Dreadnought News

• We are reworking the tiers in Dreadnought. Veteran queue will now only consist of Tiers II and III, while Legendary queue will house Tiers IV and V. Tier IIIs will no longer play against Tier IVs.
  
• You will be able to again equip modules from previous tiers on your higher tier ships.
  
• Significant balance improvements
  
• More features like long-term rewards and a new competitive game mode
  

Game servers will be brought offline for a one-hour maintenance starting at 4:00 PM CST while this update is pushed live.

• Players will now get an error message if the Steam Overlay is unable to load due to it being set to disabled or being blocked by video capture software.
  
• Improved tracking so that logs sent by players to Customer Support will have more detail to assists in debugging the problem.
  
• Module descriptions will no longer be compressed to the point where some detail was hard to read.
  
• GP or Credits detail should be easier to read in the descriptions of market bundles.
  
• Fixed an issue where too many sounds at the same time were causing distortion.
  // This is a temporary solution while we clean up some lingering issues. You may occasionally hear no sound when firing or using a module during a full scale battle.
  
• Fixed an issue where an item that was part of a bundle might default to the bundle as a purchase option in the market.
  
• The Welcome Bundle display showed 10,000 credits as part of the bundle when you would get 20,000 credits. The UI has been updated to show the correct 20,000 credits.
  

• Fixed a rare issue that could cause all players in a match to crash back to the hangar.
  
• Weapon effects should have a better balance in the mix of battle sounds
  
• Cleaned up an issue where some players would hear far too much reverb audio during battle
  \\ This is a first pass at the critical issues surrounding audio. We will continue to iterate and refine the sound mixing in future updates.
  
• Players should no longer see Steam Names in matches. Your Grey Box account name should now be visible in the hangar and in matches.
  
• The expanded Notification UI will now minimize automatically when you reach 0 remaining notifications and when you enter the Fleet screen.
  
• The ESC - Back in the upper left of the hangar UI is now clickable
  
• The Squad button will now take you to the social screen when you are in a squad.
  
• Fixed an issue where modules would sometimes show a credits purchase cost of -1 credits
  
• Subtitles for voice over in videos should now be localized
  
• Fixed an issue where some text strings were displaying in the wrong language
  
• The Elite Status string in the upper right of the hangar should no longer be displayed in English for all other languages
  
• Fixed an issue where if the Market is empty, returning to the main menu will reload it.