Beta Branch Note: These changes are currently available on the beta branch. The beta branch is for testing experimental changes and for finding and fixing errors.
This is how you get access to the beta branch (USE AT YOUR OWN RISK):
Right-Click on Avorion in your Steam list, Properties -> Betas -> Select branch 'Beta Branch - Newest Changes & Experimental Features'.
Gameplay
- "A lost friend" mission now includes the captain's primary class in the bulletin
- Family, Commune and Cavaliers ships can now appear in sectors
Balancing
- Procure Operation: tuned additional time required
- Instead of a 1.5mill threshold adding +45min it's now a 750k threshold adding +20 min
- Mining Operation: greatly increased impact of discovered asteroid fields on area efficiency and yield
- The pirates in the first encounter in "investigate missing freighters" mission are no longer insanely beefy
Client
- Added encyclopedia articles for goods that list the stations where they can be bought and sold
- Added encyclopedia articles for productions that list ingredients and produced goods for each type of factory/mine/consumer etc
- Added search function to encyclopedia
- Building Mode: scale step, grid size and stats settings are now persistent
UI
- Added "Transfer All" context menu entry to move stacks of items between player and alliance inventory
- You can now interact with Ships and Stations while in Strategy Mode
- Building Mode: when more than the selected blocks would be deleted, those additional blocks are now highlighted
Scripting API
- Added resetHyperspaceCalculation() function to Player
Bugfixes
"Bug fixes marked with [UBR] are from user bug reports. Thank you very much for reporting and keep it up! :)"
- Fixed several small issues in missions and scripts
- [UBR] Fixed an issue where manual and autopilot jump routes could conflict with each other
- Fixed an issue with localization of mission descriptions on the bulletin board
- [UBR] Mobile variants of stations now have correct titles in their shop windows
- [UBR] Fixed an issue where boarded ships could not be repaired at repair docks
- [UBR] Fixed an issue where pressing Tab to switch between player and ship window didn't work in the Torpedoes tab
- [UBR] Fixed an issue where "A lost friend" mission could cause reputation loss with faction
- [UBR] Encyclopedia: turret factory is no longer listed as a consumer
- [UBR] Fixed several issues in french localization that caused problems in procure operations, crew board and mod window
- Fixed a crash when starting a dialog with the adventurer
As you might have noticed, we didn't set 2.0.8 live on the Default branch. This is because there were some small new issues with it. The fixes made it into this 2.0.9 patch.