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Patch notes for Interstellar Rift ALPHA 0.1.57

FUNCTIONALITIES

- Pirate drones will now avoid ships in safe zones

- added option to enable/disable off-thread game loop

- game will now show a warning if Graphics drivers are more than a year out of date upon running into an error

- players with AMD drivers newer than 18.3.1 will now auto-disable Occlusion as AMD broke this in their later drivers

- added "/listalldronesinsystem " command to list all currently operating drones within a system

- added new tool: PR-61 Plasma Rifle

  • Can be made in a 3D printer for 50 brass, 50 steel, 50 silicon and 5 platinum
  • Requires Plasma Rifle ammo to function
  • Fully automatic
  • Can occasionally be bought in Logicorp Tool Stores
  • Does 10 damage per shot

- added new tool: Plasma Rifle Ammo

  • Can be made in a 3D printer for 50 brass, 50 Nitrous Oxide and 50 Hydrogen
  • Can occasionally be bought in Logicorp Tool Stores
  • Is used in PR-61 Plasma Rifle

- optimized game update loop

GRAPHICS

- separated game loop from rendering loop, so lags in the game are no longer affect framerate

- optimized movement of entities to be smoother

- optimized flying through asteroid fields

BUG FIXES

- fixed bug where asteroids would twitch every so often

- fixed bug where asteroids would sometimes not be deleted

- fixed crash in reactor screen

- fixed bug where solo games could still have passwords after hosting a passworded server before starting a solo game

- updated several out-of-date libraries

- fixed crash in fusebox unload

- game builds will now automatically be uploaded to Avast, to add to their whitelisting program (should hopefully get rid of Avast flagging IR)

- fixed crash in dronebay enhancement UI

- fixed bug where point defense drone visuals didn't work

- fixed crash in editor upon loading ship

- fixed bug where players sometimes couldn't click through the editor grid

- fixed bug where depleted fuel cells were not being able to be teleported out of a reactor by an ACTR

NOTES

- servers need to be updated, no rebuilds required