Beta update 3 - incoming

Hey guys,

We've got an update going live to the beta servers at approximately 11am BST. The servers will be down for up to a few hours but hopefully be back before then. :)

This will also start the Mayhem phase.

The change logs are below. This will not affect the normal game servers.

Stability Fixes

• Fix a crash when a proxy POI is killed before it gets to variables initialised
• Fix bad fog shape type
• Fix a crash if the Steam overlay is bound to a key that is named differently than in game
• Speculative fixes to a crash caused by cargo canisters in POIs not having an item set
• Speculative fix for non-Horizon's players being matchmade into inappropriate islands
• Crash fix in for when a weapon with the MalfunctionHit special effect hits a module that can't malfunction
• When a RingCell received a FOR shift, only transfer asteroids between physics worlds if they have already been added to a physics world
• When a POI is deactivated, make sure it kills all the levels it created
• Extra checks added a possible fix for a crash that occurs later in scaleform due to a null texture
• Safe-guard against the render system returning a null texture, if one couldn't be allocated

General Fixes & Tweaks

• Fix a case of moon-ring intersection, this time it was due to a binary moon
• Fixed missing audio on Packhound missiles
• Added support for non-latin characters in Air Traffic Controller callsign generation
• Fixed planet port voice announcements not waiting for their current message to stop playing before counting down the next message
• Fixed missing description for Maia system
• Add game client support for 'tradelist' Community Goals
• Fix for missing audio when scrolling in shipyards
• Updated Archon Delaine’s commodity production and consumption control system effect to use the same set of commodities as his price reduction control system effect
• No value up or down sounds for sliders in the graphics, controls and audio options fixed
• Various text fixes
• Spanish translations updated

Galaxy Map

• Fixed galaxy map camera initialisation and use default system position to avoid the camera to focus on last searched system
• Fixed scrollable areas on the galaxy map from jumping around seemingly at random when rolling over interactive elements with the mouse
• Reset bookmark route icon when clearing a nav route

Engineers

• Renamed advanced armour to be consistent with the hull reinforcement upgrades with the same effect
• Top level module selections listed as 'Other' for both module options at Qwent Research Base fixed
• Fixed modified jitter stat off-by-one problem
• Implemented blueprint sorting
• Removed special effect warning from 'view cost & generate' pop-up and fixed the non-localised string
• Refresh engineer data after discarding
• Add generic „You've learned some information about a new engineer, $#name;. Check your log for more details.“ message when unlocking a new engineer to notify players of a change
• Adjust timers for mass lock munitions and both Choke Canister (Ion disruption) and Shift-lock canister for making more sense of their buffs and a longer immunity period
• Fix misnamed parameter which was causing locked recipes to appear unlocked
• Change default class of module assumed for pinned recipes in commander log to take into account that we don't have class 1 engines
• Overhaul Feedback Cascade: Now rather than breaking the shields, will inhibit the shield cell to only heal 10% of what it otherwise would do, and will deal direct damage to the shield cell bank equal to half the weapon damage
• Fixes to the donation popup button
• Known Engineers 'Sort Results' options are not sorting 'By Access Level' correctly fixed
• When the recipe pinned for an engineer changes, the commander log does not update fixed
• Fixed incorrect string for long range recipe
• Double amount of micro resource inventory capacity from 300 to 600 on physical and 100 to 200 on data

Temporary changes to help support testing modified modules balance

• Greatly accelerated the speed of progress through Engineer reputation when crafting recipes
• Changed recipes ingredients to fish
• All Engineers have been taught all recipes
• All Engineers have set up temporary commodity markets to help them sell fish

Missions

• Fix missing timeout element on BLOPs missions
• When spawning a mission USS with a cargo override, only override the amount of cargo needed for the mission instead of all the cargo
• Added some more links in the deserter.chatter so that it will say a few more things when it is interdicted
• Make the planetary race wrinkles work in the same way as the space equivalents
• Fixed an issue where the timeout was set to a different timer compared to what the transaction panels were saying
• Fix some confusing naming on planetary disable missions
• Planetary Rescue Dynamic Scan missions should now be more explicit in its telling the player to go scan the nav beacon after receiving the mission
• Fixed discovery scanner use not updating the assassination missions correctly
• Fixed where the penalties link to in the assassination legal templates - reputations should now decrease properly
• Make sure that timeouts function for the in space assassination mission variants
• Mission no longer uses Tiny Settlement for initial POI
• Planetary Scan missions now send an inbox message after scanning NavBeacon
• Fix altruisms to use demanded cargo, not supplied
• Fixed truncated text on community goals page
• Pirate Lord should use the auto bounty system, not a fixed value across all ranks
• Fix sending the incorrect inbox message after scanning a mission tipoff location

NPCs

• Fix for Pirates being stuck in IdleFlight/PirateThreaten at RESs
• Added missing transitions between Pirate Hunter Hostile Mission Cargo Attack and Idle

USSs/POIs

• Rebalance on data point drops: quality and quantity
• Balance pass on low level scenarios that can be found as USS in shipping lanes. More Threat 1 opportunities for low ranking combat ships
• Fixing under staffed skimmer zone
• Added signal descriptors to ship wrecks

Outfitting

• Added separate outfitting category for mining lasers
• Speculative fix for abrupt stop in audio transition when entering outfitting
• Added stats for vehicle bays
• The outfitting Values Min / Current / Max for jump distance seem to be inconsistent fixed
• Vehicle slots have 'fixed/gimbal/turret' options fixed
• Added a indication that a installed module on a ship is „modified“ in outfitting
• Vehicle bay sub slots now check the stock properly, rather than defaulting to „no stock“

Avatars

• Adjusted avatar constraints for dictatorship and prison colony mission givers of Alliance and Independent mission givers
• Alliance/Independent Dictatorship and Prison Colony now use all of their accessories
• Male geometry and skinning refined to help prevent neck intersection
• Alliance/Independent Communism, Confederacy, Cooperative, Corporate and Democracy governments now have a chance to have a pair of glasses at Allied
• Added longer hairstyle onto the male portrait avatars
• Fixed hair intersecting with certain face shapes
• Adjusted some of the female hair styles
• Added hat for female engineers
• Alliance/Independent Dictatorship government now have a more varied set of accessories to choose from
• Empire Patronage now has a more varied accessory progression
• Corrected a typo so the indie theocracy uses the right kind of jacket
• Fixed inconsistent mission giver backgrounds
• Ensure we don't get odd FOVs for banner textures
• Fix to prevent Lei Cheung's eye deformation when posed
• Added a failure state that will abort a portrait request after a large period of time waiting for a texture to be provided, so the system won't be stalled indefinitely

Ships

• Adjusted Imperial Cutter UI elements
• Fixed missing texture in Federal Gunship cockpit
• Micro resources will now trigger the cargo scoop acquired audio
• Make sure that only valid paintjobs can be applied to a ship
• Fix missing LOD geometry on Sidewinder
• Type 9 Squadron LOD paint job issue fixed
• Decals displaying wrong colour scheme when on a Tactical Paint Job fixed
• Decal fixing on Anaconda pirate paintjobs
• Decal colours rectified on Squadron paintjobs
• Decal colours balanced on Asp & Asp Scout Stripe paintjobs
• Decal pass to balance colours for 3 colour setup on various paintjob schemes
• Added new low poly external Imperial chair model and diffuse texture
• Swapped internal and external chair models from DeLacy to Imperial versions on all relevant ships
• Fixed chair blue emissive hue to match cockpits
• Loud element in sidewinder landing gear fixed
• Fixed odd sound effect when placing a bobblehead character, not letters, numbers, or symbols
• Make sure we clear any „Under Attack“ notifications sent to the ship voice system, so they don't trigger after combat has ended
• Friendly fire from wing mates no longer triggers „Under Attack“ voice line
• Make sure shield break sounds always trigger the aggressive version when requested to be on, and the lighter version when turned off manually
• Module malfunction buffs now both trigger the „Malfunction Attack“ ship voice event so it's not confused with the „Module Malfunction“ ship voice event
• Engine reboot buff now only triggers either „Thrusters Offline“ or „Warning, Engine Reboot“ voice events, not both
• Make sure that if a traffic controller is speaking when the player begins their frameshift that we halt anymore notifications and clear the queue, to stop the ship voice from talking over itself

Weapons

• Overhaul of mines for a mix of balance and fixes:
• All mines now use Proximity versions rather than the slightly unreliable homing variants, and now have much bigger shiny explosions that better telegraph how dangerous they are
• Mines now have the same module-stripping blast damage as missiles
• Mines are now targetable by point defences, and have a little more health
• Increased ammo on medium mine launcher (doubled)
• Synthesis damage boost now adds a multiple of the base weapon damage rather than the damage after engineers have run their magic. To avoid some nasty multiplicative stacking issues we've seen

Hyperspace

• Hyperspace is now much bigger to accommodate large ships
• Passing lens flares now fade in rather than 'pop'
• Added more distant stars to create a sense of depth
• Reduced the frequency of nebula models
• Added an extra light

Orbital Cruise

• Fixed one aspect of the glide sequence sounding weird

Bases/Settlements

• Added Lights to the Bridge Lift Section and Bridge Lift Top meshes
• Added LODs to Breakers Yard
• Bridge section art resources updated
• Able to drive/fly through various giant drill parts in Pater's Memorial
• Structures not properly meeting the ground at Palin Research Centre
• Liz Ryder base - remove weapons range decals
• Dekker's Yard base building not flat with ground
• Flickering texture on side of building at MacCurdy Arsenal fixed
• Set up engineer garage reverb zone and prototype
• Fixed issue with Landing Pad 7 with clipping terrain
• Moved dock 6 slightly to stop the clipping between the interior of the hangar and the large tower
• Fix for settlement ambiences not being heard on Engineer Bases
• Fix missing textures and add LODs for Prospectors Rest
• Fix for settlement security voice events and problem with offset
• Navigation Panel indefinitely tries to scan Engineer Base for SubTargets
• Updated UVs on Pillars and Walls
• Fixed invisible ceiling
• Improve the depth blocking placement on the majority of hangers

Stations/Ports

• Added another indie flight controller variant
• Improvements to Alliance 02 flight controller
• Planet port voice factions now match their ATC counterparts
• ATC won't welcome you until you've taken off from terrain if landed on a planet and not docked
• ATC lines are suppressed whilst landed on a planet, apart from hostile messages, hostile hails and docking requests
• Docking request messages now stop welcome hails from playing after them
• Added detail pass and polish to medium neutral hangars
• Added detail pass to high tech medium hangars
• Polish of large rundown hangars
• Fix for flight controllers not being loaded on some rich stations
• If we don't let the player request boarding to a port from an srv because we're too close to our ship, make sure the ship voice tells them their request has been denied

SRV

• Prevent repeating handbrake line when stationary
• Fixed very loud Wavescanner inactive weapons sound when close
• Improved board ship icon sound, also mute sound when leaving ship
• SRV lights are not silent when switch-spammed fixed

Render

• Clear any pending terrain queries when we shut down or deactivate. Make sure we sample the terrain less often if we're on a ship

Xbox One update incoming

Hey guys,

There is an Xbox one update that will be going live at 10am BST. The servers are only expected to be down for a very short while (10 minutes).

The Update will be available from 10:00am BST (09:00 UTC) and is a 122MB download.

The patch notes are as follows.

CLIENT UPDATES

• Fixed graphical corruption when returning to the main menu from the Achievements or Friends App.
• Fixed game invites into Arena whilst in the main game.

STORE UPDATES

• Fixed players not seeing their Frontier Points appearing.