What's up everyone,
Take off your winter boots, slip into something comfy, turn up the heater and dive into the next update of Gaia Beyond. Also – we are on a 21% discount during the Steam Winter Sale!
Happy Holidays!
Over 15 new sidequests!
- Collect blueprints for the ISA
- Find and rescue the forgotten spacemen!
- Visit Nookrium on the Euphoria station ...and much more!
Skill Tree udates
- Multiple skill trees available
- New 'Kalypso tree' including new skills
- Lines showing skill dependencies
Active Devices
- When equipped, activate it with the F key or controller button X
New Thrusters
- Short range, long range and High tech Thruster
- These new thruster types allow the available energy to be portioned
New Sphere ship: Akaei
Now available at your local Sphere ship dealer!
Weapons
- 3 different kinds of Double Lasers
- Shell Breaker turret upgrade visualization
Portraits
- Shin portraits
- 2 ISA females
- Another J-12 male, coming with a lot of variations!
World
- Harrison Cruise movie posters
(Can be found in various location images)
Sound
- New sounds: Shield restore (small / medium / big), upgrade weapon, nanobot device, radar device
Automatic saves after some time
- Either after 5 minutes on events or after 10 minutes when no autosave event was triggered
New Achievement
- "No Tutorial for Old Men" – NPCs have feelings too!
Quests
- A lot of fixed and improved dialog
- Many old sidequests have been improved
Ships
- View and radar range balancing
- Dostavka visual fixes & improvements
- Aries boost animation for all 4 engines
Weapons
- Some further balancing and upgrade options
World
- Wreck 4 polishing
UI
- Outer Space radiation warning
- Device Tooltips
- Weapon upgrade HUD improvements
- Change the Ship Hold key to X
- The cargo tooltip description size is now dynamic
- Crash Course: Quest-target item counter improvements
- Cargo-sorting improvements for devices and thrusters
Portraits
- A lot of polishing and updated backgrounds
- More random NPC variations
- Sphere & J-12 military portraits added to random portraits
- J-12 portrait randomizer refined – how it works now:
- pick gender
- pick base portrait
- pick variations (if available)
Sound
- Overall FX volume balancing and corrections
- Assignment corrections
Performance
- Save a separate info file for savegames (improves load performance)
- Savegames: Equipped weapon quality resets
- Double dialog bugs with the back button
- Rookie trade mission can delete the Pilot mission person
- Pilot trade missions are broken
- Zooming in/out of Map mode shows out of radar range sprites for 1 frame
- Player loses camera link when moving before camera target animation is finished
- 'A Letter for Jurgen' can now be finished at Xiao (FINALLY!)
- If the Character HUD is open the game crashes rarely when gaining XP
- Ship Is_Friendly() can crash
- Noob player-lock doesn't work anymore if you talk to another ship while locked
- Savegame size reduced a little bit
- After finishing Scheherazade Embargo, people on that station talk again
- A lot of cargo types had no light emitters assigned
- Some emitter time to live fixes
- Ship Trade HUD: Crafting: flickering when hovering a craft requirement icon
- Ship Trade HUD: random stray craft requirement icon at the top left
- Ship Trade HUD: ship name is over the ship render and can block icon tooltips (e.g. with Guardian)
- Landing sound appears to be "next to" Player (should be centered)
- Reduce the projectile hit sound max distance
- Ship engine volume is out of range when boosted
- Dostavka XP values (loaded/unloaded version) were swapped
- Physical shield damage should not be transferred over to the hull (H3L10S)
- Dialog pause with cam move can hide the player ship
- Weapon tooltip: comparing laser damage with a bullet type should use the dps
- Weapon tooltip: do not compare speed with lasers
- Weapon tooltip: do not show speed_initial_max when it's the same as speed_initial_min
- Weapon tooltip: compare initial speed (min/max) as one block
- Inventory HUD: Ship Landing/Leaving alpha should not be used
- Inventory HUD: Ship add_drawables positioned incorrectly
- Landable HUD: emitter rotation is based on in-space rotation
- The weapon tooltip data entry spacing for turret vs non-turret is off
- Don't start a FoW reveal for ships (only stations)
- Devices and shields don't use cargo emitters
- Cooldown HUD: Item counter is not shown if the new amount is over the max amount
- Ben Lilly: Wrong credits amount is shown when selling trash
- Don't draw lasers if out of radar range
- start_angular_vel is not set (stations/turrets do not constantly rotate)
- Error report: data/pixmaps/location_images/placeholder.settings.dds does not exist
- Shield pos is not set as collision offset
- Ship hull regen could go a little bit over max hull
- Correctly error log the json line number for large files
- Auxilium's restocking weapons should not have random quality
- Savegame Menu: Remove logger warning "Load_From_File: No Savegame found ..." if the "New Savegame" entry is selected
- Logging: Show if the person doesn't exist with the "Could not create Person" error messages
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