19/3/2017

Patch 0.11

Here are the patch notes for the current patch! The patch will go live on the beta branch until tomorrow, and if everything goes well, we'll set it live tomorrow.

Flight Mechanics Revisited

There have been a lot of adjustments to flight mechanics and the pancake thrusters mechanic/exploit has been removed, since it was never meant to be used the way people used it. Thrusters will now scale with volume. While cleaning up the (very old) code thruster stats calculations, I removed several artificial enhancements to thrusters and flight behaviour of the ships. For example, thrusters had several enhancements that ended up giving them 6 times the power that they should have. These enhancements have been removed, but in turn I buffed thruster strength so while it shouldn't cancel each other out, thruster strength hasn't just been reduced to 1/6 of your ship. There was a similar restriction to engines, which I removed, but in turn reduced the power of a single engine. So your ships should accelerate worse with less engines, but a lot better with more engines. However,

YOU WILL HAVE TO REDESIGN YOUR SHIPS.

In order to make up for the changed thruster mechanics, and since I think that thrusters were kind of an uber-strong block that does everything (which I'm not a fan of), I added a few new blocks: Directional Thrusters, Gyro Arrays and Inertia Dampeners. The old thruster block still exists. Directional Thrusters will work just like normal thrusters, but their power will be along a single (configurable) axis, so you have more and better control about the stats of your ship. Gyro Arrays will only affect the rotational speed of your ship. Their placement is not as important as with thrusters, since they apply torque directly to your ship. On the other hand, you don't have lever mechanics (like with thrusters) that will allow you to get better stats depending on the distance to the center of mass of the ship. They also scale with material strength, so you might want to upgrade them along the way to the center of the galaxy. Finally, Inertia Dampeners are a block that creates subspace friction and that has a very high energy consumption. Due to the special properties of Iron and Avorion, Inertia Dampeners can only be built out of these two materials, and they scale with material strength. Since they create subspace friction, they will reduce drifting and can brake your ship, but they won't be able to accelerate your ship. So your ship will feel different after this patch, but with the new blocks I'm giving you the tools to get the old flight feeling back. I tested a few community ships from the forums and found that the changes required to get the old feeling back were not that intrusive and could be made in a couple of minutes. In order to not let the newtonian-flight-crew feel left out, I split up gyros, inertia dampeners and thrusters into several subsystems and you can now disable the (energy-intensive) flight assist for a boost in available energy. So if you like the feeling of drifting through space, you're going to love this. And configurable pro- and retrograde markers.

Groups

In this patch I'll introduce groups. You'll be able to invite other players via the chat or a new menu entry when interacting with their ships (however, since this is done by a script, this will only work on new ships and drones). Players of the same group will be highlighted in the UI and on the map. Please keep in mind that this is not the Alliances update, we're currently working on that, but I found it important to release the current development progress since it has a few important changes.

Server Browser

Last big feature (but not least): I added a server browser and servers with the "listed" option enabled will be listed here. You can also configure passwords for your server if you want to play by yourselves.

Patchnotes

So here are the full patch notes for this patch. I've been typing these up from the last patch to the default branch, not the last patch to the beta branch, so you might see some features again in these patch notes.

Gameplay

Flight mechanics have been revisited

Improved the flight behaviour, especially related to ship inertia (your ships might drift more now)
Removed artificial 6x power boost to thrusters
Increased power of thrusters
Rotational speed cap is now 4.0 rad/s (from 2.0 rad/s)

Docks regenerate on stations as long as there are less than 2 docks
Added a new repair mode

Added a window that shows repair costs
Repairs to blocks can be discarded from this window
Repairs can be done block by block

Client sided ships steer more precisely
Mines buy a range of goods
Energy systems can be toggled on and off one by one
Players can now set a repair dock as their reconstruction site where they will respawn on death
Added "neutral zones", sectors where no attacks will happen and where players can't deal damage to each other
Ships are protected while changing sectors and while loading screen is visible on client (this can be disabled with a server setting)
Added an AI command for salvaging

Groups

Players can invite other players to groups
Use /invite [player] to invite players to your group
Use /join [player] to join a player's group
Use /leave to leave a group
Players can also interact with ships of another player to invite them (works only for new crafts and drones)
Members of the same group are shown in the top left of the screen
Members of the same group are highlighted on the map
Members of the same group are highlighted in the sector

UI

Resources are no longer shown during flight mode in favor of the group UI
Resources are shown when interacting or in menus (basically whenever you might need to know exact numbers)
Total and relative resources are shown when picking up resources and money
Camera is reset to front-view when leaving building mode
Ship tab shows missing blocks
Mail window has a filter + combo box for players
Improved calculations for ships being too big to fit through wormholes/gates
Added display of center of mass in building mode
Added preview for thruster holes in build mode
Added pro- and retrograde markers
Fixed and improved visuals of systems upgrade tab
Loadingscreen tips are no longer bold so they have better readability
Added tooltips stating what turret control systems actually do
Added explanation to m/s in loading screen
Added scrolling to F1 online players list

Graphics

Implemented new visuals for thrusters
Shields no longer obstruct particle effects like fog, shots, sparks etc.
Reduced brightness of thruster flames

New Blocks:

Directional Thruster

Similar to thrusters, but their forces only work in one dimension

Gyro Array

Strength scales with material
Gyros increase rotational speed of the ship in a specific direction
Placement doesn't matter (in contrast to thrusters), except for how the center of mass of the ship is shifted by the mass of the gyro

Inertia Dampeners

Creates subspace friction that brakes your ship
Only Iron and Avorion can provide the physical properties required to generate subspace friction
Inertia Dampeners can only be built from Iron and Avorion
High energy consumption

Balancing

Thrusters now scale with volume, not surface

Surface only affects the distribution of forces created by thrusters
Large surface -> large portion of force in that direction
Increased strength of thrusters
Thrusters are about ~62% as strong as engines

Rebalanced engines

Removed artificial restrictions on engine scaling with volume
Reduced power of engines
Engines are now worse when you have few engine block volume, but better when you have more

Military outposts buy electromagnetic charges
Adjusted reputation loss when destroying crafts of an AI faction

Loss for destroying fighters is 1500, down from 20000
Loss for stations is 50000, up from 20000
Relation loss for other non-ship objects are 5000
Ships remain at 20000 reputation loss

Reduced factory sale ratios from up to +-50% of good price to +-30%
Factories no longer have abundant amounts of very valuable goods on creation
Solar panel price depends on surface area as well now

Server Browser

Added a server browser for steam servers
Servers that have the "listed" property enabled will be listed in the browser

Server

Added password protection for servers
Implemented binding to IPs with steam networking enabled
Several commands now work with player indices and steam IDs

Affected commands: /ban /banip /unban /give /groups /kick /teleport

Added a /playerinfo command that prints indices and other info about players (mods only)
Added a /status command that will print some status and profiling infos about the server
Added a /selfinfo command that will show a player administrational info about himself
Administrators don't undergo whitelist, blacklist or password check when logging in
Amount of generator threads are configurable via command line and server.ini
Added the console input command handler for windows
Implemented reconstruction of faction index from files on error
Implemented pruning of bad ips from blacklist
Implemented adding of IPs to steam network server clients
Added some warning messages when potentially problematic server settings are detected
Improved deletion of large wreckages

Deletion disabled for generated station wreckages
Deletion time of large and small wreckages is configurable
Improved wreckage despawning behaviour

Profiling of sectors on server can be enabled and disabled with a server setting (disabled by default)

Scripting API

Implemented a sector.lua script that is always present and that can be used for sector-static initialization
Tooltip of ui elements can be reset by passing nil as tooltip
Respawn sector of players can be set and retrieved
Player to player damage can be disabled for sectors
Added a script command for sending chat messages on client
Added server-sided chat commands that can be issued from scripts

Misc

Client waits for server to start up in singleplayer
Improved data writing and securing for less file corruption
Removed some output from shader compiler when not needed
Limited the amount of chat messages that can be sent per 5 seconds

Known Issues

"These issues will be resolved until tomorrow, when the patch will move over to the default branch for everybody."

Ship generator not using gyros
/leader command to make another player the leader of the group
Scrolling of turrets in current ship tab

Bugfixes

"As usual, user bug reports are marked with [UBR]. Thanks to you guys and keep it up!"

Fixed a rare server stall when a player is written to file
Fixed typos in german localization
Fixed a server crash when loading corrupt data
Fixed several typos in lots of places
Fixed a crash in mouseover for UIListBox
Sector changes have to be confirmed by the server before they're marked on the map
Fixed thruster strafing being unaffected by energy efficiency
Fixed Hyperspace Core processing power to normal
[UBR] Key bindings no longer reset with each update
[UBR] Fixed Steam achievements related to Steam stats not working on Windows
[UBR] Fixed a few issues related to Windows UI scaling
[UBR] Fixed smuggler mission targets being generated inside the ring
[UBR] Fixed rename squad input window
[UBR] Fixed a massive performance issue with miners when no more asteroids are present
[UBR] Fixed scripting data not being saved on server shutdown
[UBR] Fixed scrolling in cargo tab
[UBR] Fixed scrolling in cargo transfer window
[UBR] Fixed wormholes going into the ring
[UBR] Fixed crash in trading overview
[UBR] Bottan no longer jumps away only because relations are bad
[UBR] Fixed building preview stats (especially brake stats) being buggy
[UBR] Fixed an exploit related to chat
[UBR] Fixed several server crashes when receiving garbage
[UBR] Fixed a crash related to faulty deadlock detection on Windows
[UBR] Fixed headquarters not showing up in sector overview
[UBR] Fixed a crash in UITextBox when a new text was set and scrolling was too far right
[UBR] Fixed swoks not attacking on one dialog option
[UBR] Fixed allied ships attacking each other when escorting
[UBR] Fixed an error where players would get recreated each time they log in
[UBR] Fixed broken interaction with wormhole diverter and endboss
[UBR] Fixed broken reach of factory-produced weapons (ScriptWeapons's reach modifier works as intended now)
[UBR] Fixed rigid beam weapons not working on ships that have shields
[UBR] Fixed black shields on low-end GPUs
[UBR] Fixed performance issues on galaxy map
[UBR] Fixed overflow in crew numbers
[UBR] Fixed naming of newly founded stations
[UBR] Fixed mission coordinates going out of bounds of map in several missions
[UBR] Fixed gates crossing the barrier to the center
[UBR] Fixed missing translation in tooltip of trading overview
[UBR] Fixed boosting when engine is disabled
[UBR] Fixed holo blocks getting destroyed by craft decay
[UBR] Fixed an error/crash in convoi distress signal mission

[ 2017-03-19 21:34:11 CET ] [ Original post ]

Avorion
Boxelware

Developer

Boxelware

Publisher

2020-03-09

Release

Indie Simulation Singleplayer Multiplayer Coop

Combat

Equip your ship with chainguns, lasers and other weaponry to take on your enemies and enjoy the sight of completely destructible ships breaking at the exact points where you hit them. Defend your allies from pirates, hunt down enemies for coin or even participate in wars between entire factions. Build hangars and command squads of fighters in your battles or destroy enemy freighters to steal their cargo.

Explore

Fly through beautiful nebulas and dense asteroid fields in search of hidden treasures and meet the many factions that populate and control their portion of the galaxy. Each faction has its own characteristics, such as peaceful, intelligent or aggressive, and has its own ship styles, meaning their ships and stations have a distinct look.

Explore the galaxy at your own pace to find valuable goods in old ship wreckages, undiscovered asteroid fields rich of resources, unchartered asteroids which you can claim for yourself, or clues as to what happened during the event a few hundred years back.

Build Your Fleet

There are no limits to ship size or complexity besides your resources. You're not bound to the standard voxel style and while building an awesome ship in Avorion you won't get lost in lots and lots of micro-management. You can focus on building a great looking ship, without having too much trouble to make it work. But make sure you still keep an eye on your ship’s maneuverability or energy requirements. Adjust your ships perfectly to their operational purpose by building light and agile or heavily armored ships.

Build specialized transport ships with lots of cargo space or heavily armored battleships with strong shields. Collect loot from defeated foes which you can use to upgrade your ship: New turrets, resources, trading goods or system upgrades. Install system upgrades that allow more weapons, ease asteroid mining or trading systems which detect trading routes over multiple sectors.

And why build only one ship? Hire captains to fly your ships for you, manage your crews, weapons, hangars and fighters and build your own fleet of space ships!

Trade

Extend your ship with a cargo bay, find profitable deals and haul over a hundred trading goods through the galaxy to make a profit and buy your way up the food chain: Build up a trading corporation and extend your influence in the galaxy by founding asteroid mines and factories that attract NPC traders who will buy and sell their goods at your establishments.

Co-op Multiplayer

You don't have to fight the galaxy alone! Avorion features co-op multiplayer, so team up with your friends to build stations together and destroy pirates and enemy factions! Work together to extend your influence in the galaxy and build your own empire. Or, you know, blow them apart in large PvP battles. It's a sandbox, you can do whatever you want.

In Avorion you choose your personal playstyle. Haul cargo, find profitable trading routes and found factories. Or maybe you're sick of being the good guy? Build your own battleship, equip it with powerful weaponry and blow away your enemies. Be the aggressor that starts wars with entire factions, raid freighters, smuggle illegal goods and scavenge old wreckages. Find your way to the center of a galaxy that gets more hostile, but also more rewarding the closer you get to its core.

MINIMAL SETUPOS: Ubuntu 12.04 or higher
Processor: Intel i5 @ 3.0 GHz or AMD equivalentMemory: 4 GB RAM
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia Geforce 550 or equivalent (full OpenGL 3.0 support required)Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 1 GB available spaceAdditional Notes: Middle mouse button. mouse wheel required. No Internet connection required for Singleplayer.
RECOMMENDED SETUPOS: Ubuntu 12.04 or higher
Processor: Intel i7 @ 3.3 GHz or AMD equivalentMemory: 6 GB RAM
Memory: 6 GB RAM
Graphics: NVidia Geforce 1050 / Radeon RX 460Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 3 GB available spaceAdditional Notes: Middle mouse button. mouse wheel required. No Internet connection required for Singleplayer.

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