Publisher Focus Home Interactive and developer Blackbird Interactive have announced that spaceship salvaging game Hardspace: Shipbreaker’s Update 0.5.0 is now live, making its derelict behemoths slightly more deadly through the addition of a new element: radiation.
Starting at Certification Rank 9, ships of Hazard Level 6 and above will have radiation filters. These are very fragile and even the smallest of bumps can “cause them to drop a cloud of Radioactive Particulate, which damages organic matter and electronics upon contact.”
Radiation is also flammable, so you’ll want to be more careful where you point your cutter’s beam, and can be dealt with by using coolant or by waiting “a very long period of time” until it dissipates.
Hardspace: Shipbreaker’s UI overhaul continues in Update 0.5.0 with a series of improvements to the HAB screen, in preparation of the hub rework coming in the future. You’ll also find that stickers now have holographic variants alongside other changes, which you can check out in the full patch notes.
The game is also discounted by 30% on Steam until 6 PM BST, having its price reduced to 17,49€ or your regional equivalent. When it launched in Steam Early Access, we found that Hardspace: Shipbreaker “makes disassembling ships in Zero-G a blast.”
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