Version 1.57.1: Patch Notes

Hello starchasers! As promised I'm back with another patch to address gamebreakingly softlockingly pertinent issues, plus a variety of other small goodies. Cat pics? What? What do you- Oh, right. Okay, here's a few.

Anyway the game's going through a massive deep dive of bugfixing and polish and that's... involved. I've still got some 43 pages of bugfixes and notes on stuff, part of which is incorporated into the game (namely in the starting regions). It also includes some extra bits, like a new depth of field option for dialogue camera and lots of readability passes.

Anyway, changelog time!

Changelog is as follows:

NEW FEATURES

• The pause button now skips launch/landing cutscenes.
• If you can’t hail a ship the target interaction menu will now reflect that by greying out the option.
• Selling a ship to a shipdealer now also sells any equipment aboard that ship.
• You can now select nav items on the map via their icons.
• Mimics around battleship wrecks now drop items on death, with a slightly higher chance for rare items than normal lootboxes found around battleship wrecks.
• Vanity items (such as decals, furniture, dyes, etc) in random cargo are now weighted: if you don’t have a vanity item there’s now a 50% to pick from the vanity item pool.
• Quest logs now display the current objective of quests that aren’t completed.

CHANGES AND REBALANCES

• Touched up a bunch of pre-existing areas for multiplayer’s main campaign.
• Stations that don’t have their own dedicated rooms for ship services (such as trading, equipment, etc), will now warp you close to the NPC that offers those services, instead of just resetting you in the launch bay.
• Pyrona is more expressive in her dialogue.
• Old Ferly is now properly named and it’s better communicated that killing her unlocks a trophy for you.
• Some more benign storm hazards have had their music changed to reflect the fact that they aren’t hostile.
• The Yeahtier now fights back against its inevitable fate in the Battle That Always Will Be.
• The storage depot in Battle That Always Will Be has a more involved explosion and actively shows damage.
• Gythrian now has a properish uniform for his purposes.
• Rewrote several old campaign tutorials to match the cadence and length of other tutorials. Ambient fishing ships now fish far deeper. Far, far deeper.
• Pausing the game now pauses tunnel and laneline audio (which is now affected by volume settings).
• Customized ships in the shipdealer menu are shown with their customization stuff.
• The Old Red Fighter in campaign mission 2 is even more obvious now. You see? You see what you’re making me do?
• Added more sounds and music cues when you complete a campaign mission.
• Unified ship naming schemes across title and in-game loading systems.
• Defensive drones that are assisting NPCs (rather than attacking players) now have slightly updated effects.
• Adjusted the colors of Variom’s nebula.
• Cargo boxes you can’t loot will despawn eventually now, to prevent memory leaks.
• Redid some sounds, balancing, and aspects of the Great Dish to bring it up to my modern standards.
• The storm klaxon for your hazard UI will now only go off when a new storm is encountered.
• Adjusted some aspects of Hard Business to flow better.
• Expanded sun bounding boxes on the navmap.
• Lanelines on the navmap now have a new animated material.
• Rebalanced the fight with Trasklar slightly, along with fixing several issues related to the fight.
• Moved Trasklar’s ship back slightly, to give you more time to process all the things you’ve encountered.
• Added sound cues to ship transfer stuff.
• Pickup messages now have more coloration to make them stand out better.
• Added some more sound cues to UIs opening.
• Trasklar’s blade’s pieces now have greatly increased value, so-as to grant some exp to you upon the completion of their quests.
• Resized the dialogue UI slightly to better increase readability.
• Added a depth of field option to the dialogue UI to better increase readability.
• Added proper camera angles to Nagris Depot’s items and prevented early interactions with some story elements.
• Increased the frequency of idle space chatter.
• Slightly increased subtitle readability.

FIXES

• Fixed some various issues in Between Spaces including missing music and missing enablers.
• Dengariad now wears proper Vauldwin robes, as a UHC stationmaster should.
• Fixed some duplicated meshes on stations.
• Fixed issues with pathfinding NPCs pathfinding something like a shipwreck.
• Fixed issue where Karbelle’s offer for drinks would be made too early in the storyline.
• Fixed issues with some party members having icons that were way too high up.
• Fixed some camera issues with Vauldwin fighters in hangars.
• Fixed some particle explosion issues during campaign mission 2.
• The Alablaster jumps much further away during campaign mission 2 now.
• Fixed issue where the onboard narrator would narrate waypoints being reached even if they weren’t actually reached.
• Changing tracked quests will no longer make quest waypoints persist.
• Fixed various audio sources that weren’t affected by volume settings.
• You can no longer open station UIs during cutscenes, to prevent some basic softlocking.
• Fixed issue where the Vauldwin fighter’s cockpit’s cruise readout wouldn’t work correctly.
• Fixed issues where custom decals and custom paintjobs would be duplicated in the customization menu.
• Fixed camera issues related to the player jumping or crouching during landing or launching cutscenes.
• Fixed minor UI issues in the ship customization UI when swapping between ships.
• Fixed issue where hood ornaments on ships weren’t saving.
• Fixed softlock issues during campaign mission 2 related to Ebezzio.
• Fixed minor issues when trying to waypoint within a laneline.
• Fixed text readout issues on speedometers and cruise readouts on various ship cockpits.
• Battleship Seterfetale’s quartermaster was recently fired for moving five billion tons of space cocaine. In his absence, the new quartermaster found that the old quartermaster had forgotten to pull the high class items that are normally meant to be sold by battleships.
• Fixed issue where robotic NPCs on stations would say that they offered quests, even if they didn’t.
• Fixed Variom’s shipdealer having various issues.
• Fixed Variom station’s docking ports being upside down.
• Fixed issue where claimed storms would destroy themselves.
• Fixed issue with the Great Dish having some scan issues.
• Fixed issue where some battleship icons on the map were rotated.
• Fixed issue with robotic drones in combat not firing upon other ships.
• Fixed issue where battleships that weren’t discovered yet would display their names.
• Fixed mild graphical issues with Macrovari battleships.
• Fixed issue where lead ships during a mission would spawn without an ethnicity.
• Fixed some Macrovari station issues.
• Fixed issue with cockpits in simulations and memories.
• Fixed issue where capital shipwrecks wouldn’t drop dyes or decals.
• Fixed issue where waypoints weren’t clearing right.
• Fixed UI issue with the bounty tab of your questlog.
• Fixed issue where NPCs during missions wouldn’t sync in multiplayer correctly.
• Fixed issue where, much like depressed penguins, ships mid-combat would suddenly turn, pick a direction, and fly away forever.
• Fixed some window rendering errors. Like, windows on stations.
• Fixed various audio issues with animated trains on planets.
• Fixed more chairs being sittable that shouldn’t be sittable.
• Junktech finally renegotiated with (by way of suing them into oblivion for breach of contract) the company that paints their haulers. They’re now purple once more!
• Other players in multiplayer no longer activate laneline effects if they’re actually in the laneline.
• Fixed some graphical issues with the mining graveyard in Moncreise.
• Fixed some camera angle issues with Macrovari NPCs during the main quest.
• Fixed issue where Coron Vebeltz was a god damned liar and didn’t tell you where to find Kaisus Circle.
• Fixed issue where Our Good Name wouldn’t reward the player with permanent Matta love.
• Fixed issue where smaller jellyfish wouldn’t explode in a vast shower of cosmic gore.
• Fixed transfer issues that occurred when fighting quest and bounty based NPCs in multiplayer.
• Fixed ship duplication issues that occurred when respawning for a quest based NPC in multiplayer.
• Fixed various progression errors with quests and bounties in multiplayer.
• Fixed issue where systems being stormed would display over a system having a player in it.
• Made leading pips work better in multiplayer, and in general.
• Fixed issue where players wouldn’t have proper indicators and leading pips between each other.