Tag: flight

The war is escalating, captain. Sumar forces are bringing in their bigger ships in an attempt to gain a foothold in the system. Bring your wingman and push back the tide.

Patch Notes 0.13.0

Overview

• Chapter 2 campaign added with 3 new story missions, new side missions, and a new ‘Autogun’ weapon type
• Unlock, customize and fly with a wingman
• Ship fitting screen sorting and filtering
• Many bug fixes and improvements

Known Issues

• Autospeed match ‘close’ setting does not work as expected
• Colliders for Fighter, Gunship, Carrier, and Large Transport are not optimized for best-fitting
• Jump-out animations are not scaled correctly for ships bigger than a gunship

Added

• Player campaign progress will be updated in line with changes that have occurred to Chapter 1 missions involving Prestige reward increases for the main missions and new weapon unlocks
• Added Chapter 2 with three new story missions
• Side Mission: Added new ‘Ambush’ mission type
• Side Mission: Added new ‘Ambushed’ mission type
• Side Missions Added a new variant of ‘Distress Call’ mission type
• Railgun (S) is unlocked after completing Ch. 01 Mission 03
• Player fleet size is increased to allow for 1 wingman after completing Ch. 01 Mission 03
• Autogun (S) and X1-X3 versions unlocked after completing the Prologue
• AI Actor can now follow assigned priority targets including subsystem targets
• F3 key (Comms Action C) will order player wingmen to attack the subsystem component targeted by the player
• When the player enables autopilot the player’s wingmen will move to enter formation during the autopilot transition cinematic
• Allowed variable replacements in dialogue for transmission panel on the HUD
• Player wingmen can be configured in empty fleet slots (slots are unlocked by progressing through the campaign)
• Added options to reset the campaign to the start of the prologue or to the start of chapter 1, accessible via the campaign menu options button
• Added Sort functionality to Ship Equipment Screen
• Added Filter functionality to Ship Equipment Screen
• Players can now use the cancel button press to exit out of the Options menus (i.e. by pressing the Escape key)
• Added Prograde and Retrograde indicators to the flight HUD
• Added Guided Bomb Minimum Range Release Condition (>= 2000m) for AI Actor consideration
• Added the Sumar Cruiser as a selectable ship in Skirmish mode

Changed

• Audio volume adjustments to avoid certain sounds drowning out others
• Prestige Balance no longer abbreviated below values of 1 Million in the ship fitting screen
• Briefing/Debriefing font has been replaced
• Made improvements to text on the main menu screen to make them more easily readable against bright background elements
• Adjusted text sizes to min-max range, and prevented text wrapping with text in the HUD Target Info Panel
• Reduced MLRS missile damage
• Went through briefings and debriefings for main and side missions to ensure they all used the same layout along with some typo and grammar fixes
• Wingmen formations can now account for an indefinite number of wingmen without worrying they will spawn inside each other and become a Tuvix
• The Options button in the Campaign Menu now opens a sub-menu, with the ability to open the game options added to a new button inside
• Skirmish: Kherson default loadout changed due to cost adjustment of Railgun: Primary Railgun (M) replaced with Railgun (S); Rear Turret Blaster/2 X1’s replaced with Autogun/2 X2’s
• Equipment not meant for the player’s eyes no longer shows up on the Equipment Fitting screen with exceptionally high values. Instead, they are no longer visible at all.
• Adjusted font size for scaleability based on length of descriptors for inventory items
• Adjusted turret long and short naming schemes

Fixed

• Reinforced Amour Plating module text description now correctly refers to ‘armor’ instead of ‘shield’
• The Briefing/Debriefing Scrollbar was not working as expected
• AI Actor will no longer fire off a guided missile without a valid target locked
• The directives panel will remain open if its list is cleared or the last objective is removed from the list
• Improved Missile Pool calculation to avoid excessive pool counts being used
• Emergency thrusters now engage to ensure ship control is maintained when engines are severely damaged
• Railgun causes damage to armor and hull (but does not penetrate outer damageable layer)
• Railgun subsystem damage scales based on the armor section it penetrated
• Damage Control subsystem repair priorities were not being honored
• Missile Null ref on collision with distinct debris
• Missile Null Ref on collision with an asteroid
• Removed code meant to prevent audio cascading but made it worse
• Actor AI collision avoidance now works as correctly
• Added missing audio priorities for Hydra Cannon and X1 Mini Gun sfx
• When an AI actor wingman is first enabled it will engage nearby enemies, instead of waiting for wing leader orders
• Default ship configuration is not applied properly in the level editor
• Turrets and modules attached to a destroyed substructure are no longer referenced by the parent structure
• Item rewards are unintentionally given via a legacy game mechanic. Rewards are still correctly granted for completing specific main story missions
• ‘Convoy Escort’ side mission had suffix numbering on the convoy random generator names
• ‘Convoy Escort’ side mission enemy wing was not given a display name
• MLRS Missile MissingReferenceException: The object of type ‘Transform’ has been destroyed but you are still trying to access it
• Text will be cut off in subsequent mission briefings and/or debriefings if previously the text was scrollable and the player scrolled down
• HUD gun pips will no longer display when viewing the rear of the ship
• HUD reticule now adjusts to the forward view of the ship (instead of being centered on the camera)
• Prestige and Experience for kills incorrectly calculated or not calculated at the end of each completed campaign mission