Hotfix v0.571

• Craftable vehicle "The Spinner," is back in-game! Craft a Landing Pad for your Land Claim to enable vehicle crafting options. Make use of the Mine and Iron Refinery located in major shires to craft this vehicle. Can also be outfitted with a Booster Drive for long distance travel!
• Several fixes for weather and fog not removing properly when leaving a planet.
• Bug fix for Fuel storage in vehicles, occasionally causing the vehicle to revert to no fuel.
• Revised third person camera for Land Vehicles.
• Beta Prairie Water detail increased.

Game Update v0.570

This update has not required a database wipe.

Land Vehicles
• New physics system for all Land Vehicles.The system uses wheel colliders that now work as intended on planets. This is a big step up, the wheel colliders allow much more precise control and allow rolling up gutters and other steps.
• Also some modifications to Land Vehicle meshes.
• Some improvements to Headlights in Land Vehicles and also implemented being able to toggle lights with L key.
• Improved tire smoke effects in vehicles.

Air Vehicles
• Air Vehicle Waypoints: Vehicle waypoints show with player name, if the ignition is on. While on planet they are visible from 15km and in space visible for 500km (requires network testing).
• Networked speed better in ships and ensure the correct FX are playing for all passengers.
• Thruster changes according to networked speed.
• Booster starts and turns off for all passengers.
• Burn up FX starts and turns off for all passengers.
• Camera shake turns on and off for all passengers.
• Added culling distance to vehicles to ensure FX code isnt running on vehicles in other locations.
• Adjusted simulation speed on all thrusters to reduce flickering when travelling at a decent speed.
• Fixed an issue where pre warp fx would not disable if the player exits boost mode before its ready.
• Bug fix with air vehicle thrusters not displaying on network.

Misc
• Weather enabled properly on Janson and Beta Prairie. This is a first pass on weather which will become more advanced in time. It has a chance to change Weather States on the network every 8 mins. Clear Sky more common than foggy or rain/blizzards. Can all be tweaked to perfection over time!
• Waypoints added to every planet-side ferry port throughout the system. For planets they activate at 100km, and moons 50km.
• Issue with global loot and storage containers storing the wrong value is resolved.
• Fix for Janson Frigate Mission Waypoint
• Foliage optimization - checkbox added to foliage data to disable specific foliage not to load when flying eg grass and stones.
• Tigon jungle audio loop added.
• Updated Network API to latest version.

Hotfix v0.569

• Improved squashed damage detection. At least one of the colliding objects must be moving and getting closer to player's center point.
• Resolved Collider issue on Janson Trees
• Increased collider activation distance in Janson's crystals.
• Tigon ground material less reflective.
• Reduced Rover speed.
• The Marshall: Hull mesh and UVs adjustments. Layout fixes throughout the whole ship.


Game Update v0.568

This update has required a database wipe.

Environment
• Janson rotated 90 degrees as well as Janson Orbital Station, due to Tutorial players having difficulties locating Tigon when exiting the atmosphere.
• Janson Ferry Adjustments, due to the new station position the Ferry enters and exits from the hangar facing the planet now. Landing and Takeoff nodes have been rotated 180 degrees to ensure no weirdness when landing and taking off.
• Bootleggers Camp- Added colliders that were missing to wood benches, swapped out a floor so ground litter does not appear to be floating, added a bench to sit on.
• The Marshall: props, NPCs, Mech's, layout and collision fixes, hull mesh adjustments.
• Beta Prairie Procedural Villages: Added missing colliders to tin benches at Well POI.
• Artificial gravity adjustments in Titan.
• New music in Orbital station.
• Further enhancements to Delta Outpost on Janson.
• Little Lakes Fixes: Missing colliders on wood benches, campfire grill aligned with tri-pod for one of the cabins.
• Orbital: Collisions and layout adjustments, also fixed some broken NPCs.
• Fixed some errors in Janson Procedural Villages
• Exchange removed on Tigon, replaced with Mercantile Tower
• Fixed foliage billboard and fade issues on Janson

Tutorial
• Secondary Mission 'Ship Service' disabled if you die or log out, so the player can receive again when progressing through tutorial.
• Added tool-tip when exiting to 0G in Titan and removed that same tool-tip from Ferry.
• Tutorial vehicles now expire in 2 hours of inactivity instead of 10 minutes

Vehicles
• Created TigonFrigate to replaced TigonFighter for the Abandoned Hangar section of the tutorial.
• Speed adjustments to Rovers and some small optimizations.
• Fixed player being able to go to pilot seat while sleeping (thus breaking stuff).

Misc
• Implemented squash damage, for example, when you are squashed by an elevator.
• Music optimizations.
• Changes to some audio settings.
• Fixed issues with ship bullets that would slowdown and get slower than the ship itself.
• Oxygen damage while respawning should be resolved
• Foliage spawn code changed to take planets rotation into account when calculating a position
• Resolved Janson foliage bug where certain foliage would disappear

Hotfix v0.567

• AI frequency reduced on Janson
• Mine and Shire POIs added to Tigon
• Concrete pieces around Grafton removed


Game Update v0.566

This update has not required a database wipe.

UI
• Flaw resolved in crafting system where it would only read from the first stack of items found, which caused complications with non stackable items and items split within multiple stacks
• Amount required per item added to crafting window
• Fixed some cases where new UI code stopped responding after recent performance measures.
• Foliage view distance sliders : decreased max distance on Horizon and Far Distances which were a lot higher than actually required.

Environment
• Delta Outpost upgraded with a Mine and Refinery plus several new roads
• Procedural villages added to Janson to replace the existing small POIs which loaded in randomly.
• Grafton, Delta Shire - several fixes and cleanup in this town.
• Grave stones added behind Redberry church

Misc
• All NPC colliders adjusted ingame. Also NPC colliders are adjusted automatically depending on if they are standing by or sit down.
• Fix for bug where the player would not be able to jump sometimes. It happened because player would remain in a permanent jump state if hitting something while jumping and never leaving the ground.

Game Update v0.565

This update has not required a database wipe.

• Huge optimizations in UI code which was overloading resources in several areas.
• Big performance fix for dedicated server which was loading some art that it shouldn't have!
• Bug resolved when passengers were exiting a vehicle, which was causing other players still inside the vehicle to freeze.
• New titan bridge added
• Various item adjustments, plus new food items added.
• Fix for ship moving when getting out of seat while ignition is off.
• Fix for passenger not being able to get back in after getting out of vehicle.
• Fixed cloth and hair issues on remote players.
• Fix for player weapon not disabling properly on large distances.
• Fixed horse animation issues over the network.

Game Update v0.562

This update has not required a database wipe.

Performance
• Enabled OpenGL as secondary API to try to deal with those that have issues with AMD GPUs.
• Culling system for Atmospheres and other space related FX added.
• Player hair and clothing optimizations.
• Voice Chat Optimizations
• UI optimizations (more arriving in a hotfix tomorrow!)

UI
• Lots of bug fixes and cleanup in the various Inventory windows (incl. mission, stats, clan, etc)
• New window style added for Inventory windows
• All windows allow dragging via the header
• Several broken recipes fixed

Horse
• Changed stamina depletion and recharging rate.
• After stamina depleted, the horse will only be able to run again after recovering 5% of it.
• Inverted rotation when walking backwards.
• Added more animations.
• Improved transitions between animations.

Misc
• Increased size of crystals in Janson.
• Increased cold damage at 50% protection to match hazard damage.
• Several improvements to sleeping bag: now it highlights when looking at it and it doesn't show the loading icon if you try to interact with it when you are not tired.
• Fixed some items in Redberry spaceport that had duplicated colliders.
• Subtle adjustments to camera position in Rovers.
• Trawler and Forest roach now several times larger

Hotfix v0.561

Keybinding
• Default action key changed to [F] to avoid clashing with zero-gravity controls.
• 'Hold [E] to pickup' removed and replaced with a Secondary [X] to pickup. (applies to sleeping bags and other base components)
• Free Cursor / Look key changed from [F] to [G]
(the above key binds can be changed via options menu to your liking!)

Inventory
• Inventory slots in bag are doubled from 50 to 100, as bags were filling up quite fast.
• Issue resolved with Equip and Weapon slots not being cleared entirely when removing an item.
• Drag/Equip issues with Weapon slots are resolved.
• 5th Weapon slot is now integrated (no longer just a UI visual!)
• Overlaps with item description when hovering over an item are resolved.
• 5 second production time added for Shredding so it`s not instant

Misc
• Various horse issues resolved in movement, animations plus optimizations.
• Revised some tooltip texts.


Game Update v0.560

This update has not required a database wipe.

• Many texture optimizations for planets, props and foliage
• Planet terrain textures optimized up to 90% on some worlds!
• Fixed a POI error in New Raleigh, Tigon
• Fog applied to planets with atmospheres, which changes color and density depending on the planet & time of day. This will enable the use of weather systems in the near future.
• Adjusted the height of the elevators so no jump is needed to ride.
• Some layout improvements in Hopper Spaceport, Jason and enabled the disabled elevators.
• Fixed some areas without gravity in Orbital Station.
• Improved sell popup windows: localized texts, it shows a preview of the amount of credits, some refactorings and improved split stack window layout.
• Fixed error when using suicide pill: the rotating wait icon would stay there permanently. Also some optimizations in item use code.
• Reduced distance between ship and planet where booster drive's would be automatically disabled.
• Bandages now restore more health.
• Chat optimizations.
• Localized some text.
• Small adjustments to rovers.
• Added more mission tooltips around several places. Text revision pending.
• New script to enable or disable objects based on current active mission.
• Fixed wrong Info Boxes rotations under certain circumstances.
• Fixed Horse audio.
• Improvements in horse movement and animations.

Game Update v0.558

This update has not required a database wipe.

Vehicles
• Reduced fuel consumption in ships.
• Increased max booster speed in ships.
• Showing more specific text when a vehicle runs out of fuel and some refactoring.
• When a ship runs out of fuel audio now cancels properly, aswell as warp speed effects, and engine disables.
• Changed the way vehicle exit works with a server call. passenger information now stored on server rather than vehicle owner.
• Implemented automatic engine turn off after landing.
• Redone command panel buttons for airships: now they are toggles, they remain highlighted if the button is on, their actions are handled through event listeners.
• New tooltip in tutorial when air vehicle automatically interrupts boost mode when approaching a planet.
• Fixed issue where fuel would stop being consumed while the pause menu is open, even if the ship is still moving.
• Several fixes to some functions, like stopping the ship when approaching a planet and particle effects, that would not work correctly if not in the pilot seat.
• Fixed: player was able to shoot while walking around the ship.
• Not allowed to shoot while in cruise or boost mode to avoid precision errors. Not necessary to be able to shoot at those speeds anyway.
• Improved bullet sound handling and some optimizations.
• Workaround to fix the ship movement going much faster when not in the pilot seat.
• Airships now turn ignition off after being on ground during a second.

Environment
• Updated various structures around Redberry, plus several optimizations.
• Removed a container in Orbital station that would block NPC Winter.
• Balcony's on apartments updated to resolve some geometry issues.
• Camera movement in walk in ship mode now stops while ui is open.
• Orbital Station upgraded with exchange and docks.
• Some collider optimization at Redberry.

Misc
• Fixed body sim to regenerate health when in hazard, but have 100 protection.
• Hunger reverted to previous values but will keep a lookout for this on steam when build goes live.
• Spawn screen will now show your recommended spawn location by default, if playing the tutorial.
• Fixed Nagus NPC throwing errors when trying to completed sidequest.
• Hazard and cold protection added to atmosphere area's.
• All buildings in Raleigh and Delta Shires are updated with protection from hazards, with shapes fitted to each building/POI shape. Everything updated except for the makeshift shanty's, plus some misc optimizations across the POIs.
• crafting window cleaned up to stop confusion, and display information better.
• crafting list now shows items that you cannot craft darker, so items that you can craft stand out a lot better.
• many new icons are implemented.
• Bug fixed that caused area objectives plus recommended spawns to misbehave!
• Flashlight and Grazer positioning fixed.
• Greyed out icon color adjustments for crafting.
Improved interaction with beds and lockers inside ships:
• More precise interaction area.
• Highlighting now works correctly (in lockers it wasn't working and in beds wouldn't necessarily highlight the object when interactable).
• Localized interaction texts and now shows the actual interaction button mapped by the player.

Hotfix 0.556
• Orbital: More NPCs, Props, Layout and collision fixes.
• Fall damage fixes for when exiting a vehicle, and on respawn.
• Fixed inventory occasionally being filled with '_NoItems'.
• Fixed not being able to drag helmets in the inventory.
• Potential fix for AI not spawning after the server being online for some time (Requires Testing)

Hotfix 0.555
• Fixed storage items not being cleared,
• Ferry is now spawning again, caused by an error in the new visuals..
• Further environment damage balance adjustments.
• Known Issue: AI spawning frequency drops after server has been online for a few hours. Functions added to get better readings on this, hopefully resolved tomorrow!

Hotfix 0.554
• Issue with vehicles not spawning is resolved.
• Fixed selling multiple items at the same time which was generating errors.
• Fixed one issue in which the inventory would constantly drag a non valid item.
• Increased the interval of the environmental damage from 5s to 30s. Increased damage accordingly.
• Fixed colliders on cryo-pods in intro
• Adjustments to Miriam NPC.
• Fixed spawn screen defaulting to Tollana, Nox. It now defaults to Clayton Shire instead.
• Removed Coat spawns from titan ship
• Satchels now require 12 cloth to craft.
• Major balance to world loot and loot containers. Around 75% less items in containers overall, but different depending on item category. More pants, hats, and food overall.
• Removed Hide requirement from Makeshift Bow and Sleeping Bag
• Distance between procedural villages increased by 2x.
• Cooked Meat and Clean Water on fire now take 15 seconds, and not 30
• Saw, PickAxe, Woodaxe - recipes adjusted to require more quantities.
• Rani (Light Repairs) waypoint fixed
• AI spawns increased on BP
• Recoded sun orbits in order to fix the sun position not updating on remotes
• Colliders updated around Redberry to allow chopping trees, mining rocks and etc
• Some items and recipes updated that had no cost or weight.


Update 0.553

This update has required a database wipe.

Player
• New jumping and grounding code. Reacts correctly when holding the jump key, should work better in general, and even you can bounce of any surface in 0G mode.
• Some fixes to the jump animation.
• Fixes to grounding code.
• Various body sim fixes and changes related to hazards and cold damage.

Environment
• Major Clayton Shire adjustments + Mine and Refinery added into Clayton Shire.
• Redberry town updated to reflect Clayton Shire changes.
• Beta Prairie planet, foliage and spawn optimizations.
• Procedural Shanty Villages added on Beta Prairie to replace random Shacks spawning in.
• New Orbital station completed and added in place of old orbital stations.
• Collision and layout fixes in New Raleigh.
• Grass rendering optimizations.
• Issue with geometry in Orbital Station clashing with Ferry's is resolved.
• Various land claim bugs resolved.

Items
• Fixed errors that occurred when a patrolling AI didn't find any path node.
• Global Storage Fixes:
-Adding items would store incorrect quantity and integrity values.
-Selecting an item in the global storage list would cause errors and item duplication.
• Adjustments to music and SFX in Orbital station.
• New! Satchel item added for additional carry weight, only requires 4 ScrapCloth to craft.
• All loot containers on Titan updated, and loot category adjusted to only include basic starter loot.
• Shred-able options added to items, and changed the way shredding an item works.
• Every item that you would expect to be able to shred, has been enabled.
• Shredding no longer gives a hard limit of 3, but a random amount of cloth back to the player.

Network
• Dedicated server disabling menu correctly again.
• Issue with server resolved where it would not load if there was a corrupted base piece or something in the database.
• Bug with using Campfire, Workbench etc fixed.
• Campfires, Sleepingbag's & etc can be placed in the world again, a bug is resolved that caused these items to disapear when placed.

Quests
• Redesigned Titan antennas for Repair quest.
• Janson orbital side quest back in-game, following the completion of new Orbital Station.
• Fixed quest 'We're all hoarders' in which a bug was preventing completion of the side quest.

Misc
• Increased NPC jaw movement values.
• Fixed tutorial tooltip to reflect the new running/sprinting controls.
• The player is no longer allowed to Sprint when encumbered.
• Fixed some tooltip texts that were going out of the tooltip box.
• Fixed distance decimals on waypoints
• Waypoint distance now viewable as a passenger in vehicle or ferry.

Hotfix 0.543

• Major issue with Ferries not working is resolved.
• Upgraded Orbital Station: several sections fixed and exterior sections added.
• Transition speeds adjusted on Walk Animations
• Re-coded the swap equip item function to hopefully resolve that bug once and for all.
• Fixed a bunch of tutorial bugs relating to space suit and equips.


Game Update 0.542

This update has required a database wipe.

Spawn Screen
• Spawn screen upgraded with map integration, more info per region and also any mission objectives for an area you have selected.
• Dying and respawning during the tutorial will now take you to the Spawn Screen, with a marker added to direct tutorial players to correct spawn point

Performance
• Adjustments for LOD ranges on densely populated planets
• Culling implemented for Asteroid System to greatly improve performance

Environment
• Temperature added to all planets. Cold damage only occurs when Oxygen is present, otherwise 'no oxygen' damage takes preference, so therefore cold damage is only on Janson currently.
• Titan Generation Ship retextured
• Improvements in atmosphere entry effects in several ships.
• Redberry Train Station: Layout improvements, fixed collisions, fixed some invisible objects, repositions ferry vendors and their waypoints.
• Platform and defensive walls added for cover while using the Iron Refinery.
• Fixed some shadow glitches that happened in the new Orbital station


Tutorial
• TutorialSpaceSuit added - it is granted once by officer Joy, it cannot be sold, dropped or stored in container. It is not dropped on death and it is removed when you complete the tutorial. It functions in every way like a normal space suit. It also weighs nothing.
• Tooltips now show buttons the player has actually configured in settings menu, but only some tooltips have been updated for this system so far.
• New tooltip system plus tooltip visual style upgraded. Tooltips now come in 2 types, info-boxes which require the player to stop and read the tip (used for longer more important info) and regular tooltips, which operate the same way as before.
• Implemented a Show Tooltips setting in general options.

Misc
• Ferry movement and rotation smoothing
• Fixed issue where the ferries wouldn't finish the final rotation before landing.
• Fix for vehicle bug when passenger leaves vehicle (requires network testing)
• Fix for not all clothes dropping properly on death (requires network testing)
• Sleep won't be triggered while in crouch or prone mode to avoid issues.
• Refactoring and optimizations in player action states.
• Adjustment of player's position while sleeping in a sleeping bag.
• Spinner Vehicle retextured
• Added baseball hat to Miriam and improved its material.
• Red marker disabled on bullet hits
• Fixed a bug where each setting tab wasn't uninitializing stuff when it should.
• Chat can be forced shut by press numpad 5
• TPS camera adjustments, moved slightly closer to player
• Some items fixes
• Players can now swap a spacesuit with a coat without odd issues

Changelog v0.541

Environment
• Abandoned Hangar: The area has been recreated to fix several issues in previous structure.
• New Raleigh: New POIs added to fill out the town a bit more.
• Grafton: New layout for the town and filler buildings have been removed.
• Janson: 80% small rocks removed on planet which were causing issues when driving.
• Beta Prairie: Environment and color adjustments
• Orbital Station: New station created to replace the old generic POI used. It's much bigger and now looks like a space station. Implemented at the 5 orbital station positions around Stars End.
• Titan: Added fill light to better illuminate Lt Diesel. Less reverb in cryo room. Lowered the volume of some ambient sounds & fixed NPC that was being blocked by another NPC.
• Kallus: Lowered volume of Miriam's voice.
• Hopper Crater: Removed some lootable containers, added Mercantile Walkers. Fixed some small layout and collision issues.
• Delta Shire: Adjustments to roads and road block signs around shire.

Fixes
• Improvements to the movement of the ferry when landing after buying a ferry pass. Now it's interpolated, avoiding abrupt movements. Still more work to be done here.
• Changes for vehicle + horse positioning on the network when getting out, in order to stop offsets occurring
• Issue with using GlobalLootTerminal resolved
• /UI Chat Command to disable UI fixed and now allows movement.
• When AIs receive damage, they now receive data of which player did the damage. This makes more precise and efficient the AI attacking to the correct player.
• Implemented volume adjustments on NPC's
• Janson Frigate waypoint issue resolved.
• Added another NPC to speak to on Titan, placed inside the Hangar, in order to finish Light Repairs quest.
• Ground vehicles: lowered engine volumes, adjusted falloff ranges, increased max speed (friction was preventing rovers from moving at the previous max speed).
• New idle animation for players at loading screen/character creation
• Waypoint should no longer show during intro cutscene.
• Clothes should now change properly on network but requires testing
• Ferry camera adjusted so head objects dont cause issues
• Merchant exploit fixed with nails and ammo
• Tigon Horse no longer floats
• Horses use considerably less stamina when galloping
• Increased landing height for the Ferry in Janson space port.
• Forest Cub AI Material issue fixed