ZEPHON News

[p]Proxy Studios is teaming up with a new solo indie dev—Nate (Iron Anchor Games)—to publish Down with the Ship, a Backpack Battles-inspired spaceship auto battler.[/p][p][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink]"Design a heavily-armed spaceship. Draft 200+ items, outfit your hull, and unleash it in async PvP. Blend captains and factions for absurd combos and galactic domination. Roll, buy, place, pray."[/p][p]If the game interests you, please consider wishlisting, it greatly helps us get the Steam algorithm to show us across the platform.[/p][p]For those who'd like to play it early, we have the first Steam demo ready to go public on Thursday, August 7th, as part of the Tiny Teams 2025 and Debut Festival 2025 festivals. [/p][p][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink]Loved collaborating with Nate so far—he's brilliant and we think he's created a gem of a game. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts as well.[/p]

## New
* Destroyed cities now leave ruins behind.
* Added Bandit King (Mutated) for the Philosopher's Stone reward in The Last Days of Earth.
* Added some levels to several unit rewards for The Last Days of Earth.

## General
* If fixed teams are enabled, staying independent is now the only option in The Last Days of Earth.

## Balance
* Reduced Wastelander armor from 8 to 6.

## Bug Fixes
* Fixed shadows flickering when scrolling after rotating the camera once.
* Fixed Hired Hands scaling twice with game speed instead of once.
* Fixed hints sometimes appearing blank.
* Fixed a Vulkan swapchain recreation issue.
* Fixed allied titans spawning next to players not having full health.
* Fixed being able to set a GUI scale higher than what would fit into the current resolution.

## New
* Cities now spawn advanced caches (based on the leader's affinity) on death.

## Balance
* Reduced Air Freightnet influence from 2 to 1.

## Bug Fixes
* Fixed starting resources setting not working.
* Fixed several potential quest crashes due to picking tiles outside of the playable map.
* Fixed crash when unequipping an item right after using it.
* Fixed crashes that could occur when exiting to the main menu.
* Fixed Husband Pathfinder Drone cooldown and radius.
* Fixed minor typo.

## General
* Improved multiplayer connectivity.

## Bug Fixes
* Fixed original leaders not praising or condemning characteristics of Twisted Mother and Hollow Warlord.
* Fixed missing population not affecting loyalty output from non-headquarters buildings.
* Fixed Shallow Foundations displaying wrong text for Emulated Mind, Hollow Warlord and Twisted Mother when their mutator is active.
* Fixed ConcordatCompromised/ComplyViolentlyFailure potential crashes.