- V23 - 29 March 2023
Hello Voyagers! It's Weennnnnnnndnesday! A couple of quick fixes and changes: The "distance remaining" timer is now better - it won't go up. Zwolf confuses the computer a little bit with his "Wha?" ability. Cutscene text is larger. Space cows won't appear if you're watching a cutscene. "Queue sitting" rewards in the matchmaking lobby are spread out a bit more. Meteor Shower has been substantially buffed: it lasts 45 seconds (up from 30) and spawns debris very fast. It's more of a fire hydrant than a shower. The "free" complete mission time has been reduced to 2 minutes (from 4:50). The gem cost has been reduced overall. Enjoy! -Merge Conflict
- BIG Update! Version 22.7 is Here! - 28 March 2023
Hey voyagers! To say we've been busy is an understatement. We've got a ton of new features to release today! In addition to a bunch of quality of life improvements and gameplay tweaks, we're adding three new features based on suggestions from users - Super Space Junk, Mega Boosts, and Friend-Password battles! Super Space Junk are like the little Space Junk objects you collect, but BOSS mode. They have HP, boss music, and everything. And the Mega Boosts are special cool-down abilities that give you more options and temporary upgrades whenever you need them. These two features give players more to do and look forward to in the "idle" part of the game. And for enjoyers of the Merge Battle system - we've added ways to make battling with friends much easier - Friendly Battles! Just queue up for battle, create a "password" by picking three Crew characters, and send that info to your friend. T…
- Patch Notes: V21.6 - 5 March 2023
Hey! Listen! Patch Notes: Version 21.6 Grandma Ozie's starting drones have been reduced from "3-2-2" to "2-1" to give her less kick at the beginning of that battle. She's still very tough! Added crash debugging for users experiencing any.. anomalies. Engineer clones have been recycled pre-emptively. Can't be too safe. Signed, Merge Conflict (dev)
- Patch Notes: V21.5 - 3 March 2023
Hey! Listen! Patch Notes: Version 21.5 An aggressive marketing campaign graphical bug where store products would appear very large has been fixed. Marketing clones have been recycled. The word lists for randomly generated names and battle IDs has been de-naughtified. Grammar clones have been recycled. Retreating from password protected battles before actually playing now yields smol-sized rewards. Dewards, even. Shark noises have been heard nearby. Can sharks swim in space? I heard they can. Signed, Merge Conflict (dev)
- Patch Notes: V21.4 - 2 March 2023
I made dis. Patch Notes: Version 21.4 Friend/Password battles! Create a key, then destroy your friends! Cloning gel for everyone! The mission auto-fill button is now green. Green is the color of trees and grass, neither of which are found in space. Story battles have intros and end cutscenes. Of course, you have to defeat them (mwa ha ha). Sorry, not sorry. The lawyers insisted on confirmation dialog boxes for gem purchases. We recycled the lawyers, but then realized they were right, so we built it. Watching boosts past the cap no longer resets your boost. There is no "minus world" in space. Nice try, Mario. Ace Pilot (Sir Archibald) has been reduced from 3 damage to 2. Archibald is getting old. And slow. And old. Frantic Orders (Lilith) has been reduced from 5 drones to 4. Lilith switched to decaf, and is slightly less angsty. Slightly. Signed, Merge Conflict (dev)
- Patch Notes: V21.3 - 28 February 2023
Humans, aliens, and other assorted office products! Here's your fixes and changes! Patch Notes: Version 21.3 Ends of the Universe (Destination 36) has been bumped back to the End of the Universe. Take that, general relativity! Space Cows have become slightly more resistant to technology. Attempts to assimilate them will fail. Database failures will no longer crash the server. Using ancient Earth technology (like a barbarian) is a compromise we have had to make. Offline autotaps will now be correctly calculated on reconnection. Getting to Warp 15 will no longer trivialize the journey, just like in real life. We aim for realism. The "question mark" planet no longer appears on the title screen. You'll have to discover your own existential questions. Timing out in PVP battles while disconnected will no longer award a victory. Referee drones have been recycled, per ship policy. The story bat…
- Patch Notes: V21.1 - 23 February 2023
Ladies, gentlemen and other creatures of the sea! Here's your fixes and changes! Patch Notes: Version 21.1 Space cow has been attracted back to space by the allure of sweet, sweet space hay. You'll find it on your travels at a much higher rate than yesterday. Jade is even stronger. Cloaking Technology now reduces incoming damage by 50% while cloaked and costs no actions to activate. Rarity icons were updated. The artist clones responsible for the new ones were given a medal, and then recycled. Signed, Merge Conflict (dev)
- Blackjack! Version V21.0 - 22 February 2023
Hey voyagers! It's been another great week in paradise, checking out new planets and stars. Huge thanks to the hundreds of you that signed up and played this week! We've tinkered with a huge amount of small things in preparation for opening our doors up to other markets and bringing in fresh meat players for the PVP queues. Patch Notes: Version 21.0 The Elusive Engineer battle is prepped and ready. It'll unlock Thursday at 4PM PST. While this battle is considerably easier than the Grifting Grandma, don't sleep on Jade. Her cloaked ships ability might surprise you! Beating Jade in battle might convince her to fight for you.. The gem formula for finishing missions early has been considerably relaxed. Missions that are finishing within 4 minutes can be finished instantly for free. Big thanks to Dehja Voux for lending us her small-scale time machine. We've massively increased the number of…
- Patch Notes: V20.8 - 19 February 2023
Hey voyagers! Here's your fixes and changes! Patch Notes: Version 20.8 First Time User Experience won't "brick" accounts if done in the wrong order or disconnecting in the middle. Space Cow occurrence reduced. Space Cow won't moo in battle. ST4N's ability text has been updated to match his ability: He doesn't sacrifice a battlefield drone, he sacrifices a random hangar drone. 23 destinations have been added. Additional server stability improvements have been made. It's been 26 hours without a crash. dangit. Signed, Merge Conflict (dev)
- Patch Notes: V20.7 - 18 February 2023
Hey voyagers! Here's your fixes and changes! Patch Notes: Version 20.7 Congrats to our Grandma Ozie battle winners (2 of you!). She was a beast, but she's safely locked behind bars. Lots of behind-the-scenes fixes. Commas from France were causing us grief, but some of you got some bonus Credits for it. Vive la France! Many crew were not intended to be "bad batchable" from the start. We've removed this (you'll have to unlock them from story battles and destinations and missions!), but anyone who's gotten some early gets to keep. In the meantime, we ejected the engineer clone responsible. Space cow now moos when he appears. Moo. Signed, Merge Conflict (dev)
- Bounty: Grandma Ozie - 16 February 2023
First person to down the Grifting Grandma gets 500 gel and 500 gems! In the past 24hrs, 244 attempts, 0 victories, or in Ozie's words: "Fiddle around and find out!"
- Patch Notes: V20.5 - 16 February 2023
Hey voyagers! Here's your fixes and changes! Patch Notes: Version 20.5 Grandma Ozie has been gifted with an excess of baking goods, and is now slightly less aggressive in battle. We had some crashes over the last day or so due to incredible load on the database. We threw more hardware at it and promised to treat it more kindly in the future. There are a few users in UTC+0 and UTC+1 timezones that were spawning infinite debris and being unable to progress. We've fixed the issue, but some accounts may still have issues. If you'd like us to reset your account, email [email protected] with your Player Name (it can be found on the settings dialog). A few graphical glitches have been deglitched. Signed, Merge Conflict (dev)
- Patch Notes: V20.4: Meatloaf's Back on the Menu, Boys - 15 February 2023
Hey voyagers! Here's your fixes and changes! Patch Notes: Version 20.4 Storymode battles are enabled again. Beware: these are extremely difficult! We've ejected the clone responsible for player name generation out the airlock, and changed a couple of the naughtier names he generated. We just can't take that guy anywhere. Database saves occur every 60 seconds, down from 60 minutes. Signed, Merge Conflict (dev)
- Patch Notes: V20.3: Peculiar Particles Patched Particularly Promptly - 14 February 2023
Hey Zero-Day voyagers! Thanks for playing, and happy Valentine's day. Here's your fixes and changes! Patch Notes: Version 20.3 We've added a small banner message for sending broadcasts to players so you know if we're about to restart the server. We call it Bruce the Banner. A race condition server crash has been fixed by ensuring only one person can enter the race at once. This is fair. Particle effects for warping were crashing for a small subset of players. We've fixed this, and ejected the (ir)responsible engineer clones out the airlock. Tweaked Practice Battles so they're more fair. The simulator was being a jerk. A broken image for Leonidas doesn't occasionally show up in the settings gizmo. He's never broken. He's never bowed. A white background image doesn't occasionally show up here either. This isn't the Matrix. Signed, Merge Conflict (dev)
