Starship EVO News

Some improvements on the sensors and shipyard side, with a bunch of lot of long overdue fixes.

The game can load once more older .mps blueprint.

Volumetric and Laser Sensor Improvement:

• Bounds detection fixed
  
• Can detect entities
  
• Can detect items
  
• Compatible with the event gate: can trigger for either Player / Entity, and for a given number / distance
  
• Have an update frequency setting.
  
• Can detect outside of entity bound.
  
• Use the latest physics and tech stack, so performance impact will be minimal.
  

Shipyard Improvements:

• Can rename Shipyard
  
• Failed request explain reason
  
• Can cancel request from the menu
  
• Various issues fixed
  

Community Suggestion:

• #4818 Addon brick will default to the local building mode
  
• More brick can be renamed (Rotor, hinge and shipyard)
  
• #4553 Lower ship in 3rd person spaceship view
  
• #4572 Sprite z-culling
  
• #4871 #4747 Better decal targeting
  

Hotfixes:

• #4982 Unspawning entity during box-delete can crash the game
  
• #4555 Cannot paint decal with the steel material.
  
• #4742 #4633 Game / Player option are not saved.
  
• #4968 Collector issue during heavy mining.
  
• #4769 #4670 #4678 Shipyard incorrect bound check
  
• #2068 Thruster VFX incorrect placement.
  
• #4923 Brick with no paint on older blueprint appear black instead of their material color
  
• #4988 #4912 #4182 #3867 #3719 Volumetric sensor not working
  
• #2259 Volumetric sensor in multiplayer
  
• #2005 Sensor range not updating.
  
• #2638 Sensor range effectively limited to entity bounds.
  
• #2017 Sensor range is not shortened by base entity
  

Thanks for playing!

It is now possible to apply a different material to some brick like seats, screen and commands.
This feature will be extended to other brick.



Community Suggestion

• #4898 Material for commands
  
• #4870 FOV adjust during photo-mode and lower minimum value.
  

Hotfixes:

• #4978 Can build with pipe clip with children entities
  
• #4911 #4896 Crash / issue when deleting a brick colliding with another entity.
  
• #4883 Some brick icon are missing.
  
• #4899 Ghost brick after blueprint corruption
  
• #4711 Logic freeze for some blueprint
  
• #4983 Shift click on codex remove item
  

Thanks for playing!

Some music have been added to the game!
Shoot-out and great thanks to the composer Mike Manning.
The tracks are for now calm and meditative to fit with the slow paced nature of the game.
They are minimalist and easy to listen, but also very warm and soulful.
Hopefully they grow on you like they have been growing on me (OST was waiting to be added for some time)!

More tracks will be added in the future, typically for combat.

Right now on top of new Title music we have three set of ambiances:

• Space Calm: near station and inside planetary rings. Meditative and melancholic soundtrack
  
• Atmosphere: Calm: on habitat (and soon on planets): A bit more uplifting and warm.
  
• Deep space: drony ambient sound. Not really music!
  

Thanks a lot for playing!

As the latest experimental build additions relative to crafting and inventory are now merged in the default build of the game, you can check the content in the devlog below.

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These update where a big step toward survival with the addition of crafting into the game. I also added a full blown inventory system with conveyor tubes and pull/push logic, some flexi-hose and made plenty of UI additions.

Thanks for playing!
Francois

Crafting now hits default! Check out previous posts to see the content of the previous experimental updates.

Brick can now be dropped.
Brick stored inside cargo will take less space.
Some improvement have been made to the physics of dropped object like brick and components.
The legacy fuel scoop has been replaced by an updated design, in line with the Collector.

Bugfixes:
#4970 Fuel Scoop is no longer harvesting
#4969 Furnace wrong capacity computation after ingot crafting
#4966 Cannot place tank join on Lightcruise engines and Reactors.
#4971 Various fuel issues
Heavy Mining lag fixed.

Thanks a lot for playing!