Alpha 12 Experimental - Phase IV
[h3]Hi Galactic Survivalists![/h3]
First of all, thanks a lot for your patience, while he had to delay Phase 4. We have made good use of these additional days and a lot has happened in the code and in the game.
A few highlights:
Please find the full changelog added below.
There is one caveat, though: the flexibility for the galaxy-setup, database changes and other adjustments, now require a new game start. As already announced, old savegames from the previous Experimental phases are no longer compatible anymore.
The good thing: starting a new savegame will allow you to play the updated story missions and explore the reworked POI, as those cannot be updated in existing savegames as well. :)
As usual:
While the Experimental phases last, we will continue to update the following post with the latest Experimental version changelogs for hotfixes and intermediate patches
For discussing the new and updated features, please head over to the pinned threads in our Experimental Feedback forum
Have fun with Phase 4 - and tell us what you think about the changes! :)
[h3]= CHANGELOG =[/h3]
GALAXY & GALAXY CONFIG
GAME WORLD
GAMEPLAY
SCOREBOARD
REGISTRY
POI & BLUEPRINTS
PDA, DIALOGUE & MISSIONS
BALANCING
DATABASE
CONSOLE COMMANDS
[h3]== BUGFIXES ==[/h3]
(Experimental 12.4 2913)
First of all, thanks a lot for your patience, while he had to delay Phase 4. We have made good use of these additional days and a lot has happened in the code and in the game.
A few highlights:
- The galaxy is now a lot more configurable. You can now use ‘Regions’ for local hotspots and for the general shape and design (amount and type of stars etc).
- We have added the ‘Scoreboard’ to the old player overview (Button: B). You can now see a lot of stats and info in a leaderboard style
- The Registry now allows to directly jump to a system with the ‘show on map’ button
Please find the full changelog added below.
There is one caveat, though: the flexibility for the galaxy-setup, database changes and other adjustments, now require a new game start. As already announced, old savegames from the previous Experimental phases are no longer compatible anymore.
The good thing: starting a new savegame will allow you to play the updated story missions and explore the reworked POI, as those cannot be updated in existing savegames as well. :)
As usual:
- Report bugs and issues right over here
- Any bug fixed for A12 can be found here
- Known Issues List
- Fixed Experimental version bugs can be found there
While the Experimental phases last, we will continue to update the following post with the latest Experimental version changelogs for hotfixes and intermediate patches
For discussing the new and updated features, please head over to the pinned threads in our Experimental Feedback forum
Have fun with Phase 4 - and tell us what you think about the changes! :)
[h3]= CHANGELOG =[/h3]
GALAXY & GALAXY CONFIG
- Better elliptical galaxy generation, improved naming algorithm for stars.
- Added REGIONS: up to 99 StarRegions & StarClass are possible (See GalaxyConfig for examples)
- Updated GalaxyConfig.ecf and created new galaxy appeal, using the new techniques
- Added in-line documentation an info to the GalaxyConfig.ecf
- Warp target playfield names 'around the sun' got renamed from f.ex. 'Ellyon_0,0,-1' to 'Ellyon [Sun Back]'
- All warp target playfields are now PvE
- Add player/hover target position to system/galaxy maps. Make input boxes bigger to accommodate full sector coordinates.
- Info cards in the system map for sectors will now show a class of the playfield
- Added display names for space sectors map
- First draft of galaxy nebulas
GAME WORLD
- Space Base Defense enabled for Pirates faction (FactionWarfare.ecf)
- Adjusted TemperateStart planet and starter zone
- Decreased spawning of ground AI on TemperateStarter
- Added new icons for space sectors: Junkyard and SpaceEmpty (System map)
- Updated: Moved Legacy galactic territory to new position + changed content
- Updated playfields: Increased spawn probability of asteroids in space slightly
GAMEPLAY
- TurretAlien ( Pulse Laser Turret T2 ) is now fully working (Legacy Infector and Decimator class vessels will now shoot back!)
- Added Titanium Rods to MA Corp Traders
- First draft: Item-Sorting now persistent per container/inventory (In-Session. Not yet saving to savegame)
SCOREBOARD
- Added Ranking to scoreboard ( press B )
- Added leaderboard values ( Visited systems, Blocks placed, deaths,..and a lot more)
- Added sections to scoreboard window: Player, Player's Faction and All Factions
REGISTRY
- Registry now remembers last selected entry and selects it again when reopening
- Added "Show On Map" for selected stars and solar systems
- Showing bookmark icon now always for all bookmarks and not the chosen icon of the bookmark, to easier identify bookmarks in registry
POI & BLUEPRINTS
- In playfield yaml, random POI config: Added "UseEachGroupPoiOnlyOnce" flag to force each POI of a POI group to be spawned only once
- POI in orbit are now distributed up to 15.000m from center in each direction (before: 2000)
- Manually spawning blueprints: limiting the move down into terrain until the first device
- Manually spawning blueprints: added game option 'UndergroundBpSpawn' to override spawn limit (see possible values and default in an gameoptions_example.yaml)
- Improved RandomPlacer to overlap less, to better use the allowed distance between POIs (even before one POI fails to be placed)
- Updated: Small adjustments to Ancient Revelation Control-Station POI
- Updated: Removed cores from orbital CV wreckages
- Updated: Reworked Unknown Artifact, Helix, Structure
- Updated: Xenu POI groups (standard, advanced and special POI)
PDA, DIALOGUE & MISSIONS
- All Story Missions are playable on all starter planets now
- All Story Missions have been updated and improved (sometimes significant changes) for consistency with the game story ( Note: The missions are currently 'free to activate' or will activate automatically in certain conditions. They are not linked in a row, to make testing easier. This will change with the public version!)
- PDA window improvements: for each category the last selection (chapter or task) is remembered, if the active chapter is displayed the currently active task is selected
- PDA window: Added hint to "Activate" button if disabled because chapter is ChapterActivation controlled
- Dialog window: Changed all texts to TextMeshPro, now all features of the Sign blocks can also be used here, e.g. alignment
- DialogueSystem: added function GetInstanceTicket()
- DialogueSystem: added dbglobal_int
- Allow optional scenario Localization.csv (SP and MP!)
BALANCING
- Added Radiation-removal to all Anti-Rad medicals ( Ointment: -1, Pill: -3, Injection: -5, Decontamination Kit: -7)
- Reduced RP gain from killing a member of an NPC faction
DATABASE
- Now logging player AI vessel destruction
- Now logging player completed PDA chapters
- Added network profiling data (package count + size), added IsPvp flag for playfields,
- Added dialogue states visited, player structures visited, build nr and version, player credits
CONSOLE COMMANDS
- ConsoleCmd GalaxyConfig: added output where the config file is loaded from
- Added console command 'galaxy' to reload the GalaxyConfig.ecf of the current savegame and test the parameters on the galaxy. Might break the current savegame!
[h3]== BUGFIXES ==[/h3]
(Experimental 12.4 2913)
- Fixed: Regeneration of asteroids, POI's etc not working
- Fixed: Can’t click "New Game" with some languages
- Fixed: Terrain "Walls" appearing in or around structures
- Fixed: Planet resource deposits are identifiable with map marker
- Fixed: Clone chamber does not appear in the respawn options
- Fixed: Autominer cannot be upgrade to T2 and T3 anymore
- Fixed: A waypoint that is setup for a planet follows the player when the player enters the planet
- Fixed: Unable to warp to a waypoint setup in another star
- Fixed: Difference in distance between the warp line & "Lock button" distance
- Fixed: Infinite fuel/CP access exploit with faction "none" POIs
- Fixed: [MP] Vessels don't load/update in correct position for other clients
- Fixed: Waypoints persist after picking up a waypointed terrain placeable
- Fixed: Added touchable collider to station console hologlobe element
- Fixed: Alien turrets should not attack predator animals (like spiders) any more
- Fixed: LY distances between stars, as a result: galaxy radius is now 500 instead of 3000 LY (it was always smaller than 3000LY, the display before was faulty)
- Fixed: Wipe command to work also with the new DB
- Fixed: Label anchors for player position and other labels
- Fixed: Incorrect display of LY label and distance in sector list
- Fixed: Solar panel in space not producing energy bug
- Fixed: Exception sometimes when opening system mapMode
- Fixed: Menu tab not updated to system map when double clicking star to open console Window
- Fixed: Missing entry for LY distance
- Fixed: Access Constructor step did not work in RP-2 tutorial
- Avoiding exception when ticks get out of bounds and opening player window
- Fixed: Wrong tooltip for minimap when in various screen aspects
- Fixed: Legacy planetary playfield issues
- Possible fix for sometimes flickers when switching between system and galaxy maps
- Fix for bookmarks in instances not showing up
- Fixed missing scrollbars in system description panels
- Fixed sorting visited star system list
- Registry: fixed problem that two entries for some objects appeared
- DB: fix for communication abort when entering a server the very first time and opening the player window
- Fixed: Polaris Scout pivot issue