Shallow Space News

Added height lines to the movement waypoints to better aid perspective (click image for fullscreen.)

Another BETA patch yielding additional work on unit veterancy and experience with the proceeds of a battle now distributed amongst the ships. Experience is dealt as a ratio, so if a single ship did 75% of the damage they'll receive 75% of the XP.

Interesting to note that with this system, experience is split between all ships that caused damage to the target, so swarming the enemy with a huge overpowering fleet will result in minimal XP rewards.

We've also removed the clutter of the attack lines and will shortly replace them with another style of visual confirmation. Otherwise, a couple more fixes and tweaks - another minor patch to come before we merge with the public build.

Some nice feedback on the Official Forums - keep it coming!

• Added experience given on ship destruction
  
• Added experience notification message
  
• Added height lines to movement lines
  
  
• Fixed bug where negative status' aren't applied
  
• Fixed crash retrieving tooltip for destroyed ship
  
  
• Update reduced default sensitivity of controls
  
• Update height lines now shown for all ships
  
• Update attack lines flattened to grid
  
• Update attack lines shown only on mouseover
  

Note this patch is currently in BETA, but you can access it if you own the game:

1. Right click on the game in your Steam library
   
2. Select 'Properties'
   
3. Select 'BETAS' tab
   
4. Select 'testing - Overhaul Beta' from the list
   

The BETA is only available on Windows and Linux.

In this BETA patch we see a continuation of the saving and loading mechanics introduced in 5.3, one handy item is the 'emergency save' feature which will automatically save your game if there is a crash.

Otherwise we continue the combat mechanics focus of Update 5 in general preparing to switch on unit veterancy and experience, and adding in idle shield recharge when not in combat.

In addition there are a bunch of fixes and tweaks as suggested by the community - keep them coming!

• Added emergency save-game on crash
  
• Added Officer/experience framework
  
• Added ranks to sample ships
  
• Added shield recharge when ship out of combat for 45 seconds
  
• Added shield recharge rolling HUD text
  
• Added ship tooltip to targetbox, and tactical and fleet icons
  
• Added save message to notification panel
  
  
• Fixed crash on ship UI animation
  
• Fixed issue with fleet icons not appearing for sighted enemy
  
• Fixed Space Object text no longer affected by time scaling
  
• Fixed issues clearing down refinery dialog options
  
• Fixed crash switching zones if mouseover Space Object
  
• Fixed correct behavior on ESC press when save/load window shown
  
  
• Updated Space Object tooltips
  

Note this patch is currently in BETA, but you can access it if you own the game:

1. Right click on the game in your Steam library
   
2. Select 'Properties'
   
3. Select 'BETAS' tab
   
4. Select 'testing - Overhaul Beta' from the list
   

BETA patches are only available on Windows and Linux.

In this BETA patch we see a continuation of the saving and loading mechanics introduced in 5.3, one handy item is the 'emergency save' feature which will automatically save your game if there is a crash.

Otherwise we continue the combat mechanics focus of Update 5 in general preparing to switch on unit veterancy and experience, and adding in idle shield recharge when not in combat.

In addition there are a bunch of fixes and tweaks as suggested by the community - keep them coming!

• Added emergency save-game on crash
  
• Added Officer/experience framework
  
• Added ranks to sample ships
  
• Added shield recharge when ship out of combat for 45 seconds
  
• Added shield recharge rolling HUD text
  
• Added ship tooltip to targetbox, and tactical and fleet icons
  
• Added save message to notification panel
  
  
• Fixed crash on ship UI animation
  
• Fixed issue with fleet icons not appearing for sighted enemy
  
• Fixed Space Object text no longer affected by time scaling
  
• Fixed issues clearing down refinery dialog options
  
• Fixed crash switching zones if mouseover Space Object
  
• Fixed correct behavior on ESC press when save/load window shown
  
  
• Updated Space Object tooltips
  

Note this patch is currently in BETA, but you can access it if you own the game:

1. Right click on the game in your Steam library
   
2. Select 'Properties'
   
3. Select 'BETAS' tab
   
4. Select 'testing - Overhaul Beta' from the list
   

BETA patches are only available on Windows and Linux.

As mentioned, a new beta branch has been opened up. The purpose of the BETA is to ensure that updates are more thoroughly testing before they hit the public domain, more information about this here.

To get to the BETA:

1. Right click on the game in your Steam library
   
2. Select 'Properties'
   
3. Select 'BETAS' tab
   
4. Select 'testing - Overhaul Beta' from the list
   

Note that the BETA is only available on Windows and Linux.

Saved games will be transferable but you'll need to fish them out of the 'SavedGames' folder in the main game folder in your Steam library (soon we'll enable Steams 'Cloud Save' which will hopefully do this for us.)



- Added save/load buttons to menu
- Added save game window (New, Replace, Delete)
- Added load game window (Load, Delete)
- Added most recent save selected ready to go
- Added F5 quick save game
- Fixed crash closing petty trade window after cancelled trade
- Fixed crash using ability if context target is destroyed

As mentioned, a new beta branch has been opened up. The purpose of the BETA is to ensure that updates are more thoroughly testing before they hit the public domain, more information about this here.

To get to the BETA:

1. Right click on the game in your Steam library
   
2. Select 'Properties'
   
3. Select 'BETAS' tab
   
4. Select 'testing - Overhaul Beta' from the list
   

Note that the BETA is only available on Windows and Linux.

Saved games will be transferable but you'll need to fish them out of the 'SavedGames' folder in the main game folder in your Steam library (soon we'll enable Steams 'Cloud Save' which will hopefully do this for us.)



- Added save/load buttons to menu
- Added save game window (New, Replace, Delete)
- Added load game window (Load, Delete)
- Added most recent save selected ready to go
- Added F5 quick save game
- Fixed crash closing petty trade window after cancelled trade
- Fixed crash using ability if context target is destroyed