Season 5 has begun!

Features

• Added a new game mode: Daily Challenge. Play a daily fixed-seed run that earns rewards.
• Significantly improved performance throughout the game.
• Removed the account Salvage limit.
• Adjusted the rating gain/loss to be less brutal/punishing at very high ratings.
• All ships now begin each battle with 8 stacks of Warp Dampening. Each stack reduces all damage taken by 10%, and one stack is lost every 2 seconds.
• Removed Hull Hardening's post-turn-10 item cooldown increase.
• Added text search and optional name labels to Trinkets in the Codex.

Starmap — coming soon

• The starmap is in active development. It is taking a bit longer than expected but should be ready soon.

Item balances

• Welding Laser cooldown and Electricity cost decreased slightly.
• Mining Laser cooldown and Electricity cost decreased slightly.
• Toxic Barrel cooldown now doubles after each activation.
• Chef's Cooking Pot base Fuel cost reduced to 1. Fuel cost now increases by 2 after each activation instead of 1.
• Dax, Contraband Runner poison transfer cooldown increased from 2s -> 2.5s.
• Conveyor Belt now charges only connected non-Crew items.
• Extra Potent Rust Nugget debuff resistance loss reduced from 12% -> 8%.
• Admiral Thorne, Sharpshooter cooldown reduced from 6s -> 5s.
• Gunner now charges connected weapons by 0.6s instead of 0.5s.
• Undercity Ghoul healing from poison and radiation increased from 5% -> 7%.
• Igor, Rust Glutton max hull gain increased from 15 -> 20.
• Igor, Rust Glutton base cooldown reduced from 3.5s -> 3s.
• Rocco, Drill Sergeant connected Crew charge increased from 35% -> 45%.
• Combat Medic's emergency ability Hull threshold increased from 20% -> 25%.
• General Gribbon, Mortar Master's connected Weapon damage and lifelink increased from 15% -> 20%.
• Radio Tower cooldown reduced from 5s -> 4s.
• Supply Crate cooldown reduced from 4.5s -> 4s.
• Ion Drive cooldown reduced from 5.5s -> 5s.
• Synthesizer Hull cost reduced from 3 -> 2.
• Magnetic Rounds lifelink increased from 40% -> 50%.
• Prickly Pear additional spike chance increased from 25% -> 40%.
• Titan Core hull gained per connection reduced from 4% -> 3%.
• Galvanized Plate Plating gained decreased from 2 -> 1.

New trinkets

• Twinfire Chip: While you have exactly 2 Weapon items, both charge +30% faster.
• Reactor Tap: Every 7s, gain 1 Electricity per Crew Member.
• Afterburner: While cloaked, Weapons deal +60% more damage.
• Smuggler’s Cache: Every 8s, gain 4 Ammo and 2 Fuel.
• Siege Mount: Weapon items gain +1 damage per 2 tiles they occupy.
• Cauldrite Plating: Gain 3 Armor whenever a Crew Member activates.
• Boarding Codes: Each Crew Member’s first activation inflicts 1 Hack on the enemy ship.
• Rogue Drone Processor: Crew Members charge 20% slower; other items charge +10% faster.
• Matter Exchanger: Restore 1 Hull per debuff removed.
• Venom Membrane: Convert 30% of incoming non-Poison damage into Poison on your ship.

Trinket balances

• Crew Pager now guarantees a Crew Member item in each of the first two shop rolls of the turn instead of only the first.
• Fitness Band healing chance increased from 70% -> 85%.
• Lost Package max ammo increased from 5 -> 10.
• Petri Dish hull-restored trigger decreased from 20 -> 15.
• Quartz Tipped Shells chance to gain 1 electricity on critical hit increased from 60% -> 75%.
• Orb of Symmetry Hull and damage bonuses increased from 16% -> 20%.
• Burnt Capacitor now fires a 50-damage lightning strike every 40 electricity spent, down from 50.
• Void Intake base cooldown reduced from 3s -> 2s.
• Focusing Lens focused-beam damage multiplier increased from 1.20x -> 1.30x.

Fixes

• Fixed Access Cards adding their doors more than once per 10 rerolls.
• Fixed resource bars extending beyond the HUD on Steam Deck.
• Separated 2v2 from All captains on the Leaderboard and made the 2v2 tab clearer.
• Fixed first-time 2v2 setup trapping players in the tutorial and blocking the room.
• Fixed Bionic Legs moving captains or failing to apply transferred gem bonuses to the allied ship in co-op.
• Fixed delayed co-op battle data causing partners to enter different fights or advance to different run states.
• Fixed reconnecting during co-op Ready rolling ships back to older builds without refunding gold spent on newer purchases.
• Fixed co-op ally ships not updating during build phases and restored active co-op rooms after restarting.
• Fixed battle outcomes sometimes disagreeing with the surviving ships, final Health, or combat log.
• Fixed Burn, Acid, and other effect damage being credited to the wrong co-op teammate in battle summaries.
• Fixed co-op Confirm actions sometimes stalling instead of completing.
• Fixed Crew Member progress being lost after using Mutation Chamber or Training Bay.
• Fixed Crew Member merges at the mutation limit discarding incoming mutations instead of replacing the oldest mutation.
• Fixed Debuff lifelink not restoring Health when radiation removed maximum Health.
• Exotic Goods no longer gains sell value when undoing a merge, keeping displayed gold in sync with the server.