Star Valor News

Update - 1.2.5 (Updated Jan 8)

Changed Hunter Fleet composition to have a slightly lower quantity of ships, but their level can go up to 60. Also changed gold/silver percentage chance and their overall behavior.
Hunter Fleets may now spawn in 3 modes: Normal, Swarm, or Tanks.
Gunners will now learn bonus effects according to which weapons they are using. Any weapon type manned by the gunner (or in the ship in case of a co-pilot) is eligible. Please note: once they decide what to learn (which you can only see if you have 'Tutor' Perk), they won't change their minds.
The Galaxy Map now shows a "line circle" to represent your warp distance, in addition to the "bubble circle" for your sensor range.
Added Buff Icons to indicate when a particular equipment is being used (example: mobile refinery or automated repair).
Optimized blast/explosion FX pool, which should improve CPU performance, specially in fleet battles.
Fixed friendly fire system not affecting stations.
Fixed Asteroid Rushes always dropping green asteroid loot.

Follow up fixes:

Buff Icons now properly disappear if the effect is automatically turned off.
Hunter Fleets will now wait a bit longer before spawning in sequence.

Update - 1.2.4

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Added Friendly Fire toggle option (default is Off). This is in preparation for Ship Crew part 2, where you'll be able to create your own fleet.
Added crew % progression on bonus effects, for 'Tutor' Perk.
Reduced space used by ammo and increased market stock for them
Ancient Relics now uses zero space.
Mobile Refineries now have better stats but refining is much slower.
Added item: 'Ardonian Mobile Refinery'
Increased market price for iron and basic ore types (gray, red and green).
'Marauder' now has "+50% credit looted from destroying or extorting enemies"
Increased ship weapons interface size and fixed slot space numbers being rotated.
Fixed lag spike when Hunter Fleets arrive.
Fixed Galaxy Map zoom out blurring background stars.
Potentially fixed save files becoming corrupt when background update thread would try to change values while game was being saved.

Small Update - 1.2.3 - Kurma

- Added Kurma: Independent Cruiser.
- Added Karma Perk: Tutor.
- Reduced Theseus cargo space from 320 to 280.
- Added visual warning and tutorial message when you have unattended crew positions.
- Fixed zoom with Optics skill bonus resetting when leveling or changing the ship.

Small Update - 1.2.2

Fixed Lacewing weapon mounts and collider. Removed both gunner seats and added one engineer seat (optional).
Added Gunner Bonus effect: Weapon Heat Generated -X%
Replaced 'Galactic Lore' exploration skill with 'Optics', which gives an additional zoom-out level.
Saving the game is no longer needed for Lacewing unlock to take effect.
Increased target lock distance from 300 to 400 units.
Increased Archimedes turret weapon spaces to 4, 5 and 4.
Increased base seat efficiency with no crew member from 10% to 20%.
Increased base turning, speed and acceleration when the ship has no gear, to avoid becoming stuck.
Increased base item drop chance for bigger ship sizes.
Ravager bosses of any level will now drop Ancient Relics, but normal gold star enemies won't.
Ravager bosses now add +1 rarity to loot generated while still maintaining minimum blue rarity.
Fixed 'Burst Light Laser' drop rates on higher level enemies.

Small Update - 1.2.1b

Added Epic Spaceship: Lacewing (size 2: yacht)
Added Feat Perk/Achievement: Battleship Raid ("Defeat 5 bosses your level or higher, using a yacht or shuttle.") which is also the only way to unlock the new epic ship Lacewing.
Added Gunner Bonus effect: Critical Damage Bonus +X%
Credits dropped by enemies or locations are now auto looted.
Fixed independent(civilian, marauder, mercenary...) ships having a 100% item drop chance.
Fixed Relics and other items not stacking properly.
Fixed crew description issues on Spanish language