MAIN CHANGES
Yet another another unexpected update (so I guess this makes it an expected unexpected update?). The main addition are Budget Constraint missions. These are daily challenge missions where everyone flies with the same minimal loadout. For the next 3 days, daily challenges will be Budget Constraints. Afterwards, Budget Constraint appears with a 20% probability each day (another 40% for Daily Mission (renamed to “Today’s Scramble”), 20% Weapons Training, and 20% Pot Luck).
Also, some balancing changes to Positron Stream, Plasma Rifle, and Laser Cannon. And new backgrounds!
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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Mission Config screen: Fixed invisible descriptions of filled-in slots (skill/background/cuisine/music) (@SA-GoldenBoss128
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“Portal Shotgun” wave: Reduced delay between enemies within a group to make them clump more tightly (@neonep)
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Galactic Store: Fixed overlap between equipment title and rarity (@PlasmaX Bug)
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Strengthened anti-cheat measures (@Bestagons Idea)
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“Panzer Strike” wave: Removed Anomaly zone markers (@SA-GoldenBoss128)
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Multiplayer: Can now kick players even if they’ve left the game in the meantime (after tapping the “Kick” button).
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“The Treasury” wave: Removed extreme barriers because in hot environments they can be obscured by the flames (@DePeeper)
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Mission Config screen: Added tooltips for flagship/weapon/booster icons for Pot Luck missions.
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“Overarching Chickens” wave: Enemies now spawn/despawn nearer to the edge of the screen (@QuackQuack)
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Pot Luck missions: Cosmetic equipment (background/music/cuisines etc) can now be mounted ( @KnockoffFeline @P.Linh Idea )
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Mission Config screen: Moved spacecraft preview to top-right of screen.
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(applied properly from v117) “Iron Chef” boss: Prevented boss from momentarily leaving the screen when moving (@RainbowBoyVN )
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Renamed “XX firepower!” bonus to “Overpowered!”. Now awarded at firepower 30 instead of 20.
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Translations are now queried asynchronously (reduces response time by 50% in test environment).
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Pot Luck missions: Heat sinks are now randomized (@Knightcap Idea)
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Pot Luck missions: Satellites are now randomized (@MinhLongBacon @PlasmaX Idea)
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Pot Luck missions: Insights are now randomized (@ChickenGaming Idea)
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Translations: Deleted unused and invalid phrases from DB.
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Positron Stream: Greatly reduced graphical glitches when beam folds over itself.
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Multiplayer missions that are only partially flown but conclude in a victory no longer count as “missions won” (@P.Linh Bug)
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Stats screen: “Partial missions” are no longer included in “missions flown” stat (@P.Linh Idea)
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Pot Luck missions: Increased amount of starting equipment (@ChickenGaming Idea)
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Inbox: Fixed body of Daily Missions incorrectly using Weapons Training text (@PlasmaX Bug)
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Deleted leaderboards for Tutorial and Anniversary missions from database (@SA-GoldenBoss128 Bug)
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Added “Budget Constraint” daily missions (daily probabilities are now: 40% Daily Mission, 20% Weapons Training, 20% Pot Luck, 20% Budget Constraint) (@kokokokos Idea)
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Pot Luck, Budget Constraint missions: “intermediate” receives +1 firepower, “hard” receives +2.
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Galactic Store: Added 4 new backgrounds.
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“Twice Infinity” wave: Added mirrored variation (@OrvilleTheOrca)
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“Daily Mission” has been renamed to “Today’s Scramble” (@Stardrone Idea)
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Positron Stream: Split damage reduced from +25% to +20% for first-order splits, and from +10% to +8% for second-order splits (total damage hence reduced from 190% to 172%) (@GgWw1175 Idea)
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Plasma Rifle: Area-of-effect damage is no longer classified as “massive” (allows Cowards to retaliate upon being hit) (@GgWw1175 Idea)
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Laser Cannon: Individual beams can now damage separate enemies (@GgWw1175 Idea)
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Keys can now autorepeat only while in the “held” state.
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Better handling of simultaneous character presses (character is no longer sometimes lost if pressed simultaneously with e.g. ENTER)
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Klaus chicken: Reduced health to 2500-5500 (was 3500-6500).
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Disallowed “@gmail.co”, “@hotmail.co” (and other popular truncated domains) as an e-mail domain.
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Disallowed frequent “@gmail.com” misspellings as an e-mail domain (e.g.: gmial, gamil, etc)
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Disallowed all symbols (except period, hyphen, underscore) from e-mail addresses.
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All projectiles now ignore already-killed enemies in their collision checks (allows instant-hit weapons like Laser and Riddler, and to a lesser extent fast-moving ones like Boron and Hypergun, to ‘penetrate’ through enemies)
v118.2 EMERGENCY PATCH (server-side)
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Config Presets screen: Fixed crash when selecting preset that contains “CIU Default Background” (caused by renamed class) (@Supermonkeygamer14 @Lumberjacck Bug)
