Premium Beta 2 is now available

Hi,

Premium Beta 2 is now available. I've copied the change log below, please read the important bit at the top!

New Content/Features

• New space station type added (Orbis)
• Added Hauler ship type
• 3 x new visitable systems (Styx, Aulin and LHS 3006)
• German language support added
• Incremental install added (it will need to do a full install on its first use)
• Animated pilot added
• Price item bought for added to trading interface
• Customisable controls for galaxy map added
• Rear beacons inside station turned on
• Hyperspace effect tweaks
• Anaconda cockpit art improvements
• Lakon Type 9 cockpit art improvements
• Audio tweaks for Galaxy Map
• Additional controllers added
• Cloud layers use height separation for normals generation
• Charge bar for supercruise/hyperspace added to left panel
• High resolution screen capture added (Alt-F10)
• Art improvements for large docking pads
• Eagle cockpit art improvements
• Updated stars with hotspot colours
• GUI added to aid escaping masslock
• General audio tweak and balance pass
• Hyperspace arrive and depart VFX tweaks
• Add a default joystick device that maps to first available joystick
• Animation added to opening of star map
• Default descriptions for populated systems added to galaxy map
• More individual descriptions for systems added to galaxy map
• Updated trade goods
• Added connection stats debug (CTRL+B)
• Option for pilot gender added
• Screenshots now saved in My Documents\Pictures folder

Crash Fixes

• Prevent crash when authority change occurs
• Fix for alt-tab crash
• Fix for crash in AI null value
• Fix for nullpointer crash in schematics
• Fix crash in location lighting shutdown
• Fix crash in faction interogation for AI
• Fix softlock caused by LogicTriggerGlitch receiving negative damage
• Material crash fixed
• Fix for assert when enabling / disabling SSAO
• Fix for server island crash
• Fix for crash spawning AI
• Fix for ejecting cargo crash
• When resurrecting, wait properly instead of soft lock
• Fix to stop crash when quitting the game at the same time as dying
• Fix for vertex crash in galaxy map

General Fixes/Tweaks

• Server moderated docking pad control added
• Interdiction frequency balancing
• Fix Anaconda's collision avoidance to prevent flying into asteroids
• Station name and status information always available
• Format changed for galaxy map coordinates
• Apostrophe can now be used in galaxy map search
• Kinematic optimisations
• Improved prediction for Oculus Rift
• Control sticks can now be used in menus
• Various text fixes
• Missing texture on capital ship fixed
• NPCs can now check if another NPC has a bounty
• Hyperspace exit flash restored
• Functions panel now indicates that flight assist is in cruise mode and cannot be changed
• Contacts aren't counted until they are fully resolved
• Ships no longer need an armour module
• Fixed X52 controller naming
• Greebles optimisations
• Cobra death explosion tweaks
• In windowed mode, don't update display mode in response to focus events
• Various trading tweak
• Better cargo integrity checks
• General avoidance behaviour improvements
• Don't make target locking SFX if weapon isn't deployed
• Stations appear on scanner at fixed distance
• Ships must be within range for docking request to be accepted
• Try and reduce AI tendency to ram opposition
• Move FOV setting out of presets section in options screen
• Additional safety checks for authority changes
• Camera lag and orientation clamping for gun and navigation sights
• LODs for ships and weapons updated
• Reduce message spam when spamming the supercruise control
• Fix for gimballed weapon sights
• Physics around docking port improved
• Clean up session change in supercruise
• Network connection and session creation takes into account connection health scoring
• Star database fixes
• Assorted audio tech fixes
• Wait until station voice has stopped speaking before performing the timeout
• Emergency drops force FAOff which blends out over a duration
• Stop friction noises continuing when docked
• Fixed vertical stalk scaling on larger landing pads
• Emergency drops cause ghost controls to fight with which blend out over a duration
• Change ship's voice to use the headset effect atmospheric effect setting when at the galaxy map
• Fix for the flashing black boxes on AMD cards.
• Collision damage improvements
• Added a separate row type for toggle bindings to help with the toggle mode confusion
• Fixed a mouse scroll losing focus bug.
• Tweaked docking assist params (remove angular help and lowered linear help so docking still requires you to at least roll properly to align).
• Keep the processing flight scheme active when in the galaxy map to preserve your speed
• FSD charge rate changes while you're charging, rather than being fixed when you start charging
• Fix message spam when docking is declined
• Add '+' to allowable search characters in galaxy map
• Supercruise speed balanced (Top speed lowered, acceleration lowered, min speed increased, gravity wells shrunk, star mass lock reduced)
• Fixed hull health discrepency when docked
• Confirm equipment purchase added
• Outfitting screen remembers list location after cancelled or failed request
• Canister infor split into two lines
• Fighter and large AI behaviour tweaks
• Fix network token deadlock
• Fix faction choice in single player scenario
• Flight assist off warning added
• Fix beam lasers passing through things and not causing damage
• Deactivate Proccessing_Flight while docked ('Docked' is now a distinct state)
• Show the inner-sphere for bodies from further away if you're moving at non-trivial speeds.
• Fix for trying to access MotionLineInstances before they are created
• Drop request time from 20 to 10 seconds for docking requests
• Don't disconnect if other party pauses
• Set defaults for shadow view near plane bias values. Expose these values as a shadow quality setting.
• Fix AI idle behaviour after scanning player
• Upped drop out speed and distance limits by a factor of 5
• When near a stellar body (within 4x it's „radius“), need to align away from the body to supercruise.
• Fix mask counter being reset between transitions
• Fix for motion lines being visible coming directly at the player
• Changed slice algorithm and shaders on planets to use the proper vertex and texture coordinates.
• Emergency air timeout now 10 minutes
• Deploying the cargo scoop or the landing gear will reduce the speed of the space ship
• Bounty hunter AI improvements
• Moons can now have moons of their own
• Prevent the „No fire zone entered“ message if you're docked
• Bobblehead a little less crazy
• Reduce cockpit jitter in supercruise
• Cache cockpit blow out state across transitions
• Correct the firing bones used for the adv torp pylon
• Updated Advertising Drones beam effect. Fixed alignment of beams in relation to drone beam projectors
• Added Saitek Pro Flight Rudders to device list
• Reduced star spin rates
• Stop NPC Eagle friendly fire making you a hostile
• Better interaction of FAOff and throttle controls
• Updated hull explosions, removed spinny spinny smoke and rebalanced the textures
• The player should stop using the breathing mask once inside a space station
• The oxygen in the breathing mask should be replenished when docked
• Emergency drops cause damage to hull and modules
• Interdiction don't count as emergency drops anymore
• Ring optimisations
• Added new death explosion to the Cobra, also rebalanced hangar flares and removed the vertical anamorphic
• Fix „Don't report crimes against me“ not working
• Damage states added to Anaconda
• Changed the inertia tensor for ships from a 10m radius ball to a box the size of the ship
• Fixed „no firegroups set“ spam
• Shadowing improvements
• CustomiseCrime allowing ships to have bounties in lawless jurisdictions - now converts local to nearby bounty if local is lawless.
• You can no longer dock upside down
• Fix for missing activity lead to incorrect UI for railguns when retracting
• Improved resize handling
• Red ring of the star lens flare now has a nicer offset so it doesn't linger across the screen
• Coriolis optimisations
• Fixed issues with internal cockpit panel not showing proper ship schematics
• Fix for selecting Anaglyph 3D rendering resulting in nothing being shown
• Stations no longer show criminal status.
• Canisters display their contents in the contacts list
• Clear contacts list on entering supercruise
• AA modes can now be used with OR
• Fix for items not showing up in black market
• Increase spawn radii for scenarios
• When inside the space station, the ship's heat should increase gradually to some ambient level to simulate the temperature control of the station's atmosphere
• station interior fog now balanced to reflect lighting better
• Fix polyTrails for FrameShift arrival/departure
• Give AI something to do if their drive module is dead
• Improvements to handling of when mouse cursor shown be shown / hidden
• Locked exit button after submitting a transaction to prevent money-making exploit from UI side
• Change to ambient on distant ring cells
• Improved render rejection and lodding of kinematic models
• Change checks on values in algorithm getting barycentric co-ordinates from a ray intersection point with a triangle
• 3D settings in graphics options no longer take effect immediately, only when 'Apply' is pressed
• Push out shadow cascade end distances to fill available shadow map space
• Added Beam effects for the hyperspace clouds
• Fix for scenario initialisation in server
• Fixes the glitch where shadows flash off for a frame while moving
• Fix not emergency dropping when 'hitting' stellar bodies
• AI ships make the same hyperspace clouds as players on arrive/depart
• Quantise shadow cascade alignment axis by angle rather than quantising the vector directly
• Local dust cloud models tweaked in galaxy map
• Absolute magnitude calculation for neutron stars altered
• Reduce the mass range of the injected massive stars
• Moved some bones around in the sidewinder cockpit and rebalanced the damage effects
• Allow players to see unaffordable items when viewing the outfitting parts list
• Increased the speed at which ice forms on the windscreen when close to 0% temperature
• Location targeting is now 'locked' while the hyperdrive is charging
• Detect cases where CustomiseShipCargo is set up with invalid min/max quantities
• Fix for not submitting rocks that aren't spinning to the renderer
• Fix bounty min's that are greater than the max
• Fade Rotation correction out over 2 seconds when you leave the docking bay so it's a less jarring transition
• Reimplement the atmospheric failure ships voice line to take into account the state of the life support system
• Changed shadow filter to work in gamma colour space. This reduces blocky shadow artifacts and makes the size of shadows more consistent between cascades
• Keep the list of the asteroids active when time isn't passing
• When the shipyard is closing down consider the case that the ship is being destroyed
• The Local dust now has a subtle gradient at the end of the galaxy
• High quality shadow settings: Increased resolution
• Re-implemented gunsights
• Don't let the hyperdrive ask anything of the MainGameFlow when it's doing something else (anything that isn't InGame or Paused).
• Commander names that include a hyphen and are 22 characters long now show the last word on the contacts tab
• Galaxy map rendering optimisations
• AI ships can no longer jump when mass locked
• Added more state to SavedGames (heat, power settings, oxygen timer)
• Fix ship voice talking over itself during hyperspace/supercruise jumps
• Updated shadow slope scale calculation to be consistent when using orthographic projections. This also makes it more efficient.
• Fix being able to run out of air when in the station
• Fixed the label for galactic average column as it wasn't showing the whole text
• Fix issues with cursor not responding immediately to changes of state
• Fixed mismatched damage displayed on hull repair screen
• Fixed Bug With Eagle GUI Schematic Target Panel
• Missing stars in galaxy map now displayed
• k-warrant scan and cargo scan gui update from out of range if the fire button is held when flying into range
• Point defence weapons no longer listed in firegroups, they are activated and deactivated through modules
• Oculus fix for lens flares not converging properly
• EjectCargoActivity should only try to queue ejections of cargo units that are not currently ejecting
• Added density controls to the distant ring cell meshes. The density of the ring is now set as number of rocks per Km^3
• Prevent the stick-on damage models used in the Anaconda and Type9 from jittering
• If you respawn with the free sidewinder, bring your money up to a minimum of 1000
• Fixed panels' popup getting stuck
• Fixed the cameras in the hanger from focusing on wrong hardpoints on the Eagle
• Firing in a no-fire zone is now a crime
• Force Flight Assist on when playing frameshift exit effects
• Stop AI Ships attacking even when wanted level has been cleared
• Speed indication bar now „Flips“ round when in „Reverse“
• Improvements to turret behaviour
• Heat seeking missiles track the enemy ship
• Added the ability to have modifier keys to input binding
• Weapons no longer turn on/off as you deploy/stow hardpoints
• Hardpoints don't draw power unless deployed (effects heat)
• If you hit an emergency stop but you're going slowly enough to drop safely, just do so
• Location/target/target location panels are mutually exclusive
• Distance to target takes target size into account
• Station shows up with the correct colour HUD
• Fixed the move-mouse-pointer-off-screen-when-using-the-pad-so-it-doesn't-trigger-rollovers thing
• Hardpoint modules can be set to „always deployed“, so they ignore the player's „Deploy hardpoints“ control. They still retract if unpowered
• Make sure aspect ratio is correctly calculated when Oculus Rift has been selected as an option but the device isn't available
• Fix for HeatSinkLauncher being usable when unpowered. Now it needs to be powered and deployed, but is always deployed when powered

• Using forward/backward thrust resets throttle fixed
• Fix bounty hunters with no crime scanners - was setting the (basic) scan time to 100s if there was no crime scanner, rather than 3s
• Once a ships engines are taken offline, AI should flee after a variable period of time
• If we fail to lock a vertex or index buffer, don't add it to the list of buffers to be unlocked
• Changed „dumping“ price of a commodity from a constant 80% reduction below the galactic minimum to use the per-commodity ReductionBuyHomeGrown scale factor
• AI improvements for police patrols
• When buying ships from the shipyard, make sure the logic requests the appropriate state transitions depending on whether Oculus Rift is enabled or not
• Split bounty hunter state into patrolling and interdiction variants
• Tweaks to galaxy map for oculus
• Allow a chance for patrol pirates to jump away after scooping cargo
• Reduce network debug chatter
• Allow cargo hatch to begin retracting before it has fully extended and vice versa
• Fixed the jumping button focus on the cockpit launch/services panel
• Various WIP changes to get exit/entry into asteroid rings a little more graceful
• Trade Cargo screen: new tweaks, adjustments, fixes, improvements
• Removed Planet/Station/Sun initial lock on icons
• When buying/selling an item, then dropping back to the main page the item I was on should remain the focus
• Fix for unsynced stellarforge timings causing station rotation issues
• Background stars not flattened into background
• Optimisations for damage models
• Animations for small landing pad updated
• Don't allow the game to run without an input system
• Impose some sensible limits on the threading parameters parsed from AppConfig
• Fixing an in the power distrib that might have been hampering the cobra
• Clear the „arrive from supercruise“ flag when you buy a ship so you don't appear in the hangar with a fantabulous flash
• Change cockpit glass edges to use different shader that doesn't argue with the background envmap
• Targeting system does its selection based on look direction rather than ship direction. TrackIR, Oculus & manual headlook now works to select targets
• Additional checks for missing space station
• If space station is missing then don't trap the player in a docked state
• Can now supercruise through rings (clusters that add mass locking to be added later)
• Added notification that player must sell cargo before selling their ship (when buying a new one)
• Additional safeguards when receiving authority changes
• Improved the loading when starting docked, there is no longer 1 frame when the ship is outside the station
• Don't replicate variables from a bad packet
• Planets, moons and stars ignores the „amd crash fix“ graphic option.They would be rendered even if the amd crash fix is turned on.
• When testing if we're close enough to the station ot request docking, subtract its radius from the distance in the same way as the target UI so we're consistent
• Fix a huge missing texture on the corners of Coriolis station
• Fix for jerky motion in profile builds caused by excessive replication
• Added a way point between full cockpit control and the galaxy map so the player can't get up to any shenanigans while the galaxy map initialises
• Fix a bug where sessions do not start up, due to info lost relating to a cancelled message
• Fix for ship not appearing on other player's scene - due to order of initialisation of components

Michael