🚀 New Feature
🧑🚀 More room for contacts, on promenades and at your outposts.
Promenades with more than two contacts. Until now, a promenade could only ever show two mission contacts, so if a third had set up shop there, you simply never saw them. The Enclave in Feris is a good example: it has three, and one of them has been hiding all along.
From this patch, when a promenade has more than two contacts, each contact card gets tabs along its top showing everyone who works there by first name. Click a name and the card slides across to that contact. Promenades with one or two contacts look exactly as they always have. So pop into The Enclave and say hello to the contact you have been missing.
Outposts that grow
Outpost owners can now see where their outpost is heading. As well as your two free contact slots, the Contacts screen now shows four more slots waiting to be unlocked as your outpost levels up:
Contact slot 3 at outpost level 10
Contact slot 4 at outpost level 15
Contact slot 5 at outpost level 20
Contact slot 6 at outpost level 25
That is up to six contacts at a fully grown outpost, each bringing more work, and more visitors paying your docking fees and tax.
A clearer Contacts screen. Thanks to Dirkish for asking why his contacts stayed at level 1 when his outpost reached level 2. The screen used to say contacts grow with your outpost, which was not quite right, so we have reworked it. A contact keeps the level they were hired at, and that level is set by your outpost’s level on the day you hire them.
There is now a Contact levels button on the Contacts screen with the full table, so you can see exactly when your outpost will start hiring higher level contacts. When it does, simply dismiss a contact and hire a new one. Hiring is free, and any mission already taken from a dismissed contact can still be completed.
✨ Improvement
🧑✈️ You are Captains now, not players. A huge thank you to Fitzbacon, our resident immersion fan, who pointed out that the galaxy kept calling you “players”. Fair point. Nobody out here is playing anything, you are captains with ships, crews and reputations to keep.
So I went looking, and found more than 160 places where the game said “player”. Around 40 were in the game’s own screens and messages, from chat and friends lists to the Galactic Collections Office and your outposts, and 127 more were tucked away in descriptions: stores and offices, equipment, the Lexicon and more. Every one of them now says captain. Long live role play. 🫡
💻 Desktop app 1.0.7 is out
With a much newer engine inside. The Forged Space desktop app has had its engine upgraded to a far more recent version. You should find it smoother and more responsive, especially on older PCs and laptops, and it is fully up to date with the latest security fixes. There is nothing you need to do: the app updates itself the next time you open it, and you will see v1.0.7 in the title bar. Your saved login and zoom settings carry over as normal.
🔧 Bug Fix
🎰 The Void Reels now tell you exactly what you won. Some of you spotted a win reading something like “2 × Defence Turrets” and went looking for two new turrets in your hold that were never there. That message really meant two of the pumpkins had lined up, which pays the consolation prize of 2,000 CR and 500 Captain XP, and every one of those was paid in full. The reels now describe what you saw, then what you won, for example “2 pumpkins in a row: 2,000 CR + 500 Captain XP” or “3 pumpkins in a row: 1 × Sentry Turret Mk1”. Remember, prize items need three or more matching pumpkins in a row from the left-hand reel. Thanks to Porrima for flagging it.
🛡️ Your shield bar now keeps up with your shields. On some older computers the shield bar would freeze after a fight while the number beside it climbed back to full, only jumping to the right length once your shields were topped up. A big thank you to Drylok, who tested it again and again and even sent us his system details, which is what finally let us track it down. The bar now moves with the number as your shields recharge, on any machine. Repair drones and shield boosters still sweep the bar up smoothly, just as before.