In this latest update, a new batch of aftermods has been added, as well as another experience change, and some additional bug fixes

Change Notes

Balance:

• Upon beating the first level 3 boss in endless, 3 Gleaming Cube powerups will now drop.

New aftermods:

• Shove Shield: Every 24 seconds, a force explosion triggers, knocking back all enemies on either side of you.
• Proximitaze: Shock a random nearby enemy for 10 damage every 2 seconds, stunning them for 0.33 seconds
• Core Scoop: Every 20 seconds, the next Asteroid you destroy drops a mini powerup.
• Gift Bag: Upon pickup instantly spawn 1 phase shift, 1 overclock, 1 auto repair, 2 nukes, and 3 gleaming cubes on your ship
• Afterstrike: When an enemy is destroyed, another random enemy takes 5 damage
• Sky Drill: Every 8 seconds, deal 300 damage to an asteroid
• Lucky Coin: Whenever you collect a gem, you have a 50% chance to gain 25% more experience. This bonus is never worth less than 1 extra gem, even when collecting a gem normally worth 1.

Bug Fixes:

• Assorted bug fixes revolving around collecting multiple powerups at the same time

In this latest update, the first batch of 9 Aftermods has been enabled in Endless Mode. You’ll now be able to equip up to 8(!) upgrades after reaching maximum level with your 4 weapons and utilities.

Aftermods are like Augments, in that they aren’t leveled, but they can be much more powerful, and/or specific to builds you’ve put together. You can also equip up to 8 of them (if you survive that long.)

Because this initial batch is limited to just 9 choices, it is possible to be offered mods that won’t be helpful at all, but once more are added, systems will be in place to prevent this. Equipping 8 pretty unlikely, but not impossible.

Experience scaling has received a number of tweaks to improve late game scaling, but may need more changes to ensure Aftermods are unlocking soon enough in Endless.

Change Notes

• Hercules class ships (elites that fire a spread of bullets) now drop Gleaming Cubes post-15 minutes
• After defeating a boss at 15+ minutes, a Gleaming Cube now spawns above
• Exp needed to level after level 20 has been reduced
• Many of the new gem types that appear post-15 minutes have had their exp increased

Currently available aftermods:

• Eburnity: Burn effects now lasts forever
• Spy Satellite: Every 3 seconds, up to 5 enemies currently targeted by lock on upgrades take 15 beam damage.
• Propeller: Weapons that rotate around you move 30% faster (gunlock, sentry drone, buzz beacons)
• Blitzbomb: Any time a force upgrade triggers, a 30 damage shock bomb projectile fires out in a random area. (note: currently no recharge time, but one may added…this is probably too strong right now in the right builds)
• Kinetosaver: After a kinetic upgrade triggers, it resets to a random % from 5-15.
• Thicc Plate: +20 max shields. All incoming damage is permanently reduced by 1.
• Lucky Duck: Upgrades that have a % chance to trigger have +5% base chance.
• Retrofit: Add a random additional level 1 weapon to your equipment. It can not be upgraded.
• Overpower: All powerups also trigger a mini overclock powerup. 3 second cooldown.

With the Endless Mode update testing well under way, the first round of changes are about to go live. The next update will include the Aftermods system, but first lots of balance changes to current upgrades, and some changes to enemies.

Endless Scaling

• Bumbler elites (Hive Queen sub boss) now have a 25% chance to spawn after 15 minutes instead of Hercules elites. The chance increases at 20 minutes to 33%
• A new Ant class ship variant can now spawn after 17 minutes, and this chance increases every 2 minutes after. These will only appear if Ant class ships are already in your current run.

Balance:

• Discharger has been reworked
  • Projectiles now fire at max range for all levels
  • Now has a lower base chance, but the chance increases each time it doesn’t trigger, and decreases when it does
  • A green bar, where recharge is usually shown, displays your current chance out of 100
  • There are now only 4 levels instead of 5
  • At level 4 discharger now gains the bonus 3 burst of projectiles from level 5
• Symbionic Chargeback bonus now only triggers every 3rd time the Discharger does
• Symbionic Rupture Wave now only triggers every other Gravity Wave.
  • Empowered Rupture Waves trigger on the next Gravity Wave no matter what.
• Anti-Matter Engine Augment now functions consistently with recharge timers and kinetic recharge. Instead of temporarily shortening recharge timers, it increases recharge gain speed. This means long recharge timers that didn’t fully recharge before its effect ended will now remain close to recharged.
• Sentry Drone will no longer maintain targets from so far out of their range when moving away. At level 5, the missile speed bonus has been removed, and the firing rate bonus has been reduced from +15% to +10%
• Junk Drones now fire pulses of 2 projectiles instead of 1, but for fewer pulses. Overall Junk drone fires the same amount of projectiles, but gains a slightly smaller bonuses from Replicator.
• The Final Hive Queen fight difficulty has been significantly toned down. The vulnerability time, vulnerable damage threshold, and time between attacks has been increased.