Star Wrath 0.5.0: Law of the sword

Wanderers, we continue to develop the modifier system and are ready to present update 0.5.0, “Law of the sword.”

After a large trade caravan was destroyed and the control over the infrastructure of Antaeus’ station was partially lost, significant amounts of unevacuated material and informational assets are still in the sector.

Given the impossibility of restoring centralized control and evacuating valuable cargo, one of the corporations involved in the sector’s development initiated an unofficial experimental program for the distribution of emergency resources under conditions of limited security.

The “Law of the sword” program is structured as a closed field test and has no official status. Within its framework, the sector is treated as a zone of equal contenders, where the right to any discovered assets is granted only to those who manage to successfully evacuate the cargo beyond the zone’s boundaries.

All actions involving the interception, seizure, and destruction of other participants’ assets are not subject to review and do not affect the final outcome of the trial. Participants are permitted any interaction within the zone, including combat engagements, as the environment simulates competition for limited resources.

New modifier “Law of the sword”

The “Antaeus’ station” location received a new modifier, “Law of the sword.”

While this modifier is active, new objects appear in the location:

• Supply containers with additional resources.
• Encrypted blocks containing schematics for modules and blocks.

To get the contents of an encrypted block, you will need to open it in the Workshop using a decryption key. You can get the key if you successfully evacuate through the unstable Gate.

Two types of evacuation are available at the location:

• Unstable Gate becomes available some time after the battle begins. Evacuating through it preserves all items in the cargo hold and grants a decryption key. The Gate deactivates if other Wanderers are nearby.
• Emergency Gate activates at the end of the battle. Evacuating through it saves the ship but results in the loss of all items in the cargo hold.

Additionally, the “Law of the sword” modifier does not punish destroying other Wanderers.

Balance changes

Cabins

Nova

• Added the “Resistance to collisions” description
• Unguided missiles capacity increased from 12 to 28

Prometheus

• Increased afterburner parameters
  • Afterburner energy increased from 240 to 300
  • Afterburner energy restoration increased from 75 per sec. to 85 per sec.
• Mass reduced by 33%
• Radar range increased by 25%
• Base speed increased from 56 m/sec. to 85 m/sec.
• Ammunition capacity increased:
  • Plasma units from 84 to 140
  • Smart missiles from 14 to 16 
  • Unguided missiles from 28 to 56

Selene

• Hold size increased by 20
• Mass reduced by 20%
• Shield energy increased by 100%
• Radar range increased by 25%
• Base speed increased from 56 m/sec. to 75 m/sec.
• Ammunition capacity increased:
  • Smart missiles from 14 to 30 
  • Unguided missiles from 28 to 80 
• Braking power of the “Tide” block increased

Hermes

• Added a new cabin feature:
  • Missile reload time reduced by 35%
• Afterburner energy restoration increased from 70 per sec. to 100 per sec.
• Mass reduced by 9%
• Ammunition capacity changed:
  • The number of 20mm bullets reduced from 800 to 700
  • The number of 120mm shells reduced from 78 to 70
  • The number of smart missiles increased from 18 to 48
  • The number of unguided missiles increased from 36 to 85

Odin

• Ammunition capacity changed:
  • The number of plasma cartridges reduced from 955 to 650
  • The number of plasma units reduced from 116 to 100
  • The number of unguided missiles increased from 36 to 40

Nemesis

• Ammunition capacity reduced:
  • 120mm shells from 100 to 70
  • Smart missiles from 24 to 16

Weapons

Kinetic weapons with blast damage

• Damage to shields reduced by 10%

“Chopper” weapon

• Damage reduced by 5%

Miscellaneous

• A new user setting has been added to the constructor: “Collapse block groups automatically”:
  • If you select a block within a group in the constructor, the other block groups will automatically collapse
• Changed the camera control buttons in the constructor window:
  • C: move the camera down
  • Spacebar: move the camera up
  • M: center the camera
• Added the “Mouse sensitivity in combat” setting
• Added the number of credits required to buy a module to the descriptions of basic module schematics.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused consumable item effects to be duplicated during unstable internet connection
• Fixed a bug that caused damage dealt to shields to not count towards the progress for a mission that tasks the player with damaging ships
• Fixed a bug that caused the internal maneuvering engines on the “Lamia” block to be blocked
• Fixed a bug that caused consumables to be saved when entering a test drive after changing their quantity in battle
• Fixed the localization of the “Place” text in the challenges window
• Fixed a bug that caused the tooltips to disappear in the schematic descriptions
• Fixed a bug that caused Battle pass stages to scale incorrectly in 4K resolution