The Brew Barons News

A few fixes and new things:

- Magnus wing pitch tuning
- Refuel plane day/night glow adjusted
- Upgrade costs balance
- Sensitivity slider for manual mode orbital and lookaround camera speed
- Reverse input now requires short button hold instead of press to prevent accidental reversing
- Hangar damage speech now has a random chance to play instead of all the time
- Fix softlock in the brewery section of the tutorial
- Fix propeller trait bonus not applying to Pearl Grape
- Fix Vapor Rockets detaching after visiting bar
- Fix cockpit camera position to prevent visible pilot goggles in front of the camera
- Missiles use a new interception calculation called Proportional Navigation, which means they will more accurately intercept the target heading, instead of the current simple method of chasing from behind. Rate of turn has been decreased so the overall difficulty has not increased, but the importance of the first evasive maneuver is increased. If the first evasion is good then they will generally not turn around and keep chasing you.
- Pirate Fighter planes have been added, these are faster and much more maneuverable than the gunships so they are a bit more difficult to chase down and shoot, however they have less health and do less damage.
- Fighters and Gunships are used in various combinations, increasing in number as the game goes on. There may also be additional waves of fighters later in the game, as well as fighter variants that have different behaviours. In the later game as the number of bosses increases there will remain one gunship/fighter encounter (previously they were all removed).

Just a couple of quick things to address from the last patch

- fix Vapor Wings water recharge not working
- fix overlapping ambient cars
- fix air refuelling sometime not working under certain conditions

- New wing part for both heavy and light plane
- Gunship patrols planes now deploy a shootable swarm of slow flying kamikaze bomb drones once the player reaches sufficient fame.
- Scavenger Ornament perk now includes bomb drones. Materials or ingredient spawn chance when breaking a camp, gun tower or drone bomb.
- Further tuning of the Vacuum Boost fuselage. Removed health recovery perk in exchange for significant bolstered boosting speed to make it moderately useful for fast travel. Along with a base engine power increase to make it a bit more competitive in combat.
- Manual mode cameras now accept mouse input for looking around (for those using HOTAS or keyboard)
- Camera return input added for manual mode orbital camera, the default binding for this is F on the keyboard, but there is no default gamepad binding because we are out of buttons on the gamepad, so unfortunately if you want to use it with the gamepad you will have to choose something to unbind (I generally get rid of reverse).
- Products panel added archive checkbox so you can choose to hide recipes you don't want to see (also view archived option will display all)
- Product panel add view button which will load the bottle screen again for that brew

- Made the refuel plane easier to spot from afar with a very small pillar of light.
- Fixed an airship boss edge case during the final battle that caused the retreat phase to get stuck.
- Fixed airship sometimes failing to reset tunnel gates after subsequent battles.
- Fixed Madam Minello finger painting taunt whist retreating.
- Fixed smog dome aerial flare occasionally spawning from incorrect pirate.
- The lower ropes on the plane boss now highlight orange when the minion hatch opens to better indicate the vulnerability of the lower engines.
- Reduce chances of over-bright square looking artifacts when flying through particles
- Fixed manual mode plane control was sometimes lost after boosting at high speed
- Fixed inventory duplication going in and out of the hangar with certain heavy plane configurations
- Fixed heavy plane taking damage when exiting hangar due to insufficient buoyancy
- Fixed plane sometimes unexpectedly capsizes when docking at shipyard
- Fixed saving issue that could cause game to freeze when changing settings
- Fixed post final battle save game sometimes spawns plane at old hangar location
- Fixed sometimes repair sound does not stop playing
- Fixed Gojko-Marin story mission encounter could relocate causing mismatch with mission map icon
- Fixed Tumble Frame fuselage would cause unexpected fatal crash when performed near to water or ground
- Fixed tutorial will no longer allow collection of wheat which would cause a softlock
- Fixed Tour plane throttle hud indicator was not showing
- Fixed sunset sky would appear a bit stuttery
- Fixed if Irena is in the plane and flying at night the sky would flash after the ghosts had passed
- Fixed pirate airship boss weakpoints would sometimes not register projectile hits.

Thanks again for supporting the game, we will continue to try and make improvements.

Fixes for a few things in the recent updates:

- Fix excessive upward drift using boost targets in autopilot mode
- Fix unexpected upward deflection during boost targets with some heavy plane configurations in manual mode
- Fix Slat pontoons would sometimes never slow down on water
- Fix copter was visible in first person hud only view
- Fix FOV slider did not apply for cockpit cameras
- Plane decals take priority over trim
- Fix selecting free camera with hotkey following cockpit camera would no longer follow plane
- Fix draw distance on bomb camera

New Features::
- First person view added with two versions for cockpit visuals on or off. Please note that the airplane art was created for visuals and style first so some of the biplanes have very poor visibility, it has also not been possible to create high resolution and functional cockpit instruments. The new cockpit views are hotkeyed to f4 (with visuals) and f5 (without) or in manual mode with the camera cycle button.
- Manual mode locked/orbital camera option has been removed, and now both can be accessed through the camera cycle sequence along with the first person views, the order is Orbital, 3rd person locked, bomb camera (heavy only), first person with visuals, first person without visuals.

- Pirate activity option, the number of pirate encounters can be chosen when starting a new game, the options are Normal which is what we currently have, Low (half the encounters) and None (no encounters). This option can be changed for a game in progress from the pause menu, however it will only take effect after saving and restarting, so make sure to dock after making the change.
- The final battle will only trigger when Pirate Activity is set to Normal, so if you have it set to None or Low and fill up the fame bar it will not happen, however if you change the setting to Normal it will then trigger after restarting. Likewise if you trigger the final battle and then change the setting to Low or None then after restarting the final battle will not take place.
- If Pirate Activity is set to None or Low then the Gojko-Marin story mission will not trigger.

- New light pontoon with fishing net trait
- New heavy pontoon with explosive damage reduction trait

Tuning:
- Canopy wings add fuel consumption bonus and increase maximum rest recovery.
- Pirate gunships minimum speed increased, rate of turn decreased
- Highlights added to certain objects to highlight what needs to be shot for certain gameplay situations

Fixes:
- Fix home indicator not working for second HQ
- fix ingredient turrets frequently not firing at all or being very inaccurate
- fix plane inventory contents doubled after resetting modifications in the hangar
- fix missing reflection for heavy pontoons
- fix black screen in floating market caused by resting for a long time
- fix missile misfire speech keeps playing incorrectly
- added some missing speech lines for pirates and copilot
- fixed speed/altitude UI overlap for widescreen users
- fix propeller collection bonus not applying to Swept Seed
- fix incorrect button focus if pause menu is opened whilst pitch down is pressed
- fix input binding for salvage minigame did not work
- fix HOTAS inputs for salvage minigame were missing

Thanks for continuing to play the game and giving us valuable feedback on where to make improvements.