Patch 0.7.4.0 ( Monday June 29th 2020 )
This patch contains quality-of-life improvements over the last patch and the new development system. In particular, we have introduced a waiting queue upon deployment if you were trying to spawn at a moving carrier, or if the hangars were busy.
We also have a new countdown mechanism so that players can't abuse the quick-deploy at the same base/battle instantly after dying. A minimum "buffer" of about 30 seconds has been introduced, but the trick here is that this countdown is shared/synchronized by all players trying to deploy at the same location (so they'll spawn in game at the same time).
The help tips system has been revamped, is more contextual and new help tips for beginners have been added.
UI / Menus improvements
- Introduced deployment waiting queue for carriers or busy hangar spawns
- Introduced countdown deployment timer if you try to respawn too quickly at the same location
- Deployment countdown timer is currently set to about 30s and is synchronized for all players waiting to respawn at the same time intervals
- Deploy buttons have been added to the ship selection menu (that way you have to go back to the star map to spawn, which will be important in the future when the ship upgrades/loadouts are added to the ship selection menu)
- More improvements to deploy buttons (they now become disabled if you can't afford the ship cost) + more feedback messages that will tell you exactly why you can't deploy at a given location
- Star map menu now properly sorts listed missions/battles by top-down priority
- Star map's containers in targets list are now collapsible (there's a small arrow on the left of each item, which you can click to (un)collapse the item)
- Added back spectator mode (accessed through RMB contextual menu while selecting a target in map menu)
- Added "select closest deployable base" in the star map's targets list contextual menu (RMB). This will select the deployable base that is the closest to the target you have clicked on
- Updated generic list box and scrollbar arrows buttons icons visual style
- Fixed various issues related to tooltips staying alive after spawning or changing game states
- Fix for sensor screen's base grid reference, which should now properly orientate the grid on the nearest base
- Revamped random help tips. The new system is contextual (ex.: it'll show a tip about using chaffs only when a missile is fired at you). New tips have been introduced, which should help with the basics for new players. The tips now properly display the active keybindings in their text
Bugs fixes / Misc
- Fixed a rare client crash bug happening due some fired projectiles during high network latencies