👨🚀 HQ has prepared a new update 3.19. It is gradually becoming available to all Commanders. And here’s a changelog.
Arena Economy
🔻 Daily Deals now include the Black Hole Galaxy for 400 Celestium. The blueprint for Kronos is added for 50 Celestium. The cost of one blueprint for Khonarl, Oblivion Ark, and Prophet has been reduced to 50. The price of the Phantom Galaxy has been increased to 200 Celestium.
🔻 The rewards for achieving Legend and Elite III league groups in the leaderboard have been partially changed. In the first case, the Phantom Galaxy was replaced by the Black Hole Galaxy, and in the second case, the Iota Galaxy was replaced by the Phantom Galaxy.
Game Modes
🔻 The rewards for the events Arena Cup, Elite Contest, and Newbie Pursuit have been reworked. More details on each type of contest:
Arena Cup:
- An extra Celestium and blueprints for the prize ship rewards have been added. Starting from 1550 cups, Commanders will receive 10 Celestium for every 50 cups up to 2050 cups. In total, Commanders can earn an extra 110 Celestium. When reaching 2250 cups, Commanders will earn 10 blueprints for the prize ship.
- The rewards for top places in the leaderboard have been revised. Top1 receives the prize ship without modifications, 750 Celestium, and the Black Hole Galaxy. Top4-top10 get 5 blueprints for the prize ship, top11-top15 receive 4 blueprints, top16-top20 get 3 blueprints, top21-top25 get 2 blueprints, and top26+ receive 1 blueprint.
- The cost of participation in the Arena Cup has been adjusted depending on the class of the prize ship.
Elite Contest:
- Rewards have been revised. The first Arena Cup ticket can now be obtained at 230 tokens milestone.
- The final reward for 2000 tokens has been replaced with a Limit Breaker.
- The rewards for top places in the leaderboard have been revised. Top1 gets 5 Arena Cup tickets, 100 Celestium, and one Black Hole Galaxy. Top2 gets 4 Arena Cup tickets and 75 Celestium. Top3 gets 3 Arena Cup tickets and 50 Celestium. Top4-top10 gets 2 Arena Cup tickets and 25 Celestium. Top 11-top20 get 1 Arena Cup ticket and 15 Celestium. Top 21-top50 get 10 Celestium. Top 51+ get 5 Celestium.
Newbie Pursuit:
- Rewards have been revised. The first Arena Cup ticket can now be obtained at 105 tokens milestone.
🔻 The Raids event has been changed based on feedback from Commanders who participated in the beta test. Here’s more about the changes:
- The enemy builds have been revised.
- The Raid now consists of 20 stages instead of 15.
- The maximum number of ships allowed for participation has been reduced to 3.
- Rewards for completing Raid stages have been increased.
- Engineering stations appear more often.
- The mercenaries’ ship builds have been changed. Some mercenaries’ ships now have open modifications, and their ship upgrades have been increased. The mercenary costs have been changed.
- The cost of repairing and restoring ships using Wirilum and Celestium has been reduced. The cost of changing ship’s builds has also been reduced.
- A feature to view the current module upgrades has been added.
- Before starting a battle, a confirmation window has been added in case the fleet is not full.
- When hiring mercenaries, a confirmation window has been added.
The first Raids will start in early December. The Trade Consortium will be waiting for Commanders who wish to help with escorting the Harvester cargo for a reward!
Modules and Ships
🔻 A new Fighter codenamed Interceptor has been added. This is a special ship available for unlocking at level 4 for 50 blueprints and 1,000,000 Credits.
Thanks to the received feedback after beta-testing the ship, HQ made the following changes to its final version:
- The Health of Armor Modules parameter has been replaced with Health of Engine Modules with the same upgrade values.
- The Total Module Damage parameter value has been reduced at the maximum level 40 upgrade.
Ship parameters:
- 24 cells without modifications, and 32 cells with all modifications.
- Total Module Armor unique bonus.
- Total Module Damage, Total Module Range, Reflect of Armor Modules, Health of Engine Modules, Turn Power of Engine Modules, and Power use of Ballistic modules ship parameters.
For a limited time, a premium period will last. It simplifies the upgrading process of the new ships. More details on the premium period can be found here.
🔻 Achievements for the recently released ships Acolyte, Vulture, and Interceptor have been added. They function similarly to the existing achievements for current ships.
Misc
🔻 A section with random offers after collecting all bonuses for purchases has been removed.
🔻 Various bugs have been fixed.