A new Time Wasters update released on PC. According to the official Time Wasters patch notes, the latest update addresses some bugs and crashes.
Since the last patch, players are experiencing problems with the game. Today’s Time Wasters patch will fix a few of these issues.
Check out more details below.
Time Wasters Patch Notes – August 4, 2023
New Azurene Loyalty Challenge: The Caves
- Earn a Solo Victory with Azurene to unlock The Caves Challenge
- Location: The Caves
- Spiral Traps Will Appear
- Enemy Speed Multiplier 2
- Enemy Hull Multiplier 2
- Gold Per Pickup -0.85
- New 3D background
- New music track
- 3 New Enemy Types
- New Loyalty icon will replace Solo after earning The Caves Victory
- To play, select Azurene as the Captain then select The Caves from the Select A Challenge screen
- Added Unlock Missions & Steam Achievement
- More Loyalty Challenges may be added in future updates
Loyal Crew Azurene
- Get The Caves Challenge Victory with Azurene to unlock
- Loyal Crew Azurene can immediately join the crew at the start of a run
- Azurene must not be Banished to join your crew
Enemies
- Elite Time Destroyer speed increased by 25%
- Elite Time Destroyer needs to get closer to the player before firing weapons
- Battle Royal Circle Enemies max speed reduced by 12.5%, now reaches max speed at Wave 50 instead of 70 (will get closer to the player due to the friction change)
Performance Optimizations
- Player ship optimized for colliding with multiple enemies at the same time
- Reduced friction to 0 on all enemies
Sound Effects
- More accurately synced to music track beat
- Reduced Mine Explosion volume by 50%
Gamepad Support
- Optimized how Steam is loaded at startup which may possibly fix issues with gamepad not being detected, achievements not activating and the overlay not appearing
- Investigating switching non-XBox Gamepads from Steam Input to Native Input, may be included in a future update
Outposts
- Planets have been renamed to Outposts
