Hotfix 0.18.1: Elite Enemies

On 2025-12-16 we issued the 0.14.0 update in which we called out a new feature – Elite Enemies

Golden enemies will now spawn across the map. Killing one of these will drop an Item Container for the player to claim. They’re movement speed is slightly increased by their non-elite counterparts and they’re not particularly aggressive.

Like Item Containers, Elite Enemies are designed to create more fun-random rewarding moments. We’ll continue to tweak this system, but early feedback here is very welcome!

Well… it turns out that they were never actually turned on for our “live environment”, so you’ve never actually seen one of these shiny guys. We’re issuing this hotfix today to get you some golden enemies to fight over. A handful of Shinies will now spawn on each planet which you can track down for additional rewards.

• No significant performance tuning has been done yet. If you are graphics bound, you can try lowering the quality settings in the Esc menu via Options → Video, but systems with more constrained hardware may struggle
  
• Not all input buttons and keys have icons in the UI yet. Text descriptions (eg. “J”, or “Button West”) will show up for things that do not yet have an icon in the input glyph map
  
• When observing other players, some UI bits such as the reload HUD don’t show accurate information for the observed player