Hello!

As a special post-Thanksgiving treat, we are releasing a new ship from the Phamysht!  They would consider it rude if you didn't allow them to eat you.  We have also done a game balance tune up and fixed bugs.  Read below for details.  

Summary

• Phamysht (new ship) It would be very rude not to let them eat you. They have the following attacks:
  • Charbroiled - Single-fire shot that roasts enemy ships. 
  • Invitation -- The Phamysht make a series of very polite requests. Nearby ships' crew immediately disembark and floats towards the Phamyst ship for "dinner." 
• Gameplay balance pass based on community feedback
• Player-created ships are much peppier now 
• Bug fixes 

Changelog

Gameplay

• Arena:
  • Reduced asteroid damage
  • Increased arena size from 45 to 60
  • Decreased max separation from 45 to 40
  • Planet made slightly smaller, gravity radius increased.
  • Custom ships: reduced physics drag so they behave more like the core ships. 
• Drenkend 
  • Drag increased from none to 0.1
  • Max Speed reduced from 6 to 4.5
  • Turn rate reduced from 120 to 60
  • Boarding party speed increased from 3 to 5.5
  • Boarding Ships are easier to pick up 
• Earthling Ship: The Nuclear Missile is now destroyed by AOE weapons. 
• Jeff is more aggressive
• Menkmack: Mine radius reduced
• Mowlings: Beam Carver damage significantly increased.
• The Measured
  • Renamed weapon from "Paperwork" to "Red tape"
  • Updated the weapon effect 
  • Red tape duration increased from 10 to 120 seconds
  • Increased cooldown time between allowed Demotivator bursts.
• Trandals: Increased collision area to better match the ship.
• Phamysht (new ship) It would be very rude not to let them eat you. They have the following attacks:
  • Charbroiled - Single-fire shot that roasts enemy ships. 
  • Invitation -- The Phamysht make a series of very polite requests. Nearby ships' crew immediately disembark and floats towards Phamyst ship for "dinner." 
• Scryve Scout 
• Speed reduced from 9.5 to 4.5
• Turn radius reduced from 360 to 240
• Point cost reduced from 8 to 7
• Health reduced from 27 to 15
• Tywom: Turn rate reduced from 240 to 180

MP 

• Ships are no longer occasionally invisible. Wasn't fair to the other life-form
• Asteroids are better synced between peer and server. 
• Enemy's ship trails now always show the correct color
• Fixed a bug where the peer in Local Matches would sometimes get fully healed and charged for no good reason. 

UI

• Right-clicking a ship in the Fleet configuration screen removes it from that player's fleet.
• Scale sliders in the Ship Design Editor now display as ratios of 100%
• Changed "Earth Ship" to "Earthlings Ship"
• Added word wrap to the Upload Design dialog in Crafting menu
• Increased the contrast on the crew meters' artwork so they'd show up better on certain displays (e.g. televisions) 
• The '+' button no longer appears if your fleet was full.

Bugs 

• Addressed several cases where the audio wasn't playing correctly on the peer.
• Fixed a crash in the Ship Design List. This crash occurred when a ship design button was clicked after the exit button had been activated.
• Fixed a bug where you could start a single player super melee game with no ships in the AI's fleet.
• Added sounds for the Drenkend and Jeff.
• Fixed pink edges on the arena planet on NVIDIA cards.
• Weird characters won't prevent you from saving your ship designs.
• Pressing "start game" while dragging a ship no longer crashes.
• Fixed a problem where some ship designs weren't appearing on the ship design list if they weren't outfitted.
• Fixed a problem where the Melee Config screen sometimes showed a '+' button even if there were no ships available to select.
• The Measured will no longer fire only in one direction if the ship isn't moving.