A minor patch addressing a few issues from the previously released one:
Fixed crashes related to projectiles in battles - the game should now be relatively stable.
Fixed AI bots getting stuck into stations
Fixed AI capital ships standing in front of each other outside firing range, forever.
Fixed various issues with NPC voice chat spam
This patch introduces military land bases and gimbal weapons / auto-turrets. Unfortunately it also seems a lot more unstable, so expect a patchfix soon !
Notes:
this version has a client crash whenever another player is in range and selecting something. Conclusion: don’t get in range with other players
this version will also most likely crash when pressing the M key - beware, especially if trying to chat
Download link: https://inovaestudios.com/Battlescape/Access
Land bases have been added, they’re now available in various locations around planets / moons of Rethe Prime.
They’re all called “Factor 1” in game - forgot to set the name properly. They’re also lacking a polish pass on their properties, will do that later this week.
The smoke industrial effect on top of some modules isn’t correctly affected by daylight, so expect it to look white even at sunset, or bright even in the night side on a planet. Will also get addressed later 
Introduced gimbal weapons. Small weapons have a little bit of degrees of freedom - around 1 degree for the interceptor at the moment
Added auto-aiming turrets, which you can test on the corvette and capital ships
Currently this is a very very rough implementation, there’s no targets prioritizing, the weapons will all aim at the currently selected target
When a target is out-of-reach by a weapon, or not well aligned, the weapon will not fire, even if you press the fire button; this is normal behavior
However one downside is that for gimbal weapons, like on the interceptor, it’s no longer possible to aim at an offset from the center of the target (especially if that target is huge on screen), the weapon will not fire. While this is not a bug, this is only a temporary effect, and will get addressed in a future update.
Each weapon / turret aim-at direction is represented by a small dot on the HUD
Added energy cooldown for NPC AI bots, they should no longer fire without ever running out of energy. They’re still pretty bruttal (especially in this patch with the gimbal weapons), so difficulity will probably be reviewed soon too.
Turbo boost now increases maximum turn rate of all ships by +25%
Interceptor turn speed increased from 1.0 to 1.25
Interceptor linear thrust increased by 5 to 10%
Interceptor angular thrust increased by 50% (for yaw only)
Active players are now displayed on top of the leaderboard
Indicator bleep in/out sounds only happen when the actor is within a 1000 Km radius now. No more bleep spam from battles a million Kms away.
Target direction indicators around screen center are now using a filled color to be more easily readable, and are smaller
Planet name is now displayed in addition to point-of-interest name in the mission objective window
Fixed a small issue that could display 0 for hitpoints on HUD, yet the ship hasn’t died yet (HP might equal 0.7, but HUD was rounding it at 0 instead of 1)
Since all ships are now much more effective at killing / focusing an enemy, balance is totally off. Ships will probably get a huge boost in survivability later this week.
New explosion effect: replace the old “fire” explosion with the Kickstarter’s plasma explosion. It looks a bit too dim, and pretty ugly for large explosions / capital ships. Need more feedback from players.
Fixed incorrect interpolation glitch with camera system, wasn’t always taking the shortest route angle when being reset
Updates to AI commander, now sending multiple scout ships at once if has enough credits. Revamped credits timing a bit too.
Fixed some forgotten experimental code that disabled entities rejection in the distance when too small on screen. This optimization is now back in.
Air speed friction effect and sound are now matching better
Fixed incorrect selection targetting (using hidden mouse cursor) in direct control scheme. Now uses ship center.
Fixed a crash when you were loading a ship that doesn’t have any hardpoints
This is an intermediate patch right before our alpha play-test week-end tomorrow ! As such, it contains a bunch of fixes ( including the crash bugs hotfix from last version ) and improvements. A new version with more polishing and tweaks will be released tomororw, so I would suggest to only download patch 0.2.3.0 if your connection is fast and don’t mind to have to re-download another patch tomorrow
Still it would be helpful if a couple people could download this patch and test that the crashes from the previous version have disappeared, prior to making the game public tomorrow. They typically happened when players were in close range and selecting targets ( NPCs or players ), especially related to this target dies. As usual, if you experience any crash, please report to the forums with the entire log file, thank you !
Download link: https://inovaestudios.com/Battlescape/Access
Massive bandwidth optimizations. I realized recently that static actors ( planets, bases, stations… ) generated as much bandwidth as dynamic actors like ships. This should now be fixed. In theory if you’re alone you should experience around 1 to 2 KB of download bandwidth.
Optimized error correction. Server snapshots validation rate has been reduced, which further reduced bandwidth. Client only applies error correction to the latest server snapshot, which could in some scenarios prevent the client from falling into a freeze.
Assigned proper names to land bases ( they were all incorrectly called Factory_1 )
Added caching for actors. This increases the loading time, but should prevent the multiple-seconds freezes when coming in range of a point of interest. Note that it uses a lot more video-ram. I enabled mesh/textures caching only in video quality ( set in the launcher settings dialog ) High and Extreme. Physics caching does not consume video-ram, therefore it is always enabled.
Optimized collisions on the server side, which should reduce a bit the load and prevent it from “teleporting” players around when exceeding its cpu limits.
Replace “blood frame” texture ( when hit by an enemy ) with a smoother version.
Reverted explosions to the previous patch’s “fire” effect
Tweaked windows emissive texture intensities on land base and Arcadia station
Added energy recharge rate setting. Previously it was a constant always set to 5% of the max energy points. It is now tweakable per ship.
Added tactical behavior to bots AI. They can now alternate between three modes: “keep distance from target” ( this was the only one in previous versions ), “cross and turn around”, and “flee from target” ( happens when the bot is low on hitpoints and shields ).
Adjusted AI difficulty with more randomization. They should no longer kill you that easily
Reverted Interceptor to fixed weapon with no gimbal.
Added 50% more energy to interceptor. Also added a fair amount of energy to bomber and corvette.
Added more hitpoints and shields to corvette and capital ships, increasing their survivability.
Tweaked some weapons stats; light turrets ( on capital ships ) have a faster projectile speed. Reduced energy consumption on corvette turrets. Adjusted firing cone limitation for all weapons and for AI.
Fixed crashes related to target selection
Fixed a crash related to an actor dying when a player had it selected
Fixed display origin of muzzles and lights when firing with weapons
Fixed a small issue that prevented the “closest” ( key: G ) selection to work as intended. I still need to do quite a bit of work on this, as it should select in priority the target that’s the largest threat and not necessarily the absolute nearest. But that will come later.
The alpha play-test week-end is starting today 10 November at 20:00 GMT and will end around the same time on Monday 13 November. Pease keep in mind we’re still in pre-alpha and that you might encounter technical issues, framerate drop or server crashes. We’ll be working diligently all week-end long in order to address these issues are they come.
For all issues pertaining to the installer / patcher or access rights to the play-test ( make sure you’ve pledged at the alpha backer level or above ), please contact INovaeKeith by private-message on the forums:
https://forums.inovaestudios.com/
For in-game issues, crash reports or gameplay feedback, feel free to contact INovaeFlavien by PM on the forums.
Alternatively, you can post your feedback in the appropriate threads on the forums ( we’ll read everything, although with a bit of delays due to the busy week-end ) or send us an e-mail at: contact (at) inovaestudios.com
Thanks everybody for your participation and support. We hope you’ll enjoy this test week-end and look forward to hearing from you !
Fixed a small bug that prevented active players from being displayed at the top of the leaderboard
Fixed a stats bug with the kill count when it went negative
Added a new gimbal weapon with 4 degrees of freedom to the bomber
Revamped AA light turrets on all capital ships. Destroyer should now be a lot more deadly towards enemy interceptors
Increased warp coefficient by a factor of x2. Added back a bit of strafing while in warp. Still not happy with the warp overall, will get reworked in the coming weeks
Decreased credits given after killing an enemy and revamped credits costs for all ships - they should now be more difficult to obtain and will require you to be more focused and careful
Target warp is reset when entering warp, which should prevent players from accidentely getting out of warp as the warp drive is engaging
Replaced old loading splash screen
Updated lights on various station assets
Critical hull damage is now temporary. The little explosions should stop after 10 seconds, assuming you’re not getting hit anymore. Getting hit resets the “repair” timer
Added a global info message when a player kills another player
This patch introduces the new weapons systems and damage model. In-depth explanations about weapons can be found in the following post:
… therefore, this patch note will simply be a summary.
This patch iterates on the previously released major version 0.2.5.0 which introduced the new weapons system.
Welcome to the latest alpha play-test week-end. We’d like to remind you that we’ll be hosting two community events during this week-end:
You can join our public Discord here: https://discord.gg/0ZdJkZXn7z3Ij6tV
If you have any trouble installing or running the game, feel free to post or leave us a message on our forums: https://forums.inovaestudios.com/
Finally, one of our artists, Dan Hutchings, will be streaming in our youtube channel ( https://youtu.be/bZwKAE1OZkk ).
And remember, this is a pre-alpha, so it still looks bare-bones (untextured ships, placeholder effects…). Expect issues, but most importantly: have fun !
We’re hoping to see you in game,
-The I-Novae Studios team
This patch introduces many performance tweaks, AI improvements (especially related to planetary battles) and new battle locations. Also includes many tweaks to warp mechanics to make it more reliable / easy to activate.
Warp improvements: emergency warp out was severely nerfed, now only happens when getting armor damage
Fixed target warp speed that could be under minimum warp speed accidentely set by the player and which cancelled warp as soon as it engaged
Warp speed can now be modified while in warmup phase
Default warp speed is always set to 50.0 km/s upon initiating warp
Warp is now interrupted upon collision not just in warmup, but also after warp is engaged
Warp is now interrupted upon more than 10% damage or any amounts of damage in warmup
Warp now automatically repairs after 30 seconds of no damage
Minimum warp speed increased to 500 m/s
Removed energy requirement to enter warp
Warp conditions are only checked upon initating warmup, not once the drive is engaged. This change should make the warp drive a lot more reliable and not fail accidentely all the time
Side thrust is now disabled in warp warmup but main target thrust is maintained
Warp exit speed no longer equals entry speed; it is now set to a constant of 500 m/s
Introduced smoothing and randomization to anti-gravity vector generation, which should make the ship feel more like it’s hovering over the planet
Anti-gravity model physics updated: all thrusters can generate an anti-gravity force excepting the top thrusters, which should prevent the ship from flying upside-down in flight-assist mode off
Introduced maximum turn speed limit (assuming the flight assist is not damaged) to prevent infinite turn rates
Introduced maximum angular velocity upon collisions (note: the value is set pretty high)
This new patch includes a couple of quality fixes for planets and projectile effects, as well as massive improvements to the input system, including better support for controllers and HOTAS.
An important patch that addresses a long-time issue with networking interpolation and error-correction smoothing and which was made more noticeable in the form of rubberbanding since patch 0.2.6.0. This patch also includes some new gameplay experimental changes.
Reduced angular momentum in direct flight mode, to make settings coherent with navigation target cursor mode
Tweaked angular accelerations and maximum return speeds for capital ships (mostly carrier)
Implemented an automatic throttle option. It is disabled by default. It can be enabled in the launcher settings dialog. In this mode, manual forward/backward thrust (W/S) sets the target speed to the current speed.
Added two new input events: “ResetTargetSpeed” and “MaxTargetSpeed” which respectively set the target speed to zero and max. The profile xml files version was not increased in this patch, therefore if you want to make use of these experiment events and
the automatic throttle, we recommend that you copy/paste them with double-tap=true from the official xml file into your user/documents file. You can assign them to forward/backward thrust (W/S) as double-tap.
Implemented experimental damage model. In this new model, kinetic damage gets absorbed by the shields ratio. Ex: if a ship has 80% shields remaining, 20% of the damage will be applied to the hull armor while the remaining 80% will reduce the shield points
Energetic damage gets 100% absorbed by the shields and does not deal damage to the hull armor. However energetic damage on a naked hull (when shields are down) now depletes energy points at a 1:1 ratio and causes a chance of critical damage to internal ship systems
This new patch is an important step towards releasing the alpha, as it introduced the spectator game mode and various game states which currently act as placeholder (such as the main menu). There are also tweaks for the HUD and various sytems.
This intermediary patch includes a network fix for ships orientation stuttering, the missing shield impact effect from last patch, new base/factory lights, new damage sound effects, and most importantly: the ability for turrets to automatically select a new target if the primary
target is out of view/range.
This patch introduces counter-measures ( chaffs ) for small/medium ships ( up to destroyer ) as well as some bug fixes.
Welcome to Infinity: Battlescape - Alpha 0.3
If you experience any trouble with the game, or simply want to fly and chat with other players, you can join our Discord server at:
For support inquiries, please send a private message to INovaeKeith on the forums (installation/launcher/pledge issues) or to INovaeFlavien (gameplay feedback and bugs) or by email to contact@inovaestudios.com
Log files can be found in C:\Users\YourName\Documents\I-Novae Studios\Infinity Battlescape\Logs
Please keep in mind that we’ve barely reached the alpha stage. The game lacks proper menus, UI, feedback/mission objectives and assets are still untextured or placeholder.
We will be iterating on the gameplay features and balance from now on.
Most importantly, even if the game is barebone we are hoping that you’ll have fun and see the potential. If you feel we are going in the wrong direction, do not hesitate to post your feedback on the forums.
See you in game and good luck !
This patch is mostly a “quality of life” patch for the alpha. It includes various crash bug fixes, Direct Mode flight control fixes, a new small Battlescape (with two giant asteroid bases) for shorter matches and a number of balance adjustments.
This is the “haulers” patch, which revamps the resource generation side of the game by introducing haulers that fly between factories and stations to turn their resources into team credits. As usual, this is a first implementation which will probably introduce a fair number of small bugs, please do not hesitate to report them on our forums.
Of particular interest is watching the behavior of haulers and checking that they have no trouble ferrying resources along their path. If you notice any funny behavior, we would be interested in a description of the behavior and some screenshots.
In the previous versions, factories generated credits every few minutes. The amount of generated credits depended on the factory category (small, medium, large) and the amount of tank storages destroyed or alive in the factory.
In the new system, a hauler spawns every 5 minutes at each factory hangar. An algorithm decides a destination installation which will typically be one of the space stations in orbit of the same planet. The same station will be chosen all the times a hauler spawns, until that station gets destroyed, at which point the algorithm will switch to another station. Haulers follow the same path, slowly taking off from the surface, accelerating to reach low orbit then jump into warp. They’ll exit warp a dozen kilometers away from the destination station, then transition to docking mode and will disappear once docked, turning their ferried resources into team credits.
Team credits then get split amongst players and AIs as previously, preferring players over AI when the player count is sufficient.
When flying along their course in warp, haulers will stay in orbit around the planet and fly at 50 km/sec. Since it is not possible to attack when in warp, we’ve introduced a “warp jam” equipment, currently available on corvettes and destroyers. To use them, you need to be in warp yourself, closely following the hauler (< 20 Km away from it) at the same speed of 50 km/sec. To activate warp, open the ship system menu wheel (default: V) and select “Warp Jam”. It will generate a bubble around your ship, which will force out of warp any ship within the bubble (of radius 20 Km). The cooldown is 30 seconds. Warp on affected ships will stay down for the same amount of time.
Another change is the introducion of manual firing towards the mouse cursor for capital ships MK1 and MK2 weapons. Smaller weapons still aim at enemy ships automatically. The goal here is to introduce player skill to capital ships (rather than the more passive select-hold-fire-and-wait). Feedback on this new mode is also welcome.
This new patch introduces spawning at carriers and update the repair/resupply mechanics available on corvettes and at spawns.
Welcome to the Infinity: Battlescape beta week-end.
We would like to remind you that the game is still in alpha (beta backers only have access this week-end) with full beta scheduled for early 2019.
Many assets are placeholder or work-in-progress. Ships are untextured, gameplay features are missing and UI is basic (no star map, no missions menu, no ship selection or upgrades menu). We will be
iterating both on the visual effects and gameplay in the coming months.
Although the current version is rough around the edges, we sincerely hope that you will like what we are trying to achieve and have fun.
A community event is planned on Saturday 13 at 19:00 UTC on the server. Players will gather and try to play objectives to complete a full match (or two) in order to stress the server and test
the gameplay. We hope to see you in game !
Patch 0.3.3.0 changes:
