Beta

Beta version history

Early Access 17/08/17

New features & content

• The player fleet can now be renamed
• Add basic mouse emulation for joysticks
• Add option to invert Y-axis

Gameplay changes

• Add reputation penalty when shooting incapacited ships
• Balance pirates
• Balance station cost
• Reduce ship construction time

Bugs fixed

• Fix "Request peace" button wording if other company want peace
• Fix docking bug where the docking state seemed corrupted
• Fix z-fighting on Outpost stations
• Fix strange dock layout on farms
• Fix artifacts on Fuji exhaust

Graphics & UI

• Upgrade design of the Anubis cruiser
• Upgrade metal rendering
• Add "move" buttons to sectors in the trade route editor
• Add warning when abandoning a contract
• Add info that military contracts require military ships

Early Access 03/08/17

Gameplay changes

• Make light cockpits more resistant to have a chance to survive Hammer hits
• Balance trade contracts to allow multiple contracts
• Make AI take prisoners after battle and guard them

Bugs fixed

• Fix auto-docking technology not unlocking auto-docking option in menus
• Fix crash and game state corruption on game over while docked
• Remove debugging shortcut
• Wording and translation fixes

Early Access 30/07/17

New features & content

• New manual docking gameplay and tutorial
• New music for some sectors
• New high-resolution screenshots shortcut on R key

Gameplay changes

• Move Hub station to end-game because it's a common mistake to buy one early
• Remove support for "no-cockpit" HUD because it's too much work to maintain

Graphics & UI

• Improve farming stations
• Improve manual docking HUD
• Make docking rings blink every second
• New hotkeys for spacecraft actions
• Input bindings duplicates can be automatically replaced
• Scrapping of ships is now confirmed
• Disable button to add trade routes if no fleet is available
• Remove default binding for "face backward"

Bugs fixed

• Fix fast forward button state when canceling confirmation popup
• Fix transaction quantity limited by its money even for trade with its ours stations
• Fix station destruction bug leading to corrupted save

Beta-230717

New features & content

• Add Steam achievements
• Add new scanner mini-game for inspection in Pendulum contract

Gameplay changes

• No more enable pilot in fire director mode for heavy ships
• Allow docking with menu during navigation tutorial

Graphics & UI

• Improve all planet and moon render
• Use progress bar instead of percentages in cockpits
• Make fleet to travel selection more persistent
• Update game icon
• Rework ship info buttons layout
• Disable no-cockpit mode
• Use company customization pattern as background pattern in UI
• Improve quality of weapon impacts
• Make the sky slightly brighter
• A lot of small UI and wording improvements

Bugs fixed

• UI: fix too long joystick button and names
• UI: fix dragging issues in menus causing unexpected rotation on background assets
• UI: fix HUD distance rounding issue
• UI: fix selection of ships with light during piloting
• UI: fix wrong warning when targeting the tracked station
• General : a lot of french translation fixes

Beta-100717

New features & content

• Add a meteorites intercept contract
• Add trade route statistics
• Add experimental French translation (some layout issues)

Gameplay changes

• Don't generate military contracts if the player doesn't have military ships
• Use interception time instead of distance to show aim indicators at a more accurate range

Graphics

• Upgrade shadowing quality to reduce artifacts
• Upgrade resolution of shadows on Nema's rings
• Reduce performance cost of Eradicator impact effects
• Update splash screen

Bugs fixed

• General: fix ships ejected from trade route if not all ship were trading
• General: fix research station upgrade effect
• General: fix telescope station upgrade effect
• General: make the player ship not fully destructible instead of the last alive ship to avoir recovery bug
• UI: fix funny key change warning when removing a key assignment
• UI: fix trade slider init with sell to a station for a contract
• UI: fix lock trade checkbox that stop the production

Beta-300617

General

• pass the game to qwerty by default
• move default binding of 'lock direction' to capslock and 'combat zoom' to space

Gameplay

• no more allow station construction in a sector in danger

AI

• make AI able to declare join war againt enemy more powerful than every company induvidialy
• make AI able to setup attack from multiple company to allow multiple company to win against one powerful ennemy

UI

• rename "Travel and Order" in "Incoming Events"
• enable notification masking
• show again trade routes in orbital map
• add current battle in incoming events list
• show warning in settings menu when trying to assign an already assigned key
• set default quantity for trade to the right value when the tracked contract have a sell condition

Graphics

• add iridescence effect to metals
• improve reflection quality

Balance

• move default ship count in sector to 30

Bugs

• general: fix Boneyard collision mode
• general: fix crash if trying to upgrade a ship with weapon that are not unlock by technology (after ship capture)
• ui: fix external camera and menu camera for Windows
• ui: fix trading status text
• ui: fix fly interdiction text
• contract: fix duplicate fail condition when a trade contract have 2 stations owned by the same company
• contract: various contract text fixes

Beta-190617

General

• switch to Unreal Engine 4.16
• add Deimos Games logo and info

Gameplay

• new more understandable recovery system: you don't have a new free ship but the old one is partially repair and you have a fine.
• don't generate trade contracts with stations being captured

Tutorials

• add fleet management tutorials
• add remote fleet tutorial
• add trade route tutorial
• force to buy a freigther in "buy ship" tutorial

UI

• rework EULA and credit menu
• auto track the last contract (instead of the first) by defaut when a contract is finished to allow chained quest to be smooth

Graphics

• assure that planet texture quality is always good
• add boneyard icons to its substations

Balance

• make stations a lot more affordable for the player in early game
  • the price now depend only of the player station count in its company and in the sector
• Increase trade contract reward :
  • trade contracts:
    • from 1000 + 500 sqrt(travel_duration) + 50 sqrt(resource_quantity)
    • to 1000 + 1000 sqrt(travel_duration) + 100 sqrt(resource_quantity)
  • buy and sell contracts:
    • from 500 + 50 * sqrt(resource_quantity)
    • to 500 + 100 * sqrt(resource_quantity)
• make trade contract volume more variable if capacity transport of the player vary
• make axis reputation very stable as they are neutral

Bugfix

• ui: multiple wording fixes
• contracts: fix contract unicity
• contracts: avoid contract to fail at acceptation making them not available as soon as the failed conditions are reached

Beta-120617

Gameplay

• Quick patch to fix risk of economy collapse that a lock a game, with others fixes and improvements.
• increase anticollision system precision and make it adaptative to ships breaking capabilities

UI

• show repair and refill deadline in travel sector
• make player confirm fast forward if the is no incoming events
• make notification slower to disappear (7s → 10s)

Balance

• tutorial: reduce research needs for technology tutorial from 50 to 30, to match with the new technology base price

Bugs

• economy: avoid economy collapse due to people not spending enough money
• autopilot: fix exit avoidance system using incoherent center of sector
• ui: fix sector menu for travel sectors
• graphics: fix planetarium for travel sectors after sector exit

Beta-090617

General

• Update legals informations

Gameplay

• make bombs and missiles destructible by the player
• no more make ships assigned to a trade route travel automatically to a dangerous sector

UI

• move trade route selection to company menu to make more space to incoming events
• refactor incoming attack list and notifications
• make new contracts notifications no more stop fast forward
• add more details about shipyard state in the shipyard details
• make harder to accidentally dump precious resources
• better texts when trade operation is not possible
• add notification when fleet repair or refill end
• add information about station under construction in trade menu
• rename "World prices" menu to "Economy"

Graphics

• move planetarium to follow travel progress
• improve engine render
• improve flight effects
• improve asteroid rendering quality

Balance

• reduce technology base cost from 50 to 30
• refactor station technologies: the new level 1 "science" technology allow to build research station and telescope, the pumping technology move from level 1 to level 3, the foundry is now unlock with advanced stations
• change the Solen to give it a cargo bay of 2x50 instead of 1x100
• make Hammer gun more precise but a lot more expensive
• reduce Omen mass from 32t to 16t
• force the player to manually make peace after an AI declare war to him
• make pacifism move more slowly: pacifism increase base rate: 2.0 → 0.8, pacifism decrease base rate: 1.0 → 0.6, give reputation when ordering a ship to a company (ship price / 1000)
• increase inter company UBI contribution from 0.001 to 0.002

Bugs

• ui: fix crash when editing a trade route operation if no fleet was assigned
• ui: fix tool-tip for when the "Remove ship" button in edit fleet menu was disabled
• ui: make failed contracts due to expiration date not display "1 day left"
• ui: fix minor interface glitch in not visited sectors
• ui: fix rotation of HR logo in menus
• ui: fix The Forge sector description
• graphics: fix AA settings bug
• graphics: adapt resolution when enabling full screen
• graphics: remove tesselation from Colossus to ensure Linux support
• general: fix repair not correctly ending bug
• general: check recovery at the end of each day and not only at the end of fast forward

Beta-020617

General

• add support of unidirectional joystick thrust
• add support for joystick dead zones

UI

• show "missing resources" when a ship construction is lock because of a resource outage
• show incoming threats in red in the travel list
• ensure long joystick names can be shown
• hide precise light ratio as it's not used for now
• make transport fee a lot more visible
• allow to set trade route quantity limit precisely

Graphics

• reduce sun intensity
• minor change on dust effects

Balance

• allow shipyard owners to be in dept to build ships order by others companies

Bugs

• contract: fix combat tutorial
• ui: fix menu looping bug
• ui: fix multiple typo in contracts
• ui: fix highlight box not updated in HUD
• graphics: fix Nema rings LOD
• economy: fix crash when canceling ship construction
• general: fix bad file name Windows firewall

Beta-290517

Gameplay

• never destroy a ship completely because of a collision
• allow control of ship rotation in addition to ship translation from the external camera (space bar by default)
• make large ships unafraid of hostile small ships to avoid destabilizing turrets

Contracts

• add lots of VIP names and avoid reusing the same names for multiple contracts
• add a 30 days delay in the Pendulum contract after the pirate step
• improve wording in contract tutorial

Tutorials

• add combat tutorial
• add ships repair tutorial
• add ships refilling tutorial

UI

• aggregate all secondary contract notifications in one
• hide expiration conditions : they were misleading and taken as failed conditions
• show more details about ship state in ship lists
• don't notify pointless "battle lost" notification, and don't lock fast forward in these cases
• give detailed infos about abandoned ships when traveling
• treat ships in paused trade route as regular ships
• show trade routes status everywhere
• forbid abandon of tutorial and story contracts

Graphics

• change the look of pumping stations, research stations and outposts to differentiate them
• improve dust effects
• improve firing effects
• improve visualization of damage on destroyed ship parts
• move Orca camera
• add very small chromatic aberration
• fix planetary texture LOD

Balance

• technology: increase research point reward by 60%
• diplomacy: divide rank based reputation loose by 30
• military: divide large ship reparation speed by 5
• military: slightly improve Artemis

Bugs

• ui: fix trade quantity when the company has debt
• ui: fix line wrapping bug in trade menu
• ui: fix "No objects" misleading in sector menu
• combat: fix AI ship and turret pilot aim precision
• combat: fix Kami turret angles and collision mesh
• combat: fix collision issue in The Spire
• general: fix AA quality settings not modifiable
• general: fix sector defense contract not loaded correctly
• general: fix crash if a station collide something different from a ship

Beta-220517

Gameplay

• revamp diplomacy system

Contracts

• add Pendulum history contract

Tutorials

• add technology and research station tutorial
• add buy ship tutorial
• add station construction and upgrade tutorial
• add targeting tutorial

UI

• allow T key to select the contract objectif if not in battle
• show contract fail conditions in contracts menu
• add needs columns in ecomomy menu
• show sector population

Graphics

• redesign boneyard sector
• better metal, exhaust and bloom effects

Balance

• economy: increase the "nerf ratio" but apply it only to level 1 cargo bay size of station
• economy: increase arsenal production
• economy: increase plastic factory production
• economy: increase station cargo bay size
• economy: balance Kami ship cost
• economy: limit high end consumer resource consumption if they are expensive
• contracts: generate hunt contract only on travel end
• contracts: add duration fail condition for VIP contracts
• technology: move shipyard construction unlock in a specific technology
• technology: now, only one technology is need to increase its technology level (2 before)
• technology: reduce research point production cost
• world: a lot of balance in the game creation setup

Bugs

• flying: fix station bad placement if they are capture before being in an active sector
• flying: fix ship disappearing randomly if stopped
• flying: fix weapon firing empty weapon first on load game
• economy: fix fleet supply consumption bug
• economy:fix shipyard consumption estimation
• contract: fix missing diplomatic fail and expiration conditions in generated quests
• ui: fix trading permission display
• ui: fix external and menu camera control
• ui: station list order in sector menu
• ai: fix a lot of AI bug
• general: various performance improvements