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This week we continue our regular news updates with a look at UTF Corvettes. Much like their NGM counterpart, these corvettes are used for quickly reinforcing a capital ship and providing an offensive advantage to the UTF in any scenario.

Corvettes are a new feature in 3.0 and they serve a major role in the gameplay. They will be an integral part of the initial phase of a battle, where the first team to lose their corvettes will be put on the defensive. They also provide excellent support for a capital ship and protect it against bombers and other ships. They will come in many flavours, including flak corvettes, missile corvettes and beam corvettes.

In testing news, we've squashed another major bug this week, one that I'm sure most of you will not miss. The "Big Ship" bug has been put to rest through a clever combination of fixes. The symptoms of the bug have been minimized so that players who trigger it as instantly killed and the server is no longer taken for a ride. This brings our internal build to a very stable state and we're now ready to focus entirely on polish.

Dan