Patchnotes November 19th, 2016

[koonschi]

Patch 0.9.7

 

Date: November 19th, 2016

 

Features

 

"Mainly, we reworked the way crews work. We've added specialists which can level, there's no longer a hard cap on crew sizes, and instead your crew has a morale."

• Crafts send a notification when they lost track of their followed target
  
• Crafts send notifications on destruction and being damaged
  
• Added a window for current block size
  
• Added a block transformation brush
  
• Refactored crews into normal crewmen and specialists
  
  • Non-specialized crewmen don't differ from previous crewmen
    
  • Specialists are limited to a single profession
    
  • Specialists provide additional workforce
    
  • Specialists level up over time when morale is good, gaining additional workforce
    
  • Specialists must be hired at a station
    

  [*]Added crew morale

  • Morale reflects general happiness of your crew
    
  • Not paying your crew decreases morale steadily over time
    
  • Overpopulating your ship decreases morale after 10 minutes
    

  [*]Removed hard cap of crew size

  • Instead: Too big crew decreases morale after 10 minutes
    

  [*]Updated descriptions of several crewmen

UI

 

"We're paving the ways for internationalization. While we don't have any useable translations yet, we're now able to translate the game."

• Added API for localization
  
• Added "Immune to Electricity Weapons" tooltip to stone blocks
  
• Added color parsing to ChatMessages
  
  • Write \c(f00) or \c(ffff0000) for red, for example
    

  [*]Added more clarity to dialog when being caught smuggling

  [*]Added some more missing descriptions to several trading goods

  [*]Tabbing through objects now sorts by distance to the player's ship

Story

• Added some more hints on how to beat the science lab
  

Balancing

 

"We went a little overboard with the nerf to salvaging laser prices, they have been adjusted to be more normal now."

• Increased price of salvaging lasers to normal amounts
  
• Decreased probability for very rare turrets
  
• Stone Blocks now cost only 1/200th of their previous value
  
  • This is in relation to some issues with Ctrl-Z, Ctrl-Y on founded mines
    

Performance

 

"This one is a pretty big internal upgrade to the way the engine calculates ambient occlusion. You'll be happy to hear that there will be a lot less block ghosting and CPU load, especially on weaker machines."

• Massive improvements in ambient occlusion calculation for incremental changes
  
  • Less block ghosting
    
  • Ghosting blocks are marked as deleted in building mode
    

System

• Client exits with correct return code 0
  

Bugfixes

 

"Thanks to everybody who reported all these!"

• Added missing icon for "your ship is damaged" warning
  
• Fixed a bug where beams with increased range didn't have the correct FX length
  
• Fixed a bug where projectile weapons with increased range didn't actually have increased range
  
• Fixed a typo in alienattack
  
• Fixed -0 omicron display for crafts without weapons
  
• Fixed an issue in repair dock when user interacts while in a drone
  
• Fixed an issue in shops that would allow players to dupe items
  
• Fixed an issue where turret generation would not be deterministic
  
• Fixed an issue where the very center of the galaxy could be blocked by hyperspace rifts
  
• Fixed broken laser beams for ships with shields
  
• Fixed wrong icons for turret selections
  
• Turret group selections are preserved over hyperspace jumps
  
• Fixed dropping cargo too early when upgrades would extend cargo bay
  
• Fixed some issues with crew payments
  
• Fixed force- and other fighters being free
  

 

[koonschi]

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