Steam News · 1d
Many of you asked me what comes next. Here it is: on October 26, Space Defender grows by a whole act. Kepler Everyone talks about it, nobody ever went back. Kepler, the mining world where the Swarm programme began in 2231. The colony has been abandoned for twenty years, and its mining wells were left open. And down there, cor...
Steam News · 2d
Patch 1.1.5 is out. It brings in a good part of this week's feedback: videos, Steam reviews, mails and Discord messages. Thank you all! New Hangar ships can be fitted straight from the Ship tab: a row of tabs at the top (LB/RB on a gamepad) shows each ship with its slots, just like yours. Squadron orders are easier to discover: the chip shows the keys (1-4), the orders unfold at takeoff, ARIA expl...
Steam News · 3d
Patch 1.1.4 is out, with fixes found right after 1.1.3 and a few clarity touches suggested by players. Changes Pirates who speak on the radio now carry a "Pirate" tag after their name, so you know the voice comes from their ships. Story contracts between the orders now play a short scene on screen. New option in Options > Sound: Voice language. Keep the voices in the text language, or pick any of ...
Steam News · 4d
Patch 1.1.3 is out. It fills the gap between the tutorial and The Relay, and makes a lot of things easier to read, thanks to your reports on Steam, Discord and YouTube. New New story mission, Ilse's Ears: right after the tutorial, lay listening buoys for Ilse and find out why the convoys keep falling into ambushes. It leads straight into The Relay. 10 optional story contracts between the story ord...
Steam News · 5d
Patch 1.1.2 is out, with fixes for issues you reported on Discord and in the forums. Thank you, Oji and everyone! Fixes The third pirate captain contract is no longer abandoned as "too far" the moment you accept it, and a failed contract is now replaced on the mission board. Coming back to a planet you already scanned shows its "Details" button again. Pressing 1-4 without any wingman now tells you...
Steam News · 5d
Patch 1.1.1 is out, a few hours after 1.1. Thanks for all the feedback! Balance Enemies no longer appear on top of you or inside your view: always at least 24 u away, off screen. Patrols and pirate raids wait for the current fight to end before they join in. The Rescue Pod now steps in before a wingman can be kidnapped. Medium threat now starts after 10 missions, and the difficulty walls in Perseu...
Steam News · 6d
Update 1.1 is out, and it is a massive one: by far the biggest update since launch: more than 400 changes in a week. Thank you to everyone who played, streamed, reported bugs and shared ideas on the forum, on Discord and by mail. A lot of what follows comes straight from you. At a glance Pirates: a third faction with dens, raids, kidnappings and three captains to hunt down A new story, told in fli...
Steam News · Sep 30
Patch 1.0.4 is out. Thanks again to everyone who reported bugs and shared feedback, on Steam, on Discord and by mail: several changes below come straight from you. Voice acting The key moments of the story are now voiced: ARIA, Admiral Voss, Ilse, the station operators, galaxy arrivals, the tutorial, alerts, the ending, and mission radio (convoy leads, VIP passengers, rescued captains). Voices are...
Steam News · Sep 29
Patch 1.0.3 is out, and it is the biggest update since launch. Thanks to everyone who reported bugs and shared feedback: a lot of this patch comes straight from you. Crew Stations now hire pilots, each with one of 20 traits. Place your crew in any of your hangar ships, including the one you fly. A pilot flying a wingman ship gives their full bonus; crew aboard, and everyone in your own ship, give ...
Steam News · Sep 27
Patch 1.0.2 is out, with a big pass on gamepad play and ship handling, plus a longer tutorial. Gamepad New button icons (A green, B red, X blue, Y yellow) on menus, prompts, the tutorial, docking and the map. Menus: LB/RB switch tabs and LT/RT switch sub-tabs. The stick no longer jumps to the wrong row, and focus is no longer lost after switching between keyboard and gamepad. Docked shortcuts: Y m...
Steam News · Sep 26
Thank you all for the first days of the 1.0, and for your reports on the forum: most of this patch comes straight from them. Fixed Hangar: ships can be bought and switched with the mouse again (the ship cards ignored hover and clicks). Rescue pods: bringing a rescued wingman back to a station no longer puts you in their ship. If it already happened to you, switch back to your own ship in the hanga...
Steam News · Sep 25
Commanders,Steam fixed my account issue, so 1.0 is out a few days before Monday's deadline. After sixteen months of Early Access, Space Defender: Frontier Squadron is now a full release. If you already own the game, the update is free and should already be downloading.What 1.0 bringsA full campaign. 13 story missions in three acts with Admiral Voss, Ilse Marin and ARIA, up to the battle against th...
