved tooltips.
  
• Fixed story mission X glitch.
  
• Reworked phase break mechanic: Gain additional damage after taking a certain amount of damage.
  
• Channel ability’s ether cost reducing effect now lasts 3 seconds, making Channel much easier to use.
  
• Cataclysm ability has been replaced with passive anti-shield ability: Breach.
  
• Renamed Phase to Phasse, to differentiate it from phase mechanic.
  
• Improved Aggression, Resistance, and Capacity: More powerful, more interesting, and consistent with other abilities.
  
• Decreased starter part limit to 6.
  
• Decreased starter maximum ether to 50.
  
• Starter engine now gives less maximum armor.
  
• Increased starter ability points to 10.
  
• While Guardian of a Thousand Worlds ability is active, Concentrated Fire recharges instantly.
  
• Improved alloy containers: New property, increased sell and buy price, reduced city stock.
  
• Removed filled alloy containers.
  
• Corrected W. warning button tooltip.
  
• Fixed engine glitch.
  
• Improved missiles that appear when player's spaceship leaves the enemy range.
  
• Guardian is now more mobile.
  
• Potentially fixed Black Rain projectile problem.
  
• Region update flashes are now brighter.
  
• Veteran's and revenant factory’s ballistic attacks are now slower.
  
• Improved dialogue system graphics.
  
• Oesa's Radiance set effect changed, now base maximum armor is equal maximum ether.
  
• Damage bonuses now are applied to damage while Lodeon's Ultimatum set is active.
  
• Fixed and improved certain set descriptions.
  
• Fixed many glitches.