Cosmoteer release candidate 0.24.3 is now available for testing! (To play this release candidate, you must opt in to test it. Please see
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This release candidate has a variety of bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements.
Thanks for testing!
RC1:
- Added 3 new Monolith defense platforms: Chaingun, Deck Cannon, and Railgun.
- Added 1 new Cabal combat ship: Mebsuta.
- Added 3 new Cabal defense platforms: Dual Ion, Heavy Laser, and Point Defense.
- Added 1 new Imperium trade station: Large Imperium Trade Station II.
- Added 1 new Imperium defense platform: Heavy Laser.
- Added 2 new Fringe defense platforms: Flak and Large Cannon.
- Miscellaneous updates and tweaks to existing built-in ships.
- Crew will no longer be automatically unassigned from their bunk rooms if the path back to their room gets disconnected.
- Delivering resources to a station before accepting a delivery mission will now count those resources towards completion of that mission.
- Ships with diagonal flight directions should now be much better at strafing.
- Ships without an operational control room are now able to hail other nearby ships or stations up to 400 meters away.
- Point Defense turrets now have collision. (They are also slightly heavier as a result.)
- The "Any unsaved progress in the current game will be lost" confirmation dialog will now show how long it has been since the game was last saved and will also explain that Auto Save and Quick Save slots are shared between all game modes, are not synced to Steam Cloud, and will eventually be overwritten.
- The number of active mods will now be displayed in red on the "MODS" button on the title screen.
- New Creative Mode games now default to the starry black background, which will improve creation/load times.
- Cosmoteer will now wait for any in-progress Steam Workshop downloads to finish before loading game data. This should hopefully make it possible to use mods when playing on Geforce Now.
- The health bars in Elimination mode now looks less janky.
- The various part-specific tutorials (such as the cannons tutorial) will now only appear once the player has defeated their first enemy.
- The game speed can now be adjusted using hotkeys while the game is being saved.
- Bugfix: Crash if an explosion damages a shield and somehow destroys the shield generator itself on the very same tick. (Probably only possible with mods.)
- Bugfix: Crash if a saved game file was selected to load in multiplayer but was deleted outside of Cosmoteer before launching the game. An error message will now be shown instead.
- Bugfix: Redeeming multiple missions in rapid succession could cause the credits display to show more credits than the player actually has if any of the redeemed missions caused the player's faction reputation to rank up.
- Bugfix: Right-clicking on an enemy ship and dragging away from it to set a distance/direction would cause the rotation to be automatically changed even if a specific rotation was saved using "Save Attack Defaults".
- Bugfix: Command adjustment handles were clickable even when underneath other U.I. elements.
- Bugfix: Railguns were unwilling to shoot at junk ships and asteroids.
- Bugfix: Railguns were unwilling to shoot at structure tiles of enemy ships even when those structure tiles were explicitly targeted.
- Bugfix: Shields could sometimes fail to block a portion of sun damage.
- Bugfix: Resource delivery missions could be exploited by buying the required resources from the station
- before* accepting the mission and then selling those same resources back to it after accepting the mission.
- Bugfix: Loading a Creative Mode game in multiplayer, saving over that saved game file, returning to the game setup screen, and relaunching without changing the saved game file would cause it to load the old original game data from before the file was overwritten.
- Bugfix: A recent Discord change broke the ability to drag ships straight from Discord into Cosmoteer. This should now work again.
- Bugfix: Typing long messages into text boxes and then deleting that text could cause the text insertion caret and any subsequently typed text to become offset.
- Bugfix: Minor graphical glitches caused by asteroid/megaroid 1x1 wedge tiles.