Starship EVO News

Hotfixes build.

New Features and improvements:

• Physics Engine: the integration method has been reversed back as it was causing some sinking issues on low FPS.
  
• Tutorial: the basic training will now reset the Min and Max grid size in case a player update those inadvertently.
  

Hotfixes:

• In-game issues when accessing the Option / Game menu
  
• Some tutorial message were not being displayed correctly
  
• Quit to title cause some graphic glitches
  
• Quit to title does not properly clear previous HUD missions objectives
  

Thanks for playing!

Space Police patrol ships have been added! They will enforce the Safe Zone around stations.
There are two small patrol ships for now but more will be added soon - thanks to the builder Popka Akula and 5URG3!
Some quality of life improvements to the blueprint loading experience have also been added.

New Features and Improvements:

• Space Police: Space Police ships are now patrolling around the stations
  
• Space Police: If a ship breaks the safe zone rules Space Police patrol ships will warn then strike back
  
• Space Police: Station Safe zone HUD element will reflect the player current hostile status
  
• NPC: Various improvements have been made to the NPCs hostile behavior
  
• Game Performance: Garbage Collection greatly reduced in idle and during tutorial phase: it means that small hiccups have been reduced
  
• Blueprint Load: filter added
  
• Blueprint Load: Can now filter on Workshop or Local blueprints
  
• Blueprint Load: A new Blueprint Preview side window has been added: it shows a larger picture and some info on the blueprint
  
• (you will need to re-export your blueprint to see those info)
  
• Physics engine: depenetration logic was updated. This fixes the twitchy handheld drop
  
• Physics engine: smarter collision sfx
  
• World Generation: Less stations are being generated on startup, leading to faster load time
  
• Tutorial: various improvements
  
• Community Suggestion:
  
• #4337 Blueprint information preview
  

Hotfixes:

• #4346 Issue with handheld with no primary handle
  
• #4348 Handheld: issue when there is only a single handheld at Secondary
  
• #4352 Spawned Blueprint can collide with large ship
  
• #4353 Spawned Pirate Blueprint not aggressive
  
• Various handheld issues
  
• Various Hull Point and repair issues
  

Thanks for playing!

Another big hotfixes build with a few physics engine improvements! Handheld have been fixed.

Improvements:

• Physics engine: rigidbody will get to sleep much faster (this will reduce the jitter when placing bricks on grounded ship)
  
• Physics engine: warm start is added which will allows complex equilibred situation get to rest much faster
  
• Physics engine: more tweak where added to reduce jitter.
  

Hotfixes:

• #4292 #3884 #3851 #3743 #3709 Cant build handheld weapons
  
• #3634 Invalid brick placement on weapon children entity
  
• #4307 Mission objective not showing keybinds
  
• #4307 Cancelling and redoing the Building Training does not not advance tutorial
  
• #4287 Gravity issue when transitioning between ship bounds
  
• #4325 Reset axis message not displaying for non-axis keybind
  
• #4328 Glow sprite does not disappear on ship unspawn
  
• #4329 Gravity inside ring is not working for player
  
• #4306 #4316 Newly built turret cannot be controlled manually
  
• #4324 Event Gate state not correct after reload
  
• #4317 Lag on very large (10Km+) build while placing bricks
  
• #4313 Prefab export failing
  
• #4332 Copy/paste of tank change their size
  
• #4322 While in F6 Photo mode the camera still move after pressing ESC
  
• #4315 #3953 Piston shaft not visible when the base is off screen
  
• #4341 Hotkey value mode now hides Invert signal
  
• #4342 Block deletion does not update collision points right away
  

Thanks for playing!

This build delivers some hotfixes regarding the new game tutorial.

Hotfixes:
#4307 Mission objective not showing keybinds
#4307 Cancelling and redoing the Building Training does not not advance tutorial.
#4287 Gravity issue when transitioning between ship bounds

Thanks for playing!

The way Event Gates work when linked to a Yoke (like the old "Hotkey gate") has been improved.
This will allow a more versatile approach to fire weapon systems allowing for smoother integration of upcoming gameplay elements (repair, mining, scavenging).

• It is now possible to use hotkey 1-9 as Fire group:
  
• You will still use Main Fire or Secondary Fire to shoot but can choose which weapon group will be active by toggling them on/off with their respective hotkey.
  
• It is possible to set a Fire Group to be exclusive (ie it will toggle off all other groups when activated)
  
• It is still possible to fire a weapon with hotkey 1-9.
  
• New HUD elements have been added for each hotkey (can be toggled off).
  
• HUD element display name can be customized.
  
• HUD elements can be hiden or their display order can be tweaked
  

Other changes:
A safe zone of 4km around stations was implemented. Pirates and auto-fire turrets wont attack inside the safe zone.

Community Suggestion:
#4296 Material removal will get back to steel

Hotfixes:

• #4276 #4288 Surface heat computation has been reversed to the old (wrong) way to ensure blueprint compatibility
  
• #4299 Bevel collisions incorrect
  
• #4286 #4284 Pasted Mechanism top part is orphaned
  
• #4295 Light brick glow is too strong to see actual color
  
• #4237 Exporting blueprint now clears docked entity info
  
• #4299 Repair End Mission message does not display long enough
  

Thanks for playing!