Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander News

Bugfix: Occasional crash caused by recent thruster A.I. fixes.

Reverted the upgrade to Microsoft .NET 8 because it was incompatible with Steam Deck and Linux. (The upgrade may be reinstated in the future if/when Proton adds .NET 8 support.)

Cosmoteer patch 0.25.1 is now available! This patch primarily has a handful of bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements for the new Build & Battle multiplayer PvP mode.

Meanwhile, we're continuing to work on Career 2.0. That update won't be ready for a while yet, but nearer in the future you can look forward to a new ship part and some more improvements to Build & Battle (such as the oft-requested support for 3+ teams and free-for-all).

Enjoy!

Full patch notes:

• If Build & Battle is played with an unequal number of players on each team, the team with fewer players will now be given more money each round to compensate.
  
• For Build & Battle games, the lobby will now show the current round (and maximum rounds) instead of the time remaining.
  
• In Build & Battle, the beginning of each build or battle phase will now be "introduced" with large text displaying the round number and phase type.
  
• Build & Battle is now translated into all officially-supported langauges.
  
• Miscellaneous other translation updates.
  
• Cosmoteer now runs on the Microsoft .NET 8 Runtime. This may provide a very small boost to performance.
  
• Bugfix: Crash in Build & Battle if the Unstash button was spammed.
  
• Bugfix: Crash in Build & Battle if all the players were on Team 2.
  
• Bugfix: Rare crash when hiring crew.
  
• Bugfix: In Build & Battle, the players' ships could sometimes be spawned overlapping their teammates when returning to the build phase.
  
• Bugfix: In the information box for a Build & Battle game, the victory point limit was being incorrectly displayed with a credits (money) icon.
  
• Bugfix: In the information box for a build & Battle game, the credits per round was not being correctly displayed with a credits (money) icon.
  
• Bugfix: The thruster algorithm wasn't properly taking thruster ramp-up times into consideration, which was causing ships with large thrusters to be more unstable or "wobbly" when flying than necessary.
  
• Bugfix: The small amount of lateral force exerted by thrusters wasn't ramping up and down properly.
  
• Bugfix: At high game speeds and/or low framerates, ship thruster VFX could appear very glitchy.
  
• Bugfix: Any errors initializing UDP sockets for multiplayer should no longer prevent you from playing "Online" via Steam.
  
• Bugfix: Hosting a multiplayer game with a very large number of mods activated could prevent the game from appearing in the lobby's list of games.
  
• Bugfix: Visual and audio effects would sometimes not play or were glitchy while in Direct Control Mode while the controlled ship was moving quickly and either the game speed was set very high or the framerate was low.
  
• Bugfix: Minor background color issues on some sprites including structure tiles, resources, projectiles, and crew.
  
• Modding: In Build & Battle, multiple techs can now unlock the same resources and toggle choices.
  
• Modding: Fixed crash when crew construction is enabled if a part lists the same resource type multiple times.
  
• Modding: Particle effects now support optional 'FpsCompensation' and 'FpsCompensation' parameters that will "fast-forward" emitted particles by varying amounts to compensate for low FPS. This can be used in addition to or as an alternative for FpsCompensator. It uses more CPU than FpsCompensator and can't spread out the initial starting location of particles like FpsCompensator can, so it is recommend that you still use FpsCompensator unless you have a specific need for the new FpsCompensation parameter.
  
• Modding: The particle 'Lerp' updater was usually reading LerpIn values from the wrong particles when used as an initializer.
  
• Modding: Fixed crash when trying to open the planet generator editor.
  

Cosmoteer release candidate 0.25.1 is now available for testing! (To play this release candidate, you must opt in to test it. Please see this post for info on how to test release candidates.)

This release candidate contains a small collection of mostly bug fixes, particularly for the new Build & Battle mode.

Have fun, and thanks for testing!

RC1:

• If Build & Battle is played with an unequal number of players on each team, the team with fewer players will now be given more money each round to compensate.
  
• For Build & Battle games, the lobby will now show the current round (and maximum rounds) instead of the time remaining.
  
• In Build & Battle, the beginning of each build or battle phase will now be "introduced" with large text displaying the round number and phase type.
  
• Build & Battle is now translated into all officially-supported langauges.
  
• Miscellaneous other translation updates.
  
• Cosmoteer now runs on the Microsoft .NET 8 Runtime. This may provide a very small boost to performance.
  
• Bugfix: Crash in Build & Battle if the Unstash button was spammed.
  
• Bugfix: Crash in Build & Battle if all the players were on Team 2.
  
• Bugfix: In Build & Battle, the players' ships could sometimes be spawned overlapping their teammates when returning to the build phase.
  
• Bugfix: In the information box for a Build & Battle game, the victory point limit was being incorrectly displayed with a credits (money) icon.
  
• Bugfix: In the information box for a build & Battle game, the credits per round was not being correctly displayed with a credits (money) icon.
  
• Bugfix: The thruster algorithm wasn't properly taking thruster ramp-up times into consideration, which was causing ships with large thrusters to be more unstable or "wobbly" when flying than necessary.
  
• Bugfix: The small amount of lateral force exerted by thrusters wasn't ramping up and down properly.
  
• Bugfix: At high game speeds and/or low framerates, ship thruster VFX could appear very glitchy.
  
• Bugfix: Any errors initializing UDP sockets for multiplayer should no longer prevent you from playing "Online" via Steam.
  
• Bugfix: Minor background color issues on some sprites including structure tiles, resources, projectiles, and crew.
  
• Modding: In Build & Battle, multiple techs can now unlock the same resources and toggle choices.
  
• Modding: Fixed crash when crew construction is enabled if a part lists the same resource type multiple times.
  
• Modding: Particle effects now support optional 'FpsCompensation' and 'FpsCompensation' parameters that will "fast-forward" emitted particles by varying amounts to compensate for low FPS. This can be used in addition to or as an alternative for FpsCompensator. It uses more CPU than FpsCompensator and can't spread out the initial starting location of particles like FpsCompensator can, so it is recommend that you still use FpsCompensator unless you have a specific need for the new FpsCompensation parameter.
  
• Modding: The particle 'Lerp' updater was usually reading LerpIn values from the wrong particles when used as an initializer.
  

RC2:

• Bugfix: Rare crash when hiring crew.
  
• Bugfix: Hosting a multiplayer game with a very large number of mods activated could prevent the game from appearing in the lobby's list of games.
  

This hotfix fixes a handful of issues with the new Build & Battle PvP mode.

• Bugfix: Crash when modifying a ship's missile launchers in some very specific circumstances if the player has some but not all of the launcher munition technologies.
  
• Bugfix: It was possible to crash the game in Build & Battle by opening up a "Load Ship" or "Load Paint Scheme" dialog box from the paint, crew, or resource editors and then waiting for the battle phase to begin before clicking okay.
  
• Bugfix: In Build & Battle, exiting build mode before building any parts and then deselecting your ship could make it impossible* to re-select it to continue building. (*Technically you could still press Ctrl+A to reselect it, but this was not well-known.)
  
• Bugfix: In Build & Battle, if a ship is built without a control room, it wouldn't get teleported to the battle area and then would end up as junk in the build area that could get stuck inside the players' ships in future build phases.
  
• Bugfix: In Build & Battle, when a ship spawned into the battle area, it could get stuck on any junk that was left behind from a previous battle phase. Any junk within the ship's spawn area will now be deleted.
  
• Bugfix: In Build & Battle, it was possible for the READY and CANCEL READY buttons to get desynced from the players actual ready state, making it impossible to ready or unready.
  
• Bugfix: It was unintentionally impossible to build 1x3 Armor Wedges in Build & Battle.
  
• Ships in Build & Battle are now called "Unnamed Ship" by default.