Gaia Beyond News

• 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
  

• 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