The Starborne Beta is live, and here are the changes coming with it!
New
Animated avatars.
Added localizable descriptions for card blueprints.
Overhauled most sound effects but not all, count this as WIP.
Raid combat report headers now display a special icon if the attacker’s total cargo wasn’t filled.
Added flavor texts for all buildings and organizations.
Changes
New Art in the Store panel.
All organizations now have logos.
New Art for a bunch of cards.
New placeholder art for cards still missing original art.
Renamed “Black Hole” sector to “Omega” sector.
Store Bundles now automatically list their Claims, Avatars, Explosions, and Badges.
Blueprints:
All blueprint levels have now been reset and refunded (including all cards that have been removed from the game).
Breaking down cards no longer yields blueprint fragments.
Blueprint fragments are now earned via the progression rewards (for reaching certain commander levels during a game) so you earn them simply by playing.
All card blueprint costs revised for Open Beta.
Decreased the delay of switching zone playlists when you traverse the map.
Queued items and movements should now display “Processing…” rather than negative timers if the server can’t update the client in real-time.
Opening the reports panel now automatically loads the top-most combat report.
Login rewards:
Now connected to player age rather than game age (players now claim login reward 1 for the first day they play regardless of how old the game was when they first logged in).
There are now 30 login rewards per game.
Renamed Civilian Militia building to Docking Services.
The vortex model made smaller.
Broken planet models no longer all face the same direction.
Top All-time Battles have been removed from view mode settings.
Fixes
Premium indicator updates on start.
Various spelling errors fixed.
Updated old information in various tooltips and descriptions.
Renamed “Aires Ice Belt” to “Aries Ice Belt”.
Fixed an issue where account inventory items were being automatically claimed by the game server.
Fixed an issue where players were unable to use the Founder’s Pack avatars.
Welcome rewards are working again.
Improved chat panel performance when switching to a channel that has a lot of messages.
Chat messages are no longer cut off when the chat window is scrolled all the way down.
Deselecting the chat by mouse click no longer submits typed text to the chat.
The counter above the Notification list now correctly reflects the number of notifications in the list.
Fixed a bug where several star IDs were missing from the list of solar flare hexe (all stars now properly spawn solar flares).
All fleet cards now render in the logistics panel’s fleet details.
Empire details no longer breaks when too many are opened at the same time.
Combat round modifiers now affect outpost firepower.
All movement indicators now use the correct icon and label.
Fixed a bug where Dyson Shell had a level cap of 40 instead of 100.
Fixed a bug so that Department of Acquisitions‘ cargo bonus is now calculated after absolute bonuses are added.
Looking to Play?
To play, create your account on starborne.com and download the installer here on Gamejolt to join an open server. Consider joining the Starborne Discord for gameplay tips and alliance recruitment.
See you on the frontier, commander!
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