Okay -- The Zenith Remnant is now feature-complete for ship content as of the upcoming version ZM that will be out later tonight. In total, there are now 122 expansion-exclusive ships in The Zenith Remnant (all the way up through the Dyson Gatling, the last to be added).
Still todo for the expansion before our release next week:
- Integration of all the new music (which won't be revealed until the official day of release).
- Several more galaxy map styles (these don't exactly require a lot of user testing, not like new ships, so they fell to the very end).
- Expansion-specific achievements.
- Bugfixes and yet more balance tweaks, although overall the balance is pretty solid now. As with anything, I'm sure that will continue to evolve over time, though, as more and more players rack up more experience with all of the new stuff.
It's certainly a relief to have hit this point, though it's a few days later than I would have liked. But, conversely, there is a lot more content than I'd planned on -- the three minor factions for the base game, control nodes, and a number of other improvements were late additions that were, I think, well worth the slight delay.
The next official DLC release will be the same day as the full expansion release -- the 12th.
