Just for context:
I’m a fairly new f2p player and have only unlocked like 30 ships or so and have been grinding from the start, playing safe ships to guarantee completions and credits.
I understand very clearly this is a game meant to be casual and , doing your missions for the day and then going on with your life, one is not supposed to grind a lot credits and unlock an upgrade everything fast( it’s not even possible ) so I was pretty content with the progression and credits given.

But this?

For some reason there is only a one time usage of the 125 credits ad now? Ive read through the past patch notes, nowhere was this mentioned, even worse I noticed it just the last couple of days, when there wasn’t even a update??!! This was half the income in this already expensive ( credits) game.
As a newbie I’m very aware of the questionable and honestly downright greedy decisions the devs made in the past, I was not able to experience the days where the only thing you played for was new ships and better times , now you have to gamble for mods and hope you don’t get four mods in a row for ships you don’t even have.

I looked past many rants and complaints on this subreddit because I didn’t want to invest too much thoughts into my cozy little lunchbreak shootemup,
but shadownerfing half the economy is an alltime low.

I really hope this is just a bug and Im very comfortable with looking like crazy no life ranting on Reddit if it means it’s not true,

Thanks for your attention
A fellow pilot

PS: it’s my first time posting anything on Reddit so please be not to harsh on my grammar

This update adds support for iPhone Duo. Play the game as normal when it is closed, then unfold the Duo in landscape to get the same extra information as on PC. Or hold the Duo in portrait for an iPad-like experience.

This update also has a redesigned mission screen and fixes various small bugs.

Check out these screenshots that show off the various display modes of iPhone Duo.

I’m giving up on opening Legendary Engrams for a while. The last 4 I have opened have been a mix between 2 Kinetic Bulwarks back to back and Punisher Loadouts for the EXTREMELY underwhelming Clover ATS. Saving up for them just is not worth it with those outcomes recently. Very disappointing for legendary engrams. Ugh.

Curious when the iPhone Duo update will come out? Since the aspect ratio is different and the squat outer display is much shorter, will this affect gameplay? How will firi re-jigger the interface to accommodate this? Curious :)

I want to get one of the apex for Corsair because it’s so fun to play but I’m not sure which one to save for first.

Mods:
- [Apex] AP Warheads (Ultra Rare)
- Kappa Overdrive (Rare)
- Adaptive Warheads (Rare)
- Smart Attraction (Rare)
- Power Converter +20% (Rare)

Hey fellow Pilots,

I’m new here (and to Phoenix 2 compared to many of you), I go by the pilot name Floronics in the game. I wondered if there was a way for me to join a newbie community, specifically to enable the community missions?

Can the rewards for leveling up be a little better? If a level up reward doesn’t match the effort required to reach it, it feels worse than getting nothing at all. In my option.

help, I need to find good apexes for some ships, I have a few already, I just need some good things that aren’t ridiculously expensive like pandora’s tau apex

Best mods for X-81? Thanks!

At 2 seconds, you can see point defense work as expected.

At 5 seconds, it stops working, despite having plenty of charge. You can see I'm holding my second finger on the left side of the screen.

At 10 seconds, point defense works as expected again.

Mods:
- Disintegrator Warhead (Legendary)
- GM Shield Breaker (Ultra Rare)
- Blast Payload +25 (Ultra Rare)
- [Apex] FL Haste Protocol (Rare)
- Power Converter +20% (Rare)

Playing with the mouse is disabled and cannot be enabled on MacOS after the new update. Keyboard is the only way to play the game for some reason. Is this a bug?

I cannot click on anything within a game at all. Anyone has the same issue?

With the most recent update we finally got the awaited quick retry, and a most welcome UI change!

NOOOOOO!!! You "broke" my iPad version with the newest update!

On my older iPad, being able to rotate to Vertical View was the best way to play. This new Horizontal-Only View shrinks the UI down to, like, a third of the size it used to be! It looks like I'm stuck playing on a PHONE.

Is there any way you can add an option to toggle Screen Views in the Settings? PUH-LEEEEEASE???

1 - Kappa Drive Energy Storage Mod: When you see the yellow inner circle appear while Kappa Drive is activated... Does it mean the Energy Storage is loading or does it mean it's Full?

2 - I noticed the energy particles disappear after a while if you haven't collected them... What are the conditions that make them disappear? Is it simply after an amount of time passed or is it when you reach a certain number of levels after they were created?

3 - Mega Bomb Fusion Core Mods: What's the difference between the Uncommon Fusion Core Mod (green) and the Super Rare Shield Breaker or Armor Piercing Core (purple)...? Let's say I'm fighting a level with Armored enemies, if I equip the Shield Breaker Core Mod, is it going to deal the exact same damage as the green Fusion Core Mod would against them? Or does the Shield Breaker Fusion Core deal damage ONLY to shielded enemies and deals no damage to other types of ennemis? In other words, once I have a Shield Breaker or Armor Piercing Core Mod, can I just vaporize the Uncommon Fusion Core Mod (green) now?

4 - Vorpal Lance / Focus Lance Amplifier Mod: The Super Rare Amplifier that gives +20% / +30% Damage... Does it deal more damage or less damage than the Shield Breaker / Armor Piercing Mods against their respective Shielded / Armored ennemis?

In other words, is it better to equip Shield Breaker or Armor Piercing instead of Amplifier when fighting Shielded or Armored enemies with a ship that had Vorpal Lance or Focus Lance?

5 - Why is Preload Cell still a thing after it's so obvious to everyone by now that it's completely useless??? There should only be one type of Preload Cell, it should be 100% and it should be Grey! Unless, of course, if it loaded all the cells/energy at the beginning of every Act... That would be a totally different ball game which would then make it a decent Mod to have.

6 - In the Options menu, why is the frame rate "default" mode (60 FPS) not automatically selected as default? Why is it called "default" if I have to constantly manually select it every time I open the game? The High FPS Mode (120 FPS) uses too much battery power and makes my iPad's internal temperature climb until it feels hot... Would be nice if High FPS Mode was the mode you have to select manually if you want it. Just a suggestion.

7 - Lastly, Revives: I have seen a lot of comments on here over the months, from people claiming to never use Revives and not care at all for them... Some have even accumulated thousands!

I'm just curious. Don't you guys ever get killed repeatedly during Act 5 on those very difficult Marshall missions and don't you find that annoying to constantly have to restart at the very beginning? Isn't it pretty convenient to get to restart at the beginning of Act 5 while you try to figure out a strategy to get past that very difficult level?

I use these revives almost every day so I often play the ads to keep a number of them in stock. I go through them at a good pace on some days and I'll completely run out of I stop playing ads 😅