Ancient Frontier + DLC The Crew v1.17 - полная версия игры

New Events
We continue to expand the number of random events in the game. This should continue to make each playthrough even more unique and immerse you in the life of being a fleet commander on the Frontier. This has been a popular addition to the game, and we hope to continue to bring you more events. This patch adds another 5 random events to the pool.

Quality of Life Improvement
Today we have also added a pop-up box to inform you whenever new ships are available to be purchased. We know that it could be tedious checking the market after each story mission to see if there were new ships to buy.

Update v1.16:
Optional Mission Display
A user suggestion was that we hide all optional missions when there are none available, as they clutter up the interface. After talking about it, we saw no advantage to displaying all of the Optional Missions when a player has no Optional Deployments remaining. So, we have tweaked the display to hide optional missions when you can't take them.

Shadows
We have improved shadows from the main light sources on all levels. These will be disabled on the lowest two quality settings.

Balance Changes
Slightly reduced the difficulty of all late game Bounty Missions in the Alliance Campaign. This should improve the flow of the later missions.
Increased the drop rate of capital and escort crew members from all missions that drop a random crew member. You will now promote less fighter pilots.

Bug Fixes
Fixed the mission description for Federation Story Mission 14
Removed several rogue Alliance Warships that had gone wandering

Update v1.15:
External Save Files:
For a small number of our customers they were concerned with the save location of the game using the Unity default. To address this we have written an entirely new back end save system for Steel Shadows that will save to an easily accessible external folder.

With today's patch, Ancient Frontier will now also use a hybrid of the original save system and the new system from Steel Shadows. That means that if you start a new game you can now find your save files. Going forward save files are located at:

C:\Users\username\AppData\LocalLow\Fair Weather Studios\Ancient Frontier\

Your old save files will continue to work! From within the game there should not appear to be any difference between the new and the old system. This will only impact people that want to find their save files manually on their hard drive.

New Events!
This patch brings three new events for you to experience on your travels through the Frontier. We could say more, but that would spoil the surprises.

Graphic Enhancements

We made several enhancements to the level artwork in this patch. This mostly had to do with skybox tearing or bugs in the background textures. In addition some of the lighting has been tweaked.

Bug Fixes
We believe we have fixed the bug where not all of the events would show up for players depending on when the game was created.
Fixed several bugs related to equipment on AI ships.
Fixed a minor display bug on the deployment and fleet management screens that was introduced with the support of 4k televisions.

Update v1.14:
Greetings Commanders!

Today we reveal the new Outrigger ship the Manticore class heavy cruiser. This appears along with several new missions where you fight the Outriggers in the Alliance campaign. Finally, we have addressed a few minor bugs.

The Manticore
This massive heavy cruiser is constructed at a secret location known only to the Outrigger engineers. Packed with stolen modern weaponry the Manticore is one of the most modern ships on the Frontier.

The primary weapons of the Manticore are twin Coil Cannons. Coil technology was originally developed for the Federation by the Outriggers, and they kept the blueprints of the technology. Coil Cannons are long range, accurate weapons that add extra shield damage. As primary weapons the main guns allow the cruiser to deal heavy damage even through shields.

Located in the center of the chassis is a massive Drive Harpoon. The harpoon is a perfect weapon that compliments the scavenging ways of the Outriggers. It drains the energy from the main engines of its target, reducing its movement to a crawl. This allows the Manticore to stun its prey before moving in for the kill and eventual juicy salvage.

These weapons are backed up by an imposing set of quad Shredder Cannons. This is stolen technology from the Pirate clans, and serves the Manticore well. It provides very high damage at short range for engagements that close in.

All of this weaponry makes the Manticore very capable in duels with other capital ships. What really sets the ship apart, however, is its anti-fighter abilities.

First, it houses a pair of hanger bays. These typically house two Gunship heavy fighter squadrons. However there are rumors that there are Manticore captains that prefer to use lighter Explorer squadrons to better scout out targets to ambush.

Second, it uses a massive battery of eight pulse laser turrets. Pulse laser technology is closely guarded by the Federation and the High Temple on Mars, and how the Outriggers were able to steal this coveted piece of technology is unknown. The turrets allow the Manticore to deal with enemy fighters even if it loses its own squadrons.

All of this makes the Manticore an ideal flagship for an Outrigger fleet. While rare, the few that do exist are very deadly.

New Missions
There are a total of 4 new missions available in the Alliance campaign. All of the missions are optional Bounty missions, but they give the Alliance player more options for the enemies they face.

There is one new mission in Tarsis, two missions in Hadron, and one new mission in Cygnus. Hopefully these missions add a few more choices and a little more variety to this mid game stretch of the campaign.

In addition Outrigger forces (and related rewards) have been increased in missions for both campaigns in Tarsis, Arx, Hadron and Cygnus. The Outriggers are out in force. Beware of the Manticore!

Bug Fixes
Fixed a bug (again!) where the tutorial would crash upon beating the second mission.
Fixed a bug where collecting items was not registering in a Federation story mission in the Externus sector.

Greetings Commanders! We are pleased to announce that our second DLC, Quests and Events, is now live and will automatically update everyone's game. This DLC is completely FREE as a continued thank you to all of our old and new fans. This DLC introduces a host of changes, most notably adding a Quest system and random Events. Read on for the full change log.

Quests

These are assignments and contracts that you can complete for rewards. There are ten different categories of quests that each can reward you for taking specific actions within the game.

How do I get Quests?

Quests are automatically awarded after the completion of most missions. After completing a mission and returning to the ship management screen, one of the menu buttons will display "New Quest!" if you have been assigned a new quest.


You can only have three quests at a time, so if your quest log is already full you won't be awarded with any new quests until you have room. Quests can be manually deleted from your log if you want to make room for new contracts. Completed quests will also be removed from your quest log as they are finished.

A new 'Quests' button has been added to the ship management areas of the game. The quest log will track what quests you currently have, and what progress, if any, you have made towards completing the quest.

Events

Random events will appear after completing a mission at certain points throughout the game. Each event will describe a situation, and present you with three options of actions you can take.


Events can have positive or negative effects depending on your choices, so choose carefully. There are over 50 different events that you will be able to encounter so no two play-throughs of a campaign will be the same.

Quality of Life Improvements

We continue to listen to your feedback. Based on what you have told us this DLC also comes with a series of quality of life improvements. Hopefully these will continue to make the game more accessible to players.

Mission Difficulty

Missions will now display what enemies you will be facing as well as their estimated difficulty.


Each mission is rated between one (easy) and five (hard) by the number of enemy symbols. The rating system is based on where you are at in the game, so a three difficulty mission at the start of the game is very different from a three difficulty mission at the end of the game.

As we have continued to differentiate the different factions with ships, gear and crew it now makes more of a difference to know which faction you will be facing. Previously players had to mostly guess on the difficulty of a mission by looking at the rewards offered or through trial and error experience. We believe this change will help all commanders make more informed choices about which missions to undertake.

System Menu

This is a pretty simple change that was a long time coming. When the game was originally designed the only option was to Autosave, where progress was always tracked. During development the system menu was removed as an unnecessary extra click.

With the introduction of manual saving, the lack of a system menu became a problem. Players could accidentally lose their progress by exiting to the main menu with one click. The system menu has been added to address this. It also allows you to customize the options settings at all points in the game. While this is a relatively standard addition, we hope this will help your experience.

Save Images

Another piece of feedback that we got is that it could be difficult to tell the backup saves apart from each other. To help differentiate the visual look of saves that are at different points in the game, we have added images to the save files that represent how far in the story campaign you have progressed.

Sound Effects

We added sound effects to a number of actions in the game (leveling up, for instance).

Hero Ships

With the last DLC we added the ability for some Hero ships to take part in Bounty Missions. However the description detail of all Hero ships continued to say that they were unavailable for Bounty Missions. The description detail has now been updated for all Hero ships, and only ones that are truly unavailable for Bounty Missions display that language.

Balance Changes

Made several changes to improve the accuracy of abilities. Tech tree accuracy boosts will now apply to abilities. Also accuracy modifying abilities like Targeting Computer and Vor Song will now improve ability accuracy in addition to the main guns. Finally, the improved versions of abilities that are unlocked in the tech tree got a slight boost to their accuracy increases.

Slightly increased the difficulty on Veteran and Beginner difficulties to account for all of the new player powers.

Slightly lowered the XP gain on Simulator Missions.

Made a large number of minor balance tweaks to individual missions based on the play data.


Bug Fixes

Fixed a crash that could happen at the end of the Tutorial

Fixed multiple bugs with the display of the Crew XP bars

Fixed a bug where the Rhondo could be permanently destroyed

Fixed a bug where Hero ships were taking the wrong amount of damage.

Fixed a bug where some larger Vor units could not equip items in the fourth equipment slot.

Fixed a bug where the display of crew and equipment for fighter squadrons launched from a capital ship were showing as white squares.

-performed another round of optimization. This should allow the game to run better on people running with only 8GB of RAM. You also may notice slightly shorter loading screens.

-fixed a bug that could cause the "Launch" button to become obscured on some resolutions with the new DLC.

-fixed a bug where when loading old saves crew were not available for purchase. You can now purchase crew from the store in your old saves as well as new games.

Bug Fixes
Changed the "Launch" button on the Deployment screen to always work even if something draws over the top of it somehow.
Fixed the backup saves if Autosave is on. The Backup saves were not updating if Autosave was on after you started a new game, leading to a situation where progress could be wiped if you accidentally loaded from them. Going forward the backup saves will track the main save when Autosave is on, so you have four backups of your latest progress.

Quality of Life Enhancements
We think we have added a cursor lock that will work on most dual monitor setups.
Changed enemy ship death drop chance so that enemy ships that pick up resources should now always drop resources. Now you can recoup some losses to those space thieves.

Bug Fixes
Fixed a bug where the game could crash during combat that involved carriers and their fighters.
Fixed a bug where fighters could deploy on top of each other leading to strange interactions when skills were used.

Balance Tweaks
Increased the move range on the Queen's Bounty and the Rhondo.
Increased the resource rewards on all bounty missions.
Decreased the difficulty of all later bounty missions.
Decreased the difficulty of Beginner and Veteran difficulties slightly.
Locked all ammo items to Slot 3.
Decreased the multiplier for all Harvesters from x4 to x2.

New Item Slot!

We have been looking at ways to give players more abilities to customize their ships.
So far that has come in the form of adding new items to the game. This week we are increasing the number of equipment slots on all ships to three up from two.
This should allow for even more build options for each ship.

Many of the original items were designed with a two equipment slot limit in mind.
In order to allow the third slot we decided to restrict certain items to just two slots.
Many item's description text will now say "[Slot 1 or 2 ONLY]" for items that were only ever intended to be able to equip two of.
Still, there remain a good number of items which can be equipped in the third slot.


Quality of Life Enhancements

We have decided that the cinematic zoom camera was slowing the game down too much, especially in the later game. To address this we have reduced the frequency of the cinematic zoom.
In the first sectors for each campaign (Crosius and Arx) the frequency was reduced by only 3%. For the second, third and fourth sectors of each campaign the frequency was reduced 50%.
For all of the end game sectors of each campaign the frequency was reduced 75%. Hopefully this helps with the pace of the later game.
Update the icon for the Mining Outpost so that it matched the in-game model.
Resized the super heavy capital ship explosions. When we had updated this we neglected to link the correctly sized explosions. These should no longer fill the map.

Bug Fixes
Fixed a bug where sometimes Hero ships were allowed to deploy in the new "defend the outpost" bounty missions.
May have fixed a bug where sometimes a player ship's turn could be skipped. This is a rare bug that is not consistently reproducible, but we think we found the problem.


Balance Tweaks
Added Trade Goods to the Externus item drop tables.
Lowered the overall difficulty of Beginner again. Veteran and Epic were unchanged in this patch.
Slightly increased the damage on all Heavy Torpedoes.
Increased item rewards for about a dozen missions.
Increased the mission rewards for all late game bounty missions. We are continuing to test these missions to ensure there is a proper risk/reward.
We may make additional changes to these missions in the future, but for now the increased rewards should help.

Backup Saves

The save system continues to be a sore point for some of you and hopefully this patch will help. Two changes have been made to the save system.

The first change is that each save now also supports up to 4 backup saves. To help differentiate saves the hh:mm:ss time stamp has also been added to all saves. When you choose to load a game you are now given the option to load the most recent save at the top of the list, as well as 4 backup saves, including one backup of the current save and the 3 next oldest backups. Backup saves will only populate when you start a new game or if you manually save when Autosave is off. If you have Autosave on the new save system will not impact you.

The second change is that we have implemented a save recovery option. When you try and load a save that is corrupted (or doesn't exist) the game will prompt you to attempt to force load and recover the save. If you do this it is possible the game can crash or the save will be destroyed. However there is also a chance it will recover the save, depending on how it was corrupted. For people that lost save games during past patch processes hopefully this will allow some of you to recover.

Going forward these changes mean that it should be much harder to lose your saved progress. Even if one save becomes corrupted with multiple backups hopefully players should lose less of their progress... or nothing at all. We hope this helps.


Memory Management

Today's patch brings a third and probably final round of memory optimization. We have reduced texture sizes for some models and done some additional buffering with sound and music. At this point I'm not sure there is much low hanging fruit left on the optimization front. We hope as many people as possible can now run the game.


New Missions

A new type of Bounty mission has been added to the random mission tables in Arx, Epsilon, Crosius and Cygnus. The new missions will have you defending a mining outpost from pirate raiders while gaining Hydrium and Energy resources.

The new missions are available immediately to games already in progress as well as new games that start going forward.


Bug Fixes
Fixed a bug where the Orion mercenary mission was not launching. Players should once again be able to recruit the Nemesis.
Fixed a bug where the wrong resources were being dropped in a bounty mission in Cygnus.


Balance Tweaks
Increased the chances that the missions to unlock the Queen's Bounty, Executioner, Nemesis, Hammerhead, Chickadee and Gha'Khar will show up. The rest of the Mercenary ships are being found at the expected rate and were left unchanged.
Lowered the overall difficulty of both Beginner and Veteran difficulties. This should continue to make the game more accessible for more people. Epic is unchanged.
Decreased the difficulty of Alliance Story Missions 22, 27 and 28 and Federation Story Missions 25,27 and 28 on all difficulties.
Increased item rewards for several missions.

- Alliance Campaign Balance
- Memory Management

New Gear
- Plasma Ammunition
- Fighter Shield Network

Bug Fixes
- Some types of ammunition were applying to Flak Cannons and Mini-Guns damage and some were not.
This has been fixed so that all types of ammunition alter the stats on both the primary weapon and Flak Cannons or Mini-Guns if applicable.
- Fixed a bug where Tier 1 Superior Fighter Thrusters were accidentally giving a -90% critical defense. The item now penalizes the intended -9% critical defense.
- Fixed a broken optional objective in a Crosius bounty mission for the Alliance campaign. There is no more mystery destination you never reach.

Balance Tweaks
- Re-balanced the stats or tech tree or both of many Alliance ships.
The Alliance Ranger, Steelclad, Cruiser, Liberator, Catapult, Warship, Mauler and Dauntless were all buffed. In some cases this resulted in a purchase price or deployment cost increase, or both.
- Slightly buffed several late game enemies in the Federation Campaign.
- Added Plasma Ammunition to drop tables as item rewards at the end of missions.

Manual Saving
So with Patch 1.0.4 we are introducing the ability to turn off the autosaving that the game shipped with. Go to the Options menu from the Title Screen (or in any mission) if you want to turn Autosaving off.

Memory Management

New Gear
Fighter Shield Network

Bug Fixes
Fixed a bug where firing Heavy Torpedoes would crash the game.
Fixed a terrain bug that had the terrain in the wrong place for several Externus bounty missions.
Fixed wrong objective description displaying in two Externus bounty missions.
Fixed a bug where the Rhondo could be permanently lost. However this fix will only apply to new games started after this patch.

Quality of Life Enhancements
Added warning for time limit based missions in the starting sector of both campaigns.

Balance Tweaks
Increased the number of resources needed to collect in several missions.
Added Fighter Shield Network to drop tables as item rewards at the end of missions.

Bug Fixes:
Fixed a game crash bug when a ship died to asteroids, mines or damage over time. You are now free to die any way you want to.
Fixed a bug where a story mission could be skipped in Cygnus sector.

Tweaks:
Reduced damage of colliding with most terrain
Increased damage for colliding with mines
Increased damage for mine blast radius
Removed ship stun when colliding with asteroids