Early Access version 118

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: New features – :bulb: Tweaks – :bug: Bug fixes – :gear: Internal changes

  • :gear: 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.

  • :bug: Mission Config screen: Fixed invisible descriptions of filled-in slots (skill/background/cuisine/music) (@SA-GoldenBoss128 :medal_sports: Bug)

  • :bulb: “Portal Shotgun” wave: Reduced delay between enemies within a group to make them clump more tightly (@neonep)

  • :bug: Galactic Store: Fixed overlap between equipment title and rarity (@PlasmaX :medal_sports: Bug)

  • :gear: Strengthened anti-cheat measures (@Bestagons :medal_sports: Idea)

  • :bulb: “Panzer Strike” wave: Removed Anomaly zone markers (@SA-GoldenBoss128)

  • :bulb: Multiplayer: Can now kick players even if they’ve left the game in the meantime (after tapping the “Kick” button).

  • :bulb: “The Treasury” wave: Removed extreme barriers because in hot environments they can be obscured by the flames (@DePeeper)

  • :bulb: Mission Config screen: Added tooltips for flagship/weapon/booster icons for Pot Luck missions.

  • :bulb: “Overarching Chickens” wave: Enemies now spawn/despawn nearer to the edge of the screen (@QuackQuack)

  • :bulb: Pot Luck missions: Cosmetic equipment (background/music/cuisines etc) can now be mounted ( @KnockoffFeline @GoldenUndrowler :medal_sports: Idea )

  • :bulb: Mission Config screen: Moved spacecraft preview to top-right of screen.

  • :bug: (applied properly from v117) “Iron Chef” boss: Prevented boss from momentarily leaving the screen when moving (@RainbowBoyVN )

  • :bulb: Renamed “XX firepower!” bonus to “Overpowered!”. Now awarded at firepower 30 instead of 20.

  • :gear: Translations are now queried asynchronously (reduces response time by 50% in test environment).

  • :bulb: Pot Luck missions: Heat sinks are now randomized (@Knightcap :medal_sports: Idea)

  • :bulb: Pot Luck missions: Satellites are now randomized (@MinhLongBacon @PlasmaX :medal_sports: Idea)

  • :bulb: Pot Luck missions: Insights are now randomized (@ChickenGaming :medal_sports: Idea)

  • :gear: Translations: Deleted unused and invalid phrases from DB.

  • :bulb: Positron Stream: Greatly reduced graphical glitches when beam folds over itself.

  • :bug: Multiplayer missions that are only partially flown but conclude in a victory no longer count as “missions won” (@GoldenUndrowler :medal_sports: Bug)

  • :bulb: Stats screen: “Partial missions” are no longer included in “missions flown” stat (@GoldenUndrowler :medal_sports: Idea)

  • :bulb: Pot Luck missions: Increased amount of starting equipment (@ChickenGaming :medal_sports: Idea)

  • :bug: Inbox: Fixed body of Daily Missions incorrectly using Weapons Training text (@PlasmaX :medal_sports: Bug)

  • :gear: Deleted leaderboards for Tutorial and Anniversary missions from database (@SA-GoldenBoss128 :medal_sports: Bug)

  • :new: Added “Budget Constraint” daily missions (daily probabilities are now: 40% Daily Mission, 20% Weapons Training, 20% Pot Luck, 20% Budget Constraint) (@kokokokos :medal_sports: Idea)

  • :bulb: Pot Luck, Budget Constraint missions: “intermediate” receives +1 firepower, “hard” receives +2.

  • :new: Galactic Store: Added 4 new backgrounds.

  • :bulb: “Twice Infinity” wave: Added mirrored variation (@OrvilleTheOrca)

  • :bulb: “Daily Mission” has been renamed to “Today’s Scramble” (@Stardrone :medal_sports: Idea)

  • :bulb: 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 :medal_sports: Idea)

  • :bulb: Plasma Rifle: Area-of-effect damage is no longer classified as “massive” (allows Cowards to retaliate upon being hit) (@GgWw1175 :medal_sports: Idea)

  • :bulb: Laser Cannon: Individual beams can now damage separate enemies (@GgWw1175 :medal_sports: Idea)

  • :gear: Keys can now autorepeat only while in the “held” state.

  • :gear: Better handling of simultaneous character presses (character is no longer sometimes lost if pressed simultaneously with e.g. ENTER)

  • :bulb: Klaus chicken: Reduced health to 2500-5500 (was 3500-6500).

  • :gear: Disallowed “@gmail.co”, “@hotmail.co” (and other popular truncated domains) as an e-mail domain.

  • :gear: Disallowed frequent “@gmail.com” misspellings as an e-mail domain (e.g.: gmial, gamil, etc)

  • :gear: Disallowed all symbols (except period, hyphen, underscore) from e-mail addresses.

  • :gear: 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)

  • :bug: Config Presets screen: Fixed crash when selecting preset that contains “CIU Default Background” (caused by renamed class) (@Supermonkeygamer14 @Lumberjacck :medal_sports: Bug)
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Can we ever get to change the default background in the galaxy map?
Also, first.

Probably not. The CIU default background used in the galaxy is specially made, it can’t be replaced easily.

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That/s a bit close

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Fixed in v.119 :medal_sports: Bug

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Remove Pecking order from caged animals/the zoo. the first chicken which holds the first pecking order arrangement tries to hide behind it’s allies which is impossible to get him without ruining the streak.


uh… anyone got the same error?

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Server crashed… I’ve restarted it. Investigating.

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Background and Cuisine are fine but Music it’s kinda weird, is this a bug?

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I already reported it, IA denied it.

Although I still don’t get the point of being able to insert the same track in two/three slots.

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The probability of hearing it increases.

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Could the retro background be placed after CI4 bg? With the additions of 4 new backgrounds it is more jarring to look at.

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It’s intended. I need to allow multiple copies for music so that you can mount it both as a “wave” music and a “boss” music.

There isn’t one. It’s an unfortunate technical consequence of how music is implemented. See my preceding reply.

My comment was wrong. Duplicate music just gets ignored.

These are sorted alphabetically, so you’d have to change the translation.

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Oh… you’re right. Never thought of that, makes sense now hah

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Check this.

in Addition, Why the feathers in Heterprise once repelled doesn’t have a flash effect when disappearing.

would be nice if there was a background inspired by the dos version’s one
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I love new backgrounds

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Wow, I just noticed that when pasting in the translation screen, instead of inserting characters one by one, it now just seems to happen instantaneously. Great work!

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the droid raid’s blue filter turns the bg #3 green
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and bg #4 on droid raid is barely visible

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The bug has not been fixed.

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