The Drums of War update (Early Access version 0.12.3) brings huge enhancements to sound effects, removing harsh sounds and improving the quality of frequently played sound effects like gunshots and explosions.
AI behavior has been improved and they will now change their targets based on the biggest threat to them along with improvements to how they decide who to target next.
Help glyphs used in the tutorials and prologue missions for controller commands that don't have a defined icon (there are so many types of flight devices out there) will now display the relevant control element name instead.
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Patch Notes 0.12.3
Overview
- Big improvements to all sound effects!
- Lots of other miscellaneous improvements!
- Bug fixes!
Known Issues
- Autospeed match 'close' setting does not work as expected
- Colliders for Fighter, Gunship, Carrier, and Large Transport are not optimized for best-fitting
- Jump-out animations are not scaled correctly for ships bigger than a gunship
- Guard My Target command is not implemented
Added
- Vessel names can now be randomly generated
- AI Actor will now change targets if another hostile is more of a threat
- AI Actor uses a fuzzy target selection of the nearest hostile (rather than using the 'Select closest hostile' command)
- Ship wings will now jump in formation to their leader
- Flash Radar Quadrant On Hit effect attached to a toggle option in Options > Game
- Added Autogun (XXS) as a replacement primary weapon for hostile fighters in the prologue (due to fixing AI firing weapons slowly)
- Added UI Volume slider
- Audio priorities adjustments for sound effects during gameplay to better manage many simultaneous playing sounds
Changed
- Controller Glyphs now display the control element descriptor for controllers without a defined glyph icon
- Prologue mission 1: Added Throttle Axis to help glyphs
- Prologue mission 1: Removed diagonal help glyphs as the vertical and horizontal glyphs communicate this
- Prologue mission 2: Updated directives text regarding waypoint references in line with Prologue mission 1
- Prologue mission 3: Removed the distress call waypoint when in range
- Prologue mission 7: Fixed typo during friendly spawn message near end of mission
- Corrected spelling and grammar throughout all prologue mission briefings and debriefings
- Navigation tutorial 2: Can now use throttle axis during throttle acceleration and deceleration section
- Navigation tutorial 2: Allowed 8-way hat to work during diagonal thrust sections
- Navigation tutorial 3: Disabled autopilot
- Mining beam SFX replacement
- Increased size of flare and muzzle VFX for mining beam
- Removed hull Hit Effect for mineable asteroids and normal asteroids due to excessive calls from using the mining beam
- Updated main missions and side missions to use directives and monitoring panels as needed
- Dying throes explosions VFX/SFX improved
- Death explosions VFX/SFX improved
- Gun sound effects improved
- Round robins are used for repetitive sound effects (i.e. gunshots, impacts, explosions, etc)
- Replaced most Heads Up Display sound effects
- Directives Panel: When directive status changes the text now flashes with an audible bleep
- Player Received Transmission: Play audio bleep at the start of a transmission
- Main menu: Increased vertical button spacing for easier mouse highlighting on mouse over
Fixed
- Prevented mineable asteroids and Mining Station from being pushed around easily
- Particle explosions from weapon damage on the player seem to jitter/skitter during player movement
- Attempt to set pitch to infinite value from script ignored!
- Prevented autopiloting out of Skirmish when all enemies were destroyed
- Explosion lighting source only lights up for 1 second, where it should be limited for the particle animation time
- Turret Railgun shell mass not scaled correctly (decreased accordingly)
- Burst Autocannon 2/4/8 shell mass not set correctly (increased accordingly)
- Impact Hull/Armour SFX now calculated for pooled items
- Audio Asset pooling counts are under-calculated for guns and launchers
- Skirmish: Player not spawning in the correct position
- Projectile spawn location offsets more as the shooter's velocity increases
- Primary weapons fire faster the more the gun control subsystem is damaged
- AI Actor would trigger pull-release for each primary weapon shot, unintentionally slowing down the fire rate of fast-firing weapons
- Button UI audio interactions are not affected by the audio volume sliders
- Fixed duplicate audio sources from being created for parent objects not added to the pooling system
- Fixed issue of audio popping where played audio was stopped too early for explosions
- AI Actor severely under-calculated the effective firing range (effectively preventing the AI Actor from using primary weapons)
- Prologue mission 2: After mining 1st asteroid, engines should not be activated until 2nd asteroid is targeted
- Prologue mission 4: Enemies at Navpoint 2 can no longer be goaded into attacking the player instead of transports
