Star Traders - welcome all new captains to the void! We've been pushing new art updates in thanks for all the captains who jumped on the Supporter's Badge DLC recently. Unfortunately, one of the types of new artwork - Contact faces - is one we haven't done in a long time and we botched it just a little bit. In a small fraction of games, you could end up with a hung Contact list. We decided the only want to fix this was with more artwork!

Thanks to everyone who has joined us on this crazy journey, and enjoy this small, art-heavy update!

We're excited to add 4 more Contact faces to the game, matching yesterday's +4 for a big +8 in variety. These interesting, odd, and fashionable gravs live their lives on the known worlds of the void. They are power players, criminals, princes and more. It is always exciting to come back to this catalog and add more depth!

We fixed a bug that could cause your Contact list to refuse to open (thanks Update #356!) and also an old bug that could cause some variations of the Plague Era storyline to hang.

The 3 new Battle Prows from #356 also had a minor issue of their price being the same regardless of level. This is now resolved with this patch.

It is a short one, but we hope the artwork sweetened it!

- New Art! Added art for 4 new Contact characters
- Fixed bug that could prevent contact list from opening
- Fixed bug with dialog in Plague Era that could crash at end of Era mission
- Fixed same price for Battle Prow 6, 7, 8

Welcome all new Turn-based RPG Fest captains! The void, the spice hall, and great adventure waits. Also the xeno are waiting. So let's get updating before they catch up to us. Update #56 includes new artwork, new Battle Prow ship components, improvements to Hangar Bays and an important fix for xeno ship encounters as well as balance changes to the Terrox Deathspear.

If you haven’t checked it out in a bit, our new game Cyber Knights: Flashpoint is evolving fast in Early Access with Update #150 recently going live. For Turn-based RPG Fest, we released a batch of stories that are filling out the Treaty '31 Era (you know Eras, Star Traders!!!) in which a new megacorporation joins the New Boston charter and "comes to town".

All support for Cyber Knights ultimately results in a brighter future for Star Traders, so hope you’ll check it out and spread the word!
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We wanted to send out special thanks to all of our amazing captains who have "badged up" and purchased the Supporter Badge DLC with some new and exciting artwork. We already released some new planetary environments in the last update, but this time we've come back to hit Zenrin Prime with a special city background as well as add a cool "underwater wreck" artboard for oceanic wild zones.

Also, we've added 4 new classic looks for your grav Contacts. We're excited to come back to expanding this catalog a bit after such a long break - it is also fun to see such new and interesting faces as you land across the quadrants and meet its power players.

Rolling off the line in true beast mode, these Battle Prows boast major bonuses to boarding operations and craft defense as well as major Armor bonuses. These advanced versions of the less Battle Prows sell for a major penny, so they'll often be late career upgrades for boarding heavy, close range combat ships.

We've continued to adjust and buff the meta around Hangar bays as a useful part of your ship stats in addition to holding craft. Stronger hangar bays - of which you need a couple - make larger carriers more powerful and more viable. With this update we've improved the Large Hangar Bay as well as its Shielded and Reinforced variations to grant additional defense bonus, bonuses against attack enemy craft and heightened armor.

The Alta Mesa Warhawk Hangar Bay joins in the boost with its own bonuses to Craft Defense and ship defense as well.

The variations in hangar bays can help you puzzle together the right results you want out of the stats from these bays as you build out a ship that might have to dedicate 4+ component slots to them in order to support your fleet.

For all those players hitting issues where a xeno ship would be encountered and then the Fight button in the ship encounter screen would lead to a black screen or a crash, we've resolve the issue now! Apologies for the bug and you can fight xeno again.

The Terrox Deathspear has received some balance changes to ensure it is different and exciting enough of a combatant in ship. With Update #356, we have reduced its Ship Hull by 10% (300 pts) and increased its base Armor by +2. You can carve through the Deathspear a little faster now assuming you can reduce or work around the armor!

- New Art! New planetary image added -- new Zenrin Prime specific art, Hall of Memories
- New Art! New planetary image added -- new Oceanic wild zone shows crashed ship
- New Art! Added art for 4 new Contact characters
- New Ship Components: Battle Prow 6-8; optimized for close range boarding and cover for craft
- Buffs for Large Hangar Bay (Normal, Shielded, Reinforced) now grants Ship Defense, Craft Attack, Armor
- Warhawk Hangar Bay now grants Craft Defense, Craft Offense and Ship Defense
- Fixed issue with xeno ship fights ending in black screen or crash
- Reduced Terrox Deathspear Xeno Ship Hull Points by 10% (-300)
- Increased Terrox Deathspear Base Armor by +2