Patch Notes for v0.9.8 - ContractsCriminals Update

Version 0.9.8 Patch Notes

Alterations:

Contracts are now streamlined - taking a contract loads the cargo, and you now deliver the cargo from the destination station's contract terminal.
You can now move cargo from your tablet by dragging it from pod to pod, while docked at a station.
Added ability for players to engage in piracy by hailing merchants and threatening them.
Added ability for players to use their hack modules to find smugglers, and report them for a profit to authority ships.
Added ability for players to report possible pirates to authority vessels, who will investigate the area.
Added ability to begin with no fog obscuring any point in the map.
Added an estimate of time to next waypoint and to final destination on the top-left of the nav map.
Added 'skipintro=true' option to config files to go straight to main menu.
Removed 'Time Compression Cancelled' message when beginning docking procedures.
Re-balanced the emissions rating of all components

Arduino:

Added a feature where a hardware_commands.txt file showing the current accessible boolean checks, numerical gets and ship commands (along with descriptions where available) are dumped to a file when the game is executed with hardware support on.
Fixed the TOGGLE_ and CONNECT_ commands.

General:

Fixed a bug where spinning up your jump drive or having your IFF off were not responded to by authority ships escorting you back to a base.
Fixed a bug where torpedos were not being saved sometimes in campaign mode.
Fixed a bug where clicking 'hail' on certain NPC ships would cause a crash.
Fixed a bug which could cause a crash while moving about in some derelicts.
Fixed a bug which sometimes caused a crash when undocking from space stations.
Fixed a bug which caused text clipping errors on the cargo screen while docked with some derelicts.
Fixed an exploit where a ship with no pods would re-load with two new ones no matter what.
Fixed a bug which could sometimes cause duplicate authority or military ships to appear in a sector after loading game.
Fixed a bug which caused custom graphic signage to not appear correctly on windows sometimes.
Fixed a bug where quitting back to menu would leave cargo from previous sessions there, allowing cargo duplication.
Fixed a bug where mooring with a cargo pod didn't re-set your currently selected pod on the moored object.
Fixed some visual glitches with the cargo/pod screen.
Fixed a bug where loading game on a space station sometimes made the UI appear the wrong colour.
Fixed a bug where hack and grappling modules incorrectly showed the percent-complete when in use.
Fixed a bug where PDA Note about Aya Grant contract remained indefinitely if you failed to get to the contract in time
Fixed a bug where colour was not being used correctly in the hack result emails.
Fixed various rendering issues with the waypoint ETA part of the nav screen.
Fixed a bug where a ship's own torpedo will count as a 'threat' when determining AI behaviour and detecting whether time compression should be allowed.
Optimised debug print routines to speed up game on machines with lower hard drives.
Fixed a bug where sometimes a contract could be taken when your cargo hold could not hold all the required goods.
Fixed a bug which sometimes caused non-steam versions to not run on Mac.
Fixed a bug where the tutorial notes still appeared in sandbox mode sometimes.
Fixed a freeze in the conversation with Black Annie Bolan
Temporarily removed an extraneous conversation with Sheng Xu which was causing crashes
Fixed a bug where a PDA Note to hack a ship for Avelina Dembo would stay indefinitely if you failed the hack
Fixed a freeze in the conversation with Mary Devlin
Fixed a freeze in the conversation with Jackson Farlane
Fixed a freeze in the conversation with Liam Ong
Fixed a freeze in the second conversation with Sharmilla Singh
Fixed a crash in the conversation with Marchelline Smith
Fixed a freeze in the conversation with Marie Marks
Fixed a freeze in the conversation with Angela Reddy
Fixed a freeze in the second conversation with Jinghua Wong
Fixed a freeze in the conversation with Sylvia Garcia
Fixed a bug where Tuisin Brown would appear constantly at any given airlock even after you'd already completed his mission

Proxima:

Fixed the hitbox issues with the Proxima's airlock buttons.
Fixed the camera position on the comms room's computer terminal.
Fixed the screen in the airlock and the bug when you click on it.
Fixed the lack of sound bug with one fo the proxima airlock doors.
Fixed a camera angle bug when using the component & terminal screen on the proxima.

[ 2018-12-11 09:32:18 CET ] [ Original post ]

Objects in Space

Flat Earth Games Developer

505 Games Publisher

2019-03-01 Release

Indie Strategy RPG Adventure Simulation Singleplayer Coop Tags

Game News Posts: 25

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse

Mixed (529 reviews)

http://www.objectsgame.com/

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Objects in Space Linux [763.25 M]

You've been detected…
Your ship is exposed…
An alarm blares…
“Torpedo incoming!”

Objects in Space is an open world 2D stealth-action space trading game set in Apollo – a huge cluster of star systems dozens of lightyears away from Earth. You are a ship’s captain, buying and selling wares in order to keep your bucket o' bolts afloat and stay one step ahead of pirates, organised criminals, corrupt governments and shady laws.

A galaxy of characters await you in Objects in Space. The game focuses on a myriad of short stories rather than one main storyline with a hero’s journey, so it’s up to you how much or how little narrative you want in your game.

Combat in Objects sees ships treated more like Cold War submarines than WWII dogfighters. You’ll be running silent, planning manoeuvres far ahead of time and engaging in deadly games of cat-and-mouse with nebulous enemies, but only for those players who seek it out. Combat-averse players can pay attention to the news and avoid pirate-heavy systems and choose not to explore the deadly uncharted areas of space where greater numbers of pirates lurk.

It’ll be up to you to keep your ship’s systems running as quietly as possible, going fully ‘dark’ if you have to, just floating with your current trajectory and speed hoping to avoid showing up on anyone else’s scanners as you traverse some of the most dangerous shipping lanes in space.

To make your money, there are over fifty employers and your reputation with each one will dictate how many passenger, cargo or bounty-hunting contracts are available to you. But be warned - failure to complete a contract might see your rep plummet with that employer. So when you get an SOS signal from a nearby ship but have a deadline to keep, what will you do?

Your ship is completely customisable down to the tiniest component of each module. If your battery dies, it’s your own fault. You decided to go with a cheap Ventarii battery in the first place, and it was out of your stubbornness that you bought a Connext Hap Node when the mechanic recommended a Xiao Sa brand model. Silly you.

You can play it safe in the central systems or design your ship with the ability to outrun, outfight or out-hide your opponents and make your fortune in the outer rims. But be careful! You are just as easily prey as predator in deep space…

Features List:

Massive open world to explore full of NPCs to interact with
Complex contract-based economic system with over 50 employers
Time-based open world - opportunities, stories and events happen at certain times as well as certain places, so each play through will be different
Tense submarine-influenced combat
Fully customisable ships - design your vessel for combat, shipping, stealth and more
Mostly avoidable combat for more pacifistic players
A world of side quests - no single linear story players are required to follow
Explore 12 hand-crafted populated star and 20 uncharted systems full of unknown threats and treasures
Find derelict ships, wreckages, cargo pods and communication beacons adrift in space
Be a trader, bounty hunter, explorer, pirate or all of them at the same time
Sandbox mode - play the game without narrative content in an endless version of the game
Scenarios - tense combat scenarios task the player with overcoming impossible odds and testing their skill
Multi-player Scenarios - compete or cooperate in a variety of multiplayer modes and situations
Build your own DIY controllers at home using Arduinos - anyone can construct their own ship bridge with physical switches and buttons with just a little bit of soldering know-how. Easy to learn and fun to do!

MINIMAL SETUPOS: SteamOS. Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
Processor: Intel i5 Processor or fasterMemory: 4 GB RAM
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: 1GB Graphics Memory
Storage: 1 GB available space
RECOMMENDED SETUPOS: SteamOS. Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
Processor: Intel i7 ProcessorMemory: 4 GB RAM
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: 2GB+ Graphics Memory
Storage: 1 GB available space

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