The month has past, and we are back here with a bunch of news:)
- Patrolmans in 3D
Vanguard and Deprived Patrolman models are finally ready:
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More than a year ago, we’ve announced three new neutral NPC factions - Traders, Miners, and Smugglers. And as Miners are already available in Starfall Tactics, the time has come to add another faction - Traders.
- Traders NPC Faction
More than a year ago, we’ve announced three new neutral NPC factions - Traders, Miners, and Smugglers. And as Miners are already available in Starfall Tactics, the time has come to add another faction - Traders.
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Traders Ships
In general, Traders are not the faction in common sense - they are just some guys from colonies on neutral planets who’s primary occupation is buying and selling all types of goods across the known Galaxy. So their bases are far from faction or pirate stations as their primary goal is to be a safe marketplace for all types of peaceful traders and customers. Traders stations can be found across the Galaxy - where you can buy goods and complete special tasks. Their fleets consist mostly of big freighters (including Charon) with huge cargo bays and some effective weapons to defend against pirates.
Traders are busy with transporting resources from one inhabited planet to another and selling various goods - you can meet them both inside the Inner Circle, on faction territories, and in Outer Regions. You will probably want to destroy their fleets and get all the cargo for yourself…but don’t hurry too much: there is a huge chance to earn great rewards for saving traders from pirates.
- Gateways
Among these changes, there is one very important thing we must mention here: we are getting back our smaller warp gates which were previously used as warp beacons. Now they are called Gateways and take all functions of checkpoints and let you warp between existing gateways.
- Docking
Docking to objects became more comfortable for you:
To escape unwanted situations and make docking procedure more logical, we’ve implemented important changes: Now, when you dock to an object, you fleet really gets inside it, disappears from the star system map and therefore can’t be attacked. Hooray!
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- Strike Back
We’ve implemented a new system, which allows pirates to strike back the most active and bold pirate hunters.
How does it all work?
When you destroy too many pirate fleets from the same base, a special punishing fleet is sent to eliminate you. There are three threat levels and three fleets - the strongest one has a powerful Boss, which can become a real trouble for you.
- Pirate Bosses
We plan to add some faction-specific bosses with time, give them new abilities and, in general, make them an interesting challenge for you. And while our game designers and programmer are busy with preparing things and working on other features, our 3D modelers create skins for already existing pirate bosses:
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- New Pirate Fleet type & quest type
Great news for ones who love completing various missions in Starfall Tactics: we are increasing their numbers and adding new types of quests. There are certainly a couple of nice things to be added, and the first one is quests for killing specific pirates. Heavy bounties are often put on the heads of the most annoying pirate Commanders and give you a chance to earn some nice rewards for taking down a concrete pirate. As “customers” usually have approximate coordinates of these fleet - you just need to find the system, catch the pirate and destroy it.