9.16 Update Notes

CM Chris · 15 Apr 2019, 11:39PM

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Greetings, Captains. The 9.16 update is deploying Tuesday, April 16th at ~4:00 PM PDT. This update contains support for a new campaign, the April Forsaken Missions, April VXP Weekend, several balance changes, and new component retrofits for T8 Siege.

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T8 SIEGE COMPONENT RETROFITS

New retrofits will now apply to broader component groups within their class as an additional means of helping reduce PvE repairs, while ensuring that retrofits are not so granular as to be a pain. These three categories are:

T8 Siege Offense - 1% Damage / Level up to 10%

Devastator Cannon
Annihilator Cannon
Raptor Launcher
Stalker Launcher

T8 Siege Battery - 1% Building and Wall Damage / Level up to 10%

Radioactive Battery I
Ballistic Battery I
Lowered Cannon Mount II

T8 Siege Tactical - 1% Projectile Speed, Cannon Critical Damage and Radioactive Reload / Level up to 10%

Welded Barrel System
Insulated Charge Capacitor
High Velocity Rounds
High Pressure Piping

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PvE & PvP SILOING

As part of the ongoing work to silo PvE and PvP from one another following the defense update, fleets containing a mix of both PvE and PvP ships will no longer launch into the world map or combat.

APRIL BALANCE CHANGES

Our regularly scheduled balance change pass has arrived, which will primarily be focused on PvP. Most of these changes are in 9.16, but we are calling out one additional change in 9.17, as it is part of the bundle.

The players who spent gold on these hulls since 3/1/19 to the time of release notes posting will receive a compensation gift to offset any setbacks incurred.

Resonance Capacitor and Resonance Battery - Released with 9.17

Starting on the 23rd these specials will no longer provide bonuses in base combat. They will still function exactly as they normally do in all other parts of the game.

Breacher Countermeasures

Accuracy decreased from 150% to 65%.
The accuracy bonus for being stationary still applies.

Vassago’s Pride - This change is correcting an oversight from the PvP refactor last year. The aura of Vassago’s Pride adding 250% damage is an out-of-balance number in relation to the scale at which things were tuned last year. You may have noticed your hulls getting instantly killed by Prides, and the Vassago’s Pride is the cause of that.

Flagship Aura - Corrosive Damage from +250% to +50%.

King’s Writ - The King’s Writ is a hull that simply does too much additional damage. This was an oversight from the PvP refactor last year.

Concussive Damage bonus from +225% to +125%.

Harlock’s Revenge and Revenge - Similar to Vassago’s Pride and King’s Writ, these hulls have built in damage bonuses that are simply out of scale post damage refactor. They are being brought in line.

Concussive Damage bonus reduced from +315% to +115%.

Thunderlord - The pressure created by the Thunderlord against ships attempting to stay at long range is correct, but the pressure it creates on ships attempting to engage with a base directly is a bit more than we’d like. The minimum range has been pushed out, and projectiles travel slightly slower now.

Projectiles travel roughly 20% slower.
Minimum range increased from 250 to 300.

Tempest - The Tempest is a little stronger than we intended it to be, and the community has been pretty vocal about how much they dislike that. We’re bringing it in line.

Damage decreased from 800,000 to 600,000.
Accuracy decreased from 80% to 70%.

Piranha Depth Charge IV - Just a bug fix!

Should now correctly deal damage to submerged targets.

Deathrattle Rockets - Deathrattle Rockets were overlooked in tuning for the Defense Update. Unfortunately, this has left them in a devastatingly overpowered state; they are getting the same damage adjustment that most weapons received with the Defense Update in the interest of keeping them in line with pre-Defense Update behavior.

Damage reduced from 78,000 to 54,600.

Additionally, the refit tax removal period has ended. It will be re-enabled as part of this update.

APRIL FORSAKEN MISSION

Cycle 1
Begins: Wednesday, April 17th @ 3:00PM PDT
Ends: Wednesday, April 24th @ 12:00PM PDT

Cycle 2
Begins: Wednesday, April 24th @ 3:00PM PDT
Ends: Wednesday, May 1st @ 12:00PM PDT

Cycle 3
Begins: Wednesday, May 1st @ 3:00PM PDT
Ends: Wednesday, May 8th @ 12:00PM PDT

The April Forsaken Missions contain lots of great components to claim and improve your ship builds. Don’t miss out!

Full briefing releases Tuesday, April 16th.