2.3 Beta, Update 3

Good morning, CMDRs.

This morning we're applying an update to the beta which will cause them to be offline for a short time. The following changelog is the full list of changes being implemented to this new build.

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Stability Fixes

• Fix a crash accessing a stored module in outfitting
• Fix error with incorrect string types for chained missions
• Made sure ship/activity selection buttons are disabled and don't send events when there's no ship available, thus making it impossible to mash the button and generate the softlock
• Removed redundant code that could cause the UI to get data from an object that may not exist
• Fix memory corruption on shutdown
• Fixedgame becoming unresponsive on commander history tab
• Crash fix for the vanity camera blur geometry not being correctly initialised
• Fix a crash that can happen when joining a multicrew session while the helm is in the process of a supercruise transition
• Fix a crash during shutdown when the CommanderInteractionHistory was saving its data
• Fixed crash when trying to upgrade the health of a module which has no concept of health
• Fixed a crash that could happen for crew inconsistently when the helm emergency dropped hitting a stellar object
• Network stability fix for IPv6/IPv4 dual-stack users
• Networking stability fix
• Fixed crash when starting a multicrew session while the hyperdrive is charging
• Fix for a crash when another person in a multicrew session drops out of supercruise while someone is joining their session
• Fix a crash caused when someone joining a multicrew session quits the game
• Crash fix when hyperspacing whilst swapping back from fighter
• Fix a number of transaction server errors when ejecting limpets, transferring cargo, buying exploration data and swapping loaded fighter bays into storage

General Fixes/Tweaks

• Fix for incorrect mining decals spawning on rocky/icy asteroid types
• Various text fixes
• Fixed missing audio when scrolling on option pages
• Fix friends markers not appearing on the galaxy map
• Audio: Fixed missing events on heat sink deploy
• Audio: Fix missing „Fuel Scooping Complete“ voice line
• Optimisation for stellar jets
• Audio: Fixing vessel voice in hyperdiction encounter
• Fixed landing gear and cargo hatch animating when logging in near your landed ship in an SRV
• Crash fix when sending Wing invites in certain situations
• Optimisations for HBAO
• Optimised HUD glitch effect

Multicrew

• Make sure that fighters receive combat bonds
• Show fire groups on non-helm and non-gunner multicrew
• Hide the „Lawful“ description overlay for child activities in the „Join Another Ship“ menu
• Basic ship scan data is not replicated to crew members in the „idle“ role fixed
• Turret weapon mode can no longer be changed while in multicrew (workaround for turret mode replication issue in multicrew)
• Pressing „B“ while looking at multicrew info will go back to the default contact view
• Use correct text symbols for ship names in the session report
• Make sure livery and holo-me buttons (station menu) aren't available when in multicrew & give some feedback in the button sublabel accordingly
• Icons and numbers for 'Join Another Ship' in multicrew are sometimes missing until you hover over them
• Made the Wing and Multicrew invite buttons visible but disabled when appropriate. So it's clearer that the option would normally be available but is currently blocked by something
• Added some visual feedback in the crew cockpit about current role (component on top of the role designation label containing a frame, an icon and a pulse animation)
• Fixed hardpoint indicators from swimming through the new 'utility' item when deploying hardpoints in gunner role
• Fixed overzealous blocking of the multicrew invite button, it didn't allow you to invite a second person to your crew because you were technically in a wing
• Added remaining icons to comms UI, multicrew UI drop down menus and options
• Audio: Multicrew members now receive ATC trespass, loitering and blocking door messages when in another player's ship
• Fixed Comms Panel - Invite to Wings/Multicrew missing or not disabled in certain states
• Audio: Make mining chunks breaking off asteroids audible to player 2 in multicrew
• Made sure that station services closes when opening a session report
• Updated session report with the correct stats
• Audio: Fix a bunch of missing drone sounds for player two in multicrew
• Audio: Fix for FSD jump sounding twice when jumping as player 2 in a multiplayer session
• Non helm roles can now read the refinery value but not vent any materials
• Crew members now have access to the helm's exploration data while part of a crew, however, crew members will not gain any new exploration data earned while part of the crew
• Removed „Request Docking“ button from the contacts panel for crew members
• Make sure opening a crew is locked off when in a wing or leaving a wing
• If you crew in a multicrew vessel display the permits of the helm under the permit tab, helm or non multicrew will display your own
• Fixed ship name/id not appearing on the Functions Panel or the Info Panel for crew members
• Show the interdiction tunnel for all crew members
• Stop non helm crew members seeing the planetary landing gui
• Show the local commander name in the status panel (and not the pilot) when in MultiCrew non-helm
• If a gunner kills someone then the crime is attributed to them and not the helm
• External players should now see the weapons moving/firing/aiming correctly
• Fixed session report bounty values when killing a ship that awards multiple bounties for different factions
• Stopped the message about switching flight controls being sent to crew members
• Tweaked the logic that generates the cargo list for the UI so that mission cargo doesn't show up as stolen on non-helm multicrew machines
• Show hits on the targeting schematic of the helm when target is shot by the Gunner
• Fix for not being able to deploy fighter on non-helm after hyperspace
• Fixed MultiCrew joining players not being aware of any deployed fighters
• Matchmaking buttons disable more efficiently to prevent spamming
• Update multicrew matchmaking activity counts more quickly

Avatars/Commander Creator

• Some of the Female Outfit Changes had bent knees - now fixed
• Enable preset feature randomisation, and turn on randomisation for the sub-components of avatar headgear
• The male veteran had wispy photo-sourced eyebrows even with no eyebrows selected - fixed this
• Fixed the head being missing on the player avatar after entering holo-me
• Milky eye not applying when set to both eyes fixed
• Added entry/icon for female Cornrows hairstyle
• Added new motion graph variable to allow joints to correctly react to jaw width morphs
• In the commander creator, the mouse input should now line up properly with the UI
• Update icon .avatarSettings for helmets so that the helmet is actually turned on
• Moved Chin clefts from scars to a new category under Head→Jawline→Chin
• Moved Lip, Cheek and Eye makeup from tattoos to a new makeup category under Face
• Fixed Holo-Me UI getting tinted by custom UI colors - meaning that the full-color thumbails of various things don't match what's rendered. This UI now uses the 'Front-End' shader variant, which ignores color tinting (like the galaxy map)
• Initialise a cached helmet value, so that an avatar will not randomly have a helmet on in some instances
• Palette Editor had set some saturation values to zero - fixed this
• Move makeup back to the cosmetics tab in Holo-me
• Made separate palettes for „regular“ makeup and tattoos/warpaint
• Fixed - some eyebrow textures were straying out the prescribed eyebrow area and then being stretched by the morphs influencing the eyelids
• The UI now focuses on the correct flight suit when opening a category
• Fixed Female avatar skinning - moving the avatar's eyes wider made a spike appear in the corner of the eyes; moving the mouth up made it intersect with the bottom of the nose
• The avatar's head no longer appears a frame too late when switching to the vanity camera
• Holo-Me sliders now retain focus even when the mouse is dragged outside the slider, making it easier to use
• Close Station Services when entering Holo-me, so the UI's don't overlap
• Fixed colour mismatch between some hairstyles and beards
• Avatars: Female Rough neck morph changed to remove clipping with the back of the suit
• Store consistent pose/background after the first time you see the portrait of your player
• Suit category label now displays the name of the category instead of the name of the option
• Fixed holo-me avatar vibration whilst docked in a Coriolis station
• Fixed various UI inconsistencies in the avatar editor
• A commanders own face now appears in the chat log when they send a message
• Leveled off of the VR HoloMe Cameras so they are level with the cockpit floor

Camera Suite

• Changed the max speed of the focus distance in the vanity camera
• Should the vanity camera collision not detect we are clipping with an object cast a ray 1m in front of us to check if there is a surface
• Changed the vanity camera collision to check the edge of the screen instead of the centre when trying to detect if we are clipping with an object
• Only force the camera into planet range while we are in low level flight and not in supercruise
• Tweaked Ship Low camera position to prevent intersection with hangar floors
• Audio:Chaff Launcher firing retriggers when switching between Cockpit Cam and Vanity Cam fixed
• Various fixes for camera positions to avoid „Signal Lost“ where cameras were clipping through things
• Fixed vanity cam 'stop' sound playing when re-entering the cockpit only if the gui was visible
• Swapped FreeCameraPitchUp and ''Pitchdown so pressing up makes the camera pitch up and vice versa
• Force the vanity camera to update when a multicrew player joins
• Moved the „Toggle Camera Suite“ button out of flight and vehicle miscellaneous into the „Camera Suite“ menu
• Fix for free camera mouse controls not working while docked
• Made camera name label in vanity cam capable of expanding to fit long camera names in
• Prevent access to srv turret while using the camera suite
• Stopped the Free camera throttle mode overwriting the flight throttle mode, this means you can have each throttle in a different mode

Starports/Bases

• Various performance optimisations for the Asteroid Station
• Dockable Megaships now display their name on the side
• Fixed advert drones disappearing outside the station when we switch over to the entrance kinematic
• Updated chat panel to support station messages
• Audio: Fix missing SFX on biomes
• Audio:Removed unused events from military outposts
• Audio:Fixes for issues with activation distances in various engineer bases audio emitters
• Audio:Added correct soundbanks to a number of planet and engineer base elements
• Fixed station type icon for Freeholm
• Audio: Fixes for popping sounds in loop inside stations

Missions

• Mission Failed string added to all chained missions
• Changed the commodity required to Fish, from Aluminium in the welcome mission collect template
• Fixed error in sorting algorithm for transaction panel
• Chain Missions chance of spawning reduced from 100% to 30%
• Changed the archetype of pirate lords used in assassination missions - when you jump into the USS, they should no longer flee from you if you have no cargo
• Fixing the cargo in planetary rescue so that it is no longer illegal (for the welcome arc only)
• Fixed an issue where the Famine Piracy chain was showing string data instead of commodity data
• Fix some passengers refusing to leave their cabins

POIs/USSs/Megaships

• Samson Class Bulk cargo ship has unconnected geometry fixed
• Moved micro resource spawners in mega ships to stop micro resources from spawning at the origin regardless of the offset we had entered
• Ancient 01 site multiple fixes to problems in layout, floating rocks, bad controllers, incorrect customisations
• Fix some LOD popping on megaships
• Hitcheck fixes for the asteroid ship
• Remove frame stalls in poi spawner when loading sector layers on approach to certain planets
• Cockpit location panel (bottom left) now displays icons for the new types of nav location (megaships and asteroid bases)
• Audio: Fix audio error with materials
• Audio: Stop solar panels SFX from cutting in abruptly
• Fixed: specific arrangements of terrain-stamped POIs would cause heigh issues on AMD cards
• Fix for floating objects at ancient sites

Weapons

• Audio:Makes some sounds react to amount of ammo remaining in magazine

Ships

• Fixed zfighting issue of decals on floor. Fixed mirrored writing and removed emissive detailing from cockpit 'screens' which were obscuring the MultiCrew UI in the Beluga
• Fixed issue stopping the ships from kicking up dust while near a planet
• Fixed flipped vanity cameras on the Asp Explorer
• Fixed flipped vanity cameras on the Federal Dropship
• Fixed sidewinder explosion which looked broken at 7000m
• Balanced Orca by lowering the weight, making it faster with bigger jump distance
• Audio:Fixed the boost fail sound which went missing during the emitter update
• Audio:Fixes for landing gear event errors and hardpoint audio event errors
• Audio: Fixes for Anaconda, Empire eagle, eagle missing events
• Audio: Fixes for Diamondback Scout emitters appearing in the wrong place
• Audio: Fix for other player/npc fsd jumps in/out of an instance sounding truncated
• Audio: Fix fighter launch sounds on type 9
• Rebalanced ships: DBX now has an extra size 2 slot and is a bit lighter, Asp Scout has a new size 2 slot and a size 5 slot replacing one of it's size 4 ones. Beluga mass brought more in line with other large ships to help FSD range
• Removed second discovery scanner from Asp Scouts new size 2 slot
• Fix for The Fer De Lance not having any shipkit slots in Livery
• Balance pass on the Federal Condor, increasing it's transverse acceleration from 10 to 20
• Fixed bobble head positions for imperial courier
• Fixes missing vessel voice lines in Hyperspace
• Audio: added oomph back to the weapons
• Audio: Fixes for retro drives in external view

SRV

• Optimisations to SRV headlights with improved visuals
• Audio: Fix audio errors with the stow/deploy animation

Station Services

• Audio: Manage ship voice alerts better when in outfitting to reduce message spam

Player Journal

• Include local minor faction information in the player journal when arriving in a system