Lost Fleet News

Quick main branch update before the Thanksgiving holiday.

[h3] Improvements: [/h3]

• Added motion particles.
  
• Torpedoes no longer take team damage.
  
• Improved AI turret targeting.
  
• Adjusted Sabre camera positioning.
  

[h3] Fixes: [/h3]

• Fixed a bug causing fighter AI to misjudge its firing angle and hold fire too often.
  
• Fix for titan flak turrets not dealing damage, reigned in flak turret firing arcs.
  
• Fix for Mothership heal radius interacting with aiming reticles.
  
• Fix for break caused by switching ships while in command mode.
  

[h3] Infinite Mode: [/h3]

• Mining zones: enemy spawn frequency increased from 60 to 40 seconds, jump drive charge time reduced from 240 to 160 seconds.
  
• Fixed difficulty modifier that would pick enemy waves less aggressively than intended.
  
• Increased SuperTalon boss damage.
  
• Fixed missing label for destroy freighters mission.
  
• Added objective tags to salvage mission.
  

Update to the work in progress build. You can access the latest beta build by right clicking on Lost Fleet in your steam library -> clicking Properties -> Betas -> and selecting 'testing - beta branch' in the Beta Participation dropdown.

[h3] Improvements: [/h3]

• Added motion particles.
  
• Torpedoes no longer take team damage.
  
• Experimental AI turret target leading improvements.
  

[h3] Fixes: [/h3]

• Fixed a bug causing fighter AI to misjudge its firing angle and hold fire too often.
  
• Fix for titan flak turrets not dealing damage, reigned in flak turret firing arcs.
  
• Fix for Mothership heal radius interacting with aiming reticles.
  
• Potential fix for break caused by switching ships while in command mode.
  

[h3] Infinite Mode Rework: [/h3]

• Infinite Mode has been reworked so the goal is to progress through stages rather than waves survived. Still a work in progress, expect future improvements to balance, pacing, mission variety & mechanics.
  
• There are now 3 stage types: mining zones, mission zones and boss encounters.
  
• Mining Zones work like before, hold out as long as possible to mine resources. You can jump out as soon as the drive recharges.
  
• Mission Zones have a secondary objective that must be completed before you can jump away, objectives with a fail state let you jump away without earning the mission bonus.
  
• Boss encounters pit your fleet against unique and powerful enemies. There’s a cooldown period after defeating the boss, allowing you to regroup and jump to the next area when ready.
  
• Improved notification system for objectives received and completed, letting you know when you can jump, and boss alerts.
  

[h3] General Improvements: [/h3]

• Upper HUD overhaul, with separated elements to display jump status and remaining resource asteroids.
  
• Reworked buy buttons to improve clarity, added audio feedback to ship buying.
  
• You can now group sell ships in command mode using the sell hotkey (default: g). Doesn’t sell mission critical ships, free perk ships, or ships being flown by players. Refund income is split amongst the team in multiplayer.
  
• Replaced Mothership repair beam with area heal, updated repair/healing effect.
  
• Improved capital ship AI, larger ships will try to space out from each other.
  
• Improved AI target leading for Freebee, Dragon, Swordfish & Raven. Improved AI autocannon accuracy across the board.
  

[h3] Fixes: [/h3]

• Fixed Command Mode box select collider interacting with projectiles.
  
• Fix for non-controllable turrets resetting the UI target lead distance, Ranger and capital ship aiming reticles should be back to normal.
  
• Point defense turrets should no longer try to target Dragon bombs.
  
• Fixed selling ships awarding fleet xp.
  
• Fixed impact sfx that weren’t respecting the master volume setting.
  
• Centered dialog text element to avoid clipping in ultrawide.
  
• Fixed HUD radar vibrating when the camera moved on the Y-axis.
  
• Fixed several more objects with light layers that were strobing in command mode.
  
• Fixed fleet perks running after Mothership is defeated.
  
• Fixed broken buy button selection animation.
  
• Fixed Shark ragdoll skeleton.
  
• Fixed incorrect turret platform audio offset.
  
• Corrected Paragon boost type.
  
• Adjusted Hydra missile cruiser camera position.
  
• Fixed Beam weapon description using old string in buy menu.
  
• Adjusted Paragon spawn point to prevent spawns from getting stuck.
  

[h3] Balance changes:[/h3]

• Converted Refinery to fighter style movement.
  
• Standardized Seeker Missile lock angle at 20°.
  
• Increased Sabre missile damage from 10 to 20.
  
• Increased Slingshot Nuke burn time from 7 to 10 seconds, thrust by 5%.
  
• Increased Slingshot & Hydra AI optimal range.
  
• Increased Slingshot torpedo damage from 30 to 40.
  
• Reduced buzzer health from 75 to 70.
  
• Reduced Talon speed & boost thrust ~20%
  
• Reduced Talon rocket damage from 30 to 28.
  
• Fixed Torpedo infinite ammo bug and UI inconsistencies. Removed reload penalty when firing to empty. Increased Slingshot anti-fighter torpedo hitbox.
  
• Reduced Revenant damage from 150 to 130.
  
• Leviathan bio torpedoes are now interceptable.
  
• Reduced enemy spawn frequency on stage 5 ‘Metallic Clouds’.
  

Update to the work in progress build. You can access the latest beta build by right clicking on Lost Fleet in your steam library -> clicking Properties -> Betas -> and selecting 'testing - beta branch' in the Beta Participation dropdown.

[h3] Improvements: [/h3]

• Testing out Mothership area heal.
  
• Updated heal beam sprite.
  

Update to the work in progress build. You can access the latest beta build by right clicking on Lost Fleet in your steam library -> clicking Properties -> Betas -> and selecting 'testing - beta branch' in the Beta Participation dropdown.

[h3] Fixes & Improvements: [/h3]

• Increased event notification onscreen time.
  
• Adjusted Paragon spawn point to prevent spawns from getting stuck.
  
• Hanger spawns are no longer marked as sellable.
  
• Fixed spacing in resources remaining counter.
  

[h3] Infinite Mode: [/h3]

• Set team money to $300 at start.
  
• Mining zone is now the starting area.
  
• Mining zone gates now match enemy spawn locations regardless of position, restricted enemy spawns to positions to be closer to the Mothership y-axis.
  
• Boss Talon: Reduced Damage from 300 to 100, increased health from to 3600.
  

[h3] Balance: [/h3]

• Standardized Seeker Missile lock angle at 20°.
  
• Increased Sabre missile damage from 10 to 20.
  
• Increased Slingshot Nuke burn time from 7 to 10 seconds, thrust by 5%.
  
• Increased Slingshot & Hydra AI optimal range.
  
• Increased Slingshot torpedo damage from 30 to 40.
  
• Reduced buzzer health from 75 to 70.