Gaia Beyond - elZanc0
Hey fellas,

Gaia Beyond got 2 (plusminus 7) years old, time to celebrate! Here is a list of things we recommend you to do besides washing your hands:

1) Party hard
- Not too hard, but hard enough.

2) Enter the giveaway action and win a FREE copy
- Available on steamgifts until Apr 6 - tell a friend!




You can also print this banner and make a funky flip book out of it! Or post it wherever you want.
Mar 17, 2020
Gaia Beyond - Flonor
This is a bugfix update.

Keep the suggestions and error reports coming! :)




  • The "Genocide Arrest" success path is broken
  • Update, shoot and collide with all ship weapons even if it is out of detail mode
  • Noob does not attack when in a defend moving state
  • Waechter can be lost in outer space
  • Report broken script Add_Question() calls
  • Additive blending doesn't work in CEGUI
  • Localization: support Permanent Notis
  • Inventory HUD: advertisement emitter should not rotate
  • Add_Drawable rotation can fail in HUD windows
  • Add a person Has_Cargo() function




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Mar 12, 2020
Gaia Beyond - Flonor
This is mainly a bugfix update.

Feedback is welcome from anyone. Thanks in advance to those who contribute suggestions and error reports!






  • Add a linear camera zoom for the intro zoom event
  • Lock 2nd skill tree, unlock with level 10 (and per script in storyline)
  • Update the high quality textures

Portraits
  • Atlantic politician polishing
  • J-12 male polishing & variations
  • Atlantic female 2 variations
  • New Atlantic soldier






  • Landable HUD: dialog keyboard focus is not set correctly
  • Loading with a zoom out hides the loading menu planet
  • Live character portrait switch can crash
  • Rufus_Billie_Jean_Attack() script can crash
  • Dr. Orish alternative route script can crash
  • Assassin Hsieh dialog is broken
  • The Mr Impatiens save upgrade breaks if there is no cad station
  • Ship Trade HUD can crash if a craft requirement item does not exist
  • Collecting cargo can crash
  • Gylfa/Stansa Blueprint does not exist
  • Simon_Boswell_Player_Left_Landable should not auto re-link on save load
  • Make Administrator Helix Jupiter leading person for J-12
  • Selling the Old Genom Core gives no visual mission progress
  • Localization: Add_Question with a person (like "Player") picks up the wrong string




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Mar 5, 2020
Gaia Beyond - elZanc0



Howdy, space folks!


Localization system, location pictures and a reworked location interface - Livin' La Vida Loca! Things are starting to get really interesting at this stage, as a lot of milestones are in motion and about to join the game step by step now. Our goals for 1.0 are getting closer and we are grinding towards the final polishing phase of the Caduceus Story Arc.

Thanks for all the positive reviews and the great community feedback so far!






Story
  • The first visit on Caduceus HQ is now 120% more polished :D - new events, new dialog, new sidequests, new achievement!

  • New NPCs added, new dialog and new items (more readables, some can now be retrieved in the ISA Library)

Localization system
To meet the wishes of many people, we have implemented the basics for an easy translation of the game. See how it works - any help is much appreciated!
  • All names and descriptions, the biggest part of the UI and some first dialogs like the tutorial have been translated to german for beta-testing the localization system with the new patch.

  • Along with this so-far translation, a lot of corrections and optimizations have been made to the original text.

Location images



The Zone, ISA Auditorium, J-12 Living Quarters


Portraits
  • Don Gorgon, Seraphim & ISA randoms, FTA Manager (old guy reworked)

Weapons
  • Visual upgrade levels for the default gun turret
  • All weapons using this turret graphic are upgradable to 4 levels now
  • Auxi's Top Gun is upgradable to a dual projectile weapon

Sound
  • Shield shutdown

'Playing Doctor' achievement







  • General performance improvements

Interface
  • Location HUD: BIG images
    We figured out that full-scale location images provide a lot more atmosphere and immersion when traveling around on planets or stations. Therefore, the location hud has been fully reworked.
    • With the exception of 1-2 special cases, all location pics are now in full 4K resolution.
    • Factions assigned to the locations

  • New weapon upgrade layout
  • Controller
    • Support Combobox
    • Support the options menu
    • Support the landable location HUD
    • Exit start menu windows with B too
    • Support MultiColumnList d-pad iteration on blocking HUD windows
    • auto select first entry for a multicolumnlist
    • Always highlight the currently active focus window
    • Make the active focus window look like a selector
    • Unselect the last controller selected MultiColumnList item when the controller focus leaves it
    • New Game Menu: button A should confirm portrait selection
  • More UI stuff
    • Newsticker auto-scrolling
    • Add a skill tooltip icon
    • Scroll the newsticker
    • Radar HUD: draw improvements
    • Add minimal padding to the item tooltip description
    • Landable HUD: Hide "visitors" subhead when no visitors there
    • Replace the default GUI tooltip
    • Added missing shop marker to some ship traders
    • Added missing item descriptions
    • Characters in the person list are sorted by importance
    • Randomized planets in main menu (Earth, Mars, Venus)
    • Minor landable HUD changes
Story
  • Added the possibility to hack the locked door on Essex with hacking level 3 (thx @Keith_McD from discord for suggestion)
  • Changed Billie Jean and Rufus NPCs from the Living Permit quest, so that the player will not break the quest if he attacks them before talking to them. (thx @Eckman Jones from steam community for bugreport)

World

  • During the 4K optimization process, a lot of location images have been improved and polished to look fancy in the new resolution as well.
  • Jupiter texture color optimization
  • J-12 Station polishing and new lights
  • Trash spawner around Earth
  • Pluto clouds enabled

Balancing
  • Added new big shields (thx @HALOSHOCK from steam community for suggestions)
  • Some ship & weapon balancing

Portrait polishing

Mr. Shiro, Kingston, Jerome, Dr. Cram Bokaj, Nortnex burning




  • Landable HUD: Hide the Exit button when on a location
  • Use the passive AI profile for planets and some stations leading persons
  • Keyboard focus index fixes
  • Trade HUD: support multi selection with the keyboard too
  • Show the supported resolutions of the selected primary display
  • AI: Friendly ship detection is only working partially
  • Person sort key is not used when the drawable is missing
  • Destroy the MultiColumnList custom tooltip correctly
  • Update the MultiColumnList item tooltip when scrolling
  • MultiColumnList page up/down should actually move a page
  • MultiColumnList generic key handler can crash (rare)
  • newsticker_group can have a 1 pixel gap/overlap
  • Location quest person target on the same location is not updated instantly if they have a ship
  • Options Menu: Show the correct shortcut type default assignment
  • Improve the TabButton imageset sizes
  • Change the TabButton Hovered/Pushed/Selected color
  • Crash Course: if you already have the 9 Aluminium the quest counter should instantly trigger
  • scripts: parse all files as utf-8 by default
  • Savegame the message queue
  • Savegame the perma noti state (tutorial info is lost)
  • Options menu reload triggers the logo animation
  • AI lands on the gate
  • Get the correct image dimension if an image settings base is set
  • Controller: Skills HUD focus order is broken
  • Controller: pressing B in the main menu breaks it
  • Loading hints formatting fixes
  • Added some missing quest markers for special cases
  • Some broken dialog (Kingston, Borg Johnson "Devi" question, Heimwehr and more)







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Gaia Beyond - elZanc0




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:
    1. pick gender
    2. pick base portrait
    3. 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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Nov 8, 2019
Gaia Beyond - elZanc0
Gaia Beyond is 25% off! (Offer ends November 10 at 5PM Pacific Time)

This is a small update – more content is on the way with the next update



Steam Cloud support
Automatically synchronizes savegames with the Steam servers





Story
  • Some dialog corrections and optimizations

Scripting
  • All repair dialogs use a blend animation now
  • Rajid equips the thruster on the player ship

World
  • Allow collecting stacked items partly if the cargo is full
  • Ship landing sound
  • In-space Memorial: parallax background asteroid added




  • Some emitter performance fixes
  • npc_rufus.nut "Sleeping Pods for Three, No Pets!" script crash
  • Savegame upgrade for Simon Boswell can crash
  • npc_rufus.nut script can crash
  • AA_Damokles_Station: Data version is broken
  • Possible Lorca_Player_Left_Landable() crash fix
  • Short range laser graphic is drawn incorrectly
  • Inspace-triggered fight music with neutral npc doesn't stop
  • Landable music can be played in space if land+leave is very quick
  • Some shields shouldn't be spawned
  • Stop fight music when docked and no ship is directly targeting the player anymore
  • Fighting music only triggered during 1st Pluto pirate wave
  • Do not handle player message requests when dead
  • Defend state holding and moving_back can switch around endlessly
  • Some behavior pos_target_reached fixes
  • Autopilot Is_Weapon_Target_In_Range() is broken
  • Ship garage: hide credits and cost
  • Do not save in loading screens
  • Do not play space sounds when loading
  • Memorial collision geometry fix




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Gaia Beyond - elZanc0




Traveler,

It's me again, Count Ixua. The Wicked have returned. But at least that gives you the opportunity to snatch one of those special halloween rewards. Send those pumpkin fanatics back to the land of the dead and have a look at my pumpkin full of presents!








The ancient curse has reappeared!
It looked like the creatures from the wicked dimension had been banished forever, but due to a magical coincidence, new portals allow them to spread all over the solar system AGAIN! Destroy them, cut the link between the two worlds – and unlock some exclusive content:

  • Pumpkin Shredder
    A dangerous new weapon straight from the wicked dimension, coming with custom sounds and a fancy skull turret!

  • Mysterious Ghost Ship
    Scare the 🎃 out of your enemies with a vessel of the undead!


    Weapon qualities
    • First stage of randomized weapon qualities
    • Six new quality levels (3 weaker / 3 stronger)

      More improvements coming soon!

    New sidequests & events
    • Escort the tyrant or kill him
    • Helping the Isaac Family to get their place on Earth has new content
    • Visit new locations like SMD Woodrow or Damokles Station

    Atlantic Rebels
    • Own faction logo
    • New ships & faction spawner



    SFX
    • Quick travel sound effect
    • Sound is played when Lt. Devi pushes you into the corner the first time you visit Caduceus Station




    • Autopilot with target selection double click
    • Weapon upgrade HUD: Show the weapon changes
    • FoW should fully hide unexplored areas
    • A lot station sizes were increased, giving them a more station-like feel!



    • Mine spawners - pirate fortresses look even more inviting with decorative mine fields around them!
    • Display and compare Laser dps on tooltips
    • Ship Trade HUD: increase linked rendering fps to 60
    • Landable HUD: Support rendering Emitter
    • Menu: Draw the FoW
    • Map Mode: Show the player ship radar range
    • Neptune visual improvements





    • Autopilot evasion with big sprites fail
    • Engine emitter are sometimes drawn over the ship
    • "E" dialog skip does not work sometimes
    • Fix the "The Scheherazade Embargo"
    • Limit the text width of in-space quest info tooltips
    • Do not draw quest target icons for respawning ships
    • Auxilium "Hey! Where are you going?" can still endless loop if Auxilium reached his target pos
    • Menu ships lose emitter after a while
    • Draw area spawner geometry over the FoW
    • Menu ships can collide with the player ship
    • Asteroid impact emitter scaling broken
    • Do not autosave when the script crashed
    • Low texture quality breaks fonts
    • "Simon Boswell" without "teal_visit" respawns when the cad station explodes
    • Savegame upgrade: Create_Simon_Boswell() can be called when the caduceus_station does not exist anymore
    • "Devi's Datacube" dialog can repeat endlessly after savegame load
    • "Can't Chat. Enemies are nearby." should not happen if low affinity ships are nearby but not attacking
    • Save upgrade: Cad station is not unlocked if "Crash Course" has ended
    • "Asuka Langley" script crash
    • Venturas has a wrong identifier
    • A message request calling the fail_callback with a null person crashes the script



    Coming up next
    • SKYju's and Nookrium's first quests!
    • More sidequests
    • Let us know what you would like to see

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    Oct 27, 2019
    Gaia Beyond - elZanc0



    Dear SPACE PEOPLE,

    We are moving closer towards the 1.0 release, so we've got all hands full of stuff to do – and a few announcements to make. Scroll down to see the current status of the game and what has changed during Early Access! Join the adventure NOW and become part of the growing Gaia Beyond community.





    🐄 Latest update: 'Holy Cow!' (0.12)
    A brand-new content update that has become pretty big, check out the trailer and patch note!



    Get into the Action!
    • Explore an immersive and dynamic version of our solar system in the future
    • Discover the hidden background story about a war fought not too long ago
    • Dive into the Caduceus storyline with 10 missions and discover the truth behind the Ganymede Flu
    • Find and solve around 40 individual sidequests (more coming!)
    • Decision-making & consequences - influence the fate of characters in the world
    • Fight pirates, hidden alien ships and bosses!
    • Mine dozens of raw materials, upgrade your ship with devices, defensive shields and powerful weapons and turrets
    • Buy OR build yourself over 50 new spacecrafts
    • More storylines, sidequests, equipable stuff, ships and features are incoming - prepare yourself!










    Story content


    • Reworked beginning 💯
    • More action, more speed, more decisions
    • More NPCs with improved dialog flow
    • Overall decision-making & consequences
    • Bosses and secrets!

      📺 Watch gameplay videos


    Original Soundtrack
    Miguel has finalized the official Gaia Beyond soundtrack, check it out! Also, meet him in the game at Bartholdy's Bar. ;)



    Gameplay features:


    • Hacking
      Currently used on freight containers, this feature is to be expanded in the future.

    • Ship Crafting
      You no longer have to rely solely on ship dealers to expand your fleet - get new blueprints, collect the materials you need and craft them yourself, right in Rajid's garage!

    • Carrier load of ships and weapons!
      • 50 purchasable ships and 40 craftable blueprints
      • Capital ships are now in the game (carrier functionality planned)
      • Upgradable weapons, growing weapon variety
      • Passive devices





    Game World
    • Locations
      We added more locations and moons to discover, got rid of a lot of placeholder images 🖼 and polished what was there from the start. A quick compilation:



      Also, you will find more of the following:
      • Local NPCs & traders, asteroid fields, plasma fields, war memorials, hackable containers, hidden chests & threats!

    Controls
    • Gamepad Support (steady improvements but working)
    • Improved mapping options

    Steam achievements








    📆 Release: Q2 / 2020
    The schedule was moved to the second quarter of 2020 – as we recognize a lot of community requests and want to make sure everything is right for 1.0! This is going to be only a part of the full vision (still a 'finished' game) and our post-release goal is to keep working on it for as long as possible. As you can read from this schedule, we see our game in an advanced state, it just hasn't reached all our goals for the full release yet.


    🎃 Spooky things
    The Halloween event is going to be activated any midnight now - take your chance to grab the special content this year!


    🐢 Warp Turtle
    We're proud to announce that we finally founded a company! After more than a year appearing on the store page with our real names, we felt like it was time for a little burocracy...






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    Gaia Beyond - Flonor


    #Discussions_QuoteBlock_Author
    🐄 No cows were harmed for the development of this update - actually it has nothing to do with cows at all.


    Be praised, travelers!


    It's been a while this time due to exceptional circumstances - like a team member's XXL relocation (ทักทาย from Thailand!), including re-establishing our workflows and communicating straight through the globe at 5 different time zones! :D Expect future updates in the usual frequency again.

    Anyway, nothing was left untouched - actually we've created a big pile of new content, bringing the game a good step closer to the 1.0 vision (and everything Beyond). Also, scroll down to the end to see what is currently happening and what are the next steps.

    Special thanks to some people that have shown epic support lately - 8ByteGaming, Hakimodo, IndieGameLover, the USMCsky discord community and many more. Thanks to all of you for playing and supporting!

    Note: Since 32-bit binaries with their memory limitations are becoming increasingly difficult to support, we will switch to 64-bit with one of the next updates.


    But now showtime :)

    https://youtu.be/lBeHKpc2jlU







    📜 Story Content
    • The Caduceus arc now has an additional mission, new events and dialog
    • The Seraphim got their first station populated with NPCs, new locations, background story and sidequests
    • Added the pirate leaders in game
    • Support dialog camera targets


    🛠️ Ship Crafting

    Yeah! 40+ awesome ships can now be built at Rajid's Garage once the location is unlocked. Some of the new ships are exclusive for crafting and can NOT be purchased anywhere else. Where to get blueprints:
    • Random NPC ships have a small chance to drop their blueprint when destroyed!
    • Purchase them from traders


    🔫 Weapons




    • Plasma, Photon and Nuke Torpedoes
    • Atlantic, J12, Sphere and Seraphim Projectile Turrets
    • Dual Missile turrets
    • Drone Launcher
    • Scattergun & Mine Shotguns
    • Holy Mines

    • Mining Lasers: newly-balanced, can now be upgraded to be more powerful
    • Shock Cannons: newly-balanced, the regular one can be upgraded

    • Random Weapon Qualities - hey NormireX ;)
      (This feature is almost done, but still in progress and will be enabled soon!)


    💎 Celebrities!

    To thank our earliest and most loyal supporters from streamers to press, we've just implemented them as ingame NPCs. Meet Nookrium, USMCsky, Leon from Red Event Games and DannyDSC in the Gaia Beyond universe!



    The current state is more or less just an introduction of the characters - the basic setup for a whole quest arc. Stay tuned for the crazy stuff that is going to happen here until 1.0!



    🌇 Locations


    • Jupiter J12 Colony
    • Caduceus HQ & Nexus
    • Bar: Zion & Atlantic
    • Seraphim 'Hall of Prayers'
    • Doomsday Fortress
    • Seraphim Hospital & Workshop


    🚀 New Ships & Stations


    Purchasable:
    • Atlantic Destroyer "Aries"
    • Zeraph
    • J12 small attack Ship
    • 2 Sphere civil ships

    Others:
    • Stolen Caduceus Guard (bad paintjob - will they trick you? :D)
    • The old "Seraphim Station" was converted into a faction-spawned battleship (Mercia) and will soon be available!


    🎭 Portraits
    • 2 new Player portraits!
    • New Seraphim males
    • Old Seraphim male updated & back in game
    • J12 male variations
    • Various 'crowd' portraits
    • Statue

    💬 UI
    • Controller button images
    • Show the bullet weapon range in tooltips
    • Remember the map zoom z position
    • Savegame the last camera zoom positions
    • Container hacking levels displayed in analysis

    🔊 Sound
    • All new weapons come with custom fire and hit sounds
    • Projectile non-hit explosion sounds added
    • Custom mine explosion sounds
    • Custom spam weapon sound
    • Repair sound added to dialogs
    We are currently reviewing and organizing new libraries - these are some first introductions, expect more to be added!


    ✨ FX
    • Customized mine explosion emitters
    • Astronaut cargo item
    • Heat effect for new Seraphim weapons






    Story
    • A lot of NPC script and dialog improvements

    Ships
    • Caduceus: Guards, Hunters & Heimwehr's ship polishing

    • Reduce the autopilot speed based on distance to target pos
    • Waechter animated lights
    • Tyrell Wharf visual improvements
    • CoC & FTA Transporters were slower than their loaded versions

    World
    • General performance improvements
    • Improved background starfield
    • Earth texture: structure added
    • Nebula edge & pixelation fixes
      (thx to 8ByteGaming for ploughing through all the pirate hordes twice to find them!)
    • Greenhouse location pic details added
    • Bar location pics polishing and faction-related details
    • Rajid's Garage: sky added
    • Bokaj Lab minor changes
    • Turret Platform respawn time increased
    • Some spawners added

    UI
    • Loading Screen: Hide the mouse cursor
    • Loading Screen: Visualize the early level loading progress
    • Side notifications (tutorial hints) centered
    • Player portrait selection: temporary layout change
    • Weapon comparison: DPS should be at the top

    Portraits
    • More updates on all player portraits
    • Fancy backgrounds added on a lot of portraits, more to come
    • Harrison Cruise polishing
    • McKenzie polishing and leg version
    • Some reassignments

    FX
    • Particle emitter performance improvements
    • Main menu background improved
    • Customized projectile explosions, more to come!
    • 2-framed emitters optimized
    • Projectile improvements




    • Rare crash when loading "coll_geometry convex_polygon" settings
    • Savegames: Mission Target can be lost
    • Ship slot tooltips can stay indefinitely
    • Flickering HUD emitter
    • Some weapon volume fixes
    • HUD auto pause should not override dialog auto pause
    • Character HUD: Crash when leveling up from the script
    • If a person with a ship is docked on a station and then moved to a new location, the location change HUD event can fail
    • Enemy ships with the behavior set to autopilot are not considered for the fight music check (No auto fighting music during The Cure battle)
    • Add an error when the active person dialog block changes while a dialog is still active (and don't crash)
    • Support changing the player docked location when a dialog ends
    • Crash when unloading a level with an active message request
    • Landable news text breaks if one entry is too long
    • Locked Caduceus HQ dialog returns you to Distribution Hall
    • Laser scale could be too small
    • Elisha dialog block 1_1 stage 2 can break (Albatross)
    • Do not treat weaponless enemies as active enemies (Can't chat near Caduceus Drones)
    • Turret only ships should distance themselves with the weapon range in fights
    • Message HUD: Number keys sometimes don't work for answer confirmation (8byte)
    • All blocking HUD windows exit differently with ESC if the focus is not on the main window anymore
    • Landable HUD: Controller doesn't work
    • Shield "Init Time" comparison is broken
    • Savegame upgrades based on quest stages do not work
    • Kalypso does not enter "Atlas HQ" when "Genocide Consignment" fails
    • Eric Strong repair option broken
    • Don't crash if a weapon drawable is missing
    • A ship with a mining attack state does not defend itself when under attack (RoadsterTracker)
    • Auto-pause missing for the first dialog with Vasquez
    • Dialog repair removes less credits than displayed
    • Destroyed containers should only drop 25% of the loot
    • Persons do not restock on creation
    • Noob does not retaliate on "Ambush Henderson."
    • New Game Menu: Draw the ship emitter
    • Some Auto-Pause events are triggered incorrectly
    • Weapon range doesn't recognize decel (also breaks the fight ai)
    • Emitter can miss the last emit if the last frame ends on the emitter ttl (see p_shockwave)
    • CEGUI SharedStringStream Thread fix (failed to convert attribute 'position' with value '0.0' to float)
    • Don't show a notification if a person credits change ended up becoming a 0
    • Random NPC Fighting lines often not triggered
    • Turret platforms have a wrong death sound
    • Fix the Jurgen Winters corpse description
    • Weapon comparison could have an empty "()" comparison block
    • Weapon comparison line formatting does not match with lasers/bullets
    • The small sprites mouse selection radius increase is broken
    • Default_Dialog_Handler_gac is not used
    • Reset the last camera zoom positions when starting a new game
    • The CZE_TO_MAP camera zoom event ends instantly. Should only end when near the target z
    • Ghost items in cargo ("type": 4) (not deleted on load)
    • Shizhong goes to meeting point instead of Kalypso after hacking
    • Controller: ship slots can be selected in ship crafting hud
    • Controller: landable focus elements can be selected from blocking HUD windows (limit focus to the blocking window)





    NEXT GOALS
    • Random weapon qualities
      Hold on, NormireX! ;)
    • More sound customization
      As mentioned before - improving the overall impression
    • Station scales
      Some are a bit off - using a real scale overview to balance sizes
    • Halloween things!
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    • Trading NPC items now restock
    • High Harvey Mini Questline
    • McKenzie is now helping to stop the CAD transport if you got his leg first

    Location images

    Weapons
    • Ship Trade: Show the slot icons
    • Missile Battery
    • Med-Drone Launcher
    • Weapon turrets are colored in faction schemes now


    New turret shooting 3 missiles at once


    The Cure got himself a nice new drone launcher.


    Portraits
    • Pirate boss Dieu-Le-Veut, Simon Krull, Mr. Gates
    • Adaptions: Vasquez' lizard own portrait, GAC male: Sun-Moon version

    Other stuff
    • More neon info signs (quick travel, ship trade, cargo container, garage, bar / café)
    • Punch sounds added to various dialog scenes
    • One-hit-exploding asteroids


    Not too dangerous yet, but could become salty in the future.... ;)





    Ships & weapons
    • Capitals acceleration increased
    • Weapon optimization (Capital lasers and more)

    Engine
    • General performance improvements
    • Renderer modernization

    UI
    • Ship Trade: Show additional drawables and emitter
    • Analysis HUD: Draw items and asteroids with emitter
    • Tooltip improvements
    • Readables inspect window: vert scrollbar added

    Portraits
    • Updates & polishing


      FTA random female, Atlas, J12 random military, J12 female, Mr. Shiro, Caduceus male, Supreme Court judge, FTA agent male



    FX

    Other stuff
    • A lot of dialog and dialog format polishing
    • Savegames: Validate shields and devices too
    • General savegame improvements



    • Savegames: docked ships loose the detail mode state
    • Controller: Cursor gone after exiting trade window with B
    • Thruster is always uncharged on savegame load
    • Possible crash when a person is deleted but still has a pending Message Request
    • Burst weapons can fail trying to finish the first recharge
    • Ship AI does not attack the Player sometimes if no friendlies are nearby
    • The Travel group waiting at destination state disables the ship target rotation (The Cure doesn't rotate during battle)
    • Auxilium cannot attack the CAD Escort
    • Crash when opening inventory (old savegame)
    • Old saves could have an invalid rajid dialog block
    • Ship selection stays after death when the respawn is delayed
    • Only show autopilot landing/leaving when a docking state is active
    • Autopilot says "landing" even if it cannot land
    • End an auto pause, on dialog end, only when it came from the dialog
    • Show the Cooldown HUD when a laser is bursting
    • Minimum energy required for laser should be based on the p_ttl
    • Remove the unused "Zion Farm" ship data




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