8.0.14 Update 7 Change log (18.12.2015)
Over 60 inclusion in this latest update: 32 additions, 27 fixes, 3 updates.
Blog article will be put online shortly to talk about the changes.
- Added: MFC Blackbird
- Added: XL weapon platform
- Added: L weapon platform
- Added: Jumpgate (Type I)
- Added: Trade station
- Added: 'Avenger MK I' missile
- Added: 'Starburst MK I' missile
- Added: Missile ammo construct
- Added: Missile bundles listed in Ship Config
- Added: Missile ship config UI icons
- Added: Missile range finders in tactical
- Added: Special ability 'Fire Mission'
- Added: Special ability 'Sustained Fire Mission'
- Added: Special ability 'Salvo Size'
- Added: Special ability 'Ammo Type'
- Added: Additional callback capability to ability system
- Added: Yellow border around ability icon if 'On'
- Added: Alternative list view for modules in Ship Config
- Added: Proceedural textures now baked and cached to hard drive inbetween play sessions
- Added: Added double click and drag to install to module rows in Ship Config
- Added: List toggle and filter buttons in Ship Config
- Added: Filter functionality for module icons/rows in Ship Config
- Added: Sorting in Ship Config screen for modules
- Added: Scrollbar to hull marking scrollable in Ship Config
- Added: Solid background for the module slot container backgrounds in Ship Config
- Added: Tooltips for module filter buttons
- Added: New colour swatch, now accounts for Hue, Saturation and Brightness
- Added: Colour swatch takes into account the current colour
- Added: Flag to represent ship themes in Ship Config
- Added: Flag to represent ship themes in Fleet Config
- Added: 2D weapons range indicator in tactical
- Added: Altered 'Activate Special Weapon' ability to include cooldown
- Update: Consistency improved with module stats in Ship Config
- Update: Added MFC Blackbird to main menu warp animation
- Update: Optimisations to SpaceCam class
- Fixed: Textures compressed (addressing memory hog fom RAW textures & slowness in Ship Config)
- Fixed: Scrolling with mouse wheel for ship/hull icon list in Ship Config
- Fixed: All fixed modules incorrectly shown for any craft with a fixed weapon
- Fixed: Corrections to module stats text headers
- Fixed: Tooltip mis-shapen when mouseover filter icons in Ship/Fleet Config
- Fixed: Optimized texture memory usage
- Fixed: Clicking on colour swatch gives wrong colour at some resolutions
- Fixed: Jittery halt with some of the smaller ships
- Fixed: Improvements to formation flying so the ships catch up to wingleader
- Fixed: Missiles exploding mid
- flight for no reason (0.7.10 demo bug)
- Fixed: Drunken transitional animations in Ship Config
- Fixed: Missiles miss and orbit target (0.7.10 demo bug)
- Fixed: 'Error in Battle Simulation' bug reported by Kearon
- Fixed: Texturing issues with Enif, textures replaced
- Fixed: Issue with 2D radar sweep disappearing when lead ship not scanning for Flotilla
- Fixed: Issues with scan not eminating from proper unit
- Fixed: Radar and missile range 2D indicators now plotted at battlegrid intersection
- Fixed: Warp tunnel texture now seamless
- Fixed: Objectives totals wrong on multiple playthroughs
- Fixed: Duplicate ship icons when leaving and re-entering ship config
- Fixed: Rare crash in CoreAI
- Fixed: When use MMB to look is on and in movement mode, using ALT & LMB to pan camera no longer triggers movepoint
- Fixed: Players customized ship configs now overwritten only when nessecary
- Fixed: Corvette trails (broken in UPDATE 6)
- Fixed: Theme scrollable area fixed for 8 or more themes
- Fixed: Markup issue in ability tooltips
- Fixed: 'Continous Plasma Discharge' MP cost corrected