Changelogs

This is a list of Changelogs for Starblast.io, directly quoted from Starblast.io Changelog.

18-09-19

• Adjusted mines arming delay to 2 seconds (normal) and 4 seconds (heavy)
• Mines packs prices cut by 50%
• Station now self-destroys when both deposits and spawnings are all destroyed

2018-09-18

• Mines now have an arming delay (normal: 3 seconds, heavy: 5 seconds)
• Widened mines viewing range (prevents hitting unseen mines)
• Station is destroyed (and team loses) when all depot modules are fully destroyed
• You cannot pick up gems anymore when your crystal cargo is already full
• Attack pods do not fire when ship is invulnerable
• Attack pods do not fire when inside the depot
• Reduced kill gem bonus (-50%)
• Team closing condition now factors player's skill in

2018-09-12

• Nerfed Lv4 aliens waves in team mode

2018-08-31

• Fixed ship branching problem (impacting mods and U-Series)
• Reduced the number of aliens in team mode

2018-08-29

 * Team mode changes:
   - tier 1 ship now has limited lives (4)
   - Number of lives generally set to 4
   - Alien waves will attack the leading team periodically

2018-07-11

• New ECP badge: Medic (designed by Ancient Sky)
• Updated boucing lasers mechanics (wider range, bounce speed decreases)
• Modding Alpha 6

 - add objects with physics
 - set asteroid coordinates, velocity and size
 - destroy asteroid
 - destroy alien
 - destroy ship
 - read and set ship healing status

2018-07-10

• Week Test: Bouncing lasers (survival mode)

2018-06-25

• Modding Alpha 5

 - insert custom 3D objects in your scenery

• Vanguard: fixed lasers spawning position

2018-06-19

• Modding Alpha 3

 - Create custom maps of asteroids: use this to create mazes, racing paths, any pattern of fixed asteroids in fact...
 - allow choosing a starting ship when joining a game (like in battle royale and DM)
 - spawn collectible weapons in the playfield
 - trigger intermission screen (respawn) with customized results
 - trigger game over screen with customized results
 - change selected ship type anytime

2018-06-07

• Balance update:

 - Shadow X-1: widened viewing field
 - Pulse Fighter: Max speed -5, acceleration -10, laser speed -25
 - Y-Def: Power regen -5
 - Vanguard: recoil -15, rotation min +10, acceleration +10
 - Mercury: now smaller, acceleration +10, speed +5

2018-06-05

• Modding Alpha 2

2018-05-31

• Battle Royale now includes a warm-up time

2018-05-24

• Modding system Alpha 1

2018-05-14

• Week test: overhauled ship tree!
• Vanguard acceleration buff
• Shadow X-1: agility buff

2018-05-09

• Starblast application now available for iPhone and iPad!
• New "Training" tutorial mode. Available in English only for now. Switch to English language if you would like to try it.

2018-05-05

• Fixed audio not starting on Chrome 66

2018-05-04

• We kept the kill reward system (last week test) but nerfed it quite a lot. T1 and T2 ships now give no gems. Higher tier ships give less gems.
• Secondaries cooldown is now global to a weapon type ; thus you cannot fire 2 missiles simultaneously even when you have two packs of missiles.

2018-04-26

• Week Test: Kill reward! Killing a ship is now rewarded with a certain amount of gems depending on the level and upgrades of the killed ship (survival and team)
• Battle Royale change: When you collect Power cells and Shield cells, they now take a slot in your inventory until you actually use them (in 2 shots of 100 points)
• Added specific visual helpers for BR mode in the mobile app
• Kill attribution improved, to avoid kill stealing with a single low damage shot or collision. The ship dealing the most damage in the last moments gets the kill.

2018-04-24

• Team mode: You can enter the depot in all cases. Previous restrictions on crystals or credits was perceived as a bug and wasn't useful
• Survival mode: you can open the weapon store in all cases. Previous restrictions (especially max shield) was often perceived as a bug.

2018-04-23

• Mobile app: fixed game freezing after entering survival time
• Mobile app: fixed radar plots colors in team mode

2018-04-17

• Android app is now officially released! We will keep improving it, feedback appreciated :)
• Week Test: Survival maps are much larger and accept 50 players. The radar shows only 1/16th of the map.

2018-03-28

• Week test: In survival mode, broken asteroids can release attack pods which can be collected.
• Fixed skull icon not showing on mobile

2018-03-26

• Renewed icons in anticipation of the mobile app (to be continued)
• Improved ship model quads rendering

2018-03-20

• Improved explosion effect and reduced load on GPU
• Fixed stations disappearing from radar when radar plots count exceeds 100
• Fixed X-Warrior agility which had been mistakenly altered after introducing the Vanguard
• Started introducing our new set of refined icons (by Tournebulle) :)

2018-03-13

• New ship: The Vanguard

2018-03-01

• New custom game options: ship shield regen and power regen factors
• Weapons balance changes:

 - Rockets: cheaper
 - Missiles: slightly cheaper, take 1 second to arm after being shot
 - Torpedoes: cheaper, now take 2 seconds to arm after being shot
 - Defence pods: removed regen
 - Attack pods: shots are now a bit slower

• Battle Royale: now recording victories (for future use)
• All modes: disconnected ship explodes, gives away crystals and credits kill to attacker (previously was only in team mode)
• Team mode: you can now safely disconnect while docked ; you won't lose a life and will also keep your weapons when you recover your ship.
• Disposed weapons are now partially refunded, on pro rata for wear and tear, up to 50% of their new value
• Healing features now activated in team mode (with healing efficiency lowered to 100% from previous 125%)

2018-02-16

• Healing in custom team games ; switch ship lasers operation from offensive to healing (in weapon store)
• New custom games parameter: station shield regeneration
• Improved radar readability in high contrast mode (colorblind)
• Station modules now darken when loosing health
• Fixed bug: Battle Royale custom games were removed by mistake

2018-02-14

• weakened Barracuda when used against teammates (anti Barracuda-trolling)
• Fixed survival mode text cutting

2018-02-05

• Fixed FPS drop in Linux app (was due to screenshot feature, now deactivated by default)
• Fixed several potential game hacks
• Gamepad support can be disabled in standalone app
• Optimized Crystal models generation (less stress on low-end setups)

2018-01-31

• Gem stealing countermeasure: removed from survival mode, restricted conditions (ownership delay)
• Improved survival game closing condition to ensure newcomers join fresher games.

2018-01-24

• Gem stealing countermeasure side-effect bugs fixed

2018-01-23

• Gem stealing countermeasure

2018-01-22

• Fixed frozen ship when killed while donating gems (survival)
• Being damaged while donating gems now automatically closes the weapons store
• Nerfed defense pods (shield capacity reduced from 200 to 150)

2018-01-19

• Added blank ECP badge
• Week-end sale: -50% on rockets and missiles!
• Battle Royale: self target display
• Battle Royale: adjusted occurrence of weapons

2018-01-11

• Fixed display bug in app after closing settings window
• Fixed check boxes not always reloading last setting in custom games creator
• Ping time evaluation method changed
• Server side optimizations for upcoming ACW event
• Fixed bug with custom game creation button

2017-12-20

• Added parameter Station crystal capacity multiplier for custom games
• Added parameter Station repair threshold for custom games
• Added parameter to switch off limited lifespan of mines
• Balance: slight buff to Delta-Fighter and Trident
• removed ECP badges from team chooser screen to prevent ECP stacking
• Station modules now bleed crystals when attacked, even if shield is not fully depleted
• Prepared for future deprecated features in Web Audio API

2017-11-28

• Improved invasion mode rankings (now shows number of victories)
• Standalone application update

- Support for Windows 32bits - Windowed / Fullscreen toggle (Alt+Enter)

2017-11-27

• Battle Royale custom games

2017-11-21

• New: invasion mode leaderboard!
• Repulsive field improved (survival mode)
• changed condition for closing team mode games (time>15 min)

2017-11-20

• Increased radar range in invasion mode.

2017-11-16

• Fixed problem with explosion sounds
• Fixed bug with music volume in invasion mode
• Fixed RCS button bug on touch screens
• Added possibility to start invasion mode private games
• A bit more crystals and weapons in invasion waves 1 and 2
• Fixed countdown display in invasion mode wave zero
• Added volume sliders for music and sound fx in game settings

2017-11-14

• Invasion mode balance improvements
• Improved radar in invasion mode
• Fixed friendly collisions (all team modes)

2017-11-10

• Invasion mode balance update

2017-11-08

• New mode: Invasion (ECP/Steam/itch.io exclusive)
• Standalone game application available on Steam and itch.io

2017-10-26

• We are now using secure websockets (WSS). If the game does not start, refresh the page / clear cache
• And there we are, the game page is now fully HTTPS

2017-10-24

• Fixed problems with camera shake effect
• added health bar for pods

2017-10-21

• Removed hack allowing to transfer gems to credits outside dock / outside weapons store
• fixed problems with the Cursor
• restored a player contribution notice in team mode
• now taking ship mass into account when rocket or mine blasts. Big ships take much less pushback
• fixed mines not always showing in the correct color
• fixed possibility of spawning in a mine field
• now allowing to shoot secondary weapons on touchscreens / mobiles

2017-10-20

• New Secondary Weapons system: 3 kind of Pods, Rockets, Missiles, Mines

- in Team mode, Weapon Store opens when docking to a depot bay - in Survival mode, use "$" key to open Weapon Store, convert crystals to credits and buy weapons

2017-09-26

• Team mode: increased station upgrade cost
• Pro Deathmatch points revision
• Pro Deathmatch joining improved to favor ECP grouping
• Balance update:

- Crusader: small buffs: generator, ship rotation, laser speed
- Bastion: nerfed generator capacity, nerfed acceleration
- Aries: buffed generator capacity and ship rotation

2017-09-18

• Laser pods tweaks:

 - Laser pods are 3x rarer in survival mode
 - Laser pods now cost 100 gems in team mode
 - Laser pods have now more health points
 - Killed ships lose their laser pods ; the pods can be collected by the killer or other players

• In Team mode, T7 ships cannot buy lives

2017-09-14

• Laser pods!

This is the first step in introducing a secondary weapon system to Starblast. There is more to come! Laser pods follow you and shoot lasers ; they will also aim at your closest enemy automatically In survival mode, Laser pods pop from time to time when breaking asteroids. In team mode, you will earn 1 new laserpod every 50 gems you contribute to your station. You can only load 1 pod on a tier 1 ship, 2 on a tier 2 etc. Laser pods can be shot and destroyed ; they have 30 shield points, their shield does not regenerate

2017-09-07

• Fixed repulsive gravitational field origin on tiny maps
• Strengthened and broadened repulsive gravitational field (making the final area smaller)
• Added setting to disable gravity field visual effects
• Repulsive gravity field is now displayed on radar
• cooling time is now taken into account for pulse reload cue (fixes Aries)

2017-09-05

• Changed survival mode: when survival mode starts, main star generates a repulsion gravity field, which causes the play area to shrink.
• Reduced teammate collision damage
• Fixed ghost explosions / RIP messages
• Enhanced and optimized deep space textures

2017-08-11

• New T-5 Ship: The FuryStar (initial idea of Starblast-Gpolic)
• New random names from Babylon 5 for anonymous users
• Added lasers convergence on the Aetos
• Reduced generator capacity of the Bastion
• updated translations (thanks to all contributors)

2017-08-04

• New T-7 Ship: The Bastion (initial design by mrkleinem)
• 5 seconds invulnerability after exiting gem depot
• Visual and audio cue when generator refills to main pulse value
• improved explosion particles pre-emption

2017-07-27

• Raised teams size from 15 to 20

2017-07-26

• Added new language: Farsi
• Team game are now closed for joining when all teams have reached level 4
• It is now always possible to join a team, you should never see all teams locked

2017-07-24

• Pro Deathmatch points decay
• RCS now active in all modes
• New option to disable button clicks

2017-07-17

• Fixed scoring conditions when players abandon round in Pro Deathmatch

2017-07-06

• You can now resume a team game with the same ship after disconnecting from the game (in preparation for upcoming Battle for Alpha Centauri)
• New language: Korean

2017-06-23

• Added language: Hebrew
• Added High Contrast option for color blind people

2017-06-21

• Added language: Thai

2017-06-16

• Pro Deathmatch games are now played by anyone. Only ECP players will be ranked.

2017-06-15

• Pro Deathmatch Championship is live!

2017-06-09

• Making room for some new stuff
• Removed Barracuda-only rounds
• Deathmatch new scoring: target=2, win round at 12
• fixed unending team mode
• updated to THREE.js version 85
• enhanced background textures
• added new language Azeri

2017-05-31

• Deathmatch fixes:

- replace target when target disconnects
- weaker ships less likely to be selected as targets
- removed chat

• Survival mode:

- endgame: after 10 minutes survival, radiation make you lose HP
- asteroids now give more gems (+35%)
- survival now kicks in after 60 minutes

• Weekly balance update

(thanks to the community feedback and compilation/review by Oh_ and Acarii)

- Fly: tiny base speed buff
- Side-Fighter: Shield regen and energy buff
- Mercury: laser damage buff
- Shadow X-2: Shield regen nerf, energy buff
- Toscain: Buffs: shield, energy, laser damage
- Scorpion: energy and laser rate nerfs, laser speed buff
- H-Mercury: reduced mass, speed/acceleration buff, laser tweaks
- Aries: laser rate buff

2017-05-30

• Deathmatch reloaded (anti-teaming):

- each player has a (randomly) assigned target
- kill your target to earn 3 points
- kill anyone to earn 1 point
- score 15 points to win the round

2017-05-24

• Deathmatch anonymized to prevent teaming
• Fixed error trace when unloading crystals

2017-05-23

• New Mode: Deathmatch

- Rounds start with a choice of 2 maxed ships of same level
- RCS toggle is enabled (flight assist on/off)
- First player to kill 10 ships wins the round
- Asteroids map changes with new round
- Asteroids are strong and do not deliver gems
- Good luck Commander!

• Fixed video ads problems
• Bug fixes

2017-05-19

• Anti team-trolling reworked: any ship takes damage when purposely hitting team mate

2017-05-18

• Barracuda takes damage when hitting team mates
• Team mode endmatch: ships self destroy when their station is fully destroyed
• Custom Games: New asteroids map chooser and preview!

2017-05-16

• Fixed crystals going through the screen at speed of light
• Fixed ghost ships flashes
• Fixed being killed and staying in limbo forever
• New Custom Game option: global ship speed modifier!
• Now allowing smaller systems in Custom Games
• Translations update

2017-05-12

• Added Twitch badge

2017-05-11

• Improved UI textures sharpness

2017-05-09

• Fixed Barracuda double-dash
• Barracuda: damage upgrades dash speed burst ; bullet speed upgrades dash cruise speed
• Weekly balance update, thanks to community feedback and @Oh_ input data:

- Shadow X-1: power and agility buff
- Mercury: damage buff
- U-Sniper: bullet speed nerf
- Shadow X-2: Shield and energy regen buff
- Advanced-Fighter: Bullet speed nerf
- Scorpion: Energy and bullet speed nerf
- Condor: Balance changes including buffs and nerfs
- A-Speedster: Slight overall buff
- Rock-Tower: max bullet speed nerf
- Barracuda: mass buff, energy nerf
- Odyssey/Aries/Shadow X-3 have been slightly buffed in speed and agility

2017-05-04

• Barracuda V2! Fully reworked with dash speed
• Damage rules changed to avoid Barracuda trolling in team mode

2017-05-02

• improved radar readability
• new Custom Game experimental features: RCS (Flight assist) toggle , Friction parameter

2017-04-28

• Improved team joining condition. If one team dominates, you can join either of the 2 other teams.

2017-04-27

• Added information message about players contributing gems to their team
• Added health bar to station modules when attacked
• Fixed problem with button "Join my custom game"
• Fixed: Spec upgrades interfered with fire rate, allowing shooting faster

2017-04-26

• 10 seconds invulnerability on respawn (team mode)
• auto-switch to fullscreen now strictly on mobile
• fixed some glitches when screen FPS exceed 60
• fixed shield / generator bar sometimes not updating
• ECP custom game creator now accessible from main Play button
• secret future new features put to test :)

2017-04-24

• Fixed bug: losing multiple lives when killed once
• New rule: in team mode, ship tier 7 unlocks only when station crystal tank is full
• New rule: Tier 7 ships come with 0 extra life in team mode
• Displaying messages when ship upgrades are blocked by station level
• Keyboard shortcuts are now displayed on tablets and touchscreens

2017-04-22

• Fixed asteroid strength parameter rounding in custom games

2017-04-21

• Fixed ship-station collisions and friend ships collisions
• ECP Custom Game Creator (beta)

2017-04-20

• fixed bug with ad blockers
• added new ECP badges
• balance: reduced stations shield capacity a bit
• balance: reduced station repair threshold to 25% crystal capacity
• balance: nerfed Shadow X-3 acceleration and power regen
• fixed radar plots in team mode
• fixed chat bubble color
• raised chat icons auto-close delay
• Improved station attack alerts
• prepared an awesome new feature for ECP users

2017-04-19

• improved server finder strategy (again)
• added Swedish language
• added cookie consent
• optimized loading time

2017-04-18 Team mode improvements

• Ship upgrades are now restricted to exact depot/spawning level
• Slight improve to spawning
• fixed ship not showing in scoreboard
• raised team max capacity to 15
• Abandoned space station self-destroys
• neutralized mass impact on friendly Collisions
• module repair gauge
• raised global asteroids density (all modes)
• unloading crystals gives score points
• fixed Station under attack alert

2017-04-16

• Balance changes: reduced stations shield again, crystal drop rate x1.5 in team mode
• improved server finder conditions

2017-04-15

• Balance changes: reduced stations shield and crystal tank capacity

2017-04-14

• Identified and fixed 3 server crash cases

2017-04-14

• New game mode: the team mode!

- You start every game by choosing a team
- Each team has a space station to defend
- Each space station in game has 3 types of modules
  + Structure modules
  + Spawning modules, a little tougher
  + Crystal deposit modules, toughter
- Each space station can be filled with crystal
- An half filled station repairs randomly a destroyed module
- A full filled station levels up your station
  + A bigger level station is bigger and tougher
  + A bigger level station can take crystals from bigger ships
  + A bigger level station can respawn bigger ships
- When all spawning modules are destroyed, the team ships respawn randomly on the map
- When all deposit modules are destroyed, the team can repair or level up the station anymore
- When the whole station is destroyed, the team members can't respawn anymore
- When the station and all team ships are destroyed, the team is game over!

2017-03-31

• New Ship! The Barracuda, level 6. Prepare for a very special fighting style.
• Added new languages: Arabic, Danish, improved Chinese
• Ships texturing improvements
• Improved double-lasers
• Improved UI, scoreboard etc.
• A secret tremendous upcoming feature is put to test

2017-03-07

• Added Italian language
• Reduced O-defender max shield capacity
• Improved H-Mercury shield, mass, and fire regeneration
• Gamepad control! (experimental): on Chrome, open chrome://flags and enable Gamepad API

2017-03-01

• New lv6 ship, H-Mercury
• Added Dutch language
• Completed other translations
• Switched lv6 Condor & A-speedster place
• Increased Aetos generator regen speed
• Increased Shadow X-2 generator regen speed
• Decreased Pulse-Fighter agility

2017-02-17

• New lv4 ship, Mercury
• Added Indonesian language
• Completed other translations
• Decreased O-Defender agility
• Decreased O-Defender fire speed
• New ECP badges: Galactic Empire, Rebel Alliance, Soloist Defence Force

2017-02-13

• Added Turkish language
• Added Czech language
• Added Slovak language
• Raised asteroids average density and size
• Fixed bug: some crystals could not be collected
• Increased T-Warrior max generator reload speed
• Increased Aetos fire power

2017-02-09

• New delay of 5 seconds before you can respawn
• You can now chat during the 5 seconds delay
• Level 1 ship loses upgrades when killed
• New particle effects on laser collisions
• New shield visual fx
• Big explosions shake camera
• Added German localization
• ECP badge customization
• ECP ship material and lasers customization
• ECP players start will fully upgraded level 1 ship (same benefit as sharing game through Facebook and Twitter buttons)
• Increased X-Warrior damages on central lasers
• Decreased X-Warrior damages on side lasers
• Increased mass/shield of Shadow X-3
• Decreased acceleration of Shadow X-3

2017-02-01

• New level 7 Ship: Shadow X-3
• Decreased Shadow X-2 fire power
• Decreased shield capacity of lv7 ships
• Added Japanese localization
• New Australia zone to reduce ping for Australian and New Zealander players

2017-01-24

• New level 5 Ship: Shadow X-2
• Improved homepage and respawn page design
• Prepared UI for new game modes
• Shadow X-1 moved to level 3
• Increased Shadow X-1 max agility
• Decreased Shadow X-1 max generator refill
• Decreased Y-Defender laser speed
• Decreased Pioneer max speed
• Decreased Bat-Defender mass
• Decreased Advanced Fighter mass
• Increased Odyssey and Aries cannon speed and range

2017-01-19

• Added Spanish localization
• Optimised lasers display
• Heavy ships are now less affected by laser pushback
• Crystals thrown farther away from big ships when hit

2017-01-17

• Added new tier: level 7
• Type [Z] ingame to take a screenshot
• Increased shadow X-1 max agility
• Fixed visual glitch for big lasers

2017-01-10

• Added new lv4 ship: shadow X-1
• fixed glitches that can be caused by ads
• changelog now displayed in its own modal
• Added Hungarian localization

2016-12-28

• In survival mode, stellar radiation now starts harming shield regen rate. After 15 minutes, shield regen is completely down.

2016-12-23

• completed Russian localization
• fixed algorithm for finding best server to play in

2016-12-13 Balance changes

• fly: reduced max agility
• y-defender: reduced speed and agility, increased recoil
• x-warrior: increased max damage
• u-sniper: increased min agility
• a-speedster: increased acceleration

Improvements and fixes

• fixed respawn button display issue when killed
• Added talk vocabulary: No prob, Follow me, GG, Bye
• Fixed bug: laser sounds still playing when sound FX deactivated
• Use [C] once and talk button is no more mouse sensitive
• Ship upgrades now always pop up until you used manual toggle [U]

2016-12-07

• Added ship upgrade buttons toggle with keyboard shortcut [U]

2016-12-06

• fixed visual bug with crystals
• talk keyboard shortcuts can now be used directly
• couple server side fixes

Balance adjustments

• fly: reduced max damage
• side-fighter: reduced max generator reload speed
• y-defender: decreased ship agility, added recoil
• x-warrior: improved ship agility
• side-interceptor: reduced max generator reload speed, improved mass, reduced ship agility
• pioneer: increased min generator reload speed
• crusader: increased max generator reload speed, increased laser speed
• u-sniper: increased recoil, decreased max laser speed
• bat-defender: added laser convergence, improved laser speed and generator capacity
• advanced fighter: decreased max generator reload speed
• scorpion: decreased max generator reload speed, decreased ship agility, decreased max laser speed
• a-speedster: increased max generator reload speed, reduced ship size, decreased max laser damage and acceleration
• condor: reduced ship size
• o-defender: improved shot rate, improved generator capacity

2016-12-05

• Added Polish localization
• Added Russian localization

2016-12-02

• Integrated chat system

2016-11-30

• Raised the minimum density of asteroids
• Destroyed asteroids now always deliver some amount of crystals
• It is now possible to use mouse controls together with keyboard spacebar and up arrow

2016-11-29

• your ship now gets 3 lives when levelling up
• second pass on improving the balance between ships / levels

2016-11-28

• fixed problem of hidden survivor
• radar in survival mode now shows all targets
• extra lives cannot be used in survival mode anymore. Dont die!

2016-11-25

• balance: Lower level ships are now always faster than higher level ships (with speed maxed).

2016-11-25

• balance: Lower level ships are now always faster than higher level ships (with speed maxed).