XO 1.47e "Yaw Be Careful Now"
This is primarily a balance and bug fixing update
Features
- All Harvester warships move much, much slower now. Reapers remain the same speed.
- The game now loads without displaying the ‘wait for program to respond’ dialog
- New item: Hyperspace beacon
- Added a number of new events
- Marine, Diplomat, Shocktrooper and Mercenary boarding parties can now rescue passengers from disabled ships
- You can now use Pirate boarding parties on disabled and disabled/abandoned ships to gut them for spare parts or steal their cargo
- Boarding parties now have spinward/antispinward options
- Tractor hold and Tractor retrieve actions are no longer greyed out when the tractor is charging
- Main camera and starmap camera were made less floaty
Balance/UI
- Mining ore and melting ice were rebalanced, your feedback is appreciated on this
- Made quite a few balance and logic adjustments to individual events based on your feedback
- Cargo pirates now take over cargoships if no cargo is found
- Tractor beam range is no longer used to calculate support/protect distance on equipped ships
- Stations that are forcibly evacuated or looted now have a chance to activate weapon systems or self destruct
- Added more player options/results for ships that break away from the fleet
- Scouts are more likely to find industryships and less likely to find cargoships when mustering
- Late game, Pact Destroyers will show up much more than Pact Frigates
- Expanded results for rescuing ships before hailing them, chance of rewards and quests
- Added a tooltip when hovering the water riot countdown timer
- Water riot countdown timer now pulses periodically
- ‘Thank you for sending feedback’ now only displays when all logs have completed sending
- Made Corp and Rover warships more aggressive at jumpgates
- Using Spare Parts is a little easier
- Harvester Taker is now no longer selectable/targetable when it is mated to the Harvester Carrier
- Releasing a ship no longer clears an existing melt ice/mine ore action
- Starmap: hovering a destination on the first jump, do not display resources (onboarding simplification)
- Improved the tutorial in mysteriously subtle but meaningful ways
- Added a tooltip for hovering the minimap
- Transfer actions are greyed out if the selected ship has tractored the target
- Salvaging ships with passengers aboard is no longer allowed
Bug fixes/tweaks
We also fixed over 60 bugs, many of which were submitted by you! Thank you again for your bug reports, suggestions and ideas! Check the in-game changelog for details on the bugs fixed.
What’s next?
We are rapidly heading towards a full release, so we’ll be doing user interface and quality of life improvements, adding more ships, some very interesting new items as well as more events in 1.48!