The Void Lights Up

The biggest visual update yet. Combat and the Command hub have been rebuilt to glow, and the hangar just doubled.

⚔️ Combat overhaul

• Everything glows. Shots, trails, sparks and explosions now light up the arena, and overlapping effects burn brighter instead of muddying.
• New enemy designs. Every enemy type has its own shape, faces the way it's flying and has a white-hot core. Runners are sleek arrowheads, drones spin, tanks rotate a double hex, and bosses have orbiting shards.
• Hits you can feel. Enemies flash white when struck, and hits throw sparks back toward your station.
• Kills that land. Enemies burst into spinning shards with a shockwave. Boss kills shake the screen (turned off if your device has reduced motion enabled).
• Comet trails. Short, bright comet tails replace the old dotted lines.
• Brighter nebula, tinted stars, and a glowing sweep around your range ring.

🛰️ Command hub glow-up

• The hub now shows the station you actually fly. Your equipped skin appears there exactly as it does in combat, instead of the same winged ship for everyone.
• The inner orbit carries the same glowing green sweep as your range ring in combat.
• Side buttons light up, and pulse when something's waiting for you (rewards, Matrix points, research).
• Nebula sky, the odd shooting star 🌠, and a cleaner Launch button.

🚀 10 new station hulls

The Hull Archive doubles to 20 skins, all earned through play. No purchases needed:

🌀 Tidal Helix: reach wave 250

💎 Prism Shard: own 5 station hulls

☀️ Nova Reactor: reach wave 500

🛡️ Aegis Bulwark: own 6 Relics

🌑 Umbral Eclipse: discover 16 Anomaly cards

📡 Signal Spire: allocate 30 Matrix nodes

🐝 Hive Cluster: complete 250 runs

⚡ Tempest Coil: reach 75 total Research levels

🪐 Grand Orrery: own 6 Armory systems

🌹 Thornbloom: prestige once

Each one is animated: spinning turbines, crackling lightning, orbiting moons and more. The Skins screen now previews every hull exactly as it looks in battle, so what you pick is what you fly.

🔧 Fixes & improvements

• Offline progress is safer. A new sync system stops offline TE and Workshop progress from being lost.
• Workshop MAX now buys the full batch instead of stopping at 1,000 levels.
• Research starts ticking as soon as you launch the game, with no more waiting on the server clock.
• Double-TE video after a run now waits until your run has saved, so it no longer fails.
• Discord verification reward raised to 200 SC. Already verified? You've been topped up by 150 SC. 💜

Thanks for playing and for every bug report. Keep them coming in the feedback forums! 🙏