Update 8.7.2020 (Build 210) - Patch Notes

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Update 8.7.2020 (Build 210)

New Features

• Spaceship Designer Paint Tool
• Hologram Repair Assist

Animations

• Added one-handed tool stand idle animation
• Added one-handed tool stand relaxed idle animation
• Added one-handed tool universal tool idle animation
• Added one-handed tool universal tool transition animation
• Added one-handed tool crouch relaxed idle animation
• Added one-handed tool crouch universal tool idle animation
• Added 1st person landing animation for universal tool
• Added 3rd person one-handed tool fire animation
• Fixed 1st person generic jump animations not looking like the way are supposed to
• Polished 3rd person one-handed tool draw and holster animation
• Tweaked 1st person jump and landing related animation blending
• Pickaxe, (default mode, 1st person), now has unique jump and landing animations
• Updated idle direction animation logic

Assembly Job

• Assembly Job and Mining Job now have correct text instructions

Audio

• Added ship weapon flyby sounds
• Fixed broken Laser Turret sounds
• Automatic weapons now use invidual shoot sounds for two first rounds and then crossfade to looping retriggering sound. Sound doesn't match visuals anymore, but will sound consistent even when visual and bullet spawning isn't, which feels much better.

Chat & Social

• Added option for showing background when receiving messages
• Added friend request notification to chat

Devices

• Added "State", "FlowIn", "FlowOut" Message ID:s for Resource Bridges
• Fixed pick up not following Resource Bridge FlowIn device field
• Fixed voxel collisions for Rangefinders
• Fixed Ore Crate contents' mass not affecting the mass center of a structure (ship)
• Disabled Resource Network advance halting on async side for now as it causedsome unexpected issues
• Allowed Rangefinders to hit their own entity, only avoiding to hit the device component itself
• Changed the name of Basic Yolo Chip Reader to Outdated Yolol Chip Reader

Economy

• Fixed Proia Station's economy to correct position
• Adjusted crafting data for:
  • Rechargeable Battery
  • Machinery
  • Electronics
  • Weapons
  • Resources (ammo etc.)
• Adjusted economy configs to meet new crafting data requirements (to make items not too expensive)
• Adjusted set weapon prices

Emotes

• Added versions of /shutdown emote for crouch and prone
• Modified and polished /scorn emote
• Modified weapon locations for /facepalm and /scorn emotes

Feedback Tool

• Fixed screen capturer's screenshot feature to not incorrectly delete previous screenshots

Items & Inventory

• Added 6 bag slots for Mining Backpack
• Added emissive lights to Bastion set head and updated textures of the set
• Added inventory icons for the invidual ammo items
  • 10mm Ammunition
  • 12mm Ammunition
  • 20mm Ammunition
  • 8x90 Ammunition
  • Antigel Rifle Ammunition
  • Bolt Tool Ammo
  • Cable Tool Cable
  • Energy Cells
  • Flamer Canisters
  • Grenade Launcher Grenades
  • Mini Rockets
  • Pipe Tool Ammo
  • Plasma Cells
  • Shotgun Shells
  • Small Rockets
  • Reaper Cannon Ammunition
  • Sentinel Rifle Ammunition
• Updated inventory icons for:
  • Minigun
  • Whiplash
  • SMG
  • Antigel Rifle
  • Battlerifle
  • Gauss Rifle
  • Revolver (short/long)
  • Repeater Pistol (short/long)
  • Pistol (short/long)
  • Plate Basic 144x288 cm
• Fixed Laser Rifle doing the same damage against ships as Laser Cannon did
• Fixed double clicking a stack of empty magazines in station storage occupying a magazine slot
• Fixed double clicking a magazine in station storage causing issues with loading a weapon
• Fixed player not being able to put tools/weapons in weapons slot in Large Bag
• Fixed Bolt Tool Ammo Stack having a wrong name
• Fixed Resource Bridge's Device Fields affecting Mining Backpack normal slots
• All the built-in items are labeled normally on tooltips. Player-modified items are now labeled as "Custom X Item", instead of "X complex item"
• All windows (ships and station parts) are now made out from Bastium, Tengium and Ajatite
• Material Cubes' material amount now corresponds to their voxel volume
• Picking up Ore Crates is now limited to empty Ore Crates
• Ore and Material Cubes will no longer appear as damaged

 

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Lot & Ship Designer

• Added log entries for "Loaded: X" and "Saved: X" after saving/loading finishes
• Added locales for pipe, cable and furniture layer opacity settings in settings menu
• Added 'overlap detected' dialog message
• Added filter search to scene view box in Ship Designer
• Added additional snap points for the Triangle door mat piece, allowing them to be snapped from the longest side
• Added thumbnails for:
  • Large Hall 07
  • Medium Hall 03
  • Small Hall 08
• Updated the following thumbnails:
  • Small Hall 05
  • Medium Hall 01
  • Medium Hall 02
  • Medium Hall 03
  • Medium Hall 05
  • Medium Hall 07
  • Medium Hall 08
  • Medium Hall 14
  • Medium Hall 18
• Updated 30 degree beams which should fix voxel collision issues with them
• Updated default options for ship/lot/interior toolsets
• Fixed Durability's yellow beam colors to properly register when in Ship Designer
• Fixed occassionally misplaced "Beam not connected to the largest frame section" warnings
• Fixed saving with ctrl+s if there are no unsaved changes
• Fixed sorting context menu getting stuck sometimes when exiting version history
• Fixed Lot behaviour
• Removed unnecessary Snap Tool error
• Removed blueprints from the Asset Browser in Ship Designer
• Removed autosave timer reset settings from Settings Menu
• Adjusted collision error threshold for 72x72 angled beam
• Adjusted collision error threshold for Triangle floor mat piece
• Snap Tool no longer allows snapping to locked layers
• Disallowed buying/modifying a ship with a scene that contains overlaps
• Changed colliding decorations in Small Hall 5, Hallway end pieces (all of them) got their priority snaps relocated, for better alignment with other hallway modules
• Changed the error message that comes when attempting to buy a ship that has legacy objects to be more descriptive
• Opening blueprints no longer makes saves if no modifications have been made and creates a new version if there are changes
• Disabled autosave timer reset on state change and increased timer to 10 min
• Increased autosave slots from 5 -> 20
• YOLOL script window now has a scrollbar for code lines
• Tool window now has a scrollbar
• Voxel budget now shown in Ship Designer
• Saving and buying upload no longer fails when saving after visiting test mode for first time
• Autosave interval is now handled correctly in minutes in Settings Menu

Player

• Added player roll and pitch binds
• Prevented grabbing of an occupied chair
• Intersecting objects are now grabbable
• Player can no longer push objects with no collisions

Ships

• Added Hologram Repair Assist to help repair ships. Toggle with M and filter blueprint layers with F
• Updated the following ships:
  • Mare
  • Moti
  • Mule IIA
• Edited the information screen descriptions of some of the spaceships in the Spaceship Shop:
  • Anubis
  • Aphelios
  • Carrier
  • Gofer
  • Hauler
  • Mare
  • Moti
  • Mule IIA
  • Tugger
  • Vanette
  • Vasama
• Updated Fuel progress bars' max value for Vector
• Updated player made ships with skill level descriptions
• Fixed thrusters restoring thrust & ID based on outdated network inputs
• Increased torque deadzone when thrusters appear to produce more torque than in typical ships
• Adjusted all ship weapon crafting data and changed ship weapons to Bastium

Stations

• Added Large Hall 07 to station modules
• Added gridslot corridor ads
• Added Ship Despawn and Ship Transport Areas and their Terminals to VIS HQ
• Added insurance transfer point to Proia station command center
• Added updated model and texture maps for the VIS HQ floor lods
• Added Small Hall 09 to station modules
• Added button to preview lot background in the Lot Designer
• Added nonanimated mass transit big signs
• Added new farlod model Ship Showroom Faction for Kingdom and Empire versions
• Added new lods to hallway modules
• Updated Marketplace's main hall with inner color changes and changed some deco assets to be static
• Updated Marketplace's main hall lods and textures
• Updated exterior decoration for hangar
• Updated module LODs and replaced/added the new modules to 3 scenes
• Updated Marketplace Trading Main Hall textures
• Adjusted color red to be brighter at VIS HQ Starting Station and VIS HQ Empire Station
• Removed one hologram from Ship showroom
• Changed everything in Marketplace to static and indestructible
• Fixed instance settings in Capital Proia
• All the lots from Starting station should now have been removed
• Filled the rest of the slots in Proia station with rental lots and landing platforms ("construction" sides excluded, by design)
• Recentered Proia station and made it's station area a bit smaller
• Replaced and modified light stripes at the center area
• Deleted extra lods from hall pillars
• Minor modification to the mesh of Maintenance Hall Lobby lod
• Large Hall 03 added to station modules

Technology

• Implemented initial smoothed lod level changes
• Added support for noised shadow map visibility
• Fixed motion vectors for dynamic geometry (increases memory usage)
• Added extra bit for noised fade
• Added TAA history reset when motion vectors appear (or sampling outside the screen)
• Added bloom history reset when motion vectors appear
• Fixed motion vectors for moving objects
• Fixed Resolution changes in Settings Menu being overwritten
• The planet should cast a soft edged shadow on asteroid belt now, with a softer transition from light to dark
• Optimized Asteroid Belt rendering to be faster

Tools

• Bolt Tool:
  • Improved displaying of boltable locations and allowed snapping the Bolt Tool aim to them more accurately
• Build Tool:
  • Added clear required resources
  • Fixed Material Cubes to only consume material corresponding to the content of the Cube
  • Fixed occasional failures in converting building materials to entries
  • Fixed applying FlowOUt to material flow via Resource Bridge
  • Fixed multiple-material consumption
• Pipetool:
  • Aim sphere is now bigger
• Added support for filling magazines with ammos from stacks

Trade

• Disabled trading for complex items as a temporary fix
• Fixed the check for item collection

 

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Visuals

• Updated visual effects:
  • Laser Rifle projectile effect
  • Autocannon muzzle flash
  • Autocannon projectile vfx
  • Hit effects
  • Horizontal muzzle flashes
  • Long Rifle vfx, muzzle flash is more horizontal and more intense
  • Laser Beam texture
• Added visual effects:
  • Antigel hit particle effect
  • Antigel muzzle flash effect
  • Added a rectangle glow texture
  • Added a projectile texture
• Removed emissive value from the ice ore

UI

• Fixed Universal Tool not ignoring back item
• Changes are not applied if the selected grid multi selection button is clicked again (for example no longer causes textures to load again if the same texture level is selected again)
• Fixed crash when renaming bindsets
• Changed the amount of saved insurance points to 15
• Added ship blueprint related keybinds to menu

Known issues

• Items moved from hand slot straight to station storage do not unequip properly
• Small freezes when approaching Proia station
• Resource items disappear when picked up from universe (propellant tanks, fuel rods and batteries)
• Friend requests in chat are missing localization and appear on group channel
• One or more ship platform terminals near Origin's Command Center do not update visually
• Spaceship Designer Paint Tool doesn't sync changes to clients in Spaceship Designer Edit Mode
• Lamps in lot blueprints cannot be built