Patch Notes [Part 1]

NEW CONTENT 2.2

Fighters

• Added F-63 Condor as a playable ship
• Added Imperial Fighter as a playable ship
• Added Taipan as a playable ship
• Added fighter specific weapon modules
• Added fighter loadouts
• Added Fighter Bays for supported ships: Corvette, Cutter, Anaconda, Type 9, Beluga, Federal Gunship and Keelback
• Added Crew Lounge
• NPC fighter pilots can be hired
• Hired pilots receive a revenue percentage
• Fighters can be given orders
• Mothership can be given simple orders when player is in a fighter
• NPC ships can use ship launched fighters
• Role panel updated to support fighter operations
• Display NPC Fighter Pilot name when targeting the ship they are controlling
• Added a warning/reminder to set active NPC crew
• Fighter and vehicle bays are now numbers this is to help match the bay to the vessel when using livery
• Increased boost speed of all fighters
• Rebalanced default speed for some fighters to make them inline with their original design (the Empire Fighter was too fast compared to the others)
• Increased DPS of fighter weapons by 12.5%
• Increased fighter production capability of the size 7 hanger module
• Fixed fuel gauge disappearing when switching back to mothership
• Missing avatar faces on the orders panel fixed
• NPC crew do not have appropriate backgrounds when in your ship or in the fighter fixed
• Added warnings why can't a player deploy a fighter
• Move "Orders" to the top of the menu when interacting with AI fighters/main ship
• Fighter descriptions hooked up
• Able to issue orders using both fighters in the role panel even though only one is deployed fixed
• After hiring, crew sometimes displays negative numbers fixed
• Balance displayed in the Crew Lounge is incorrect fixed
• AI Crew don't appear to be gaining any xp from combat in fighters fixed
• Fixed logic error for allowing non horizons crew in to the crew lounge to fire crew they might have hired when they had horizons
• Added default numpad keys for the new order bindings to each control scheme
• Added in better descriptions for the fighter specific stats
• Re-launching fighters resets ammo and pip setup fixed
• Fixed radar not showing hostiles/allies correctly when switching vessel in a conflict zone
• Helm 'Details' tab should go to ship description
• Audio: Velocity of the ship launched fighter is now set to the same as long as the fighter stow interface is not active
• Audio: Fixed "self" explosions to be triggered to ship launched fighters
• Fixed headlights on the fighters
• Dust layer on Independent Fighter is green, fixed it to dark grey
• Fighters can no longer use boost while they are still attached to the launch ramp
• Fixed Imperial Fighter hitspheres so weapons can be damaged
• Fed Fighter 100% damage paint issue fixed
• Fighters can no longer kill ships inside starports without being shot by the station when mothership is far away
• Fighters will no longer retract their hardpoints when the AI is asked to dock them, stopping the error where a player asked the AI to dock then swaps to the fighter and has no hard points
• Balance displayed in the Crew Lounge is incorrect and does not update on purchasing a pilot fixed
• NPC experience always shows as 50% when they're in the main ship fixed
• Removed the life support, self destruct and reboot options from the fighter
• Fighters destroyed by the mothership jumping away shouldn't count as player kills
• Fixed rendering bug causing text to overlap buttons on the role panel orders
• Fixed issue with right panel in crew lounge not showing data after loading
• The little fighter HUD no longer overlaps the target panel. It now has its own home near your ship's schematic
• Healing lasers now work on fighters
• Moved the 'Request Docking' from fighter bay to helm
• Stop fighters being able to operate beyond 30KM range if you switch to the Mothership at the last second before the SLF explodes
• Stop AI crew members leaving turret mode of mothership on "Fire at will"
• Vessel Status UI (cockpit): display the correct fighter variant name
• Fixed overlapping text on Role panel orders menu
• Fixed hit markers on the ship schematics in the cockpit being the wrong size and appearing in the wrong position for fighters
• Reduced the severity of a few info messages when changing fighter orders. Now uses a small 'log' message type, rather than the big flashy one
• Only show "No active crew" warning when a hangar module is present
• Unable to terminate crew without horizons
• Crew total payment not updating immediately fixed
• Created binding for opening the orders page (RB+B)
• Reactivate the engineer button when switching back from a fighter
• Allow the Orders GUI to move selection to the top of the list to navigate quickly to the bottom order
• Added the available stats to the fighter details page in the role switch panel
• Role Switch panel flashes, and doesn't let player click on slots and order commands fixed
• Fighters under AI Crew control now use the AI friendly fire rules
• Can no longer select ship description text in fighters tab of role panel
• You are able to purchase a SRV or Fighter that you already currently own into the same slot fixed
• 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
• Fighter ramming not counting as illegal fixed
• Fixed the incorrect paintjobs used for red and blue in CQC
• Make sure active crew are displayed correctly
• Added an inbox notification when NPC Crew rank up
• Fixed NPC Crew profit share not increasing when ranking up
• Turret settings are recovered when switching back to main ship
• Allow fighters to accept new orders if they've been told to dock
• NPC Crew can't pilot ships near planet surfaces fixed

Surface Features

• New geological features added (fumeroles and geysers)
• Biological entities added
• POIs can now be persistant (applies to new geological and organic features)
• Mysterious things added

Engineers

• Limpet blueprints added
• Scanners (KWS, Cargo, Wake) blueprints added
• Defences (ECM, Chaff, Heat Sinks, and Point Defence Turrets) blueprints added
• Utilities (Life Support, Fuel Scooping, Refinery, AFM) blueprints added
• Added new 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

General

• Implementation of patch-based planet rendering on the system and planet maps