Protect and Affect: Armor 🛡️ To help protect essential ship components, ship armor now affects damage and penetration scaling differently depending on the weapon type, opening up an array of strategies for the universe’s most daring pilots and raiders. Playable Now in Alpha 4.5:

Generous use of the word playable

Until Damage Mitigation comes in, armor is just a second health bar that SLIGHTLY protects components with weaker resistances than the actual Hull itself. Doesnt do much until then, I'm afraid! 😅

Dude just make the current shit actually work and not bug out every 2 minutes

Wow these comments are not disappointing... full of people who have never played the game or haven't played it in years complaining and bashing upset because those of us who do play are loving it and there's nothing they can do to change our minds great job cig

1b$ and you still can't dim down the ship ui, skybox looks terrible, space dust is annoying a.f. and there's no way to disable it. For too much money this game is developing too slowly and too incompetently

Does it matter where you fire at the ship when lowering it's armor? Like if I shoot the stern until it's armor is 0%, will the armor for the entire ship be 0%? Or just the stern?

My 2 Power Plants went instand to 0% by bumping into a small piece of a wreckage at very low speed. The Engineering stuff sucks ass.

You what would help protect my ship? AI blades for my turrets.

Ares Ion, it is your time shine!

Failure

biggest scam in history of video games

Hey, question,.. Under the Landing tab in your mobiglass,… can we have another option added? Wax and Polish Yes, we can repair, re-arm and refuel our ships,.. but the wear and tear is still there. Once in a while I want my ship to look spiffy clean Thanks 😊

Doesn’t need all this. Want to fly a ship not to eject to move components around. just made ship bots like r2d2. Less vision on pointless gameplay that’s not needed. Just dragging out the years and money out your existing whales that buy a ships like a drug.

Protect ship components? You mean the tool that literally funnels all the damage to the PP and explodes it so ships don't get disabled anymore? RIP soft death.

All damage applied in this video was attributed to a ship a fraction of the targets size. No light fighters were harmed in the making of this video.

Ships are still just blowing up to hull damage 99% of the time, having onboard engineers just keeps the heating on until that happens as it is atm

this is all very interesting but I don't feel like getting invested in a game that's gonna release when I'm senile

Boring ‘game’

20 more years to play the game

The ballistic meta is so bad....

Still has paper for armor and a single light fighter will take it out lmao.

Just another time suck to actually trying to do something in this game.

peaceful

“Playable…” was tough to read

Hot

Too bad the game just crashes...

[BOOM TUBE AS ENTERED CHAT]

Love the new update. It is a whole new game and getting used to it has a learning curve but if was blasted and left for dead the other day. I was able to restore enough to get to a mining base and restore my ship. Love the new game loop!

Yo you know this isn't anywhere close to done yet, why exactly are you promoting the 2nd layer of health bar like some fancy new feature?

Yea. Wouldn’t install for me 😞

Tried to take off the other day. Took me an hour. Game crashed. More work needed.

Did I miss something? For my understanding we have somewhat of a placeholder at the moment...