{"id":3372,"date":"2015-05-13T16:04:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T15:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=3372"},"modified":"2015-05-13T16:04:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T15:04:17","slug":"gratuitous-space-battles-2-version-1-30-is-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2015\/05\/13\/gratuitous-space-battles-2-version-1-30-is-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Gratuitous Space Battles 2 version 1.30 is GO!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sooo…yet again we have an update to Gratuitous Space Battles 2<\/a>. I wanted to get this one out the minute I realized I had found (and fixed!) a ‘disappearing designs’ bug at long last. This also does some balancing and adds in a new mission and two new modules. here are the highlights…
\n1) Two new modules added: Repair Limpets and Refuel Limpets to support fighters mid-battle.
\n2) Fighters and gunships now correctly distributed amongst carrier modules when more than one is present, so launch faster.
\n3) Added another new mission: The Gamorlian Expanse.
\n4) Shield Disruption effects and radiation damage now have mid-battle text-feedback.
\n5) Fix for ship-design deletion bug when flipping back and forth into the editor and back.<\/p>\n

Soooo… as already demonstrated in this video<\/a>, we have 2 new weapons now…the refuel & repair limpet launchers…<\/p>\n

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And another new mission, so we have now added four since release…<\/p>\n

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And there is a whole bunch of minor fixes, and balance tweaks. In earlier builds the ‘heavy shields’ were basically a no-brainer, and hard to beat, but now high shield-penetration weapons have their downsides, and shield disruptors have been beefed up as a more viable strategy. Plus some better in-battle feedback makes it clearer how effective radiation and shield disruption damage is…<\/p>\n

Hope you like it! In the meantime, Tim has continued to blog about the awesomeness that is big pharma<\/a> which you can see in the latest chunk of his whole-game playthrough…<\/p>\n