Sep 14, 2017

Avorion - Koonschi

This update is now available on the beta branch!

Added more tips about fighters to loading screen
Added an icon for fighter factory

Balancing

"Fighters shouldn't cost as much as an entire ship, so we reduced both the material prices for production and the normal costs of fighters."

Drastically reduced material costs of fighters
Reduced impact of velocity and size on fighter prices

Bugfixes

"Bug reports by users are, as always, marked with [UBR]. Thank you guys for helping, testing and contributing. Keep it up!"

[UBR] Fixed several performance issues in hangar when lots of productions are active
[UBR] Fixed an issue that led to durability of fighters degrading
[UBR] Fixed stolen cargo being picked up even though cargo bay is configured otherwise
[UBR] Fixed dumped cargo rotating strangely
Fixed a crash in fighter factory
[UBR] Fixed inventory selection item highlights sometimes being white boxes in fighter factory

Sep 14, 2017

Fighter Update Patch 2

Avorion - Koonschi

This update is now available on the beta branch!

Added more tips about fighters to loading screen
Added an icon for fighter factory

Balancing

"Fighters shouldn't cost as much as an entire ship, so we reduced both the material prices for production and the normal costs of fighters."

Drastically reduced material costs of fighters
Reduced impact of velocity and size on fighter prices

Bugfixes

"Bug reports by users are, as always, marked with [UBR]. Thank you guys for helping, testing and contributing. Keep it up!"

[UBR] Fixed several performance issues in hangar when lots of productions are active
[UBR] Fixed an issue that led to durability of fighters degrading
[UBR] Fixed stolen cargo being picked up even though cargo bay is configured otherwise
[UBR] Fixed dumped cargo rotating strangely
Fixed a crash in fighter factory
[UBR] Fixed inventory selection item highlights sometimes being white boxes in fighter factory

Sep 12, 2017

Patch 0.14 Patchnotes: Fighter Update

Avorion - Koonschi

The patch is now available on the beta branch!

Fighter Rework

Fighters can now be produced in the hangar

Assembly blocks provide a production capacity per second (details see below)
Fighters require a certain production effort to be produced
A fighter with a required production effort of 20000 takes 100 seconds on a ship with a production capacity of 200 per second
A fighter will always take at least 60 seconds to be produced

Fighters can be assigned as a blueprint to a squad for production

This will destroy the fighter and enable production for the squad

Fighter production costs materials
Fighter pilots have a high chance of ejecting into space when their fighter is destoyed (95%+)

Higher level fighter pilots have a higher chance of ejecting (and thus survival)
Ejected pilots can be collected like loot

Added a new Assembly Block that speeds up the production of fighters

Higher material assembly blocks provide more production capacity
Higher level assembly blocks enable more simultaneous productions of fighters
But: For 2 simultaneous productions at least 2 assembly blocks are required (and so on)
Maximum number of simultaneous productions is 5

Fighters now dodge shots whenever they would be hit

Every fighter has 3 dodges per minute and 1 for every professionality level of their pilot
When a fighter dodges, it becomes invulnerable to shots for 1 second
When all dodges are used up, fighters have a 30% chance (+10% per pilot level, max 50%) of dodging shots
Fighters do sick loops and barrel rolls when they dodge a shot

Fighter Factory

You can now design your own fighters at a fighter factory
Combine a plan with 200 or less blocks (WIP, we might change that number later on) with a turret to get a fighter
Fighters will deal 30% of the damage that the turret dealt and take over all other stats of the turret (except for independent targeting)
Fighter stats can be assigned with + and - buttons
The amount of points available for the fighter depends on the rarity of the turret that was used
Depending on the used material, fighters will get boosts in several areas
Fighter Factories will spawn in newly generated sectors

Gameplay

Hangar now shows the amount of deployed fighters
No more fighters can be added to a squad if the squad is full and deployed
Added sounds for debris effects from last update
Fighters can now be transferred between ships
AI controlled ships only deploy fighters that match the target (miners for asteroids, etc.)

Balancing

"Before, fighters were very easy to destroy, so we let them deal as much damage as normal turrets. Now, since fighters are a lot harder to kill and a lot easier to obtain (and maintain!) we think their damage should be reduced."

Reduced firepower of combat fighters by 70%
Reduced mining DPS of fighters by 50%
Reduced prices of force turrets
Turret factory spawns more often

Server

"These are some of the first PvP configuration options that we want to offer server administrators. More will follow over time."

Added a configurable maximum limit of deployed fighters per player/alliance and sector

Scripting API

Entity can now also be created with strings that contain uuids
Added a custom SelectionItem that can be used in UI selections
Added an interface to FighterAI component to access current target, squad, orders and mothership of a fighter
Added an interface to FighterController component to access squad orders
Added a FighterOrders enum
Added a WeaponCategory enum

Bugfixes

"As usual, bug reports that were submitted by users are marked with [UBR]. Thank you for reporting and keep it up, everyone!"

Fixed a rare crash when some entities get deleted
Fixed a crash/hang in delivery mission
[UBR] Factions that are at war with players and that would attack anyways will no longer scan for stolen cargo
[UBR] Factions that are at war with each other send less traders into enemy territory
[UBR] Fixed cargo UI showing cargo with an amount of zero
[UBR] Fixed insurance paying when station founders are transformed into a station
[UBR] Fixed a few turret duping issues
[UBR] Added missing RCON config to server.ini
[UBR] Added missing script background threads config to server.ini
[UBR] Fixed quick spinning of ship after loading screen
[UBR] Fixed loading screen hanging after pressing space
[UBR] Fixed Xsotan AI inaggressive in some cases
[UBR] Fixed hangar shields not being scaled when scaling whole ship in building mode
[UBR] Fixed crew transfer gui showing wrong numbers after transferring crew
[UBR] Fixed Habitat, Casino and Biotope missing from trading overview
[UBR] Changed screenshot filenames to the same format as Steam
[UBR] Fixed fighters flying away instead of staying with the mothership when circling or defending

Sep 12, 2017

Patch 0.14 Patchnotes: Fighter Update

Avorion - Koonschi

The patch is now available on the beta branch!

Fighter Rework

Fighters can now be produced in the hangar

Assembly blocks provide a production capacity per second (details see below)
Fighters require a certain production effort to be produced
A fighter with a required production effort of 20000 takes 100 seconds on a ship with a production capacity of 200 per second
A fighter will always take at least 60 seconds to be produced

Fighters can be assigned as a blueprint to a squad for production

This will destroy the fighter and enable production for the squad

Fighter production costs materials
Fighter pilots have a high chance of ejecting into space when their fighter is destoyed (95%+)

Higher level fighter pilots have a higher chance of ejecting (and thus survival)
Ejected pilots can be collected like loot

Added a new Assembly Block that speeds up the production of fighters

Higher material assembly blocks provide more production capacity
Higher level assembly blocks enable more simultaneous productions of fighters
But: For 2 simultaneous productions at least 2 assembly blocks are required (and so on)
Maximum number of simultaneous productions is 5

Fighters now dodge shots whenever they would be hit

Every fighter has 3 dodges per minute and 1 for every professionality level of their pilot
When a fighter dodges, it becomes invulnerable to shots for 1 second
When all dodges are used up, fighters have a 30% chance (+10% per pilot level, max 50%) of dodging shots
Fighters do sick loops and barrel rolls when they dodge a shot

Fighter Factory

You can now design your own fighters at a fighter factory
Combine a plan with 200 or less blocks (WIP, we might change that number later on) with a turret to get a fighter
Fighters will deal 30% of the damage that the turret dealt and take over all other stats of the turret (except for independent targeting)
Fighter stats can be assigned with + and - buttons
The amount of points available for the fighter depends on the rarity of the turret that was used
Depending on the used material, fighters will get boosts in several areas
Fighter Factories will spawn in newly generated sectors

Gameplay

Hangar now shows the amount of deployed fighters
No more fighters can be added to a squad if the squad is full and deployed
Added sounds for debris effects from last update
Fighters can now be transferred between ships
AI controlled ships only deploy fighters that match the target (miners for asteroids, etc.)

Balancing

Reduced firepower of combat fighters by 70%
Reduced mining DPS of fighters by 50%
Reduced prices of force turrets
Turret factory spawns more often

Server

"These are some of the first PvP configuration options that we want to offer server administrators. More will follow over time."

Added a configurable maximum limit of deployed fighters per player/alliance and sector

Scripting API

Entity can now also be created with strings that contain uuids
Added a custom SelectionItem that can be used in UI selections
Added an interface to FighterAI component to access current target, squad, orders and mothership of a fighter
Added an interface to FighterController component to access squad orders
Added a FighterOrders enum
Added a WeaponCategory enum

Bugfixes

"As usual, bug reports that were submitted by users are marked with [UBR]. Thank you for reporting and keep it up, everyone!"

Fixed a rare crash when some entities get deleted
Fixed a crash/hang in delivery mission
[UBR] Factions that are at war with players and that would attack anyways will no longer scan for stolen cargo
[UBR] Factions that are at war with each other send less traders into enemy territory
[UBR] Fixed cargo UI showing cargo with an amount of zero
[UBR] Fixed insurance paying when station founders are transformed into a station
[UBR] Fixed a few turret duping issues
[UBR] Added missing RCON config to server.ini
[UBR] Added missing script background threads config to server.ini
[UBR] Fixed quick spinning of ship after loading screen
[UBR] Fixed loading screen hanging after pressing space
[UBR] Fixed Xsotan AI inaggressive in some cases
[UBR] Fixed hangar shields not being scaled when scaling whole ship in building mode
[UBR] Fixed crew transfer gui showing wrong numbers after transferring crew
[UBR] Fixed Habitat, Casino and Biotope missing from trading overview
[UBR] Changed screenshot filenames to the same format as Steam
[UBR] Fixed fighters flying away instead of staying with the mothership when circling or defending