Gratuitous Space Battles Reaches v1.48

Gratuitous Space Battles and its Nomads, Order and Swarm expansions have reached v1.48 on Impulse today. The latest updates include performance improvements, bug fixes and balance tweaks.

General Changes:

• Performance: Major rewrite of tons of areas to reduce memory usage and squash lots of small memory leaks.
• Bug fix: Tractor beam turrets are no longer drawn when a ship should appear cloaked.
• Bug Fix: Limpet launchers and Plasmas are now fired from the correct position when placed in multiple-hardpoint slots.
• Bug Fix: Fixed a few minor miscalculations that meant ship damage looked (purely visually) like it was being repaired faster than it actually was, especially when cloaked.
• Bug Fix: When you leave the ship design screen, any open module stat comparison windows are now closed.
• Some playbalance tweaks
• Bug Fix: Imperial fighters with tiny engine glows (also a nomad fighter) now no longer get drawn when the parent ship is docked at a carrier.
• Balance: Guidance scrambler beam weight increased to 147.
• Balance: EMP Shield ECM strength increased from 66 to 82.
• Balance: All frigate armour maxdamageabsorbable increased by 20%.
• Balance: EMP Missile launchers, (both types) missile speed 25% faster. Fire interval reduced 10%, ECM strength increased 10%.
• Balance: Decoy missile launcher weight reduced to 70.

Nomads Changes:

• Awazem loses its cost boost, gets 8% armour boost.
• Duwasir loses its armour boost, gets 10% speed boost.
• Majali reduces speed penalty from 22% to 12%.
• Abbadi gets an 8% armour boost.
• Nomadic dogfight laser damage increased to 8.
• Nomadic beam laser power usage reduced to 13.

Order Change:

• Limpet launcher limpetweight increased to 8.2, cost reduced to 110.

There were no noted changes for the Swarm.

Gratuitous Space Battles is available worldwide for $19.99 USD. For more information please visit: http://www.impulsedriven.com/gratbat