Patch Notes Update 2.3 Beta, Update 3

[Freebird]

I've been wondering about trying the Asp S again, guess it's time to bite the bullet

I'm still not drawn to the DBX though, the fuel scoop is still too slow.

 

[CMDR Charybdis]

DBX finally got some love!!!

I've just done a trial fit for the DBX and it can go to a shade under 36Ly unengineered (1xAMFU, 1xSRV, both scanners, 2xheatsinks).

I went to Sagitarius A* in one of these (before the engineers) and would now do so again

 

[Davros2000]

Thanks FDEV for the fixes and updates.

 

[c00ky1970]

You missed my "fully loaded"-part of my post...

Wirth a bit of pre 2.3 tweakage, you can have it loaded for pasengers and still break 40Ly

http://beta.coriolis.edcd.io/outfit/orca?code=A0p0tdFflsdisif5-------mkmmmkmhmc43-2f.AwRj4lXZqo%3D%3D.Aw18SQ%3D%3D.H4sIAAAAAAAAA2P4x8bAwPCXFUhwVwBJ3po%2F%2F%2F8LbmBhYBBqefX%2Fv8oLZgaG%2F8wiHcJAgQX8QDbLP0OQBqACBv6ED%2F%2F%2FC6148v%2F%2Ff7Z%2FCTBj%2BCveAEUPPPj%2FX8%2FmG1DqPwMcAADDHmLhbQAAAA%3D%3D&bn=orca%20bus

I think there are some more lightweight options available as well, but not sure....

 

[iFred]

Wirth a bit of pre 2.3 tweakage, you can have it loaded for pasengers and still break 40Ly

http://beta.coriolis.edcd.io/outfit/orca?code=A0p0tdFflsdisif5-------mkmmmkmhmc43-2f.AwRj4lXZqo%3D%3D.Aw18SQ%3D%3D.H4sIAAAAAAAAA2P4x8bAwPCXFUhwVwBJ3po%2F%2F%2F8LbmBhYBBqefX%2Fv8oLZgaG%2F8wiHcJAgQX8QDbLP0OQBqACBv6ED%2F%2F%2FC6148v%2F%2Ff7Z%2FCTBj%2BCveAEUPPPj%2FX8%2FmG1DqPwMcAADDHmLhbQAAAA%3D%3D&bn=orca%20bus

I think there are some more lightweight options available as well, but not sure....

And you missed the 50 ly part of my post.

It´s nice to see you guys tweaking out everything out of coriolis and edshipyard - thanks for the effort. It still doesnt fit my personal preferences or my personal threshold to move passengers around the galaxy - that´s all I wanted to say.

It´s FD´s decision. I can live with it and do something different. I only wanted to express my own constraints why I am not using the Whale-department of my shipyard for playing. All good, nothing to see here

 

[Delirii]

Just played with multicrew properly for the first time - I tried before but could never manage anymore than a minute or so. This patch has massively improved the stability of the networking for me. My friend and I managed an entire hour with only one crash.

Great stuff FD, and great fun!

 

[cptdavep]

I've been wondering about trying the Asp S again, guess it's time to bite the bullet

I'm still not drawn to the DBX though, the fuel scoop is still too slow.

I still don't think it's enough of a buff to make it viable. It did need more internals so it's good that's being addressed, but it's main problems were it's combat performance. It's a target that big needs to be able to take much more punishment, and the canopy is too vulnerable, it lacks firepower (maybe switch the two smalls to mediums) and it needs two more utility mounts. The problems all come from the initial design, where it was decided that rather than make it a long range fighter able to go up against the courier and vulture like it should have been, they'd rather decided what we needed was a rubbish version of the Asp X instead. Unfortunately I don't think the problems will be addressed as the hard points and utility mounts needs work done to the model rather than a simple tweak of the stats.

 

[CMDR Dreamstate]

So we can have our gunner kill other commanders without getting wanted? Sounds like a lot of fun...

A fix for the "helm becoming wanted because of gunner actions"-issue is badly needed, but that doesn't appear to be the right one to me.

Turret DPS against players is hardly going to be an issue, come on now...

 

[GSRTrent]

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.o7Stability 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

Any update on the shield nerf? You guys aren't really planning on sticking with this, are you? Put any thought into a better way to nerf shields? Just limit the number of heavy duty boosters per ship or just leave shields alone?

 

[Monk]

OOOOOKKKKKK

http://beta.coriolis.edcd.io/outfit/orca?code=A0p0tdFflsdisif5-------mk---2i432f-.AwRj4lXZqo%3D%3D.Aw18SQ%3D%3D.H4sIAAAAAAAAA2MW6RBmYBBawM%2FA8P8%2FAxwAAGMIOFkXAAAA&bn=orca%20bus

45ly quick build because I CBA to argue with a mule go!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg_8knBHEyw&feature=youtu.be

Just for fun I added a middling Grade 4 lightweight modification to the Life Support equipped on your build...got it up to 50ly max and 46ly laden.

And I didn't do the other lightweight mods since INARA doesn't have the values yet. Ostensibly, you could push it even higher. http://beta.coriolis.edcd.io/outfit...//8Oe/+AwEDHAAAmbHBXC0AAAA=&bn=orca bus Mk II


With the buffs to the Orca, I think I'm going to pulling mine out of storage, finally.

 

[Ozric]

I've just done a trial fit for the DBX and it can go to a shade under 36Ly unengineered (1xAMFU, 1xSRV, both scanners, 2xheatsinks).

I went to Sagitarius A* in one of these (before the engineers) and would now do so again

You should try an engineered version, it wipes the floor Exploration Comparison

 

[tresch]

Pllleeeeeaaase let the vanity camera use the ship's collision mesh for collision with the ship, instead of that bg obnoxious box!

 

[who?]

Would have rather seen two size one slots rather than a size two, so a DBX could fit a cargo rack, two discovery scanners, fuel scoop, AFMU, planetary lander and shield (the full explorer kit) without unbalancing combat, as two size 1s aren't much better than a size 2 anyway.

But all the changes are good, I'd just put two size ones on both the DBX and Asp Scout instead of one size 2, which fits in with their focus as scouting vessels with smaller compartments for scanning equipment, not military focused vessels with larger compartments.

An AFMU is far from essential though. And the detailed surface scanner is (in 2.2) only useful for adding to your explorer credits, so once you're Elite and anywhere close to being rich it's just a luxury. With the DSS engineering upgrades in 2.3, that might change.

Personally, I think these balance passes are all welcome - but not every ship needs to be perfect.

 

[Crusina Luachra]

Can someone please test new Beluga jump range? preferably with a G5 FSD?

 

[Micha]

And the detailed surface scanner is (in 2.2) only useful for adding to your explorer credits, so once you're Elite and anywhere close to being rich it's just a luxury. With the DSS engineering upgrades in 2.3, that might change.

Umm.. no, if you're actually exploring and not just grinding credits/exploration rank you most definitely want a DSS.

 

[who?]

Umm.. no, if you're actually exploring and not just grinding credits/exploration rank you most definitely want a DSS.

Edit - my apologies! My comment below is mistaken - you do get additional planetary info (composition etc.) with a DSS. I've left the comment below to highlight my incompetence.

Why? The only thing it adds at the moment is an increase in credits per scan. You can scan and tag bodies exactly the same with or without a DSS.

It seems in 2.3, that changes alright. DSS engineering upgrades (scan range / scan speed etc.) make it a more meaningful upgrade again.

 

[droid327]

•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
.
This is huge! DBE can outjump an AspE now, with enough internals to slot a full suite of Explorer gear. The age of DBEs In Front of Things is upon us!

 

[Robert Maynard]

Thanks team!

 

[Cosmos]

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.

o7

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

Endowment sliders or im gonna have a sulk

 

[Ian Skippy]

I said nothing about specced out, I was talking about the cost of the ship. Although I was rounding the numbers, which was wrong, I imagine it's more like 1/5.

1) You know that is a nonsensical metric, noone flies a stock ship, and certainly no explorer.
2) Even if you did that, it would be 3.5x cheaper, not your original 6x. Thats not 'rounding the numbers', thats almost doubling them.

Common man, just be honest. The DBX in practice isn't much cheaper than an ApsX, and it was way worse. Now its interesting to chose between them. DBX=slightly better range, AspX is one more slot, bigger slots. DBX can carry combat loadout with relatively little cost in jumprange, AspX has more versatile hardpoints. AspX is more agile with 4p is eng, DBX is more agile with zero pips in eng.

Its a sane choice that will break 'everyone in an Asp' meta.

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You should try an engineered version, it wipes the floor Exploration Comparison

But it scoops fuel slower, and has a worse cockpit downwards vision.