Starbase Progress Notes: Week 39 (2020)

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Starbase Progress Notes: Week 39 (2020)
September 21st - 25th

Hello everyone. Here are the progress notes of Week 39, hope you enjoy!

Design

Features
  • Player head health has been increased, players are now able to die from headshots
  • Repair Job gameplay improvements have been worked on
  • Mining Job gameplay rework has been finished, mostly to accommodate new tutorial features
  • Armor update design and related math have been finished
  • Asteroid belt design and material configurations have been started for higher progression tiers
User Interface
  • UI and walkthrough features for the Repair Job tutorial have been worked on
  • Improvements have been made to the Demolition Job tutorial experience
  • Quest Tool UI has been reworked to work better with the current tutorial quest implementation
  • New tutorial phases have been added to Mining Job and Repair Job
Stations
  • Mining job hall has been updated with new workstation layout and structural changes.
  • Player spaceship shop updated:
    • All player spaceship shops' Hangar showrooms now have one large and one very large showcase areas. Mediums have been removed.
    • Due to the Hangar showroom update, spaceships "201 Bruiser" and "Nate" have been temporarily removed.
    • The following spaceships have been relocated: "Buffalo", "Vidar", Akimbo 1", "Racer"
  • Okim's Magnus has been removed
  • Kenetor's Buffalo, which had disappeared from Rando Spaceship shop due to LOD issues, has now been fixed
  • Missing Refill & Recharge slots have been placed back into Proia station
  • Two Mass Transit stops have been removed from Starting station due to them blocking the walkways of the updated station layout
Spaceships / Spaceship Designer
  • Transparency of windows and glasses in Spaceship Designer has been changed to make them a bit more visible

Code

Gameplay
  • Work on station building continues, auto-building has been optimized
  • Work on Repair Job continues, spawning issue has been fixed and repair checks have been added
  • Ship frame integrity calculation has been reworked
  • Frame integrity display was improved in Spaceship Designer
  • Broken thruster attachments (mainly nozzles) should no longer block their thrusters
  • A short bolt may now sometimes be placed when a longer one would be invalid only due to a gap between the components it reaches
User Interface
  • Chat was updated to unhide a channel when sending message to it
Audio
  • A fix was made for flyby audio not triggering with fast projectiles
Spaceship Designer
  • Switching to edit mode while editing a YOLOL chip in test mode should no longer lock up controls
  • Editing YOLOL scripts in Spaceship Designer should no longer lock controls
  • Unsaved changes are now prompted when exiting the game from the menu or using ALT+F4

Art

Animations and Emotes
  • Work on explosive drill animations continues
  • Work on remote explosive animations continues
  • 1st person versions of select emotes are in the making
  • New ADS poses made for rifle and pistol (3rd person)
  • Unarmed rummage animation polished (3rd person)
Stations
  • Marketplace's legacy asset replacement is underway
  • Holograms that indicate which shop monitors sell weapons and which ammunition were added to Ares weapon shop in Marketplace
  • The colors of Asteroid Collection buildings were changed
Weapons
  • Hit spot for Tractor, Cargo Lock and Rangefinder Beams have been fixed to be more persistent
  • Mining Laser VFX updated (both Hit and Shoot fx)
    • A lot stronger and also more in line with other laser based weapons/tool tech
    • Also resolved some bugs related to a delay on the hit fx themselves
Other
  • Large ice asteroid tests in the new belt are underway
  • Asset icons were added for the following categories: Attachments, Beams, Decorative Plates, Cargo, Controls, Doors, Lamps, Navigation, Networking, YOLOL, Hardpoints, Ship Weapons
  • Inventory icons were created for Tools and Utilities

Gallery

Week39_Starbase_asteroids_ice.jpg Week39_Starbase_levelart_ammo_shop_monitor_hologram.jpg Week39_Starbase_levelart_weapons_shop_monitor_hologram.jpg Week39_Starbase_asteroids_ice_2.jpg

As always, feel free to ask any questions regarding these progress notes!
And if you haven't yet, go add Starbase to your Steam wishlist!
 
Mutleyx

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Have player ship updates been accepted yet? I fixed my ships as soon as possible after the first SI patch dropped, so it is a little frustrating to find the old versions still in the shops, and even more so to find broken versions of them out in the ring :(

Edit: That all sounded a little negative, so I just want to add: great to see progress, looking forward to trying repair job, thanks FB! :)
 
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Kenetor

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Mutleyx said:
Have player ship updates been accepted yet? I fixed my ships as soon as possible after the first SI patch dropped, so it is a little frustrating to find the old versions still in the shops, and even more so to find broken versions of them out in the ring :(

Edit: That all sounded a little negative, so I just want to add: great to see process, looking forward to trying repair job, thanks FB! :)
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I'm hoping they finally get the Buffalo update in there too. Id be interested in hearing more about what sort of LoD issue they encountered too
 
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