The last 6 weeks we've been hard at work with the new open world prototype. We're very proud to announce we now have controllable multicrew starships that can seamlessly warp between zones. As a bonus, we've also completed the initial proof of concept for modular spaceship components. While there are only 8 component types right now, they represent a good foundation for adding custom starships and stations in the future.
The alpha for the open world server is not ready for general release just yet but you may see it online from time to time as we're actively developing on it. Feel free to jump on and checkout some of the new systems if you see it up.
Now that the starships are ready, we can finalize our Phase 2 roadmap. It's been delayed way longer than we liked but we wanted to take it a bit slow and prototype these big ideas before making promises. Huge Thanks to everyone for your support, feedback, and patience as we finalize the design for the next update.
Patch Notes
New Features
- New starting apartment with a better initial tutorial help screens. This should help ease new players into the game.
- Added support for clientside interactables. We've added a few things to the starting apartment to play with and learn the controls.
- You can now drop and throw weapons weapon using the menu button.
- Menu UI is a lot easier to use.
- New VR hands to replace the Vive controller models.
- Additional voice chat options. We know have Always On, Push To Talk, Toggle, and Disabled settings.
Bug Fixes:
- Added starship parent velocity to weapon projectiles.
- Fixed some bullet sync issues when firing from starships.
- Fixed collision detect on starships when close to stations.
- Only the starship owner can pilot a ship.
- Only the starship owner can modify a ship.
- Fixed menu pointer disabling after warping.
- Fixed not being able to warp while another player is in warp space.
- Fixed an issue where the Armory would not open the first time you toggled it.
- Fixed issue with menu pointer not resetting menu items.
Open World alpha features:
- [Open World Server Only] Controllable custom starships. Supports multiple players. Simply teleport into the pilot controls and start flying.
- [Open World Server Only] New Starship Builder tool with 8 component types. Small Scaffolding, Large Scaffolding, Hatch, Docking Hatch, Pilot Bay, Solid Wall, Glass Wall, and Small Engine.