Starbase - Progress Notes Week 38 (2020)

[h2]Progress Notes Week 38[/h2]
[h3](September 14th - September 18th)[/h3]

Hello everyone! Here are the progress notes of week 38 - hope you enjoy!

[h3]Design[/h3] Features

• Infantry combat changes
  
  • Damage reduction done to torso from other body parts has been reduced to 30% (originally 70%)
    
  • A headshot multiplier of 1.2x damage has been added
    
  • Antigel damage has been decreased from 40 to 30
    
  • Antigel hipfire accuracy has been decreased a bit
    
• Following weapons have been re-tuned:
  
  • Long Rifle
    
  • Rail Gun
    
  • Repeater Pistol
    
• Ore distribution in the new belt has been fixed: ores are now more locally distributed and Valkite can now be found from the belt
  
• New power consumption design for the Ore Collector has been designed, players will be able to adjust the collecting speed
  
• Durability system improvements are in the works
  
• Design for alloy support in Spaceship Designer material selector is in the works
  
• Armor system is being reworked: armor stat system is being completely redesigned
  

Stations

• Ship Design Workshops' work areas have been made larger
  
• Refuel slots have been added to Starting and Proia stations
  
• Fixer's Coyote has been relocated from Rando 2 to Okim Industries 1
  
• Greatmatenate's 201 Bruiser has been removed from Rando 2, as it's already in Okim Industries 1
  
• New player spaceships added: Merino; Vigo; Port Authority Shuttle; Ironwing; Estoc; The Sky walker and Sparrow IV
  

Spaceships / Spaceship Designer

• Global/Local Transform toggle button has been added (Top toolbar)
  
• Show spaceship orientation -button has been added (Top toolbar): shows the orientation of the spaceship when it is spawned from a terminal
  

[h3]Code[/h3] Gameplay

• The frame integrity durability view was adjusted to better display the stress of each part
  
• Two bugs mostly related to updating thruster blocked-ness were fixed
  
• Weld objects which previously appeared as "localization missing" are now hidden in Ship Designer's scene view window
  
• A settings option for using weapons while sitting was made, allowing all actions with a weapon equipped while sitting
  
• Station building is being worked on
  
• Auction House is being worked on
  

User Interface

• Item collections were set to have calculated material information as well
  
• Quickbar was set to try and find new similar items from player inventory if the original bound item has been removed
  
• Company Job menu is being worked on
  
• Tutorial is being worked on
  

Audio

• Chat window sounds were updated
  

Spaceship Designer

• Buttons for scene orientation and transform mode were added
  
• Material tool tooltips in Spaceship Designer were adjusted to match inventory ones
  

[h3]Art[/h3] Animations and Emotes

• Work on remote explosive animation continues
  
• Work on explosive drill animation continues
  
• Rummage animation was made for remote explosive (3rd person)
  
• Rummage animation was made for unarmed prone (3rd person)
  

Stations / Lot Designer

• Legacy level art assets have been removed and replaced with proper ones in various station scenes.
  
• Various LOD updates based on the legacy asset removal.
  
• Additional level art added to Demolition job hall
  
• Minor color issues were fixed on various maps
  

Armor

• Strix armorset texture polishing is in progress
  

Other

• Tests for large ice/snow asteroids in the new asteroid belt is underway
  
• Asset icons for generator assets, thrusters and furnace parts have been created.
  
• Asset icons for the devices in the lamps, navigation, networking, YOLOL and hardpoint categories have been created.
  

[h3]Gallery[/h3]



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