A-Spec First Assault News

Patch Notes 0.12.3
Overview

• Big improvements to all sound effects!
  
• Lots of other miscellaneous improvements!
  
• Bug fixes!
  

Known Issues

• Autospeed match 'close' setting does not work as expected
  
• Colliders for Fighter, Gunship, Carrier, and Large Transport are not optimized for best-fitting
  
• Jump-out animations are not scaled correctly for ships bigger than a gunship
  
• Guard My Target command is not implemented
  

Added

• Vessel names can now be randomly generated
  
• AI Actor will now change targets if another hostile is more of a threat
  
• AI Actor uses a fuzzy target selection of the nearest hostile (rather than using the 'Select closest hostile' command)
  
• Ship wings will now jump in formation to their leader
  
• Flash Radar Quadrant On Hit effect attached to a toggle option in Options > Game
  
• Added Autogun (XXS) as a replacement primary weapon for hostile fighters in the prologue (due to fixing AI firing weapons slowly)
  
• Added UI Volume slider
  
• Audio priorities adjustments for sound effects during gameplay to better manage many simultaneous playing sounds
  

Changed

• Controller Glyphs now display the control element descriptor for controllers without a defined glyph icon
  
• Prologue mission 1: Added Throttle Axis to help glyphs
  
• Prologue mission 1: Removed diagonal help glyphs as the vertical and horizontal glyphs communicate this
  
• Prologue mission 2: Updated directives text regarding waypoint references in line with Prologue mission 1
  
• Prologue mission 3: Removed the distress call waypoint when in range
  
• Prologue mission 7: Fixed typo during friendly spawn message near end of mission
  
• Corrected spelling and grammar throughout all prologue mission briefings and debriefings
  
• Navigation tutorial 2: Can now use throttle axis during throttle acceleration and deceleration section
  
• Navigation tutorial 2: Allowed 8-way hat to work during diagonal thrust sections
  
• Navigation tutorial 3: Disabled autopilot
  
• Mining beam SFX replacement
  
• Increased size of flare and muzzle VFX for mining beam
  
• Removed hull Hit Effect for mineable asteroids and normal asteroids due to excessive calls from using the mining beam
  
• Updated main missions and side missions to use directives and monitoring panels as needed
  
• Dying throes explosions VFX/SFX improved
  
• Death explosions VFX/SFX improved
  
• Gun sound effects improved
  
• Round robins used for repetitive sound effects (i.e. gunshots, impacts, explosions, etc)
  
• Replaced most Heads Up Display sound effects
  
• Directives Panel: When directive status changes the text now flashes with an audible bleep
  
• Player Received Transmission: Play audio bleep at the start of a transmission
  
• Main menu: Increased vertical button spacing for easier mouse highlighting on mouse over
  

Fixed

• Prevented mineable asteroids and Mining Station from being pushed around easily
  
• Particle explosions from weapon damage on the player seem to jitter/skitter during player movement
  
• Attempt to set pitch to infinite value from script ignored!
  
• Prevented autopiloting out of Skirmish when all enemies were destroyed
  
• Explosion lighting source only lights up for 1 second, where it should be limited for the particle animation time
  
• Turret Railgun shell mass not scaled correctly (decreased accordingly)
  
• Burst Autocannon 2/4/8 shell mass not set correctly (increased accordingly)
  
• Impact Hull/Armour SFX now calculated for pooled items
  
• Audio Asset pooling counts are under-calculated for guns and launchers
  
• Skirmish: Player not spawning in the correct position
  
• Projectile spawn location offsets more as the shooter's velocity increases
  
• Primary weapons fire faster the more the gun control subsystem is damaged
  
• AI Actor would trigger pull-release for each primary weapon shot, unintentionally slowing down the fire rate of fast-firing weapons
  
• Button UI audio interactions are not affected by the audio volume sliders
  
• Fixed duplicate audio sources from being created for parent objects not added to the pooling system
  
• Fixed issue of audio popping where played audio was stopped too early for explosions
  
• AI Actor severely under-calculated the effective firing range (effectively preventing the AI Actor from using primary weapons)
  
• Prologue mission 2: After mining 1st asteroid, engines should not be activated until 2nd asteroid is targeted
  
• Prologue mission 4: Enemies at Navpoint 2 can no longer be goaded in to attacking the player instead of transports
  

Engage in futuristic space dogfights against large warships and enemy starfighters. Manage Newtonian flight physics and power settings, outwit and eliminate hostiles, and survive through hazardous mine and asteroid fields. Gripping action across the campaign and leaderboard game modes.

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Patch Notes 0.12.2
Overview

• A quick fix to resolve an issue where the player control bindings and settings are deleted each time the game executable is run - Thanks Dark Lark
  

Known Issues

• Autospeed match 'close' setting does not work as expected
  
• Colliders for Fighter, Gunship, Carrier, and Large Transport are not optimized for best-fitting
  
• Jump-out animations are not scaled correctly for ships bigger than a gunship
  
• Guard My Target command is not implemented
  

Fixed

• The version.ini file is not being created for first-time players
  

Patch Notes 0.12.1
Overview

• Improved explosion visual effects
  
• Transmission ticker added to flight HUD
  
• Resolution ratio UI fix
  
• Lots of bug fixes and improvements to prologue missions
  

Known Issues

• Autospeed match 'close' setting does not work as expected
  
• Colliders for Fighter, Gunship, Carrier, and Large Transport are not optimized for best-fitting
  
• Jump-out animations are not scaled correctly for ships bigger than a gunship
  
• Guard My Target command is not implemented
  

Fixed

• UI cut off when using 1920x1200 resolution and other edge case resolutions
  
• HUD Afterburn and Speed Indicator panels fail to maintain scaled positions across various screen resolutions
  
• Advanced Navigation tutorial has reference to completing intermediate training
  
• Explosions now look better than before
  
• Distinct debris flickering when the player rotates the view
  
• Prologue Mission 7: The briefing title states "Prologue 1" and should be "Prologue 7"
  
• Various scripting improvements and fixes across all Prologue Missions
  
• Pause menu background is not flush with the border
  
• Spelling error in the tutorial weapons_01_primary transmission dialogue
  

Added

• HUD Monitoring panel for tracking the status of important structures during campaign missions
  
• Added External Orbit Camera during flight
  
• Ticker text for displaying player-received transmissions in the top left of the HUD during flight
  
• Prologue Mission 4: Added transports to the monitoring panel
  
• Prologue Mission 4: Transports have now been given names better than Transport X
  
• Prologue Mission 7: Added transports to the monitoring panel
  

Changed

• Increased max range of distance indicators for missile alert to 8000
  
• Wingman monitoring panel adjusted in size and now scales horizontally
  
• Adjusted flight HUD element positions to make best use of screen space across a range of display resolutions
  
• HUD Waypoint marker now has a border to make it stand out better on bright backgrounds
  
• Prologue Mission 3: Beautiful Mind is now the first object to be targeted
  
• First Person Camera positions for cockpit views moved nearer the model bounds and more central to that location (you'll see less of your ship)
  
• Removed the non-functional News button from the Campaign menu
  

A-Spec First Assault is available to buy now on Steam. Releasing into Early Access, A-Spec First Assault adds a mini prologue campaign designed to introduce new players to concepts and features over 7 missions.

Completing the prologue opens the campaign preview with 3 main and 5 side missions. These are the same missions made available in the demo.

The skirmish gameplay mode provides quick access into combat with abilities to change the loadout and number of ships on a 1 v 1 team singleplayer with AI teammates.



A-Spec First Assault offers a wide range of customization options for each ship. Equip your vessel with an array of primary projectile guns and secondary missile launchers, bolstering your frontal assault. Alternatively, opt for turreted guns that provide wider firing arcs, or adopt a balanced approach with a combination of both. Remember, bigger ships deliver greater firepower and make bigger targets.

Augment your ship's performance with support modules, bolstering its core systems. Enhance agility, top speed, armor, hull strength, fire rate, firepower, and more, tailoring your vessel to your play style.

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1608330/ASpec_First_Assault/

Patch Notes 0.12.0 Overview

• New seven mission prologue serving as an introductory tutorial
  
• New ships and weapons to play with
  
• General bugfixes and improvements
  
• Note: Existing game data from playing previous version will be deleted on first run
  

Known Issues

• Autospeed match 'close' setting does not work as expected
  
• Colliders for Fighter, Gunship, Carrier, and Large Transport are not optimized for best fitting
  
• Jump-out animations are not scaled correctly for ships bigger than a gunship
  
• Guard My Target command is not implemented
  

Fixed

• Carrier and Large Transport ships no longer blink out of existence on death
  
• Added missing venting and debris effects onv various ships when they take hull damage
  
• When entering into the Campaign Menu, whilst playing through the prologue missions, the player cannot navigate the UI
  
• Pressing 'external camera follow target' action should only enable if there is a valid target as strange behaviours occurs otherwise
  
• On Exiting a mission the player log message 'Releasing render texture that is set as Camera.targetTexture!' appears
  
• Fixed some instances of camera shake not honoring the Gameplay Camera Shake toggle when disabled
  
• Quit dialogue for completed primary objectives now displays the keyboard/controller bindings for the Pause action
  
• Playing a skimish mission and then playing a campaign mission spawn the first two waypoints in the wrong locations
  
• Adjusting the starting distance for skirmish mission from far will move team members further away from player
  
• Opponent Frigate distinct debris was not being spawned on death
  

Added

• Seven prologue missions
  
• Civilian Tug
  
• Civilian Mining Barge
  
• Civilian Transport
  
• Civilian mining beam turret weapon
  
• Blaster Choke/4 primary weapon
  
• Large asteroid for prologue 'mining' mission
  
• Asteroid Fields
  

Changed

• First time playing will default gameplay FPS to 60 instead of 30
  
• Enemy fighters are better at avoiding non-complex geometry targets during attack runs
  
• Cycling turret orders cycle ordered from strict to relaxed turret targeting conditions.
  
• Increased range and muzzle speed of Hydracannon (XXS)