Update 0.14.0 - Gaia Beyond

What's up everyone,

Take off your winter boots, slip into something comfy, turn up the heater and dive into the next update of Gaia Beyond. Also – we are on a 21% discount during the Steam Winter Sale!


Happy Holidays!

• Collect blueprints for the ISA
• Find and rescue the forgotten spacemen!
• Visit Nookrium on the Euphoria station
  ...and much more!

• Multiple skill trees available
  
• New 'Kalypso tree' including new skills
  
• Lines showing skill dependencies

• When equipped, activate it with the F key or controller button X
  

• Short range, long range and High tech Thruster
  
• These new thruster types allow the available energy to be portioned
  

Now available at your local Sphere ship dealer!

• 3 different kinds of Double Lasers
• Shell Breaker turret upgrade visualization
  
  

• Shin portraits
  
• 2 ISA females
  
• Another J-12 male, coming with a lot of variations!
  

• Harrison Cruise movie posters
  (Can be found in various location images)
  
  

• New sounds: Shield restore (small / medium / big), upgrade weapon, nanobot device, radar device
  

• Either after 5 minutes on events or after 10 minutes when no autosave event was triggered

• "No Tutorial for Old Men" – NPCs have feelings too!

• A lot of fixed and improved dialog
  
• Many old sidequests have been improved
  

• View and radar range balancing
  
• Dostavka visual fixes & improvements
  
• Aries boost animation for all 4 engines
  

• Some further balancing and upgrade options

• Wreck 4 polishing
  
  

• Outer Space radiation warning
  
• Device Tooltips
  
• Weapon upgrade HUD improvements
  
• Change the Ship Hold key to X
  
• The cargo tooltip description size is now dynamic
  
• Crash Course: Quest-target item counter improvements
  
• Cargo-sorting improvements for devices and thrusters
  

• A lot of polishing and updated backgrounds
  
• More random NPC variations
  
• Sphere & J-12 military portraits added to random portraits
  
• J-12 portrait randomizer refined – how it works now:
  1. pick gender
     
  2. pick base portrait
     
  3. pick variations (if available)

• Overall FX volume balancing and corrections
  
• Assignment corrections
  

• Save a separate info file for savegames (improves load performance)
  

• Savegames: Equipped weapon quality resets
  
• Double dialog bugs with the back button
  
• Rookie trade mission can delete the Pilot mission person
  
• Pilot trade missions are broken
  
• Zooming in/out of Map mode shows out of radar range sprites for 1 frame
  
• Player loses camera link when moving before camera target animation is finished
  
• 'A Letter for Jurgen' can now be finished at Xiao (FINALLY!)
  
• If the Character HUD is open the game crashes rarely when gaining XP
  
• Ship Is_Friendly() can crash
  
• Noob player-lock doesn't work anymore if you talk to another ship while locked
  
• Savegame size reduced a little bit
  
• After finishing Scheherazade Embargo, people on that station talk again
  
• A lot of cargo types had no light emitters assigned
  
• Some emitter time to live fixes
  
• Ship Trade HUD: Crafting: flickering when hovering a craft requirement icon
  
• Ship Trade HUD: random stray craft requirement icon at the top left
  
• Ship Trade HUD: ship name is over the ship render and can block icon tooltips (e.g. with Guardian)
  
• Landing sound appears to be "next to" Player (should be centered)
  
• Reduce the projectile hit sound max distance
  
• Ship engine volume is out of range when boosted
  
• Dostavka XP values (loaded/unloaded version) were swapped
  
• Physical shield damage should not be transferred over to the hull (H3L10S)
  
• Dialog pause with cam move can hide the player ship
  
• Weapon tooltip: comparing laser damage with a bullet type should use the dps
  
• Weapon tooltip: do not compare speed with lasers
  
• Weapon tooltip: do not show speed_initial_max when it's the same as speed_initial_min
  
• Weapon tooltip: compare initial speed (min/max) as one block
  
• Inventory HUD: Ship Landing/Leaving alpha should not be used
  
• Inventory HUD: Ship add_drawables positioned incorrectly
  
• Landable HUD: emitter rotation is based on in-space rotation
  
• The weapon tooltip data entry spacing for turret vs non-turret is off
  
• Don't start a FoW reveal for ships (only stations)
  
• Devices and shields don't use cargo emitters
  
• Cooldown HUD: Item counter is not shown if the new amount is over the max amount
  
• Ben Lilly: Wrong credits amount is shown when selling trash
  
• Don't draw lasers if out of radar range
  
• start_angular_vel is not set (stations/turrets do not constantly rotate)
  
• Error report: data/pixmaps/location_images/placeholder.settings.dds does not exist
  
• Shield pos is not set as collision offset
  
• Ship hull regen could go a little bit over max hull
  
• Correctly error log the json line number for large files
  
• Auxilium's restocking weapons should not have random quality
  
• Savegame Menu: Remove logger warning "Load_From_File: No Savegame found ..." if the "New Savegame" entry is selected
  
• Logging: Show if the person doesn't exist with the "Could not create Person" error messages
  

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