NEW FEATURES:
Star Prospector - Tower Defender
- New tower defense style game
- Features 8 levels
- Earn bronze, silver, or gold medals for each level you complete
- Hours of new gameplay available
New buildings:
- Plasma turret
- Pulse turret
- Slowing tower (slowing field) - slows enemy units to 50%
New PERKS system (Purchase under new ★ tab at the shop)
- Increase starting ore 1 and 2 - start with 500 or 1000 ore
- Increase starting fuel 1 and 2 - start with 100 or 250 fuel
- Increase radar range (50% range increase)
- Scanning enrichment (change to enrich patches on first scan)
- Scanning Quantity (change to increase quantity of ore in a patch on first scan)
- Ore bonus 1 and 2 - get credits for remaining ore in a mission (25% up to 250 credits, 50% up to 500)
- Sell bonus - Sell bulding returns 75% ore instead of the default 50%
Gameplay/Interface
- Added "recycle" button to all buildings (returns 50% ore)
- New system for queueing commands. Supports move, attack, attack-move, repair, build
- Rig will now repair damaged damaged buildings via Right-click (for warp platform you still need to use Repair command)
- Vegetation re-scaled in most environments (looks muchbetter)
- NEW upgrade system for turrets (hotkey u)
- New hotkeys : (+) increase game speed, (-) decrease game speed, (u) upgrade selected turret
- Added quicksave - hotkey F5
- Fabricator rally-point can now be set on mining nodes so new miners auto-mine
- Added support for user_fonts.cfg in APP DATA to override font settings
- Added option for high DPI fonts (under Options->HUD)
- Tooltip delay removed so people can easily see the hotkey assignments etc.
- New option to display tooltips in Options->HUD
- Options menu layout changed, new HUD tab for in-game GUI options
- Game speed control max raised to 1.8x
- Mission Time display now shows the game speed multiplier (only if it is greater than 1.0x)
- Picking up crates now indicates the type and amount of item you picked up
- Rick-click on an empty area will now rotate a turret (if there are no enemies in range)
- Right-click on an empty area will stop a turret attacking friendly or neutral targets like barrels
- Toggle for turret radar range indicator circles
BALANCE CHANGES:
- High level building cost changes:
- ZeroPoint Generator 1000 ore -> 750 ore
Quantum Computer 1500 ore 800 fuel -> 750 ore 500 fuel
Warp Platform 1000 ore 500 fuel -> 500 ore 250 fuel
Deep Fuel Well 500 ore -> 250 ore
Bot Upgrader 1000 ore 500 fuel -> 500 ore 250 fuel
Unit control II 250 ore -> 200 ore
- Scavenger raids can now come from Scavenger camps and strongholds
- Enemies at higher levels now do more damage
- Enemy turret upgrade level now set with mission level
- More enemies added at mission objective locations
- Scavenger camp and stronghold active spawn count increased
- Building/Unit pattern drops removed
- Scavenger dropships now drop loot when destroyed
- Light turret HP increased from 150 to 250
- Heavy turret HP increased from 250 to 500
- Credits crate amount now scales with level (+25% per level)
BUG FIXES:
- Graphics resolution window changed so list shouldn't extend off screen
- Circling missiles with small units fixed
- Blue selection marquee no longer drawn when game paused (i.e when a modal window is active)
- If you shift-move across a river, the bridge to cross is now the closest bridge to the last waypoint (not the current position)
- Fixed screen flash when restarting a mission
- Build a turret or building and go back to shop and the model viewer 3d portrait is out of place
- Missile from turrets now have smoke trails
- Turrets no longer auto-target barrels
- Agent path memory-pool data was not being returned on dead (rare case)
- Flame turrets were not damaging all enemies in the flame path
- Deleting a profile now removes saved game files
Command queue!