What is up Depthians!

A couple of changes and fixes for the current Alpha branch.

Changelog


[h2]Changes[/h2]
[h3]AI[/h3]

• Added target prioritisation options for plasma and flamer firepower
  

• Oxidizer-efficiency at 40 intensity compared to 20 down from 66% to 50%
  
• Projectiles with 20->40 fire intensity get 20->0% extra fuel and oxidizer. Fire damage modifier back to (INTENSITY - RESISTANCE * 0.15) / (RESISTANCE * 0.85)
  

• Added incendiary parameters in the shell customizer for incendiary head
  
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• Fixed incendiary pellets not contributing to shell health and kinetic damage
  

• Fixed (mainly small) fires possible not spreading to the parent construct if they kill the subconstruct's root block
  
• Fixed a problem causing fires to spread back from subconstructs to possibly far away parts(around 0,0,0) of the parent
  

• Fixed flamer main blocks causing problems when the vehicle is destroyed
  
• Tank connection markers correctly show which direction they can send and receive connections from
  

What is up Depthians!

We are pleased to introduce Incendiary pellets for CRAMs, as well as a number of changes and fixes.

• Added incendiary pellets to CRAMs. Intensity and oxidizer content can be changed in the cannon's Q menu
  
• Removed minimum caliber needed for incendiary bodies. Turns out igniting fires is fast even at RPMs in the 1000s
  
• Added incendiary head to APS shells
  
• AI hot point targeting can target fires (could already do it in previous versions, was missing from the changelog)
  
• Small flamer tanks only get 75% fuel/catalyst/oxidizer for every material spent compared to large
  
• Cargo container health from 8100 to 15000, armor from 7 to 5, flammability from 60 to 200%, fire resistance from 10 to 20
  
• Improved performance for igniting fires
  
• Made projectiles with a strong incendiary component much more consistent in finding blocks that are close enough to ignite
  
• Various tooltip/UI fixes
  

What is up Depthians!

We hope you are all enjoying the new fire mechanics and incendiary rounds/modules.


If you do not know how to access the Alpha branch:

Right click From the Depths in your library list of games.
Properties > Betas tab, look at the Betas participation menu and select alpha_test - alpha_test

[h2]Fire changes[/h2]

• Fire burn rate increased from 1 fuel/intensity to 1.5. Fires do damage faster
  
• Fires spread when they have 10000 FUEL:CELL_COUNT ratio, instead of 7500. Fires are more localized
  
• Fires need ~11% more fuel*intensity to be considered 1 firepower. This means APS and missile damage is increased
  
• Block fire damage modifier is (INTENSITY - RESISTANCE * 0.1) / (RESISTANCE * 0.9). Was 0.15 and 0.85, low intensity fires are relatively stronger
  
• Heavy armor fire resistance up from 50 to 60
  
• Fixed non-heavy APS barrels having 10% flammability, down to 0%
  
• Non-armored laser optic fire resistance down from 60 to 40
  
• Fire efficiency reduction starts at 5000 total cells being on fire, and reaches 30% slower
  

• Added idle azimuth/elevation options for flamers
  
• Increased flamer fuel and oxidizer output by 25%
  
• Increased max rotation speed of flamer main parts from 60/s to 75/s
  
• Removed steam connection for flamer tanks. Boilers are too compact for steam connections to be interesting without making flamer steam use too high, compressors are buffed instead
  
• Flamer compressor power use depends on the amount of tanks they are connected to and the target range set for the flamer
  
• S compressors only have 75% the power-efficiency of L ones
  
• Compressor cost reduced to 50%
  
• Flamer power use is generally low, extremely low when set to lower ranges(<300m range is mostly possible for visuals)
  

• Reduced minimum diameter needed for incendiary bodies from 195mm to 100mm
  
• APS projectiles have 20% more health
  
• Increased particle cannon damage output by ~4.2%
  
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• Fixed not being able to remove flamer main blocks when connection highlights are on
  
• Fixed flamers possibly getting blocked by ground if the bottom of the jet touches it, instead of the top
  
• Fixed a problem possibly making flamer hits very close to the ground not registering
  
• Flamers now won't fire and display a warning when they have no fuel tanks
  
• Fixed flamer particle effects flickering when fired from high speed vehicles
  
• Fixed flamers not adding oxidizer when hitting targets beyond very short range
  

• Fixed APS incendiary body tooltip not mentioning minimum diameter needed
  
• Fixed EMP resistance on scented candles
  

What is up Depthians!
This update brings fires and incendiary weapons to From the Depths!

If you do not know how to access the Alpha branch:
Right click From the Depths in your library list of games.
Properties > Betas tab, look at the Betas participation menu and select alpha_test - alpha_test

[h3]Fires[/h3]

Fires do damage over time and generally have more raw damage than HE. They are very strong against high speed vehicles outside water.
Can still work, but are less efficient against strong materials and under water.
Beyond doing damage fires also soften enemies up for other weapons: they reduce the armor of the blocks they damage.
2 small, but important balance changes worth noting:
- to compensate for being very flammable wood got a small health boost
- incendiary weapons are relatively weak against subs, so the underwater HE damage boost now also applies to all thump damage. More options for submarine hunting!

• Added fires. A fire is a group of cells that take damage over time. Cells below the waterline are extinguished
  
• Fire damage taken reduces the armor value of blocks, to a minimum of 1. X% total health taken as fire damage = (1-X)% armor left
  
• Fires spread when they destroy blocks, or if they have lots of fuel relative to their size
  
• Fires have 3 properties: fuel, intensity and oxidizer
  
• Fuel determines how much total damage a fire can do. The baseline is 1 fuel = 1 damage
  
• Intensity determines how much fuel/s a fire uses for every burning cell, and reduces the damage reduction of fire resistant materials
  
• Oxidizer doubles the armor reduction effect of fires (50% fire damage taken reduces every block to 1 armor), and makes it possible for them to burn under water
  
• At 20 intensity 1 oxidizer is used for every 4 fuel over water, 1 oxidizer for every 2 fuel below water. Every 10 intensity increase also increases oxidizer use by 1/3 of the base
  
• Blocks have 2 new properties: fire resistance and flammability
  
• A fire with intensity below the block's fire resistance does reduced damage to that block. Damage multiplier: (INTENSITY - RESISTANCE * 0.15) / (RESISTANCE * 0.85), 0-1 range.
  
• Blocks with flammability above 0 add fuel to the fire for every unit of fuel used. Intensity of the fuel added is the block's fire resistance
  
• Wood has 10 resist and 80% flammability, 1 cell taking damage from a 100 fuel, 50 intensity fire: 50+40=90 fuel left, new total intensity is ~32.22
  
• Blocks generally have 10-60 fire resist, and 0-80% flammability
  
• High speed fans the flames, increasing fire damage done/fuel
  
• Big fires choke themselves out, reducing damage done/fuel. Reduction starts at 3000 total burning cells on a vehicle, minimum efficiency is 30% of the original.
  
• Added incendiary bodies to APS and missiles. Their intensity range is 20-40, and they can also pack oxidizer
  
• APS and missile impacts ignite a fire around the explosion point
  
• Destroying fuel tanks ignites fires, fuel of the fire depends on the fuel level of the vehicle. Intensity is 20
  
• Fires have an IR signature, a function of total fuel and intensity. IR guidance can lock onto individual fires
  
• A burning block colliding with another construct spreads the fire to it
  
• Added a tab to the V menu showing all the active fires on that vehicle/structure
  
• Added a designer-only character item for igniting fires
  
• Wood base health up from 180 to 200
  
• Impact damage gets the same boost as explosions under water
  

• New weapon system: flamers
  
• Flamers use fuel, and ignite fires at short range. Cheap and compact for the firepower
  
• Flame speed is ~300 m/s, maximum range is ~400m
  
• 2 main block variants, both 1x1x4m beams: connection point in the back with +-35 azi and elevation range, connection point at the bottom with 360 azi and -10 to 89 elevation range
  
• Pipes connect the main blocks to tanks
  
• 3 tank types: fuel, oxidizer and catalyst. They increase fuel/oxidizer throughput and intensity
  
• Intensity without catalyst tanks is 20. 2:1 fuel:catalyst tank ratio is 30 intensity, 1:2 is 50, ...
  
• 2 tank sizes: 1x1x1 and 1x3x3. Smaller tanks are more compact and more expensive for the firepower
  
• Tanks can be chained, they can only connect to tanks of the same size and type
  
• Destroying flamer tanks ignites fires
  
• Tank lines can be pressurized by adding compressors or steam pipe connections to their end
  
• Compressors use power, and have a fixed throughput. Compressors can maintain lower pressure in long tank lines
  
• Flamer pressure is the weighted average of the pressure of individual tank lines. Lower pressure means slightly lower range
  

• Lasers have intensity instead of AP, and they are mitigated by fire resistance instead of armor. Damage multiplier is RESIST / INTENSITY, capped at 1
  
• Lasers ignite fires when they destroy blocks. Fuel of the fire is determined by flammability of the blocks destroyed, intensity by fire resistance
  
• Laser base damage is reduced to 50%, and smoke/shield reduction is much weaker
  
• Laser damage counts as fire damage, also reduces armor of the blocks damaged
  
• Laser fires don't add any oxidizer
  
• Short range combiner ranges from 100-500 to 150-600
  

• Local weapon controllers now have an alternate mode, they can control weapons up to 4 cells away in 2 directions
  
• Steam pipe durability increased
  
• Propeller hub overlay is only displayed in build mode
  

Candles are no longer EMP proof.
Delay pulse fixed for when the second option in the dropdown is selected.

What is up Depthians!

:candle: Update Alert: Introducing Lightning Hood Larry's Latest Creation - The Scented Candle!
Hold onto your hats, adventurers! Lightning Hood Larry, famed inventor and fashionista extraordinaire, has unleashed his latest marvel upon Neter: the Scented Candle!
Be prepared to embark on an olfactory journey like never before, as this revolutionary creation promises to tantalize your senses with delightful aromas. But beware - rumors swirl that these candles may have a trick or two up their sleeves... or wicks.
For just 5 Neterbucks, you can bask in the glow of science and style, courtesy of Lightning Hood Larry. It's a deal too good to pass up!




There will be more hot stuff on the way...

Changelog

[h2]Additions[/h2]
[h3]Candles [/h3]

• Added a range of beautiful smelling candles to the game to decorate your priceless wooden ships with.
  

• Added a new nuke effect to replace the old missing one.
  

• Delay pulse now activates and does a full countdown even if a 1 is no longer present but has been triggered once.
  

We've had to remove the video recording feature for Linux users as this isn't supported on Linux and was preventing an options menu from appearing. Sorry folks.

Two small additions:
ACB controllers can now be read by Breadboard Getters. So button presses can execute breadboard functions.
ACBs now have a readable variable to let the breadboard know if it's condition is met or not.

What is up Depthians! We have set the current Alpha build to Stable,
which brings several new additions to Breadboard.

Our Kotl/Kotl help team and Mike aka ABYAY have also made numerous
tweaks and upgrades to campaign craft for Neter, AotE and Glao which
you can find after the changelog and numerous new prefabs have been
added.

One very important change is that we have upgraded to Unity
2022.3.20f1. What this means is that all mods that reference
UnityEngine.dll should now be converted to "NET standard 2.1" class
libraries (instead of "NET framework 4.6 class libraries"). The easiest way
to do this is (in our experience) to replace the contents of the .csproj file
with:





netstandard2.1

enable





Then delete the Properties, obj and bin folders. Then open the project in
Visual Studio and back in all the dependencies and references that were
removed in the process. I apologize for the inconvenience. Existing mods
which have not been updated may not function as expected.

Nick has also left us some short clips explaining some of the new
Breadboard additions.

[h2]Variable Reader and Writer[/h2]
[previewyoutube=zUgXKKfQ8DM;leftthumb][/previewyoutube]
[h2] Link between AI and Breadboard [/h2]
[previewyoutube=7YQlkv49DBs;leftthumb][/previewyoutube]
[h2] Updates to the Generic Block Getter [/h2]
[previewyoutube=wUEJE1g4gdg;leftthumb][/previewyoutube]
[h2] Mass evaluator and new data types [/h2]
[previewyoutube=ILAO-ogB8hw;leftthumb][/previewyoutube]


Changelog


[h2]Additions[/h2]

[h3] Breadboard [/h3]

• Added a pair of breadboard modules and associated AI
  behaviours/manoeuvres, the AI Manoeuvre Output (Breadboard
  Manoeuvre Link in the AI) and the AI Behaviour Input (Breadboard
  Behaviour Link in the AI). These allow you to retrieve manoeuvering
  information from the AI (primarily relating to its waypoints) for the former,
  or send waypoint information to the AI for the latter. Navigation performed
  using the behaviour input/link will benefit from normal AI features such as
  collision avoidance.


• Added a pin to the flagship info component to directly
  output the flagship's position as a Vector3


• Added a shared-data-reader and a shared-data-writer
  component. These can share data across a vehicle, fleet, team,
  mothership/drone group or globally. All breadboard data types are
  supported and you can store data in indexed arrays of up to 1000
  elements of length. Variables can be given custom names.


• Added a toggle to the PID component to flip the sign on
  its output, for example from 1 to -1.


• Added the ability for the Orientation input to output
  either the forward vector, rotation euler angles or rotation quaternion.
  


• Added the ability to output the current physics step to
  the Time input.


• Added the ability to switch between 'Universal' and
  'Standard' coordinates to various modules, namely the Primary Target Info
  and PositionInput components. Universal coordinates have their origin at
  the centre of the map, and Standard coordinates have an origin that
  changes with the current frame of reference, with Universal being the old
  behaviour for these modules.


• Breadboard accumulator and differencer components
  now support all data types


• Breadboard Clamp component now has support for
  doubles, longs, vectors, quaternions and strings


• Breadboard Constant input component now has Vector3,
  Quaternion and long output types (as well as double and text)


• Breadboard is now double precision and also supports 64
  bit integers (longs) when necessary. Maths evaluator has a lot of support
  for longs now and longs can be typed into the maths evaluator like this
  "10L" or "15l".


• Breadboard Multiply component now has support for
  doubles, longs, vectors and quaternions


• Breadboard one shot component now supports all data
  types


• Breadboard Printer component now has support for more
  inputs and supports format codes and multiple lines.


• Breadboard switch component now supports all data
  types and will pass sensible defaults when switched 'off'


• Constant input component can now output a Vector3,
  Quaternion or 64 bit integer (long), as well as the usual floating point
  value or string


• Maths evaluator can now use .x .y .z or .pitch .yaw .roll to
  extract the pitch yaw or roll from a quaternion. .x and .pitch do the same
  thing. .y and .yaw do the same thing. .z and .roll do the same thing.
  Angles are in degrees.


• Maths evaluator now has functions String(x) and String(x,
  [format code]) that turn x (float,Vector3,Quaternion) into strings. The
  version with [format code] accepts standard C# format codes for numeric
  values.


• Maths evaluator now has functions ToStandard(v) and
  ToUniversal(v) that convert a universal Vector3 position coordinate into a
  unity game engine Vector3 position, and visa versa.

• ACB can be 'tested' (executed) via the GBS


• Ammo ejector can eject via GBS


• APS can have all clips cleared via GBS


• Tactical nuke can be exploded via GBS

• PID components can now have their SetPoint pin
  removed. If so, it will treat its setpoint as being equal to 0.


• The Primary Target Info component will now output an
  empty vector to its Target Position and Target Velocity pins if there is no
  target, rather than outputting 0.

Fixes:

Tracers - Accounted for the addition of the new 3rd parameter in builtin shell designs. Accounted for legacy tracers being loaded in the new builds. (Tracers should now not default to 0.1 length.)

Smoke generator - Steam effect now correctly uses drag, gravity etc.

Additions:

Decorations/Mimics - Added the ability to swap decorations to different materials, and added an emissive-only material. (These materials will have better names in a future release.)

Hi everyone!

Following the Christmas update and some confusion regarding turrets and collisions Nick has spent a bit of time working on them. We are sorry this bug persisted and crept into builds as it did. A contractor and long time player was working on a bug relating to spinblocks and he disappeared, we've waited on him returning to fix things but he hasn't appeared back. We hope he is okay. This has resulted in Nick picking up the work and having to make the changes he did, though he has went further and improved subobject collision checking after reverting the changes in the previous patch. Here is a list of changes and clarifications in the recent update that I hope clears things up.

1. This only affects level 1 turrets, spinblocks and pistons. Once you go further than that you can clip as you always have so no this doesn't affect spin clipping. That is exactly as it always was.

2. As per the image below, if you are on a block causing a problem the green ring will show the radius of the check and the red part will show where the issue lies. If you need to check a subobject for collisions you can also use the tools in the shift + e advanced build tools menu and the debugger there for recording collisions.



3. As per the image below, slopes are now checked for more precisely. So instead of them being classed as a full block they are checked as they look. Some blocks such as intakes also have relaxed rules to allow turrets to turn as they did. It could be we've missed something with this so if you think another block needs this treatment please post in alphatest channel in the discord.



4. This also means you can now armour up your turret wells with slopes where they couldn't have went previously.



5. If you exploited the origin point of beams in order to place longer blocks where they shouldn't have been then you'll need to fix those. You can no longer exploit origin points.

Additions

APS Visible tracer - length multiplier now editable.
Smoke generator - Added steam particle effect as an option.

Changes

Walkers - Stability will go no lower than 0.8 when a clamping foot is clamped.
APS Ammo intake feeder - This is now fully modelled as an appropriately sized (small/simple) mesh for the purpose of the new turret rotation calculations.

Fixes

[Regression 3.8.3] Fixed an issue with 2 axis turret where the elevation axis would not move if the azimuth axis was not also moving.
Pistons - Piston collision check for slopes / corners / plates added, as per turrets and spinners.
Pistons - Piston collision checks now cached for performance improvement.
Turrets/Spinners - Slight performance improvement when rechecking collision checks after sustaining/repairing damage.

[Neter]
Excruciator (WF): Entirely overhauled; a high-speed battleship armed with multiple railguns to live up to its name. Godly difficulty, adventure difficulty 60
Spectre (SS): Duplicated text removed from lore.
Damacy (GT): Replaced missing block and fixed material allocation.
Glaukos (GT): Fixed random out-of-place blocks, added ball turret mounts to S missile turrets, smoothed some of the structure, painted "The One" deco block.
Corsair (DWG): Updated propeller logic to lessen chances of pitching and flipping.
Lamprey (GT): Deco fix for rail magnets.
Parallax (SD): Remade and reintroduced; a fast spacecraft which delivers two huge missiles at larger targets, uses a weak laser to swat smaller targets. Medium difficulty, adventure difficulty 50.
Carnage (SD): Aesthetic improvements, including gimbal thrusters.

[AotE]
Sentinel (OW): Fixed turret rotation, internally overhauled, AI tweaks, and rear was redesigned.
Longhorn (OW): Re-enabled spawning in adventure. This was intended sooner and was missed.)
Overseer (OW): Overhauled and reintroduced to the active roster. Does it fire a massive cannon shell, or is it a missile? You decide!

[Glao]
Obsidian (OFD): New plane which replaces the Bomber; a compact plane with a wavy movement pattern with missile arrays and an underslung turreted cannon.
Quartz (OFD): New thrustercraft; similar in appearance to the Emerald, but goes all in on a powerful frontal plasma cannon.
Conqueror (GI): New thrustercraft; a cannon-focused brute that outlasts foes with its heavy frontal armor and delivers a kinetic barrage in return.
Gladiator (GI): New thrustercraft; similar in appearance to the Conqueror but sacrifices some of its cannon power for missile arrays.

Fixed turret rotation issues introduced from recent patch for the following designs:
Longhorn (OW, AotE)
Lucerne (OW, AotE)
Chorus (WF)
Longinus (WF)
Purifier (WF)
Redeemer (WF)
Retaliator (WF)
Slasher (WF)
Thrasher (WF)
Angstrom (LH)
Atriedes (SE, AotE)
Scarab (SE, AotE)

We have once again disabled Steam sync. After liaising with Steam it became clear that there is a bug at Steam's side with their sync product which they have now admitted to. However, they don't seem to have any appetite to fix it because the ETA for a fix is "unknown." Their proposed fix of reducing files both; doesn't work for some of the player base and it doesn't seem to always work anyway.
I am sorry to anyone this affects, but it is out of our hands until they fix their issue. This also means GeForce NOW is off the table for players that want to use that.
I suggest you setup some kind of backup of your player profile. DO NOT use Onedrive or google file sync, that causes its own headaches and problems. See the bug reports channel in discord for a workaround if you do have any of those.

BrilliantSkies would like to wish everyone a great holiday period!

To celebrate the holidays some of the community led by Melch (curator) and Lyons(map) have created the Christmas Campaign once more. You can load the planet by using the Content menu in game.
Thank you to everyone who contributed a design!

Nick put on his elf hat and has been working on some bug fixes. There are also updates to various campaign vehicles.

Just to let everyone know flamers and flames will be coming in the New Year so that is something to look forward to in the New Year!

Enjoy and have a good one!

PATCH NOTES

ADD

APS
[BUGS-4260] railgun magnets can now be 'hidden' using decorations, and decorations attached to them will nominally spin as per the magnet.

Lua
Added GetConstructLocalCenterOfMass() method to return the local center of mass.

Physics
[BUGS-4255] The 'V' menu (General info -> Physics) now has an option to turn off the half-voxel rounding/snapping of the centre of mass point. This may be useful for certain vehicle types.

Blocks
[BUGS-4247] GP PID can now has output yaw control option.

CHANGES

XMAS
The xmas 2023 campaign has been released.

Map editor
'View distance' now affects storm cloud layer as well as standard clouds.
If you use a terrain size less than 1024m the game will spawn more terrain pieces to make up for it so that there is not obviously missing terrain. This is has a very bad effect on frame-rate however so don't do it...)

Fire control computer,
Fire control computers can be assigned weapon slots so that they can be limited to controlling certain weapon groups.)

UI
There is now more information displayed about why weapons are not firing, when you manually try to fire them.)
Fuel engine build UI changes following community discussion.

FIXES
Environment
The horizon object that blends sky to sea has been broken for a while, it is now fixed.

Breadboard
[BUGS-4050] Doppler shift for sound effects was limited (by accident) to be no less than 10%. This has been removed, allowing breadboard playback module to produce sounds with no doppler shift.
RandomInput now has correct inputs and outputs number.

Turrets
Reverted a previous change to turrets that was supposed to make hull collision checks more lenient. This change was because it was possible for a quickly rotating turret to access rotations that a slowly rotating turret could not, by effectively jumping through some of the more problematic angles such as 45. Rather than making it more lenient I have changed it so that checks are performed incrementally to ensure no difficult angle is jumped through. I have increased the precision of the calculation from floating point to double precision calculations.

UI
When aiming weapons manually you'll now see bombs, torpedoes, turrets, missile-block-lasers, plasma cannons and particle cannons as separately listed weapon types in the RDY/IDLE list in the bottom right (as well as cannons, missiles and lasers.)

Missiles
[BUGS-4270] missile controllers with no missiles on them will now use the missile-laser-block position as the firing post position for the purposes of aiming (if applicable). They will prioritize missile-laser-blocks with an encoding of 'our team' or 'our vehicle.'
[BUGS-4289] when a munition decorator is repaired it will apply the decoration to the missiles that need it.

Multi-player
Fixed building and material spending issues in multi-player when players are on different teams.

Tutorials
Fixed the AI build guide.

Weapons
AI fail-safes attached to AI equipment that controls a weapon are now used by the player when trying to fire the weapon manually. This enables you to test your fail-safe (and also not shoot yourself.)

CRAM
[BUGS-4269] CRAM barrel decorations had an issue where original mesh hiding was not working after spawning. Now fixed.

Campaign Blueprints

[Neter]
Brigand (DWG): New carrier ship that deploys a helicopter and launches barrages of missiles at its foes from afar. Godly difficulty, adventure difficulty 30. Now uses water travel mode as intended.
Rat (DWG): Fixed a turning problem, removed excess missile controller.
Judgement (WF): Overhauled as a potent particle cannon destroyer. Difficulties unchanged (Expert, adventure difficulty 60).
Disemboweler (WF): Updated AI behaviors to make its attack runs more consistent. Slight rudder changes.
Whaleshark (SS): Updated CA and scuttling parameters to help lessen the chances of planes going to space; note that this isn't a full fix and some may still do this, but should be a bit more manageable until a more permanent design fix is deployed. Now uses BB control for plane management. Exocets overhauled, even less prone to going to space from recent update.
Glyptos (GT): New thrustercraft, replaces the Perseus; you want missiles? You got missiles. Medium difficulty, adventure difficulty 40.
Perseus (GT): Retired, see Glyptos.
Flail (GT): Minor deco update.
Gog (GT): Deco fixes, minor block adjustments.
ICBM (GT): Fixed a few disconnected CJEs, deco updates.
Morningstar (GT): Same as Flail.
Velocity (SD): Overhauled; still retains its original role as a high-speed missile plane. Hard difficulty, adventure difficulty 30.
Anguish (TG): Updated CA parameters.
Spite (TG): Updated scuttling.
Spear (OW): Fixed duplicate airpumps/connection logic.
Umbra (LH): Now classified as a submarine
Banshee (SS): Fixed missing glass block.
Damacy (GT): Fixed side turret rotation.
Peacekeeper (SD): Retired, awaiting rework.
Corsair (DWG): Deco fixes, added turret ring.
Shrike (DWG): Paint update, added steam jets for more velocity, updates to tail section.
Bulwark (OW): Removed scuttling tag from turrets, causing it to scuttle when one primary turret was destroyed.
Harasser (WF): Harasser has been retired from Neter and remade as a new craft for AotE. Details will be in AotE section.
Piercer (WF): Fixed scuttling issue involving material storage.
Jealousy (TG): Internally redesigned to be cheaper PAC tuning.
Satisfaction Swarm (TG): Added OoC scuttling for drones.
Cherenkov (LH): Removed disconnected missile parts.
Exadyne (LH): Fixed frontal turret being disconnected.
Impedance (LH): Removed unneeded laser transceivers, filled in holes around the cockpit, fixed glass aesthetic near the stern.
Asphodel (SS): Updated Penguin subspawn with propellers over old dediblades.
Gannet Squadron (SS): Added OoC scuttling.
Kitakami (SS): Updated Penguin subspawn with propellers over old dediblades.
PredatorX (SS): Updated with thrust vectoring, removed side thrusters. Improved EMP insulation, added Breadboard for previous ACB functions. Fixed missiles not firing properly.
Spectre (SS): Fixed a few holes due to deco conversion from decos.
Typhoon (SS): Reduced minimum altitude so that its missiles could breach the surface properly. Optimized missile ranges.
Valiant (SS): Updated Penguin subspawn with propellers over old dediblades.
Damacy (GT): Fixed firing arc of primary cannon as well as problems with maneuvering and armor. Alterations to some weaponry.
Lamprey (GT): Redesigned; a hunting ship turned warship with a potent cannon to shoot at ships (and sea monsters theoretically) alongside complimentary weaponry. Difficulties unchanged. Lore added.
Carnage (SD): Aesthetic improvements, including gimbal thrusters.

- All designs through Neter, AotE, and Glao should have updated collision avoidance settings (Christmas campaign will get a passover in the near future). Note that there may be some mistakes with the parameters, which can be updated based on feedback. However, craft intended to ram should at least try to ram properly. If designs aren't behaving as intended, please report it to the unit-design-bugs channel on Discord.

[AotE]
Dust Chopper (DWG): New DWG bike unit; a small, fast, agile unit with a powerful missile. Adventure difficulty 5.
Smuggler (DWG): New DWG tank; a monosider with a mixture of cannons and missiles. Adventure difficulty 25.
Tuareg (DWG): Entirely overhauled; a large mobile base with a large assortment of weaponry alongside 2 Copperheads and 2 Dust Choppers accompanying it. Will be updated with adventure difficulty once validated.
Longhorn (OW): Overhauled and added back to active roster; an aggressive, ramming tank. Have you ever had a castle drive into you at over 80 m/s? Adventure difficulty 60.
Sand Raider (DWG): Fixed resting drive on wheels to be 0, this way it'll actually stop when not AI controlled.
Bison (OW): Rebuilt; now functions as a broadsider with its top turrets removed and replaced with a crossbow missile turret.
Bombard (OW): Minor paint aesthetic update.
Ember Forge (OW): The land version of the Ember Forge has been overhauled with a beautiful aesthetic update, alongside some light firepower to fend off attackers. The Neter fortress version may receive an update in the near future.
Lucerne (OW): Reworked to now be a frontsider with a large cannon barrage.
Harasser (WF): New "tank" unit: A fearsome bike with a rapid-fire cannon and a tactical nuke lance. Adventure difficulty 20 with low deviation.
Ravager (WF): Overhauled; an intimidating tank with a high top speed, a slew of varied weaponry, and if looks could kill, your next visit would be the Flayed God. Adventure difficulty 80 with high deviation.
Atreides (SE): Replaced the crude fans of the subspawn with propeller hubs.
Overseer (OW): Overhauled and reintroduced to the active roster. Does it fire a massive cannon shell, or is it a missile? You decide!

- Player designs should no longer spawn on the main menu.
- Fixed a "too high" scuttling problem for various land designs (and their subconstructs)
- All AotE designs have had their collision avoidance parameters adjusted from the 50s default. There is likely room for optimization here that will be addressed based on feedback/extensive testing.

[Glao]
Emerald (OFD): Now properly spawns in the air. Whoops.
Helicopter (TRD): Removed dediblades, minor deco overlapping fixes. Likely slated a for a rename/rework in the future.
Granite Squad (OFD): Updated to be faster, more aggressive, and with improved cannons.
Obsidian (OFD): New plane which replaces the Bomber; a compact plane with a wavy movement pattern with missile arrays and an underslung turreted cannon.
Quartz (OFD): New thrustercraft; similar in appearance to the Emerald, but goes all in on a powerful frontal plasma cannon.
Conqueror (GI): New thrustercraft; a cannon-focused brute that outlasts foes with its heavy frontal armor and delivers a kinetic barrage in return.
Gladiator (GI): New thrustercraft; similar in appearance to the Conqueror but sacrifices some of its cannon power for missile arrays.

- All active Glao design bp files have been moved to their respective folders. Duplicates still remain in the main Glao folder which will be cleaned up in the near future.
- All active Glao designs have had their collision avoidance parameters adjusted from the 50s default. There is likely room for optimization here that will be addressed based on feedback/extensive testing.

Not sure what is going on but it seems steam sync related before I re-enabled it today.
If you think you've lost your game data suddenly check this path:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\0\268650\ac\WinMyDocuments\From The Depths\Player Profiles

I am unsure why this happened, but I have contacted Steam.
Sorry for any inconvenience if this has happened to you.

Fixes:
Multiplayer - Resource zones will now no longer be infinite in multiplayer if they've been set to be finite in the world editor.
Fuel build UI - Same treatment the plasma one has had. Will gradually roll this out where its appropriate and possible to do.

[Neter]
Brigand (DWG): New carrier ship that deploys a helicopter and launches barrages of missiles at its foes from afar. Godly difficulty, adventure difficulty 30.
Flail (GT): Minor deco update.
Gog (GT): Deco fixes, minor block adjustments.
ICBM (GT): Fixed a few disconnected CJEs, deco updates.
Morningstar (GT): Same as Flail.
Velocity (SD): Overhauled; still retains its original role as a high-speed missile plane. Hard difficulty, adventure difficulty 30.
Anguish (TG): Updated CA parameters.
Spite (TG): Updated scuttling.
Spear (OW): Fixed duplicate airpumps/connection logic.
Umbra (LH): Now classified as a submarine
Banshee (SS): Fixed missing glass block.
Damacy (GT): Fixed side turret rotation.
Peacekeeper (SD): Retired, awaiting rework.

[AotE]
Dust Chopper (DWG): New DWG bike unit; a small, fast, agile unit with a powerful missile. Adventure difficulty 5.
Smuggler (DWG): New DWG tank; a monosider with a mixture of cannons and missiles. Adventure difficulty 25.
Tuareg (DWG): Entirely overhauled; a large mobile base with a large assortment of weaponry alongside 2 Copperheads and 2 Dust Choppers accompanying it. Will be updated with adventure difficulty once validated.
Longhorn (OW): Overhauled and added back to active roster; an aggressive, ramming tank. Have you ever had a castle drive into you at over 80 m/s? Adventure difficulty 60.
- Fixed a "too high" scuttling problem for various land designs (and their subconstructs)
- All AotE designs have had their collision avoidance parameters adjusted from the 50s default. There is likely room for optimization here that will be addressed based on feedback/extensive testing.

[Glao]
Emerald (OFD): Now properly spawns in the air. Whoops.
Helicopter (TRD): Removed dediblades, minor deco overlapping fixes. Likely slated a for a rename/rework in the future.

- All designs through Neter, AotE, and Glao should have updated collision avoidance settings (Christmas campaign will get a passover in the near future). Note that there may be some mistakes with the parameters, which can be updated based on feedback. However, craft intended to ram should at least try to ram properly. If designs aren't behaving as intended, please report it to the unit-design-bugs channel on Discord.

A few small changes added:

Decorations, Added strategic antenna and dish piece to a conversion dictionary to retain any decos that used the old meshes. This would need to be applied to an old blueprint saved prior to 3.8.0.

Collision Avoidance, Changed defaults to 5 and changed increments to 0.1.

Collision Avoidance, Added warnings to routines that may be affected by collision avoidance to check collision avoidance settings.

A few small changes added:

Decorations, Added strategic antenna and dish piece to a conversion dictionary to retain any decos that used the old meshes. This would need to be applied to an old blueprint saved prior to 3.8.0.

Collision Avoidance, Changed defaults to 5 and changed increments to 0.1.

Collision Avoidance, Added warnings to routines that may be affected by collision avoidance to check collision avoidance settings.

**Stable 3.8.0.1**


This is basically an AI update. We've spent a lot of time getting waypoints and collision avoidance working a lot better. There are also a few more goodies thrown in.
As with every update you might need to close down steam entirely to get it to show the download promptly.

Added:

Collision avoidance - Added a bearing/heading collision avoidance routine where vehicles will turn to avoid each other. This complements the existing vertical collision avoidance which orders pairs of vehicles to change altitude to avoid one-another.
UI - Increased the fidelity of path view mode showing each alteration that collision avoidance / altitude adjustment etc make to the waypoint.
LWC - Added minimum block count limit and minimum speed limit to the existing slider.
Breadboard - Added a time of day module for outputting the time of day.
Breadboard - Added a target volume output to the target info module for AI breadboard.

Fixed:

Collision avoidance - Fix to the aerial collision avoidance where the choice to avoid only friendly units would result in only avoiding enemy units.
UI - Fixed an issue causing path view tooltips to not show up when in fleet control mode with a unit selected.
Multiplayer - Adventure bell ringing noise is more audible and triggers correctly on clients.
Multiplayer - Munition decorations for missiles now spawn in correctly on clients.
APS - Bug with 2m mantlet fixed where the tooltip was displaying incorrect max possible elevation.
Target Prioritisation - Bug fixed where the bonus to current slider couldn't go negative.

Changed:

Pathfinding - Paths that finish in unsuitable terrain (water depth or land height issues) will never be selected, but paths that travel through these areas can still be chosen if the starting point of the vehicle is also unsuitable.
Collision avoidance - Fixes to the system that determines when an aerial collision is likely to take place.
Collision avoidance - Collision avoidance option is no longer ON/OFF/FRIENDLY ONLY. You can toggle avoidance for FRIENDS/ENEMIES and toggle ON/OFF each different routine.
AI - Point at and maintain distance behaviour tries harder to find a suitable place to position the original waypoint when the waypoint is inaccessible due to land height /water depth.
Pathfinding - Pathfinding will move the final path node onto the goal position to make pathfinding more accurate when a large turning circle is selected.
Pathfinding - Pathfinding will effectively reduce the turning circle variable when close to the end point to increase the accuracy of getting to the waypoint.
Cutaway - Changed increments in UI to 0.5.
Decorations - Changed allowed decotabs on a block to be 200 from 32.

Removed:

AI - Removed the practically unused support for multiple terrain pathfinding end points to simplify pathfinding.

Stable 3.7.3

Simple weapons, It is now possible to remove a built-in shell type from the simple weapons UI [BUGS-4214].
Simple weapons, Removing a built-in shell type from the ammo controller UI will now be properly processed in the simple weapons UI.
Simple weapons, Editing a deleted/destroyed shell type is not possible anymore.

Plasma cannons, Build guide and prefabs added.
Plasma cannons, Added short names for localisers.
Plasma cannons, Weight of all plasma components halved.
Plasma cannons, Fixed some descriptions.
Plasma cannons, Damage variance increased to 70-115%. For most of testing it was 70-110% and later went down to 50-110% and then 20-120% (currently). 70-115 means smaller projectiles do slightly more damage and larger ones do slightly less. Originally didn't want to buff small since without overkill its very similar to APS and APS should be the default generic with plasma focusing on anti armour. After review though it was too in favour of large than small.
Plasma cannons, Added damage falloff to tooltip.

AI, Some textures and meshes have been changed to make them easier to identify. An alternate camera 90 mesh is available with a base plate. If you want to discuss these further please do so in the alphatest channel of the discord. I'll ask Alma to keep an eye out. Constructive only please.

Typos, Many typos fixed, thanks for the reports.

Blocks, Rubber poles weren't immune to collision damage like other rubber blocks.

Hey everyone! Stable 3.7.2 is here! Plasma! Along with the past 6 months of fixes, additions and changes from the alpha builds. Thankyou testers! Most discussion involving plasma will happen on the discord so I encourage you to go there. Please remember that this has been in closed testing for weeks and the values and numbers are what they are meant to be to fit into its intended role. Information about the plasma system is in the notes. Thanks and enjoy!

Notes: 3.7.2 stable notes

3.7.1 Alpha

Lots of under the hood changes to AI as well as some bug fixes. Nick is absent for the next 2 weeks and then I (Sean) will be absent for 2 and Alma is currently recovering so it'll be quiet for a little while following this.
If AI mesh stuff throws a GUID error just hold down enter. Will clear it in a later update.

Add:
Ram behaviour, The ram behaviour now has a dropdown with 3 options for 3 different types of guidance. Direct, APN and Predictive. Direct is the old ram behaviour where it goes direct to the target. APN uses the APN missile guidance code to setup a line of sight to a target and then try to close in on it. Predictive tries to intercept the target by calculating where it should be in the future and closing on it at a cross point.
APS CRAM, Resting azimuth added to APS and CRAM firing pieces/mantlets along with a warning about when a mantlet is misaligned with a firing piece. The warning appears on the firing piece.

Changes:
Ram behaviour, The various sliders in the ram behaviour UI now have larger values available in some cases to allow for things like disengaging the adjuster further away on very fast things. Traveling further away before reengaging etc.
PointAt behaviour, New slider added for configuring the view cone to decide when to turn and face away to retreat. Set to 180 for reverse only.
AI, All in one weapon controllers now accept physical connections as well as wireless connections.

Fixes:
Blockcounter, Fixed the blockcounter incorrectly calculating subsubconstructs.
Missiles, Fixed a bug for a rare case where a rotation could be zero and therefore do nothing.
AI, Fix to ship & tank maneouvre to allow 'reverse' when 'point at and maintain distance' behaviour is selected and the adjuster is set to 'air mode' and the vehicle needs to retreat to maintain distance.
AI, Fix to encourage reversing land-surface and sea-surface paths to be formed when 'point at and maintain distance' behaviour is selected and the adjuster is set to 'on land' or 'on water' and the vehicle needs to retreat to maintain distance.
AI, Fix to collision avoidance. There was a bug causing calculations to be wrong. Things can now also evade left right as well as up down. This still isn't perfect and we will try to refine it further.
Manual, Updated the helicopter guide so that it doesn't reference dediblades anymore.
Plate, Alloy and metal plate triangles now mirror correctly on a horizontal mirror.
Poles, Pole hit calculations now use a perfect cylinder to calculate intersections rather than the quantised cylindrical mesh of the pole.
Modding, Item duplicators can now define a class name override for the duplicate block.
Turrets, Turrets and spinBlocks shouldn't be 'stuck' when trying to rotate at max speed and free to move when rotating slowly, the collision check with the mainConstruct is now more permissive. [BUGS-4146]

World files:
Updated DWG with all of its intended corporations. They currently don't serve a purpose but will do so when DWG HQ layout is updated. Craft will be updated to proper corporations at a later date.

[Neter]
Marlin (DWG): Applied connection rules, adjusted terrain prediction time.
Transient (SD): Completely remade; now classified as a spacecraft, retains its cargo carrier status; when attacked, broadsides from afar with a long-distance laser.
Deimos (SD): Updated with interceptor decos, minor evasion tweaks, EMP-proofing.
Anguish (TG): Redesigned; it's now a melee mech with a large sword using a laser cutter core.
Removed "comment" annotation from Neter Adventure raft.

Patchwork (DWG): Overhauled; still retains its original identity but has been modernized.
Wanda (DWG): Updated cannon to be APHE, weakened missiles.
Slight difficulty balancing tweaks to Adventure for some designs that could spawn as the first enemy when they shouldn't have.
Removed LH Current and GT Weaver from spawning in Adventure (cargo craft)

[AotE]
Slight tweaks to early unit spawning for Adventure.

[Glao]
Granite Squadron (OFD): New fighter unit, replaces Fighter; 3 small fighter drones using burst APS.
Fighter (OFD): Retired.

Fix

Adventure, Trying to create/load a "structure" in adventure mode will instead spawn a "vehicle".
Decorations, No longer possible to select other decorations when the mouse is hovering over the UI (this was unintended.)
Rendering, Explosions should no longer end up accidentally occasionally rendering behind the sky layer / horizon layer.
Separator, Built-in shell designs copy into separated vehicles, and shells referring built in designs that are in clips no longer disappear on separation.
Munition Decorator, Removed EMP invulnerability.
Gone to Sea, Fixed character textures in linux.

Add

Blocks, Added 2m and 3m versions of the 4m beam-slope block.

Not much to say other than check out the store page that contains all the information.

Gone to Sea store page

Adds 4 more characters:
Sea Captain, sailor 1, sailor 2 and diver.

A stable update with some interesting changes in there. Adventure mode continues to be worked on and tweaked, thanks for all the feedback so far. The new adventure bell can be found in the Misc tab, ring it once per minute to summon a new enemy in both adventure modes.
If you want to play land adventure you need to load the "ashes of the empire" planet in the content menu and start adventure after loading that. It's a land based campaign. There are still blueprint updates trickling in to get that more up to date.
Glao has started actually being updated, thanks strider for managing that and to the builders!
Tracks are now moddable, Gladyon has added that, still not had anyone do it I think so would be good to know how people get on with it.
On top of that the tracks algorithm had a rewrite a little while back which Gladyon has now ironed the kinks out of.
There's a new widget when decorating (ctrl+x) that you can click and drag to alter your meshes!

Add
Tracks, Track texture will now keep its original ratio when the track's width is modified
Breadboards, Added a comment module with no inputs or outputs, for annotation purposes
Adventure, Bell Added - Misc Tab. Use it to summon enemies in any adventure mode. 1 min cool down, not underwater, not above 300m.

Change
Tracks, It is now possible for modders to add selectable materials for tracks by checking the 'Is available to tracks' option in the material screen of the modding UI
Adventure, Spawning now happens every 10 minutes as well as the other spawn types.
Adventure, Terrain hill scale changed from 0.5 to 0.4 (less hilly)
Adventure mode, In land adventure mode enemies will now spawn at 3km not 5km
Map editor, Removed unused HQ settings from the map editor

Fix
Achievements, Neter campaign achievements (e.g. destroying HQs on different difficulties) fixed
Tracks, Fixed a lot of edge cases bugs in tracks creation
Decorations, When placing a prefab in mirror mode with the prefab intersecting the mirror plane, all the decorations will now be placed [BUGS-4119]
Decorations, The decoration widget position and scale values are now rounded to 5 decimal places
Steam, [BUGS-4113] Changed cases where crank friction loss was applied before kinetic energy was added to the shaft
Steam, [BUGS-4083] Fixed sealed 2m shaft not connecting to transmissions
CRAM, [BUGS-3972] Fixed ERA triggering CRAM shells
APS, Shaped charge and secondary shaped charge tooltip shows damage/fragment, instead of total damage of all fragments
Interceptors, Interceptor priority for targets with >120% of their health in incoming interceptors reduced to 30%, instead of >150%/50%
Explosions, Fixed some strange explosion behaviour with subConstructs due to multi-threading (undamaged blocks which should be damaged or explosion leaking through subConstruct) [BUGS-4100]

I don't usually include this part but it just goes to show how much work goes on behind the scenes by community to improve the various planets. These are updates from the 6th Feb onwards.

Campaign blueprints:

[Neter]
Abactor (DWG): New DWG ship, hard difficulty, replaces Prowler. "The Prowler" in Sal's fleet is another design and will be untouched. Difficulty changed to godly from expert. Removed some unnecessary LWCs, artifacts of a previous version.
Hoplite (DWG): Re-added back as an easy design, updated with modern touches. There might be an "old bp" bug that will require it to be rebuilt as a new bp, will do testing.
Loggerhead (DWG): Paint/deco updates.
Wanda (DWG): Deco updates.
Davy Jones Outpost spawn logic has been set to just spawn all possible units. This is to "futureproof" spawning situations when new designs are added.
Airship Gantry has been given the Hoplite to possibly spawn as well.
Fitzgerald corporation made for DWG but doesn't serve much of a purpose for the time being with the HQ spawn logic. This logic may get improved later when corporations are all fleshed out.
Abactor (DWG):
Prowler (DWG): Retired from campaign and adventure.
Smoker (DWG): Redesigned to be larger and pack a bigger punch, also includes missile deco. The old version has been converted to an SM variant for the story missions.
SmokerSM (DWG): See above.
Tortuga (DWG): Moved to expert difficulty.
Sunfish (DWG): Reintroduced as a small expert thrustercraft; attempts to sit over its target and rain down munitions.
Leatherback (DWG): Heavily updated to be a smaller profile but retain similar functionality.
Monkey Barrel (DWG): Missile deco added to give it "barrel mines". Also has pivoting helicopter behaviors. The SM version is unaffected.
Defender Turret (TG): Redesigned, retains similar functionality.
- As a futureproof measure for Adventure, all installations/buildings have had their spawn rates removed for Adventure.
- More, if not all cargo craft have had their spawn rate removed in Adventure.

Parapet (OW): Difficulty dropped to Expert as intended, from godly. No bp changes.

The Repentance (WF): Deco missiles, slight optimization.
Harbinger (WF): Completely redesigned; has a large cache of cluster missiles as its primary armament.

Thresher Shark (SS): No design changes, fixed some typos in its lore.
Aerotyrant (SS): Improved thrust and lift near the rear to improve pitching issue.


Impedance (LH): Fixed up-props not working.

Astraeus (SD): Miscellaneous fixes and slight shape improvements.
Carnage (SD): Overhauled, still retains its original purpose as an AA thrustercraft. Added a Heartstone.
Archangel (SD): Difficulty dropped to medium from expert. AI updated to prevent it from falling out of space. It's now classified as a Spacecraft and if they're part of Adventure, I've reduced its spawn rate a little.

[AotE]
Sand Viper (DWG): Fixed missing armor, added missing paint.
Black Mamba (DWG): Increased difficulty for Adventure.

Cataphract (WF): Completely redesigned.
Saviour (WF): Completely redesigned and slightly different name from Savior; uses melee PACs as its primary armament.

Bombard (OW): Redesigned and refit to standards.
Oxen: Complete overhaul to get it up-to-date.

Nemesis (TG): Redesigned up to faction standards. I wasn't given a detailed list of changes.
Paladin (TG): Same as above. Fun to watch it charge at things with a giant lance!

[Glao]
Updated a typo in the fleet colors for TRD; the red trim was intended to be much darker.
Explorer (GI): New thrustercraft design. Not set to replace anything, just an addition to their roster. Fixed AI to recommended settings, removed some blocked thrusters
Buzzsaw (GI): Redesigned; still a melee craft but it's now a thrustercraft with more dynamic control.

Echo (TRD): New design, replaces Hammer of God. Spacecraft that hovers over its targets to rain down missiles.

Gold Turret (OFD): New turret design to replace the original "Cannon". AA turret.
Silver Turret (OFD): New turret design to replace the original "Cannon". CRAM cannon.
Defender Turret (GI): New turret design to replace the original "Doomcannon". Multipurpose APS cannon.
Protector Turret (GI): New turret design to replace the original "Doomcannon". Missile turret.
- "Cannon" and "Doomcannon" spawns in fleets have been replaced the appropriate turrets.
- At a later time the stationary turrets will be spread out to defend RZs and map locations as well.

A stable update with some interesting changes in there. Adventure mode continues to be worked on and tweaked, thanks for all the feedback so far. The new adventure bell can be found in the Misc tab, ring it once per minute to summon a new enemy in both adventure modes.
If you want to play land adventure you need to load the "ashes of the empire" planet in the content menu and start adventure after loading that. It's a land based campaign. There are still blueprint updates trickling in to get that more up to date.
Glao has started actually being updated, thanks strider for managing that and to the builders!
Tracks are now moddable, Gladyon has added that, still not had anyone do it I think so would be good to know how people get on with it.
On top of that the tracks algorithm had a rewrite a little while back which Gladyon has now ironed the kinks out of.
There's a new widget when decorating (ctrl+x) that you can click and drag to alter your meshes!

Add
Tracks, Track texture will now keep its original ratio when the track's width is modified
Breadboards, Added a comment module with no inputs or outputs, for annotation purposes
Adventure, Bell Added - Misc Tab. Use it to summon enemies in any adventure mode. 1 min cool down, not underwater, not above 300m.

Change
Tracks, It is now possible for modders to add selectable materials for tracks by checking the 'Is available to tracks' option in the material screen of the modding UI
Adventure, Spawning now happens every 10 minutes as well as the other spawn types.
Adventure, Terrain hill scale changed from 0.5 to 0.4 (less hilly)
Adventure mode, In land adventure mode enemies will now spawn at 3km not 5km
Map editor, Removed unused HQ settings from the map editor

Fix
Achievements, Neter campaign achievements (e.g. destroying HQs on different difficulties) fixed
Tracks, Fixed a lot of edge cases bugs in tracks creation
Decorations, When placing a prefab in mirror mode with the prefab intersecting the mirror plane, all the decorations will now be placed [BUGS-4119]
Decorations, The decoration widget position and scale values are now rounded to 5 decimal places
Steam, [BUGS-4113] Changed cases where crank friction loss was applied before kinetic energy was added to the shaft
Steam, [BUGS-4083] Fixed sealed 2m shaft not connecting to transmissions
CRAM, [BUGS-3972] Fixed ERA triggering CRAM shells
APS, Shaped charge and secondary shaped charge tooltip shows damage/fragment, instead of total damage of all fragments
Interceptors, Interceptor priority for targets with >120% of their health in incoming interceptors reduced to 30%, instead of >150%/50%
Explosions, Fixed some strange explosion behaviour with subConstructs due to multi-threading (undamaged blocks which should be damaged or explosion leaking through subConstruct) [BUGS-4100]

I don't usually include this part but it just goes to show how much work goes on behind the scenes by community to improve the various planets. These are updates from the 6th Feb onwards.

Campaign blueprints:

[Neter]
Abactor (DWG): New DWG ship, hard difficulty, replaces Prowler. "The Prowler" in Sal's fleet is another design and will be untouched. Difficulty changed to godly from expert. Removed some unnecessary LWCs, artifacts of a previous version.
Hoplite (DWG): Re-added back as an easy design, updated with modern touches. There might be an "old bp" bug that will require it to be rebuilt as a new bp, will do testing.
Loggerhead (DWG): Paint/deco updates.
Wanda (DWG): Deco updates.
Davy Jones Outpost spawn logic has been set to just spawn all possible units. This is to "futureproof" spawning situations when new designs are added.
Airship Gantry has been given the Hoplite to possibly spawn as well.
Fitzgerald corporation made for DWG but doesn't serve much of a purpose for the time being with the HQ spawn logic. This logic may get improved later when corporations are all fleshed out.
Abactor (DWG):
Prowler (DWG): Retired from campaign and adventure.
Smoker (DWG): Redesigned to be larger and pack a bigger punch, also includes missile deco. The old version has been converted to an SM variant for the story missions.
SmokerSM (DWG): See above.
Tortuga (DWG): Moved to expert difficulty.
Sunfish (DWG): Reintroduced as a small expert thrustercraft; attempts to sit over its target and rain down munitions.
Leatherback (DWG): Heavily updated to be a smaller profile but retain similar functionality.
Monkey Barrel (DWG): Missile deco added to give it "barrel mines". Also has pivoting helicopter behaviors. The SM version is unaffected.
Defender Turret (TG): Redesigned, retains similar functionality.
- As a futureproof measure for Adventure, all installations/buildings have had their spawn rates removed for Adventure.
- More, if not all cargo craft have had their spawn rate removed in Adventure.
Smoker (DWG): Redesigned to be larger and pack a bigger punch, also includes missile deco. The old version has been converted to an SM variant for the story missions.

Parapet (OW): Difficulty dropped to Expert as intended, from godly. No bp changes.

The Repentance (WF): Deco missiles, slight optimization.
Harbinger (WF): Completely redesigned; has a large cache of cluster missiles as its primary armament.

Thresher Shark (SS): No design changes, fixed some typos in its lore.
Aerotyrant (SS): Improved thrust and lift near the rear to improve pitching issue.


Impedance (LH): Fixed up-props not working.

Astraeus (SD): Miscellaneous fixes and slight shape improvements.
Carnage (SD): Overhauled, still retains its original purpose as an AA thrustercraft. Added a Heartstone.
Archangel (SD): Difficulty dropped to medium from expert. AI updated to prevent it from falling out of space. It's now classified as a Spacecraft and if they're part of Adventure, I've reduced its spawn rate a little.

[AotE]
Sand Viper (DWG): Fixed missing armor, added missing paint.
Black Mamba (DWG): Increased difficulty for Adventure.

Cataphract (WF): Completely redesigned.
Saviour (WF): Completely redesigned and slightly different name from Savior; uses melee PACs as its primary armament.

Bombard (OW): Redesigned and refit to standards.
Oxen: Complete overhaul to get it up-to-date.

Nemesis (TG): Redesigned up to faction standards. I wasn't given a detailed list of changes.
Paladin (TG): Same as above. Fun to watch it charge at things with a giant lance!

[Glao]
Updated a typo in the fleet colors for TRD; the red trim was intended to be much darker.
Explorer (GI): New thrustercraft design. Not set to replace anything, just an addition to their roster. Fixed AI to recommended settings, removed some blocked thrusters
Buzzsaw (GI): Redesigned; still a melee craft but it's now a thrustercraft with more dynamic control.

Echo (TRD): New design, replaces Hammer of God. Spacecraft that hovers over its targets to rain down missiles.

Gold Turret (OFD): New turret design to replace the original "Cannon". AA turret.
Silver Turret (OFD): New turret design to replace the original "Cannon". CRAM cannon.
Defender Turret (GI): New turret design to replace the original "Doomcannon". Multipurpose APS cannon.
Protector Turret (GI): New turret design to replace the original "Doomcannon". Missile turret.
- "Cannon" and "Doomcannon" spawns in fleets have been replaced the appropriate turrets.
- At a later time the stationary turrets will be spread out to defend RZs and map locations as well.

Adventure Bell Added - Misc Tab. Use it to summon enemies in any adventure mode. 1 min cool down, not underwater, not above 300m.
Enemies now spawn every 10 minutes in addition to the spawns based on moving around. The 'hunter fleet' spawns based on sitting still for too long have been disabled.

Achievements, Neter campaign achievements (e.g. destroying HQs on different difficulties) fixed

(Remember you might need to restart Steam if you are already in betatest to get it to detect the new build)

Add
Tracks, Track texture will now keep its original ratio when the track's width is modified
Breadboards, Added a comment module with no inputs or outputs, for annotation purposes

Change
Tracks, It is now possible for modders to add selectable materials for tracks by checking the 'Is available to tracks' option in the material screen of the modding UI
Adventure, Spawning now happens every 10 minutes. (There'll be a block added soon that you can interact with to spawn more enemies when you like.)

Fix
Tracks, Fixed a lot of edge cases bugs in tracks creation
Decorations, When placing a prefab in mirror mode with the prefab intersecting the mirror plane, all the decorations will now be placed [BUGS-4119]
Steam, [BUGS-4113] Changed cases where crank friction loss was applied before kinetic energy was added to the shaft
Steam, [BUGS-4083] Fixed sealed 2m shaft not connecting to transmissions
CRAM, [BUGS-3972] Fixed ERA triggering CRAM shells
APS, Shaped charge and secondary shaped charge tooltip shows damage/fragment, instead of total damage of all fragments

(Remember you might need to restart Steam if you are already in betatest to get it to detect the new build)

Add
Tracks, Track texture will now keep its original ratio when the track's width is modified
Breadboards, Added a comment module with no inputs or outputs, for annotation purposes

Change
Tracks, It is now possible for modders to add selectable materials for tracks by checking the 'Is available to tracks' option in the material screen of the modding UI

Fix
Tracks, Fixed a lot of edge cases bugs in tracks creation
Decorations, When placing a prefab in mirror mode with the prefab intersecting the mirror plane, all the decorations will now be placed [BUGS-4119]
Steam, [BUGS-4113] Changed cases where crank friction loss was applied before kinetic energy was added to the shaft
Steam, [BUGS-4083] Fixed sealed 2m shaft not connecting to transmissions
CRAM, [BUGS-3972] Fixed ERA triggering CRAM shells
APS, Shaped charge and secondary shaped charge tooltip shows damage/fragment, instead of total damage of all fragments

Hills have 20% less variance (they are flatter)
Things spawn in at 3km instead of 5km
The starter car got an upgrade

Hello everyone,

Stable build 3.6.1 is here. A lot of bug fixes and a few major items.

Land Adventure mode is here! You can now take to the hills in Ashes of the Empire in a land adventure mode.
If you've never been in ashes before you can find the planet in the content menu. Just click on it.
To help with this there have been a load of land based bugs fixed and the addition of the articulated chair. This chair eliminates camera roll and pitch and can be fine tuned by press Q on it.

Missile decorations are here! Click on the missile decorator in the missiles tab. Place it anywhere, add decorations to it. (Make sure and adjust the number of elements to the size of your missile.) Give it a name.
Press Q on a missile launchpad of your choice and select the named decorator to apply it to the missile.
Yes this can get extremeley wacky so have fun!

Also in the land of decoration a new widget has been added that can make editing them a bit visually easier.
You'll see arrows appear on the 3 axis that you can click and drag. Change mode by right clicking.

Patch Notes
Additions:
Adventure, Added land adventure mode as an option for planets and activated it for 'Ashes of the Empire'.
Breadboards, Breadboards can now pass strings (text) around. Generic Block Setter and Generic Block Getter can make use of this for the Hologram projector, sign post, Text screen, Poster holder, Blueprint spawner.
Breadboards, Components with a block name filter now invert the filter when the first character of the filter text is ~ or !
Breadboards, The adder component will concatenate strings if one or more of the inputs is a string.
Breadboards, The constant input component can now define a constant string output as well as the usual constant numerical output.
Editor, Added effective health to the design inspector in the planet editor.
Land, Some improvements to the spawning of terrain to ensure it is present for vehicles.
Anime DLC, Intelligence officer Yuka added to SS character anime DLC package.
Chairs, Added a self-stabilising chair version that can stabilise roll and pitch.
Wheels, Wheels can now approximate collision with land even when the land is not yet spawned beneath them.
Decorations, You can now decorate your missiles using a new 'munition decoration' block in the missiles tab.
Decorations, There is now a widget for editing decorations.

Fixes:
Anime DLC, Sakura left hand turret holding orientation fixed.
Anime DLC, Shaders changed for anime characters so that they are better lit at night.
Particle cannons, Fixed melee lens applying damage type scaling twice
Missiles, Fixed too much time passing between laser and remote guidance missile aim updates on the player faction in some cases.
Steam, Fixed missing friction loss for crank systems where all kinetic energy can be lost to usage+friction in a single frame.
Steam, S crank gen cost fixed, now half of the M generator's cost at 90 materials.
Propulsion, All propulsion block yaw/pitch angle changes are smoothed out (takes 0.25s to go from 0 to max, same as the rate added for ACBs in 3.5.0).
Example Mod, Some problems with the assassin imported from the example mod have been fixed.
Auto propulsion balancing, Canceling yaw/roll now more important than cancelling pitch when hovering up and down.
Auto propulsion balancing, Fixed an issue where propellers were unlikely to be recruited in reverse to help balance a craft.
Auto propulsion balancing, Propellers pointing in the correct direction will no longer be turned off for forwards motion due to the pitching motion they create.
Auto propulsion balancing, Propellers pointing in the correct direction will no longer be turned off for strafing motion due to the rolling motion they create.
Campaign, [BUGS-4097] Faction HQs now act as defenders to their board section regardless of whether they are in a capture zone.
Multiplayer, Many issues fixed that were stopping vehicles or turrets communicating with each other on different machines.
Land, Some tweaks to help vehicles successfully surface above the land when they happen to end up beneath it. Land collision damage disabled and stabilisation added whilst emerging.
Wheels, Fix to vehicles catapulting into the sky (due to first frame wheel forces) when spawned on the terrain.
Breadboard, Fix to block to block copy paste for breadboards.
Decorations, The lighting of scaled and rotated decorations is now correct (error in the calculation of their normal angles.)
Adventure, Old adventure mode saves will now allow the external camera controls, just like new adventures do.
Blueprint block search, Now correctly searches through subobject chains as well as the main construct.

Changes:
Fuel engines, Power output of all fuel engines increased by ~3.8%.
Steam, Added ~8% loss to crank generators.

Hello everyone,

Stable build 3.6.1 is here. A lot of bug fixes and a few major items.

Land Adventure mode is here! You can now take to the hills in Ashes of the Empire in a land adventure mode.
If you've never been in ashes before you can find the planet in the content menu. Just click on it.
To help with this there have been a load of land based bugs fixed and the addition of the articulated chair. This chair eliminates camera roll and pitch and can be fine tuned by press Q on it.

Missile decorations are here! Click on the missile decorator in the missiles tab. Place it anywhere, add decorations to it. (Make sure and adjust the number of elements to the size of your missile.) Give it a name.
Press Q on a missile launchpad of your choice and select the named decorator to apply it to the missile.
Yes this can get extremeley wacky so have fun!

Also in the land of decoration a new widget has been added that can make editing them a bit visually easier.
You'll see arrows appear on the 3 axis that you can click and drag. Change mode by right clicking.

Patch Notes

Additions:
Adventure, Added land adventure mode as an option for planets and activated it for 'Ashes of the Empire'.
Breadboards, Breadboards can now pass strings (text) around. Generic Block Setter and Generic Block Getter can make use of this for the Hologram projector, sign post, Text screen, Poster holder, Blueprint spawner.
Breadboards, Components with a block name filter now invert the filter when the first character of the filter text is ~ or !
Breadboards, The adder component will concatenate strings if one or more of the inputs is a string.
Breadboards, The constant input component can now define a constant string output as well as the usual constant numerical output.
Editor, Added effective health to the design inspector in the planet editor.
Land, Some improvements to the spawning of terrain to ensure it is present for vehicles.
Anime DLC, Intelligence officer Yuka added to SS character anime DLC package.
Chairs, Added a self-stabilising chair version that can stabilise roll and pitch.
Wheels, Wheels can now approximate collision with land even when the land is not yet spawned beneath themChairs, Added a self-stabilising chair version that can stabilise roll and pitch.
Decorations, You can now decorate your missiles using a new 'munition decoration' block in the missiles tab.
Decorations, There is now a widget for editing decorations.

Fixes:
Anime DLC, Sakura left hand turret holding orientation fixed.
Anime DLC, Shaders changed for anime characters so that they are better lit at night.
Particle cannons, Fixed melee lens applying damage type scaling twice
Missiles, Fixed too much time passing between laser and remote guidance missile aim updates on the player faction in some cases.
Steam, Fixed missing friction loss for crank systems where all kinetic energy can be lost to usage+friction in a single frame.
Steam, S crank gen cost fixed, now half of the M generator's cost at 90 materials.
Propulsion, All propulsion block yaw/pitch angle changes are smoothed out (takes 0.25s to go from 0 to max, same as the rate added for ACBs in 3.5.0).
Example Mod, Some problems with the assassin imported from the example mod have been fixed.
Auto propulsion balancing, Canceling yaw/roll now more important than cancelling pitch when hovering up and down.
Auto propulsion balancing, Fixed an issue where propellers were unlikely to be recruited in reverse to help balance a craft.
Auto propulsion balancing, Propellers pointing in the correct direction will no longer be turned off for forwards motion due to the pitching motion they create.
Auto propulsion balancing, Propellers pointing in the correct direction will no longer be turned off for strafing motion due to the rolling motion they create.
Campaign, [BUGS-4097] Faction HQs now act as defenders to their board section regardless of whether they are in a capture zone.
Multiplayer, Many issues fixed that were stopping vehicles or turrets communicating with each other on different machines.
Land, Some tweaks to help vehicles successfully surface above the land when they happen to end up beneath it. Land collision damage disabled and stabilisation added whilst emerging.
Wheels, Fix to vehicles catapulting into the sky (due to first frame wheel forces) when spawned on the terrain.
Breadboard, Fix to block to block copy paste for breadboards.
Decorations, The lighting of scaled and rotated decorations is now correct (error in the calculation of their normal angles.)
Adventure, Old adventure mode saves will now allow the external camera controls, just like new adventures do.
Blueprint block search, Now correctly searches through subobject chains as well as the main construct.

Changes:
Fuel engines, Power output of all fuel engines increased by ~3.8%.
Steam, Added ~8% loss to crank generators.

Fix:
Particle cannons, Fixed melee lens applying damage type scaling twice
Missiles, Fixed too much time passing between laser and remote guidance missile aim updates on the player faction in some cases
Steam, Fixed missing friction loss for crank systems where all kinetic energy can be lost to usage+friction in a single frame
Steam, S crank gen cost fixed, now half of the M generator's cost at 90 materials
Land, Some tweaks to help vehicles successfully surface above the land when they happen to end up beneath it. Land collision damage disabled and stabilisation added whilst emerging

Add:
Land, Some improvements to the spawning of terrain to ensure it is present for vehicles
Wheels, Wheels can now approximate collision with land even when the land is not yet spawned beneath them

Change:
Fuel engines, Power output of all fuel engines increased by ~3.8%
Steam, Added 8% loss to crank generators
Draba: "Goal is mostly to reduce block count and nudge the larger blueprints towards M/L steam"

The following update will go to stable on Monday assuming nothing comes up. It contains land adventure mode which is on the ashes of the empire planet selectable via the content tab.

Betatest 3.6.1

Fixes:
DLC, Sakura left hand turret holding orientation fixed.
DLC, Shaders changed for characters so that they are better lit at night.
Example Mod, Some problems with the assassin imported from the example mod have been fixed.
Auto propulsion balancing, Cancelling yaw/roll now more important than cancelling pitch when hovering up and down.
Auto propulsion balancing, Fixed an issue where propellers were unlikely to be recruited in reverse to help balance a craft
Auto propulsion balancing, Propellers pointing in the correct direction will no longer be turned off for forwards motion due to the pitching motion they create
Auto propulsion balancing, Propellers pointing in the correct direction will no longer be turned off for strafing motion due to the rolling motion they create
Campaign, [BUGS-4097] Faction HQs now act as defenders to their board section regardless of whether they are in a capture zone
Multiplayer, Many issues fixed that were stopping vehicles or turrets communicating with each other on different machines

Additions:
DLC, Intelligence officer Yuka added to SS character anime DLC package (yes keyboard warrior sleuths its middleware. Put down your magnifying glass and stop writing your novel.)
Breadboards, Breadboards can now pass strings (text) around. Generic Block Setter and Generic Block Getter can make use of this for the Hologram projector, sign post, Text screen, Poster holder, Blueprint spawner
Breadboards, Components with a block name filter now invert the filter when the first character of the filter text is ~ or !
Breadboards, The adder component will concatenate strings if one or more of the inputs is a string
Breadboards, The constant input component can now define a constant string output as well as the usual constant numerical output
Adventure, Added land adventure mode as an option for planets and activated it for 'Ashes of the Empire'
World Editor, Added effective health to the design inspector in the planet editor

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Hey Depthians!

Well that was the quickest betatest ever. Steam got back to us really quick with test keys and we are now able to set the animation and first character set (Rin and Sakura) live so beta has had to go to stable. Other character sets will follow as we get them ready.
These updates can really breathe some life into your builds and as you can see by the trailer movie you can really go wild and make some machinima!
The documentation to add your own will follow at a later date, quite simply we are getting ready for Christmas with our families and we've set this live just now so you can play around with it over the holidays.
We can and will expand upon it we just need to know what it is you want and need, there'll be a channel in the discord for discussion and requests. Certainly if you look on mixamo, we can add in any animations there fairly easily in any future updates.
Have a great Christmas and New Year those who celebrate and others have a great couple of weeks!
The team will now be absent for a few days at least to spend time with our loved ones. (Though we'll keep an eye out for anything major that may pop up.)

Have a good one!

DLC Link

Stable 3.6.0
Fix:
Explosions, Internal algorithm problem fixed and more explosions debug data added, explosions should deal about 10-15% more damage
Tracks, Tank tracks should now be generated correctly in all situations (only convex tracks are allowed) [BUGS-3878]
CJE, The flame orientation will now be correct when loading a blueprint [BUGS-4080]
Automatic propulsion, Fixed some cases where the automatic propulsion UI lists assignments with 0 value

Add:
Tracks, It is now possible to configure the tracks thickness
Tracks, It is now possible to configure the lateral position of the tracks, relative to the wheels
Tracks, It is now possible to reset the axle length of all the wheels in the track to 0
Tracks, It is now possible to add an offset to the axle length of all the wheels in the track
Tracks, It is now possible to override the track material per track
Wheels, It is now possible to set a coefficient to the wheel's width
Wheels, It is now possible to set an offset to the position of the suspension's spring attachment

Change:
Tracks, BPs saved in a previous FtD version will have their tracks width reset to 1m, use the 'Track' tab in the UI of any of its wheel to set the track's width as desired
Tracks, Tracks now have a uniform width, even if the wheels do not have the same width
Tracks, The tracks width isn't linked to the wheels width anymore, it can (and must) be configured independently using the 'Track' tab in the UI of any of its wheel
Tracks, It is now impossible to mix mirrored and non-mirrored wheels in the same track, all wheels in a track must be either mirrored or not mirrored

Have a great holiday period!
There is a Christmas campaign created by a small army of elves led by Melch. Help Santa retake the North Pole from South Pole backed elf separatists! This could've been bigger if there had been more helpers, we can maybe build upon it going into January if people see this and want to help.
Access it on the content menu.
Thankyou Elves and Santa!

Gladyon has extensively changed the wheel algorithms and what you can all change on them. Animation DLC stuff is coming we are just waiting on Steam giving us some test keys and okaying everything.

Betatest build:
Fix:
Explosions, Internal algorithm problem fixed and more explosions debug data added, explosions should deal about 10-15% more damage
Tracks, Tank tracks should now be generated correctly in all situations (only convex tracks are allowed) [BUGS-3878]
CJE, The flame orientation will now be correct when loading a blueprint [BUGS-4080]
Automatic propulsion, Fixed some cases where the automatic propulsion UI lists assignments with 0 value

Add:
Tracks, It is now possible to configure the tracks thickness
Tracks, It is now possible to configure the lateral position of the tracks, relative to the wheels
Tracks, It is now possible to reset the axle length of all the wheels in the track to 0
Tracks, It is now possible to add an offset to the axle length of all the wheels in the track
Tracks, It is now possible to override the track material per track
Wheels, It is now possible to set a coefficient to the wheel's width
Wheels, It is now possible to set an offset to the position of the suspension's spring attachment

Change:
Tracks, BPs saved in a previous FtD version will have their tracks width reset to 1m, use the 'Track' tab in the UI of any of its wheel to set the track's width as desired
Tracks, Tracks now have a uniform width, even if the wheels do not have the same width
Tracks, The tracks width isn't linked to the wheels width anymore, it can (and must) be configured independently using the 'Track' tab in the UI of any of its wheel
Tracks, It is now impossible to mix mirrored and non-mirrored wheels in the same track, all wheels in a track must be either mirrored or not mirrored

Steamworks, Upgraded from Steamworks 1.51 to Steamworks 1.53. This will allow mac computers with m1 chipsets to connect to Steam
Stability, High stability increases munition warner range by up to 20%, instead of 10%

Cannon hit rate, CRAM and APS cannon tooltips now have a line for shots fired, shots hit and hit %
Cannon hit rate, A hit is a direct hit on a construct/shield/missile/CRAM shell, explosive damage on missiles or timed fuses triggering close to constructs

Sound, Added a slider to the sound tab for adjusting the volume of in-game speech, such as in the tutorial
APS, 3m heavy barrel is now different from the 3m regular barrel

Update for Mac users to steamworks 1.5.3 which resolves issues launching the game with M1 silicon ARM_64 chips

WINNARS

The first ever Scottish Game Awards and Scottish Game Week was held last week. We were finalists for two categories and won the 'Technical Achievement' award. As such we thought it would be cool to run a week long sale in case anyone is sitting waiting to see why we deserve such an accolade!

Scottish Games Week was Scotland's first ever giant industry conference set across multiple cities, with different speakers, government officials and games developers in attendance. Met some of my own game dev heroes and to be in a room with them while also receiving an award was truly an amazing feeling. If you want to find out more, news should become available at: https://scottishgames.net/

Fixes:

CJE : [BUGS-4002] Pusher preset, Turner preset etc now work correctly with CJE with thrust direction changed by exhaust routing.

Blocks : [BUGS-4014] drive maintainer UI now displays correctly, allowing selection of the stim drive to control and manual setting of the value.

Data : Fixed an issue that stopped empty strings from being saved as empty (they would return to default values.

Podium : Fixed an issue with copy paste of some podium breadboard components.

Podium : IK positions coming from two different breadboard components trigger a lerping change in the animator rather than a jump of position.

Projectiles : Fixed an issue where complicated scenes would result in projectiles not moving as fast as they should and thus triggering timed fuses early, and potentially missing fast targets.

Tutorials : Fixed the AI deep dive tutorial.

UI : Use of the toolbar no longer causes a one frame screen flicker. Toolbar usability improvements such as responding to being clicked on being linked to configurable key map entries.

What is up Depthians!

A massively, massive update to the Stable branch that holds roughly 8 months of tweaks, fixes and new additions!

Before we get started tho, if you do run into crashes, things not working correctly or not displaying correctly make sure you are not running any mods, that your mod folder is empty and that you are not subscribed to any mods on Steam.

If you have problems with launching or the game crashing:

Hey Depthians!

Our Alpha test branch has now moved to the Beta stage and after further testing for a few days shall move on to the main stable build :)

Unfortunately there as there are too many pics for Reddit and too many characters for Steam you can check out the Beta notes here :
https://fromthedepthsgame.com/beta-3-5-5/

Thanks

What is up Depthians!

Another dose of bug fixing :)


Changelog

[h2]Additions[/h2]

[h3]Controls[/h3]

• Added a dead zone slider for control pads and set the default dead zone to 20% (up from 0%).

• Laser Targetter data can now be controller with the Generic Block Setter
• Particle cannon reload time (charge time) can now be adjusted with the Generic Block Setter
• Steam valve can now be controller with the Generic Block Setter
• [BUGS-3897] added power creation priority to the Generic Block Setter and added a slider for fuel engine generator power user priority to the fuel engine UI sliders section.

• The auto-balance default for new propulsion will change as you press the 'Turn [ON/OFF] automatic control for all propulsion' button

• Light-block now uses the same shader as glass blocks and thus renders damage, can be cut-away and painted.

• Subvehicle spawners on turrets should now work more reliably (spawn the vehicle in the correct place and more robustly link to the correct drone).
• The 'force position' of a drone in a fleet is now set, which can help to reduce the chance of collision for drones (they'll try to stay where the SVS puts them).

• Fixed a threading issue that caused the creation of chunk meshes to slow down the game
• Map now correctly changes when loading another planet
• Remote missile guidance module no longer causes issues

• Saving of vehicles using custom tags in non-english languages now works

• [BUGS-3862] Missiles, CRAM shells and APS shells now adjust their health based on the configurable damage factor of the session, in the same way that blocks do

• [BUGS-3818] Fixed a serious issue with the late game diplomacy calculations that lead to a crash when trying to get the council to meet

• [BUGS-3892] Fixed a gridcasting issue that affected turret blocks and caused issues for mouse based build mode (interaction with turret bases) and perhaps damage calculations as well

• Fixed an issue where the 'head' is on at a 90 angle when first spawning in multiplayer

• [BUGS-3893] wheels should now respond correctly when first placed (auto-balancing bug).

What is up Depthians!!

While this update does focus more on a number of bug fixes and tweaks, we also have a new feature that is still a WIP.
We will be setting up the APS system to allow users to create inbuilt shells without placing cusomisers.
You can access the new APS shell setup by pressing Q on a turret, APS tab and then clicking on Access intakes. Please note this is a WIP so for now there is no need to create bug reports for this system.





Changelog

[h2]Additions[/h2]

[h3]Applique[/h3]

• Side drag is now the same as slopes, full drag instead of half.

• All constructs can have shells that do not need any ammo customiser blocks to use

• Added control of laser output regulator, laser combiner and PAC to the Generic Block Setter (GBS) component
  
• Added control of missile stagger,missile laser encoding and missile launch pad and missile component parameter to the Generic Block Setter (GBS) component
  
• Added an 'event input type' for collisions with vehicles
  
• Added control of ACB parameters to the Generic Block Setter (GBS) component
  
• Added Generic Block Getter (GBG) that can read the current azimuth of a spin block and about a dozen other things.
  
• Added 'rotation input' module that outputs own-ship rotation in various Quaternion or Vector3 formats
  
• Added the ability to duplicate breadboard modules, and copy and paste their contents
  
• Added the 'outputV' function to the evaluator, which does the same as the 'output' function but with vectors instead of numbers [BUGS-3835]
  
• CJE Generator, Smoke Generator, Shield Projector,LAMS, Ammo intake, aim point, target prioritisation, steam crank motor, tractor beam, wireless equipment channel and AI mainframe added to Generic Block Setter (GBS)
  
• Non-AI breadboard now have a single connection point same as the AI variant.
  
• Position input module added that outputs own-ship position (Vector3) as 'frame-independent global position' to match the new position output of Primary target info module.
  
• Primary target info module now outputs new outputs of target Position (frame-independent global position) and Velocity as vector3s.
  
• Speed input module now outputs own-ship speed as a Vector3 (will be convertible to float as necessary so no issue with backwards compatibility)

• Added Pipe part with front and back connections. Added 3 port piece with 3 connections. Meshes will appear as updates roll out.

• Editing turret restriction marker so that it can display over the top of blocks and remain visible.

• Added buttons to convert all mimics to decorations in the V menu

• Every unit is undergoing inspection for basic function. Some have been replaced and there are some additions. Changes have been committed for DWG, OW, SS, LH, TG so far, more to follow. There is no exact changelog for these as it would be a 50-page essay. Please report any issues on discord in a new unit_design_bugs channel.

• Removed defunct steam prefabs. Fixed usage of deprecated block in fuel engine prefabs.

• After a stint with render queues changed everything has been regressed. This only affects viewing of things through glass at certain camera angles. TL;DR It's not worth it and is a massively complex issue.

• The Differencer now work with vectors, when the input is a vector the output is a vector, and when the input is a value then the output is a value (previously it was using the magnitude of the vector)

• Extended tooltips and improved helper visualisations

• Laser warners now check the real distance to the impact point, whatever the subConstruct the warner or the impact point is. However, only the smoke dispensers on the same construct than the laser warner (hull, turret, spinBlock, etc.) can be activated

• Added button to remove controller bindings
• Made some small quality of life changes to the key bindings menu
• Removed default controller bindings

• Lasers are now visible 'through' the GPU ocean surface

• Instability from construct rotation down by 25%
• Low velocity magnitude change adds less instability, high acceleration adds more

• The rotation wobble of vehicle held by tractor beam has been removed

• Setting wheel's spring length using ACB now works fine [BUGS-3836]

• No more 'blank' shots [BUGS-3630]

• When hiding the original mesh, the porthole will now be fully hidden (as a lot of other blocks with subObjects) [BUGS-3827]

• Custom axis value is not flickering anymore when constantly set by ACB [BUGS-3834]

• Filling with beam slopes in mirror mode now place the mirrored blocks in the correct orientation [BUGS-3849]

• Cursor lock when an enemy is present and you enter in the detection screen while being in build mode [BUGS-3831]

• Automatic thruster control now works for CJEs who have corners in their exhaust pipe

• Fixed custom control surfaces on spinblocks possibly having different force outputs depending on orientation

• Fixed 4m air pivot calculating its center position incorrectly

• Fixed addons ignoring placement rules for attachment after loading a blueprint

• Fixed an issue where churning thousands of decorations on the same vehicle could make the vehicle fail to save
• Pasting a prefabbed block with more than 16 decos and with mirroring activated do not paste all the decos on the mirrored block [BUGS-3441]

• Laser warners now work when they are on a subConstruct [BUGS-3810]

• [BUGS-3874] Fixed blocks that should be destroyed sometimes surviving EMP with a small amount of health left

• Changing something in a favorite will not lag anymore when there's a lot of intel pictures (note that opening the favorites menu for the first time may still take a few seconds) [BUGS-3815]

• AI routine names now save all character sets, not just English characters

• It is now possible to select altitude in the LWC down to 500m, and the min difference between high and low altitude has been reduced to 20m [BUGS-3864]

• [BUGS-3796] Fixed sides of sloped plates having very low drag without clearance requirement

• The build marker was missing some meshes. Now fixed.

• [BUGS-3804] Laser cavities now lose charge if a separation changes their capacity

• Fixed a problem causing almost stationary vehicles to possibly have only ~97-98% stability

• [BUGS-3859] Fixed some wheel groups containing more than 2 wheels
• Fixed a multithreading issue causing steam systems to lose pressure
• Fixed a threading problem with steam drill hit detection
• Fixed steam distribution problems with some valve setups

• Fixed some formatting errors on the detection overview panel

• [BUGS-3754] Fixed reversed water propellers ignoring their speed limit

What is up Depthians!

Another sweet update being propelled to you epic people! Numerous changes, tweaks, bug fixes and new features!

Before we get into the changes we need to point something out for you good peeps that have been running the Alpha test. Positive/Negative force axis code has changed for custom rudders so if you made anything in alpha using them you should check their yaw/roll/pitch inputs.

Vehicle stability

Acceleration and evasion being very cheap, and having basically no downside is a very old FtD problem. It makes cannons unreliable, ships relatively weak and kiting disproportionately strong. The new stability mechanic adds a benefit for having a stable platform.

Overview

• New stat: stability. Possible range is 0-100%, it's based on the movement of the main construct in the last 3 seconds
• Added a slider to the target prioritisation AI card, from -1000 to +1000 value for each 1% stability
• Munition warner range is now a function of stability, instead of rotation rate. Varies between 20-110%, for 0-100% stability
• All direct fire weapons gain 0.004 inaccuracy for each 1% stability below 100%
• Missile laser target inaccuracy is rerolled every second, and the actual inaccuracy of the beam is interpolated to the new value over 1s Remote and lua missile error is increased by 0.1m for each 1%

• Average velocity magnitude
• Velocity magnitude change
• Velocity rotation rate * velocity magnitude
• Construct rotation rate

• Ships generally have 95-100% stability
• Flyer moving in a straight line, at 220 m/s (~CJE practical limit) ~90%
• Flyer circling at 2000m distance, 220 m/s speed ~75%
• Flyer circling at 1000m distance, 220 m/s speed ~65%

• Projectiles avoidance fake-missiles now have velocity and lateral distance configuration

• Added emotion control for the animation block (the droid model does not support this as it is aimed at a future character pack DLC)
• Added IK control for the limbs of the avatars of the animation block. Added breadboard support for this.

• Added an option to the APS menu to disable barrel retraction on firing

• Added an auto-balancing option to jet/huge jet/ion/huge ion/propeller/huge propeller/custom jet engine/propeller hub. Auto-balancing will automatically calculate the combination of propulsion required for smooth roll/pitch/yaw/strafe/hover/forwards motion.
• Auto-balancing does not change the manual settings you have already stored, so you can turn it on and off without affecting things permanently
• Auto-balancing updates when propulsion systems rotate, or when they become inoperable (i.e a submerged jet or a dead propeller)

• Added a new breadboard component that can theoretically 'set' any (whitelisted) setting on any block. It is called the 'Generic block setter'
• Whitelisted propulsion block, light bulb, animation block, adv cannon firing piece, cram firing piece, cram fusing box, boiler controller, fuel engine values for the 'Generic block setter'
• Added logic gates as a new breadboard component, with all standard gate types available.

• Custom control surface tooltips have visualisations showing their pivot axis and force direction for positive/negative input

• Mirror meshes added for all rudder parts.

• Pressing Q while looking at fuel engine parts now also brings up the overview menu of the main block

• Mesh and material customisation for propeller hub added

• Added automatic adjustment of yaw and pitch orientation adjustments to point the propulsion system directly up, or keep it horizontal. This is the successor to the 'always up' value of the now obsoleted dediblades. It works for jets, ions, propellers,crank propellers, steam jets, CJE and propeller hubs. The maximum angle for yaw and pitch is still 15.

• Ships generally have 95-100% stability. 220 m/s (~CJE practical) limit flyer moving in a straight line ~90%. 220 m/s flyer circling at 2000m ~75%, circling at 1000m ~65%
• Stability components: velocity magnitude change, velocity magnitude, velocity rotation rate * velocity, construct rotation
• Weapons gain 0.004 inaccuracy for each 1% below 100% stability. Remote missile error is increased by 0.1m. Missile lasers roll a new inaccuracy error each second and interpolate from the old one over 1s

• Propulsion block yaw/picth angle change triggered through ACB takes 0.25s for a full 0-15 rotation

• Now has an AC of 20 and health of 300 and a cost of 15.

• Now has an AC of 20 and health of 300 and a cost of 15.

• Now has an AC of 20 and health of 300 and a cost of 15.

• Effective impact angle for sabot head is reduced to 75% of the actual impact angle (affects ricochet and damage reduction calculations)

• Modules on the breadboard expand to fit the text being displayed within them

• Control/flight surfaces only add 0.75 drag for each 1 unit of force generated

• Custom control surface force direction is now always normal to the placement plane. Local velocity only affects the magnitude of the force
• Pivots now have an AC of 40 and health of 400 with a cost of 50 other parts have an AC of 35 and health of 350 with a cost of 40.

• Positive/Negative force axis code has changed so anything made in alpha using them should check their yaw/roll/pitch inputs.

• Wing parts now have an AC of 20 and health of 300 and a cost of 15.

• Explosive, EMP and impact debug tool minimum damage down to 10

• Improved behaviour for thruster+secondary torpedo propeller interceptors
• Interceptor hit rate is now also tracked on the controller
• Interceptor missiles reverted to the old behaviour of trying to get as close as possible before exploding. Got a fallback to make sure they always hit the main target (if possible)

• Beam coherence for the same focus value improved by 25%

• Flags, sails and balloons now have opaque shaders.

• Precision spinblock max turn rate in rotate to angle mode scales with MASS^0.2, instead of MASS^0.25 (faster, especially for spinners with lots of mass on them)

• Stable pressure of steam containers isn't affected by the number of vent outputs

• Now has an AC of 20 and health of 300 and a cost of 15.

• Propeller clearance visualizations aren't displayed when the hud is turned off
• V menu now also shows how many cells are occupied by subconstructs, not just the total

• The old 1x1x1 wing is now removed from the build menu to encourage more performance-friendly usage with custom wings.

• Enemy simulator can no longer be activated when in campaign mode, other than in battle.

• An exception in a breadboard doesn't get up to the surface now and stops that breadboard for ~40 frames

• [BUGS-3709] A sign evaluator with NaN input also outputs NaN (doesn't stop physics now)
• [BUGS-3546] Physics breaking sometimes when copy/pasting a breadboard
• [BUGS-2905] The game configuration slider for damage factor, and the campaign "damage difficulty" now affect block health rather than affecting damage output. It was discovered that many damage types were not properly adjusting for these values and this is a more reliable way of making sure everything works. The higher the damage factor, the lower the block health will be. The higher the campaign damage difficulty the lower player block health will be and higher enemy block health will be.
• [BUGS-3726] Repaired control surface pivots now work as expected
• [BUGS-3702] Steam crank wheel connections cannot be copy-pasted to bypass restrictions
• [BUGS-3705] Transmissions and crank motors with relative RPM other than 1 can be connected now
• [BUGS-3768] Blocks placed as decoration have a slight rotation error due to float precision
• [BUGS-3768] Hiding an original mesh, and then applying mirroring makes the original mesh re-appear
• [BUGS-3768] Some decoration wireframe aren't displayed when there are too many of them (can still happen but should happen a lot less often, it's a limitation due to an optimization)
• [BUGS-3774] Priority given to hit structural blocks first when several blocks are projected into the same mainConstruct cell
• [BUGS-3666] Placement offsets for blocks larger than 1x1x1 are now wiped on switching to prefab mode
• [BUGS-3667] Fixed a multithreading issue causing erratic flight. Mostly affected control surfaces, with multiple vehicles in play
• [BUGS-3695] Fixed stable pressure for some setups being affected by game speed
• [BUGS-3700] Fixed steam stat page reporting gearbox power output instead of turbine energy/s
• [BUGS-3778] Some map markers disappearing in campaign after changing language
• [BUGS-3738] Projectiles avoidance priority evaluation not displayed correctly

• A steam crank wheel can not be added to a group if it's already part of another group

• Issue with 3m inverted CS corner mirror fixed.

• Fixed EMP potentially spreading in the wrong construct for some setups

• Interceptors without any propulsion can target projectiles above 5m

• Added EMP susceptibility to missile wireless transmitter and receiver.

• Fixed various threading problems causing aim for all weapons to be ~1-2 frames behind the current position of the target

• Changed multi-threading code to ensure the main physics calculation chain finishes in time to apply the force to the vehicle rigid body on the correct frame
• Moved buoyancy force application, sail force application, wing force application, steam calculations and all propulsion force application into the same thread that handles the bulk of force applications and the calculation and application of the rigid body force. This should improve the stability of the physics simulation.

• Some issues with particles/VFX not playing nicely with glass have been fixed.

• Force lines in build mode (toggled with backspace) now show in the correct position (previously they were showing the forces calculated on the previous frame)

• Updated to unity 2021.2.18 from 2021.2.3. This is to fix a Linux UI issue where the mouse is never properly hidden and made inactive

• Fixed sub mesh misalignment on small vehicle controller.

Hey Depthians!

A quick little hotfix for the 33 separator block.

The 33 separator attachment was incorrectly designated to be a separator block (not an attachment block). The 33 separator block had a bug meaning it would not properly separate if it had multiple blocks attached to it.

Hey Depthians!

This little hotfix addresses a few issues with the new camera movement as well as changes to the way ducts work. Ducts will no longer be watertight or airtight unless a propulsion block is directly behind them leaving no gaps to the hull, or "roomed off" if you wish to have your propulsion further behind the duct.



Changelog


[h2]Additions[/h2]

[h3]Camera movement[/h3]

• Added sliders for camera speed in mouse-based building mode

• [BUGS-3736] The "flat white" material that mimics/decorations use for mimic-sphere etc is now a PBR material with smoothness and metallic values
• When a block is hidden by a decoration the sub meshes of that block will also not render. This applies only to certain blocks.

• [BUGS-3733] Ducts are no longer 'water tight' or 'air tight' and as such air/helium pumps can 'leak' through a duct.

• Camera control code was overhauled to fix a number of issues. New transitions between camera modes can be disabled in the options menu by setting the "transition time" to 0.
• Fix viewport (tac map) camera not working after scrolling to an altitude beyond the normal map transition altitude in adventure mode.
• Fixed camera not working when starting custom battle mode.
• Fixed most, if not all cases of camera misbehaving when accessing certain UIs during build mode.
• Some internal camera transitions smoothed.

• [BUGS-3729] Fixed 33 and 55 turrets with multiple valid connections disconnecting when the block touching their center is destroyed.

What is up Depthians!
A quick little hotfix.
Throughput pipe fix and localisation fixes to inventory name overrides.

What's up Depthians!

A quick little hotfix that addresses some small issues with the new camera system, we also added nicer transitions when swapping camera views.
If you do not like the transitions you can set the camera transition time to 0 from View & Control.


In the current stable update, we have incremental garbage collection turned off. This may have affected some PC builds differently due to different configurations of hardware (GPU/CPU).

We are trying to find out which method will be best for the player base by having IGC off or on.
In this current beta build we will reinstate IGC, as we are interested in whether the game is more stable with IGC off or on. For example: Is the game crashing more often with IGC on? Is the game freezing less with IGC on compared to the current stable?

If you see more crashes, firstly please ensure you are not running any mods no matter how insignificant you think it may be. You can then create a bug ticket here attach the log file from your FTD profile to the ticket:
Default is: C:\Users\yourprofile\Documents\From The Depths\Logs

Your player.log file from:
C:\Users\yourprofile\AppData\LocalLow\Brilliant Skies\From_The_Depths

The crash dump from:
C:\Users\yourprofile\AppData\local\CrashDumps

Please also include a description of what you were doing when it crashed thanks!


Changelog

[h2]Changes[/h2]

[h3]IGC[/h3]

• Incremental garbage collection has been turned back on

• Junction has had orientations fixed (made the same as the mesh) and removed from build menu.

• Camera control code was overhauled to fix a number of issues. New transitions between camera modes can be disabled in the options menu by setting the \" transition time\" to 0."

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What is up Depthians!

This build has a number of tweaks, fixes and some new additions.

We are also pleased to say that the game now fully supports Russian localisation, however, if you feel that something is incorrect please let us know.
With the update to the Unity engine in 2021 and after reviewing a number of crash reports, we decided to turn off incremental garbage collection. This should resolve some from games crashing.

The Animation block has had a few new additions as well as breadboard. This will allow you more customisation and animation via any triggers that you wish to use with the Droid model.



These functions will allow you to manipulate bipedal model limbs that use IK, as well as choosing one of the preset animations.


You can also adjust the size of the model via the animation block UI, choose a pose / preset animation from the large selection via the dropdown list.

The standard droid is fully functional with the animation block and breadboard. We will be releasing more models as DLC in future, which will also allow you to use custom bipedal models that have a propper IK setup.

If you feel that something in the changelog needs explaining further let us know in the comment section or DM me Jon in Discord.


Changelog

[h2]Additions[/h2]

[h3]Options[/h3]

• It is now possible to change which display FTD is displayed on

• HEAT secondary body for APS is only 70% of a head now (final power is ~unchanged beyond the 5% base buff)
• HESH base power up by ~11%, HEAT base power up by 5%
• Squash and shaped charge base power increased by 15% for APS only (missile HEAT is the same)

• At the maximum difficulty level the player's faction strength is now overestimated by [x3 + 5 million] rather than [x10 + 10 million].
• There is a new slider for diplomacy/strategic AI aggressiveness. This used to be included in 'design difficulty' slider. You can now have a more 'diplomatic' campaign against the hardest vehicles, or all out war but with easy vehicles.

• At least one of the available options should now not cost any commodities

• Turned off incremental garbage collection to see if it improves stability

• Checks for invalid components added to missile loading and some other places where it was missing
• Default missiles for newly placed launchpads improved
• Initial speed for drop as bomb option in rail gantries reduced from 30 to 25 m/s

• It is now possible to only display the spring and axle for a wheel, not the block attachment [BUGS-3612]

• ACB controllers now work correctly if they are spawned in a destroyed state and are then repaired

• Fixed the breadboard to animation block filtering by name

• Fixed an issue where some breadboard components would run their logic more than one time per frame
• One-shot component will now correctly only activate once
• The first output of the steering info component now indicates whether the mainframe's movement is turned on or off

• BUGS-3629 Fixed fortress turbines taking damage when out of power if the language is changed from English

• BUGS-3659 Fixed strategic AI moving fleets through terrain they cannot move through resulting in fleets getting stuck
• Fixed a rare issue where the strategic AI would not correctly change the path of a fleet if its destination changed
• Fleets with a patrol route setup will now properly save and load the waypoint they were moving towards

• Fixed a problem preventing the player from getting options with a lot of enemies

• EMP charges can now travel between constructs
• Laser Q switch EMP resistance fixed

• BUGS-3618 Explosions should now be rounder (it probably won't change a thing as no explosions reach their max radius)

• A fleet with a land unit will no longer move over water

• Fixed a rare problem causing gridcasts with an alignment very close to a construct's rotation to miss

• Hologram projector Hologram projectors now work correctly if they are spawned in a destroyed state and are then repaired

• Impact damage can now travel between constructs

• BUGS-3638 Lasers fired through non-AI, non-manual methods will keep aiming forward as they are rotated
• Charge lasers will fire if either continuous or pulsed shot does more damage than the minimum damage set in the output regulator

• Added functions to get the number of subconstructs and to get information for a specific subconstruct by index similar to the other APIs
• Replaced outdated propulsion methods with new functions 'AddPropulsionRequest', 'SetPropulsionRequest' and 'GetPropulsionRequest'
• The docking station now uses the correct ids to identify friendly vehicles for all functions
• Weapons fired by Lua can now hit missiles

• BUGS-3632 Fixed L and H rail gantry missiles sometimes getting tangled in their gantry when being dropped as bombs

• Separating or attaching a vehicle while the player is in a chair will no longer eject the player from the chair except for multiplayer clients

• BUGS-3635 Fixed steam transmissions not their input's RPM limit for their gear ratio in some cases, when loading

• Changed render queues for smoke and shields to render properly in front of and behind glass.

• BUGS-3646 Playing local video is now working again

• BUGS-3550 The suspension (spring, axle and block) are now displayed/hidden correctly when the setting is changed, when loading the BP, when repaired or placed as a prefab

• Effective speed for wings is capped at the speed of the mainconstruct

Hey Depthians!

A small update for those in the alpha test build

Changelog

[h2]Changes[/h2]

[h3]Decos[/h3]

• Maximum decoration distance on all axes up from 10m to 20m

• Mass-based rotation speed limit up by ~11%
• Rotate to angle speed isn't limited for spinblocks with only decos on them
• Spinner and turret weights up to metal level. Mostly unnoticeable for a 1x1x1 block but helps with tiny vehicles twitching and makes some physics problems less severe

• Max stickiness increased from 100 to 400

• If subconstructs on a vehicle take up at lest half the total volume then all drag for the mainconstruct is multiplied by TOTAL_VOLUME / MAIN_VOLUME

What is up Depthians!

This build has a number of tweaks and fixes. We have also turned off incremental garbage collection to see if it helps with some stability issues.

If you feel that something in the changelog needs explaining further let us know in the comment section or DM me Jon in Discord.


Changelog

[h2]Additions[/h2]

[h3]Options[/h3]

• It is now possible to change which display FTD is displayed on

• HEAT secondary body for APS is only 70% of a head now (final power is ~unchanged beyond the 5% base buff)
• HESH base power up by ~11%, HEAT base power up by 5%
• Squash and shaped charge base power increased by 15% for APS only (missile HEAT is the same)

• At the maximum difficulty level the player's faction strength is now overestimated by [x3 + 5 million] rather than [x10 + 10 million].
• There is a new slider for diplomacy/strategic AI aggressiveness. This used to be included in 'design difficulty' slider. You can now have a more 'diplomatic' campaign against the hardest vehicles, or all out war but with easy vehicles.

• At least one of the available options should now not cost any commodities

• Turned off incremental garbage collection to see if it improves stability

• Checks for invalid components added to missile loading and some other places where it was missing
• Default missiles for newly placed launchpads improved
• Initial speed for drop as bomb option in rail gantries reduced from 30 to 25 m/s

• It is now possible to only display the spring and axle for a wheel, not the block attachment [BUGS-3612]

• ACB controllers now work correctly if they are spawned in a destroyed state and are then repaired

• Fixed the breadboard to animation block filtering by name

• Fixed an issue where some breadboard components would run their logic more than one time per frame
• One-shot component will now correctly only activate once
• The first output of the steering info component now indicates whether the mainframe's movement is turned on or off

• BUGS-3629 Fixed fortress turbines taking damage when out of power if the language is changed from English

• BUGS-3659 Fixed strategic AI moving fleets through terrain they cannot move through resulting in fleets getting stuck
• Fixed a rare issue where the strategic AI would not correctly change the path of a fleet if its destination changed
• Fleets with a patrol route setup will now properly save and load the waypoint they were moving towards

• Fixed a problem preventing the player from getting options with a lot of enemies

• EMP charges can now travel between constructs
• Laser Q switch EMP resistance fixed

• BUGS-3618 Explosions should now be rounder (it probably won't change a thing as no explosions reach their max radius)

• A fleet with a land unit will no longer move over water

• Fixed a rare problem causing gridcasts with an alignment very close to a construct's rotation to miss

• Hologram projector Hologram projectors now work correctly if they are spawned in a destroyed state and are then repaired

• Impact damage can now travel between constructs

• BUGS-3638 Lasers fired through non-AI, non-manual methods will keep aiming forward as they are rotated
• Charge lasers will fire if either continuous or pulsed shot does more damage than the minimum damage set in the output regulator

• Added functions to get the number of subconstructs and to get information for a specific subconstruct by index similar to the other APIs
• Replaced outdated propulsion methods with new functions 'AddPropulsionRequest', 'SetPropulsionRequest' and 'GetPropulsionRequest'
• The docking station now uses the correct ids to identify friendly vehicles for all functions
• Weapons fired by Lua can now hit missiles

• BUGS-3632 Fixed L and H rail gantry missiles sometimes getting tangled in their gantry when being dropped as bombs

• Separating or attaching a vehicle while the player is in a chair will no longer eject the player from the chair except for multiplayer clients

• BUGS-3635 Fixed steam transmissions not their input's RPM limit for their gear ratio in some cases, when loading

• Changed render queues for smoke and shields to render properly in front of and behind glass.

• BUGS-3646 Playing local video is now working again

• BUGS-3550 The suspension (spring, axle and block) are now displayed/hidden correctly when the setting is changed, when loading the BP, when repaired or placed as a prefab

• Effective speed for wings is capped at the speed of the mainconstruct

What's up Depthians!
This update focuses on further physics fixes, quality of life improvements, and polishing the recent changes.

[h3]Steam crank wheel connections[/h3]

In the previous update, a new feature was added that some people might have missed: pressing 'Q' when you look at a steam crank wheel brings up a menu that allows them to connect to other steam crank wheels.

It is possible to:

• merge gearbox lines for redundancy
• split a line so multiple propellers/drills can be attached to it
• merge the power of multiple transmissions/crank motors
• flip the orientation of a crank
• or a combination of the above

• Transmission kinetic loss reduced to 50% (transmission max energy/s was also doubled when crank wheel connections were added, missing from the notes there)
• Crank wheel kinetic loss reduced to 25%
• Crank wheel kinetic energy storage reduced to 2x shaft for S, to 3x shaft for M and L. 1x1x1 M wheel has the same max kinetic energy as shafts
• Crank motor kinetic energy/power down from 0.65 to 0.6
• Steam wheels can not connect to wheels already taken by other shafts spinning in the opposite direction
• Propellers/drills connected to multiple crank motors broadcast their output request to all motors now
• [BUGS-3682] Steam wheels placed in prefabs properly wipe their connection and ID now

• Custom pivots automatically set up their control axis, like jets/ions/hydrofoils/...
• Custom pivots got an option for switching output on reverse
• Mirror versions added for 2-4m custom rudder and custom control surface parts

• A tiny, fast vehicle slamming into a stationary huge one had the ~same collision energy as the opposite case
• How many collisions are registered in a given amount of time isn't predictable, so total damage done had very wild swings
• Overall collision damage could easily be off by something like ~5 orders of magnitude

• Basic collisions without rams now also use the same kinetic energy system (stronger than before)
• Ram and basic collision AP up from 5 to 10, kinetic damage stored is up by ~33%, kinetic damage regen up by ~10%
• Spinning rams also use the appropriate fraction of energy from the main construct on contact. On top of that they use 5% of the remaining energy from the spinner for each ram and hit
• Kinetic energy for main constructs up by ~11%
• Simple and steam drill parts have a 0.4 drag modifier from the front, with no clearance requirement. 1x1x1 simple drill bits and non-wide steam drill heads have a 0.2 drag modifier from the front

• Propeller hubs now only start losing efficiency below 90% clearance
• Time for propellers to fully spin up reduced by ~30%
• Trusses now count as ducts for the purpose of blocking propulsion, from every side
• Power scale for propellers doesn't reduce max rotation speed, only power use and thrust output (just a visual change)
• Propeller hubs not supported from either the top or bottom are now properly destroyed, even if the ends of some blades are touching other blocks
• Fixed power draw for some propeller setups with 0 clearance
• Orphaned propeller blades do not disconnect when connection rules are off
• Improved clearance checks

• Added extra sanity checks for wing and sail force output, prevents a speed feedback loop with very low drag spinblock vehicles
• Light blocks have 0.1 drag (half of wedges). Prevents physics problems with 0 drag spinblock vehicles
• Subconstruct main blocks directly on the main construct add 1 block worth of drag on the mainconstruct
• Non-structural/plate blocks with weight <=1 now have a weight of 3
• Precision spinblock speed in rotate to angle mode is limited by mass of the construct (like for turrets, but more lenient). Small spinners with single propulsion block are ~350-600 /s, big chunks of armor ~100 /s

• EMP and impact debug tools got the same right click UI explosive one has
• Piston max extension rate up from 2 m/s to 6 m/s
• Effective speed limit for wings on powered spinners is increased, based on power use (relatively weak, only for novelty use)
• Connected serial pistons on separate crankshafts now share their stat systems when only 1 has a boiler connections
• Crank gearboxes now can't get stuck in their old priority when it is changed from their UI
• Flak base damage up from 80% to 90% of HE. Makes it slightly more attractive compared to kinetic CIWS
• Simple rudders also work upside down
• Propeller hub mesh can now be hidden, propeller mesh handling is faster
• Hydrofoil mesh can now be hidden

• Flak base damage up from 80% to 90% of HE. Makes it slightly more attractive compared to kinetic CIWS

• Basic collisions without rams now also use the same kinetic energy system (stronger than before)
• Kinetic energy for main constructs up by ~11%
• Ram and basic collision AP up from 5 to 10, kinetic damage stored is up by ~33%, kinetic damage regen up by ~10%
• Spinning rams also use the appropriate fraction of energy from the main construct on contact. On top of that they use 5% of the remaining energy from the spinner for each ram and hit

• Custom control surfaces>: Custom pivots automatically set up their control axis, like jets/ions/hydrofoils/
• Custom pivots got an option for switching output on reverse

• Hydrofoil mesh can now be hidden
• Propeller hub mesh can now be hidden

• Simple and steam drill parts have a 0.4 drag modifier from the front, with no clearance requirement. 1x1x1 simple drill bits and non-wide steam drill heads have a 0.2 drag modifier from the front

• Piston max extension rate up from 2 m/s to 6 m/s

• Power scale for propellers doesn't reduce max rotation speed, only power use and thrust output
• Propeller hubs now only start losing efficiency below 90% clearance
• Time for propellers to fully spin up reduced by ~30%

• Simple rudders also work upside down

• Precision spinblock speed in rotate to angle mode is limited by the mass of the construct (like for turrets, but more lenient). Small spinners with a single propulsion block are ~350-600 /s, big chunks of armor ~100 /s

• Crank motor kinetic energy/power down from 0.65 to 0.6
• Crank wheel kinetic energy storage reduced to 2x shaft for S, to 3x shaft for M and L. 1x1x1 M wheel has the same max kinetic energy as shafts
• Crank wheel kinetic loss reduced to 25%
• Transmission kinetic loss reduced to 50% (transmission max energy/s was also doubled when crank wheel connections were added, missing from the notes there)

• Trusses now count as ducts for the purpose of blocking propulsion, from every side

• EMP and impact debug tools got the same right-click UI explosive one has

• Effective speed limit for wings on powered spinners is increased, based on power use (relatively weak, only for novelty use)

• Mirror versions added for 2-4m blocks

• Added extra sanity checks for wing and sail force output, prevents a speed feedback loop with very low drag spinblock vehicles
• Light blocks have 0.1 drag (half of wedges). Prevents physics problems with 0 drag spinblock vehicles
• Non-structural/plate blocks with weight <=1 now have a weight of 3
• Subconstruct main blocks directly on the main construct add 1 block worth of drag on the mainconstruct

• Fixed power draw for some propeller setups with 0 clearance
• Improved clearance checks
• Orphaned propeller blades do not disconnect when connection rules are off
• Propeller hubs not supported from either the top or bottom are now properly destroyed, even if the ends of some blades are touching other blocks

• Connected serial pistons on separate crankshafts now share their stat systems when only 1 has a boiler connections
• Crank gearboxes now can't get stuck in their old priority when it is changed from their UI

• [BUGS-3682] Steam wheels placed in prefabs properly wipe their connection and ID now
• Propellers/drills connected to multiple crank motors broadcast their output request to all motors now

• Steam wheels can not connect to wheel already taken by other shafts spinning in the opposite direction

If you are in beta_test branch please move to the new alpha_test branch in the next 24 hrs.
beta_test will soon be required for testing the next stable release so we have created alpha_test branch to test new experimental features. Going forward all experimental features will go to alpha_test and beta_test will be reserved builds heading shortly to stable.
These changes will take affect at noon GMT on the 15th of February.

What is up Depthians!

This update brings numerous changes and tweaks to blocks such as propellers, steam cranks, custom control surfaces, drills, hydrofoils, and rams.

Changelog

[h2]Additions[/h2]

[h3]Drills[/h3]

• 3x3x1 drill head added for M crankshafts. 3x3x3 drill extension and 3x3x6 drill head added for L. 5x5x1 and 7x7x1 drill heads added for L
• 5x5x1 drill head added for simple drills

• It is now possible to change which display FtD is displayed on

• Base output is 140 thrust/blade/area. Power use is 3.5/blade/area
• If a block is in the way of a blade the propeller stops working
• Longer blades change speed slower. Hubs with more blade arms change speed slower
• Max length for blades is 15
• Output(but not power use) for any given cell is reduced by 25% for each direction if its up/down side points inside the swept area of at least 1 other propeller. Spinblocks are also checked
• Output(but not power use) for any given cell is reduced by 50% if it's blocked in 1 direction, by 100% if it's blocked in both directions. Vents and similar blocks count as 25% obstruction. Spinblocks are also checked
• Overall propellers with good clearance are a very good form of propulsion, and the parts are a small part of the cost so can be made redundant
• Parts: propeller hub 1000 health, 60 armor, 100 weight, 100 materials. Propeller blades 600 health 60 armor 50 weight 50 materials
• Propellers are affected by air density
• Similar to dediblades, but ~1 order of magnitude stronger, much more durable, can't be turned from -100% to 100% around instantly and have stricter placement rules
• Thrust output and power usage is based on the area covered by each individual blade line attached

• Crank motor efficiency down from 0.75 to 0.65 kinetic energy/power
• Parallel steam crank wheel with the same size and RPM limit can be connected within 6/8/10/12m (S, 1x1 M, 3x3 M, 3x3 L wheels)
• When connected to wheel attached to other gearboxes/transmissions/crank motors the crankshaft share energy, if 1 part is destroyed the other can take over
• When connected to wheels not belonging to any other crankshaft the new connection will act as part of the parent crankshaft
• When multiple propellers or drills are attached to the same transmission group the drive request with the highest absolute value will be used by all transmissions
• When multiple transmission outputs are merged their transmission power is summed

• HEAT secondary body for APS is only 70% of a head now (final power is ~unchanged beyond the 5% base buff)
• HESH base power up by ~11%, HEAT base power up by 5%
• Squash and shaped charge base power increased by 15% for APS only (missile HEAT is the same)

• At the maximum difficulty level the player's faction strength is now overestimated by [x3 + 5 million] rather than [x10 + 10 million].
• There is a new slider for diplomacy/strategic AI aggressiveness. This used to be included in 'design difficulty' slider. You can now have a more 'diplomatic' campaign against the hardest vehicles, or all out war but with easy vehicles.

• Air control surfaces now have the same drag custom rudders have

• 2-4m pivots added for custom control surfaces. 1-4m pivots and a 2m shaft pivot added for custom rudders. 2-4m rectangular plates added for custom rudders
• Custom control pivot base health up from 100 to 200, armor from 1 to 20, weight from 2.5 to 20, cost from 5 to 30
• Custom control surface base health up from 100 to 200, armor from 1 to 15, weight from 2.5 to 15, cost from 5 to 20
• Custom control surfaces give 50% more thrust in air than custom rudders
• Custom control surfaces now also add drag based on their force output
• Custom control surfaces turn 3x as fast as a custom rudder of the same size
• Custom rudder base health up from 35 to 400, armor from 15 to 50, weight from 4 to 80, cost from 1 to 30
• Custom rudder blocks using multiple cells now also provide more force
• Custom rudder pivot base health is 500, armor 50, weight 100, cost 50
• Custom rudders give 100% more thrust in water than custom control surfaces
• Force output up by ~1 order of magnitude for both custom control surfaces and custom rudders
• New, common code for custom control surfaces and custom rudders. Both can be used as simple plates on spinblocks or with their own pivot blocks

• Removed from the inventory and can't be saved into/loaded from prefabs. Existing vehicles keep working as before. Replaced by propellers

• At least one of the available options should now not cost any commodities

• Simple drill and steam drill special hit detection merged and fixed, both are faster and more consistent
• Simple drill power inputs convert power to kinetic energy, torque amplifiers reduce max rotation speed and damage but increase AP
• Simple drills reworked/fixed: base components slightly more durable, much more compact. Drill heads are much more durable
• Steam drills are generally stronger against armor above ~stone, simple drills easier to place/rotate. Spinning rams very efficient at low motor drive

• Base force up by 50%
• Health up from 85 to 150, armor from 1 to 5, cost from 3 to 10
• Now have the same drag custom rudders have
• Turn rate increased from 40/s to 180/s

• PAC damage multiplier for melee lens reduced from 20x to 10x

• Checks for invalid components added to missile loading and some other places where it was missing
• Default missiles for newly placed launchpads improved
• Initial speed for drop as bomb option in rail gantries reduced from 30 to 25 m/s

• Damage done by each individual ram impact is a function of impact speed and spinner mass
• Max kinetic energy stored in a spinblock is a function of its mass and rotation speed
• Ram and spinblock tooltips added
• Rams on other constructs and pistons use the energy of the mainconstruct to do damage
• Rams on spinblocks use up kinetic energy generated by the spinblock for each hit
• Spinblock kinetic energy regenerates based on motor drive. 1x rate is free, motor drive can increase it to 2x-11x the base rate

• Base force down to 20% the previous value
• Health up from 85 to 600, armor from 1 to 10, weight up from 15 to 50, cost up from 10 to 50
• Multiple simple rudders combined provide the same force as 1
• Now have the same drag custom rudders have
• Now only work if their up-down and forward-back axis matches the main construct

• Custom rudder/control surface tooltips show how many custom blocks are in the given sheet, and the sum of their current output
• Force visualisation helper in build mode now shows FORCE^0.5 and line thickness for buoyancy is lower. Easier to see what's going on in a vehicle
• Hydrofoils now show their force output
• Simple rudder tooltips show how many simple rudders are on the ship, and the base/current force output

• ACB controllers now work correctly if they are spawned in in a destroyed state and are then repaired

• Fixed the breadboard to animation block filtering by name

• BUGS-3612 It is now possible to only display the spring and axle for a wheel, not the block attachment
• BUGS-3629 Fixed fortress turbines from taking damage when out of power if the language is changed from English
• BUGS-3618 Explosions should now be rounder (it probably won't change a thing as no explosions reach their max radius)
• BUGS-3638 Lasers fired through non-AI, non-manual methods will keep aiming forward as they are rotated
• BUGS-3632 Fixed L and H rail gantry missiles sometimes getting tangled in their gantry when being dropped as bombs
• BUGS-3635 Fixed steam transmissions not their input's RPM limit for their gear ratio in some cases, when loading
• BUGS-3646 Playing local video is now working again
• BUGS-3550 The suspension (spring, axle, and block) are now displayed/hidden correctly when the setting is changed when loading the BP when repaired or placed as a prefab

• Fixed an issue where some breadboard components would run their logic more than one time per frame
• One-shot component will now correctly only activate once
• The first output of the steering info component now indicates whether the mainframe's movement is turned on or off

• Fleets with a patrol route setup will now properly save and load the waypoint they were moving towards

• Fixed too many collisions triggering at once, damage output is more predictable now

• Fixed a problem preventing the player from getting options with a lot of enemies

• EMP charges can now travel between constructs
• Laser Q switch EMP resistance fixed

• Fixed a rare problem causing gridcasts with an alignment very close to a construct's rotation to miss

• Hologram projectors now work correctly if they are spawned in a destroyed state and are then repaired

• Impact damage can now travel between constructs

• Charge lasers will fire if either continuous or pulsed shot does more damage than the minimum damage set in the output regulator

• Added functions to get the number of subconstructs and to get information for a specific subconstruct by index similar to the other APIs
• Replaced outdated propulsion methods with new functions 'AddPropulsionRequest', 'SetPropulsionRequest' and 'GetPropulsionRequest'
• The docking station now uses the correct ids to identify friendly vehicles for all functions
• Weapons fired by Lua can now hit missiles

• Separating or attaching a vehicle while the player is in a chair will no longer eject the player from the chair except for multiplayer clients

• Changed render queues for smoke and shields to render properly in front of and behind glass.

• Effective speed for wings is capped at the speed of the main construct

What is up Depthians!

A few bug fixes and tweaks for you to enjoy before we put this into stable hopefully this week :)


Changelog

[h2]Changes[/h2]

[h3]Chair[/h3]

• Elevated chair now has its own elevated chair model to fit the new avatars

• Fixed regression with target prioritisation based on range

• BUGS-3601 Ammo connection UI is no longer limited to only showing 30 customisers.
• BUGS-3582 Issue with moving fleets to non-hostile locations on the campaign diplomacy screen. This caused the options to be unselectable.
• BUGS-3588 Plates now use the correct hitbox. Avatar can now properly walk up against them / over them.
• BUGS-3593 Et Tu, Brute? achievement should now work in new diplomacy style campaigns (declare war on a faction you have a 50+ relationship with
• BUGS-3617 Sabot heads/bodies without an inertial fuse now do not trigger payloads on a ricochet
• BUGS-3616 Functional steam pistons taking steam directly from valves do not warn about having any input

• Minor adjustment to the COB for helium pumps to weight more strongly for the underwater component

• Fixed some valve setups not venting without an extra pipe after the valve output

What is up Depthians!

A few bug fixes and tweaks for you to enjoy before we put this into stable hopefully this week :)


Changelog

[h2]Changes[/h2]

[h3]Chair[/h3]

• Elevated chair now has its own elevated chair model to fit the new avatars

• Fixed regression with target prioritisation based on range

• BUGS-3601 Ammo connection UI is no longer limited to only showing 30 customisers.
• BUGS-3582 Issue with moving fleets to non-hostile locations on the campaign diplomacy screen. This caused the options to be unselectable.
• BUGS-3588 Plates now use the correct hitbox. Avatar can now properly walk up against them / over them.
• BUGS-3593 Et Tu, Brute? achievement should now work in new diplomacy style campaigns (declare war on a faction you have a 50+ relationship with
• BUGS-3617 Sabot heads/bodies without an inertial fuse now do not trigger payloads on a ricochet
• BUGS-3616 Functional steam pistons taking steam directly from valves do not warn about having any input

• Minor adjustment to the COB for helium pumps to weight more strongly for the under water component

• Fixed some valve setups not venting without an extra pipe after the valve output

What is up Depthians!

From all of us at Brilliant Skies, we hope you have all had an epic start to the new year and continues to be truly epic!

We released 3.4.1 to stable which includes 3 new fixes from beta.

Which is:

• Old fuel engine parts have been changed to object definitions and have been reverted to original pre-2020 textures

• Intravehicle transmitter now connects on the back/down faces.

• BUGS-3560 Fixed single direction rail magnet fixtures ignoring firing piece orientation
• BUGS-3561 Fixed ERA blocks giving up to 100 kinetic damage back to pure kinetic projectiles
• BUGS-3564 Fixed the reference to the throughput pipe (rather than Junction pipe) in the fuel engine tutorials
• BUGS-3446 The message stating whether a CJE's exhaust is blocked or not now shows on all CJE components

• Fix to ensure GP PIDs maintain their old default values when saved with them pre v3.3.9
• For constructs saved before version 3.3.9 all PIDs are switched to 'basic' mode, if the construct doesn't have any AI PID blocks

• The issue with the cargo calamity mission is now fixed.
  

• Fixed issue with the separator block working in different languages
• Fixed subobject root block swapping in the sub-object UI for players in languages other than English.

• Fixed Extra entries in the tutorial menu being created when the language was switched from the main menu
• Fixed issue where windows could be moved or resized to be off screen

What is up Depthians!

Some fixes before the holidays :) and we all wish you all the best for the new year and many more to come!


Changelog

[h2]Changes[/h2]

[h3]Decorations[/h3]

• Old fuel engine parts have been changed to object definitions and have been reverted to original pre-2020 textures

• Intravehicle transmitter now connects on the back/down faces.

• BUGS-3560 Fixed single direction rail magnet fixtures ignoring firing piece orientation
• BUGS-3561 Fixed ERA blocks giving up to 100 kinetic damage back to pure kinetic projectiles
• BUGS-3564 Fixed the reference to the throughput pipe (rather than Junction pipe) in the fuel engine tutorials

• For constructs saved before version 3.3.9 all PIDs are switched to 'basic' mode, if the construct doesn't have any AI PID blocks

• Fixed issue with the separator block working in different languages
• Fixed subobject root block swapping in the sub-object UI for players in languages other than English.

• Fixed issue where windows could be moved or resized to be off screen

What is up Depthians!

A quick little update which was mainly directed towards people who were having issues as they had an AI control module set to basic/none but also had an AI PID block "enabled" for that controller.

We have also fully translated the game to Chinese! :D


Changelog


[h2]Additions [/h2]


[h3]Chinese[/h3]

• Chinese now fully supported

• BUGS-3416>: Fixed ACB blueprint spawning for adventure mode
  
• BUGS-3558] Armour refit tab disabled on clients temporarily until we fix the client-side implementation of this feature
  

• Migration of old PID settings now only affects those controllers which were set to PID mode (leaving those in basic/none alone)

• Fixed a number of issues in the AI Deep Dive tutorial

Hey Depthians!


Sorry for being a little late getting the Xmaslogs out. :p

We are really happy that we have nearly finished the Chinese localisation, which should be complete this December.


Few fixes and tweaks for you all to enjoy.

Changelog


Beta 3.3.9


[h2]Additions[/h2]

[h3]Animation[/h3]

• Added inverse kinematics (IK) control to the characters of the animation block

• The blueprint selector window now has a search field at the top

• Simplified Chinese translation is now complete and is officially supported

• You can now define multiple plugin DLLs to load using a comma-separated list. Only the last plugin is given the full treatment but others are loaded. For example [[[filename: "0Harmony.dll, Mono.Reflection.dll, APSGaugePlugin.dll"]]] would ensure 0Harmony.dll and Mono.Reflection.dll are loaded before loading the APSGaugePlugin DLL. This is a fix for problems loading dependencies automatically that have occurred since we moved to Unity 2021.

• Average reductions: applique/alloy plate 3%, most components 2%
• Best reductions: rubber 40%, wood/stone/glass 15%
• Blocks now reduce the strength of EMP charges passing through them by a % for each m. They also keep a smaller flat reduction (1% resist = 2 flat reduction)
• How many iterations the EMP algorithm can do scales with damage. From a fixed 1000 it's now 500 base, +1 for every 10 EMP damage (small EMP spam less CPU-heavy, large less likely to get lost)
• Most detection components take 30% EMP damage (was 50%). Coincidence rangefinders take 20% (was 30)
• Munition warners, laser warners and sensor scramblers take 30% damage from EMP (was 50)
• No reduction: heavy armor 0%
• Sonar, radar, heat decoys and chaff emitters take 100% damage from EMP (was 0)
• Strong reductions: reinforced wood/wood duct 10%, alloy 5%
• Surge protector health down from 500/m to 250/550/862.5/1200, for the 1/2/3/4m variants
• Weak reduction: metal/metal plate 1%

• AI PID blocks aren't needed to choose PID control, they were removed from the inventory. Newly placed AIs have all PIDs enabled by default, with 0.05/250/0.3 P/I/D values

• Fixed mirrored L reverse launchpad not connecting to gantries

• Broken mod plugins are now less likely to crash the game's boot up sequence leaving the game in a broken state

• More Chinese translation added. The remainder should be in by Monday 13th December 2021

• RTGs now have 100% EMP susceptibility

• Helium leak rate increased from 1 to 2 cubic m for each hole over water. Pumps now still fill 10 cubic meter/s with leaks in their compartment

• The structural tab was reorganized

• BUGS-3539 Fixed issue where lobby would return only geographically local games
• BUGS-3548 The button to open the AI pitch controller actually opened the roll controller
• BUGS-3538Sound blocks no longer trigger the sound when they appear after being taken out of existence in certain build mode views
• BUGS-3531 the power tab of the constructable info UI now properly opens the UIs of the blocks when you hover them and press Q.

What is up Depthians!! xD

Before we set sail into the depths of this MASSIVE update list/post/wall of text, we feel that we need to point out a few things first.

If you start to see a black screen when you launch the game, please remove mods.

Our merch is on sale with 50% off until the end of January !! Check out Borderwise upload here if you want to see the merch.
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We updated to unity 2020.3.22 and due to this the FTD boot-up process now begins in the launcher and is more multi-threaded and concurrent, so it should take less time to boot the game up.

FTD now uses Steam Multiplayer and the Data Relay Network. The old networking system is no longer available. Joining friends is much easier now and NAT punch through and port opening should no longer be necessary.
We have fixed numerous multiplayer issues, however, there may be still some left, so as always feel free to poke us with them on our bug tracker page. https://brilliantskies.customercase.com/forums/bug-tracker

As we have updated to one of the most recent Unity engines, you may see that your lighting in-game has changed. This has confused some players that were on Beta into thinking the graphics/textures have changed which is not the case.

So if you can see that your lighting is duller or brighter in-game, you will have to pop back into your options and set the levels to your liking.

We have also released an alternative avatar, the Droid! This also comes with an animation block where you can animate him manually or through the breadboard. You can swap avatars by hitting Z and checking the avatar tab.


We have heard your prayers and added the full set of corner slopes for applique.


However, time to get to the bulk of this update... Diplomacy! As well as some more new features.

When you first set out on your campaign run, and pop into map view you will see a timer.


This timer will be running after each council meeting where you will decide who to go to war with or make peace with for the duration shown in this UI until the next campaign season starts in X hours. Each option lists out the changes in the relationship with the factions and all the options will be different each time while keeping in mind that the stronger you get the more factions you will be at war with! In this screenie, we can see that we can have total peace for 2 hours at the cost of 3,752 commodities.


Some options will have rewards like the second example below, we can go to war with the DWG, have peace with all the other factions, and have a sweet little reward in commodities. Commodity rewards/costs are affected by the difficulty level that you select. Please note that there may be some factions that simply do not want to have peace with you! So you cannot keep bribing them for world peace each meeting.


You will also see a mini-map showing you the territory where the factions are. In this case, its showing us our territory in yellow and the DWG territory in red as they will be our enemy should we choose this option.
So remember that with more enemies and fewer allies you will get more commodities and with higher difficulties, you will get fewer commodities.

The AI is has had another upgrade too, such that allied factions will be working together and better grouping.

You will also be able to have a secret meeting as your fleets will trigger a secret emergency meeting when they stay near allied/neutral resource zones, or inside non-border tiles of neutral factions, for more than 120 seconds. In a secret emergency meeting, the offending nation and all their allies declare war against the players faction.

Another sweet addition to this update is the clampy feet, which will help us make mechs without the need for thrusters to assist.


We have also added new features to decorations that allow you to hide the block that the tether is created on. Lets say you had a fancy pipe decoration, and you also set its color within the decoration UI which is also a new feature. However, its being covered by the block that its tethered to, as you can see in the first screenie.


Simply click Hide original mesh and poof that nasty block that was covering your beautiful spam of decorations is now gone, but not really gone as its collision mesh is still there and will ofc take damage, die, and fall off. We can also turn off that noisy wireframe too which is another sweet addition brought to you by our ever awesome Weng! (but it was all my idea I swear!)


The V menu / Construct information UI has had a few tweaks, and as you can see we can now swap block types. Select which material you want to change from EG Alloys with a specific color or Any color which would select all Alloy blocks and change them to all metal if you wish.


We have some new additions such as a suspension spring mesh for our wheels (visual only), and before you roll off your seats with excitement we also have anti-roll bars for our land constructs!


Note that the center attachment point of the wheels is in line with the roll bar.

If this has not got you all hot and steamy, yes you guessed the next poor pun is about steam fixes and tweaks xD

Before you decide to separate my hands from my keyboard, we have separation blocks 1x1, 3x3, and also a 1x1 docking station! xD

You will need to set a few parameters before attaching the drone via the separation block as the options you choose will be saved to the drone that is attached, and any future changes you would need to detach the drone first before they take effect.

Before we get into the settings we should / could use a docking station on the mothership per drone. This will help us align the drones attachment block to the motherships attachment block, and lets not forget that most motherships may be on the move which is why the docking station would be needed as the separation block currently only has a 10m range. We may also need an origin block on the drone as the docking station pulls from the center of mass of the drone, so by installing an origin block the dock will use that as its center point. The origin block can be placed anywhere deep inside the hull, just make sure that its inline and behind the attachment (red blocks in pic).



Firstly hit "Q" on the separation block and choose how you want the drone to be detached. In order for our drone to have its attachment point flush with its hull and also for the mothership, we need to select "Attached and in front", else you will be notified that the drone cannot be detached.
You will need to decide if you want your drone to use its propulsion while attached, from "Extra". You will also need to state whether you want this to be rebuilt once detached or not by ticking "Permanently remove", this gives you the option to rebuild the missing blocks from the mothership allowing you to keep spawning multiple copies of the drone, which will be built by Rambot or repair drones, not tentacles.We also suggest giving the drone a name in the "Vehicle Settings" of the separator control UI.




Some things to note:

• Attaching a drone to the mothership be it fort or vehicle, the drone will inherit the paint job of the mothership. Therefore if you had two paint schemes one for the mothership blue slot 4 and another for the drone green slot 4 it would be overwritten.
• Remember to set the AI prioritisation in the AI tab, as only the AI(s) with the highest priority will try to control the vehicle.

What is up Depthians!

Quick and cheeky little update
[h2]Fixes[/h2]
[h3]Bugs[/h3]

• BUGS-3527 Large reversed launcher now properly mirrors.
• BUGS-2891 Fixed steam crank transmissions not taking their gear ratio into account when sanity checking their current kinetic energy after a change
• BUGS-884 Removing an AI behavior card will also remove the last behavior added if the limit if exceeded, and the construct is not damaged

What is up Depthians!


Some more bug fixes and tweaks :)

As always with any release, if you do see something not quite right then please send us a bug report here: https://brilliantskies.customercase.com/forums/bug-tracker

Please send us an example blueprint showing only the components needed to replicate the issue. If it is a campaign issue send us a save file shortly before the problem shows its self. You can find the save file here: C:\Users\YourUserName\Documents\From The Depths\Player Profiles\PlayerProfileName\Saves.

Changelog
[h2]Additions[/h2]
[h3]Camo[/h3]

• You can now add camouflage texture to applique as well

• Added a button to instantly reload all CRAMs in the designer's refill menu (the one triggered by holding Q)

• Changed the format of the saved pathfinding data used for campaigns. The old format will still be loaded correctly, but the new format will load much faster. Worlds saved will automatically use the new format

• Armor for dedicated helicopter blade parts up from 5 to 40

• Removed most options in the council meetings where the player would only be at war with factions far away from the player

• 3x3/5x5/7x7 ducts cost as much as 14/40/80 individual blocks of the same material

• Surge protector EMP damage taken up from 1% to 5%

• Torpedo sonar and propeller component health modifier up from 1 to 1.4
• Water resistance for missiles down by ~10%

• Added default lighting intensity options for reflection probe on and reflection probe off cases, with a button for resetting to default

• Droid model now sits at the correct position in the chair

• BUGS-3510 Helium pump interpolation of buoyancy at maximum altitude is fixed. This is a minor change.
• BUGS-3157 APS shell module parameters are properly synced in multiplayer
• BUGS-3506 Some setups with serial steam pistons do not report being blocked when placing/removing a non-steam block
• BUGS-3507 Fixed hiding the mesh on APS barrels making them functionally not count as a barrel
• BUGS-3509 Fixed forced fire from ACBs getting around the rate controller of APS
• BUGS-3069 Issue where initial tensor is first calculated for a spawned vehicle based on the COM of the main hull only, not the sub-objects. Now fixed to always include sub-objects.
• BUGS-2839 wing blocks underwater now gradually ramp up to the x5 lift force rather than jumping immediately which can cause physics instability

What is up Depthians!


Another round of bug fixes, however, we have also released an alternative avatar, the Droid! This also comes with an animation block where you can animate him manually or through the breadboard.



We have also added the corner slope blocks for the applique slopes !! YES, the others will be added too for each size of our applique slopes.

Changelog

[h2]Additions[/h2]
[h3]Avatars[/h3]

• Released an alternative avatar called 'Droid', and an Animation Block where you can animate him. It can be controlled via the breadboard, or manually

• Added Applique corner block for diagonal edges.

• [BUGS-2622] Multiplayer Info Screen (MIS) (F2) is now rebindable. F1 is no longer hard bound to the instance information screen (IIS). MIS & IIS now both correctly toggle on/off rather than stacking several copies. Chat mode (F5) is now rebindable. HUD toggle (F9) is now rebindable.
• [BUGS-3495] Detection equipment no longer momentarily forgets its visible targets when it is unlinked and relinked to the mainframe
• [BUGS-2899] Torpedoes will limit their aim point altitude when they lose target, to stop them trying to jump out of water
• [BUGS-3163] the FOV slider is now correctly marked as being the vertical FOV.
• [BUGS-1975] the old Complex Controller (and old drives) code now runs in the same thread as the newer control stuff, which removes jitters in controlled by these historic 'stim drives'.

• - Ions, standard jets, and steam jets no longer apply force directly to the COM when placed within 1 or 2 meters of the line through the COM. This is seen as a confusing and historic piece of code that is not really needed anymore and did not take account of propulsion offset angles.

What is up Depthians!

Some more bug fixes from the tickets you good peeps have been sending in xD

You will see that your lighting has changed in-game. Unfortunately, you will have to pop back into your options and set these up to your liking. We are currently gathering info from people on Discord, but feel free to leave a comment in Reddit or Steam with a link to your lighting settings and a screenshot of a construct/s in morning/afternoon/evening/night. We are trying to find a common ground to set as a default setting.

Changelog

[h2]Changes[/h2]
[h3]CRAM[/h3]

• Time after first impact fuse default time from 0.3s to 0.05s

• 3x3, 5x5 and 7x7 ducts now have the cost as 10, 30 and 60 individual blocks of the same material
• 3x3, 5x5 and 7x7 ducts now have the same health and weight as 7, 18 and 30 individual blocks of the same material

• BUGS-3479 Target prioritisation scores below 0 get divided by (1 + CURRENT_TARGET_BONUS), instead of multiplied by it
• BUGS-3479 Fixed railgun magnets and decorations attached to mantlets flipping with some specific setups
• BUGS-3502 Switching between solid/HE/flak/EMP bodies now immediately updates the mesh of the customizer
• BUGS-3504 Sabot, supercavitation and disruptor modifiers all affect the base power for HE/flak, before scaling
• BUGS-2931 Larger wheels can now set their spring force multiplier to larger values in order to better offset a collection of small wheels at the other end of the vehicle
• BUGS-2443 Avatar now climbs ladder at a sensible speed. Ladders in a 1x1 space now work (rather than needing an extra free space behind the ladder). Moving through an open hatch at the top of the ladder now works (but requires a jump when at the top of the ladder).
• BUGS-3492, BUGS-3418 Hide original mesh now also works for decorations on barrels, spinners, control surfaces. STL file writing now shows barrels/spinners/control surfaces properly.
• BUGS-3298 Fixed an error where failures to write a log message to disk would create more requests to write those failure messages to disk
• BUGS-3309, REQ-1817 Added a page select for managing uploaded workshop entries and viewing subscriptions. This means you can now see more than the first 50.
• BUGS-3190 Fixed an issue where wheels could 'pop' below the ground and cease exerting suspension forces
• BUGS-3473 Youtube audio fixed

• Fixed 7x7 alloy and HA ducts only having ~60% the weight they should, compared both to smaller ducts and other 7x7s

What is up Depthians!

As always, back with more fixes and goodies.


We are happy to point out that From The Depths, now uses Steam Networking so this should resolve some issues people had in the past, but as always please send us any bugs here: https://brilliantskies.customercase.com/forums/bug-tracker . Leave us a small example blueprint if its component related rather than the full 1 million volume construct :p.
Please also include the output log.

If it's campaign issues send us the save file hopefully shortly before the issue happens and all the info needed to recreate any of the problems you encounter.
Save files can be found in C:\Users\YourUserName\Documents\From The Depths\Player Profiles\PlayerProfileName\Saves.


[h2]Additions[/h2]
[h3]APS[/h3]

• Added KINETIC_DAMAGE * AP stat to shell customizer
  

• 
  Added missiles fired/hit counter tooltips to missiles launchpads and controllers

• HE, EMP, and frag head kinetic modifier up from 1 to 1.2
• Heavy head kinetic modifier up from 1.65 to 1.75
• Hollowpoint AP modifier down from 1.2 to 1.15
• Sabot head and body health modifier down from 1 to 0.9
• Soft part health modifier down from 0.4 to 0.35

• Armor refit tool now shows a warning on the hud if a lack of materials
  

• New campaigns now have a 1 hour period before the first council is automatically triggered. You can trigger one yourself before that.


• 
  Reduced the reward/cost for diplomacy options to 80% of original value.
  

• 
  Removed automatic orientation packers from the inventory tab
  

• Laser designator receiver drag modifier from 0.6 to 0.2 (same as thumper and single pixel IR seeker)
  


• Laser emitter health down from 900 to 800, armor up from 40 to 50, cost down from 150 to 100
  


• Laser emitters now send out a position estimate for the last target after losing it. After 1 second of the beam not hitting anything they revert to the old behavior
  


• 
  Missile smoke trail length scales with missile size, not only velocity
  


• 
  Remote guidance has a fixed 3m max error, instead of 4-8. Max sensor scrambler error up to 24m and signal processor reduces that to 50%
  


• 
  Scaling for impact damage from reinforced bodies back to be ~equal to a HE/frag/EMP warhead at 400 m/s, instead of 360
  

• 
  Improved avatar motion over slopes, and stopped avatar being above to move in 1m high crawl spaces (which results in the camera being stuck in the block above)
  

• BUGS-2917 Laser guided missiles show in the stat panel that there is no distance limit for a lock
  


• BUGS-2823 Wheels placed with prefabs now won't attach to existing tracks on the vehicle
  


• BUGS-3161 Fixed laser emitters not registering valid hits in some cases
  


• BUGS-3186 Fixed failsafes not working with short range laser combiners
  


• BUGS-3357 Steam piston outputs are also updated when a non-steam block is permanently added/removed
  


• BUGS-3460 Fixed hover maneouvre not handling negative azi for the forward/strafe limit slider
  


• BUGS-3470 Max value for secondary and tertiary drive ACB conditions is in the [-1, 1] range, instead of [0, 1]
  


• BUGS-3481 Altitude fuses for missiles work again
  


• BUGS-3485 Reducing gunpowder casing length for APS also reduces clip explosion power
  


• BUGS-3499 Steam networking message buffer increased in size to allow large save files to be sent to clients in multiplayer
  


• BUGS-3257 Sticky feet UI now shows the friction slider again, allowing direct control.
  

• 0Q lasers with a minimum damage set will also check if total remaining laser energy dipped below 1 before pumps recharged. Fixes bursts with some 0Q setups
  


• Output regulator 'Minimum shot energy' text fixed, it's 'Minimum shot damage'
  


• Output regulators burst threshold default set from 0 to 80, no longer adjusted when changing minimum damage. Only matters for lasers with a minimum damage set to be over the default 0
  

• Improved laser emitter hit detection
  

• Certain collisions between large vehicle should no longer massively slow down the game or cause a crash. The improvment will vary per situation and in some rare cases there might even be a slight decrease in performance, but in many of the worst cases you can expect a large improvement

• Direct turbine/piston connections added to the sides of L boilers

What is up Depthians!

Another round of bug fixing, tweaks, and some additional features.

We shall explain any functions/features etc fully in the stable release, however, please feel free to ask about anything in the notes that you feel needs explaining.

We would also like to point out that we updated to unity 2020.3.22 and therefore the FTD boot-up process now begins in the launcher, and is more multi-threaded and concurrent, so it should take less time to boot the game up.

FTD now uses Steam Multiplayer and the Data Relay Network. The old networking system is no longer available. Joining friends is much easier now and NAT punch through and port opening should no longer be necessary.

We have fixed a number of multiplayer issues, there may be still some left so as always feel free to poke us with them on our bug tracker page.

https://brilliantskies.customercase.com/forums/bug-tracker

Changelog
[h2]Additions[/h2]
[h3]Armor refit[/h3]

• New buttons in armor refit tool: refit 100 and refit 500 blocks
  

• You can now trigger a diplomacy meeting if you have no enemies (or your enemies are dead)
  

• Added idle elevation option in the CRAM settings UI
  
• New option in the fusing box: hollow-point tip conversion. Switches kinetic to impact damage, at the conversion rate used in APS
  

• It is now possible to join lobbies through the Steam friends list if you are in the main menu
  
• Joining a lobby through the Steam friends list without the game running will start up the game and join the lobby if possible
  

• You can now include a zip file of imagery with your planet when you upload it to the steam workshop. If your planet is called Mine.planet then make a zip file called Mine.zip and put into it files with names such as #mytag.jpg and #anothertag.png. You can use these hashtags for the diplomacy portraits.
  

• New slider for target prioritization card: bonus priority multiplier for the current target
  

• Adventure mode now allows 3rd person camera as per other modes
  

• AP modifier for soft heads up from 0.8 to 1
  
• AP modifier for soft parts except flak up from 0.1 to 0.8
  
• HE, frag, and EMP damage up by 10%. Also affects HEAT and HESH. Flak damage up by ~5%
  
• Health modifier for soft heads up from 0.5 to 0.9
  
• HP head switched from 1 AP and 1.2 kinetic modifiers to 1.2 AP and 1 kinetic
  
• Penetration depth fuse speed modifier up from 1 to 1.1, same as solid bodies
  
• Shaped charge and squash heads are now fast (1.6 speed modifier, instead of 1.45)
  
• Shell health up by 25%
  
• Speed modifier for slow heads up from 1.3 to 1.45
  

• Most blocks can now be placed on fortresses and structures. This is to make separators work, was also requested for testing parts.
  

• Diplomacy meeting timer no longer advances during combat
  
• In council meeting mode there is no longer relationship damage from moving in neutral territory belonging to someone you are not at war with.
  
• Salvage increases its pick-up radius massively after two hours to de-clutter the map and keep the economy going.
  

• Gauge increase component costs up from 10 to 12
  
• Hardener pellets cost up from 120 to 150
  
• HE, frag, and EMP pellet cost up from 150 to 180
  
• Health for each HE/EMP/frag payload packed up from 3 to 3.6
  
• Kinetic damage for each hardener payload packed up from 10 to 16
  
• Kinetic damage for each HE/EMP/frag payload packed up from 4 to 5
  
• Material cost and recoil for each payload packed up by 20%
  
• Packer costs up from 20 to 25
  
• Payload compactor cost up from 20 to 25
  
• Shell power for each HE/frag/EMP payload packed up from 18 to 22
  

• FTD boot-up process now begins in the launcher and is more multi-threaded and concurrent. It should take less time to boot the game up.
  
• FTD now uses Steam Multiplayer and the Data Relay Network. The old networking system is no longer available. Joining friends is much easier now and NAT punch through and port opening should no longer be necessary.
  

• Now using Unity 2020.3.22, instead of Unity 2017.4.25.
  

• Exhaust tooltips now show the full name of the part, instead of the generic Engine exhaust
  

• HEAT base metric up to 10/9 the old value
  
• HEAT damage up to 8/7 the old value
  
• Final spalling metric now scales with TOTAL_ARMOR^0.47, instead of TOTAL_ARMOR^0.5 (lower loss against lots of armor)
  

• Damage done down by 10%
  
• Reinforced body health modifier down from 2 to 1.6
  
• Remote guidance now has a base error, up to 8m along each axis. Signal processor reduces base error by 50% (also affects error from not having enough GPP)
  

• Most constant files use plain fields instead of expression bodies
  

• You will now only take ownership of nearby weapons if you actually have their weapon slot selected
  

• Damage done for 1 energy used up by ~4.5%
  
• Piercing AP up from 50 to 60. DAMAGE * AP stays the same (except the 4.5% buff all PACs get)
  

• All projectiles lose power as they are damaged, down to 20% when they reach 0 health. HE/frag/EMP/HEAT/HESH get their base power reduced, kinetic/impact damage lose AP
  

• Error added to remote and Lua missiles is 12 * (INTERFERENCE_STRENGTH/20000)^0.45 meters. Interference strength can go over 20000 from multiple scramblers
  
• Interference strength and radius is the same for missiles as for detection components
  
• Material cost up from 100 to 200
  

• Changed simple lasers to use the sound of standard continuous lasers
  

• Armor for M and L turbine parts up from 20 to 30
  
• Boiler controllers generate heat again, temperature scales with OUTPUT^0.8. Medium boilers run cooler than smalls, large boilers than mediums for the same output.
  
• Large boiler armor up from 20 to 30, output up from 22500 to 24000 (capacity and material use follow the increase)
  
• M boiler controllers can be attached to M boilers from any direction, including the sides
  
• Max kinetic loss for S crank parts up from 140 to 180 (translates to ~5% lower max output)
  
• Small boiler armor down from 20 to 15, cost up from 10 to 20
  

• Fixed AIO LWC not using processing power for attached remote missiles
  

• Reducing length of a propellant casing also reduces material cost
  

• Armor refit tool stops if there are not enough materials in the campaign (so doesnt remove blocks/get stuck when trying to place something in a position with all neighbors removed)
  

• Fixed fins possibly adding an upwards force higher than gravity for missiles not under thrust
  

• Fixed campaign favorite build menu types going out of the bounds of their panel
  

• In mouse, build mode blocks larger than 1x1x1 get the proper offset in every orientation
  

• Warp now button in the warp drive UI now only warps up to the set target distance
  

• Custom jet engines and steam jets not output the proper force with a power scale below 1
  

• Particle cannon UI label improvement
  

• Airplane idle thrust works as it should again
  

• Fixed direct connections from boilers to pistons and turbines ignoring attachment points
  

• Fixed force from gravrams and warp drives being lower at low game speed
  

• Fixed APS barrel recoil tooltips not updating on caliber change
  

• Wheels with a negative power scale and negative drive now do not ignore the wheel speed caps
  

• Impact damage can now possibly spread to every cell next to a block larger than 1x1x1 (checked the 6 cardinal directions from the origin of the block before)
  

• Following review, blocks have their mesh shown or as a general block as appropriate in the build marker.
  

• All detection parts have drag blocker removed. All detection drag set to 0.2 from 1. This should make creating planes and subs easier.
  

• Advanced cannon ammo intakes do not show no space in rack messages during normal operation
  

• Fixed being able to use multiple mantlets with a single advanced cannon
  

• Fixed some cases where fuel engines do not distribute exhaust gases between multiple exits. A pipe section is only obstructed if all possible exits are obstructed
  

• Fixed pressure readouts for some special steam piping setups
  

• Fixed the tooltip for advanced cannons with a shell loaded but no intakes showing 1 available intake
  

• Fixed outdated planar shield projector description
  

• Refinery L pipes are rotated properly.
  

• A vehicle will only go into the too damaged destruction state if it has actually been damaged (to avoid slow-building mega vehicles from being destroyed) (affects Obelisk mode multiplayer).
  

• You can no longer teleport using the teleport avatar item when in a chair or being carried by out of play force
  

• STL export has funky position and rotation. Now fixed. If the vehicle has an origin block that will be used
  

• AI UI maneuver screen now displays correctly at small window sizes
  

• Helispinner UI now shows the yaw and roll rotation settings and the default resting spin rate sliders
  

• Fixed resource zone description typos
  

• Youtube is working again
  

• Fixed a bug where broken decorations on APS barrels (and some other places) can stop systems from working
  

• Exhaust bonus for custom jet generators is reduced if the exhaust is blocked
  

• Radar decoys no longer have an attachment point facing up. This was a bug
  

• Clampy feet should now properly disconnect when killed
  

• Optimization of the power management for the Sky fortress turbines [BUGS-3282]
  

• Fixed frag trails being connected to a faraway point on spawning
  

• Impact damage now looks for a different block to start from if the original was already destroyed on another thread
  

• Fixed some laser setups using less power than they should at low game speeds
  

• Ejector meshes are now the correct size, centered, and arent floating.
  
• When missiles take damage their HE damage is reduced using the standard scaling, instead of simply being divided
  

• Fixed campaign resource cap not being constant in multiplayer
  
• Fixed chat text getting highlighted/selected for no reason
  
• Fixed clients not rendering harpoon lines
  
• Fixed control inputs not being synchronized for fortresses
  
• Fixed custom axes not being synchronized in multiplayer
  
• Fixed various crashes in multiplayer
  

• Fixed explosive mode damage after attenuation not using HE scaling (range0 damage was simply multiplied by attenuation loss)
  

• Fixed separators breaking steam engines both on the separated vehicle and the main vehicle
  
• Fixed separators not working in multiplayer
  

• Fixed crank generator and propeller labels being switched in the block stat overview
  

What is up Depthians!

We are pleased to kick off the long-awaited diplomacy update to beta! As well as numerous bug fixes, tweaks, and some new features.

Let us try and be diplomatic about this update and start there :p

When you first set out on your campaign run, and pop into map view you will see a timer.



This timer will be running after each council meeting where you will decide who to go to war with or make peace with for the duration shown in this UI until the next campaign season starts in X hours. Each option lists out the changes in the relationship with the factions and all the options will be random each time while keeping in mind that the stronger you get the more factions you will be at war with! In this screenie, we can see that we can have total peace for 2 hours at the cost of 3,752 commodities.


Some options will have rewards like the second example below, we can go to war with the DWG, have peace with all the other factions, and have a sweet little reward in commodities. Commodity rewards/costs are affected by the difficulty level that you select.


You will also see a mini-map showing you the territory where the factions are. In this case, its showing us our location in yellow and the DWG territory.
So remember that with more enemies and fewer allies you will get more commodities and with higher difficulties, you will get fewer commodities.

The AI is also undergoing another upgrade too, such that allied factions will be working together and better grouping.

You will also be able to have a secret meeting as your fleets will trigger a secret emergency meeting when they stay near allied/neutral resource zones, or inside non-border tiles of neutral factions, for more than 120 seconds. In a secret emergency meeting, the offended nation and all their allies declare war against the players faction.

On to a frequently requested feature is better feet to make mechs without the need for thrusters to assist, and we are happy to say YES! However in this current beta they are still being worked on! So remember Clampy Feet = WIP.


We have also added new features to decorations that allow you to hide the block that the tether is created on. Lets say you had a fancy pipe decoration, and you also set its color within the decoration UI which is also a new feature. However, its being covered by the block that its tethered to, as you can see in the first screenie.



Simply click Hide original mesh and poof that nasty block that was covering your beautiful spam of decorations is now gone, but not really gone as its collision mesh is still there and will ofc take damage, die, and fall off. We can also turn off that noisy wireframe too which is another sweet addition brought to you by our ever awesome Weng! (but it was all my idea I swear!)


The V menu / Construct information UI has had a few tweaks, and as you can see we can now swap block types. Select which material you want to change from EG Alloys with a specific color or Any color which would select all Alloy blocks and change them to all metal if you wish.


Changelog
[h3]Additions[/h3]
[h3]AI[/h3]

• Add maximum hull CoM shift before switching side parameter for Broadside 2.0 behavior. Useful for spreading damage evenly on both sides of the hull.
• Add minimum firepower fraction before switching side parameter for Broadside 2.0 behaviour. Useful for vehicles that heavily depend on side weapons.

• New tab on the V menu: Armor refit. Changes all armor blocks from a specific material and color (or any color) to another material and color (or keeps the color)

• Added 2m,3m and 4m surge protector beams. These have adjusted values for the EMP test mentioned elsewhere in the notes.

• Breadboard modules for reading/writing to custom axes added

• Added a mini-map to the diplomacy screen so you get an idea of where the different factions are before choosing your wars
• Fleets are now teleported to the nearest non-hostile territory if the faction they are located in become hostile to the fleets owner, after a diplomacy council meeting
• Markers on the campaign map to show who you are at war or allied with and where they are based
• Players fleets now trigger a secret emergency meeting when they stay near allied/neutral resource zones, or inside non-border tiles of neutral factions, for more than 120 seconds. In a secret emergency meeting, the offended nation and all their allies declare war against the players faction.

• Added a clampy foot which is an advanced form of the sticky foot

• [FTD-679] Add bindings profile which allows changing input bindings on the fly to accommodate different situations with a limited number of available bindings. For example, you may want to have a profile for 3rd person camera where the controller left stick is used for camera movement and another profile for aircraft where the left stick is used for pitch and roll.
• [FTD-679] Change key binding system to support analog bindings, multiple bindings per action, and arbitrary key combinations.
• [FTD-679] Support for controller input.

• Display the name of the current mesh in mimic and decoration UI.
• Option to hide the mesh of the block that a decoration is tethered to.

• Apply to all button in laser warner UI.

• Added _VERSION global constant to get the Lua language version
• Lua commands for reading and writing to custom axes added

• Power creators and users are now grouped by name. Each group is collapsed by default to avoid performance issues.

• Added an option to the separator block to not separate unless the blocks it is separating are all repaired. Intended for use with ACBs
• Added an option to the separator to, instead of separating any block attached to it, only separate attached blocks that are in front of the separator block. In this mode, the separated vehicle is allowed to be connected to the main vehicle in other places

• Valves got a new option to disable pressure control. Makes the valve ignore breaches and pressure ranges, so one-off open/close commands from ACBs stick

• New buttons in V menu: Remove decorations and Remove subconstructs

• It is now possible to detect an object up to 5000m in front of the ACB [BUGS-3315]

• AI controlled factions that are allied will now work together to capture board sections from their enemies
• AI wont try to capture board sections that are far away as often
• Changed AI intercepting of enemy fleets to have much better grouping and better logic in general
• Changed how the AI goes about capturing board sections. It should now group better and not send weak individual vehicles to the player very often
• Changed movement of AI fleets to be more smooth when following other fleets
• It is now possible to capture board sections that dont border your own board sections but that do border a board section of an ally. After capturing the board section, it is given to that ally
• Limited how much forces the AI will stack to attack a single board section

• Custom jet generator power/thrust up from 0.05 to 0.055

• Choose the color from a list of previews instead of using a slider.
• Improved the mesh search function to be much faster

• Drag for 11, 33, 55 and 77 ducts up from 0.05 (4m wedge equivalent) to 0.4 (1m slope equivalent). They still dont need clearance

• As a test EMP has been adjusted by adjusting all materials and their values, the main change being HA no longer acts as a giant EMP sink and some materials dont outright block EMP anymore. Feedback for this should be via the betatest feedback channel in discord. THIS IS JUST A TEST AND CAN BE REVERTED.

• Base power/material up from 500 to 520
• Models for fuel parts have changed. Purely a visual change, this fixes issues with the old models and textures.

• Faster loading of details in the blueprint browser.

• Connectors and IIF blocks and ejectors now use the missile controllers Q menu
• Ejector addons and Lua transceivers now use the missile launchers Q menu
• Missile harpoon and sticky flare attachment is more reliable
• Missile winch max power up from 5000 to 24000
• Allow selecting nose component on missiles with length of 1 or 2.

• Removed the 2 second delay before a newly placed weapon can fire if the weapon is placed by a separator block
• Separators have an 0.1s cooldown between separating and attaching
• The separate ACB action has a 1s cooldown

• Steam crank motor default RPM ratio up to 2
• Steam stat page tracks steam jet thrust and material use

• Increase maximum low LOD distance from 1 km to 5 km.

• BUGS-3348 Manoeuvre Hover no longer says strafe is necessary when it is already ticked as being present
• BUGS-2951 Fixed CRAM packing steps being 1 frame off
• BUGS-3082 Updated HESH AP tooltip in the ammo customizer UI
• BUGS-3105 Fixed steam valve tooltip reporting 10 pressure when attached to some empty pipe sections
• BUGS-3236 Ducts now handle steam pipes the same way they do fuel exhausts
• BUGS-3330 Fixed various ACB related bugs with separators
• BUGS-3334 Increased separator block vehicle name field length to 100 characters
• BUGS-3338 Fixed a problem causing a blank screen on avatar death
• BUGS-3340 Fixed steam stat page displaying wrong values if multiple boilers were connected to turbines without pipes
• BUGS-3355 Added a failsafe to make sure missiles never get stuck in the gantry at high speeds
• BUGS-3356 Valve tooltip pressures improved when turbines are the highest pressure consumers in the pipe network attached to the given valve
• BUGS-3358 Fixed a problem with steam valves attached to exhausted pipe sections without a boiler/tank
• BUGS-3365 Fixed steam hull pipes acting as 6-way pipes
• BUGS-3370 Fixed secondary torpedo propellers without primary propulsion breaking the missile stat page
• BUGS-3242 Fixed an exception that could pop up in some situations

• Fixed scroll wheel zoom not working with wireless camera.

• Fixed a bug where the AI would get stuck trying to do something it couldnt do
• Fixed all AI fleets stacking on top of each other when following a fleet
• Fixed some cases where AI fleets would move out before all fleets where grouped up correctly
• Fixed some cases where the AI would fail grouping when trying to capture a board section
• Fixed some issues with AI trying to move fleets above their maximum altitude
• Fixed various small issues with the AI, mostly related to path finding

• CRAM packers and pellets were set to have 20 detection signatures instead of 3. This is now fixed.

• Fixed vehicles still being marked as taken after the docking station that had taken them has been deleted
• The 1m docking station was using the 2m mesh. This is now fixed.

• Fixed asymmetric clearance requirement on 1-4m, front and back wedge structural blocks
• Fixed top clearance requirement for 1-4m, front and back wedge structural blocks (they had it set up wrong, leading to inconsistent behavior)

• Resting drill bits no longer cause insane amounts of damage.

• Resource zone starting material now editable in the editor.

• Much faster loading of vehicle information UI with large vehicles.

• Fix power priority not getting saved for multipurpose lasers and simple drills.

• Fixed advanced cannon ammo clips not keeping their shells after being separated from or attached to a vehicle
• Fixed advanced cannon ammo intakes losing their ammo controller selection after being separated from or attached to a vehicle
• Fixed blocks getting back all their hp after being separated from or attached to a vehicle
• Fixed CRAM cannons resetting their reloading state after being separated from or attached to a vehicle
• Fixed docking stations losing their target when separated from or attached to a vehicle
• Fixed laser cavities losing their stored energy after being separated from or attached to a vehicle
• Fixed missiles instantly reloading after being separator from or attached to a vehicle
• Fixed PACs resetting their reloading state after being separated from or attached to a vehicle
• Fixed simple weapons losing their ammo controller selection after being separated from or attached to a vehicle
• Fixed simple weapons losing their shells and then instantly reloading after being separated from or attached to a vehicle
• Fixed typo in the description and name. Removed 3m separators from build menu for now

• Improved steam distribution for multiple boilers feeding into the same L pistons from both sides
• M and L turbines are now functional with only 1 body element (for aesthetics, stats are bad)

• Undo/redo for decorations placed using prefab.

• Stop AI path visualization from blocking mouse clicks in inventory.

• Fix bug that blocks a weapon from firing when its set to synchronize with itself.

What is up Depthians!

Before we get into all the goodies, I feel that I need to share the following.

As most of you probably know by now that Nicks daughter is seriously ill, which is why there has been such a long gap between updates and I am sure you would agree that family comes first. So far the news has been positive and treatment is underway.

With that out the way let us spring into action and go over this update, as we have some new additions such as a suspension spring mesh for our wheels (visual only), and before you roll off your seats with excitement we also have anti-roll bars for our land constructs!



Note that the center attachment point of the wheels is in line with the roll bar.

If this has not got you all hot and steamy, yes you guessed the next poor pun is about steam fixes and tweaks xD

So before you decide to separate my hands from my keyboard, we now have the separation block! xD Which is truly awesome yet needs some explaining for the current beta.

At the moment we have 11 separation blocks and you will need to set a few parameters before attaching the drone as the options you choose will be saved to the drone that is attached, and any future changes you would need to detach the drone first before they take effect.

Before we get into the settings we should / could use a docking station on the mothership per drone. This will help us align the drones attachment block to the motherships attachment block, and lets not forget that most motherships may be on the move which is why the docking station would be needed, as the separation block currently only has a 10m range. We also need to ensure that the attachment blocks are not surrounded by other blocks (for now) and we may also need an origin block on the drone as the docking station pulls from the center of mass of the drone, so by installing an origin block the dock will use that as its center point. The origin block can be placed anywhere deep inside the hull, just make sure that its inline and behind the attachment (red blocks in pic).




Firstly decide if you want your drone to use its propulsion while attached. You will also need to state whether you want this to be rebuilt once detached or not, this gives you the option to rebuild the missing blocks from the mothership allowing you to keep spawning multiple copies of the drone, which will be built by Rambot or repair drones, not tentacles.We also suggest giving the drone a name in the Vehicle settings of the separator control UI.

Some things to note:

• 
  Attaching a drone to the mothership be it fort or vehicle, the drone will inherit the paint job of the mothership until detached.
  
• 
  Building an air/land vehicle drone attached to a fort would need to be built separatly as you will not have access to the air items/land items. However repair drones will repair any lost air/land blocks while attached to the fort.
  
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  For now do not build around the attachment blocks, leave them petruding from both mothership and drone, as shown in the screenshot above.
  
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  Remember to set the AI prioritisation in the AI tab, as only the AI(s) with the highest priority will try to control the vehicle.
  

• 
  Alters the Caps Lock camera behavior so that it doesnt lag behind the vehicle of focus.
  
• 
  Adds a mouse smoothing effect to the Caps Lock camera.
  
• 
  Alters the top-down tactical map camera behavior so it follows vehicles you double-click on properly.
  
• 
  Removes the annoying splash sound when the camera submerges unless you are in first person.
  

• 
  Added a priority slider to the AI mainframe. On a vehicle, only the AI(s) with the highest priority will try to control the vehicle
  

• 
  Added missing numbers for autoloaders, clips and recoil absorbers. 3,5,7 where applicable.
  
• 
  Some values for cost and weight were marginally incorrect in autoloaders and clips, they have been fixed.
  

• 
  Added an attachment point block which combined with a separator block can attach a vehicle to another vehicles, turning them into one vehicle
  

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  Anti-roll bar added to the Land tab
  

• 
  Transparency added to the build marker. The transparency level can be configured in the options.
  

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  [FTD-673] Press T to place cursor as decoration. It creates a decoration on the nearest block with the current item mesh, position, rotation and color. Works with Undo/Redo.
  
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  [FTD-679] Customizable build cursor speed.
  
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  [FTD-679] It is now possible to double tap Space/Alt to move faster vertically.
  

• 
  Integration of the mod Film the Depths which improves camera movement and removes the splash sound when the camera is entering the water when not in first person
  
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  Option to draw hole on water only when the camera is inside a pumped space. Enabled by default. Dont forget to enable the visual effect in vehicle settings as well!
  

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  [FTD-677] CIWS controller can now control any type of weapon, including fixed weapons.
  
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  [FTD-677] CIWS controller now uses customizable lists of rules to determine the weight of targets and which targets should be ignored. Every rule has a rule type, an input type, an input range, and weight scale if applicable. Old AMCC parameters are converted to a set of rules that have nearly the same behavior.
  
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  [FTD-677] CIWS controller UI now visualizes the weight of targets on screen, and indicates the current target and ignored targets.
  
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  [FTD-677] Idle aim modes for CIWS controller (none, aim at enemy, or keep weapon direction).
  
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  [FTD-677] Option to take target acceleration into account in CIWS controller.
  
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  All-in-one CIWS controller block with built-in failsafe and wireless receiver.
  

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  Option (in Build Options) to hide the moving dash line when hovering cursor over a mimic or a decoration.
  

• 
  Added coroutine.yield, setmetatable and getmetatable
  

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  All-in-one local weapon controller block with built-in failsafe and wireless receiver.
  

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  [FTD-677] Missile interceptors can now prioritise the target of the CIWS controller when it was fired.
  
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  [FTD-677] Missiles now deal kinetic damage to enemy missiles during collision.
  

• 
  Modding manual added (you can access it in the Content tab, under the mod creation button)
  

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  Added a separator block that can be used to decouple part of a vehicle into a separate new vehicle or to reattach a decoupled vehicle back. See Jons patch notes for details of the function.
  

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  New button in APS ammo customizer: changes every part in the shell to match the one last placed, between the position of the last change and the head
  
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  New button in APS ammo customizer: duplicates the part that was last changed, moving 1 step towards the head every click
  
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  New button in APS ammo customizer: fixes invalid shells by moving casings in front to the back of the shell and changing other invalid parts to the most common warhead in the shell
  
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  Right clicking a component slot in the missile editor now copies the last changed component into that slot
  

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  All components can now be placed on subobjects with the exception of a few such as refineries.
  

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  [FTD-677] CIWS controller now uses the same weapon discovery and priority logic as LWC.
  
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  [FTD-677] Renamed AMCC (anti missile cannon controller) to CIWS controller.
  

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  Harpoon missiles now do not do impact damage (cable connection is more reliable)
  

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  Cavity block cost down from 60 to 50 materials for each cell occupied
  
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  Cavity lines lose their charge when blocks belonging to them get destroyed/removed
  
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  Every 10000 laser energy storage capacity now counts as a single pump for AP calculations
  

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  A new visualisation of the space backdrop has been added
  

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  Spinblock now has the same AC as a 1m turret.
  

• 
  Wheel connectors now connect on the side relevant to their position e.g A left wheel connects on the right. They also now connect Up
  
• 
  Wheels suspensions is now using a spring (its only a visual change)
  

• 
  Fixed breadboard maths evaluator not handling input from new components correctly
  

• 
  Fixed error on loading AI state
  

• 
  Fixed asymmetric clearance requirement on 1-4m, front and back wedge structural blocks
  

• 
  Fixed error with HP value of an alloy duct
  

• 
  Contaiment for explosions is now working as intended, which will increase the damage at the center of the explosion, and also in contained space (it should improve APHE shells efficiency) [BUGS-3285]
  

• 
  All effects now visible through glass.
  

• 
  Fixed a problem causing missile impact damage to be too high after a coordinate origin shift
  

• 
  Lots of localisation tweaks for the upcoming Chinese and Russian translated version of FtD.
  

• 
  Fixed incorrect error handling inside coroutines
  

• 
  Fixed missile laser emitters hitting themselves when the construct is moving backwards (green-red flickering is gone)
  

• 
  Improved steam distribution for boilers with multiple outputs and some setups with circular valves
  

• 
  Fix decoration mesh contour so that it no longer lags behind when the vehicle is moving.
  

• 
  Fixed an issue that caused fully compressed suspension force to be off at different time scales (causing too much jumping or sinking too low)
  
• 
  Which way the Axle length extension slider moves the wheel now only depends on the blocks orientation (the side of the vehicle the wheel is on doesnt matter anymore)
  

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What is up Depthians!!

As the only new addition to Stable from 3.2.9 Beta, is that you now must use Breadboard to control your constructs as we removed the AI behaviour and manoeuvre cards, nothing else has changed from Beta to Stable.

So the following notes are a copypasta from Beta.

In this update, we will be showing you two new features to From The Depths via YouTube rather than screenshots and walls of text. We hope you like this format for showing off new functions or features.
In the following link, we go through the new projectile damage logging tool and a handy visual aid showing you where your turrets are getting stuck while trying to rotate :D. However, in order to try and keep it short, you will have to check out the changelog as there are more additions/tweaks as well as a boatload of bug fixes.
We also go talk about some news at Brilliant skies for the next month or so.

https://youtu.be/sA-v_b9NYG4

Changelog
[h2]Additions[/h2]
[h3]AI[/h3]
- A troubleshooter has been added for the AI that will provide feedback if your AI does not match the capabilities of your vehicle
- Naval and land AI now properly uses the yaw controller during reversing.
- Naval and land AI now uses forward/backward controller during idling to bring speed to 0 m/s.
- Point at behaviour will make reverse paths (sea/land) cheap (if reversing enabled) if we are too close to our target and pointing at them.
- The path view for AI has been upgraded to show how the waypoints are adjusted by the various stages of the AI. The markers, if you mouse over them, will show tooltips.
[h3]Blocks[/h3]
- Spin blocks have an option to reverse the angle controller value when moving backwards. Useful for large rudders on spin blocks.
[h3]Damage[/h3]
- Added damage logging system (enable from vehicle V menu). It shows kinetic, HE, HEAT, HESH and fragment damage markers and explanations for each projectile/missile that hits the vehicle. Useful for debugging.
[h3]Missiles[/h3]
- [BUGS-2350] Added new default guidance to (optionally) replace sea-skimming mode. It flies in the direction it is currently facing.
- [BUGS-2350] Added new default guidance to (optionally) replace sea-skimming mode. It flies in the direction it was launched.
- Added small and large reverse launchers.
[h3]Wheels[/h3]
- Added a reset to default button for wheel configuration tab
[h2]Changes[/h2]
[h3]AI[/h3]
- Airplane movement idle distance is now unified with the wander distance mechanic, creating a circular wander for the out of combat vehicle.
- All AI interfaces have been tidied up and now feature a full description of what the behaviour/manoeuvre does
[h3]Air Ducts[/h3]
- Previous change reverted. All single air duct blocks have now had their HP value halved. 33 and larger lose 1/4 HP and weight. This puts them in their intended role.
[h3]Applique[/h3]
- Applique armour can now create air gaps when hit centrally (the path of the projectile through the mesh is modelled). This means HEAT fragments and HESH spalling will be released from it.
- Applique armour does not get directly damaged by HEAT jet penetration
- Applique armour is structural for the purpose of HESH, increasing the AP of the spalling that will come from it (either released into its own air gap, or passing down the sides of the armour panels).
[h3]APS[/h3]
- All fragmentation warheads are now forced to share cone angle and offset values, as these were always averaged across the warheads anyway
- Shells without a pen fuse and using heavy, AP or sabot head will not explode on contact. They only trigger when they run out of kinetic damage
- The APS ammo customisation UI has been updated to the new format
- There is now a drop down in the ammo customisation UI to select the gauge of your weapons, and gauges that will fill the various clip sizes
[h3]Blocks[/h3]
- Aileron and tailplane now use the absolute velocity of the vehicle, so they work the as expected when moving in reverse.
- Hydrofoil, by default, will now work in reverse the same as it works in forward
- Rudder, by default, will now work in reverse the same as it works in forward
- The vehicle blueprint spawner can now spawn up to 100 vehicles instead of 10, and if you choose the max value there will be no limitation to the number of spawned vehicles
[h3]Ducts[/h3]
- Ducts no longer absorb HEAT damage. They are treated like structural blocks for the purposes of HEAT.
[h3]ERA[/h3]
- ERA no longer explodes below 50% health. ERA also no longer actually kills projectiles near it when it dies.
- ERA rewrote. Projectiles (other than CRAM) have their explosions triggered by touching an ERA. An ERA-triggered explosion has 20% HE/FLAK damage/radius, 20% HESH thump damage, and 180 fragment release angle. The first HEAT jet or HESH implantation to interact with the ERA panel will be stopped in its tracks (HESH must be implanted onto ERA for there to be an effect). Kinetic hollow point damage will not take place if the shell explodes. Kinetic/hollow point damage of a kinetic shell that has not exploded at this point is reduced by 2500 to a minimum of 100 (this includes CRAM). EMP and smoke effects happen as usual.
[h3]Missile[/h3]
- Huge missile efficiency and health modifiers down by 20%
- [BUGS-2209] Beam riders now have the option of following other missile lasers on the vehicle, not just those attached to their controller.
- [BUGS-2209] Laser designator receivers now output a velocity value to allow APN and TPG guidance to improve the chance of hitting a moving designated target. If you dont want this function just remove the APN and TPG from the missile.
- The missile editing UI now uses drop-down menus instead of incremental sliders, where appropriate.
[h2]Fixes[/h2]
[h3]AI[/h3]
- [BUGS-3121] Empty manoeuvre UI now shows the wander distance, order complete distance and Use Velocity Instead of Forward toggle (which has now been changed to a default of off).
- [BUGS-3129] Failsafes now have a default range of 500m for self-checks. Anything that was the old default of 50m will become 500m.
- Look ahead distance for six-axis now only takes effect as we approach a final waypoint. This fixes issues using it in conjunction with sea surface pathfinding.
[h3]APS[/h3]
- [BUGS-3135] Elevation mantlet is now able to fire at 100 elevation (previously this would be evaluated as a 180 azimuth angle and dis-allowed)
- If you place a secondary HEAT warhead on the nose cone it will now work
- The HE special factor slider is now only shown for HE warheads where it is actually used
[h3]Blocks[/h3]
- [BUGS-3124] Slope transition pieces now all have the same convex seam across their top surface.
- Mention of reinforcement bonus in the description was wrong on 2m,3m and 4m beams. This has been removed.
[h3]Breadboard[/h3]
- [BUGS-2255] Drive setter component no longer sets drives where no input wire is attached
[h3]Building[/h3]
- [BUGS-2243] Issue with build marker being rotated long after command was made
- [BUGS-2971] its no longer possible to place a fortress at an odd angle
[h3]Campaign[/h3]
- [BUGS-3119] Blockade battle start timers now tick down based on the game speed
[h3]CJE hull[/h3]
- Hull parts have had their descriptions corrected and the cost reduced to +10 over standard parts.
[h3]ERA[/h3]
- ERA is no longer marked as a structural component, and a HESH shockwave hitting a distant ERA panel will damage it like any other nonstructural block.
[h3]Exhaust[/h3]
- [BUGS-2928] Hull exhaust pipes no longer connect to cylinders in directions that they should not
[h3]Fleets[/h3]
- [BUGS-3117] out-of-play fleet vibration fixed
Graphics
- [BUGS-3089] Some minor issues with cut away views fixed
[h3]HEAT & HESH[/h3]
- Multi-threading issues fixed in HEAT and hesh that stopped them releasing fragments on the first non-structural block they killed
[h3]Misc[/h3]
- Multiple typos of the word manoeuvre fixed.
[h3]Missiles[/h3]
- [BUGS-2173] Issues with sea skimming default guidance and APN fixed.. APN and target prediction guidance no longer run when the target is a default manoeuvre (such as sea skimming) (or when the target has a dummy velocity value of 0 (e.g beam rider aim points)).
- [BUGS-2209] Designator receiver logic fix for lasers that control Missiles on this team. Should all work as expected now.
- [BUGS-3112] GPP use of remote guidance is no longer double counted when several LWCs are controlling a missile controller.
- [BUGS-3131] Missiles will no longer change their rotation when in contact with colliders and are no longer super bouncy. This stops them from clipping through their launching vehicle.
[h3]Multiplayer[/h3]
- [BUGS-2956] fixed a number of multiplayer issues with pistons
- [BUGS-3110] issue with undo of block removal fixed for multiplayer clients
[h3]Muzzle Brake[/h3]
- The description mentioned a reduction in speed. This is incorrect and has been removed.
[h3]Particles[/h3]
- All particle systems will now use the Particles factor and Auto-regulation performance options
[h3]PID[/h3]
- [BUGS-2938] Fake set point for altitude in AI hover controller now goes from -1000 to +3000 (as per GP PID)
[h3]Repairing[/h3]
- [BUGS-2912] Fixed an issue with large turrets not repairing on specific vehicles
[h3]Sails[/h3]
- [BUGS-2942] Wind speed was not properly taken into account for the useful component of force on a sail (sailboats faster now). The weather vane now shows wind speed as well.
[h3]Shields[/h3]
- [BUGS-3111] Shield reflections causing explosions of inertially fused shells to happen at local coord [0,0,0] fixed
[h3]Steam[/h3]
- [BUGS-2815] Idle steam turbine tooltips show correct kinetic energy values
- [BUGS-2943] Steam jet particles now come from the correct place when placed on a sub construct
- Smoke leaking from 4m pipes will now exit at the correct location
[h3]Turrets[/h3]
- [BUGS-3101] turrets and spinners now check overlaps at integer degree steps (1,2,etc) to avoid some turrets managing to rotate when they shouldnt, and becoming very unpredictable.
[h3]UI[/h3]
- [BUGS-3087] drive slider in propeller (and other) UIs no longer disappears after visiting stats tab
[h3]Video[/h3]
- [BUGS-2880] Youtube videos are working again
[h3]Weapons[/h3]
- [BUGS-3116] Fixed a recursion issue in synched weapons when they are synched with each other and dead
[h2]Removed[/h2]
[h3]AI[/h3]
- Tank broadside behaviour no longer selectable. Its the same as naval broadside behaviour (now called Broadside 2.0) so use that instead.


Just in case, the Breadboard thing is an April fools joke

What is up Depthians!!

In this update, we will be showing you two new features to From The Depths via YouTube rather than screenshots and walls of text. We hope you like this format for showing off new functions or features.
In the following link, we go through the new projectile damage logging tool and a handy visual aid showing you where your turrets are getting stuck while trying to rotate :D. However, in order to try and keep it short, you will have to check out the changelog as there are more additions/tweaks as well as a boatload of bug fixes.
We also go talk about some news at Brilliant skies for the next month or so.

https://youtu.be/sA-v_b9NYG4

Changelog
[h2]Additions[/h2]
[h3]AI[/h3]
- A troubleshooter has been added for the AI that will provide feedback if your AI does not match the capabilities of your vehicle
- Naval and land AI now properly uses the yaw controller during reversing.
- Naval and land AI now uses forward/backward controller during idling to bring speed to 0 m/s.
- Point at behaviour will make reverse paths (sea/land) cheap (if reversing enabled) if we are too close to our target and pointing at them.
- The path view for AI has been upgraded to show how the waypoints are adjusted by the various stages of the AI. The markers, if you mouse over them, will show tooltips.
[h3]Blocks[/h3]
- Spin blocks have an option to reverse the angle controller value when moving backwards. Useful for large rudders on spin blocks.
[h3]Damage[/h3]
- Added damage logging system (enable from vehicle V menu). It shows kinetic, HE, HEAT, HESH and fragment damage markers and explanations for each projectile/missile that hits the vehicle. Useful for debugging.
[h3]Missiles[/h3]
- [BUGS-2350] Added new default guidance to (optionally) replace sea-skimming mode. It flies in the direction it is currently facing.
- [BUGS-2350] Added new default guidance to (optionally) replace sea-skimming mode. It flies in the direction it was launched.
- Added small and large reverse launchers.
[h3]Wheels[/h3]
- Added a reset to default button for wheel configuration tab
[h2]Changes[/h2]
[h3]AI[/h3]
- Airplane movement idle distance is now unified with the wander distance mechanic, creating a circular wander for the out of combat vehicle.
- All AI interfaces have been tidied up and now feature a full description of what the behaviour/manoeuvre does
[h3]Air Ducts[/h3]
- Previous change reverted. All single air duct blocks have now had their HP value halved. 33 and larger lose 1/4 HP and weight. This puts them in their intended role.
[h3]Applique[/h3]
- Applique armour can now create air gaps when hit centrally (the path of the projectile through the mesh is modelled). This means HEAT fragments and HESH spalling will be released from it.
- Applique armour does not get directly damaged by HEAT jet penetration
- Applique armour is structural for the purpose of HESH, increasing the AP of the spalling that will come from it (either released into its own air gap, or passing down the sides of the armour panels).
[h3]APS[/h3]
- All fragmentation warheads are now forced to share cone angle and offset values, as these were always averaged across the warheads anyway
- Shells without a pen fuse and using heavy, AP or sabot head will not explode on contact. They only trigger when they run out of kinetic damage
- The APS ammo customisation UI has been updated to the new format
- There is now a drop down in the ammo customisation UI to select the gauge of your weapons, and gauges that will fill the various clip sizes
[h3]Blocks[/h3]
- Aileron and tailplane now use the absolute velocity of the vehicle, so they work the as expected when moving in reverse.
- Hydrofoil, by default, will now work in reverse the same as it works in forward
- Rudder, by default, will now work in reverse the same as it works in forward
- The vehicle blueprint spawner can now spawn up to 100 vehicles instead of 10, and if you choose the max value there will be no limitation to the number of spawned vehicles
[h3]Ducts[/h3]
- Ducts no longer absorb HEAT damage. They are treated like structural blocks for the purposes of HEAT.
[h3]ERA[/h3]
- ERA no longer explodes below 50% health. ERA also no longer actually kills projectiles near it when it dies.
- ERA rewrote. Projectiles (other than CRAM) have their explosions triggered by touching an ERA. An ERA-triggered explosion has 20% HE/FLAK damage/radius, 20% HESH thump damage, and 180 fragment release angle. The first HEAT jet or HESH implantation to interact with the ERA panel will be stopped in its tracks (HESH must be implanted onto ERA for there to be an effect). Kinetic hollow point damage will not take place if the shell explodes. Kinetic/hollow point damage of a kinetic shell that has not exploded at this point is reduced by 2500 to a minimum of 100 (this includes CRAM). EMP and smoke effects happen as usual.
[h3]Missile[/h3]
- Huge missile efficiency and health modifiers down by 20%
- [BUGS-2209] Beam riders now have the option of following other missile lasers on the vehicle, not just those attached to their controller.
- [BUGS-2209] Laser designator receivers now output a velocity value to allow APN and TPG guidance to improve the chance of hitting a moving designated target. If you dont want this function just remove the APN and TPG from the missile.
- The missile editing UI now uses drop-down menus instead of incremental sliders, where appropriate.
[h2]Fixes[/h2]
[h3]AI[/h3]
- [BUGS-3121] Empty manoeuvre UI now shows the wander distance, order complete distance and Use Velocity Instead of Forward toggle (which has now been changed to a default of off).
- [BUGS-3129] Failsafes now have a default range of 500m for self-checks. Anything that was the old default of 50m will become 500m.
- Look ahead distance for six-axis now only takes effect as we approach a final waypoint. This fixes issues using it in conjunction with sea surface pathfinding.
[h3]APS[/h3]
- [BUGS-3135] Elevation mantlet is now able to fire at 100 elevation (previously this would be evaluated as a 180 azimuth angle and dis-allowed)
- If you place a secondary HEAT warhead on the nose cone it will now work
- The HE special factor slider is now only shown for HE warheads where it is actually used
[h3]Blocks[/h3]
- [BUGS-3124] Slope transition pieces now all have the same convex seam across their top surface.
- Mention of reinforcement bonus in the description was wrong on 2m,3m and 4m beams. This has been removed.
[h3]Breadboard[/h3]
- [BUGS-2255] Drive setter component no longer sets drives where no input wire is attached
[h3]Building[/h3]
- [BUGS-2243] Issue with build marker being rotated long after command was made
- [BUGS-2971] its no longer possible to place a fortress at an odd angle
[h3]Campaign[/h3]
- [BUGS-3119] Blockade battle start timers now tick down based on the game speed
[h3]CJE hull[/h3]
- Hull parts have had their descriptions corrected and the cost reduced to +10 over standard parts.
[h3]ERA[/h3]
- ERA is no longer marked as a structural component, and a HESH shockwave hitting a distant ERA panel will damage it like any other nonstructural block.
[h3]Exhaust[/h3]
- [BUGS-2928] Hull exhaust pipes no longer connect to cylinders in directions that they should not
[h3]Fleets[/h3]
- [BUGS-3117] out-of-play fleet vibration fixed
Graphics
- [BUGS-3089] Some minor issues with cut away views fixed
[h3]HEAT & HESH[/h3]
- Multi-threading issues fixed in HEAT and hesh that stopped them releasing fragments on the first non-structural block they killed
[h3]Misc[/h3]
- Multiple typos of the word manoeuvre fixed.
[h3]Missiles[/h3]
- [BUGS-2173] Issues with sea skimming default guidance and APN fixed.. APN and target prediction guidance no longer run when the target is a default manoeuvre (such as sea skimming) (or when the target has a dummy velocity value of 0 (e.g beam rider aim points)).
- [BUGS-2209] Designator receiver logic fix for lasers that control Missiles on this team. Should all work as expected now.
- [BUGS-3112] GPP use of remote guidance is no longer double counted when several LWCs are controlling a missile controller.
- [BUGS-3131] Missiles will no longer change their rotation when in contact with colliders and are no longer super bouncy. This stops them from clipping through their launching vehicle.
[h3]Multiplayer[/h3]
- [BUGS-2956] fixed a number of multiplayer issues with pistons
- [BUGS-3110] issue with undo of block removal fixed for multiplayer clients
[h3]Muzzle Brake[/h3]
- The description mentioned a reduction in speed. This is incorrect and has been removed.
[h3]Particles[/h3]
- All particle systems will now use the Particles factor and Auto-regulation performance options
[h3]PID[/h3]
- [BUGS-2938] Fake set point for altitude in AI hover controller now goes from -1000 to +3000 (as per GP PID)
[h3]Repairing[/h3]
- [BUGS-2912] Fixed an issue with large turrets not repairing on specific vehicles
[h3]Sails[/h3]
- [BUGS-2942] Wind speed was not properly taken into account for the useful component of force on a sail (sailboats faster now). The weather vane now shows wind speed as well.
[h3]Shields[/h3]
- [BUGS-3111] Shield reflections causing explosions of inertially fused shells to happen at local coord [0,0,0] fixed
[h3]Steam[/h3]
- [BUGS-2815] Idle steam turbine tooltips show correct kinetic energy values
- [BUGS-2943] Steam jet particles now come from the correct place when placed on a sub construct
- Smoke leaking from 4m pipes will now exit at the correct location
[h3]Turrets[/h3]
- [BUGS-3101] turrets and spinners now check overlaps at integer degree steps (1,2,etc) to avoid some turrets managing to rotate when they shouldnt, and becoming very unpredictable.
[h3]UI[/h3]
- [BUGS-3087] drive slider in propeller (and other) UIs no longer disappears after visiting stats tab
[h3]Video[/h3]
- [BUGS-2880] Youtube videos are working again
[h3]Weapons[/h3]
- [BUGS-3116] Fixed a recursion issue in synched weapons when they are synched with each other and dead
[h2]Removed[/h2]
[h3]AI[/h3]
- Tank broadside behaviour no longer selectable. Its the same as naval broadside behaviour (now called Broadside 2.0) so use that instead.

[h2]Changelog[/h2]
[h2]Changes[/h2]
[h3]Ducts[/h3]

• HP and weight values have been halved have for parts of the duct that have less armour visible. 3x3 has a 1 block adjustment, 5x5 has a 5 block adjustment, 7x7 has a 24 block adjustment.

• Heavy armour HP values were wrong, these were corrected.

• Fixed issue with infinite materials in multiplayer designer overflowing to -materials on the client

Changelog

[h2]Fixes[/h2]
[h3]Missiles[/h3]

• [BUGS-3096] H missiles can no longer default to interceptor types

• [BUGS-3095] rail charge was being used up on guns that could not fire due to synch delays

Hey Depthians!
We had reports about missiles not despawning properly which needed to be squashed asap and therefore, you have some more bugfixes xD
Changelog
[h2]Fixes[/h2]
[h3]Blocks[/h3]

• 16 pounder cannon now has a sound effect when firing
  

• [BUGS-252] laser warner now explains that it only deploys smoke on the same level of the construct as itself (hull,turret,spinner) and the ACB Laser attack condition now checks for attacks on the level of the construct that the ACB is on.
  

• Sound pitch and distance in the modding menu now have a suitable number of decimal places
  

• [BUGS-3094] added Destroy All Vehicles and Destroy Enemy Vehicles options to multiplayer designer
  
• [BUGS-3094] Blueprint spawned automated spawns should now work regardless of the source of the blueprint you (or the enemy faction motherships) are trying to spawn
  
• BUGS-3094] Infinite resources now in the multiplayer designer, for all teams
  

• Missiles did not disappear after a call to destroy all vehicles
  

• Fixed display of events (would not properly display the text paragraphs due to localisation issue)
  
• Fixed Steam stats UI issue where interval was displayed instead of the actual interval in seconds. Localisation issue.
  

Changelog

[h2]Additions[/h2]
[h3]AI[/h3]

• Airplane manoeuvre routine now explains it's usage of the 6 control modules in the UI
• Airplane manoeuvre routine now writes explanatory messages to the text shown in 'path view' so you can see what it is doing

• Pressing Q on any CJE part (except the generator) will now open the controller interface

• Missile damage is now shown by the addition of black smoke and a black trail to the missile.

• [BUGS-3079] Airplane manoeuvre when doing a banking turn will now use yaw to get the vehicle to pitch at a specific angle rather than simply commanding the yaw axis to activate. This should increase pitch/altitude control during banking turns.

• Hull blocks are now only 50 mats more expensive than their non-standard counterpart. They have a weight increase of 0.50.

• Missile damage, thrust and manoeuvrability are now proportional to the missile's health. This has been changed to make non-lethal missile defences still useful. It's also seen as a realistic and interesting change.

• [BUGS-2290] Naval AI behaviour no longer tries to maintain the mean broadside distance if the specified angle is more than 30 from the -90 or 90 broadside angles. Simple broadside behaviour now has a maximum range of 5km.
• [BUGS-2404] hover and airplane manoeuvre routines now have a toggle to ignore the pitch demand sent from the behaviour. Useful if you have a helicopter that needs to pitch forward to move forward.

• [BUGS-3085] transparent shell clip 2m armour class was 7, should have been 8

• The meshes for APS shells and missiles are no longer wiped when the projectiles are still in flight. The deletion of the mesh happens when it's certain the mesh is no longer needed (visible).

• [BUGS-3071] Issue with autosave and player triggered save of the same vehicle messing each other up. Fixed now.

• [BUGS_2671] Balloons no longer die when god mode is active for a vehicle
• [BUGS-3072] Helium pump UI says 'Air pump' all over the place. Fixed now.
• The video screen will now display the camera using the correct LOD [BUGS-3047]
• Tracks freezed the game in some rare situations when despawning [BUGS-2965]

• [BUGS-2793] it is no longer possible to get a free block via mirrored placement of a block you can afford (when you don't have the money for the mirrored copy)

• [BUGS-3077] Fixed incorrect stats on connectors.
• Flooding calculation inverted between small and large CJE [BUGS-2940]

• [BUGS-1413] Misc control axis A-E now have the non-reversable toggle

• [BUGS-2662] CRAM explosions can now damage missiles

• Fixed custom battle health fraction ignoring sub-constructs

• [BUGS-1290] Fleets will now return to the final waypoint they were given if they wander off station whilst in some other mode (when they are returned to fleet move or put out of play).

• [BUGS-2785] Fixed an issue where spawning a dead blueprint that had an 'illegal block' that could not be placed messed up the assignment of data packets to all subsequent blocks
• [BUGS-2923] out of play stats now include the use of Crank Motors
• [BUGS-3049] the construct water level calculation type can now adjust for a growing vehicle even if the vehicle is out of the water. This issue led to large structrures becoming laggy whilst building them (fixed by pulling and playing or saving and loading).

• [BUGS-3065] made it clear that trying to synch laser combiners that are attached to the same multi-purpose laser is not recommended

• [BUGS-1041] Added some code to avoid errors being thrown by GetNumberOfWarnings() calls by Lua (looking for munition warning count)
• [BUGS-2750] I.BlueprintSpawners property exception fix for Lua
• [BUGS-2846] GetLuaControlledMissileInfo no longer throws an exception if there is no Lua receiver on the missile being returned

• [BUGS-3064] Fixed a missile UI issue where if you only had a few components on the missiles then only the first few parameters of a missile module would be editable
• [BUGS-3078] H missiles work with failsafes (bug fix)
• Fixed some issues with custom smoke colours. Setting R,G,B to 0,0,0 now disables smoke (as was originally intended) and dark smoke can now be displayed.
• Staggered salvo firing of missiles managed to bypass the hull aiming constraints and fire off one missile in a salvo

• [BUGS-2674] missile hatches now work correctly on clients in multiplayer

• [BUGS-2845] PAC lenses now take into account the orientation of the PAC firing piece when considering the horizontal and vertical drift of the PAC pulse

• [BUGS-3070] Pathfinding 'on sea' now checks for land within 60m instead of 30m. Pathfinding 'on land' now checks for land sea within 60m (it was previously using the 'on sea' check)
• [BUGS-3070] Tanks will now respect their 'max altitude' variable when pathfinding on land (they will use this variable to determine what hills they can climb and what hills they should avoid

• [BUGS-3055] Audio popping of CRAM and dediblade fixed (mostly affects Linux I believe)

• Some tweaks to the code to try and catch the bug where turret rotation speeds are calculated to be 0/s

• [BUGS-2748] Tweak to the inventory to fix issues when pressing R to select a mirrored block that is not displayed on the inventory
• [BUGS-2895] 1m piston now has a quick access icon for the middle mouse click HUD extensions in build mode

• [BUGS-2655] It no longer rains/snows on the map

• Fixed an issue with sail winches (and perhaps other things) where they could be driven negative by using the a -1 power scale

Hey Depthians!
We are looking into the issues pointed out about H thumper / reinforced missiles.

Changelog

[h2]Changes[/h2]

[h3]AI[/h3]

• [BUGS-2870] six axis manoeuvre routine now has 'use velocity instead of forward' off by default. Some players who had this on and wanted it on will now find it has toggled off, sorry about that.

• [BUGS-2687] the ammo intake UI has been changed so that it now longer alters your camera position or camera mode

• [BUGS-3056] a railgun will now respect it's energy limitations even when multiple LWCs are trying to get it to fire simultaneously (used to result in extra shots with low energy being fired)

• [BUGS-3060] Fixed decorations that are placed right on the root position of a dediblade spinner

• Fixed an error in the ECM UI where NaN could appear instead of the induced aim point error in metres

• Enemy simulator now saves and loads the duration variable correctly (rather than reverting to 60 seconds each time)

• [BUGS-3054] the map editor no longer recalculates the attack-opportunity-matrix each time you edit the terrain. That calculation can take a long time (especially for a big planet) and is only used for campaign mode. It's calculated when you load your planet so there is no need to calculate it more often than necessary.

• [BUGS-2896] [BUGS-2921] missiles(particularly H missiles) can no longer detonate on their on hatches/gantries when launching (a problem that happened when too many ejectors were used)

Changelogs

[h2]Addition[/h2]
[h3]CRAM[/h3]

• [BUGS-3047] Added an option to disable the rotation of a cram barrel when it reloads (and split the auto-reconfigure-payload options onto their own tab)

• Added a way of directly controlling a transmission motor transmission value from a connected steam drill (the steam propeller can already do this).

• [BUGS-2746] [BUGS-1006] In order to fix issues with railings (and some other blocks) creating leaks where there should not be leaks the code has been changed so that 1) several components marked as 'not watertight' are now marked as watertight and 2) all components left as 'not watertight' now no longer register for detection signatures. The 'not watertight' components are railings, ladders and trusses and coal piles.
• Only one leak point can be found at a single position now. The calculation used to be able to find up to five leaks (in different directions) for a single breach point, usually affecting leak points on the top surface of the vehicle.
• When an air pump is removed only the neighbouring pumps that share a boundary with the pump are recalculated (it used to trigger a full recalculation of all pumps)

• It's now possible (but not easy!) to move up and down a ladder that's on a sub-object and at a strange angle

• [BUGS-2358] Fixed an issue with upwards facing doors/hatches not properly sealed when closed
• Fixed an error that stopped leaks on the left-hand side of the vehicle from being perfectly-recognised

• [BUGS-3051] APS guns with the desired fire rate of <=120 rounds per minute no longer use the 'burst' calculation that allows them to theoretically fire in quick succession to catch up with theoretical maximum fire rate.

• [BUGS-3001] Autosave routine will now shorten paths as necessary to avoid hitting operating system path length limitations
• Autosave deletion now no longer spamming log with misleading messages

• Description changed to match that it doesn't need an AI anymore.

• Throughput pipe renamed to Junction pipe so tutorial is referenced correctly.

• [BUGS-2999] The faction drop down on the area-> faction assignment tab of the map editor did not scroll so not all factions could be selected (and the panel was incorrectly positioned)

• [BUGS-2927] Fixed a crash when interacting with a steam drill directly connected to a gearbox

• [BUGS-3050] Both engine building tutorials require the placement of part (junction pipe) that has been replaced with a different part (throughput pipe). Now fixed.

• [BUGS-3005] Issue with prefab placement of weapons messing up the weapon synchronisation options (incorrect weapon IDs and weapons being listed twice in the synchronisation tab weapon list)

Changelog
[h2]Addition[/h2]
[h3]Sound Block[/h3]

• #Hashtag sound system can now also load .ogg files (as well as .wav)
  
• Mods with audio clip definitions that reference a hashtag are now included properly in the full hashtag system (previously only playable from sound blocks).
  

• A movement of the rambot chair location has been reverted, hes now back where hes always been
  

• The launcher is now much more easily navigated with click and drag, and the rows have been moved around and resized
  
• The scroll wheel and scroll bars have been removed from the launcher to avoid confusion: the universal method of navigation for this interface is click and drag.
  

• Added teleport pad and respawn beacon to start fortress in case of accidents.
  
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• [BUGS-1814] air/helium pumps now correctly recalculate pumpable space sharing when walls are built between them
  

• hover sounds on the launcher no longer sound when the launcher is not in focus
  

• Sound block now plays #hashtag sounds
  

There'll be an update with some launcher changes later.
Right now this had to go out to fix a bug with respawning crashing the game. (Localisation issue.)
[BUGS-2989] changes to drones do not trigger the autosave of the mothership (now fixed)"
[BUGS-1772] damage counters are synched to clients so clients can see how much damage they are doing"
[BUGS-3023] blueprint spawner no longer counts each vehicle twice in the concurrently spawned vehicles"
Fixed an issue in the spectate tab (when your avatar dies). Has caused some serious issues with respawning."
Fixed an issue in the lobby where clients could still interact with options during the count down"

Hey Depthians!

We are really sorry that a nasty bug got through in the last update which effected Mac OS. We have totally squashed that bug in this hotfix, as well as implementing a means to browse the Breadboard screen much easier.

Changelog
[h2]Addition[/h2]
[h3]Breadboard[/h3]

• Breadboard UI can be dragged by clicking and holding left mouse button
  

• Layout issue in the tutorial UI and manual UI fixed
  
• Mac OS users crashing on initialisation because of issues with the operating system and loading so many localisation files
  

Hey Depthians!

Happy to release 3.1.9 stable, which incorporates Betas .6 .7 .8, which introduced a number of new functions for Breadboard, but before we get into the new stuff and things, we would like you to guess what this is.



We would also like to give you good peeps a basic explanation of each function, these are by no means for only playing sound.

To give you a basic example. You can set up your construct to listen to an event such as CRAM fired [yes/no] if yes change the AI to broadside: imagine a spinal mounted CRAM and when it fires you want the construct to turn and broadside for X seconds which X is the reload time and swap back to point at AI.

You can also set up a method that if a missile is reloaded, change the altitude of your submarine to surface, once its fired change the altitude to descend again and much more.


Event input listens to various vehicle events such as weapons being fired and outputs the value of events on a particular frame of the simulation.

The event input does not need anything attached to it as it listens to the events triggered from the construct itself after choosing one from the list.

Read without resetting to 0, toggle this to allow the value of the event to increase indefinitely rather than resetting once read. Useful for knowing the total amount of damage sustained.

Inspection period X seconds, the time between checks. On frames when its not checking it will output 0. A larger period can be useful for accumulating a larger sample of events (such as damage from an explosion).


Accumulator (with threshold), The first output is the sum of the first input over time. The second outputs is a trigger value of 1 when a threshold is reached. Reaching the threshold resets the counter.


The Differencer outputs the change in input since the last frame.


Threshold the first output is 1 when the input exceeds a threshold. The second output is 1 when the threshold is not exceeded.

You can set it to Trigger when above the threshold or untoggle for triggering when below the threshold


One shot will only pass a non-zero input to the output once. The output will be zero after this.

This would be used mostly when you want to play a sound once, or trigger an action once. Adding other components such as event input, threshold and playback(described further down) would allow you to play a sound or action once if you have a set of CRAMs firing. If you do not add the one shot then a sound would be played per CRAM fired. The threshold in this case would be the volume of CRAM fired.


Playback plays a sound clip when the first input is above 0. The second input can be used to adjust volume and the third can be used to adjust pitch. As you can see from the list on the right, we have many test sounds to choose from which were implement for testing as you can add your own sound clips using #tags as you can see from the centre section where we call up the sound #miho_start.

Any input above zero will play a sound file. The output link is used to snake playbacks together, such that you can have it play something and then between 3 and 5 seconds later play something else.


Random number outputs a random number between the two limits.

You can find the full list of sounds here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TLbnQhohCAQpp3HbDiCF8WQATyYxLZ2o/view?usp=sharing

Changelog
[h2]Additions[/h2]
[h3]ACB[/h3]

• Wheels parameters now in ACB [REQ-1399]
  

• A prefab representing an example of how to use the audio playback features of the breadboard has been added
  
• Accumulator module added that sums all inputs together. It has a threshold inside that allows for a trigger pulse to be sent and reset to occur when the threshold is met.
  
• Audio pack of 120 samples of Japanese language anime-style voice have been added that can be played via the breadboard
  
• Differencer module added that outputs the difference between this input and the previous input
  
• Event Input module added that listens to various vehicle events and sends out appropriate signals
  
• One-shot module added that will only pass one non-zero value. It has a reset timer on it in case you want to use it again
  
• Playback module added that allows a sound or voice to be played
  
• Random input added which can produce a random number between two limits
  
• Threshold module added that will send out a signal when the input exceeds the threshold
  

• A way of mass painting decorations at a single location has been added
  

• A new starter fortress has been added to replace the old raft. It has a new Spawn-o-matic spawning console on it for spawning starter vehicles easily.
  

• Added a launch screen showing recent patch notes, steam announcements, bug alerts, merchandise, popular workshop entries and social buttons
  
• Sound effects equalized, scroll speed increased, exit button added.
  
• Launcher screen now displays in windowed mode
  

• God mode for vehicles is now accessible in multiplayer designer as well as single player designer
  

• he name of the teleporters is now displayed when teleporting (and when looking at a teleporter) [REQ-181]
  

• Changes made to the JSON text files automatically trigger updates in-game
  
• CTRL+F5 now synchronises what is on screen in FTD with the localisation/translation tool. If the tool is not open it will open the JSON files containing the game text that is on screen. Useful for finding and fixing translation errors.
  
• CTRL+F6 toggles between your currently selected language and English, to help translators look for mistakes.
  
• The translation tool now has a glossary feature in it
  

• [REQ-1810] Ability to paint wheels added
  
• [REQ-373] Added a slider to move a wheel axle downwards (acting as a solid extension to the spring)
  

• Multiply module can now multiply all of its inputs together, as well as multiplying by the constant
  

• AC changed from 5 to 40 on fuel hull pipe to match steam hull pipe. Both priced to 40.
  

• [BUGS-2946] Material quantity, material capacity and health scuttling rules now will not trigger until the current value is below the previous maximum value. This allows drones to repair without scuttling.
  

• [REQ-1228] wheel forces are no longer scaled by configurable propulsion forces, as it also scales the suspension and can potentially break things
  
• Wheels now do a better job of not sinking into the ground
  
• Wheels now scale the suspension force by the number of in contact wheels, not the total number of wheels
  

• [BUGS-2988] Fixed issue in the roll angle used by hover manoeuvre when rolling to point broadsides down/up at the target vehicle
  

• Cameras displayed on screen should freeze a lot less often [BUGS-2803]
  
• Dediblade could go up to 400% power scale when using an ACB, its now clamped to [-1..1] as in its UI [BUGS-2918]
  

• Build menu
  

• Wing missile struts were sitting on top of the wing struts, they are now in the wing strut sub menu.
  

• [BUGS-2985] (regression from 3.1.6) Issue with positioning of CJE particle effects
  

• Fixed an issue with main thread callbacks not executing until the next frame which affected projectile follow camera
  

• It was possible to waste commodities by gifting them to a vehicle that had no room to accept materials. Fixed now.
  

• Decorations
  

• [BUGS-2984] its no longer possible to shift decoration tether points so that a single point has more than the limit of 32 that is currently supported.
  

• Some ducts were incorrectly set to be drag blockers.
  

• [BUGS-2611] cut-away view now correctly cuts away glass materials
  

• Subobjects (turrets/spinners) can now define an active block in the modding menu to make it easier to spawn the correct active block
  

• Fixed issues with hosting multiplayer games
  
• Fixed some broken inventory thumbnails
  

• [BUGS-2979] Issues with Spawn-o-matic blueprint spawn ownership tags fixed
  

• The flame of the custom jet engines is now placed correctly when repaired [BUGS-2954]
  

• Turrets now load up at their idle azimuth and elevation (again)
  

• [BUGS-1337] Wheel track visuals are now properly synced in multiplayer
  
• [BUGS-2424] Wheels now stay active regardless of building mode special view type
  
• [BUGS-2581] Turn wheel yaw response value is no longer reset (similar to above but a wider problem)
  
• [BUGS-2641] Wheel positions standardised and a slider added to shift them
  
• [BUGS-2866] 1m balloon wheels now have a wide track
  
• [BUGS-2910] Building turn wheels in block by block mode on longer reset their turn yaw response
  
• 3m diameter wide wheel track slightly repositioned and rescaled
  
• Fixed jumping in wheels when the origin of the game world resets
  

• Missile strut block added and now works as a strut block
  

What is up Depthians!
Some more of What is happening at Brilliant skies?.

I think the first thing we should talk about is the voice pack that Nick put in the game for us to use via breadboard.
Firstly this month we have had our Christmas holidays so most of the team were not around. In the meantime, Nick continued to pump out bug fixes and we still have a few members away that will be back with us in February.

Quite a while back we had joked about putting shipgirl themed features in the game. This joke got out of hand quite fast and the shipgirl topic has continued to be mentioned for well over a year.

During the Christmas holidays, Nick implemented a 120 voice pack in his free time, which can be used with triggers through breadboard. All this while everyone was chillax with the family, as he had enough of people bugging him about shipgirl themed content.

So in regards to our latest beta update, we have spoken to a number of people who were upset with the latest beta update due to this voice pack which is a test bed for breadboard functions. There will be more added in future and different themes, so this is not solely anime content as it is being made out to be and the voice clips can be replaced with anything you want.

We have also been looking into new avatars for you all to choose from. Themes would range from Sci-Fi, realistic Marine types, Steampunk, Anime, Cyborg etc

We are going to continue to work on the new launch screen to fit better in terms of size during February.
The reason we implemented this new launch screen is that in future we will have a language selector and we also noticed a number of common comments such as I didn't even know about the discord channel, which provides a lot of help to new and old players so we added shortcut links to our media sites etc
The other reason is due to the fact that a lot of information is not read via the in-game news, such as repeatable bugs that you can avoid until we resolve, update posts, news posts and also top workshop builds.

Continue with all the translation work, which we have nearly completed Russian and simplified Chinese, with many community members still active and contributing to DE, FR, JP, ZH, ES, SV, KR.

Work has started on the coming separator blocks and more info on that in future xD .

The next major feature is the diplomacy update, which Nick will be making a post about explaining features etc...

The idea in February is setting up a testbed for space! Continue work on diplomacy, localisation, checking out collisions to hopefully make them less resource-intensive. Concepts and ideas for space factions, as well as the usual dosage of bug fixes as well as a number of other features and requests taken from our Steam suggestion section and our Request page.

If you are reading this and saying Where is the roadmap? / Wouldn't it have been better to post a roadmap? The reason we are not posting roadmaps is due to a number of people saying we promised X which in most if not all posts with the roadmap I believe I made sure to say that all these are subject to change. The roadmap is a plan which we intend to follow, however, certain ideas can change throughout the implementation, or we simply feel that the function or feature just does not fit right and therefore removed or it could be put on the backburner to a later sprint.

Lastly, a question to all you good peeps.
Would you be interested in a build competition to build a space station something sci-fi as a fort?

Hey all :)
Changelog
[h2]Change[/h2]
[h3]Fuel Pipe[/h3]

• AC changed from 5 to 40 on fuel hull pipe to match steam hull pipe. Both priced to 40.
  

• [BUGS-2988] Fixed issue in the roll angle used by hover manoeuvre when rolling to point broadsides down/up at the target vehicle
  

• [BUGS-2985] (regression from 3.1.6) Issue with the positioning of CJE particle effects
  

• Fixed an issue with main thread callbacks not executing until the next frame which affected projectile follow camera
  

• [BUGS-2984] it's no longer possible to shift decoration tether points so that a single point has more than the limit of 32 that is currently supported.
  

• Some ducts were incorrectly set to be drag blockers.
  

• Subobjects (turrets/spinners) can now define an 'active block' in the modding menu to make it easier to spawn the correct active block
  

• [BUGS-2979] Issues with Spawn-o-matic blueprint spawn ownership tags fixed
  

• Fixed jumping in wheels when the origin of the game world resets
  

Changelog
[h2]Additions[/h2]
[h3]Designer[/h3]

• A new starter fortress has been added to replace the old raft. It has a new "Spawn-o-matic" spawning console on it for spawning starter vehicles easily.
  

• Sound effects equalized, scroll speed increased, exit button added.
  

• It was possible to waste commodities by gifting them to a vehicle that had no room to accept materials. Fixed now.
  

Changelog

[h2]Additions[/h2]

[h3]ACB[/h3]

• Wheels parameters now in ACB [REQ-1399]

• A prefab representing an example of how to use the audio playback features of the breadboard has been added
• Accumulator module added that sums all inputs together. It has a threshold inside that allows for a trigger pulse to be sent and reset to occur when the threshold is met.
• Audio pack of 120 samples of Japanese language anime-style voice have been added that can be played via the breadboard
• Differencer module added that outputs the difference between this input and the previous input
• Event Input module added that listens to various vehicle events and sends out appropriate signals
• One-shot module added that will only pass one non-zero value. It has a reset timer on it in case you want to use it again
• Playback module added that allows a sound or voice to be played
• Random input added which can produce a random number between two limits
• Threshold module added that will send out a signal when the input exceeds the threshold

• A button to remove all "untethered" decorations has been added
• A way of mass painting decorations at a single location has been added

• Added a launch screen showing recent patch notes, steam announcements, bug alerts, merchanise, popular workshop entries and social buttons

• God mode for vehicles is now accessible in multiplayer designer as well as single player designer

• The name of the teleporters is now displayed when teleporting (and when looking at a teleporter) [REQ-181]

• [REQ-1810] Ability to paint wheels added
• [REQ-373] Added a slider to move a wheel axle downwards (acting as a solid extension to the spring)

• Multiply module can now multiply all of its inputs together, as well as multiplying by the constant

• [BUGS-2946] Material quantity, material capacity and health scuttling rules now will not trigger until the current value is below the previous maximum value. This allows drones to repair without scuttling.

• [REQ-1228] wheel forces are no longer scaled by configurable propulsion forces, as it also scales the suspension and can potentially break things
• Wheels now do a better job of not sinking into the ground...
• Wheels now scale the suspension force by the number of 'in contact' wheels, not the total number of wheels

• Cameras displayed on screen should freeze a lot less often [BUGS-2803]
• Dediblade could go up to 400% power scale when using an ACB, it's now clamped to [-1..1] as in its UI [BUGS-2918]

• [BUGS-2611] cut-away view now correctly cuts away glass materials

• The flame of the custom jet engines is now placed correctly when repaired [BUGS-2954]

• Turrets now load up at their idle azimuth and elevation (again)

• [BUGS-1337] Wheel track visuals are now properly synced in multiplayer
• [BUGS-2424] Wheels now stay active regardless of building mode special view type
• [BUGS-2581] Turn wheel yaw response value is no longer reset (similar to above but a wider problem)
• [BUGS-2641] Wheel positions standardised and a slider added to shift them
• [BUGS-2866] 1m balloon wheels now have a wide track
• [BUGS-2910] Building turn wheels in 'block by block' mode on longer reset their turn yaw response
• 3m diameter "thick" wheel track slightly repositioned and rescaled

What is up Depthians!!

Happy holidays from all of us at Brilliant skies


Thanks to Ninjin_Ninja for this awesome xmas tree and giving himself a present :p

Beta Test v3.1.3 Came with the changes to warp drives, nothing much to explain, however, please read the changelog below.
3.1.4 gave us the new decorations which Ill leave the beta notes on that below for those of you that did not check the beta test out.
In addition to the two betas hitting stable we also have a new system for missiles, which ill jump right into! xD

3.1.5 brings us two new blocks that greatly effects the way we can launch missiles and more so cluster missiles! We have added a missile wireless transmitter and wireless receiver, which allows a missile controller to control several distant missile launch points.


This also allows us to make more sleeker wings and keeping the missile controller and local weapon controller inside our construct.



But thats not all!!!

Turrets and cluster missiles.
Did you ever want to make a crazy cluster missile on a turret? Well now you can xD


v3.1.3 Mimic 2.0, which we all need to call Decorations so that we are on the same page and not get confused.

Decorations are essentially mimics but have several key differences

they are free, have no volume, mass, health, armour buoyancy or any other physical effect
They are tethered to existing blocks, and you can have up to 32 of them connected to one block. If the block dies they go invisible to simulate the damage. When the block is repaired they re-appear.
They can be attached to barrels, dediblades and custom control surfaces and will move and spin with the barrel/dediblade/surface
The primary reason for adding them is to allow decorative constructs to be made without affecting the physical behaviour of the vehicle. There are only a few situations where a mimic is better than a decoration (e.g when you need a wood/metal/alloy cube but wanted it to look different you would use a wood/metal/alloy mimic). For most situations, a decoration would be more appropriate.

We should probably start off by saying that there is a slight change made to the old mimics, as they can be converted to the new system. So dont be thinking they are useless or no longer work on your other constructs, they are still usable with no issues.

The new decorations will work as follows.

Ctrl + X IN any block, notice me using capslock for IN a block not flush on a block as the mimicked item will be then highlighted as red.

Ctrl + X will open up this UI.


Add new decoration will bring up our usual mimic UI.


However, as you can see the mimic UI has been added as a new tab in slot 0. Therefore this means that you can have multiple decorations tethered to the exact same block/location on a 4m beam.


The UI is self-explanatory, copy all would copy all the tabs allowing you to paste all at another locationDelete all destroys the world and all of your blueprints.

The other important thing to explain is the Shift tether point


As you can see the decoration block in the pic has no physical collision/mesh it has no volume and adds 0 to the block count or cost. The tether, in this case, is created in the applique slope which is where the mimic block is currently and the blue corners showing the tether. If I click right we will move the tether 1m right, yet the mimic block remains where it was.


I had mentioned the new Change to decoration feature in our old mimic block.


In this pic you can see the mimic block its self with the blue corners is sitting on the deck.

If we click Change to decoration now, we will see our decoration tinted in red like something is wrong. This is because the game needs the decoration block inside any block as it thinks its not attached to anything / the block it was in has been destroyed. To fix this once converted simply move the tether where you want it inside any block.

After moving the tether point, you can access all the decoration parts from one point and you can have up to 32 tethered at one point but a max of 900 decorations per construct per subobject, the standard mimics do not add to this number.


All five decorations in one point.


If we turn on our mirror mode and pop back into our new decoration setup we can mirror all five of these tabs.



We also have a new way to view the actual location of mimic blocks and decorations.


You need to cycle through the shift+p views. Yellow are the mimics and blue is where the decoration is tethered.

Changelog 3.1.3
[h2]Changes[/h2]
[h3]WARP[/h3]

• After a warp the warp drives used must be stabilized before a jump in that direction is possible again
  
• After a warp vehicles get a big IR and sonar detection signature increase. That increase is a function of warp energy used, decays over time
  
• Battery energy: warp energy conversion rate depends on ROD:VEHICLE length ratio
  
• Controllers and warp terminators now also count as a 1m rod
  
• Controllers only have rod attachment points in the front
  
• Each m of warp rods can store 10000 warp energy and use up to 400 battery energy/s for warp energy creation
  
• Maximum warp distance is a function of WARP_ENERGY_AVAILABLE / VEHICLE_MASS
  
• Target warp distance can be set on the warp controller. Warps will only use the energy necessary for that distance
  
• Vehicles get a push after a warp, force of that push if a function of the warp energy used
  
• Warp component durability up from 300 health/3 armour to 400/4 for each cubic meter
  
• Warp component weights reduced to 20 for each cubic meter (half of metal)
  
• Warp components are now susceptible to EMP
  
• Warp drives got new tooltips and a standard UI showing cost/volume breakdowns
  
• Warp drives in a given cardinal direction are grouped and triggered together
  
• Warp stabilization time is 40s. Thats reduced by 15s if stabilizers cover the entire width of the vehicle, and another 15s if they cover the entire height (if the jump was forward/backwards)
  
• Warp stabilizers: new components replacing chargers. They determine how much time the warp drive needs after a jump to be available again
  
• Warping under terrain or into constructs is no longer possible. Longer warps have a higher safety margin before/after other craft
  

• Added a new new mimic-type feature available with CTRL+X in build mode. A decoration is visually like a mimic but does not take up physical space on the vehicle.
  
• Decorations can be attached to barrels, dedi-blade spinners and custom control surfaces and will move with those objects
  
• Decorations can be prefabbed with blocks and placed
  

• Ability to drag and drop .txt FTD log files into the FTD application to parse and display them has been added
  
• Ability to drag and drop blueprints into the FTD application to load them in single player designer has been added
  

• Decreased the spawn chance of warp gates by 2
  

• Fixed complex control controller input component not displaying the value of the input
  

• Added hull prefabs to new blueprints section. This will be updated over the month along with others.
  
• There is now a new start fort that contains the spawn-o-matic. The spawn-o-matic contains trainer blueprints with annotations that people can learn from. This can also be modified to suit your own needs.
  

• Fixed a bug where a disconnection of over 400 blocks would halt the disconnection code from making subsequent disconnections
  

• Indication that theres a minimum time between 2 vehicle spawns using the vehicle blueprint spawner [BUGS-2861]
  

• Missile wireless transmitter and wireless receiver have been added. This allows a missile controller to control several distant missile launch points.
  

• APS barrels in a multi-barrel system are now all rotated so that decorations placed on each one will be radially symmetric
  
• APS mantlet decorations will behave differently to decorations placed elsewhere on the APS barrel. Also note that they can be made to spin independently if you have a rail-gun.
  
• Decorations using metal/alloy/HA/wings and placed on barrels/control surfaces/dediblades now correctly adopt the camo of that material (if applicable)
  

• The load/save vehicle UI now allows you to deselect a default designer spawn, and deselect a favourites bar entry
  
• The setting of default designer spawn and addition to favourites bar are now separated in the load/save vehicle UI.
  

• The ACB Interaction condition now behaves as a standard condition, not as the test button. The dot button in mouse-mode will still behave as the Test button [BUGS-2875]
  
• The closest boiler pressure condition boundaries are now adapted to the new steam boilers [BUGS-2849]
  
• The list of custom jet generators to activate is now updated correctly when a vehicle is loaded [BUGS-2702]
  

• Fixed various issues with rail magnet spinning speeds/flags.
  

• The color customization for the smoke of missiles and jets now works [BUGS-2784]
  

What is up Depthians!!!!!

We are really happy to release our new Mimic 2.0 to Beta Test, which we all need to call Decorations so that we are on the same page and not get confused.

Decorations are essentially mimics but have several key differences

• They are free, have no volume, mass, health, armour buoyancy or any other physical effect
  
• They are tethered to existing blocks, and you can have up to 32 of them connected to one block. If the block dies they go invisible to simulate the damage. When the block is repaired they re-appear.
  
• They can be attached to barrels, dediblades and custom control surfaces and will move and spin with the barrel/dediblade/surface
  
• The primary reason for adding them is to allow decorative constructs to be made without affecting the physical behaviour of the vehicle. There are only a few situations where a mimic is better than a decoration (e.g when you need a wood/metal/alloy cube but wanted it to look different you would use a wood/metal/alloy mimic). For most situations, a decoration would be more appropriate.