BallisticNG 1.2.2, Utah Dam and Bling Pack are now available!

Note for custom ships creators: This update makes big changes to the shield and weapon power stats and how they interact with weapon damages. This results in custom ships now being damage sponges in comparison to the vanilla ships. To make the transition easier for anybody who wants to maintain a balance with the vanilla ships, all of the updated ship stats are now provided in the Unity Tools packages as XML files. The stat prefab system now uses these too!

Bling Pack

Bling up your ship and show off with 4 new shiny liveries! This small pack introduces Gold, Iridescent, Platinum and Psychedelic liveries for every standard ship. If you were previously a donator in the game's Patreon days and already have the gold liveries then these new liveries are available to you at no cost! https://store.steampowered.com/app/580180/BallisticNG__Bling_Pack/

Modding

The Unity Tools have had a few updates, see the documentation for more information: https://ballisticng-documentation.readthedocs.io/en/latest/unity_tools/whats_new.html We're also pleased to announce the introduction of workflow tools! We're switching to Blender for our asset development so there's currently plenty of work being done to build tools to aid with the BallisticNG workflow. These tools are being built with the community in mind so they are free to download and to use however you like, even for non BNG related projects. A URL shortcut is now provided in the modding folder to link you directly to the downloads, or if you just want the link now: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zeO7PK-6nkatEN6sd0rTuJKbU_lzOdTG Right now these tools primarily consist of utilities to speed up UVing from an atlas texture, similar to what sprytile lets you do, but we'll be adding new stuff as we go.

1.2.2 - The Balance Update

BallisticNGs combat is a system that hasn't had much attention in recent times. In singleplayer this has been fine as the AI were always at a disadvantage and the game was always balanced around that, but we've seen clear problems with how everything was balanced in multiplayer and this update has been long under consideration. This update focuses on adjusting combat to standardise the singleplayer and multiplayer experience, make needed changes to ship stat distributions, touch up the AI and give you a whole lot of new gameplay and HUD options. We've also scrapped the pilot assist and replaced it with separate AI assists. More info this below!

Ship Stats

Ship combat stats have been updated to bring the roster much closer together. This means every ship is now a lot more consistent with every other ship and firepower/shields makes much less of a difference then before. You'll still be able to bully a Tenrai using a Diavolt, but it's no longer a difference so great that it makes sense to just stick with Diavolt for that one trait alone.

Weapons

Weapons have been made weaker so the focus can now be more on the race then on combat. Modes like eliminator and team race are of course still focused on combat and the scoring for these are still the same. If you're interested in all of the stat changes, see the full changelog below.

Ai

The AI has seen a huge backend overhaul that completely rewrites how they navigate the track. This has also allowed us to also introduce new ways to control their difficulty more like how a human players skill differs, instead of just telling the AI to accelerate at certain speed thresholds to simulate difficulty. We've also introduced rubber banding so the AI can keep pace. The rubber banding has limits so you won't be seeing them shoot down the track at lightning speeds, but you should now feel the pressure in the higher AI difficulties. If you don't want the rubber banding we've also introduced an option to turn it off in the new assists options menu. This option is completely optional and does not restrict any of the game's functionality if it's turned off. Finally one thing we've seen in reviews and people doing lets plays is some people not understanding why the AI take off the start grid really fast so when playing in Novice, like at the start of the campaign, the AI start boost is now disabled to better represent the understanding of mechanics that a new player will have.

Assists

We've killed the old pilot assist option and instead rewrote it and split it into three separate options, available in the new assists options in the game options menu. These assists give you a speed handicap, disable online functionality and in some modes such as Survival won't be available. Steer Assist: An AI will provide a steering assist. This scales with your input, so fully turning will disable the assist so you still have complete control of the ship when you need it. Pitch Assist: An AI will provide a pitch assist. Like the steering assist this scales with your input so you can maintain manual control. Airbrake Assist: An AI will provide airbrake tap assists. This doesn't scale to input and the AI will always be providing inputs for this sit it just flips the airbrakes on.

Utah Dam

Utah Dam is a new free track that takes you back to Utah Project to race on an alternative circuit that drops you underground into the water processing chambers below. Simply update to 1.2.2 to get this track. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq6ZTTblyM8

Changelog

Music

Added Xpand - Menu 2 to the OST folder
Added Paused Playback option (enabled by default)
Fixed various issues with custom track music when continuous playback is enabled

Audio

Custom sounds are now read from their absolute path instead of their relative path (fix for regression of soundpacks not working on MacOS since 1.2)

Tracks

Added Utah Dam
Fixed survival disable and survival ignore track not working on custom tracks
Fixed the AI not using racing lines on Arrivon Peak
Fixed start line position tracking issues on Luna
Fixed incorrect wall tiles on Tokyo Bowl and Hydrome Bed
Fixed the music visualizer advert replacements scaling their layout with the screen resolution

Ships

Rebalanced shield and weapons stats. The frontend combat stats are now also accurate.
Reduced wall collision damage by 30%. (survival mode has been accomodated for so damages are still the same)
Ship cannon fire rates are now determined by an option on the ship instead of being automatic
Decreased threshold for ship to ship bounce collisions
Rewrote airbrake drift code to properly respond to analog inputs
Reduced Orbitronix's grip from 10 to 5.75

Weapons

Removed AI to Player damage reduction multipliers and rebalanced weapons around multiplayer player vs player
Increased minimum integrity threshold for the emergency pack from 10% to 25%
The energy wall is no longer collidable as it plays the fade out animation
The warning for AI missiles is now triggered when the AI picks the missile up
- Fixed tremors flinging ships high on sections marked to allow out of bounds
- Tremor damage now deals 8% first impact damage instead of 0.7 damage per physics tick
- Increased tremor effective height
- Increased tremor slowdown
- Increased tremor distance from 75 sections to 120 sections
- Reduced rocket damage from 35 to 12
- Missiles now ignore gravity if they're flying and have a lock-on
- Reduced missile damage from 30 to 15
- Reduced cannon damage from 0.8 to 0.5
- Decreased difference in cannon type fire rates
- Reduced hunter damage from 30 to 8
- Increased velocity loss from hunter impacts
- Reduced hellstorm damage from 36 to 15
- Reduced plasma damage from 90 to 70
- Reduced tremor pickup weighting from 30 to 12
- Reduced energy wall pickup weighting from 25 to 5
- Reduced slowdown from cannons

Multiplayer

Fixed mines being spawned with the wrong rotation

Code Mods

All assemblies are now loaded before executing mod registers, removing the need for ordered loading if sharing data between DLLs

User Interface

Fixed scaling issues with the custom race menu on ultrawide resolutions
Added handling of an edge case for the resolution selector where Unity might not return a resolution
The AI difficulty is now shown on the campaign event details box
Ship information overlays now scale with distance and are correctly depth sorted

Options

HUD and Assists sub-menus have been added to the game options menu
Removed pilot assist option from the pause menu
Added thrust toggle option to the controls menu
Added option to toggle the low energy warning voice. Defaults to on
Added option to toggle the critical energy warning voice. Defaults to on
Added option to toggle AI rubber banding. Defaults to on
Added options to enable new steer, pitch and airbrake assists. Defaults to off.
Added option to set the units the speedometer uses. Defaults to metric.
Added option to show the racer position list in singleplayer. Defaults to off
Added option to show all ships on the position bar. Defaults to off
Added option to show shield bars in races. Defaults to off
Added option for the default camera mode when starting in zero-g (Kuiper Overturn). Defaults to rear chase

Increased minimum shield before pitting from 25% to 50%
Ai now spread themselves apart more at the start of the race
Reworked AI steering to simulate steering the ship instead of forcing their rotation towards where they're heading
AI ships now slow down if they're exceeding the capabilities of the ship they're piloting
Removed Ai grounding force. They will now fly just as high as the player can
Ai now brake if they're about to hit another ship in front of them
Rewrote Ai track navigation to be based on time instead of section offsets
Fixed an issue where AI would use airbrakes and/or slow down on track sections like maglock drops, loops and corkscrews
AI wall avoidance forces now slow the ship down and worsen the AIs racing line for a brief moment
Implemented optional rubber banding

Engine

Section floor widths are now cached on track startup
A warning is now thrown to the output log when there are racing lines but none are available to be used (for track creators)
Fixed an issue where the position tracking would not correctly track two ships on different routes if their section index was the same
The buffer for custom music playback is now re-used (small performance boost)

Commands

Added test_damage
Added gm_timescale

Campaign

Reduced AI speed on the base game 1v1 events
Rebalanced the first half of the base game campaign to introduce experienced and expert difficulties earlier on, akin to the expansion campaigns (novice is now super easy)

Photo mode

Player ship trails are now swapped over to the AI trail

Outer Reaches

Fixed the pitlane on Caldera not being marked as a pitlane for the AI

[ 2020-10-13 14:58:47 CET ] [ Original post ]

BallisticNG

Neognosis Developer

Neognosis Publisher

2018-12-14 Release

Indie Racing Singleplayer Tags

Game News Posts: 102

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
🎮 Full Controller Support

Overwhelmingly Positive (1903 reviews)

https://neognosis.games/

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The Game includes VR Support

Keyboard & mouse: 1

Gamepad support: 1

Seated: 1

Public Linux Depots:

BallisticNG Linux 64-bit [1.52 G]

Available DLCs:

BallisticNG - Bling Pack
BallisticNG - Neon Nights
BallisticNG - Outer Reaches
BallisticNG - Maceno Island

BallisticNG is an action packed anti-gravity racer developed as a lover letter to the original Wipeout trilogy. Set in the year 2159 you glide through futuristic race courses armed to the teeth with deadly weapons to aid you in taking first place.

Features

17 tracks set in unique locations, 11 of them reversible for a grand total of 28 playable tracks
13 teams and a lineup of super fast drag ships
14 pickups for all your combat needs
6 gamemodes (Race, Time Trial, Speed Lap, Survival, Knockout and Eliminator)
A singleplayer campaign to challenge your skill
Two player splitscreen with dual-monitor support
A thumping 90s inspired soundtrack featuring 34 tracks spanning across Techno, Jungle, Neurofunk and Drum and Bass
A modding tool suite to import your own ships, build your own tracks and program your own gamemodes, weapons and more

Physics

BallisticNG recreates the physics of a time long gone. Playing the game is all about getting into the zone and becoming one with the ship, practicing every nook and cranny of every track until you can do it with your eyes closed. Feeling the speed isn't about what the HUD tells you, but how the environment swooshes past you and timing the right maneuvers at the right time to keep the flow going. If you're looking for a quick game, lower speed classes provide you with a more laid back experience. You can even disable weapons if you want a good clean race.

Visuals

The game is built as if it were running on real 90s hardware. Low poly ships and environments create simple yet visually rich scenes that can run on most hardware. Retro 3D options are available to emulate hardware limitations from the 90s, modern effects are also available so you can make the game look old, new or anywhere in-between.

VR Support

BallisticNG has beta VR support with no compromises on game functionality. All modes, tracks, ships, online and mod content are supported! Tweak the game with the VR options to get the most comfort out of your experience.

Cockpit Mode

Each ship has a unique cockpit which reflects the design you see on the exterior. When in cockpit mode the game processes the audio to make it sound authentic, complete with the sound of rain splashing on the canopy and displays flickering as you take damage from weapons, everything you need to get cosy in your high speed future racer.

MINIMAL SETUPOS: 64-bit distroMemory: 2 GB RAMStorage: 3 GB available spaceAdditional Notes: Requires OpenGL 3.2+. Mods will increase required storage space and memory.
Memory: 2 GB RAMStorage: 3 GB available spaceAdditional Notes: Requires OpenGL 3.2+. Mods will increase required storage space and memory.
Storage: 3 GB available spaceAdditional Notes: Requires OpenGL 3.2+. Mods will increase required storage space and memory.
RECOMMENDED SETUPOS: 64-bit distroMemory: 4 GB RAMStorage: 3 GB available spaceAdditional Notes: Requires OpenGL 3.2+. Mods will increase required storage space and memory.
Memory: 4 GB RAMStorage: 3 GB available spaceAdditional Notes: Requires OpenGL 3.2+. Mods will increase required storage space and memory.
Storage: 3 GB available spaceAdditional Notes: Requires OpenGL 3.2+. Mods will increase required storage space and memory.

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