Hey Everyone,
Today`s update continues fixing last of the remaining issues, as we get ready for the big update next week. Of note is the balancing for AI, as we greatly reduced the number of hostile creatures in the world. We also included new collision for space ships, that will now bounce off asteroids and other objects on impact. In addition we have fixed last issues with claims, login, game starting, and other last major bugs remaining.
There were a dozen more fixes and improvements we wanted to add to the game before we release the big terrain and visual update next week. Today`s update fixes a few annoying issues like bow, info vehicle screen exploits, issues with claims and a few other things.
And sorry for the delays with our big foliage update. Next week we will finally bring you this massive update that we`ve been teasing about for a while now. That update will include major changes to the planet graphics, style, and huge leap forward in performance.
Here`s the latest preview
And with that said, introducing Update 38
Fixes and Additions
- Implemented ship bouncing off surfaces when colliding with asteroids and other surfaces
- Major update reworking all terrain shaders on all planets - in preparations to next week`s major visual update
- Fixed lack of gravity while piloting an airship.
- There`s now proper gravity on planets pushing ships down
- Increased camera movement range in horses.
- Fixed issues with info screen not correctly removing vehicles sometimes Placing objects disables squash damage to prevent the player from killing itself with the item. Improvements to the falling through ground fail-safe.
- Fixed rare event where it was extremely hard to find a horse to claim
- There`s a better balanced number of vehicle and nova wrecks, and more horses
- There`s now a lot less aggressive AI creatures on the planet
- Fixed issue where players could place claims partly inside other player claims or inside the hubs
- Player claims territory is now a lot larger, making it easier to place vehicles
- Implemented a message to tell players if they have too many claims or vehicles
- Selling used vehicles now gives much better credits value
- When exiting a vehicle it gives a new message on how many days before it expires