- teh_Broseph
- Oct 21, 2010
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THE LAST METROID IS IN
CATTIVITY. THE GALAXY
IS AT PEACE...
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Lipstick Apathy
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Patch Notes (cont...) (2/3)
Weapons
- Two changes aimed at rebalancing Thermal Shock and similar heat-imparting weapons:
- Ships now gain resistance to heat weapons based on spare cooling capacity (when ships are cold they're more resistant).
- Having a heatsink actively charging diverts most heat from external heat attacks straight into the heatsink, granting 90% resistance to these effects for those few seconds.
These two changes combine well, as now heatsinks are much more able to cut through even extreme heat attacks, and then the newly cold ship is temporarily more resistant. Simply running a cold ship will also extend the time before external heat is able to cause damage by a larger proportion.
- Heat sink launchers now take substantially less damage from beaing overheated (down to a quarter of what it was), they are designed to be the defence against overheating after all.
- Shield resistance to heat-imparting attacks increased, and active shield will now block 50% of the effect of thermal shock weapons, up from 25%.
- Fix issues with mines and missiles sometimes failing to hit targets due to networking inconsistencies, most noticeable when driving into someone else mines at high speed
- Fix issue weapons switching to Fire at Will on supercruise transitions
- When modifying a weapon that fires in bursts, always ensure the clip size is rounded up to a multiple of the burst size. This will retroactively affect existing weapons and fixes cases of the Double Shot 3 slugshot having a 5 round clip
- Fix custom VFX scaling for weapons (scaling was affecting the particles rather than the emitter
- Mines should be affected by gravity
- Mines now have vfx for default, dirt and ice surfaces
- Point defence range has been increased slightly along with it's integrity
- Blast radius for Deep Cut Payload and Penetrator Munitions is now correctly 75% of what it would be for an external blast, rather than 0.75m
- Fix a bug where the penetration direction for a missile could be wrong depending on the exact detonation trigger
- Set the Penetration chance for torpedoes and dumbfire missiles to 1. This is not used with their normal damage mode, but guarantees penetration when the damage mode is switched
- Tweaked chance of burst laser malfunction when firing as it was observed to be too likely to happen given that each shot of the burst did the test, not each burst
- Point defences will no longer try to shoot down a ships' own dumbfire missiles
- ECM balance tweaks: guided missiles and torpedos hit by an ECM charge will now gain a major drunk effect if they did not already have it, causing them to veer off target most of the time. Technically you can still be struck, but previously ECM'ed torpedos would maintain an almost straight trajectory which for ships unable to dodge would mean they got hit anyway
- Dedicated keybinding for ECM. CM do not have to be in a fire group, holding this down will charge the first ECM module on your ship that is ready to go, and releasing will fire it
- Experimental balance change reworking how heat weapons function, similar to our earlier proposal but adjusted with player feedback. Aim of the changes:
- Thermal diminishing returns cut in much harder, previously they would start at 60% and prevent you going over 190%, whereas they will now start at 65% and prevent you going over 95% (down from 80%/120% in our earlier proposal). This means that heat from external attacks alone can never cause module or hull damage
- The heat effects of Thermal Shock are doubled
- The heat effects of Thermal Cascade are 25% more than they are on live (the previous beta heat nerf is being reversed, and then a small buff), combined with a slight nerf to PackHounds to stop them being so superior to other missiles
The goal here is for heat not to be a primary damage mechanism, but be there to punish your target for doing things that generate heat spikes such as SCBs, boosting or firing the hotter weapons. We also want to make it so that it is never worthwhile to stack a lot of heat weapons together: You will get the new full effect from a smaller number of weapons than before, but it can never get anywhere near as deadly and stacking more weapons beyond that point is counterproductive
- Drop the damage of packhound missiles slightly, from 9 per missile to 7.5. They're doing slightly more damage than we wanted given their relative immunity to point defences, and dwarfing normal missile launchers
- Remove num pad 6 as a binding for chargECM, it's already in use for fighter order follow
- Small usability improvement for Slugshot turrets, drop the range at which they will auto-acquire targets drastically (down to 500m rather than the weapon's maximum range of 2000m), to stop them wasting shots on things they'll never hit
- Experimental Balance tweaks for Fixed vs Gimbal weapons with travel times. Overall we think larger changes are needed, but for now going with a safe option to avoid over-correcting and will review once these changes settle:
- Projectile Speeds for fixed cannons increased by 20% (for S/M/L/H weapons this has gone from 750/800/875/1000 to 900/960/1050/1200)
- Projectile Speeds for Plasma Accelerators (APA included) increased by 20% from 700 to 875
- Damage for fixed multi-cannons adjusted so that the benefit for fixed over gimbals is much more consistent, and on average larger. Small fixed multis are reduced by 5%, Mediums are unchanged, large and huge increased by 11% and 14%
- Damage for fixed cannons adjusted for similar consistency, small increased by 5%, medium/large/huge increased by 10%
- Damage for Plasma Accelerators increased for a more consistent relationship with equivalent cannons, medium increased by 2%, large by 5%
- Advanced Plasma Accelerator has also had its energy efficiency improved (7 per shot down to 5.5). It now has slightly better damage per capacitor power than a normal Large and deals more DPS, but at the cost of more heat
- Reduction in damage to Reverberating Cascade was a bit much, especially when considered alongside much improved ECM. Returning this to 35% of raw damage punched through to shield generator.(originally 50%, previously reduced to 20%)
- Balance tweaks to buff PDTs:
- Missile health reduced for Small and Medium dumbfire and standard seeker. Now requires 2 point defence hits rather than 3 per missile
- PDT jitter angle halved (from 1.5 degrees to 0.75 degrees).
- Fixed where PDT shots would appear to vanish but would still have an effect at long range
- Fix a reported bug with Containment missiles and their engineer equivalents, the 35 second immunity period was not working correctly for them
- Minor balance tweak for Containment missiles have received a 20% damage reduction and 50% increased time between shots. FSD interrupt mod has gone from a 20->30% reduction and the same 50% increase in time between shots. Reducing their overall DPS so you're sacrificing a little more to use them
- We think heat attacks have been reduced a little too far, and need a very conservative buff:
- Diminishing returns for heat now limit at 100% (up from 95% in previous beta)
- Damage penalty for Thermal shock reduced to 20% (from 25%)
- ECM needs some slight tweaks:
- ECM will now fire when hardpoints are not deployed
- ECM charge time increased to 3 seconds (currently 2 in beta, 4 in live)
- Hatch Breaker limpets are also having heir acceleration multiplier turned up significantly. For comparison firing at a target 1km away and with both ships matching speed the travel time has gone from roughly 10 seconds down to 5.5
- Improved flight speed and hacking time of all hatch breaker limpets
- Removed strange hatch malfunction behaviour where you could cancel it by toggling power. Hatch breaker limpets and general 'your hatch got damaged' hatch malfunctions can no longer be cancelled
- Slight reduction to the effectiveness of Incendiary rounds for Multicannons:
- Remove the hidden 20% kinetic damage that was left over
- Reduce the fire rate penalty from -10% to -5%
- Net effect is that the DPS has gone down by 4% vs shields and 15% vs hull (if unmodified), leaving the weapon strong but a slightly clearer tradeoff.
- Hatch breakers can now be blown up by point defence.
Outfitting / Shipyard
- We now preview ship kits and bobbleheads when we mouse over them
- Outfitting stats improvements:
- Adjusted stat priority so that CQC module stats no longer extend beyond the capacity of the GUI
- Added booster stats back in (CQC only)
- Show hidden stats in comparisons if the original stat isn't hidden
- Cleaned up code and resources to remove depreciated "Outfitting" stats
- Small optimisation to stop OutfittingItemInfo calculating stats unnecessarily
- Chance Modification symbol overlaps description fixed
- Vehicle bay in outfitting does not populate class indicator pip fixed
- Fixed cut off label in item descriptions
- Sort preference in Outfitting resets after being closed fixed
- Sort results ignores weapon filters fixed
- Changed slot size for planetary approach suite to 1 rather than 8 as the item itself is only size 1
- Changed "Set Fire Group Reminder" text to apply to modifying modules as well as buying them
- Modules tab pop-up backgrounds are translucent on first viewing fixed
- Class/Rating sort filter in outfitting now correctly sorts by class first, then rating
- After applying a livery item to you ship via mouse input - the UI will no longer focus to the slot under the mouse and cause a camera change away from the item you were applying
- Block the purchasing of more than one scanner of each type
- Still allow save files to have multiple scanners if they bought them previously
- Still allow selling of a third duplicate scanner, even if the remaining 2 would, strictly speaking, still be against the rules
- The sale price of a vehicle bay now takes its contents into account
- Fix module buy back becoming hidden when swapping modules
- A module category will appear in the wrong place on the Store Multiple menu if no modules of that type are equipped fixed
- Shipyard - B button doesn't work on sell ship popup fixed
- Stop clearing the remote ships list when we list the ships available at this station - this stops the remote ships list sometimes being cleared when we update
- Added some additional code to track whether a ship is being delivered "here" to control the local ship tab highlighting
- Accessing the livery via the station home screen no longer skips the 'which vehicle' step (if applicable)
- Fixed failing to go back behaviour when using the livery link from homes screen
- Fixed missing blurred background when picking which vehicle to livery
- Overhanging buttons and items in outfitting list fixed
- Changed outfitting filter options to use vectors instead of bitmaps to try to improve clarity
- First module highlighted statistics missing if purchasing to an empty slot fixed
- Removed the swap module option while previewing a fighter or an SRV as the web support is currently not available. This shouldn't cause any issues as the only swappable modules on fighters and SRVs are decal slots
- Updated icons and animation for ship transfer to improve clarity and remove WIP items
- Fixed focusing issues in the modifications screen in outfitting
- Fixed several issues with ship transfer timers
- Updated outfitting button icons to improve clarity
- Module transfers with delivery times added
- Fix overflow values for very expensive ship transfers
- Fixed bug where paintjobs and items would persist when using breadcrumbs to navigate out the menu
- Added icon for the main ship when selecting a vessel in the outfitting
- Updated vessel selection screen in the outfitting to use new cleaner ship icons
- Allow a non-horizons player to view their horizons ships if they already own them (because they own horizons on another platform)
- When selling a ship of no value, we now show its value as "0 CR", rather than "FREE"
- Shipyard UI sell confirmation popup : replacing "current ship" heading by "ship", and displaying sold ship name instead of current ship
- Don't allow more ships to be transported to a station than the local storage allows
- When populating vehicle list, making sure "selectable" flag is set (based upon purchaseAllowed state) so that the button behaves properly
- Fighter icon on SRV bay fixed
- Stat comparison screen remains during weapon swap fixed
- Process transaction cost correctly when fetching or selling a remote module
- UI was being unlocked before hardpoint animation was complete. This should now be fixed
- Module distance incorrectly show when transferring a module fixed
- Adjusted the balance areas of the popups to have an auto width, to account for large balances
- Added module class rating, added warning texts to sell and transfer module popups, gave the clock icon an orange tint
- Made class icon visible, resized the location icon to its, added space between icons and text, tinted transit text to red
- Fixed keeping hold of buyback items once we've bought them back
- Icons resized and centred, added missing class and rating, resized warning icon and added spacing between it and text
- Prevented focus from being lost when pressing Right on the read more section of the module transfer
- The Store [X/X] button is selectable when all 30 slots are full but no modules in the tree are selected
- Ship loadout doesn't update after multiple swaps fixed
- Updated icon positioning and colouring in the Inventory Browser Screen
- Added functionality to the 'Store Multiple Popup', to support pressing 'UI BACK'
- Starport UI: fixed quick action button icons disappearing when coming back from outfitting
- Store multiple modules lists incorrect number when unticking categories fixed
- Damage type tagged as 'labelfield' overlapping fixed
- Adjusted colour of "in transit" text, when focused on
- Made the "Stored Ship" tab, glow white when a ship completes its transfer
- Increased Module Storage size to 60
- Tune credits costs of Ship and Module transfer
- Added ship summary back to ship details panels for local and remote stored ships
- Don't allow sold modules to have transfer options
- Display a 0% transfer levy when transferring a free item
- Distance Levy [Undefined] Displayed when transferring modules to your current station fixed
- Only display locally stored modules when transferring a module from storage to a pre-selected ship slot
- Fix server error after transferring cargo to a newly purchased ship
- Silent Audio on module store multiple scroll fixed
POIs/USSs
- Award exploration progress when creating vouchers for scannable settlements & points of interest
- Scannable vouchers now scale by the distance from Sol
- Allow objects to be spawned in response to cargo being scooped
- Added some new conditions for the poi buckets:
- Planet volcanism strength
- Planet volcanism type
- Primary star type
- Required star type
- A warning message is now displayed when leaving a conflict zone
- Added scenario for Elite Plus gameplay
- Added military patrol scenarios
- Rebalance for fixed scenario AI set up, specifically for Nav Beacons and RES sites
- Added in new ship types and slightly tweaked down the difficulty of the more extreme set ups
- Skimmers can now be spawned in waves
- Increased pool of Federation and Empire capital ship names
- Added a Cruise Liner scenario for Boom system states
- Stop ambient police ships spawning where there shouldn't be any security response
- POIs can now contain landed ships
- Modules on damaged capital ships can now be shot and broken just like their more intact counterparts
- Make sure body volcanism is being correctly read
- Increased the distance at which persistent POIs will spawn from 5km to 15km and also made the persistent POI placement avoid placing near POIS from other placement types
- Fumaroles now no longer spawn all materials of the same type, they will select from a bucket like other mining rocks
- Have more varied states of geological activity
- Fix for POIs getting cleared when swapping into a fighter
- Fixed Occupied Escape Pods in USS appearing as Illegal Salvage/Stolen
- Fixed missing Satelittes schematic
- Added schematics for various mysterious things
- Rebalanced geyser, gas vent and lava spout forces
- Modifications to which geological can spawn where based on the volcanism types
- Fixed the hitcheck for a mysterious thing
- Added mysterious thing schematic
- Fixed broken Geyser forces
- Fix to floating Data Uplinks
- Added audio activity to trigger audio when breaking off collectables from organics
- Fixed missing serverbank audio
- Fixed Lodding Popping on Datapoint
- Updated Large Aerials on Adornments to have new texture, to make them more visible
- Fixed audio for geology fields
- Tunnel geometry not lining up in civilian installation fixed
- Turned on the hitcheck for the scaffolding around the under repair capital ship
- Placed the correct Installation in Ngalkin
- Rebalanced liquid elements of geyser VFX
- Removing Lava and fumaroles from Ice only planets at this is scientifically inaccurate
- Audio: Mix tweaks to abandoned settlements
- Audio: Added low rumble to geyser
- Fixed some misaligned tunnels on civilian installation
- Make sure that persistent POIs cannot spawn within their minimum separation of each other
- Audio: Fix for silent ambience on a secret thing
- Audio: Fix for number station ambience being audible at infinite distance
- Added new mission tipoff locations to settlements
Player Journal
- Suppress heat warning event if docked
- Tweaks to the “Location” event
- Added a mechanism to import star system names into visited stars cache
- Include Powerplay info in the FSDJump and Location events
- Include PowerplayOrigin in CargoDumped event if relevant
- When collecting microresources, include the count in the journal entry
- When scanning a star, include age and surface temperature; When scanning a star or planet, include more orbital details;
- When scanning a planet with rings, more significant figures for ring statistics
- Modification to player journal entry when rewarded a bounty, as it may list multiple factions
- The "ReceiveText" event in the player journal now has a "Channel" value that indicates if player text was received via a wing, local, friend, or direct player chat;
also include npc chat
- Added checks that we're a component on the player's ship before writing an entry in the player journal - applies to the following events: USSDrop, FuelScoop, JetConeBoost, Launch/Dock/Fighter/SRV, HeatWarning, CockpitBreached, MiningRefined
- Include details of all modules stored in the MassModuleStore event
- When transferring a ship, report distance in LY not metres
- Added Commodity Rewards info into MissionCompleted event
- Fixed issue where some received text messages were not written into player journal
- Added a "ScientificResearch" event in PlayerJournal for contributing materials to a research community goal
- When importing stars from a file into the VisitedStarsCache, interpret any line containing just digits as a starsystem address in decimal rather than a name
- Fixed journal entry for "ScientificResearch"
- Fixed the 'abandon' flag in player journal for cargo ejected from SRV
- Fixed typo in player journal for ModuleRetrieve which was causing broken json
- Fixed missing 'Module' tag in JetConeDamage playerjournal entry
- Some non-settlements were being reported via the "ApproachSettlement" journal entry - was potentially revealing secrets
- Fixed "TransferCost" key in "FetchRemoteModule" journal entry
- Player journal was asking for the packed star system age. System map was using a per star wobbled age. Now both use the per star age
Settlements
- Fixed space settlements not appearing on clients without horizons/planet landing capabilities
- Improved snap to ground mechanism
Galactic Simulation
- Fixed some economic states ending too early for factions
- Fixed the faction retreat state so that it only tries to cancel pending conflicts in the system it's retreating from, not all conflicts everywhere
- Stopped factions expanding into starsystems that can't be travelled to or are immune to conflicts
- Fixed some market & shipyard price overrides not correctly ignoring expired modifiers
Community Goals
- Added support for Material donation Community Goals
- Fixed a transaction server error when redeeming CG rewards
- Fixed Community Goal conflicts ending half a day too early
- Stopped CG leaderboards being padded out with Commanders who've signed up but not yet contributed
Galaxy Map
- Avoid "route unavailable" cases in low density areas, when the route looks like it should be available
- Fix an issue with being unable to search for systems in "Lupus Dark Region B Sector"
- When searching for a star, try to find a star with the exact searched name first before starting the partial matching, fixes the issue of "BLU THUA QY-Z D1" returning "BLU THUA QY-Z D13-0" as the first match
- Improvements to "economical" route plotting times in high density areas of the galaxy. Cap the jump range used by JumpRouteFinder, so at each system we only consider jumping to nearby systems for the route, rather than every system within jump range
- If the jump range is low, don't try to cut down the number of systems considered for fastest route plotting in high density areas
- If the player unticks the current plotting mode, don't re-tick it when next opening the galaxy map
- Fix an issue with long jump distances and route plotting
- System map performance optimisation for VR
- Optimisations for the route planner
- Fix a stall at the end of plotting a route
- When using the Fastest route plotter in high density areas of the galaxy, reduce the cost that is calculated for the final jump to the target system. This allows the route plotter to return a route much sooner rather than spending minutes investigating potential small fuel savings
- The option to turn off Nebula Names only works at a distance fixed
- Trade route filters can once again be toggled on/off en-mass by holding LMB and dragging over them
- Switched buttons around so action button is now on the right of the cancel button with bookmark dialog windows
- When system names are too long, try and trim them in a sensible manner
- System Map - Lumpy planets now get their own models in the system map overview instead of using the smooth sphere model
- Slightly sped up the double sided lighting change when first entering the planet map
- Fix an issue where planets with a retrograde spin would not have their rotation speed or axial tilt displayed in the system map
- System map planets now use subsurface scattering colouring
- Added galaxy map overrides for population and economy
- Only display a conflict state on the galaxy map if the Faction controlling that system is also fighting in that system
- Reduced loading time for galaxy map
- Fixed some stalls loading the system map
- Bookmarks all disappeared and can no longer create them fixed
- Fix planet scan logic to ensure that planet terrain is only visible if the planet has had a basic scan performed on it
- Fix rendering when there are only Horizons planets in a system
SRV
- Improvements to stopping the SRV falling into planet / getting stuck in geometry when loading the game
- Improved wave scanner readability when SRV full beams are on at night, on a planet with a bright surface colour
- Use correct bone when calculating the scoop UI in the SRV
- SRVs now trigger docking offences when loitering on landing pads
- B button on SRV cockpit GUI panels engages vertical thruster fixed
- Enabled warning after buying a SRV hangar without bays
- If the player logs in while in a buggy and their ship is landed, the ships landing gear will now be extended placing them in the same state they were in when the player launched the buggy, this should help with the buggy getting stuck under ships if the player logs out under their ship
- Fixed ships crashing into the ground/destroyed when recalled by SRV
- Reduce the maximum number of signal traces on the wavescanner now that we have more extreme cases
- Optimise the wavescanner to better handle multiple signal sources
Ships
- The discovery scanner can no longer be used while self destructing
- Flight Landing Overrides conflicts with Targeting, Cooling, Weapons etc. fixed
- Fixed where there was no space after ASSIST OFF warning
- Ships will now try to align to the target destination during the hyperspace countdown
- Wear should now apply and repair properly
- Fix an issue with the calculation for the offset of the station schematic
- Prevent "Drives Offline: Zero Thrust Capability" message showing spuriously (while engines are not on, but are booting)
- Fix paintjob wear & tear and ship integrity recording
- Fixed livery errors with Taipan fighter
- Fixed parent ship livery slots appearing briefly when selecting a launch able, which should prevent a crash caused by trying to modify a slot that doesn't exist
- Fix error in ship delivery calculation – it should be a linear association with distance, not exponential!
- Don’t send the ship arrived inbox message until the ship has actually arrived
- Fixed loading screen model for the Taipan
- Increased size of internal fuel tank for Beluga and Orca
- Enlarged hit locations on Imperial Fighter so its weapons can take damage
- F63 Condor and Eagle side panels obscured by canopy geometry
- Type 7 Bobbleheads slot 1 and 10 are incorrectly rotated fixed
- Equipped bobbleheads in the Beluga Liner clip into pieces of the GUI fixed
- Tweak up the minimum speed before taking damage when landing on a planet's surface
- Keelback landing gear floating above ground when landing on planet fixed
- Fixed zfighting issues with loading screen for the Federation Fighter
- Adjusted hitcheck for Diamondback Explorer
- Fixes for hanger cameras and decal slots on the imperial Eagle
- Fixed Decal issues on the Cobra MKIV
- Fixed fuel scoop UI position for Fed Assault Ship, Corvette, Imperial Courier, Fed Dropship, Fed Gunship, and Vulture
- Fixed some holes in the mesh for Fed Gunship, Assault Ship and Dropship
- Fixed smoothing group issues on the Type 7
- Taipan's left decal no longer missing
- Taipan fighter decals pass to make them more legible
- Added slight improvements to how accurately ships are snap to the planet's surface
- Adjusted mix of the landar/spacedar transition noise. Made a bit softer
- Rebalanced Type 7 ship to have better toughness and larger internal module slots
- Fixed incorrect Type 6 armour hardness values
- Increased armour, shields and hardness (armour rating) base stats for the Keelback. Increased a single size 3 slot on it to a size 4 slot as well
- The heading gauge now displays during orbital cruise
- Moved the docking bone on the Beluga down to help with docking issues on planetary ports
- Set asp (and asp scout) landing gear door to be open or closed when initialising to up to down
- Diamondback Explorer cockpit handles in wrong place fixed
- Moved Mini panel placement (and tweaked radar position slightly)
- Fix for docking computer crashing into Farseer tower when coming in to land
- Vulture ship kit parts have a lot of wear & tear on them when purchased brand new fixed
- Landing gear can get stuck on if you have recently had an SRV destroyed and then launch from the planet fixed
- While trying to land on a planet - the landing UI will now check against Terrain->Speed->Alignment rather than Speed->Terrain-Alignment. This should make the UI a little more helpful in the majority of situations where the terrain is unsuitable, rather than you moving too fast
- Fixed incorrect landing volume for Type 7
- Cannot see Tail Shipkits on Vulture in Outfitting due to camera angle in VR fixed
- Fixed some mapping issues on the Cutter
- Audio: Ship drives silent when respawing over planet surface having died in SRV fixed
Ship Art
- Fix for all Lakon ships that have cockpit textures which bloom out and cause visibility issues with the GUI around stars/ brightly lit environments
- Fixed smoothing on Imperial Courier
- Fixed collision issue on landing in Diamondback
- Changed Imperial Cutter /Imperial Clipper target schematics for a proper one
- Cockpit version of external material renders under cockpit emissive elements fixed
- Fixed hitcheck issues with Federal Gunship
- Fixed Hitcheck on Orca so that you can retrieve cargo
- Moved bobblehead bones backwards to stop interference with GUI compass in the Adder
- Fixed gap in mesh for Cobra MkIII
- Adjusted camera position for Decal 1 on the Eagle
- Hitcheck adjustment for greater hardpoint clearance for the Keelback
- Moved hardpoints slightly and fixed some smoothing issues on the Cutter
- Created a new front landing gear animation to avoid intersection with the SRV bay on the Keelback
- Fixed hanger camera issue for front decal on the Imperial Eagle
- Fixed landing volume for Orca
- Fixed landing volume for Diamondback Explorer
- Fixed landing volume for Imperial Cutter
- Fixed landing volume for Viper MkIV
- Removed scaling on the warning panel to fix issue on the Imperial Eagle
- Fixed front landing gear intersection with the Cutter
- Z-fighting on fighter models on ship spinning load screen fixed
Stations/Ports
- Advertising boards in hangars updated with more companies
- Landing pad hologram colours adjusted to better suit new interior variations
- Fixed other player's ships appearing to be outside of the station when they are docked
- Increased variety for adverts outside starports controlled by various local factors such as alliegence
- Rich and High Tech stations now use the alternative trucks and buses models on the roads
- Hide the station's navigation marker while within the station's bounding sphere
- Fix the stations attached modules not showing up in the station schematic
- Fix overbright envmaps being generated in rich stations and potentially other places in the game
- Rebalanced lighting in rich interiors
- The glowing emissive texture on the floodlights for Standard, Rich and ZeroG landing pads now switches on/off in sync with the spotlights
- Re-colour the crane texture used for the main gantries in the Inner Dock for variety: Agri is off-white, High-Tech red and Services a cleaned-up blue
- Fixed some flimmering lines on the back wall of the small rich hangar
- Fixed hitcheck for the trees in the rich stations
- It is no longer possible to supercruise into the back of a station and prang off it if you approach from exactly behind it
- Reworked a road junction on the PlanetPort so that it joins better
- Added a warning if trying to launch from a port without a planetary approach suite
- Added fighter bays to Jameson Memorial and Dalton Gateway
- Fix stations being different from before the beta
- Typo when selecting primary/secondary economy in station generation was changing station types
- Fixed a missing access panel on some of the large landing pads, which allowed you to see through the pad at a certain distance
- Audio: Various ATC fixes
- Added missing backer station 'Samphire's Solace'
- Added agricultural customisations to Harvestport in Kappa Fornacis
- Fix Station Services availability to cope when services aren't present at all instead of falling through to 'market not found'
- Starport UI: pressing B / exit button in Cartography section of startport UI doesn't exit back to the cockpit and just goes back to home screen as expected
- Fixed one spot light bone being offset in the Foundry station
- Fix to allow the inner dock faction light overrides to work again with the new station customisation system
- Art optimisations for the Nemo Cyber Party Base
- Fixed missing textures on holoscreens
- Fixed VO not matching polity for ATC and announcements
- Fixed some floating industrial planet settlements
- Audio: Fixed loud ambience in station menu when buying/transfering/storing a ship
- Audio: Fixed loud passenger and crew lounge ambiences
- Fix for faction lighting being applied to the new station inner docks instead of their own lighting
- Audio: Fixed number station audio events not synced due to time step miscalculation
- Audio: The new flight controllers are too quiet fixed
Services of Stations
- Fix quick restock button (was showing a full bar when empty), also remove vehicles from the calculation if not vehicle bay is present on the ship
- Adjusted the faction name label within the News Panel. It will now resize and add an ellipses when required
- Fix the contact panel avatar loading (triangles animation)
Celestial Objects
- Fix cases of "dropping too close" when leaving rings from normal space into supercruise. You are now able to maintain cruise inside a ring, so long as you are outside of it's core and heading away from the ring's plane
- Improve drop-out location for entering rings in other situations, players will generally drop out closer to the ring and their target
- Improved method for blending distant bump maps for the terrain
- Ice surface material improvements
- Rocky surface material improvements
- Metal surface material improvements
- Updated planet surface tiles
- Reworked the ice asteroid shader's lighting, and improved its parameter
- White Dwarf stars now have a unique lens flare
- Fix surface material quality being incorrect when rendering some patches
- Prevent distant surface maps jumping when camera crosses 16km boundaries, and improve precision of the largest maps
- Fix ring fog from being being lit in black hole systems
- tweaked the way ring fog interacts with local star colour so that it blends better with the star lighting
- Increased the maximum value for depth obtained from the depth buffer linearization. Fixes rendering for extremely large stars at extreme distances
- Improved the visibility of planet dust particles when in the darkside of the planet
- Terrain minor UV fixes
- Asteroids now generate only within the bounds of rings
- Asteroid billboards have their positions and size adjusted accordingly to ensure they fit within thin rings
- Ring cells now obey the ring height correctly rather than assuming all rings want 5km of asteroids
- Ring height clamped to a minimum of 1km
- Re-written asteroid billboard placement to use better depth ranges
- Re-written asteroid billboard mesh generation, lods are finally now coherent with one another
- Added randomised static rotation to asteroid billboards to break up visible repeating
- Fixed some obvious patterns on rock and metal planetary surfaces
- Stop lens flares getting disabled when entering supercruise
- Changed the planet dust colour system to only request data if we're actually close enough to a planet to see any dust
- Fix fast moving distant Horizons planets not orbiting smoothly
- Optimise physics surface patch generation
- Improved memory management for surface textures
- Alterations to europa line parameters on rocky ice worlds - stops physics-breaking patches
- Have a hard cap in the noise graph for max geometry height, to prevent planets you can fly through or from being able to drive into space
- Remove the artificial increase in star spin speeds
- Added a medium quality planet surface material setting, with performance roughly halfway between low & high
- Disable tiling and detail textures at a distance of 1km on Xbox and mid/low-quality PC. This helps us afford tiling in the worst cases (hovering a few hundred metres above the planet
- Xbox One: Improvements to planetary surfaces
- Xbox One: Fix star luminosity not being the same as PC/Mac
Star Jets
- The FSD boost level now uses the larger effect out of synthesis and jet cone supercharge, rather than always using the latter if set
- FSD supercharge status now persists between sessions rather than being wiped on game load
- Added a random initial rotation to stellar jet billboards
- Re-enable jets for OSX
- Minor optimisation to texture lookup for jet cones
- Jet cone optimisations and quality settings
- Enable BC7 compression
- Fixed some pixelation on ice distant map
- Reduce the minimum star visibility for white dwarves and neutron stars. This fixes an issue where lens flares for those star types would be rendered when the star was occluded by a planet
- Audio: Fix for Materials sound being wrong on planet surfaces.
Render
- Fixed sorting of emmisve textures bleeding through opaque surfaces
- Decal rendering improvements/optimisations
- Xbox One: Fixed the SSAO command
- Prevent luminosity class VI sub-dwarf protostars selecting a white dwarf as it's nearest visual class (Please note: a side effect of this is that various TTauri or Herbig protostars will change from white to red/purple. This is not a bug, and is a slightly better representation of their actual temperatures)
- Fixed light cones disappearing when you got behind the source
Hyperspace
- Arriving at a star now correctly leaves you in line with the source and destination systems, rather than the previous not-well-defined behaviour
- It is no longer possible to travel through or end up inside another star if you hypespace into a multi-star system. If an intervening star is detected your hyperspace will be redirected onto that star. This process repeats if the new path is also obstructed. Note that you can still end up dangerously close to other stars and get more than a little cooked
- When hyperspacing to a star with jet cones, avoid potential danger regions at the poles
- Ship aligns and follows target star through hyperspace tunnel
- Made elements of the hyperspace tunnel persist across boundaries
- Made the hyperspace tunnel go faster
- Optimisations to the hyperspace tunnel
- Texture and particle improvements to hyperspace tunnel
- Reduction of GUI contributed stalls to hyperspace entry/exit
- Fix for hyperspace nebula streaming in at low-mip at the start of the hyperspace jump
- Stop the shadow settings changing when starting the FSD charge for hyperspace/supercruise
StellarForge
- Added Persephone (Planet Nine), Haumea, Makemake, Eris, Orcus, 2002 MS4, Salacia, Quaoar, 2007 OR10 and Sedna to Sol
- Renamed Eol Prou RS-T D3-94 to Colonia
- Added starport to Eol Prou LW-L C8-76 A 3 A
- Outpost added to Eol Prou LW-L c8-138 1
- Outpost added to Eol Prou YD-W B17-1 4
- Outpost added to Eol Prou YD-W B17-5 A 5
- Outpost added to Eol Prou Lw-L C8-28 A 1 a
- Outpost added to Eol Prou Lw-L C8-306 A 4 a
- Outpost added to Eol Prou VY-R d4-443 6
- Outpost added to Eol Prou LW-L C8-133 2
- EES2009 Persei has duplicate system names fixed
- Renamed duplicate Frey system to Yngvi-Freyr
- Duplicate system name Grafias renamed to SO4-H1E 2000
- Check spin rates for neutron stars and black holes are something more sensible
- Fix issues with close orbiting bodies with large eccentricities intersecting their parent star
- Fix an issue when generating a system when a highly eccentric orbit goes outside the hillsphere of its parent, we will now reduce the eccentricity to fit inside the hillsphere
- When checking for moon-ring intersection, need to account for any objects orbiting the moon so that they don't intersect at any point in their orbit
- Ring around Archerbas in the Carthage system no longer intersects the planet
- Renamed exoplanet in the Ross 444 system to Hutton Prime
- Col 285 Sector HX-X B16-4 renamed to Exton
- Jaques station name restored
- Made the Pleiades Nebula blue
- Speculative fix for intermittently disappearing stations/systems in overriden generated systems
- Prevent an invalid update query on updating time spent in ships when we don't know the commander's current ship type
SRV
- Death in a SRV with a mother ship in orbit now re-spawns the mother ship in orbit, not on the planet
- Prevent SRV's getting stuck partially retrieved if another buggy is in the same island with their mother ship
- Minor update to SRV preview to prevent the turret and the chair from shaking
- Made the inertial camera simulation use the mode AccelerationSpring when using trackIR in the buggy, the same as without TrackIR. This fixes the camera twitching when using TrackIR in a buggy
- SRV Bay - Scarab does not show initial vehicle specs despite being selected
- Fixed SRV cargo transfer page not displaying cargo after transferring cargo to your ship then going and scooping a new load
- Added self destruct button back to the SRV
- SRV Scarab shown as being in a bay in the role switch panel, when no SRV is present
- On fitting new SRV planetary vehicle hangar all slots are full when viewing the role panel fixed
- Stop data points showing up on a fighter HUD after been scanned in the SRV S
- Stop fighter mothership pointer appearing in an SRV after the player has been in a fighter
Limpets
- All Limpets are no longer killed when one player leaves the instance
- Untargetted collector limpets will not target items owned by their player
- Tweak the thresholds for displaying Low / Medium / High material asteroid content when using a prospector limpet. The thresholds were previously way too high so it always showed Low. Now the information is more meaningful: all rings can show either Low or Medium for an asteroid, and Rocky and MetalRich rings can also show High
Environment
- Fixed crash site collision on debris
- Fixed the buggy pad in mining object layer, so it snaps to position only, not orientation
- Added fade to organic seed decals to fix cut off on extreme slopes
- Added some more variety to mysterious places
- Fixed some misaligned tunnels in an installation
- Fixed a mysterious thing finding it's way into a cargo canister when being ejected
- Fixed chatter table for trespass zone
- Added depth prepass on fumaroles/ice rocks (slight optimisation)
- Stellar schematics updated for White dWarf, Black Hole, Neutron Star
- Ice Rocks - sublayer tiling rate reduced
- Tunnel Texture in some Installations has a LOD issue with tunnel walls fixed
- Audio: Rebalanced organics audio mix
- Audio: Mix tweaks to crystal sinewave scanner element as it was dominating the mix when in a fumarole field
- Audio: Changes to organics collisions to improve ratio of collision sound triggering
- Audio: Fix for radio chatter not triggering near settlements
- Audio: Some rebalancing for settlement security voice 3 to be clearer on stereo mix
- Audio: Set correct compression settings on Hyperspace stress noises
- Audio: Tweaked micro resource collect GUI sounds
Networking/Server
- Fix some issues with matchmaking disconnections
- Fix a transaction server error during resurrection
- Improve reliability when selling lots of exploration data
- Fix clearing saves with a lot of exploration data
- If an island update happens and the new location is in a system that is not ready, then ignore it
- Fix for cargo scooping bug, only update the server when we have authority over the cargo canister being destroyed
- Generate new ID when ejecting cargo from a ship. This should fix some cargo duplication errors
- Some network replication optimisations
- Various server performance and reliability improvements
- Fixed some server stat retrieval issues. Mmm... tasty data.
Avatars
- Added scientist outfits
- Added aid worker outfit
- Added security outfit and military variant
- Added freedom fighter outfit
- Added refugee outfit
- Added doctor outfit
- Added tourist outfits
- Added option to set different portrait settings for passengers once on board ship (different background, remove baggage)
- Rebalanced all outfit palettes for mission contacts
- Rebalanced hair colours
- Rebalanced lighting in avatar portrait scene
- Switched over to using new hair shader with bespoke HSV shifts & AO support and HSV offset maps.
- Added new male and female hair styles as tests for new rendering technique
- Updated existing hair styles with decal to blend into scalp
- Added option to match hair and beard colour
- Added custom camera-facing environment map for avatar eyes
- Added 8 new pilot suit variants for NPC crew
- Preload mission contact avatars ahead of the mission board to reduce delays
- We now cache engineer portrait icons
- Reorganised avatar resources to reduce portrait generation times by up to 50%
- Added NPC crew specific backgrounds
- Added passenger cabin backgrounds
Controls
- Fighter order control bindings no longer visible on non Season 2 clients
- Xbox One: Fixed fighter order control bindings not appearing
VR
- Updated to LibOVR 1.4
- Added new (and improved!) VR graphics presets as faster cards can handle the bump.
- VR Low (unchanged from current VR Low)
- VR Medium (is currently ‘VR High’)
- VR High (Mid preset with x1.25 supersampling) VR Ultra (High with medium shadows and medium Terrain Sampler)
- Added backgrounds to textual elements on menu and option screens. Greatly improves readability in VR
- Draw the Mouse Control UI as far away as we draw other gunsights in VR
- Cannot see Tail Ship kits on Vulture in Outfitting due to camera angle in VR fixed
- Cannot see Spoiler/Wing Shipkits in Outfitting on Asp due to camera angle in VR fixed
- Fix the missing text on the wall in the VAR Main Menu hangar if you look behind you
- Fix for mouse cursor size when HMD is present
- Memory optimisations for Oculus
- Only show VR tutorial in challenges list if VR is supported on this platform
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