We really, really strive to have a bug-free game. An enormous amount of time is spent testing and fixing bugs before release. But 1.42b did not live up to that. Moving forward we’re going to release to a beta branch first before updating the main branch. Beta is available to all players, just hop on our Discord for info.
Thank you so much for your patience, and in particular thank you to everyone who submitted bugs and gave great feedback! We are SO GRATEFUL!
Balance:
Time restored when using water cargo during water riots was increased.
Events that change relations without player interaction should all be removed. If you spot one, please let us know ASAP.
Numerous events like The Commandeered Farmship were made better.
Several new events were added including The Looted Barge, The Rioting Station, and The Foreigners.
Features/QOL improvements:
- The Recall All Gunboats action only appears now when there are active gunboats that aren’t in the hangar
- Launch All Gunboats only appears when there are gunboats in the hangar
- Carriers now display a repairing progress bar when hovered
- You can now store passengers in a gunboat hanger bay (slot)
- Disabled, recovered enemy gunboats now automatically join the fleet
- Recovered active enemy gunboats now do something... interesting
- Non fleet ships given a jumpfollow command no longer try to jump if they are disabled
- You can scout jumpgates now
- Sector nodes no longer appear to be harvested
- Training marines now immediately updates the contextual action menu for immediate launch
Future updates and upcoming price increase:
I worked on mockups for the main menu, renaming your ship, and choosing your appearance among other things, so expect those in 1.43.
At least one very unusual new ship and more events are also coming in 1.43!
We will continue with updates relatively frequently. We are still focused on adding new ships and items, additional events and QOL improvements. We are getting closer to announcing a release date and this is your final warning that we will be raising the price of the game one more time, reflecting all the new features and months and months of work we’ve put in. So now is a good time to buy before the increase!
There is still time to get your feedback in and have an impact on our development, but that window is closing.
Bugs destroyed:
- You should no longer be able to exploit the game into giving you a Harvester-free experience (Sorry Ainz)
- Jumpgates remain unlocked now
- Jumping is now restored in cases where it was denied
- Many range-related firing and closing issues were fixed
- An edge case related to boarding defended ships was fixed
- The status of passengers in stasis is now saved properly
- Fixed a soft lock edge case at harvested jumpgates
- Stations should now always spawn where jumpgates are required
- Aborting the board action no longer causes text to flip out on the contextual action menu
- Scripted launch boarding party actions now work as designed
- Restoring a saved game, ships that were already mid-jump now resume
- ShipJumpFollowAction.Execute bug was executed with extreme prejudice
- A graphical glitch hovering weapons was unglitched
- Enemy formations given formation attack orders now attack properly
- Hovering certain mining ships no longer floods the log with errors
- Invisible ships no longer show when scouting
- Several boarding-related bugs were fixed that also flooded the log with errors
- An issue with proximity destruct showing when it shouldn’t was addressed
- Fixed a problem related to destroying a farmship in an event
- Scout icon no longer sticks when scouting with the planet info dialog up
- A goodly number of minor text issues were corrected
- Invisible ships no longer show up on the minimap
- DynamicText.getText bug murdered
- ShipOrderCondition.CheckState bug is no more
- An issue with sweeping mines was swept clear
- Range 1 lasers and ion torps should now fire properly
- Abort animations now play properly
- Certain integers no longer display as floats. Bad floats!
- An edge case related to using water cargo during a riot was washed away
- Numerous issues surrounding the board command were fixed
- ShipTransferController.UpdateShipSlotsView bug was smooshed
- ResourcesProjectileModel.IsResourcesAvailable bug was thrown out
- another DynamicText.getText bug was demolished
- PlayerContextualActionsModel bug was put away
- DockedShipModel bug was mothballed
- ShipsController.HoverShipSlot bug was shot down
- ShipView.IshipView.SetIsActive bug was deactivated
- Access now displays the right tag
- Repaired gunboats no longer leave messy pieces of themselves on the playfield
- SystemCollections.Generic.List bug was systematically eliminated
- Invisible ships no longer appear before they should