Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows

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• Announcements·9 Oct 2019Official

  Steel Shadows - Trading Cards are now Live

  Greetings Commanders We are happy to announce that Steam Trading Cards are now available for Steel Shadows. Have fun collecting the whole set. This also means that all new badges, backgrounds and emoticons are ready to be earned. We hope everyone continues to enjoy their adventures on the Frontier. Good luck out there. Thank you for playing our games!
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• Patch Notes·13 May 2019Official

  Steel Shadows - Patch 1.07

  https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/32982353/c34da7df7b61c789d8c77f9738570df6d3a01585.png Greetings Commanders! Today we bring you a large balance patch and a few polish improvements. Read on for the details. Balance Update - The Whole Game is Easier As mentioned in our last patch we looked over all of the player data to see if changes needed to be made. It seemed very clear from the data that there were multiple areas where the experience needed to be improved. Today we bring a large number of balance changes. First off we lowered the difficulty in all sectors but the very first area. The first area we still feel is offering the right level of challenge to introduce players to the game. Secondly, as we recently did for Ancient Frontier, we reduced the number of ships you face in the second half of the game so that portion is less of a grind. Third, we increased the starting resources on both the Beginner and Veteran difficulties. Finally, we made some under the hood changes to make the experience easier on Beginner and Veteran difficulties. Voice Acting First off we have been very pleased with the reception the voice acting work has gotten this time around. We had more opportunity to think about improvements for this game after the lessons we learned doing Ancient Frontier. One of the improvements we made was to have the actors read short little command lines for their ships while they were recording. Today we bring you this update. Now all of the ships with a character will sometimes speak when you give their ship a move order. This should make it easier to tell who is who on the battlefield. We also added one short conversation that did not make it into the last patch. End Credits Song We were honored that the lead composer of the game, Mimi Page, wrote us a unique song for the end credits. We were very pleased with how this turned out. Several of you have asked us for the lyrics of the song. With this patch we have updated the Cred...
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• Patch Notes·29 Apr 2019Official

  Steel Shadows - Patch 1.06

  https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/32982353/79a9f7fca59f1b04682178fae0279c49bb69d2fb.png Greetings Commanders! We hope that everyone is enjoying their exploits on the Frontier. Today is a huge update as we finally reveal the voice acting. We also bring you new events and a few balance changes. Voice Acting! We are very pleased to finally bring full voice acting to all of the lines in the game. We know this is a feature many of you have been requesting. After months of work this feature is now finally fully realized. We want to extend a huge thank you to the voice actors and actresses who poured their energy into bringing these characters to life. Your talents are very appreciated. Also a special thank you to all of the returning characters who reprised their roles from the first game. Be sure to let us know what you think of the voice acting in the forums and in your reviews! Options We are proud of how the sound work turned out. However, we know that some people prefer the game the way it has been, with no voices. For those people, we also have you covered. Simply go to the options menu and turn the dialogue volume slider all the way down, and you can enjoy the game as you have. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/32982353/9a915a5267cc01cbcee845d6249991315ed9e0a4.png New Events We continue to expand the number of random events in the game. This should continue to make each playthrough even more unique and immerse you in the life of being a fleet commander on the Frontier. This has been a popular addition to the game, and we hope to continue to bring you more events. This patch adds another group of random events to the pool. Balance Tweaks We have gotten a fair amount of feedback that the later boss missions are too difficult, even on the easiest difficulty level. Part of this is related to the difficulty in general of turrets. To address this we have reduced the difficulty on all of the late game boss ...
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• Patch Notes·28 Jan 2019Official

  Steel Shadows - Patch 1.05

  https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/32982353/3016d2288a239050bb8255118856d2f576226089.png Greetings Commanders! We hope that everyone is enjoying the new year. We bring you a patch today that adds two new features and a group of bug fixes. New Events We continue to expand the number of random events in the game. This should continue to make each playthrough even more unique and immerse you in the life of being a fleet commander on the Frontier. This has been a popular addition to the game, and we hope to continue to bring you more events. This patch adds another 5 random events to the pool. Quality of Life Improvement Today we have also added a pop-up box to inform you whenever new ships are available to be purchased. We know that it could be tedious checking the market after each story mission to see if there were new ships to buy. Bug Fixes Fixed a bug where the Hellraiser didn't spawn dialogue. Fixed a bug where the game could save on quitting the game for standard non-ironman games. Fixed a bug on the checks for three achievements. They all can be gained now. Fixed a bug where the Hellraiser pilot portrait could not appear in the Fleet Screen. And... that's it! We hope everyone continues to enjoy their adventures on the Frontier. Thank you for playing our games!
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• Patch Notes·5 Jan 2019Official

  Steel Shadows - Patch 1.04

  https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/32982353/3787352dabcf71f60b83682d160a238e95e6b0da.png Greetings Commanders and Happy New Year! Today we bring you Steam Achievements, a new Mercenary, and several minor bug fixes and tweaks. Steam Achievements 75 Achievements are now live and working. Almost all of these were already being tracked by the game, so when you first load up a new game you should automatically get credit for the ones you have already completed. We are happy to be able to support this feature now in this title like in all of our other games. New Mercenary Mission We have added another unique ship, the Hellraiser, who is sneaking around Crosius. This unique pirate carrier is sure to help late game fleets who are able to find and unlock it. Tweaks We slightly altered the deployment values of several of the mercenary ships. In addition we fixed the mission reward for unlocking the Scion. That mission is no longer worth zero. And that is all for now. We have the trading cards ready to go but are still waiting on Valve's approval to release those, so we can't promise a timeline on that. We are still reading the forums and emails for feedback and bug reports. Finally, we continue to look into adding voice acting to this game perhaps early this year. Thank you for playing our games!
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