The Fighter Update Is Here!
Here's a quick overview of what's new in this update:
- Build + Design your own fighters
- Fighters can be produced in the hangar
- Fighters dodge attacks to make them harder to kill
- Added new languages: Russian, Traditional and Simplified Chinese
- Improved server configuration options
The full patch notes are as follows:
Fighter Rework
- Fighters can now be produced in the hangar
- Assembly blocks provide a production capacity per second (details see below)
- Fighters require a certain production effort to be produced
- A fighter with a required production effort of 20000 takes 100 seconds on a ship with a production capacity of 200 per second
- A fighter will always take at least 60 seconds to be produced
- Fighters can be assigned as a blueprint to a squad for production
- This will destroy the fighter and enable production for the squad
- Fighter production costs materials
- Fighter pilots have a high chance of ejecting into space when their fighter is destroyed (95%+)
- Higher level fighter pilots have a higher chance of ejecting (and thus survival)
- Ejected pilots can be collected like loot
- Added a new Assembly Block that speeds up the production of fighters
- Higher material assembly blocks provide more production capacity
- Higher level assembly blocks enable more simultaneous productions of fighters
- But: For 2 simultaneous productions at least 2 assembly blocks are required (and so on)
- Maximum number of simultaneous productions is 5
- Fighters now dodge shots whenever they would be hit
- Every fighter has 3 dodges per minute and 1 for every professionality level of their pilot
- When a fighter dodges, it becomes invulnerable to shots for 1 second
- When all dodges are used up, fighters have a 30% chance (+10% per pilot level, max 50%) of dodging shots
- Fighters do sick loops and barrel rolls when they dodge a shot
Fighter Factory
- You can now design your own fighters at a fighter factory
- Combine a plan with 200 or less blocks (WIP, we might change that number later on) with a turret to get a fighter
- Fighters will deal 30% of the damage that the turret dealt and take over all other stats of the turret (except for independent targeting)
- Fighter stats can be assigned with + and - buttons
- The amount of points available for the fighter depends on the rarity of the turret that was used
- Depending on the used material, fighters will get boosts in several areas
- Fighter Factories will spawn in newly generated sectors
Localization
"Thanks to our new platform http://translate.avorion.net and our many hardworking community translators we have finished the first community translations for Avorion. We'll update these translations as we go, and it's possible that a few sentences might not be perfectly translated or missing. If you find translation errors, you're invited to help translating the game into your own native language on http://translate.avorion.net. We want to thank all the members of the community who helped contribute to these translations and who helped improve Avorion! Thank you!"
- Added support for new languages, these can now be selected in the game menu
- Added language support for Chinese (Simplified)
- Special thanks to Tarlafic for administrating the translation and translating the game into Simplified Chinese.
- Added language support for Chinese (Traditional)
- Special thanks to AikawaKizuna for administrating the translation and translating the game into Traditional Chinese.
- Added language support for Russian
- Special thanks to Kantor for administrating the translation and translating the game into Russian.
Gameplay
- Hangar now shows the amount of deployed fighters
- No more fighters can be added to a squad if the squad is full and deployed
- Added sounds for debris effects from last update
- Fighters can now be transferred between ships
- AI controlled ships only deploy fighters that match the target (miners for asteroids, etc.)
- Inertia dampener blocks explode instead of shattering
Balancing
"Before, fighters were very easy to destroy, so we let them deal as much damage as normal turrets. Now, since fighters are a lot harder to kill and a lot easier to obtain (and maintain!) we think their damage should be reduced."
- Reduced firepower of combat fighters by 70%
- Reduced mining DPS of fighters by 50%
- Reduced prices of force turrets
- Turret factory spawns more often
Client
- Client automatically sets graphics to low after a startup crash to ensure a successful next startup
- Game is automatically paused in single player when pressing Escape key
UI
- Updated german localization
- System upgrades can no longer be favorited or marked as trash in systems tab
- Added some more loading screen tips for fighter factory and hangar
- Added more tips about fighters to loading screen
Server
"These are some of the first PvP configuration options that we want to offer server administrators. More will follow over time."
- Added a configurable maximum limit of deployed fighters per player/alliance and sector
- Added a /pause moderator command
- Pausing only works when there is only one player on the server
- Added a server configuration option to server.ini for pause
- Added a server command line option for pause
- Pause always works in singleplayer by default
- Added filtering by name to /playerinfo command
- Added a /destroy moderator command to destroy the currently selected object
- Player to player damage can now be disabled server-wide in server.ini
- /ban, /unban and /give commands now work on offline players, too
- Added /mute and /unmute moderator commands to prevent a player from sending chat messages
- Added /ground and /unground moderator commands to prevent a player from doing hyperspace jumps
ScriptAPI
- Entity can now also be created with strings that contain uuids
- Added a custom SelectionItem that can be used in UI selections
- Added an interface to FighterAI component to access current target, squad, orders and mothership of a fighter
- Added an interface to FighterController component to access squad orders
- Added a FighterOrders enum
- Added a WeaponCategory enum
- Added getSectorCoordinates() function to Player
- Added sendChatMessage(...) function to Alliance
- Client script API forbids io and os libraries
- Exception: os.time()
- Added a playerToPlayerDamage property to ScriptServer
Bugfixes
"Bug reports by users are, as always, marked with [UBR]. Thank you guys for helping, testing and contributing. Keep it up!"
- Fixed a rare crash when some entities get deleted
- Fixed a crash/hang in delivery mission
- [UBR] Factions that are at war with players and that would attack anyways will no longer scan for stolen cargo
- [UBR] Factions that are at war with each other send less traders into enemy territory
- [UBR] Fixed cargo UI showing cargo with an amount of zero
- [UBR] Fixed insurance paying when station founders are transformed into a station
- [UBR] Fixed a few turret duping issues
- [UBR] Added missing RCON config to server.ini
- [UBR] Added missing script background threads config to server.ini
- [UBR] Fixed quick spinning of ship after loading screen
- [UBR] Fixed loading screen hanging after pressing space
- [UBR] Fixed Xsotan AI inaggressive in some cases
- [UBR] Fixed hangar shields not being scaled when scaling whole ship in building mode
- [UBR] Fixed crew transfer gui showing wrong numbers after transferring crew
- [UBR] Fixed Habitat, Casino and Biotope missing from trading overview
- [UBR] Changed screenshot filenames to the same format as Steam
- [UBR] Fixed fighters flying away instead of staying with the mothership when circling or defending
- [UBR] Fixed building mode closing (and not windows) when pressing Escape
- [UBR] Fixed several performance issues in hangar when lots of productions are active
- [UBR] Fixed an issue that led to durability of fighters degrading
- [UBR] Fixed stolen cargo being picked up even though cargo bay is configured otherwise
- [UBR] Fixed dumped cargo rotating strangely
- [UBR] Fixed inventory selection item highlights sometimes being white boxes in fighter factory
- [UBR] Fixed scrapyard licenses not running out for Alliances
- Fixed a few issues that caused crashes when accessing Alliance members
- Fixed a crash when ips.txt file is unavailable
- [UBR] Fixed an issue with wrong display and selling price of several fighters
- [UBR] Fixed an issue with the chat flood protection
- [UBR] Fixed an issue where hull repair lasers don't work because they only hit the shield
- [UBR] Fixed an issue where galaxy map would highlight all sectors when only a space was entered
- [UBR] Fixed the engineer in the bottan quest spawning multiple times
- [UBR] Fixed an issue that prevented proper building with the copy-paste tool
- [UBR] Fixed an issue that let some blocks be unselectable for a while
- [UBR] Fixed typo in german localization
- [UBR] Fixed an issue where operation exodus wouldn't be accomplished when the Xsotan artifact is collected