Starship EVO News

Another day, another build!
Again more hotfixes are coming your way.
Turret have also been improved with a smaller memory footprint and a way to debug the collision map baked.

New Features:

Select the secondary turret rotator with the link to to display the turret allowed targeting position.



Bugfixes:

• Quit to Title and reload is broken.
  
• #3536 #3546 Game breaks on ship unspawn.
  
• #3535 Hovercraft stats and preview not showing.
  
• #3535 Hovercraft incorrect soft landing on exit.
  
• #3507 #3461 #3443 #3425 #3399 #3346 Turret and weapon can hit own ship.
  
• Network error on drop pickup.
  

Thanks for playing the game!

This is a much needed Hotfix build following the big refactoring of the previous build. As it was a deep change we had quite a few issues to fix, thanks to all the test who reported issues on the github!

Patch 21w04a is available in Experimental.

Bugfixes:

• Unspawn Entity issues
  
• #3524 #3523 Grand Children entity displays at the wrong place.
  
• #3522 Accessing Hovercraft computer breaks game.
  
• #3531 No 3d preview in Codex menu.
  
• #3526 Copy/paste preview not showing.
  
• Docking Tool preview not showing.
  
• #3525 No light on newly spawned entity.
  
• VFX wrong positioning.
  
• #3528 Turret position not updating.
  
• #3529 Fast Move key issues below 1.
  

Thanks for playing the game!

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!

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]

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