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====== 2016-10-11 - 2.2 Beta 6 ======
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===== Beta 2.2 - Update 6 =====

**Hey guys,**

Great news! There is another 2.2 beta update coming in this morning. :)

The Beta servers will be going down in a few minutes at 10:00 BST and we will expect them to be back up within a couple of hours.

Here's a nice juicy change log while you wait. :)

Change log

**Stability Fixes**
  * Allow the "visited stars" map filter to apply to route-plotting
  * Fixed crash when starting the game with an HMD for some monitor/resolution combinations
  * Fix a low level vertex locking crash
  * Fix a crash when self-destructing the SRV
  * Fixed JSON error in ship delivery
  * If we lose connection with server immediately after connection, before mtu discovery is complete, don't crash, reset mtu discovery for another go around
  * Server time synchronisation can soft-lock the game fixed
  * Ensure that system map materials get destroyed on shutdown
  * Fix crash swapping modules in outfitting
  * No longer assert when trying to add an item which is supposed to be empty
  * Fix for buyback and stored items being deleted in one array but not another
  * Don't crash id planet materials are not sensible

**General Fixes & Tweaks**
  * Neutron & White dwarf schematics fixed
  * Fixed star-class info not appearing for some systems when initiating jump
  * Fixed supercruise motion indicators not being displayed
  * Fixed incorrect integrity value for size 1 class 2 refinery
  * Prevent duplicate ships being generated on authority transfer
  * Docking computer staying 1km above planetary outpost fixed
  * Latest translations added
  * Various text fixes
  * Award combat rank progression when destroying NPCs from no particular faction

**Fighters**
  * Added in Gimballed versions of the Fighter Weapons so that the lasers don't look so wrong
  * Following NPC crew oddities (When NPC crew is flying a player's ship) fixed:
  * If MC turrets are fitted and set to Target Only, the combat AI cannot fire them
  * Can only use one missile launcher, even if two are fitted
  * Missiles are fired at long range and are wasted
  * AI doesn't use boost to chase and kill targets, instead lets them get away
  * When out of ammo, AI ship should drop back into formation
  * Player ships with just missiles won't fight
  * After requesting docking, all other order hotkeys are ignored
  * AI crew in mothership will not attack targets if they have non combat modules deployed before switching to fighter fixed
  * Added clearer message to indicate that the players fighter will be destroyed when they FSD away
  * Moved empire fighters hit spheres for the weapons even further forward to help in hitting them
  * Use numbers rather than bars for displaying fighter stats
  * Wanted NPC has clean fighter fixed
  * Fixed bounty credit notification not appearing or being awarded in a fighter when destroying a target with a non-local bounty
  * Added loading animation to screen for switching between fighters and main ship
  * Fixed missing font glyphs on Role panel when running in Russian
  * Fixed commander name having the "Crew" tag on the death screen when killed by a player in a fighter
  * Can use hotkeys to send invalid NPC commands to unmanned mothership fixed
  * Audio: target destroyed lines of NPC crews and ship voice do not conflict anymore
  * Audio: reduced probability of "no more targts" npc crew message down to 40%
  * Audio: Fix for Crew member saying wrong line when asked to attack target
  * Fix not being able to deploy an SRV or Fighter after resurrecting
  * Fix NPC Crew not increasing their total kill count when assisting with destroying NPC and Player ships too low level to award combat rank progression

**Weapons**
  * We think heat attacks have been reduced a little too far, and need a very conservative buff:
  * Diminishing returns for heat now limit at 100% (up from 95% in previous beta)
  * Damage penalty for Thermal shock reduced to 20% (from 25%)
  * ECM needs some slight tweaks:
  * ECM will now fire when hardpoints are not deployed
  * ECM charge time increased to 3 seconds (currently 2 in beta, 4 in live)
  * Hatch Breaker limpets are also having heir acceleration multiplier turned up significantly. For comparison firing at a target 1km away and with both ships matching speed the travel time has gone from roughly 10 seconds down to 5.5
  * Improved flight speed and hacking time of all hatch breaker limpets
  * Removed strange hatch malfunction behaviour where you could cancel it by toggling power. Hatch breaker limpets and general 'your hatch got damaged' hatch malfunctions can no longer be cancelled
  * Slight reduction to the effectiveness of Incendiary rounds for Multicannons:
  * Remove the hidden 20% kinetic damage that was left over
  * Reduce the fire rate penalty from -10% to -5%
  * Net effect is that the DPS has gone down by 4% vs shields and 15% vs hull (if unmodified), leaving the weapon strong but a slightly clearer tradeoff.

**Outfitting/Shipyard**
  * Process transaction cost correctly when fetching or selling a remote module
  * UI was being unlocked before hardpoint animation was complete. This should now be fixed
  * Module distance incorrectly show when transferring a module fixed
  * Adjusted the balance areas of the popups to have an auto width, to account for large balances
  * Added module class rating, added warning texts to sell and transfer module popups, gave the clock icon an orange tint
  * Made class icon visible, resized the location icon to its, added space between icons and text, tinted transit text to red
  * Fixed keeping hold of buyback items once we've bought them back
  * Icons resized and centred, added missing class and rating, resized warning icon and added spacing between it and text
  * Prevented focus from being lost when pressing Right on the read more section of the module transfer
  * The Store [X/X] button is selectable when all 30 slots are full but no modules in the tree are selected
  * Ship loadout doesn't update after multiple swaps fixed
  * Updated icon positioning and colouring in the Inventory Browser Screen
  * Added functionality to the 'Store Multiple Popup', to support pressing 'UI BACK'
  * Starport UI: fixed quick action button icons disappearing when coming back from outfitting
  * Store multiple modules lists incorrect number when unticking categories fixed
  * Damage type tagged as 'labelfield' overlapping fixed
  * Adjusted colour of "in transit" text, when focused on
  * Made the "Stored Ship" tab, glow white when a ship completes its transfer
  * Increased Module Storage size to 60
  * Tune credits costs of Ship and Module transfer

**Engineers**
  * Make sure we always get the right string key for existing modification name
  * Added ellipses functionality to blueprint text strings. If they are greater than 25 characters an ellipses will be added
  * Fixed layout problems in engineers workshop that would cause a scrollbar to appear and have unintended effects
  * Fixed bug where engineer special effect animation would always overlay the description of the successful special effect, before the animation had completed

**Passengers**
  * Passenger missions not displaying or paying out rewards on hand in fixed
  * Updated the transaction tab for passenger sightseeing conflict, and for passenger vip conflict. They now include the system address for the conflict zone
  * Remove commodities bought for passengers when completing a mission
  * More balance tweaks for reputation, influence and state effects
  * Player has been scanned - When scanned just once, the inbox message will pop up several times until the passenger is disgruntled fixed
  * Stop passenger cabins containing passengers from being swappable
  * Generic passenger generation now fits cabins with Tourists instead of Generics
  * Fixed errors in passenger cabin classes and types
  * Fix for passengers hiding when the ship is dismissed (from a planetary landing via SRV) and comes back...
  * When you abandon a mission and the passengers eject themselves, the message you receive does not actually appear in your inbox fixed
  * Fix Passenger mission problems when swapping occupied cabins between module slots

**Missions**
  * Make sure players in SLFs can get credit for kills in assassination and massacre missions
  * Added missing strings for illegal delivery missions

**Ships**
  * Fixed incorrect landing volume for Type 7
  * Cannot see Tail Shipkits on Vulture in Outfitting due to camera angle in VR fixed
  * Fixed some mapping issues on the Cutter
  * Audio: Ship drives silent when respawing over planet surface having died in SRV fixed

**Stations/Ports**
  * Fix for faction lighting being applied to the new station inner docks instead of their own lighting
  * Audio: Fixed number station audio events not synced due to time step miscalculation
  * Audio: The new flight controllers are too quiet fixed

**SRV**
  * Stop data points showing up on a fighter HUD after been scanned in the SRV S
  * Stop fighter mothership pointer appearing in an SRV after the player has been in a fighter

**Installations/POIs/USSs**
  * Fixed some misaligned tunnels on civilian installation
  * Make sure that persistent POIs cannot spawn within their minimum separation of each other
  * Audio: Fix for silent ambience on a secret thing
  * Audio: Fix for number station ambience being audible at infinite distance
  * Added new mission tipoff locations to settlements

**Celestial**
  * Audio: Fix for Materials sound wrong on planet surfaces

**Galaxy Map**
  * Reduced loading time for galaxy map
  * Fixed some stalls loading the system map
  * Bookmarks all disappeared and can no longer create them fixed

**Player Journal**
  * When importing stars from a file into the VisitedStarsCache, interpret any line containing just digits as a starsystem address in decimal rather than a name
  * Fixed journal entry for "ScientificResearch"

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