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“