i've noticed a few changes. those darn phobos appear to be buffed and my fav IM90 seems to have been nerfed somewhere along the way.
the heavy ion cannon now does a whoppping (darn i forgot the exact numbers) it was somewhere around 60+ i think instead of just 18
i also noticed that those neat longhzu spheres that i so painstakingly combed through the galaxy for dont seem to be as helpful as they used to be. i managed to get around 20 of them and thought i'd enhance my IM90 to inifnity and beyond, but it seems infinity stops at +50% for this new version. i remember getting it up to +150% in the previous versions but it doesnt seem to work past 50%, even with an ion capacitor upgrade.. and this holds true for shields. i usually try to get an iocrym veil and enhance it right before i enhance it right after i enhance it till i run out of longhzu but its capped at 50% again.
i think george secretly hates all those seasoned veterans who finish off the game so fast. its going to be much much much tougher to actually get to the end.
still waiting to see if heretic still plays out the way it used to
sidenote from the good ol pre 1.00 days
i was pleasantly surprises when i finally made it to heretic after a few months break when my interest was renewed after seeing there was a new version out, there wasnt any green fuzzy cloud that seemed to want to follow you around and suck the life out of your shield near the heretic stargate. there were people and stations and shiny new iocrym to kill
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
also i used to love the power i got out from the x ray laser. right from around the time the sung started showing up and slaving the good folks,. an early level laser collimator works wonders with an omni turbolaser ( goes well with my lazy and inaccurate style of shooting) and then once you get the x ray i actually feel like aiming properly to start burning holes through every damned ship that dares cross your path. +225% is no joke i tell you, which was actually attainable if i remember correctly, a laser collimator and a +150% enhancement! it was burning out somewhere close to 65x2 laser damage, only drawback was it was laser, and you had to line up the shots.
ah those good days..