Indie games can offer some of the most unique and entertaining gaming experiences around, and none showcase this better than Deep Rock Galactic , a game that melds dangerous mining and brutal combat with procedurally generated environments and.. oh yeah, pirates.

Nearly fifteen years after it debuted in the Microsoft Windows Entertainment Pack , Deep Rock Galactic Beta 1 for Android tablets arrives today, adding brand new mission types and a handful of costume options. Mission chat messages you send to your ships will disappear in the new update - an experience fans of the game will appreciate.

One of the most exciting new missions is called "Personal Preludes", which lets you fight random pirates as one of 12 new pirate races. The pirate lists vary by race, so pick your team wisely!

If you're out hunting for dexerium compounds, you can also check out "Colonized Lore". Inspired by a popular Frontier-produced ALIEN: Isolation gameplay t-shirt design, the "Galactic Essays" mission types let players parlay tales of a particular species with a limited amount of dexerium, as well as some like-minded explorer volunteers.

Those looking for something more fluffy can check out "Scavenger Lilly", where looking for rare items gives players the chance to K-9 fight randomly capturing monsters and running them for intel.

And finally, update 1.03 adds new mission types to date, two new outfits, and a number of fixes and improvements. Here's the complete changelist:

Balanced

Fixed User Interface bugs

Free For All: Fixed health in Capturing — if you miss, you lose one health

Balanced

Added an added mission to the basic shooting n' spelunking mission — Personal Preludes

Fixed one overpowered mechanic now auto-setting Sky Blast on Skulls where they could be set to 'noharm'

Adjusted to global Backer representation

Changed naming set to TETG to remove confusion

Adjusted campaign style and text changes to Fleets Terrain all NPC

Reduced Voice Tim, fewer dropship snaking to limit loading times

Updated star system Bug Drop broadcast text

Server fudge balancing

Re-assigned turbo boost token resources to different mission costs

Fix of environment centurion bug

Fixed exceed of certain Faction kill statistics

Player stats are always displaying accurate, lore-accurate values

App resizes properly regardless device version

Event text tweaks

Beta Audio and music tweaked to open earlier for launch

This replaces "In Translation" being replaced with "It's In English!".

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