Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift · build 23929896 · published
A follow-up to v0.2.105; more fixes straight from your reports. Thank you for the detail, as always.
No more soft-locks after you land. Settling a world left the voyage running underneath the colony — probes still in flight, the navigation window still open, ship events still queued — and any of those could jam the game once you were on the ground. Landing now closes out the voyage cleanly, and probe launches are disabled once you've settled. This was the root cause behind several of the post-landing lock-ups you reported.
"The air does not support a person" no longer appears on breathable worlds. A world you could actually breathe on could still throw the sealed-habitat warning if its habitability was merely marginal — the two were tangled together. That warning is now tied to genuinely sealed worlds only.
Empty systems can't strand you. Arriving in a system with no obvious heading could leave you with nothing to pick and no way to advance. Navigation now always offers a way onward, and a nav window that somehow opens with no route recovers on its own.
Electromagnetic surges and binary stars. EM-surge events now correctly draw down power and hull; binary systems use their real star names; and binary / twin systems no longer share state with each other.
The star chart stops hiding your route when you pan it — for real this time. Last patch fixed the route forks, but the heading line and your destination marker still vanished while you dragged the map. Every route indicator now stays visible while you pan. (Caleb)
The "Crew Will" tooltip reads cleanly now. Its description was breaking in the middle of sentences ("...a long voyage with / no world in hand"). It now breaks only at natural pauses. (Tygre) Note: this indicator currently is in progress and does not affect gameplay.
Tooltips are the right size. Every tooltip stretched to nearly the full height of the screen no matter how little it had to say. They now fit their text. (Tygre)
New regression tests for the post-landing hand-off, the sealed-habitat air check, the electromagnetic-surge and binary-star behaviour, and tooltip sizing — plus a new audit that keeps stale tests from hiding in the harness. The classes of bug above are now guarded against recurrence.