We have released the 1.015 patch for Drox Operative. Since the last official patch, the patch adds joystick support (windows only for now), reworks the UI a little, allows Lithosoid planets to increase the durability of components, rebalances things a bit better, hopefully fixes a Mac sound issue, and fixes a bunch of smaller things.
Here's all of the changes for patch 1.013, 1.014, and 1.015.
- now stop controller rumble if paused
- fixed controller rumble when turning off screen shake (Castruccio)
- now reducing power load and increasing durability are toggles instead of one time things
- decreased durability mult modifier per level from 0.0333 to 0.02
- increased difficulty of higher difficulty levels
- increased difficulty of higher difficulty levels even more in expansion (IotA)
- now show and enforce level of chips so you don't accidentally create a component that you can no longer use (IotA)
- fixed sensor overlord range confusion and price (Tuidjy)
- now defenders of destroyed planets don't disappear immediately (unless last planet) (Draciel)
- fixed demands from players (Foxstab/homyak555)
- changed max number of sounds on OSX to 64 which fixes AL_INVALID_OPERATION errors when lots of sounds are being played
- each race should no longer send more than 1 bounty hunter after the player(s) at a time
- fixed uses less energy modifiers getting put on cloaking devices (Tuidjy) (IotA)
- freeze weapons that don't do damage should no longer get damage bonuses (Tuidjy) (IotA)
- special weapons should no longer get damage bonuses (Cardinal Ape) (IotA)
- stasis field and gravity well generator now have value
- increased damage control effectiveness by 60%
- changed chips to use computer model in space (Valgor) (IotA)
- added Scavenger Operative achievement (Valgor) (IotA)
- added a controller rumble option (Castruccio)
- now reset joystick option resets mouse move and enable options also (Castruccio)
- added a message when resurrect race quest goes wrong (Tuidjy) (IotA)
- no longer add race name to Resurrect Race quest announcement (IotA)
- now Ascarid and Peacekeeper missiles have effect/sound when they change (IotA)
- added more Ancients dialog (IotA)
- fixed some of the ancient races using the wrong description (Tuidjy) (IotA)
- now dpad names should show up on use slots (Castuccio)
- minor improvements to the UI
- added some more scavenger dialog (IotA)
- rewrote bare bones description a little (Valgor) (IotA)
- changed "ship corpses" to "ship wrecks" in scavenger description (Valgor) (IotA)
- fixed structure/armor plating % issue on mechanic bonus skill (Evan)
- fixed human demand text
- fixed a Drox capitalize issue in the Hezog race description. (ScrObot) (IotA)
- fixed some Hezog misspellings (Tuidjy) (IotA)
- fixed joystick button that opens relations menu wouldn't close it also (Castruccio)
- turning with the joystick will now cancel move to entity commands (joku)
- turning with the keyboard will now cancel move to entity commands (Tyrax Lightning/Tuidjy)
- added a highlight texture under type of win on win screen
- improved drox info screen
- made resume button the same size as the other main buttons
- added joystick support (windows only for now)
- changed buttons to something more spacey
- can now pay lithosoid to increase the durability of your components
- can now order new components at Drakk planets
- now can see star systems with mutual protection pact races (instead of only allies)
- now mark maps for return system of needed item quests
- reduced BountyHunter damage mult from 2.0 to 1.5
- durability mult modifier now works on armor & armor plating
- fixed a consistency problem with marking quests available in your current level
- planets can now spend extra minerals to repair their ships
- colony ships now have shields
- planets can now upgrade their ships that have been built (uses minerals)
- fixed missing DeclareWarHonorTreaty if ignoring the wrong race
- monster races can now recruit an appropriate monster if planet doesn't have any defenders (ShaggyMoose)
- Dryad no longer asks for stolen technology
- decreased BestQuestBonus for needed item quests from 1 to -1
- decreased BestQuestBonus for delivery quests from 0 to -1
- now Trustworthy and Ruthless races expect you to keep third party treaties for 25 minutes (Bluddy)
- now Aggressive and Chaotic races expect you to keep third party treaties for 15 minutes (Bluddy)
- changed PROTOCOL_VERSION to 18
- improved ingame and options menus
- improved weather control device
- improved anti neutronium texture
- fixed cargo bays not getting compared to bay slot on right
- can now only fail repairing because of nearby enemies if vendor is repairing
- increased CreateQuestTries from 10 to 20
- changed a couple of machines to slightly rotate
- improved ball lightning trap
- fixed some display issues with remote mines (Tuidjy)
- changed where Storm beam shoots from
- changed from Direct Input 5 to 8
- fixed duplicate warning on configure keyboard and joystick pages
- added text backdrop to worldMap header text
- fixed shock Torpedo Explosion
- now widgets can show hotkeys with color codes in them (won't cut off because too long)
- now shake screen & controller when a component breaks
- fixed some fear points converting to string issues (Tuidjy)
- left/right now toggles system/sector maps when on map screen
- changed ui_maxTextEventsShown default from 10 to 5 (Steve)
- changed nothing but gibberish to has been corrupted (Steve)
- now when restocking components on vendors try less components
- fixed binding thrusters on to a mouse button not working (profanicus)
- hopefully monster races no longer leave behind derelicts (Katrin)
- made omega torpedo quieter
