Beta 3.91 change log

Hi everyone,

Just to keep you on your toes - here's an update to Beta 3.9 called 3.91.

See the full change log below.

• Avoid crashing if neither the main texture nor the alt texture are usable, instead fallback to the same behaviour we would use if the main texture did not exist
• Replaced a missing station prototype with one that exists
• Survive the situation where fused text meshes (and other types) have more characters than the maximum. 4 „Paul-Friederichs Expedition Base Camp“ station names fused together are too much for the current maximum
• Prevent crash when in a location with no faction
• Improve entry into first location – could help with some peculiar connection issues
• Fix crash opening UI panel using left shift
• Made the the new freetrack protocol cope with missing functions in the dll. This should prevent the crash on startup some users are seeing
• Reload all ammo no longer free
• More consistent, and more frequent USSs
• Don't allow child stars to be considered for mission variables
• Fix „Missing faction for location polity“ error win tutorial stations
• Planet generation: Changed the way that the effects are loaded – prevent connection loss is texture generation takes too long
• Changed the star hotspots calculation to cope with the asynchronous behaviour of the effect loading
• Fix AI ships not being able to fire gimballed multi-cannons
• Fix the difference in repair costs due to not taking into account the faction relationship of the player for that station
• Speculative fix for failure to set up a talk channel
• Fixes for typos in mission branching
• Fixed X55 binding file so it should work correctly
• Focus now passed back to game after alt-tabbing
• Increased the cool down for Frame Shifting to 40 seconds for all ships
• Moved the blast shield animation into the pad raising state (added a delay on the small pad launch state so that the blast shield doesn't raise again straight away
• Additional telemetry to help understand why some location entries take extended amounts of time
• Fix broken pulse laser audio
• Refactored special treatment of ship rtpcs when arriving from supercruise
• Reduce unnecessary web traffic in interdictions
• Some shadowing fixes
• Remove Russian as a supported language. Because it's not a supported language yet
• Adding some fixes for malformed newsfeed symbols
• Bail out of application startup if there are no suitable display modes available

Thanks again everyone, enjoy!

Ed