Syma

Cleverly disguised somewhere in this blog title is a clue that this Episode contains more than your average update.

Now, what does this new update contain that should interest you?

Three new missions! Two of these are the peaceful solo missions that got mentioned here; check out Dane's Solo for a very unusual dungeoning experience!

Sixteen New Skills! Each class has acquired one extra skill, and both Common Magic and Common Tools have also received new skills. Not all of these are necessarily stronger and more badass attacks, but all are useful. To give some examples, the MentalMancer can inflict poison on the targets, which eats a chunk of their health every turn: this includes bosses! There's also the Healer who can remove all debuffs, the Medic who can grant invincibility, and the Grenadier who brings out his biggest weapon yet!
(Note: Some skills may appear as 0/0 at first. This issue is fixed simply by changing your class to anything (then changing it back, if you want) and the skill will have properly updated)

The HoloMap Deck is now available! This deck can be accessed anytime from on board the Baseship. It will holographically display all the planets and locations that your missions take place on, giving you their position in the Sector and some extra information about them and the peoples. You will also be able to accept missions directly from there, although they will only appear as missions unlock anyway.

A number of other changes! Including the attack command being changed for Marines and Sorcerors, a link directly to RMN from the game's title screen and added a bitchin' new scrolling parallax battleback to the Shuttle Escape mission!

A full list of changes can be found in the in-game Update Log (which is now working again; I realised that Episode IX didn't provide the Update Log, but that's been fixed)

Oh! And there's also the entirely pointless new Syma Banner that got made purely because I'm doing a lot of art stuff right now!