Dust Fleet News

Hello Commanders!

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Now it's time to unveil Update #4 - a milestone we have named The Reinforcements Update!

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Missions: Five new side-missions for the main campaign.

• Battle against D-SEC and powerful new enemies to earn unique mission rewards.
  
• These new missions start to appear after playing "The Way Out" mission. These missions won't trigger on any in-progress campaigns - you'll need to start a new campaign to get them.
  

Ships: new ships are available on the tech tree and for reverse engineering.

• UEN: Oslo - a light carrier-cruiser, an improvement on the Copenhagen.
  
• UEN: Bergen - an upgrade to the Reykjavik, with better weapons and armour.
  
• UEN: Knight Mk II - an upgrade to the Knight, with twice the firepower and improved maneuverability.
  
• D-SEC: Honshu - a dedicated light carrier.
  
• D-SEC: Wolf Mk II - to keep up with the Knight Mk II, D-SEC are deploying this improved Wolf design.
  
• D-SEC: Orca Mk II - The most devastating version of the Orca, with tougher armour and an extra heavy weapon slot.
  
• Unknown: Two powerful new boss-level enemies in the extra missions.
  

Sector Assault improvements:

• Sector Assault now has a comprehensive settings screen.
  
• Edit map size, enemy aggression and starting resources to create the challenge you want.
  

Starmap improvements:

• Station icons: At-a-glance starmap icons for identifying station types without having to click on a location.
  
• Ship type icons: Seperate symbols for warships and mining ships, so you can tell instantly if you have any mining ships at a location.
  
• Quick access: It's now possible directly click the ships or station icons at a location to immediately jump to the relevant tab.
  

Capturing improvements:

• The capture order can now be given against a group of enemy ships, just like attack orders.
  
• Enemy ships will now prioritise attacking armed opponents, making it possible to distract enemies while you sneak your APCs in.
  

Move and keep attacking (Alt): outflank ships to attack their less armoured side and rear quarters.

• Hold down Alt when giving a move order to attacking ships, and they will keep facing and attacking their target as they move around it.
  
• This replaces the previous behaviour where happened automatically, but only after the first movement order given after an attack order.
  

Improved tooltips for items on the tech tree and mission info screen.

• Ships now list which type of shipyard they must be built at.
  
• Ship turret sizes and numbers are now included in the details.
  

Other New Features

• Mission tracker: easily keep track of which missions are available and where to find them.
  
• Bigger explosions for large ships and stations, and improved lighting effects on beam weapons.
  

• Rapid fire missile launcher was incorrectly very overpowered - damage reduced by 75%
  
• Starmap fleet list will now auto-scroll when dragging ships to the edge.
  
• Confirmation dialog for unsaved changes in the loadout editor.
  
• Some turrets have been reduced in size - this is a cosmetic change only.
  
• Shipyards have been renamed to accommodate the newly added ships
  
  • Cruiser shipyard is now the Standard shipyard.
    
  • Carrier shipyard is now the Advanced shipyard, and now also builds all of the advanced-tier ships in the new update.
    

• Ship health bars were only showing when the cursor was over them. Now they also appear when a ship is damaged.
  
• DPS values for ships were not including fixed/non-editable weapons. This affected stats tables and auto battles only.
  
• When repairing a damaged ship that has damaged turrets, or when given the order to do so, repair ships will only fix one turret then stop.
  
• Ships with a mix of repair beams and offensive weapons were not responding to repair orders correctly.
  
• Turrets on newly promoted ships would appear to be damaged.
  
• Ship stances were not saved in savegame files.
  
• In battles, the average health bars for ships grouped under a single button was not always accurate.
  
• A Hub was incorrectly set as capturable in the "Spare Parts" mission.

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As always, I am excited to see what suggestions come out of these updates and will use them to continue to improve the plan and direction of Dust Fleet. Don't forget to join our community Discord and share your experiences!

I would also love to see your honest thoughts of the game through a Steam review. Steam reviews can have a massive impact on indie games like Dust Fleet and I love reading your experiences in reviews.

That’s all for now, Commander - see you in space!


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Welcome to Monday, commanders. Here's the patch notes for the latest Dust Fleet update addressing some feedback from the community.

[h2]CHANGES[/h2]

• The flak turret now only requires a light turret port instead of a medium.
  

[h2]FIXES[/h2]

• Some ships captured during missions may not respond to orders. This is fixed for future occurrances, but any affected ships in saved games will remain affected.
  
• Destroyed squadron fighters being immediately rebuilt with low health upon docking, instead of waiting for other ships to complete build/repair first.
  
• Captured ships continue their attack orders on allied ships until given a new order.
  
• Allied ships continue attack orders on captured ships until given a new order.
  
• Holding right mouse button to pan the camera when a cutscene starts results in the camera pan still being active afterwards, until the right mouse button is pressed again.
  
• Tokara loadout has heavy missile launchers when it only has ports for medium. Tokara's default loadout now changed to use medium missiles. Note that these are much stronger against frigates than the heavy missiles.
  
• Using chaff opens pop-up camera view notification.
  

Patch notes are always available on Discord, but for commanders who don't use it, I'll leave you with a round up of other recent fixes and improvements. Until next time, commanders!



(Released 20th April 2024)
[h2]CHANGES[/h2]

• The game will no longer automatically minimize when you alt-tab away from it, making for a smoother desktop experience.
  
• The taskbar executable icon has been updated.
  

[h2]FIXES[/h2]

• When given an order involving a specific ship part (eg a turret or landing pad) ships are unable to proceed if the target was destroyed or removed after the order was created.
  
• Fixes for some minor cleanup errors when ships were destroyed in certain circumstances.
  
• Some users were experiencing errors with the Epic overlay. These should now be corrected with this release.
  

(Released 22nd April 2024)
[h2]FIXES[/h2]

• When saving a game while capturing, the saved game may become invalid.
  
• When saving a game during a mission-related APC docking, the progress bar may become stuck or instantly complete when reloaded later.
  
• Error when loading a saved game from the latter half of mission "Eyes".
  

(Released 23rd April 2024)
[h2]FIXES[/h2]

• Unable to close the "low power" notification manually.
  
• More improvements for edge case situations around loading saved games.
  
• When merging fleets, the merged fleet may sometimes be called "new fleet" instead of using the custom names for any of the fleets being merged.
  

Hello commanders. Just a couple of small updates today for some recently reported issues. Some commanders reported ships going missing while combining fleets. That issues should now be resolved with this update, but please do post any issues you see to the Discord or to the discussion board here on Steam.

Onto the patch notes!

FIX: Ships disappearing when fleets merging
FIX: If the console is brought up accidentally, the keyboard shortcut closes it correctly but the "hide" command does not.
FIX: Various issues with the fleet sidebar on the starmap, including with selection and scrolling.

That's all for today. Take care out there, commanders!

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Hello commanders! Dust Fleet v4.6 has just been pushed live. The main purpose of this update is to fix the issue with the main campaign ending unexpectedly. Thanks to everyone who sent in bug reports and saved games to help me track this one down!

Here are the changes for v4.6 in full.

[h3]FIXES[/h3]

• Game ends unexpectedly with message about Channar station having fallen when it has not.
  
• Slowdowns in some battle situations.