Nienix News

[h3]Version 0.812[/h3]
🎯 [Misc] You can now rebind menu movement keys.
🎯 [Balance] Damage of stalking worm-type enemies and summons has been reduced.
🎯 [Balance] Collision damage now benefit from bonuses to attack speed, crit and ballistic damage (this includes worm summons).

[h3]Version 0.810[/h3]
🎯 [UI] Updated the sprites of some enemies in Act 1.
🎯 [Sound] Many new weapon sound effects have been added.
🎯 [Misc] Summons now follow directions given by Targeting Systems better.
🎯 [Misc] Summons can now spawn below large ships, instead of at its edges. This reduces the issue of summons spawning out-of-bounds when using really large ships in dungeon maps.
🎯 [Balance] The attack speed debuff of the Xinthu T7 skill "Experimental Catalyst" now scales with player level.
🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed a bug with several Continuum Transmuter recipes that was introduced by a patch a few weeks ago.
🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed a bug that could cause some entities to turn invisible when being loaded from a previously unloaded sector.

[h3]Version 0.800[/h3]
🎯 [Encyclopedia] An in-game encyclopedia that contains descriptions of all item types that have been obtained has been added. Access it through the inventory.
🎯 [Skill] The Imperius T3 skill "Glacial Strike" has been added: Frost-based fixed-point weapons are {0}% less effective at freezing enemies. In return, they apply a debuff that decreases Frost resistance by {1}% of the reduced amount.
🎯 [Skill] The Founders T7 skill "Skill Shot" has been buffed.
🎯 [New Continuum Entity] Un Fragment: Upgrades the grade of an item from uncommon to epic.
🎯 [New Continuum Entity] Ep Fragment: Upgrades the grade of an item from epic to artifact.
🎯 [UI] Many/most weapon and auxiliary item sprites have been replaced or updated.
🎯 [UI] Weapon mod descriptions have been revised.
🎯 [UI] There is now a UI indicator whenever an elite enemy dialogue is played that indicate the direction of the enemy. This indicator is only shown if the enemy is outside of camera. It can be disabled by unchecking the "Show hints and tips" checkbox in the general section of the main menu.
🎯 [Misc] Champion+ enemies now have unique summons that depend on their faction.
🎯 [Misc] The "Bulk" loot pickup option now also picks up consumables.
🎯 [Misc] Several maps in the Act 2 are now less dense.
🎯 [Misc] A specific item class has now been created for sensor-type auxiliary items. Transmuting these items should thus provide more expected results.
🎯 [Balance] Larger ships and sentinels now have a fixed bonus to sensor range rather than a percentage.
🎯 [Balance] Champion and elite enemies have slightly more hull.
🎯 [Balance] The new damage over time auxiliary items have been buffed.
🎯 [Balance] Crit chance is no longer capped.
🎯 [Balance] Max bonus attack speed has been increased to 1000% (up from 500%).
🎯 [Balance] The loot recycler has been buffed. It now always gives at least an item two grades above the average that which was recycled (previously one grade).
🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed an issue with the Extract Mod recipe.
🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed a UI issue with the sensor range statistic.
🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed a bug related to the location of created auras for some kinds of weapons.
🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed a bug related to one of the Continuum Challenges.

[h3]Version 0.720[/h3]
🎯 [Skill] Armament Transformer, an Axiom T7 skill, has been added: {0}% of all fixed-weapon bonuses to damage, attack speed, crit chance and crit multiplier are converted to ship turret bonuses. Additionally, ship turret damage is increased by {1}%.
🎯 [Misc] Ship turrets and modded summons (including non-modded cloner-type summons) now have their shooting range calculated based on their equipped weapons.
🎯 [Misc] Station D-5 in Act 1 has been enlarged.
🎯 [Misc] The pickup radius of consumables has been enlarged.
🎯 [Balance] Most summons now support most weapon-type mods (including the follow-mod). This includes all Hangar-type summons, that previously could not drop with a mod.
🎯 [Balance] Cloner-type summons can receive any weapon mod (albeit some mods are not supported by some weapons).
🎯 [UI] Updated various texts.
🎯 [Performance] Lower memory footprint by destroying consumables that have been unloaded from world space.
🎯 [Performance] Lower memory footprint by only generating loot tables when necessary.
🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed an issue that caused bonus skill points obtained from Continuum Challenges to be lost when resetting skills at the vendor.
🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed an issue related to adding specific mods to some kinds of auxiliary items.
🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed a Continuum Event that failed to provide a bonus when completed.
🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed a network issue related to completion of Continuum Challenges for clients when playing coop.
🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed several crash bugs that could occur for network clients when playing coop.
🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed a race condition that was introduced along with the path finding changes in 0.710.

[h3]Version 0.710[/h3]
🎯 [New item type] A new kind of Active Auxiliary item has been added. This kind of item generates an area of effect in the direction of the cursor when used.
🎯 [New item] P-2 Fire Ordnance: Generates a Fire aura at the cursor.
🎯 [New item] T-1 Corrosive Ordnance: Generates a Corrosive aura at the cursor.
🎯 [New item] F-5 Lightning Ordnance: Generates a Lightning Storm aura at the cursor.
🎯 [New item] F-6 Lightning Ordnance: Generates a Lightning Circle aura at the cursor.
🎯 [New item] L-1 Frost Ordnance: Generates a Frost aura at the cursor.
🎯 [Balance] All Frigate Hangar summons now follow the player on map changes (only for new items).
🎯 [Balance] Various skills have been revised to better buff ship turret builds.
🎯 [UI] Many skill descriptions have been revised.
🎯 [UI] Portal names in world space now consider the value of "UI Scaling: General text" (found in the User interface section of the main menu options).
🎯 [Misc] Increased performance by removing an unnecessary raycasts for bullet explosions.
🎯 [Misc] AI pathfinding has been improved.
🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed an issue related to moving between portal with some kinds of summons. In particular, a worm-type summon could loose its tail.
🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed an issue related to player faction when playing the Fleet Commander mode (only available in the beta branch).
🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed an issue that on (very) rare occasions could cause broken physics/softlocks for client players when playing COOP.