Starship EVO News

The performance on the CPU side have been improved with some tasks being now multi-threaded and using Unity new Burst code compiling technology.
This build also introduces a much requested change allowing more freedom on the locomotion selection side.

This is the first of several steps that will greatly improve the game performance on the CPU side.
This is a critical step to allow gameplay: spawning many NPCs and having large space battles are very CPU intensive.

Changes

• The player can now select 6dof mode in a gravity environment. (#3255 #3251 #3430)
  
• The player can now stay on anti-g mode in a 0g environment.
  
• Bugfixes:
  
• #3493 Switch flat placement is sometime wrongly invalid.
  

Thanks for playing the game!

The latest experimental build introduce a key component to gameplay, the System view of the holomap.
Here you can view planets, stations and spaceship belonging to the system you are currently located in.

Two viewing mode can be activated:

• Map: planets are ordained and station are visible.
  
• Orrery: planets are shown at their real position. Stations and spaceship are visible.
  

Some tweak have been made to the planetary system generation: you will have to migrate any entity built on the space habitat as it will spawn in a different place.

Another big change is the update of the Unity version the game is using.
To allow this the netcode solution had to be migrated too.
It wont change much for now apart from minor performance improvements. But it means that I will now be able to make some progress on the netcode side!

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Bugfixes:

• #3314 Remote Player invisible inside ship in multiplayer.
  
• #3364 Holomap not showing stars.
  
• #3393 Teleport power stats are incorrect.
  
• #3395 Gravity unit does not draw power.
  
• #3433 Hinge incorrect title in config window.
  
• #3413 Crashes with very large ship.
  
• #3380 Cannot load some world different from the starting one.
  
• #3436 Space Habitat gravity is now extending higher.
  
• Second starter block used will break game.
  
• #3463 Underwater object pushed in a direction.
  
• #3465 Quit to title issues.
  
• #3458 System map issue after new warp.
  
• System map warp target still visible
  
• Galaxy map grid not visible
  

Thanks for playing!
Francois

This build introduces more planets type.
There is now Ice, lava, gas, sand, thunderstorm, terrestrial, moon-like and oceanic planets, each in several forms.
These are simple placeholder for now while waiting for a full fledged procedural planetary tech.


An earth-like planet.

A colder one...

And a slightly hotter one!

Bugfixes:

• Drops not being cleared on quit to title.
  
• #3345 #3093 Massive amount of drops causing FPS drop.
  
• Raycast length issue on Space Habitat terrain.
  
• #3348 Rare instance of camera freeze.
  

This build is currently available in the experimental branch!

Thanks to all the players!
Francois

This build improves the turret experience when used with camera, fixes a few turret incorrect collisions issues and improve performance on the space habitat.

Improvements:

Physics performance on the space habitat has been improved (collision and raycast):

Flying a spaceship close to the ground
Firing Beam weapons
Using gimballed weapons
Turrets:

Improper collisions when using decorative children entity.
Turret in raw mode (camera or player seated) will reset player input on enter or on collision.
Camera used with turret now stick more precisely to the turret axis.
Bugfixes:
#3297 Build HUD element is drawn before frosted effect.
#3263 Incorrect Turret collision baking when an axis has decorative children entity attached.
#3170 Photo mode and turret not compatible.
#3307 Can delete brick supposed to be un-deletable under some conditions.
#3301 Big performance hit when firing beam on the Space Habitat.
#3322 Gravity area for spaceship does not extend high over the ground.
#3325 #3313 Player locomotion instability on low end GFX hardware.
#3318 #3305 Blueprint spawned can have destroyed texture.
#3321 #3271 Quit To Tile and then reload game is broken.

Thanks to all the players!
Francois

Another build with more fixes.

Bugfixes:
#3293 Game not saving on quit.
#3298 Game FPS drop on warp in some instance.
#3298 Teleport moves player to incorrect position.
#3299 Copy-Paste can copy the undeletable children base brick of a mechanism.

Thanks all for playing the game!
Francois