MAIN CHANGES
Anti-Cheat. There are hardly any player-facing changes in this update. Instead, ‘proper’ development has been suspended – I’ve instead spent the last two weeks improving the anti-cheating measures in the game. It was sadly not productive work, but it was (equally sadly) necessary in order to stop certain cheaters from ruining the competitive aspect of the game for everyone.
The anti-cheat system is now a lot stricter. You will be banned if you cheat. You will be banned if you use cheating tools (whether you actually cheat or not). You will be banned if you think about cheating. You will be banned if you allow yourself to consider thinking about cheating. You will be banned if your brother cheats, if your best friend cheats, if your cat cheats, if your next-door neighbour cheats, if your 3rd grade classmate who moved across the country and you lost touch and you’re now wondering where he is and how he’s doing cheats. (*)
The new policy (which recently came info force) is stated here: ⚠ Exploit & cheating policy .
* Some of these may not actually be true.
Soundtrack. The Chicken Invaders Soundtrack is almost ready. There is already a “coming soon” Steam page here: Chicken Invaders Soundtrack on Steam . It should be released on or shortly after February 16th.
Bug/Idea medals will be awarded later in the day. Note that your medal cannot be awarded if your in-game callsign doesn’t match your forum name (put it in your forum profile where it says “name” so I can find it).
COMPATIBILITY
You will lose:
- any mid-mission progress
- your language selection
CHANGELOG
New features – 
Tweaks – 
Bug fixes – 
Internal changes
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Deleted users who haven’t logged in during the past week and have less than 10 minutes of playtime, and also users who haven’t logged in during the past 4 weeks and have less than an hour of playtime, and also users who haven’t logged in during the last 12 months and haven’t set an e-mail. Note that users with any purchase are never deleted.
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“Contact accepted” message now shows correct player name (i.e., the recipient’s name, instead of the initiator’s) (@neonep
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Credits screen: Fixed centering in right-to-left languages (@ans1382 Bug)
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Quests: “Fly mission type” goals are now restricted by number of missions that actually exist (@SA-GoldenBoss128 Bug)
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Renamed “Picardy Bird” to “Picard-y Bird”
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“Reset to default” now also resets spacecraft’s name (for consistency with how e.g. Color Themes behave) (@OrvilleTheOrca Idea)
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Fixed mouse pointer jittering as it ‘fills up’. (@VerMishelb Bug)
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Slowed spacecraft movement (i.e., hit by Chiller snowball) now continues to be applied across pause/unpause.
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Strengthened anti-cheat measures.
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“Trash Compactor” wave: Removed Pecking Order bonus (@P.Linh).
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Credits: Lowered contribution threshold for being included in the “localization” section.
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Touchscreen: “Follow method: Point” in combination with “Firing mode: Two-finger” now works correctly (@Fractorial Bug)
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Fixed server memory leak when entering planet orbits (bug introduced with Quests).
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Added Valentine’s Day Easter Egg (@Baron Idea)
v128.2 EMERGENCY PATCH (server-side only)
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Unified two ban phases into one.
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Better ban logging.
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Detection of certain kinds of cheats no longer results in a ban (temporary measure, will be reverted).
v128.3 EMERGENCY PATCH (server-side only)
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Fixed crash during handling of fraudulent Steam purchases.
