Avorion (tuxdb.com)

The Avorion 2.0 Beta is now live!

Hey everyone! These are the preliminary patch notes for update 2.0! There is much, much more that has happened and as always the devil is in the details! We're only listing the most important changes here for now. We'd like to encourage you to check out the update yourselves and see for yourselves how things have improved! 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 Branch - Newest Changes & Experimental Features'.

General Gameplay

"So much has happened! It's far too much to list in these notes for now, so we'll only list the biggest changes! We had plenty of balancing changes as well, and we'll keep an eye on things to make sure that things stay smooth!"

Added a "Free Play" Scenario
Added repair with credits only at Repair Docks
Fixed an error in the name-translator of other ships and stations

Names of NPC ships & stations should now be more pronounceable

Added more diverse civil Ships
Added ambient shuttles that populate the sector
Added more named weapons
Added a secret boss fight
Added a new procedural bounty hunting mission
Added lights to some containers
Added a shortcut to the Exodus story mission
Added Towing instead of Reconstruction Tokens
Added a device to rename sectors
Removed cargo shuttles, factories can now trade amount each other in-sector through the civilian shuttles
Added a pirate loot transporter
Added a few easter eggs
Torpedoes can now drop as loot
Added strength indicators for enemies
Added a Travel Hub to do longer jumps
Made flight AI of ships in combat more reckless and engaging
Added several new sound effects for weapon & other loot pickup
Improved the introduction mission for the Strategy Mode
Improved the introduction mission for Trading
Added a mission to track progress of the Xsotan Swarm Event
Added some trading goods that can be dropped during R-Mining & R-Salvaging
Improved names of turrets and upgrades
Added pirate carriers
Added tons of cool other stuff

Balancing

"Just like the other changes, a lot has happened here and we're listing on the most important ones! You should check out the other topics for some balancing changes that were made there."

Improved rewards of nearly all missions
Reduced number of claimable asteroids, increased their value
Upgrades start to drop once they're starting to be useful (ie. no shield-upgrades in Iron & Titanium regions, etc.)
Massively increased capacity of battery blocks
Added one imbalance to test our community & bug reporters
Reduced amount of processing power required for Subsystem Sockets 4 and up

UI Redesign

"We all know it was necessary, and things look so much better now! We hope you enjoy it just as much as we do!"

Improved the looks of the UI

You don't know how much I'd love to go on about this, but you should instead just check it out yourselves :)

Added several color-blind modes

Colorblind people: Please provide feedback if things are clearer now, we'd like to know if there is still stuff to improve!

Added a detailed sector overview
Added several Galaxy Map improvements

Added pinging on the Galaxy Map
Added a setting to reveal your position to others
Added a toggle between faction & relation colors on the map

Added many hints about buttons and controls
Improved camera controls in StrategyMode & GalaxyMap
Improved UI of craft weaponry

Auto-Targeting

"No more 50% penalty but full control over which turrets should fire independently!"

Removed the 50% damage penalty from automatic turrets
Added new kinds of turret slots:

Defensive (for PDCs)
Auto Slots (for automatic turrets)

Turrets can now be configured to be automatically firing
Added new subsystems for automatic turrets, updated existing subsystems

New Progression

"The new progession is meant to challenge you on your way to the center of the galaxy. Players will be required to prove themselves in a new area before they can get their hands on the new building knowledge. But if you don't like that, you can just go for Avorion Classic!"

Building blocks now requires Building Knowledge about their material, which you can find over the course of the game

Either beat a strong pirate or boss encounter in the respective area, or
Achieve good relations with a faction and buy the knowledge at one of their shipyards in the respective area

Building Knowledge grants you the ability to build up to a certain material and subsystem socket number (read: Processing Power)
Processing Power

Made Processing Power of the ship more visual
Improved clarity about what Processing Power does and what blocks increase it

Added a "Classic Avorion" Scenario, which has full Building Knowledge unlocked from the start

Crew Rework

"Hiring crew was sometimes a rather tedious task, and the amount of crew necessary for some ships was a little overwhelming. With 2.0, we want to give you the options of either having a more bare-bones crew on the ship or investing in a fully functional crew that will boost your ship's performance to 200%!"

Reduced the amount of crew necessary to keep the ship running at basic capacity

Only half the crew is necessary now
Adjusted salary accordingly

Reduced the amount of workforce that is necessary to push a ship's performance to 100%
Ship performance of engine and mechanics can now be boosted to up to 200%

Boost in velocity is now reflected in velocity display on top of the HUD

Ranks are now assigned automatically by your crewmembers
Ranks are now among the crew and no longer separate professions
Morale decays more quickly once there is an issue on the ship
Morale will only start to impact workforce once it arrives at 0%
Morale no longer leads to the crew leaving the ship, but instead going on strike

Map Commands

"More work for your captains - less for you! With the new map commands you can now easily send your ship on a longer mission to collect resources, trade, explore and more!"

Changed the map commands to be easier to use and less finnicky
Map commands require a captain, who will then take full control of the ship

The ship won't be available during that time, unless recalled

Added the following new commands:

Mine
Salvage
Travel
Sell
Procure
Trade
Supply
Expedition
Scout
Restock
Refine

Added regular yields that the captains of the ships will send to you

Captains

"We gave captains more character - and a class. And traits. And levels."

Added new kinds of captains with various classes, perks and traits
Captains can now level up
Captains now give bonuses to the ship, depending on their class
Multiple captains can be taken on the ship as passengers
Added a new mission that ends with a high-tier captain

Fighter Rework

"We want the carrier-playstyle to be more of a specialization that's worth it - so we're making things easier but we'll also require you to specialize your ship more to, uh, carrier more."

Added grouping of Squads
Fighters are now remote controlled, pilots stay on the ship and won't get lost on destruction
Fighters can now boost when they start flying longer distances
Reduced fighter production costs by 50%
Carriers need subsystems on board for more than 1 squad

Added a new subsystem for fighter squads

Added a fighter skin that can be applied to an entire squad
Performance Improvements

Improved rendering performance when fighters are deployed
Improved networking performance of the mothership

Autopilot

"Every ship now has an autopilot that will take over when you give it an order, especially when you're sitting in it."

Ships can now always be controlled as long as they're in the same sector as you
Ships won't require a captain for basic commands any longer
When commanding your own ship the Autopilot of the ship kicks in

Central/Outer Faction Area

"To give the factions on the map more feeling of actual civilizations, they'll now have a central and outer region in their area. More commerce in the inner regions, more outlawnessness (is that a word?) in the outer regions."

Added a differentiation between inner and outer faction areas
Inner Faction Area

Secure, many factories, densely populated, lots of commerce and trade

Outer Faction Area

Less secure, more empty sectors with resources, less populated, somewhat more dangerous, less activity

Improved characteristics of factions, depending on the faction

Tutorial & Encyclopedia Improvements

"We brought the tutorial more up to date and made it easier for new players to start out in this complex game."

Streamlined Tutorial and brought it more up-to-date
Improved integration of Encyclopedia into first few hours of the game
Added many new Encyclopedia articles

Player Profile

"You can now keep track of your achieved milestones and possibilities of what's to come in the Player Profile!"

Added a player profile to keep track of your progress
Milestones in player profile show what you've achieved and what things are still to come

Hyperspace Improvements

"You know a feature isn't really top-quality when people Alt-Tab out of your game to do something else while waiting for hyperspace cooldown. So we made Hyperspace Travel more engaging and fun, and most importantly: Less annoying!"

Hyperspace calculations can now be done over multiple jumps without reopening the galaxy map
Hyperspace jumps require you to charge the jump drive before jumping, instead of after jumping

This prevents players getting stuck without being aware that something like that could even happen

Hyperspace jump cooldown is now max. 60s for all ships
Reduced hyperspace jump range boosts through upgrades and blocks
Hyperspace jump cooldown can be reduced by boosting towards the next jump point

Miscellaneous

"Hooray if you made it all the way down here! As a reward, have a few more things that were impactful enough to be worth mentioning in this wall of text."

Added changing of root block
Added a key to save designs from main menu
Added a filter to saved designs window to filter by "Can I build this right now"
Added a free camera in build mode

Bugfixes

"We actually fixed way, way more bugs than those, but those were the most important ones. So we're listing them here to shame them."

Fixed an issue where multiple blocks could exist in the same space, leading to highly exploitable ship designs
Fixed an issue where all factions of the map would be kept in memory all the time
Fixed several issues with AI just turning, but not flying
Fixed an issue where Swoks would not attack when shot at
Fixed several issues where named weapons were a little underwhelming
Fixed an issue where weapon hits would be desynced between client & server
Fixed an issue with the Avorion window icon
Fixed an issue with wrong proportion of factory storage
Fixed an issue with factory production display
Fixed an issue when ships won't fit through wormholes/gates
Fixed an issue where ship wasn't properly deleted when deleting all blocks
Fixed an issue where some ships couldn't be commanded after restoring a backup
Fixed an issue where mod window didn't scale properly with UI scaling enabled
Fixed some issues with target reticles not being drawn properly once too far away
Fixed many more bugs that we might list here at a later time.
Probably not, though, because who reads this stuff anyway?
Fixed several UI issues

[ 2021-07-28 14:11:50 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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