Impulse sends word of a new update for Gratuitous Space Battles, bringing Positech’s space strategy title up to v1.45.

The new update includes several new features, usability improvements and bug fixes including a couple of balancing tweaks and a new shield support beam feature for the empire.

Currently the patch is only available for Impulse users, but should arrive shortly to all owners of the title as an automatic download. From the change log:

Gratuitous Space Battles v1.45

• Balance: Shield Support beam being drastically re-balanced with lower beam rate and capacitor, and only able to have one beam at a time on each shield. Also now auto-selects the lowest friendly shield available.
• Balance: Frigate disruptor bombs damage increased from 60 to 75.
• Graphics: Better smoke clouds now for cruiser and frigate explosions.
• Bug Fix: Player can no longer use the maximise window option in windows mode to stretch the window size, which caused problems.
• New Feature: Shield support beam added for the empire.