Gaia Beyond News

• First Achievements!
  
  
• New Sidequest "No Funny Business"
  
  
• Garage Location images
  (stations and planets)
  

• Improved Tooltips
  • Compare weapons and shields directly
    
  • Add Tooltip DPS for projectile weapons
    
  • Changed Weapon Inaccuracy to Accuracy
    
  
  
  
• Controller optimizations
  • RB Toggle + Digital up/down for zooming
    
  • Support controller up/down selection + confirmation in the Savegames Menu and Trade HUD
    
  
  
  
• Portrait updates

• New Player portrait added
  
• Updated: Atlantic female, CoC male & female, Terminal (Memorial version)
  
  
  

Show item/credits removed in HUD

World polishing

• New nebulas added to CoC Greifswald area
  
• Nitrogen explosions
  
  
  
• Gap Nebula edges fixed
  

Dialog and quests polishing
Asteroid emitter performance improvements
Turret Platform lights optimization

• O Dog is not marked on "Collect the cargo O-Dog dropped."
  
• Window resizing disabled
  
• All planets are set to the J12 faction
  
• Weapons/Shields could spawn in cargo space with spawnable set to false
  
• Ursa repair option is twice
  
• Crash if turret burst fires and the target dies
  
• Unknown ships crash the garage dialog
  

• New Ship
  Speed Shuttle "Ferrara"
  available at: Schumacher @FTA Nexsen (SPOILER!)
  

• New Sidequest
  "Tedious Tours"
  

• Unique Asteroid types
  (Plutonium, Dilithium, Strontium, Thorium, Thallium, Nitrogen)
  

• Fighting Music!(Miguel Johnson)
  
  
• Burst weapon support (for the Guardian Suppression Gun)
  
  
• Wreck Location images

• Plasma Field + new Plasma item drops
  

• Add ship rotation shortcuts (assigning them will disable the automatic ship rotation)
  
  
• New portraits:
  
  - Cram Bokaj, Addai (Seraphim Applicator)
  
  - CoC Bouncer, CoC Barkeeper
  
  
  
• New missile graphic (used for Pharma Missiles, Ahoi-Rockets, Missile S)
  

• Faction-colored bars for CoC, GAC, J12
  

• ISA Hospital version
  
  
  
  
• Option to disable the auto pause when under attack with the map mode enabled (not yet in options menu)
  

• Improved Mission 3 "Genocide Consignment" mechanics / dialog and an alternative outcome
  
• Add a travel group setting to change the fight behavior
  
• Controller menu: Show the button names (Right Trigger, D-Pad up, etc)
  
• Turrets restoration / polishing / animations
  

• Weapons: faction colors optimized
  
  
• Level polishing: more asteroid fields, trash fields, faction spawners added
  
  
• ISA Research Station: animated lights + visible edges fix
  

• Vulcan bursts emitter
  

• 'The Waechter' - wrecked graphic
  

• CoC Mining Station polishing
  
• Affinity for manually spawned faction ships
  
• CoC Fighter (renamed "Molotok"): 1 turret slot, engine position fixed
  
• Turret platforms red signal lights added
  
• Only auto pause when a new ship attacks with the map mode if the fight started
  
• Accelerate missiles even without a target
  
• UI improvements:
  • Level Up / item received position on landables
    
  • Show Quest Info tooltips on FoW hidden target icons
    
  • Quest HUD: Failed missions should show (failed) instead of 100%
    
  • Quest HUD: Unfinished quest stages should also have an icon
    
  • 'big' font optimization (spacebar width, draw quality, etc)
    
  • Current location highlighted on FTA Quick Travel maps
    
• Data cleanup: Ships, Weapons, NPCs
  
• Add the video driver info to the error logs
  
• Savegames: Save persons defaulted (reduces the savegame size)
  
• Mark savegames incompatible if they are from a newer version
  

• Genocide Consignment Story can break
  
• Quickload saves instead of loading
  
• Savegames: Skills are not instantly applied on load
  
• A lot of ship engine & further ship corrections
  
• Jupiter clouds seam fixed
  
• First two Med-Guards during the Waechter hacking should not spawn with rockets
  
• Do not allow changing the esc key binding
  
• Ship 'signal lights' never had 0% alpha
  
• FTA Hub/COC Mining Station leading person is not set to passive ai
  
• Crash when accepting the Marcel Wallace quest
  
• Fta Hub, CoC Mining Station, GAC Solar Station: no faction in Analysis
  
• When the input assignment window is open the game cannot be closed and does not react to focus loss events
  
• New controllers are not detected when the input assignment window is open
  
• Auxi map tutorial stage: when already in map, dialog fails to continue
  
• Some respawning ship fixes (engine sound, collision, color)
  
• Vasily "I wanted something else." exits the dialog
  
• Tooltip Type match/mismatch is only checking the first ship turret slot
  
• Fix a game init std::length_error
  
• HUD Inventory: when opened and the ship is switched the tooltips are not updated
  
• Player map window is not displayed/hidden in pause mode
  
• After Kalypso crash: when Kalypso is attacked she loses the callisto pos target
  
• Quest HUD: There is no padding if there is only one quest stage
  
• Quest HUD: On finished/failed quests an empty stage is shown
  
• Remaining Med-Guards from Hacking escape can kill the player during dialog (should auto pause on dialog)
  
• Waechter should not burst shoot after hacking
  
• Always use the Travel group max speed
  
• Shown ship price in dialogs is not the actual value that is deducted
  
• Hoshi sells you the "Patriot" ship instead of "Hanako"
  
• Nortnex tradable while hacking
  
• Pre-hacking Kalypso-/Waechter Dialog: Shiro leaves to Cad Station
  
• Shiro destination is set every time "I'm waiting." is selected
  
• Player ship is not save upgraded
  
• Save upgrade: Chondros is still on a planet
  
• Pharma Missiles: type "fixed" but rotating
  
• Bobby Cliff SOS perma noti stays visible forever
  
• Asteroid fields update type is wrongly based on movement (should improve performance too)
  
• Wrong music playing in space fixes
  
• Add a leading zero to the "Time played" stat
  
• fix FTA sation nolan travel person name
  
• Strip the person name for the dialog handler of all incompatible characters
  
• Save upgrade "Travel Network Access" to "Travel Network NOL"
  
• Guard Lopez still respawns when the Genocide quest was accepted from Zopa
  
• Mission 3 escort ships do not defend each other (on pirate attacks)
  
• Ship engine boost particle bug
  
• Spawner created + save loaded drops have no drop_emitter set
  
• Saturn Rings existed twice
  
• Selection arrows z fight in map mode
  
• Shiro Travel Group should only approach when the player is near
  
• "ship_explosion_4" emitter is not really visible on smaller explosions
  
• Check person gaia state in weapon target invalidation
  

The Steam Intergalactic Summer Sale will end in 9 hours. Thanks for all the support and feedback so far!

• Controller: Support the Message HUD. Answer selection with new Dialog up/down shortcuts using the digital up/down buttons
  
• Controller: Support axis-only Trigger
  
• Controller: Add Zoom in/out buttons
  
• Add option to select the primary display
  

• Controller: Normalize the axis value when a threshold is set
  
• Memorial location image update
  
• Controller Menu: update the combobox list live (on connect/disconnect)
  
• Add option to unassign a key/button shortcut
  
• Show the default shortcut assignment on the static message
  
• Mines are more visible (pulse light added)
  
• Projectile graphics minor optimizations
  
• Fallback to display 0 instead of resetting video settings if primary display is not connected
  

• O Dog quest script crash on older savegames
  
• O-Dog does not drop mines anymore
  
• Asteroid overlays (crystals / gas) rotated incorrectly
  
• Many Controller fixes
  
• Gamepad Cursor not working in "Quit Game" Popup
  
• CoC Mining Station collision fixed
  
• Loading Screen: hint formatting minor fixes
  
• Weapon particles of mines are drawn above ships
  
• Limit the maximum controller threshold value
  
• Set a minimum controller sensitivity value
  

• Controller Support (Beta)
  
• Geisha portrait
  
• Atlantic male kid portrait
  
• Triton Colony polishing (New Dialog, New NPCs, changed portraits)
  
• Allow customizing the mouse shortcuts
  
• Add an enlarge fonts option
  
• New Dialog for Lexa
  
• New Caduceus weapons and shields
  

• Fire each weapon only if it is in range
  
• Auxi should mention red arrows for weapon targeting
  
• Add support for mouse button 4 and 5
  
• Allow to reset one input config entry with backspace
  
• Add a mouse hover highlight for the shortcuts list
  

• Waechter hacking first wave can block the story from progressing
  
• Create Shiro if he does not exist on save load
  
• Ship/Rocket smoke alpha is reset when parent is destroyed
  
• Krill and Zorg: Zorg doesn't attack
  
• Interrupt the Transport: Some ships have no weapons
  
• Genocide Consigment: Auxilium can be missed
  
• Atlas has a wrong Dialog Block after the Diversion mission
  
• Trade HUD: Sorting by price/weight is incorrect
  
• Target icon for Xander/Trade Node is visible on all stations
  
• Auxilium ship has a small red outline/edge at the bottom right
  
• Flowers have the quest item color and icon
  
• fix: "Attempt to delete Window that does not exist"
  

Gaia Beyond is in on the SUMMER SALE action!

• Music: New title theme! (by Miguel Johnson)
  
• Neptune moons: Triton & Nereid
  
• Pirate portrait
  
• Jerome portrait
  
• Added a bouncer to the CoC Bars
  
• More CoC traders
  
• FTA Ship type: small loaded
  

• Many performance improvements (especially near asteroid rings)
  
• Improved Mission 2 mechanics and dialog
  
• Thruster will now stay active once activated for the full boost duration
  
• Pirate bounty missions: Pirates positioned differently, Tate Tobin dialog improved
  
• UI: Character stats cleanup, Inventory "drop" button added, Progress bar optimization (and more)
  
• GAC male portrait update, facial tattoo
  
• Show multiple Quest descriptions on the map tooltip
  
• J12 polishing & animated lights
  
• O-Dog Fight polishing: background lightnings
  
• P4 + P5 Defense guns price increased and dmg reduced
  

• Restore dialog when loading
  
• Some J12 portrait links broken
  
• UI fixes: Character menu portrait clipping, long savegame names unscrollable, inventory "Max Speed" clipping at 4:3 res
  
• Some quest markers don't disappear
  
• A lot of dialog corrections & polishing (Heimwehr, Kalypso, Auxi, Zopa, Ganymede Node, Waechter... + many more)
  
• Multiple Quest target icons visible with the Blood Testing quest
  
• Person names in landable list are not centered anymore
  
• Travel groups can be broken if leading person is in defend state while the group should be traveling
  
• Game is auto paused in dialogs when enemy ships are nearby but not actually attacking the player
  
• FTA Transporters engine positions corrected
  
• Assault Spammer broken sound link fixed
  
• Auxi Missiles: turret rotation off
  
• Many rocket types had no trails
  
• Earth Nebula edge fix
  
• Kalypso guard fight start can crash if a patrol ship died
  
• When Lopez is not available the kalypso script can crash
  
• Added the missing Barkeepers to the CoC Station
  
• Game Over is drawn behind game sprites
  
• Jurgen quest: Heimwehr is target but has nothing to do with the quest
  
• Shift in trade activates thrusters
  
• Exiting an auto-paused HUD releases the dialog autopause
  
• Bartholdy is not spawned
  
• Enable F10 and F11 only in dev mode