THE MUTATO (Update 0.9.0)

Hey aliens,

Hope everyone had a kickstart-2K19. This update brings you a big bunch of new features and maybe even some outer-world experiences. As promised, we polished a pile of features, such as ships (including the community favorite 'Wing Fighter'), and also brought you some new ones. Looking at the new quests, this would have also made a great Halloween update ;)

Because this patch note is going to be a bit more comprehensive, we've decided to give it an own video summary!

https://youtu.be/f2HkjfznOPk

Also, the Original Soundtrack is fully released now and available on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, Bandcamp and Soundcloud - check it out!

Alright now, LET'S GO!!

• The Mutation
  Cram Bokaj first sidequest arc finishable (includes 2 new hidden sidequests)
  
  
• "We Can't Stop Here..."
  Introducing O-Dog's secret sideques
  
  
• Level of Subsistence
  A miniquest about stolen air filters on an ISA research station
  

• Here is a new way to modify all of your ships - the passive device feature is done! The thruster feature has been bound to equips as well, which allows higher-tier thrusters - meaning more speeeed for your vessel!
  

• CoC ship pack: Strazh, Rabotnik, Potemkin
  
  
• 7 new ships purchasable at the Zion station
  
  
• Mysterious ship "Arakni Esphen"
  coming with custom turrets and a very unique laser weapon

And suddenly, it's just there - equipped with a new kind of laser weapon. Pro tip: If you encounter it, quicksave before waking it up. ;)

• Rickstar ship added (not purchasable)
  

• Zion weapons: Bucky, Matic, Betta Gun
  
• Jodorowsky Zapper
  
• Mining Tool
  
• More weapon upgrades
  
• New spotlight turret
  
  Spotlights are purchasable now, yet totally useless. ;)

• Unique weapon icons for the turret class, spam, and shock weapons
  
• New trade icons
• Lab location icon
  

Ships

• Overall ship speed balancing
  
• AI ship movement improvements
  
• J12 ships polishing
  
• The Waechter polishing
  
• Improve the ship landing behavior
  
• Add an option to switch to the ship after buying one
  
• Improve the weapon target is in range checks
  
• CoC transporters (resolution x2, turret fix, minor details - overview)
  
• CoC Mining Station small restructuring
  
• Some station sizes increased (more to come)
  

World

• Background vs. foreground wrecks: depth effect & parallax improvements*
  
• More Zion Farms (including more Trash selling opportunity)
  
• Randomly position the asteroid cargo drops inside the collision geometry
  
• Prometheus wreck station polishing
  
• New GAC ship wreck site added
  
• Faction spawner added to CoC Stargard
  
• Drones slightly highlighted
  
• Cliff Farm / Zion Farms small changes
  
  
• There is a known bug slowing down the parallax movement of background wrecks when zoomed-out - which looks wrong :D Should be fixed in one of the next patches

Dialogs

• New origin selection texts
  
• Intro dialog cuts (Auxilium, Shiro / Henderson)
  
• Many dialog corrections & improvements
  

Portraits

• 3 Zion dudes
  
• FTA female, Atlantic female
  
• Cram Bokaj small corrections
  

FX

• Dynamic foreground stars effect (higher-speeds feedback)
  
• Front thruster emitters for all ships
  
• Regular thruster FX improved
  
• Shuttle signal lights improved
  
• Neon signs (it's a sci-fi game after all!)
  
• Airlock "spaced" animation visibility & duration improved
  
• "Repeater" / echo effect, used on bats
  
• FX improvements on some projectiles (wip)
  
• Main menu background & animation improvements
  

• OpenGL rendering updates and performance improvements
  
• Safer game initialization
  
• Add a info.json for the level version info (also useful for modding)
  
• Add a savegame "version info not found" state
  
• Error logging improvements
  

• Ship control instructions updated in tutorial & HUD hints
  
• Wei Xiu, Akihiko, Chin-Mae, Frakes, Getty, Huang Feihung, Marley, and Werner now use the Ship HUD
  
• Improve the Inventory HUD Cargo Tooltip
  
• Item comparison: hovered item is now highlighted
  
• Item data cleanup (icons assignments, descriptions & more)
  
• Inventory ship viewport expanded
  
• Fully integrate the quickbar when the Landable HUD is open
  
• Updated the GUI Renderer
  
• Add an "Inspect" button for items with text
  
• Sidequest icons are smaller
  
• Location info textbox expanded
  

With the full release of the soundtrack, all the mastered music tracks by Miguel Johnson have been upgraded to high-quality audio files.

• Shield does not regen when landed
  
• Trade amount window can't be closed with Esc
  
• Stationary Traders on planets and stations need more cargo space
  
• Unselectable answers can be selected with a controller
  
• Correctly restore the disabled_color for controller selected answers
  
• Changing music volume ingame from low to high does not work (it is clamped to the start volume)
  
• Burst firing is disabled on weapon equip or a forced stop fire event
  
• Mining NPC are stuck when they use mines as weapon
  
• Inventory HUD: Damage type in slot tooltips is widened
  
• Background stars z ordering is broken
  
• Location name can be behind the quest target icon
  
• Ship damage from asteroid collision is too low
  
• Radar window clashes with the notification window
  
• Mathilde shuttle can be owned by randoms
  
• Cooldown bars freeze when the map camera moves a certain distance
  
• Setup the player radar range state instantly on spawn (mainly for bullets)
  
• Old savegames: Recreate Bartholdys station if it's missing
  
• Hide the selection_info if the Landable HUD is visible
  
• A physics engine div by zero fix
  
• Show item received/removed notifications longer if on a landable
  
• Don't update the Radar HUD when it's not visible
  
• Turret lasers don't stop shooting after target was destroyed
  
• Bullet speed is displayed on laser tooltips
  
• Journal HUD: text lines vertical padding is missing
  
• Remove some possible spammy error logging
  
• Asteroid nitrogen debris emitter missing
  
• Character HUD: XP color is missing
  
• Ring spawner: asteroids missing at the arc end on savegame load
  
• Assign_Shield(): Initially charged shields can crash if the slot does not match
  
• AI: Max distance for shooting ignores the shield radius
  
• Firing is still enabled while bursting
  
• "Default drops" group added to gemstone asteroids (more drops)
  
• Some weapon slot positions and collision fixes
  
• Low turn rate ships can circle around landables infinitely
  
• Rename the "Decrease Velocity" shortcut key to "Reverse Velocity"
  
• Support modifying person savegame json data before loading starts
  
• Level_Savegame_Sprite_Json_Loaded() is sometimes not called
  
• Horizontal Map Crosshairs missing on lower resolutions
  
• Ambient 1 music track ending cut-off
  
• Henderson: The Pre_Destroy callback should not be active from the start
  
• ship_damage_lightning_1 emitter_iteration_interval is not set
  
• Fix Get_Primary_Shield() can return the wrong shield
  
• Shield bars blinking when only the second shield slot is equipped
  
• Planet rotations: more "authentic" speed and direction improvements
  
• Opaque glow removed from GAC ships
  
• Quest Item Counter does not display merged stacks correctly
  
• Script Get_Cargo_Amount() crashes
  
• Item data corrections
  
• Ship slot & assignment corrections
  
• Glyph missing (long hyphen not supported)
  
• Wreck station #5 collision fix
  
• Zion Farms have 2 shield slots (Medium + Big)
  

Snowball Cannons have been removed with this update. If you got them, they will stay with the savegame, though!




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