Gaia Beyond News

• Hacking / hackable freight containers
  
  

• New Ship: Peacekeeper (Atlantic Alliance)
  (2 versions, standard version purchasable at Schuhmacher)
  
  

• New pirate hunt mission at CoC Stralsund
• Weapon damage types
• New Weapon: Plasma Accelerator
  
  

• New location: Essex wreck
  
  
• New Skills: Hacking, Persuasion, Mechanicus
  
  
• Hidden chest
  
  
  
• Gas items
  

• Automatically savegame-upgrade all spawners and backgrounds
• Shuttle polishing
  + all adaptions updated, full resolution here!
  
  

• Savegames: Support restoring the target of each weapon
  
  
• Dr. Orish polishing
  
  
  
• AI improvements
  
• Some smaller performance improvements
  
• Asteroids "Crystal" -> "Gemstone" Group created
  
• Feedback sound for activated skills
  
  

• Possible fix for a game init crash
  
• Landable Leave button breaks dialogs
  
• Holding TAB breaks the map camera movement
  
• Savegames: Skill points are not loaded
  
• Ship engine is hidden under the wreck sprite
  
• Disable the Cooldown HUD icon click function for non weapon types
  
• Waechter diversion: Nortnex should attack Delga and Nobunaga first
  
• Skill tooltip disappears on click
  
• Loaded savegame: no shield collision
  
• Validate all savegame loaded sprites and remove broken ones (fixes asteroid crashes)
  
• Asteroids can give no XP if they are not the weapon target
  
• Ramming asteroids reward no XP
  
• Old savegames: Ships attack invisible Asteroids
  
• Remove the ship healthbar window correctly when it is not needed anymore
  
• First Analyis HUD animation goes from right to left
  
• Savegames: Unloaded skill points are not reset back
  
• Music stops/switches after the tutorial
  
• ship trade comparison is inversed
  

Also, we got a brand-new Discord server!
See you on the other side:

• Implement a quest item counter
  
  
  
  
• New music tracks:
  • Ambient track ("Light In The Darkness" by Miguel Johnson)
    
  • Convoy mission failed ("Long Way To Go" by Miguel Johnson)
    
    
  
  
  
• Mineral custom icons
  • Trade icons
    
  • Scanner info icons
    
  
  
  
• Miataru portrait
  
  

• Ship Trade HUD: Show data differences
  
• Ship Trade HUD: Show info when we already own the ship
  
• Update the ship view ranges (bigger for drones, exploration ships)
  
• Remove a Barkeeper question block at Greifswald after finishing Teslas Quest
  
• Remove unnecessary password check answers at Lt. Feng
  
• Jupiter scaled slightly bigger
  
• Auto-Dialog on the first Callisto visit
  

• Quest HUD can crash
  
• O Dog coffins collected callback hangs
  
• Auxi Tutorial "Hey, over here!" breaks the dialog
  
• Inventory/Trade HUD: Crash when landing or collecting cargo
  
• Trade HUD Drag Container can crash
  
• Mouse Wheel scrolling while on an answer is not delegated
  
• Plasma Clouds can be above HUD elements
  
• Diversionary Tactics: Spying starts from the dialog
  
• No Map Quest descriptions when target is on a ship and the ship is docked
  
• Breaking up a normal dialog with a locked dialog causes the the normal dialog ship to always follow the player
  
• Camera Zoom to Map event can be active endlessly (disabling all camera movement)
  
• Hide the radar button on Landables
  
• CoC Mining stations do not respawn
  
• Informant quest target is not correct
  
• Caduceus generic NPC dialog is not reset
  
• Jonas infinite Exp+Money exploit
  
• "High tier shield made by FTA" but producer is CoC
  
• Music does not stop after the convoy mission
  
• Ferrara price changed from 1000 to 6450
  
• Savegames: Music filenames are doubled
  

• New purchasable ships!

• Basic AI surrounding area awareness

• Analysis HUD for Planets : Show Population
  
• Stations/Turrets now loose aggro if the target is out of weapon range
  
• Earth texture quality improvement (ugly fragments removed)
  

• Teal got teal-colored glasses!
  
• Support the Numpad keys for answering in dialogs
  
• Save the last selected quest item and ensure it is visible when opening the Quest HUD
  
• Add a high performance NPC ship radar
  

• cShader_Instance destruction can crash
  
• Collecting the O Dog cargo can crash
  
• Autopilot/Pause noti stays hidden when entering Menu
  
• Changed ship prices
  
• Stations/Turrets are pulled into out of range fights
  
• Stations/Turrets should check the weapon target constantly against the max defense range
  
• All blocking HUD windows should restore the input focus when closed
  
• AI ships don't visit Landables anymore
  
• Quickload shortcut does not work from the Game Over screen
  
• The menu level aspect ratio is not updated after a resolution switch
  
• Big Asteroids give too much XP
  
• Fix a rare startup base address already in use error (0xc0000018)
  
• Finding the nearest Asteroids/Items queries is actually selecting the furthest away
  
• Quickbar has the wrong pos when loading a savegame that is on a Landable
  

Interstellar folks,

Hope you had an awesome summer. First, thanks a bunch for supporting us so far – your feedback is helping us to keep focused. Here's a recap of everyone's achievements during the past 3 months. Also, the first main story arc will be finishable very soon!

Cheers from the GB team!

• 1 new Mainquest – the story continues!
  
• 8 new Sidequests
  
  
• First Achievements

• More ships
  
  

• Gamepad Support
  
  
• New NPCs & character portraits

• More traders
  
• New Asteroid types
  
• New weapons, shields and items
  
• New locations & moons
  

• New music & title theme by Miguel Johnson
• Quest-related features
  

• Mission polishing throughout
  
• World improvement / liveliness
  
• Big bunch of character portrait updates
  
  
  
  
• AI improvements
  
• Weapon-, shield- and enemy balancing
  
• Major UI & UX improvements
  
• Turret graphics HD restoration & polishing
  

• More control & key mapping options
  
• More display options
  
• Story-related improvements / fixes
  
• Performance improvements
  
• Loading times decreased
  

• A LOT (check recent updates for more details)!
  

• Visit the Community Hub to find out more!
  
  
  
  
• Stay up to date about what's going on with the game and us on Twitter.
  

• New Mainquest
• 3 New Sidequests
  (2 around Pluto, Cram Bokaj quest)
  
  
• Added a Ship Trade HUD & Improved the weapon/shield comparison in Tooltips
  

• New weapons: Projectile round (Genom/Tyrell), Seraphim Cross
  
  
• Added a Render Thread: Should improve performance a lot in asteroid fields and vsync limited scenes
  
  
• Bobby Cliff & Kingston
  

• Portrait updates
  
  
  polished: Cameron, CoC Mechanics, Lume, Miss Eliz3, Player portrait (again;))
  
  
• Pick a smoother logic Hz (based on the Monitor Hz. 70 for 140 and 72 for 144 Hz)
  
• Zion "Junk Machinery" location image update
  
• Dialog polishing
  
• ISA "Daedalus" polishing & Cram Bokaj custom version
  

• GAC "Sukarabe" custom engine
  

• Asteroid death emitter improved
  
• New plasma field at Lashkar Gah area
  
• Tooltips: Use the full width for the description
  
• High quality textures updated
  

• Greifswald does not attack
  
• Start key/gamepad trade/save selection from the correct item if no item is selected
  
• Leave_Event_Music() keeps looping music playing if it does not start new music
  
• Play_Event_Music() does not fade in if repeat is disabled
  
• The Genocide Transporter still attacks the player after the "I'm giving up" Dialog
  
• Tooltip DPS comparison with a laser is incorrect
  
• "Repair me" option is twice or outdated
  
• Don't show "compared to" in trade tootlips
  
• Only show weapon accel in Tooltips when it is used