Beta Branch Note: These changes are currently available on the beta branch. The beta branch is for testing experimental changes and for finding and fixing errors. This is how you get access to the beta branch (USE AT YOUR OWN RISK): Right-Click on Avorion in your Steam list, Properties -> Betas -> Select branch 'beta'.

Tutorial

"In this update we greatly improved the basic tutorial. It is now much more streamlined with less text to read and more to do. Wherever possible the new tutorial now features interactive sequences."

Added new Tutorial parts that explain missions, fighting and ship destruction (and reconstruction)
The Tutorial can now only be played in Singleplayer - set the checkbox to true while creating a new galaxy if you want to play it!
Player now starts Tutorial with a ship fully equipped to play
New missions that follow on from the tutorial to explain more advanced game mechanics

Story

"The Story in Avorion has always been rather a loose thread than a real story. With this update we introduce a more streamlined approach that helps players to find and complete all story missions."

Greatly streamlined the story missions with more subsequent missions
Added additional "guide" mission for story missions
Added shortened version of credits that is played when the story is completed

Galaxy Map

"We completely reworked the UI for commanding ships over the galaxy map. Enjoy!"

Reworked the UI for commanding ships over the galaxy map
Ships are now listed on the right of the map
Routes of ships through gates and wormholes now have different colors
Fixed several issues when rendering routes and icons on Galaxy Map

Gameplay

When founding a station, the style of the faction it was bought from can be used to create a plan for it
Camera settings of different ships are now remembered
Military ships of AI factions now respawn
Alliance privileges are now checked when transferring content between ships
Repair docks can now also restore ships for a player's alliance and vice versa
Fixed persecutors not spawning correctly in sectors without players but with player ships
Optional ingredients now double production speed of factories when used in a production

UI

Improved UI of trading upgrade
Squads in Hangar tab can now be moved around by Drag n Drop
Added text boxes for exact values to several sliders
Hire Crew UI now shows your current crew
FPS limiter combobox is now disabled when vsync is on
Display refresh rate can now be configured when using fullscreen
Added combobox to select the display to graphics settings
Common resolutions are now made available in windowed mode for convenience
Added a confirmation message box when disbanding an alliance
Added scrollbar to cargo tab
Alliance emblems are now shown in diplomacy tab
Added a bar to show how much cargo is on the ship
Fighters tab in Equipment Dock is hidden when player is outside Trinium regions and his ship doesn't have a hangar
Illegal, dangerous, stolen or suspicious trading goods now have a different color in the sales UI
Added tooltips for optional ingredients in factory config UI and what they do

Client

"We added localization for Chinese (Simplified), Russian and Spanish. Additionally, we improved performance of several particle systems and fixed a few crashes related to those."

Added first official support for Simplified Chinese, Russian and Spanish

Some texts are still missing, but will be added over the next weeks

Improved performance of thruster particle effects
Improved performance of loot & wreckage particles

Particles are now no longer spawned when they would be too far away

Cargo loot changes size depending on amount of cargo
Loot packets that float around now merge together over time to improve performance
Improved visibility of rare turrets and upgrades floating around as loot

Server

"In order to make administrating a (community) server a little easier, we added logging about which resources are being exchanged between players."

Added a "script-threads" command line argument
Improved logging of servers
Servers log when players enter the galaxy center for the first time
Server now logs the items and resources (not text) sent within mails
Server now logs when a ship from a disbanded alliance was claimed by a player
Server now logs boarding of ships
Server now logs alliance vault transactions, and other actions like joining, founding, disbanding, etc.
Server now logs which items and resources are exchanged in a player trade
Added option -t to /playerinfo command which prints last online time and total playtime of all players
Added option -p to /playerinfo command to display resources and other info of players
Added a /profile command that records a profiling benchmark for the next 30 seconds and then saves it to a file

Use this if your server / game has bad performance or lags and you want to help us fix it. You can send us the file alongside an explanation as to what happened.

Profiling & Performance

"In order to fix some very annoying performance issues, we revamped our diagnostics system to a more centralized approach. You can help us greatly by using these easy-to-use tools and sending us the collected data!"

Refactored profiling to find performance issues more reliably
Client: Press F10 to save performance stats of the past ~30 seconds to a file

Use this when you got consistent FPS problems

Server: Type /status to save performance stats of the last ~30 seconds to a file

Important: Set profiling=true in your server.ini for this to work

Server: New /profile command that records a profiling benchmark for the next 30 seconds and then saves it to a file

Use this if your server / game has bad performance or lags

Scripting API

Added AllianceEmblem class
Added a onSectorArrivalConfirmed callback when the client finished loading a sector
When a player enters the center of the galaxy for the first time, a value visited_center is set
Added a fullLogId property to players that prints a string fully identifying the player
Added fullLogId to client Player, client Alliance, Faction, Player, Alliance
Added a tagDescription property to TradingGood
Added a color property to TradingGood
Adjusted Y sizes of labels that are created with only a vec2 and not a Rect
Added controlPressed, shiftPressed, altPressed, modifierKeyPressed to Input class
Added lookAtSmooth function to GalaxyMap

Bugfixes

"Bugfixes marked with [UBR] are user bug reports. Thanks to everyone who reported! You can report bugs from within the game in the pause menu."

Fixed several issues in scripts
[UBR] Fixed an issue where turret designs could get lost when merging blocks
Fixed an issue where the rotation arrows of the turret brush pointed in the wrong direction
Credits can no longer be scrolled back infinitely
[UBR] Fixed an issue where fighter orders weren't applied when leaving a sector without them and then returning
Fixed several issues where turrets could be placed on blocks where they shouldn't be placed
Fixed an issue where turrets could get duplicated
[UBR] Fixed an issue where the ship name could protrude from its texture
Fixed an issue where transform mode was disabled when clicking the block button or pressing its keyboard shortcut
[UBR] Exodus mission corner sectors can now be found even if the mission is not active
Fixed several issues with translations
[UBR] Fixed an issue where flat corner blocks couldn't be placed back-to-back
[UBR] Dangerous transformations to holo blocks are now prevented
[UBR] Fixed an issue where width and height were swapped in craft stats
Fixed an issue where the "You need X, Y, Z resources" message could contain negative values
Fixed an issue with refreshing the servers list
[UBR] Fixed an issue where collecting cargo could crash the game
Fixed an issue where "loot collected" sound effect would sometimes be played when loot despawns
[UBR] Block brush: Fixed an issue where the block size was messed up when rotating in voxel grid mode
Fixed a crash when lots of particles could be seen on screen
[UBR] Fixed an issue where no traders could spawn at first when founding a new station
[UBR] Fixed an issue where trading overview upgrade could display wrong values for the first sector after first relog

Also fixes the "sell price: error getting supply demand factor: 3" error message spam (which was not critical)

Fixed an issue where AI factions would rebuild the wrong factories after they were destroyed

[ 2020-06-04 10:22:25 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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