I don’t see how Keen Software House is focusing on bugs here, as they said they would in the last update. This is more feature-filled. But these features aren’t ones to argue about. Great potential can be seen in this. 🙂
The update seems to focus mostly on upgrades to turrets. Upgrades such as;
-The rocket turret now works.
-Turrets attack the player and your ship(which much renders the Decoy obsolete).
-Turrets can act as an anti-missile system.
-Turrets are now on cargo ships, making them even harder to approach, let alone board. Their systems are conveyer-fed, giving them infinite ammo.
-Seems the default spawn platform now has more toys to play with (new game only).
-Ship weapons now have fire modes, which I’m not all that happy about (was hoping they would do it like most games of its gene, which is left click for guns and right click for -Conveyer tubes now have curved pieces.
But the one feature that really has me interested enough to make this blog post, turrets are now on cargo ships, is pretty awesome. It makes them a lot less boring. I even played around with this thing, and happy to report they’re quite vicious and fun at the same time, especially Military-class cargo ships who use the new rocket turrets.
If your ship isn’t equipped to handle one of them, expect to find a lot of hull breaches
Another feature, which is equally interesting, is that cargo ships now have turrets to defend them against would-be pirates. Coupled with the fact they also have anti-missile systems, they should be even harder to approach, let alone board. Read that their turret systems are conveyer-fed, giving them infinite ammo.
This seems like an added challenge to Survival players, if they decide to go pirating instead of manually getting their resources themselves.
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Sadly, I don’t see any hint that they’ve fixed turrets from attacking your station while attacking asteroids. Still need to test. I haven’t seen any game-breaking bugs, thankfully. And I believe they made loading a game faster now. Pretty sweet.