Avorion (tuxdb.com)

Beta Branch Patch 2.0.1 - 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 Branch - Newest Changes & Experimental Features'. "You want the big patchnotes? Alright, you shall have the big patchnotes!"

Gameplay

"We made many improvements to ships deployed on operations: They can now show up in the area they're deployed in. But be warned, captains don't like being monitored at work. We also improved some clarity about size limits, processing power and other potential misconceptions about these mechanics."

Ships with captains now show up from time to time in the area they were deployed in
Renamed "Smart Blocks" to "Functional Blocks"
Rephrased several messages to improve clarity about functional blocks and processing power
Added a new section to the tutorial to explain processing power
Adjusted naming of Building Knowledge
Pirate shipyards now also drop building knowledge
Building knowledge can now be bought by alliances, too
Building knowledge now drops for all players in the sector, regardless of them hitting the enemy that drops the item
Harvest and Repair AI now only use the best possible turrets and search for a new target or terminate if none are available. This means a ship equipped with Iron and Titanium Mining Lasers will use only the Titanium ones on Naonite asteroids.
Harvest and Repair AI additionally no longer reorder a ship's weapon groups
Tier 0 captains now gain a class determined by their last fulfilled operation once they reach level 5
When ambushed, a ship tries to fight pirates if it has weapons (not just the escorts)
When ambushed, a ship's hyperspace engine is exhausted
Large, empty Iron & Naonite asteroids now have the shape of Titanium asteroids to make them distinguishable from claimables
Added an alternate version of the hyperspace upgrade that is high reach, high cooldown

This is basically the hyperspace system from pre 2.0 as an option, but boosting to reduce cooldown is still possible

Tutorial now starts with the same player resources regardless of difficulty level

Additional resources are then given to players after completing the tutorial

Fighters

"We said this before: 3 fighters should about equal one turret. The thing is that, contrary to turrets, you can lose fighters while deployed. Our goal with fighters is that we want carriers to be a viable playstyle, that can be powerful but requires specialization of the ship of more than just a few hangar blocks. We spent some more time on fighters and we think we're now at a point where we reached that goal."

Increased durability of fighters

Durability now scales with tech level and used material

Increased boosting powers of fighters to +500% (from +200%)
Rebalanced costs of fighters to match the "3 fighters = 1 turret" design philosophy
Reduced fighter production costs to material costs equal to 10% of their credits costs

A 100.000 Xanion fighter now costs 10.000 Xanion to produce on the ship

Fighter production time is now 50% linked to their tech level and 50% to their durability
Fighter production time is now always at most 1h
Fighter production time now can be reduced by at max 90%
Fighter production time reduction is now 1min per 1000 production capacity on the craft
Fighters now always take at least 30s to produce, down from 60s
Increased amount of fighters available at stations

General Balancing

"We want the general early game to be more fun and less grindy, and for that we're making it easier to gain resources through other ways than mining. Apart from that, we've made some general adjustments to improve overall gameplay quality."

Increased amount of resources available at Resource Depots
Reduced cost of resources at Resource Depots
Increased profit when selling resources at Resource Depots
Reduced amount of necessary reputation for buying Building Knowledge to 65.000
Titanium Building Knowledge now gives 5 Slots
Increased likelihood of finding captains from every 4th station to every 3rd
Increased likelihood of finding tier 1 or 2 captains at stations
Decreased base salary of captains by 5000
Increased reach of higher-tier hyperspace upgrades
Increased time to flee of pirates to 6.5 seconds from 5 seconds
Reduced price for sector renaming beacon
Increased amount of very rich hidden ore asteroids to every 4th, from every 8th
Sped up trade frequency via shuttles between factories by 40%
Decreased influence of pirates and Xsotan on hazard zone trigger when destroying freighters by 75%
Reduced max velocity of NPC ships closer to the galaxy center
Improved influence of positive perks of captains on operations
Captains can't have more negative than positive perks anymore
Most missions now additionally give resources as reward
Bounty Hunt missions now improve relations to commissioning factions

Mining & Salvage Operation

"We added some clarity about the mining and salvaging operations, how they work and how to best fine-tune them for maximum yields. This, plus some QoL additions targeted at larger fleets."

Delivery interval is now 15 minutes for durations of 30 minutes or 1h
Added an option for immediate delivery
Added a new "Area Efficiency" line to show how good/bad the area is
Discovered asteroid/wreckage fields now boost area efficiency
Implemented mining & salvaging support from escorts

Escorts now mine/salvage, too, if they have the equipment for it

Increased maximum duration that Miners and Scavengers can be sent on an operation from up to 6h to up to 8h

They get a flat +0.5h bonus and each tier now gives +1h (up from 0.5h)

Reduced time taken to refine
Increased mining yields in outer faction area by 50%
Resource asteroid/wreckage setting in Free Play mode now affects Mining & Salvage Operations
Mining subsystems now boost mining yields

They have the largest effect in areas with few asteroids

Other Operations

"Some balancing adjustments for the other operations. Also fixed some bugs, which you'll find more down below in the Bugfixes section."

Increased area size of Scout operation from 15x15 to 21x21
Scout Operation now reveals estimations about the amount of asteroids and wreckages
Scout Operation is now 60% faster per sector
Reduced general pirate attack chance in outer faction area
Operations related to trading now improve relations to the local faction
Increased gains from Expedition to make it more viable in early game

Galaxy Map

"We improved the general feel of sending your ships away - they shouldn't feel like they're completely gone."

Added more buttons for showing/hiding different ships (distinguishes between "on screen" and "on operation")
Ships are no longer automatically hidden from the list when sent on an operation
Ships now get their area highlighted when going on an operation

Added a checkbox to toggle those areas

Adjusted some descriptions in map commands for improved clarity
Sectors can now additionally be tagged with an icon when adding a note
Map orders can now be given to ships piloted by a player

UI

"Much clarity stuff, and some more quality of life. Using pre-2.0 builds should now be a lot easier."

Added arrows that show if a selection can be scrolled further up or down
Wormholes selected in Strategy Mode now show their distance
Changed colors of symbols indicating enemy strength to make them better distinguishable from one another
Adjusted text in subsystems tab to hint towards functional blocks
Added a different background for functional blocks
Added more loading screen hints about captains, commands, processing power and more
Renamed captain's level 0 to level 1
Added the captain icon to captain mission
Improved looks of blocks in block icons
Added a slider to saved designs window in Build Mode to scale a design 2 slots up or down
Adjusted names of orders in orderchain window for improved clarity
Added explanation to max ship size slider in Free Play
Updated "Build 5 slot ship" milestone in Player Profile to reflect Titanium Building Knowledge now allowing up to 5 slots
Captain assessments in operation UI are now colored yellow or orange if they contain warnings
Improved autopilot and craft orders interaction window
Improved German, French, Russian, Japanese and Chinese localization

Bugfixes

"We got tons of feedback and bug reports, thanks for all the commitment! As usual, User Bug Reports reported through our in-game bug reporting tool are marked with [UBR] below."

[UBR] Fixed a crash in Eliminating Rivals mission
[UBR] Fixed a crash in Propaganda Materials mission
[UBR] Fixed a crash in Display of Strength mission
[UBR] Fixed a crash in Shes Innocent! mission
[UBR] Fixed a crash in A Lost Friend mission
[UBR] Fixed a crash in The Guardian mission
[UBR] Fixed a crash in Wanted Dead, Not Alive mission
[UBR] Fixed an issue where NPCs that were needed by missions ran away after they were damaged
[UBR] Mined ores and scrap are no longer tagged as stolen when picked up by someone else after the reservation timer runs out
[UBR] Fixed a crash in Refine AI Command
[UBR] Fixed an issue where player-built shipyards sold building knowledge even though the player didn't have it yet
[UBR] Fixed an issue where the trade command income scaled infinitely with the used ship's cargo bay
[UBR] Fixed an issue where building knowledge didn't unlock on servers that first had it disabled, then enabled
[UBR] Fixed an issue where the engine drained too much power after a hyperspace jump
[UBR] Fixed an issue where the energy system didn't drain energy for a few seconds when going into drain
[UBR] Fixed an issue where torpedoes and other icons weren't displayed properly
[UBR] Fixed a bug in asteroid field generation
[UBR] Fixed an issue in simplified simulation where ships would always boost and always hit no matter their energy, distance from target or reach of their weapons
[UBR] Fixed pirate attack event not finishing properly sometimes when pirates flee
Fixed an issue where recalled ships didn't return when a certain script crashed
Fixed an issue where max amount of items gained from salvaging could be unlimited
Fixed Mining Operation wrongly declaring enemy faction sectors as safe
[UBR] Fixed an issue where cooldown of hyperspace engine could go to 0, leading to unexpected issues and crashes
[UBR] Fixed an issue where it was possible to jump over rifts
[UBR] Fixed an issue where some special characters weren't properly captitalized
[UBR] Fixed an issue where normal hull wasn't available in turret design mode
Fixed an issue where changes in material weren't reflected in costs of saved designs window
[UBR] Fixed an issue where alliance ships couldn't escort other alliance ships
[UBR] Fixed some issues in sell/procure commands where they took too long for simple tasks
[UBR] Fixed an issue in procure command where attack chance was 60 times too high (whoops)
Fixed alliance ships being marked with wrong colors
Fixed an issue where the Procurement Contract UI wasnt reset correctly
Fixed Typos
[UBR] Fixed a bug where the autopilot would continue its last order after player leaves the ship
Fixed a bug where captain tooltips had some lines missing in restock and expedition operations' UI
[UBR] Fixed an issue that led to thrusters always firing when 'always turn ship' option was active
[UBR] Fixed Saved Designs Window being empty on reopen

[ 2021-08-11 10:18:21 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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