Beta Branch Patch 1.3.4 - Patchnotes

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Gameplay

• Adjusted strength of pirates when hacking

Balancing
"We improved the behavior for losing relations due to stray shots. We had to find a good balance between 'not punishing shooting things accidentally too much' and 'consequences for blowing up half a station'."

• Reworked relation loss for hitting the hull of AI ships/stations
  • Relation loss per shot is now higher, but you can't lose more than 3000 relations per second through shooting only

Client & UI

• Building Mode: Added new visualization when using the transform blocks tool
• Building Mode: Added new input hints about the rotation status of the Transformation Brush (keep orientation / overwrite orientation)
• Added a news window with most important changes
• Added a log entry for alliance ships being destroyed
• Tooltips of uncollectable loot are now shown when aiming at in in mouse steering mode
• Speech bubbles are now rendered transparent when aiming at them in mouse steering mode
• Improved clarity of container cracking UI
• Targeters of docked stations are now always shown
• Added community chatter messages

Bugfixes

• [UBR] Fixed a wrong warning about sectors not being simulated when a ship was destroyed there
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where being tractored by stations while having objects docked didn't work
• [UBR] Fixed a desync issues when commanding ships over the galaxy map
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where pre-1.2 stations couldn't dock objects
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where boarded stations couldn't be docked
• [UBR] Fixed several issues where transport mode of stations confused traders
• Fixed several server crashes
• Fixed an issue where sender of a chat message was always replaced by the entity title
• Fixed AI backup in boss fights arriving looking in the wrong direction
• Fixed several issues in scripts
• Fixed several issues in texts
• Updated localizations

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