Patch 1.1.3: a new first mission and a clearer frontier — Space Defender Steam update #7337146

Patch 1.1.3 is out. It fills the gap between the tutorial and The Relay, and makes a lot of things easier to read, thanks to your reports on Steam, Discord and YouTube. New New story mission, Ilse's Ears: right after the tutorial, lay listening buoys for Ilse and find out why the convoys keep falling into ambushes. It leads straight into The Relay. 10 optional story contracts between the story orders, so the plot keeps moving between the big missions. Spaceport interiors reworked, and now voiced in every language. Planet expeditions: a narrator sets the scene as each one begins. Weapon cards show how the weapon fires (spread, range, piercing, homing...). Clearer Floating equipment now glows inside a ring in its tier colour, and picking something up tells you what it was. The hold message names what came in. The station's purse is shown in Trade, and a sale it can't afford tells you why. ...