Avorion (tuxdb.com)

Beta Branch Patch 1.3 - Patchnotes

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'.

Docking

"Docking's here! The feature is actually pretty straightforward. Slap a dock block on your ship and go have fun! :)"

Ships can now use Dock blocks to dock other objects
Docked objects are shown in building mode
Docked objects can be taken with you through gates, wormholes and hyperspace jumps
(Nearly) every object can be docked

Gameplay

"Aside from a few shady features that sneaked in from the Black Market DLC, we got Legendary Turrets, prettier asteroids, and a new, strange Xsotan Wormhole Device that seems to open wormholes to your Reconstruction Site."

Added new containers that can be hacked or taken to a smuggler's outpost to be opened
Added a new sector type with many containers and asteroids
Added the possibility to bribe ships that control you
Added the possibility to control & get bribed by AI traders that can now carry illegal goods
Added special, legendary turrets

Some turrets will be available immediately, some only for DLC owners
Turrets are dropped by bosses and other strong enemies
More turrets to come over the next weeks

Added a new Xsotan Wormhole Device that opens a wormhole to your reconstruction site

You get the item from the Adventurer after changing the Reconstruction Site or progressing with the story
10 Minute cooldown, infinite usages
Has a few other limitations so it can't be used during immediate combat

Improved visuals of asteroids with resources

Developer Note: Asteroid shapes have been fine-tuned to ensure they have the same amount of resources as before

Some factions now always have bad starting relations (not as bad on low difficulties, very bad on high difficulties)
On higher difficulties, bad initial relations can trigger immediate war with factions the player hasn't met yet
When switching sectors, players are only placed in ships that are idle or passive from now on (unless otherwise specified) to not interrupt AI orders
Objects in sectors towards the middle are spread out a little further
Seeking projectiles can now lead very fast targets
When a warzone is called out or a freighter is raided, nearby players are notified
Reduced camera shake of sector jumps
Added edge & corner crew quarters blocks
Added a front-facing torpedo launcher block

AI

"We improved several aspects of the AI, like pathfinding, aim and salvage & mining AI."

A ship now waits for its fighters to land before flying through a gate
Improved aim of AI ships

AI ships can now aim with coaxial turrets
Strongly improved aim of AI ships for Expert+ difficulties

Salvage & mining AI now picks new objects to harvest close to the last one

This way the behaviour is more consistent when objects break apart

Salvage & mining AI now keeps fighters active while collecting loot
Salvage & mining AI no longer keeps firing at tiny fragments that have negligible amounts of resources left
Salvage & mining AI no longer bothers collecting extremely tiny amounts of loot
Improved pathfinding when surrounded by many obstacles

Balancing Part I: General

Adjusted fines for smuggling
Slightly increased amount of petty upgrades being dropped in the outer regions
Slightly reduced amount of legendary upgrades being dropped on low difficulties
Railguns now always penetrate at least 3 blocks
5-slot turrets aren't automatically coaxial any longer

Instead of every turret, only 25% of 5-slot turrets will be coaxial turrets

Explosive shots no longer deal potentially infinite amounts of damage through AOE, but are capped at 200%
Pulse Cannons now have a much higher shield penetration rate compared to other weapons with ionized projectiles
Increased projectile speed of 2+ slot turrets

Balancing Part II: Shields

"Let's face it: Shields are way too powerful for what they cost. They provide lots of HP that recharge extremely quickly for free and they protect all blocks at the same time. Shields are also more or less obligatory for combat, and this means that players avoid combat in the early game. We want to break free from these limitations and give players more means to fight early on. We're nerfing shield generators, but at the same time buffing integrity blocks & armor a lot. Keep in mind that these are experimental changes and we'll see how they fare. Please share your feedback with us on this!"

Buffing Integrity Blocks & Armor

Reminder: Integrity fields reduce incoming damage!
Increased damage reduction of integrity fields from 50% to 75%
Increased HP of armor blocks to 25 per 1 volume, from 15

Nerfing Shields

Increased cost of shield generator blocks by 50%
Reduced shield durability gained from shield blocks to 50 per 1 volume, from 70

Developer Note: In total, existing ships with shield generators and integrity blocks protecting armor will get:

-27% shields
+233% hull HP for armor
+100% hull HP for other blocks

Balancing Part III: Exploits, Shipyards & Reconstruction Site

"We're seeing a lot of playstyles that abuse exploits that are ending up in guides and that are degenerating from how Avorion was originally designed. In addition to fixing exploits, we're adding some experimental changes through which we want to shift the gameplay a bit. We want to reintroduce the feeling of 'safe haven' sectors and the risk of venturing out. We do realize that this might take some comfort away but we think it's healthier for the game in the long run. This playstyle will also require a little more planning from you, which is why we're only enabling it on new galaxies. We'd love to hear your feedback and we'll monitor the situation closely!"

Building and repairing are now only possible without enemies attacking and only if the ship wasn't damaged in the past 30 seconds
New Saves: On Normal+ difficulty, Generators and Hyperspace Cores will need a neutral or friendly shipyard in the sector to be added to your ship

Applies to new saves only
Applies to ships, not stations
Does not apply to Creative
Can be turned on/off with a server.ini setting
Ctrl-Z, Ctrl-Y and scaling will still work without a shipyard
Repairing is still possible without a shipyard

Sectors with smuggler hideouts now have a shipyard
Sectors with resistance outposts now have a shipyard
Added an item that lets you return to your Reconstruction Site from anywhere (details see above)
Reduced cost for changing Reconstruction Site by 80%
Reduced cost for reconstructing without tokens to 80% of the ship's value, from 120%
Reduced cost for repairs at repair docks to 35% of ship's value (from 75%)
Reduced cost for founding a shipyard by 17.500.000 credits
Reduced cost for founding a repair dock by 7.500.000 credits
When reconstruction tokens are disabled, reconstruction site can still be set
Hyperspace engine now has to reboot and goes on cooldown after its range is changed

Strategy Mode

"We've massively tuned the Strategy Mode to make it a much more polished and easy-to-use feature. Enjoy!"

Added vertical lines to objects for a better sense of depth
Improved grid-plane for a better sense of depth
Camera can now be rotated and moved up/down
Pressing space centers the camera on the selected object(s)
Double click now centers the view, Ctrl-click toggles the selection
Player's current craft now has a player icon in the strategy mode overview list
Selection groups are now shown in overview list
Claimed asteroids are now shown in overview list
Added colors to sector ship overview list in strategy mode
"Fly through gate"-order is now visualized with a line to the gate
Mine and salvage orders issued via right click now start harvesting the clicked object (not the closest to the ship)
Improved button feedback

UI

"More UI and QoL improvements."

Galaxy Map: Pressing space centers the camera on the selected object(s)
Galaxy Map: Selection groups can now be used the same as in Strategy Mode
Galaxy Map: Notifications can now be disabled on the galaxy map
Mails: Mail buttons stops flashing for good when mails window is opened
Mails: Mail list updates when a new mail is received
Mails: Mail window's 'Delete' now takes all attachments first
Building Mode: Added ISS shilhouette for comparison
Building Mode: Transformation brush can now be rotated by holding R
Building Mode: Added "Show Templates Folder" button to blocks window
Building Mode: Turret designs can now be applied to all selected turret bases with one click
Building Mode: Implemented new, detailed tooltips for blocks in building mode
Improved UI for selling items

Added various filtering, sorting and favoriting options
Favorited (starred) items can't be sold accidentally any more

Added assignable icons for ships
Weapon base damage variation is now reflected in tooltips
When founding a new ship, "Alliance Ship" is now greyed out when not in an alliance
Pressing B while in drone now opens the ship founding dialog
Player ships in the same sector now share their scanner data
Added total crew salary to player and alliance fleet tabs

Client

Added more loading screen tips
Playmodes Normal & Creative Mode are now considered scenarios
Added more infos about savegames in singleplayer window
Added a checkbox to override a galaxy's mod settings

If not ticked, the save's previous mod config is used

Added a news window to the main menu
Added a warning window for loading a galaxy with a too high version
Added a warning window for loading a non-beta galaxy while on the beta branch
Added categories for assignable controls
Default controls layout of immediate (mouse) steering changed:

Free Look is now on right mouse button (was Ctrl)
Torpedoes are now fired with G (was right mouse)

Graphics

Improved visuals of swirly weapon beams

Server

"While tons of things were improved, the most important change is that the scheduling of the server update has been completely rewritten. A single slow sector no longer slows down the entire server. We also added quite a few new settings to tune your server to your perfect PvP settings."

Restructured the entire internals of the server

A single slow sector no longer slows down the entire server
Shenanigans of players no longer slow down the entire server but only the sector they're in
Developer Note: This doesn't mean that the server now magically supports 100 players. Avorion is not an MMO, and will never be one because it was not designed as one.

Simplified callback handling & improved stability of the server
Increased time that sectors are initially loaded from 15s to 30s
Renamed server option "authenticate" to "vac-secure"
Renamed server option "isPublic" to "isMultiplayer"
Added a server.ini setting to allow/forbid boarding
Added a server.ini setting to enable saving of runtime stats (players, tick times, memory, sectors loaded, etc) into a .csv file
Added a server.ini setting to configure the amount of networking threads
Added a server.ini setting to configure minimum ship size
Added a server.ini setting to configure maximum ship velocity
Added a server.ini setting to configure maximum number of stations in a sector
Added a server.ini setting to configure shipyard-bound building

Scripting API

"A lot changed here, so we won't be listing every little change, but only the most important ones - especially when they might break existing mods."

Added class DockingClamps
Added class HyperspaceEngine
Added a new Sector callback "onPlayerArrivalConfirmed" which fires once the client has finished its loading screen
Added more possibilities to work with Mails
Added conversion from scancode to keycode and back (modders: See SDL2 docs for that)

Developer Note: Modders: This might be important for you if you were using the Keyboard. We changed our internal structure from SDL Keycodes to SDL Scancodes

Entity:getDockingPositions() now returns a table
DockingPositions:getDockingPositions() now returns a table
DockingPositions:getDockingPosition(id) now returns a table
Removed Entity:getRandomDockingPosition()
Renamed Durability.setMaximum -> Durability.maximum
Callback "onMailReceived" is now called "onMailAdded" on server, same as client
Modder Request: Most properties of TextField are now readable as well
Added functionality to drop VanillaInventoryItem and UsableInventoryItem loot
Massive improvements to structuredmission.lua
Fixed an issue where scripts registered for updates before being restored
Fixed an issue where Galaxy:findFaction() didn't correctly return Player, Alliance, or Faction object depending on the internal type
Fixed an issue where some components in Entities created by Sector:createEntity() were missing
Fixed a crash when not passing a color to addShipProblem
[UBR] Fixed an issue where it wasn't possible to directly set the Seed value

Use tostring() to get and assign the string to set

Improved API documentation

Misc

Added a notification when a player is assigned to be the new leader of a group
Tons of small optimizations all over the place
Improved performance of performance measuring (yes really)
Improved several dialogs
Improved translations
Added several new bugs

Bugfixes

"As always, bug reports from the community are marked with [UBR] (User Bug Report). Thanks for reporting and keep it up! You'll be seeing quite a few more of these over the next weeks!"

[UBR] Fixed an issue where torpedoes in Equipment Dock weren't as different as planned
[UBR] Fixed an issue where trading posts and factories didn't have enough cargo space
[UBR] Fixed several issues where introduction missions got stuck when playing them in Alliance ships
[UBR] Fixed a few performance issues when opening the Equipment Dock menu while inventory is full
[UBR] Fixed several issues where the server could crash when being sent garbage over network
[UBR] Fixed an issue where the emblem of alliances weren't sent to players correctly
[UBR] Fixed an issue where ships wouldn't keep their orientation upon sector change
[UBR] Fixed an issue where some chat commands could crash the server
[UBR] Fixed an issue in fighter tutorial mission where having more than 3 fighters didn't advance the mission
[UBR] Fixed an issue where escort AI would falsely attack friends
[UBR] Fixed an issue where armor blocks sometimes didn't stop penetrating projectiles
[UBR] Fixed an issue where ships would chase each other out of the sector indefinitely
[UBR] Fixed an issue where reconstruction token value of a ship would decrease when ship is built smaller
[UBR] Fixed an issue where players without alliance vault permissions could trash/favorite alliance items
[UBR] Fixed an issue where turrets were jittering while aiming with the mouse
[UBR] Fixed an exploit where ships could be healed by adding large stone blocks
Fixed an issue where chat messages sent by server didn't get their format strings filled in correctly
Fixed an error message that was sent too often to alliance members with insufficient permissions
Fixed an issue where turrets from the ship, when compared, would show up as blueprints
Fixed highlights of list entries in singleplayer window not working
Fixed several crashes
Removed unnecessary sector marker from station founding introduction mission
Fixed 43 typos (I didn't actually count that)

[ 2020-10-20 15:25:24 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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