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

Additions

Drills

• 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

Options

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

Propellers

• 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

Steam crank connections

• 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

Changes

APS

• 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)

Campaign

• 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.

Control surfaces

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

Custom control surfaces

• 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

Dediblades

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

Diplomacy

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

Drills

• 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

Hydrofoils

• 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

Melee PAC

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

Missiles

• 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

Rams

• 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

Simple rudders

• 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

UI

• 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

Fixes

ACB controller

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

Animation block

• Fixed the breadboard to animation block filtering by name

Bugs

• 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

Breadboard

• 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

Campaign

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

Collisions

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

Diplomacy

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

EMP

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

Gridcases

• 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

• Impact damage can now travel between constructs

Lasers

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

LUA

• 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

Separator

• 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

Transparency

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

Wings

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