Oct 28, 2014

Kinetic Void - Kris

* New Galaxy Required.

*This patch moves the game from Unity 4.5 to Unity version 5. This is a major engine update that, among other changes, includes a new PhysX version. While this should improve performance, it also changed some physics behaviors. Please keep an eye out for bugs that may be related to the physics engine.

*Due to the extent of changes this patch all ships will need to be remade. This should mostly be subsystem management using the new manager, however any weapons currently being used that are larger than tier 1 they will need to be repositioned as they have grown in size considerably.

Added

Tutorials! We have added tutorials to Stations and Sector space, they will come up by default to begin with, but you can tell them not to pop up again. If you do and want them to come up again you can reset them in the options on the game tab.
Capacitor System: power leftover on the reactor that is not taken up by installed systems’ power requirements is now put into an energy pool that powers the ship’s various systems. In space, a yellow bar and text label display the current energy level. Weapons now have an energy per shot cost. Reactors now have a recharge rate stat, and a new subsystem call a Recharger can boost this. More systems will be tied into the capacitor in future updates.
We have selected the first Community created ship to be included in the base game. It's a variant of the Vagrant fighter created by community member wExx. We had to make a couple minor changes to it but overall it was a great design. We will be looking for more to add in the future.
Subsystem manager is now online, all ships will configure and control their subsystems through this new interface. It is access the same way as before, right click on a module and select Subsystems. This new interface will allow users to quickly equip and make changes to their ship no matter how large it is.
There is now a new kind of subsystem called a Controller, it determines how many hardpoints, active, and passive systems your ship can equip. It is a required component and is limited to one per ship.
Active abilities: ships can now equip active abilities that use capacitor energy. The number of abilities that the player can equip is limited by the ship’s controller. Example abilities: Hull Repair: capacitor energy is used to slowly recover hull damage. Power Siphon: the current enemy target has some of their capacitor energy siphoned into your energy pool. Warp Disrupt: all ships within a certain distance of you are unable to warp.
Added confirmation to Main Menu button while in a loaded galaxy
Added confirmation to exit game while in a loaded galaxy
Added docking lights to indicate where the docking point on all stations are. Some stations have multiple docking points now.
Trail renders to engine ports, they are not finished and need to be changed still.
Sector menu now has a return to game button
Sector Log functionality added for logging General, Faction, Mission, Economic information happening in the game. Messages that will be displayed in the Sector Log will expose some previously hidden elements of the faction and economy simulations to the player. Additional information and variety will be added soon.
Players with high enough of standings can now join a faction. This is done under the Faction Window up at the top right by the close button. If you have high enough standings you will see a button there saying you may join that faction.
Added a bounty system so when you are in a friendly system and destroy a ship that is hostile with the current system owner you will receive a bounty based off a percentage of the base value of the ship destroyed.
Left Shift functionality to Store/Inventory windows. When you click on an item it will select all of said item. When you left shift + click on an item you will get a selection box popup asking how many you with to select. The selection box arrows will work with single clicks and when clicked and held the count will increase with speed.
Added warning when you are about to destroy an item in inventories.
Made the Module Size Selector in Shipyard left/right click independent. So Left click will increase module size, Right click with decrease module size.
Right Clicking on Asteroids or Wreckage now have a action option Mining for asteroids and Salvaging for wreckage. If you have the appropriate weapon equipped it will begin the process. Otherwise it will just lock onto the target so you can send potential drones at it.
When deselecting a target it will now check to see if that target is hostile to the player or not. If there is no hostility the icon will revert back to it’s default color.
With a selected Target that is already locked on to, if you press [] it will assign that target to all weapons. This works for weapons it both defense and offense modes.
Added in Weapon Mode Toggle Button/Keybinding. Weapon Mode Toggle starts in the Defense Mode (Green Icon) and toggled to Offensive Mode (Red Icon). The [] will also cause this toggle to happen.
Collision avoidance while warping: while the player is warping, the ship will attempt to cancel warp if an obstacle comes directly into the player’s path.
Added docking lights to indicate where the docking point on all stations are. Some stations have multiple docking points now.

Check out the rest of the Change Log in the thread here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/227160/discussions/11/619569608763299926/

Oct 28, 2014

Patch D15 is Live!

Kinetic Void - Demthios

Tutorials! We have added tutorials to Stations and Sector space, they will come up by default to begin with, but you can tell them not to pop up again. If you do and want them to come up again you can reset them in the options on the game tab.
Capacitor System: power leftover on the reactor that is not taken up by installed systems’ power requirements is now put into an energy pool that powers the ship’s various systems. In space, a yellow bar and text label display the current energy level. Weapons now have an energy per shot cost. Reactors now have a recharge rate stat, and a new subsystem call a Recharger can boost this. More systems will be tied into the capacitor in future updates.
We have selected the first Community created ship to be included in the base game. It's a variant of the Vagrant fighter created by community member wExx. We had to make a couple minor changes to it but overall it was a great design. We will be looking for more to add in the future.
Subsystem manager is now online, all ships will configure and control their subsystems through this new interface. It is access the same way as before, right click on a module and select Subsystems. This new interface will allow users to quickly equip and make changes to their ship no matter how large it is.
There is now a new kind of subsystem called a Controller, it determines how many hardpoints, active, and passive systems your ship can equip. It is a required component and is limited to one per ship.
Active abilities: ships can now equip active abilities that use capacitor energy. The number of abilities that the player can equip is limited by the ship’s controller. Example abilities: Hull Repair: capacitor energy is used to slowly recover hull damage. Power Siphon: the current enemy target has some of their capacitor energy siphoned into your energy pool. Warp Disrupt: all ships within a certain distance of you are unable to warp.
Added confirmation to Main Menu button while in a loaded galaxy
Added confirmation to exit game while in a loaded galaxy
Added docking lights to indicate where the docking point on all stations are. Some stations have multiple docking points now.
Trail renders to engine ports, they are not finished and need to be changed still.
Sector menu now has a return to game button
Sector Log functionality added for logging General, Faction, Mission, Economic information happening in the game. Messages that will be displayed in the Sector Log will expose some previously hidden elements of the faction and economy simulations to the player. Additional information and variety will be added soon.
Players with high enough of standings can now join a faction. This is done under the Faction Window up at the top right by the close button. If you have high enough standings you will see a button there saying you may join that faction.
Added a bounty system so when you are in a friendly system and destroy a ship that is hostile with the current system owner you will receive a bounty based off a percentage of the base value of the ship destroyed.
Left Shift functionality to Store/Inventory windows. When you click on an item it will select all of said item. When you left shift + click on an item you will get a selection box popup asking how many you with to select. The selection box arrows will work with single clicks and when clicked and held the count will increase with speed.
Added warning when you are about to destroy an item in inventories.
Made the Module Size Selector in Shipyard left/right click independent. So Left click will increase module size, Right click with decrease module size.
Right Clicking on Asteroids or Wreckage now have a action option Mining for asteroids and Salvaging for wreckage. If you have the appropriate weapon equipped it will begin the process. Otherwise it will just lock onto the target so you can send potential drones at it.
When deselecting a target it will now check to see if that target is hostile to the player or not. If there is no hostility the icon will revert back to it’s default color.
With a selected Target that is already locked on to, if you press [] it will assign that target to all weapons. This works for weapons it both defense and offense modes.
Added in Weapon Mode Toggle Button/Keybinding. Weapon Mode Toggle starts in the Defense Mode (Green Icon) and toggled to Offensive Mode (Red Icon). The [] will also cause this toggle to happen.
Collision avoidance while warping: while the player is warping, the ship will attempt to cancel warp if an obstacle comes directly into the player’s path.
Added docking lights to indicate where the docking point on all stations are. Some stations have multiple docking points now.

Check out the rest of the Change Log in the thread here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/227160/discussions/11/619569608763299926/

Oct 24, 2014

D15.d Test build Patch notes

Kinetic Void - LumberingTroll

To get access to the test build please read the instructions here:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/227160/discussions/10/648817378234792008/

Due to the extent of changes this patch all ships will need to be remade. This should mostly be subsystem management using the new manager, however any weapons currently being used that are larger than tier 1 they will need to be re-positioned as they have grown in size considerably. Be sure to create a new galaxy as well.

The workshop will be wiped on November 3rd. This is for many reasons but mainly because the major changes to subsystems have made all previously made designs non-functional . Please be sure to download any designs you like before the wipe happens. These downloaded ships will not be deleted from your install, but they will need to be updated in order to launch.

It is our intention to push this build to the non test repository on Monday Oct 27th. If you find any issues please be sure to post in the Deb Build bug report forum on the community hub.

If you have any issues with controls please be sure to reset the controls to defaults, we did some updates to the controls manager.

Bug thread: http://steamcommunity.com/app/227160/discussions/10/619569608519939818/

The workshop will be wiped on November 3rd. This is for many reasons but mainly because the major changes to subsystems have made all previously made designs non-functional . Please be sure to download any designs you like before the wipe happens. These downloaded ships will not be deleted from your install, but they will need to be updated in order to launch.

D15.Something Dev Patch

Added

Tutorials! We have added tutorials to Stations and Sector space, they will come up by default to begin with, but you can tell them not to pop up again. If you do and want them to come up again you can reset them in the options on the game tab.
Capacitor System: power leftover on the reactor that is not taken up by installed systems’ power requirements is now put into an energy pool that powers the ship’s various systems. In space, a yellow bar and text label display the current energy level. Weapons now have an energy per shot cost. Reactors now have a recharge rate stat, and a new subsystem call a Recharger can boost this. More systems will be tied into the capacitor in future updates.
We have selected the first Community created ship to be included in the base game. It's a variant of the Vagrant fighter created by community member wExx. We had to make a couple minor changes to it but overall it was a great design. We will be looking for more to add in the future.
Subsystem manager is now online, all ships will configure and control their subsystems through this new interface. It is access the same way as before, right click on a module and select Subsystems. This new interface will allow users to quickly equip and make changes to their ship no matter how large it is.
There is now a new kind of subsystem called a Controller, it determines how many hardpoints, active, and passive systems your ship can equip. It is a required component and is limited to one per ship.
Active abilities: ships can now equip active abilities that use capacitor energy. The number of abilities that the player can equip is limited by the ship’s controller. Example abilities: Hull Repair: capacitor energy is used to slowly recover hull damage. Power Siphon: the current enemy target has some of their capacitor energy siphoned into your energy pool. Warp Disrupt: all ships within a certain distance of you are unable to warp.
Added confirmation to Main Menu button while in a loaded galaxy
Added confirmation to exit game while in a loaded galaxy
Collision avoidance while warping: while the player is warping, the ship will attempt to cancel warp if an obstacle comes directly into the player’s path.
Added docking lights to indicate where the docking point on all stations are. Some stations have multiple docking points now.
Trail renders to engine ports, they are not finished and need to be changed still.
Sector menu now has a return to game button

Changed

Increased planet size
Increased the scaling size of all weapons and hardpoints beginning at Tier 2+
Quadrupled the power output of all reactors
Reduced the fire-range of all weapons by about 40%.
Many adjustments to the scaling factors of all modules between tiers, the range should not be nearly as great now.
Reactors are now limited to a single subsystem per ship.
Sensors are now limited to a single subsystem per ship.
KFGs are now limited to a single subsystem per ship.
When dealing with inventory the default move / buy / sell amount is 1, holding shift will prompt for amount.
Changed filter wording of size to tier to be consistent with design and implementation
Removed some unused fields from the sensor info fly-out.
Planet textures have had an overhaul and should look much better.
Asteroid textures have been updated to accept lighting better.
Reduced tool-tip delay to 0.2 seconds
Dock at station prompt now has a decline button
Adjusted the zoom rates for larger ships while in sector space.

Fixed

The scrolling issue in the Store when attempting to scroll over modules.
Fixed an error with the sound settings when returning back to the main menu.
Ships that are out of date will no longer be spawned by the AI.
Fixed many issues with the controls options menu.
Fixed audio settings being ignored when loading a new game from main menu
Clamped the range of brightness that sector stars can have so that the scene is not washed out.
Faction standings window now has properly working scroll bars.
[] now opens the inventory in sector space
Control inputs are now properly accepting keys for the mouse mode field again.
Cursor mode roll keys are no longer reversed by default
If only one group of drones are deployed it is now possible to deselect them
Drone Command groups now expand vertically.
Inventory quantities should now update properly while mining
Inventory filters for trade goods are now working properly again.

Oct 24, 2014

D15.d Test build Patch notes

Kinetic Void - LumberingTroll

D15.Something Dev Patch

Added

Tutorials! We have added tutorials to Stations and Sector space, they will come up by default to begin with, but you can tell them not to pop up again. If you do and want them to come up again you can reset them in the options on the game tab.
Capacitor System: power leftover on the reactor that is not taken up by installed systems’ power requirements is now put into an energy pool that powers the ship’s various systems. In space, a yellow bar and text label display the current energy level. Weapons now have an energy per shot cost. Reactors now have a recharge rate stat, and a new subsystem call a Recharger can boost this. More systems will be tied into the capacitor in future updates.
We have selected the first Community created ship to be included in the base game. It's a variant of the Vagrant fighter created by community member wExx. We had to make a couple minor changes to it but overall it was a great design. We will be looking for more to add in the future.
Subsystem manager is now online, all ships will configure and control their subsystems through this new interface. It is access the same way as before, right click on a module and select Subsystems. This new interface will allow users to quickly equip and make changes to their ship no matter how large it is.
There is now a new kind of subsystem called a Controller, it determines how many hardpoints, active, and passive systems your ship can equip. It is a required component and is limited to one per ship.
Active abilities: ships can now equip active abilities that use capacitor energy. The number of abilities that the player can equip is limited by the ship’s controller. Example abilities: Hull Repair: capacitor energy is used to slowly recover hull damage. Power Siphon: the current enemy target has some of their capacitor energy siphoned into your energy pool. Warp Disrupt: all ships within a certain distance of you are unable to warp.
Added confirmation to Main Menu button while in a loaded galaxy
Added confirmation to exit game while in a loaded galaxy
Collision avoidance while warping: while the player is warping, the ship will attempt to cancel warp if an obstacle comes directly into the player’s path.
Added docking lights to indicate where the docking point on all stations are. Some stations have multiple docking points now.
Trail renders to engine ports, they are not finished and need to be changed still.
Sector menu now has a return to game button

Changed

Increased planet size
Increased the scaling size of all weapons and hardpoints beginning at Tier 2+
Quadrupled the power output of all reactors
Reduced the fire-range of all weapons by about 40%.
Many adjustments to the scaling factors of all modules between tiers, the range should not be nearly as great now.
Reactors are now limited to a single subsystem per ship.
Sensors are now limited to a single subsystem per ship.
KFGs are now limited to a single subsystem per ship.
When dealing with inventory the default move / buy / sell amount is 1, holding shift will prompt for amount.
Changed filter wording of size to tier to be consistent with design and implementation
Removed some unused fields from the sensor info fly-out.
Planet textures have had an overhaul and should look much better.
Asteroid textures have been updated to accept lighting better.
Reduced tool-tip delay to 0.2 seconds
Dock at station prompt now has a decline button
Adjusted the zoom rates for larger ships while in sector space.

Fixed

The scrolling issue in the Store when attempting to scroll over modules.
Fixed an error with the sound settings when returning back to the main menu.
Ships that are out of date will no longer be spawned by the AI.
Fixed many issues with the controls options menu.
Fixed audio settings being ignored when loading a new game from main menu
Clamped the range of brightness that sector stars can have so that the scene is not washed out.
Faction standings window now has properly working scroll bars.
[] now opens the inventory in sector space
Control inputs are now properly accepting keys for the mouse mode field again.
Cursor mode roll keys are no longer reversed by default
If only one group of drones are deployed it is now possible to deselect them
Drone Command groups now expand vertically.
Inventory quantities should now update properly while mining
Inventory filters for trade goods are now working properly again.

Sep 24, 2014

D15.b Dev Patch

Kinetic Void - Kris

This patch moves the game from Unity 4.5 to Unity version 5. This is a major engine update that, among other changes, includes a new PhysX version. While this should improve performance, it also changed some physics behaviors. Please keep an eye out for bugs that may be related to the physics engine.
**New Galaxy Required.

Added

64bit build options are available now.
Sector Log functionality added for logging General, Faction, Mission, Economic information happening in the game. This will be expanded upon later on in the development.
Players with high enough of standings can now join a faction. This is done under the Faction Window up at the top right by the close button. If you have high enough standings you will see a button there saying you may join that faction.

Changed

Game is now using Unity 5.
AI ships now have a warp bubble effect around them when they warp.
AI ships will now visibly travel to planets, stations, and warp gates. Ships that arrive at warp gates and stations will queue up and proceed to dock/warp.
Various improvements and fixes to AI behavior.
The player starts out neutral to all factions (requires new galaxy).
Adjusted AI for Turrets with Thermal Weapons.
Adjusted Mining Lasers, so that larger weapons will yield more resources now. As well changed the damage model that they are using, should take longer to mine an asteroid now than before which will allow more resources to be yielded.
Reduced the rate that durability and shields scale at by a factor of 2, this should make them a little more vulnerable to lower tier weapons. The best counter however is to use an appropriately tiered weapon.
Converted two Kinetic and one Beam weapon to fire Electromagnetic damage.
Kinetic Fields now take triple damage from Electromagnetic sources.
In Shipyard, hull resists are now displayed under the general ship stats panel.

Fixed

Auto align before warping should no longer just hang infinitely.
Steamworks support for MacOSX & Linux not working.
Fixed an alignment issue where parts placed on the front starting cube would flip 180 degrees.
The resistances displayed in the ship stats panel now properly shows the diminishing returns applied to them during gameplay.

Sep 24, 2014

D15.b Dev Patch

Kinetic Void - Demthios

64bit build options are available now.
Sector Log functionality added for logging General, Faction, Mission, Economic information happening in the game. This will be expanded upon later on in the development.
Players with high enough of standings can now join a faction. This is done under the Faction Window up at the top right by the close button. If you have high enough standings you will see a button there saying you may join that faction.

Changed

Game is now using Unity 5.
AI ships now have a warp bubble effect around them when they warp.
AI ships will now visibly travel to planets, stations, and warp gates. Ships that arrive at warp gates and stations will queue up and proceed to dock/warp.
Various improvements and fixes to AI behavior.
The player starts out neutral to all factions (requires new galaxy).
Adjusted AI for Turrets with Thermal Weapons.
Adjusted Mining Lasers, so that larger weapons will yield more resources now. As well changed the damage model that they are using, should take longer to mine an asteroid now than before which will allow more resources to be yielded.
Reduced the rate that durability and shields scale at by a factor of 2, this should make them a little more vulnerable to lower tier weapons. The best counter however is to use an appropriately tiered weapon.
Converted two Kinetic and one Beam weapon to fire Electromagnetic damage.
Kinetic Fields now take triple damage from Electromagnetic sources.
In Shipyard, hull resists are now displayed under the general ship stats panel.

Fixed

Auto align before warping should no longer just hang infinitely.
Steamworks support for MacOSX & Linux not working.
Fixed an alignment issue where parts placed on the front starting cube would flip 180 degrees.
The resistances displayed in the ship stats panel now properly shows the diminishing returns applied to them during gameplay.