Overview

This update contains a large number of UI improvements designed to expose more information to the player. It also includes a more comprehensive tutorial and many balance changes.

Features

• Added a new UI element that shows formation cooldowns.
• Added damage and cost multipliers to formations.
  • Militia Formation is slower but probes sent using it are cheaper.
  • Spread Formation probes are 50% cheaper but also deal 40% damage.
• All relics now display their stats via tooltips and sub-tooltips.
• Improved Tutorial
• Added danger vignette effect.
• Better money indicator

Changes

• The rudimentary formation will no longer be removed after gaining other formations.
• Nerfed Neutral Faction
  
• Nerfed Aggressive Faction
  
• Nerfed Meticulous Faction
• Nerfed Oversized Factories
• Nerfed Hyperbeams
• Nerfed Probe Payloads
• Nerfed Probe Reinforcements
• Adjusted Pacifist Faction behavior so they can more easily capture neutral systems, and will retaliate more reliably. 

Fixes

• Fixed Mk 4 missiles requiring Mk 1 instead of 3
• Fixed probes freezing if the player has high-level probe payloads and reinforcements.
• Fixed the info screen being inaccessible if the starting system was set >0
• Fixed propaganda machines giving strength based on how many systems you have.

What's Next?

The next update will focus on meta-progression (progression that takes place across multiple runs of the game), this will likely take the form of unlocking relics and game modifiers through achievements.