0.4.1.0 ( Saturday, 16 February 2019 )
This is a “quality of life” patch for the BETA which aims at fixing some of the most urgent issues, and applying a small polish pass to the HUD. The capital ships control scheme also received another iteration.
Gameplay
- Warp interruption is now damage percentage based ( 2% ) off the max hit/shield points, instead of interrupting warp for negligible damage
- Reduced ratio of player credits versus AI in credits redistribution
- Added allied infrastructure griefing checks and malus ( set to -33% of credits worth )
- Battlescape generation improvements: score balance checks, new parameters to control location of stations
- Added check to avoid spawning ground installations on the night time of planets
Controls
- Match velocity in warp will now match warp speed to target
- Ship will now be powered on and have front lights enabled by default upon spawning
- Added support to up to 4 input devices / joysticks
- Added camera offset to capital ship views to unblock the ship from the view (the camera will offset perpendicularly to the ship’s spherical volume)
- Swapped WS and RF for capital ship control scheme. WS will now pitch
- Added a “Set target orientation” for capital ship control scheme. R will set the target orientation forward, F backwards. The ship automatically turns around to face the target orientation’s direction.
- Fixed pitching orientation on capital ships not correctly preserving world-space direction
- Added input profiles for Logitech X52 Pro and X56 HOTAS, thanks to the community
Weapons
- Rebalanced heat points on bomber and corvette (they could not reach max heat points even firing 100% of the time without stopping)
- Added back some hitpoints to the static defense towers on installations
- Rescaled up most of the weapons projectile effects due to community feedback
- Slightly increased projectile speeds for the large MK6/MK7 kinetic guns
- Increased missile launch speed from 200 m/s to 250 m/s
HUD
- The HUD is now available in third-person mode for capital ships
- New version of the HUD center crosshair ( triangular ) to unclutter the center of the view
- HUD crosshair will now flash to orange when aligned with lead reticles
- Reduced size of lead reticles by 25%
- Shield or hit meters now flash upon taking damage
- Energy emission graph ( top-right corner of the HUD ) no longer has a black background
- Added credits bonus message upon destroying generic enemy infrastructure
- Tweaked HUD bloom effect
- Added a more visible alert when HUD automatic level changes
- Planet / Installation names are no longer fading off based on distance on HUD
- Fixed a bug which caused distant planet / installation names to still appear in HUD combat mode
- Fixed player indicator names ( was incorrectly located at the top of the icon )
- Tweaks to HUD target indicator colors to be less chaotic
- Popups and alerts no longer show up when HUD is disabled
- Added a target orientation symbol on HUD for capital ships automatic orientation mode
- Separated camera views for “external views” in target navigation mode, and capital ship camera. They can now have different view parameters
Bug fixes
- Minor fix for warp charging falling below minimum warp speed, accidentely cancelling warp
Visual effects, graphics, performance
- Added slider in launcher dialog to control space debris strength. Defaults to 50%
- Reduced length and intensity of space debris overall
Server
- Added server economy scale (default to x2.0) as a server setting
- A bunch of server settings are now properly loaded from server config files instead of beind hardcoded
- Fixed server crash due to lack of multithreading in access of network properties;
- Fixed issue with warping AI bot getting killed before reaching its destination due to speed cap change
- Added gas giant and Galia asteroid to the “Small” Battlescape
