Scanning for enemies – Interstellar Rift development Update 045

Today, we introduce the basics of PvE in Interstellar Rift. From now on, when you explore the galaxy and stumble upon an asteroid field, you might find that it will be defended by drones. The further one gets from the spawning area, the higher this chance will be. So raise your shields and stock up on ammo, they will be packing a punch.

If your ship happens to get damaged, you are now able to repair your ship at your nearest Store-o-Tron terminal for a fee.

Additionally, you will now be able to scan the universe for resources. If your ship is equipped with sensors (these can be built in the exterior part of the ship editor), you can set it to find resources from the main terminal on your cockpit. Each scanner you add to your ship will give your ship more scanning strength. Scanning strength will reduce static on your scanners and let you scan further away from your ship. You can set which resources you want to scan for, or just look for all of them at the same time!

To make your travels easier, the company supplying the ship construction terminal and the refinery has improved their design and reworked their looks. There’s no need to worry you don’t need to do a thing, as soon as you log on again they have already been replaced by the Hurles co. engineers, yes they even went into your own ships and replaced them there, creepy! These engineers have also installed new software on all systems that show resources, with resource icons to create more symmetry across all GUI’s.

We have also added a new tutorial button to the main menu. When clicked, you will enter a preliminary version of the tutorial. We are listening to player feedback for this tutorial to find out how to make the game easier to understand for new players.

Finally, we’ve added a couple of little things. For instance, server owners can now set a welcome message on their servers, scrolling through your inventory should no longer skip items, and brand new mining station.

We hope you enjoy this new patch and as always, if you would like to know more or would like sneak previews of upcoming features and patches please follow us on twitter, facebook and our own and steam forums.

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