Jupiter Expansion

The Jovian Empire and a powerful pirate alliance clash around Jupiter. Fight on and around the moons of Ganymede, Europa, Io and on the great gas giant Jupiter itself. Nearly doubling the content of the release, Jupiter offers new weapons, defenses, mods, and special abilities, as well as six new ships - each with unique abilities and gear slot configurations.

Along with the new equipment, new challenges await - several new hazards, enemy mercenaries, and new mission types await. As always, the higher the risk, the greater the reward.

New Additions:

Four new worlds:
- Desolate Ganymede
- Volcanic Io
- Icy Europa
- Stormy Jupiter
Two new factions:
- Jovian Empire
- Pirate Council

New Mission Types:
- Escort
- Hyperspace Hunt
- Piracy
- Train Defense
Hazards:
- Pacifier
- Asteroids
- Elite Enemies

Six New Ships:
- Raider
- Goblin
- Mako
- Boxer
- Lightening
- Skybreaker

Weapons:
- Hyper Velocity Mortar
- Plasma Seeker
- EMP Rockets
- Mauler Cannon
- Electron Beam
- Neutron Beam

Defenses:
- Tier 4 Shields
  - Racer
  - Reservoir
  - Refluc
- Tier 4 Armors
  - Kinetic
  - Ablative
  - Reactive

Specials:
- Drones
- Point Defense
Mods
- Critical Strike
- Missile Fire Rate
- Beam Fracture
- Extra Armor Plating

Hangar Manager
- Allows purchasing loadout slots
- Allows inventory size increases
New Enemy Mercenaries
- Nightmare Class
- Riot Class
- Warhawk Class

14 New Music Tracks
New side missions system
Variety of visual updates and effects enhancements
Improved side mission spawn system - less delays between events
Added Sell All button to reward unboxing view
Added iPad and small phone screen support

Balance Changes:

Weapons:
- Electric Pulse Cannon - now reduces damage per enemy hit and eventually fizzles out
- Pulsar Cannon - Increased fire rate, now does area of effect explosion damage
- Volatile Shielding - Now stacks and increases radius depending on rarity
- Shield Phasing - Percentage of phased shield will not completely resist EMP hazards and solar storms (Mercury)
Hazards:
- Meteors - Significantly increased meteor storm amount and damage
- Merc+ - Capped mercenaries that can spawn at 3
Enemies:
- Mercenaries - Overhauled health system so they're not quite as "beefy" until very late game
- Mercenary ability - shield zap - Now does a better damage calculation instead of using merc shield (which frequently could one-shot the player if the merc had very high shields)

Fixes:

Special items are now sellable in the store
Improved & overhauled beam weapon impact detection
Resolved issue where more mercs would appear than intended
Fixed transparency issue on some mercenary ships
Tweaked some audio effects that were louder than intended
Special calibrated filter on inventory fixed
Fixed rewards for endless missions
Fixed weapons fire occasionally disappearing from the screen
Fixed visual glitch on mission stats space station doors where doors were backwards
Resolved issue where enemy mercenary would have stages ability but wouldn't switch sets until at very low health
Double tap to launch special - behavior improved
Koala fire rate ship special fires all weapons immediately instead of waiting for cooldown then applying new fire rate
Fixed variety of bugs for the Raven ship special
Added various optimizations and stability improvements