Hello, everyone! Update 0.4.2.04 for The Chaser’s Voyage went live yesterday and it’s the first of our client updates! There’s some really cool stuff to cover, so let’s not waste any more time and get to it!
The most obvious change in this update is the addition of color coding for certain text! As you can see above, we’ve color coded not just the territory names within the client info, but also any instances of “UGS”, “Empire”, and “Imperial”. Whenever “UGS” and the “Empire” appear in text, they will be color coded orange and purple respectively. Since these two factions have a big impact on client selection, we wanted to make them stand out more. This should make it easier to see at a glance where the client wants to go, and where their allegiances lie. All color coded text is also bold. If this color coding is a bit much for you though, don’t worry! We’ve also added an option to disable the color coding.
With the color coding implemented we realized that “Imperial Traitors” and “UGS Traitors” gave the wrong impressions of who they were aligned with. So we decided to take this opportunity to revisit our client type names and ended up updating 4 of them! “Evil Scientist” is now “Outlaw Scientist” (a little more accurate and less mean to those poor scientists!), “Fleeing Criminal” is now “Fugitive” (cooler and more succinct), “Imperial Traitor” is now “Defector to the UGS”, and “UGS Traitor” is now “Defector to the Empire”. This means if a client type has UGS in it, they are always with the UGS, and the same with the Empire. The client types are changed in name only though, so don’t worry about having to learn the intricacies of a new client type. (YET! >:3)
Besides the Client Selection Screen, we also added the color coding for the Empire, UGS, and territories to the “Info” section of the main console and to the insignia descriptions. Pretty much every place where the Empire or UGS appear in text is now color coded! We also fixed some bugs we found with the Main Console’s “Info” section, the insignia selection scrollbar, and the scrollbar speed setting in this update. We hope you look forward to our next big update!
You can read the full patch notes here and can follow The Chaser’s Voyage and Bright at Midnight on Twitter and join our Discord for more news and to give feedback! If you wish to play The Chaser’s Voyage, you can buy it while we’re in Early Access on Steam: