I'm adding the ground exploration map today. This is likely the most requested feature from players since I first started gathering feedback. It includes fog of war, zoom, and scrolling. I hope you all enjoy the update. I'm also including increased experience for space combat, first-aid and hacking skills. If you do find any issues with this patch, please post in the bug forums. Here are the patch notes: ADDED: Added the map. --The map includes fog of war so you can view where you have been. --Zoom, scroll, center. --You can see various icons like mission markers, vendors, faction agents, exits, mercenaries, etc. A "legend" for the various icons which match the radar is available on the map. --Persistent data. Wherever you go in the universe, your tracked progress is saved. --Your saved key binds have been replaced so I could remap "M" as the default key for the map. The crew manager has been moved to "J". --The in-game help screen and guide have been updated to match the new default keys. FIXED: When exploring ground locations with a single crew member, the game will no longer crash when manually entering or leaving combat. FIXED: A bug that could generate ship equipment when turning in agent missions. This would place ship equipment in general inventory instead of the cargo bay - breaking rollover info and a few other things. NPC's now have a brief cooldown period before you can interact with them when an area loads. IMPORTANT - If you do find any ship equipment in your general inventory (not in your cargo bay), you should drag that item to the trash and delete it. These items cannot be sold or used. FIXED: "Gadolinium" added to the commodities market. Trade contracts for this item will start to appear over time. UPDATED: Reduced space skill experience requirements per level. UPDATED: Mercenaries now display a bright yellow dot on the radar and map so they can be distinguished from other regular NPC's on stations around the universe. UPDATED: Hacking and First aid skill progression will now continue even if you are at the level cap. UPDATED: Reduced hacking and first-aid experience requirements per level. UPDATED: Improved dynamic shadow resolution.

Other notes - 6/6/19

FIXED: The objective tracker now correctly targets the mission return location if an agent mission is completed. FIXED: Agent mission return destinations in the objective tracker now correctly targets a planets surface or station depending on where the mission was originally accepted. This is not retroactive, so previous missions, if taken on a planet surface, will target stations. FIXED: A error with default FTL drives that was calculating base FTL speed incorrectly. This fix is not retroactive so if you do have a "Stock" FTL drive that seems faster than other quality level FTL drives available for sale, you get to keep it. You will likely want to swap out that FTL drive eventually when sub-system damage goes in the game for a FTL drive with higher HP. FIXED - Old autosaves are no longer displayed in the save game menu. FIXED - When swapping crew members in and out of your active crew, it was possible that perks from the previous crew member would be assigned/enabled on a crew member that had not selected those perks. FIXED - A bug that was not correctly displaying shield bonuses from the electronics station (perks etc.) unless the crew member was in the active ground crew. FIXED - A bug related to recruiting NPC crew members gaining incorrect Hand2Hand skill for secondary weapon if that was their specialty. FIXED - Closed out a number of bugs related to the Trade-Net displaying incorrect contract target system information. This rarely resulted in arriving in a system that was not the correct destination target. ADDED - Added the old music into the music track list for space and ground exploration. ADDED - you can now preview mercs before recruiting them. Mercs now cost an initial fee based on their level. High-level mercs can be very expensive, so fill out your crew early in the game. UPDATED - An increase in the base number of trade goods vendors buy/sell. UPDATED - The last audio track played in an area is saved and loaded the next time you load an area. UPDATED - You can now place beacons on the FTL map. When you get close enough to a star system, the beacon icon will be displayed in the lower left of the screen. Target the system, open the beacon menu and you can place a beacon in the targeted system. You cannot destroy beacons or translocate using the beacon menu on the FTL map. This should help players quickly build a larger Trade-Net. UPDATED - When in FTL space, star system labels now display a "*" next to their name if a beacon has already been placed in this system. It should make it easy to identify systems where you could place a beacon to expand your Trade-Net.

[ 2019-06-14 22:10:46 CET ] [ Original post ]