Space Rangers HD: A War Apart - Significant Balance Update
Bug fixes
- Fixed a bug that caused the tutorial script not to start sometimes;
- During the tutorial it is no longer required to visit the government at a planet where you need to sell medicine;
- Fixed a bug when sold goods weren't counted for a tutorial quest and one of Khan rank special missions;
- At the “Khan” rank special mission (filmmaking) the ruler now deals only minor damage during his fight with Bambays;
- Fixed missing ship names at ship hiring special mission for achieving Khan rank;
- Fixed various text mistakes and mistypes;
- All acrynic equipment and micromodules bonuses descriptions were reworked to make them clearer;
- Manual update and other minor fixes.
Balance changes
- Reduced the amount of pirate rank score given for destruction of Coalition bases;
- AI logic for choosing the hulls, equipment, micromodules and loot spending has been significantly reworked;
- AI equipment generation mechanism at planets and space stations has been reworked, also the advanced adjustment option for availability of large-sized hulls to Coalition and pirate ships has been removed;
- Pirate AI is updated, now they can run from their systems instead of fighting till the end;
- Cowardice of peaceful ships was increased, now they are more likely to accept aggressor’s demands;
- If there is only one military base left, it will not jump to dominator systems anymore;
- Electronic cutter and Flow Blaster now can be dropped by destroyed dominators at galactic tech level (GTL) 3 instead of 4;
- Amount of experience given for system liberation has been reduced;
- Durability of an item can be seen as an absolute value now. Durability bar size is now proportional to item durability;
- Durability and other parameters of various hull series and acrynic equipment has been adjusted;
- Pirate generation mechanism has been adjusted: if they have only a few systems under control, less but better equipped pirate ships will be built;
- “Shadow of Empire” now has 3 weapon slots instead of 5;
- Planetary battle bonuses have been rebalanced. Now the global game difficulty will also proportionaly affect friendly fire level for player robots. The bonuses themselves were increased, but mission reward for playing with bonuses has been reduced.
Additions
- Two new dominator ship types with unique capabilities, Klig and Bertor, were added to the game. See details in the manual;
- Micromodules dropped into space are now amimated;
- Search function has been updated – now it’s possible to use multiple words in a search, so it’s easier to find modified weapons and items. Search results include item durability;
- Copy protection lock from English dat file has been removed and new options for modders were added.