Shortest Trip to Earth is a roguelike spaceship simulator focused on exploration, ship management and tactical battles. Embark on a perilous journey across the universe with nuclear missiles, armed crew and a cat.
The new "Easy Tiger" ship that we unveil today will provide you an easier start & more modular space for the long run. Additionally, we introduce some further quality-of-life upgrades, and a new round of balances. For example, all playable ships, cannons and gatling guns are now better. See the changelog below for a complete overview.
[b]New content and features[/b]
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[*] Added new ship: Easy Tiger (along with new crew, exotic weapons, modules and ship-specific perks)
[*] Added new functionality: you can now mutliselect all crewmembers assigned to a job (for example select all firefighters or select all lab workers) with a single click
[*] Added new DIY plastics nuke
[*] Tigerfish and Nuke runner are now available only in challenging/hardcore difficulty
[*] Some extra sector lore/story is now visible between levels (used to be readable only from sector selection)
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[b]Balance-related updates[/b]
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[*] In challenging/hardcore difficulty: module max hp damage now happens less, in 10% cases instead of 15%
[*] Made many cannons slower to reload but more accurate
[*] Made drones/humans a little faster
[*] Made many containers better
[*] Made medical cryosleep even better
[*] Gave all player ships new craftable nukes
[*] Added empty misc slots to Rogue Rat & Weirdship in place of old module storage.
[*] Most playable ships now start with more credits (420)
[*] Majority of cannons and gatling guns are now more accurate and consume less explosives
[*] Reduced cost of converting explosives to fuel
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[b]Fixes & misc changes[/b]
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[*] Crew repair stopped message now appears only for player own crewmembers
[*] Endurance and Roundship cargo slot fixed: added new misc slot to its place
[*] Fixed cryosleep 3x medical navigation
[*] Changed navmesh for Pirate Kalev to fix a nav issue
[*] Fixed endurance perk
[*] Fixed a misplaced door on atlas ship
[*] Changed weapon decoy module graphics
[*] Changed button sounds on crew assignments panel
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