Update 24 has been released! We've added new ways to control power on your ship, including a new Power Switch which can disable entire sections at a time. We've introduced a new way to fabricate ship equipment on the fly, made some massive performance gains, and given you more control over your fighter wings.
Here is the latest Update video from Mark & Chris:
With update 24 done, here is our updated Roadmap:
Full change list
Fighters
Fighters have two modes of operation, toggled in the Tactical screen:
- ALERT: fighters will launch when a hostile target is acquired, and return to the bay for resupplying or when all hostiles are eliminated.
This is the default mode and they will behave the same as they did in Update 23.
- STOW: fighters will remain in their bay or return to the bay if they are currently deployed.
- These modes can be toggled in the tactical screen, using a new button above the "WEAPONS" button in the bottom-left.
- The fighter mode is set on a per-ship basis.
- Improved fighter flight path back to bay, making it less likely they will miss it and have to circle around.
- Indication in tactical mode when a fighter is returning to its bay because of running out of ammo or fuel.
- Fighters will wait in the bay to be at least 50% before returning to battle.
New Power Controls
You can now toggle any piece of equipment ON and OFF from its control panel.
You can multi-select lots of equipment and turn it all ON/OFF with one click.
- New Equipment: Power Switch
To be installed over a cable and toggled ON/OFF to control power flow, making it easy to activate and deactivate whole parts of the ship with a single switch.
- Power Switches can be named from their equipment panel, and will then show in the Power Grid window, helping you to manage larger ships from a single screen.
Lightning and lightning rods:
- Fix damaged lightning rods not being repaired and shaking forever
- Fix bug where on larger ships lightning would not strike towards the bottom of the ship
- Lightning rods leak stored energy when damaged, similar to batteries
Equipment Multiselect:
- Expanded multiselection to loaders and storage crates
- You can now toggle all selected equipment on and off with one click
Production Queue
Equipment that is pre-placed using the "EQUIPMENT" button in the ship editor can now be produced on-board, according to demand.
Assembly tables and fabricators that are set to "STOP" will be automatically assigned recipes in order to produce the required equipment.
They will be set back to "STOP" after finishing.
- Intermediate components will be automatically produced if they are not already available on the ship.
- An option to automatically buy missing components is available.
- More improvements to the "EQUIPMENT" menu in the ship editor.
Translation Updates
- New translation Bahasa Indonesia (thanks to Agis&Soul)
- Japanese (thanks to sakuyan#5658, raidhin, Kensuke Ichinohasama)
- Russian (thanks to skoniks)
- Simplified Chinese (thanks to Qionglu735)
- Polish (thanks to Azu)
- German (thanks to Flauschküken)
Performance work
- Several performance improvements for entities - especially noticable for large numbers of civilians
- Fixed massive performance drop immediately after loading a large save game
- Plus more general performance improvements
SMALL CHANGES
- Habitation cannot be drawn over equipment on top of the ship to prevent the equipment getting blocked
- Equipment on the top of the ship renders under the habitation instead of above, so it's clearer when they are blocked by the habitation
- Fix "DOCKING IMPOSSIBLE" alert overlapping battlestations button
- Meteors drop small amounts of minerals when destroyed
- Can now install, dismantle and spawn (in creative mode) in an area by dragging out a box while holding down shift
- Added in animated sprite variants for Gunners, Scientists and Civilians
- Text in tactical mode for crackable asteroids scales with asteroid size
- Add tooltips for categories in powergrid showing how much energy each equipment produces/consumes
FIXES
- Containers moving on a track will no longer have a random small rotation (this is for when carried by a human)
- Fix airducts sometimes showing the missing oxygen icon when oxygen available
- Fix fighter not being destroyed if their bay is dismantled while they are stowed on it
- Fix a problem with manufacturing fighters where coils and motors would compete for the same slot on the fighter bay.
- Fix fighters and hull breaches being available to transfer in the logistics screen
- Fixed issue with Gunners and Scientists changing sprite when sitting down
- #734: Schematic placement of equipment removed when associated item gets on a robot arm/track
- #747: Harken call to arms call triggering twice
- #756: Items are overlapping when clicking and dragging to place them
- #758: BNS3 mission is stuck
- #759: Accelerated Local Survey during Tutorial Exploit
- #760: Editor cannot place hull on equipment in free space.
- #767: Arena Mode - Drones from AI ships no longer gather materials or salvage by default