Nienix News

[h3]Version 0.5550920338[/h3]
🎯 [Performance] Performance has been increased by a rework of lightning-based particle effects.
🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed a bug in the physics engine which caused some raycasts not to trigger on certain contacts. In particular, this bug could cause explosions not to hit some targets.
🎯 [Bug fix] The HUD border graphics that illustrates key player conditions (e.g., low hull, corrosive, cold, etc.) now handles arbitrary aspect ratios correctly.
🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed an issue which could cause some turrets on cruisers not to spawn.
🎯 [Balancing] Two Xinthu-based weapons that can do self-damage has been disabled from use on larger ships. The reason is that the issue of self-damage is minor for big ships and major for small ships (due to the large discrepancy in hull).

[h3]Version 0.5550920337[/h3]
🎯 [Misc] Major changes have been made to AI path finding. These changes make enemies and summons significantly more responsive. This should in particular make larger battles and summoner-based builds more enjoyable.
🎯 [Misc] Minor modifications to the inventory sound effects to make them less repetitive.

[h3]Version 0.5550920336[/h3]
🎯 [Misc] It is now possible to lock the cursor to the game window. This option is located in the general options section of the main menu ("Lock cursor to window").
🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed a graphical error in the ripple shader introduced by 0.5550920335.
🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed a race condition that could result in incorrectly loaded player data for clients when playing COOP.
🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed a race condition in the content builder subsystem that could cause a crash.
🎯 [Bug fix] Ships without turrets can no longer roll bonuses to ship turret damage.

[h3]Version 0.5550920335[/h3]
🎯 [Misc] Added full-screen support (i.e., no black-borders) for a plethora of uncommon wide-screen aspect ratios.
🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed an error that caused the map to not center on the cursor when zoomed given some aspect ratios.
🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed an error in the ripple shader that caused UI issues (partially black screen) given some aspect ratios.

[h3]Version 0.5550920334[/h3]
🎯 [Item] A new engine called Drone Tug Engine has been added. All summoned drones of equal or lower level as this engine are pulled to the ship when it is boosting.
🎯 [UI] The titles of all undiscovered recipes in the Continuum Transmuter are now presented.
🎯 [UI] Icons in item tooltips are now scaled depending on the player-defined global font scale.
🎯 [Misc] Really small hits (< 1 damage) are now directly shown on impact instead of being queued until 1+ damage is observed for the target.
🎯 [Misc] The default font scale has been increased by 20%.
🎯 [Balancing] The hull of larger ships has been slightly increased.
🎯 [Balancing] Many passive auxiliary items that provide bonuses to fixed properties (e.g., bonus % damage) have been significantly buffed.
🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed a race condition in the hints and tips UI.
🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed an parsing issue in the IP port field in the create game screen.
🎯 [Bug fix] Animations for large ships are now correctly updated when the ship is docked to a station platform.