Starship EVO News

Controller support was added.

The F6 camera mode has been improved with two new modes added (entity lock-on, and player follow)

Multiplayer is (somewhat) fixed! At least I was able to join and shoot a few scene for the trailer.
You still spawn in the middle of nowhere and need to find your friend though.

Bugfixes:

• #6830 Physics issue on some bricks
  
• #6832 Trading kioks bug on open
  
• #6823 Shift click can loose the item
  
• #6835 Logic issue on chained logical gates
  

Some more bugfixes.

Bugfixes

• #6797 No fuel kioks on station hub.
  
• #6791 Item dropped do not render correctly
  
• #6794 Can't collect resource drops while in Main Menu
  
• #6812 Can pick up decal after being destroyed
  
• #6805 Cannot turn off furnace and assembler
  
• #6803 Transfert item issues
  
• Drop item on slots can be finicky
  
• #6820 Collector no picking up ore well
  
• #6796 Translation issues
  

[p]This builds introduces Stargates and many survival improvements.[/p][p][/p][p]Stargates:[/p]

• [p]They will link two system far appart. [/p]
• [p]You don't need any fuel to get through them[/p]
• [p]I went a bit overboard with the shader effect, but it is rendered at halfscale so it should not make performance tank too much.[/p]
• [p]you can check the route on the holomap[/p]
• [p]Blueprint by JBaguio and Servo.[/p]

[p]TODO: I will apply fog-of-war to the galaxy map, you will have to discover the galaxy sector by sector.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][previewyoutube][/previewyoutube][p][/p][p]Survival improvements[/p]

• [p]the Survival Progression tab has been updated with more steps[/p]
• [p]more help sections have been added[/p]
• [p]A few achievements are also added (now standing at 63)[/p]
• [p]The antenna will produce a vertical pulse upward so you can see clearly where is your base should you want to come back[/p]
• [p]the scanner effect has been made more legible[/p]
• [p]scanner effect will also show base, spaceship, hovercraft and crystals[/p]
• [p]a few crystals are introduced: pyron shards for weapons, aegis for shields, sunstones for Lightcruise[/p]
• [p]a few multitool addons to mine faster various resources[/p]
• [p]many issues were fixed relative to mining, crafting.[/p]
• [p]brick descriptions fixed[/p]
• [p]achievement are now translated[/p]
• [p]a new "Gatekeeper" will wait for the player at the Stargate as he will needs to use the Stargate to get to a new system (no void pearl in the starting system)[/p]

[p][/p][p]I will issue a communication shortly on survival - I need to put up a video trailer first for the big announcement![/p][p][/p][p]Francois[/p][p][/p]

[p]This build tidy up a lot of small things preparing for the survival release. It also have a bunch of alien related additions:[/p][p][/p][p]Characters: A few aliens have been added:[/p]

• [p]A female Felnhir (the feline alien). with eye and fur color options.[/p]
• [p]A mushroom looking alien, with hair options.[/p]
• [p]A mantis inspired alien, with skin and eye color options.[/p]
• [p]The feline male race can also have custom eyes and skin color.[/p]
• [p]The appearance of the character has also been improved (specular highlight), [/p]
• [p]The character customization rendering is also improved.[/p]

[p][/p][p][/p][p]Crafting:[/p]

• [p]a few crystals have been added: Quartz and Pyron shards[/p]
• [p]Quartz can be used to craft silicon ingots[/p]
• [p]Pyron shards can be used to craft a beam aperture core, itself used to craft weapons.[/p]

[p][/p][p][/p][p]Help:[/p][p]An help message will appears when the player first approach a space station.[/p][p][/p][p]World:[/p][p]Some aliens flora has been added: plenty of grass, exotic flower and alien looking plants have been added.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Various:[/p]

• [p]Planets now have better names.[/p]
• [p]Missions give cargo items as a reward.[/p]
• [p]Repair mission fixes[/p]

[p][/p][p]Teaser: I have been hard at work on something. [/p][p]The stations have been desperately empty - I had to address this before release. Why not go the extra mile and allow the player to hire crew-members! More info coming soon.
[/p][previewyoutube][/previewyoutube][p]
Happy new year everyone! Survival is now just a few weeks off: One last big bugfix pass, some PR, and I will release it to all of you![/p][p]
Cheers[/p][p]Francois[/p]

A new environment widget has been added:

• - shows g meter
  
• - shows environment type: space, inside spaceship, on planet
  
• - shows O2 status
  
• Pressurization will now check if the player is inside an entity.
  
• Artifical gravity checks if there is a floor below!
  

This build also streamlines a few points related to player locomotion:

• - Hoverboard various fixes (vertical movement)
  
• - Player will naturaly unstuck itself from ground
  
• - Jump animation no longer player for small steps
  
• - New jumpack addon: the base 6dof will no longer have jumpack feature
  
• - no more boost as we have scooter / hoverboard to travel fast
  
• - jetpack icon moved with other player action icons
  

It contains a few sfx improvements too:

• - rumble inside travelling spaceship or space stations.
  
• - sfx during warp
  
• - sfx when mining scraps
  
• - new sfx for missions
  

Thanks for playing!