Starbase Progress Notes: Week 47 (2020)

ElluFB

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#1
Starbase Progress Notes: Week 47 (2020)
November 16th - 20th

Hello everyone. Here are the progress notes of Week 47, hope you enjoy!

Please note that the "Progress Notes" are different from the Starbase Alpha "Patch Notes". Progress Notes are snippets from the development team and what has been worked on during the previous week, and many of the features might not be present in the current or upcoming builds of the Closed Alpha. Some features, especially in the design portion, can be subject to change as the development continues.

Design

Features
  • Class 9 and 10 asteroids have been added back to the game
  • Remote Explosive inventory bugs in job areas have been fixed
  • Remote Explosives have been added to Demolition Job and Mining Job
  • Work with easy building mode continues
  • New ore distribution configurations have been tested, more localized distribution options are now available for creating ore hot spots for example
  • Work on factory systems continues:
    • Iteration on 3D printer design has been worked on to improve player feedback and control
    • Initial pre-installed blueprint chip selection has been designed
  • New player ships have been added to economy
User Interface
  • Additional options (company purpose and public listing) for company edit page have been designed
  • Design for company ship UI and access options have been worked on
  • Ship platform and spawning tutorial design is underway

Code

Gameplay
  • 3D Printer is now able to consume ores from connected ore crates and can output items to station storage when connected to a Resource Grid Utility Box
  • The ability to resign stations has been added: resigning a station has a 60 second cancelable timer, visible to all users near the station terminal
  • The ability to claim resigned stations has been added: claim button has been added to station terminals
  • A fix has been made for some new armor models that had incorrect rotation
  • A fix has been made for not being able to pick up station items to player inventory
  • A fix has been made for being able to auto-bolt without a magazine
  • A fix has been made for being able to auto-bolt other players' ships
User Interface
  • A new window has been added to tutorial that tells when a quest reward has been awarded
  • New tutorial hints about Magboots and how to align an endo's orientation to a surface have been added
  • Owned Ship List page's basic functionality is done
In-game Designers
  • Station foundation element modification has been prevented in the Station Designer
  • A fix has been made for station grid slot LODs in the Station Designer
  • A fix has been made for attachment plates placed in the Interior Designer getting deleted when moving the module in the Lot Designer

Art

Animations and Emotes
  • Work on tripod animations continues
  • Resource port animations polished (3rd person)
  • Rummage animations for Cable, Pipe, Welding, and Bolt Tools have been added (1st person)
  • Fixed issue with sit animations and aiming at buttons
Weapons and Armor
  • Serpentai armor set textures have been tweaked and paintjobs have been updated
  • Empire armor set colored areas have been slightly tweaked
Stations and Cities
  • Skyscraper interiors are being worked on
  • New city areas are being worked on
  • The overall layout of the Moon city has been updated
Other
  • Asteroid materials are in the process of being tested and adjusted
  • Work on the "resurrection machine" has been started
  • Updated the Battery Explosion and related afterburn VFX
  • Created new VFX for exploding ammo containers: Autocannon, Laser, Plasma and Railgun

Gallery

Week47_Starbase_armorsets_serpentai_polish.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!
 

Okim

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#9
So they are 9 and 10 in the end? Back to original chart then...
 

Mutleyx

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#10
"
  • 3D Printer is now able to consume ores from connected ore crates and can output items to station storage when connected to a Resource Grid Utility Box
"
Want!
 

JoelFB

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#11
Quick clarification regarding the asteroid sizes: The sizes 9 and 10 here match the previous patch note sizes 8 and 9. So if we go by the player definition, the sizes are called 9 and 10.
 

runzik

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#12
Really nice update keep up the good work guys Hopefully a bunch more of us will get in soon
 
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