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1.3 Powerplay next in series of great improvements

Lobotomist Member EpicPosts: 5,981

April 2015 in Elite: Dangerous

What Is Powerplay?

Powerplay is a new way to play Elite: Dangerous.

In Powerplay, you can participate in an ongoing battle for interstellar conquest and control that enhances every aspect of the Elite: Dangerous experience.

When Powerplay launches, you'll be able to ally yourself with any one of a number of galactic Powers, earning valuable perks, reputation bonuses and credits for your allegiance.

As a trusted ally of your chosen Power, you will be able to guide their strategy, take on special objectives to advance your shared cause, and dominate human space. Your choices and actions will have a direct and visible impact on the balance of galactic power.

http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=dcbf6b86b4b0c7d1c21b73b1e&id=b0a8ebba0b

Comments

rpmcmurphy Member EpicPosts: 3,502

April 2015
Looks like a really solid addition to the game, can't wait.
In short;

You'll be able to ally yourself with any one of a number of galactic Powers, earning valuable perks, reputation bonuses and credits for your allegiance.

Combat-focused players may choose to side with warlike Powers for combat missions and perks, while trade-focused players may prefer to side with a Power looking to expand their trade monopoly.

All week long players can perform actions to undermine enemy control over systems, fortify your territory against rivals attempting to undermine you, or prepare unoccupied systems for conquest. Systems prepared for takeover will become zones where duelling Powers can attempt to expand their borders.

You can always be a trader or a miner or a pirate for your own ends, but by joining a Power you'll be afforded special rights and be rewarded for playing the way you already like to play.

Achieving a high rank affords you more votes and more control over the Power's actions each week. The most valued pilots will have a lot of say in where their Power goes next.

By joining a Power that supports your play style you'll get better deals, cheaper repair costs, reduced fines, increased values for exploration data and more

The initial selection of factions will rise to a maximum of twenty as players provide assistance to minor local forces; as those forces establish a foothold across a handful of systems, they may rise to become Powers in their own right.

"...you'll have license to attack anyone from a rival power in your own territory without incurring a bounty"

GalNet in ship too !!
Erillion Member EpicPosts: 10,328

April 2015

Nice one.

Have fun
Bladestrom Member UncommonPosts: 5,001

April 2015

Pretty damn sexy, and those moaners declaring that there will be no future dev after December 'cash grab' should now realise the devs do care and are putting their money where their mouth is, respect due.

rpg/mmorg history: Dun Darach>Bloodwych>Bards Tale 1-3>Eye of the beholder > Might and Magic 2,3,5 > FFVII> Baldur's Gate 1, 2 > Planescape Torment >Morrowind > WOW > oblivion > LOTR > Guild Wars (1900hrs elementalist) Vanguard. > GW2(1000 elementalist), Wildstar
Now playing GW2, AOW 3, ESO, LOTR, Elite D
rpmcmurphy Member EpicPosts: 3,502

April 2015

On that note, sales are also going nicely with 500,000+ copies sold so far http://www.lse.co.uk/AllNews.asp?code=zwahyquq&headline=Frontier_Developments_Bullish_On_Elite_Dangerous_Performance
hikaru77 Member UncommonPosts: 1,123

April 2015

Amazing game, i bought it a few weeks ago, now is pretty much the only game that im playing. It share a lot of things with SC, but ED is more like a ¨space sim sandbox MMO¨ with a 1:1 milky way to explore, Cant wait for 1.3 and beyond.
ellobo29 Member UncommonPosts: 423

April 2015

This update looks amasing... I just started playing this game a couple weeks ago. and kept thinking "wouldnt it be nice if they did this and that".

They pretty much added everything I have been looking for.

http://medias.luna-atra.fr/gw2/char_tool/CT_imageGenerator.php?pseudo=Centurion Mikal&lang=EN&code=&code=TSwtLDUsLSw2LC0sMjksOSwyMiwyMywyNCwtLDEwMiwzNiw4MSw4NCw4OQ==
Proffit Member UncommonPosts: 19

April 2015

I've been considering waiting for SteamVR before buying this game. Anyone tried playing this with VR goggles? It seems cool!
rpmcmurphy Member EpicPosts: 3,502

April 2015

Originally posted by Proffit
I've been considering waiting for SteamVR before buying this game. Anyone tried playing this with VR goggles? It seems cool!

Most people that pair an Oculus with Elite can't say enough good things about it. It's pretty much the go to game for how immersive VR can be. I'm waiting to see comparisons between Oculus CV or Valve's Vive before I take the plunge.
Nice Elite + VR thread on reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/2c4w1w/tears_over_dk2_elite_a_total_surprise
mmoski Member UncommonPosts: 282

April 2015

Yeah this is an awesome update, Faction warfare, its going to be great !
rpmcmurphy Member EpicPosts: 3,502

April 2015

Really good interview with Ed Lewis about the ins and outs of Powerplay - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ac4httvLBg
Maurgrim Member RarePosts: 1,331

April 2015

We who backed the game and people who actual bothered to read everything about ED knew that the game at launch will only have the core mechanics present and from there devs will build upon the game for years to come, wings and powerplay is the first real step in that direction.
More free content updates will come in the future and as planned first payed x-pack will be planetary landing will also be released end of this year or early 2016.
Bluefear77 Member UncommonPosts: 112

April 2015

The game is fun and just keeps getting better.
I cannot image how great it will be in 2-3 more years as they continue to develop it. The future is so bright.
On a side note, I'm not happy with how they handled refusing to give Steam keys to current players. On multiple occasions they guaranteed it would never been released on Steam and they turn around and release it on Steam. I want a Steam key!
Erillion Member EpicPosts: 10,328

April 2015

>>> I want a Steam key! >>>

Why ?

Have fun
Erillion Member EpicPosts: 10,328

May 2015
Powerplay is live now. And some nice additions:

Cargo/Mining chunk collection drones added

Fuel transfer drones added

Prospector drones added

Mission system overhaul
Have fun

Elite: Dangerous Powerplay 1.3 Beta Incoming (changelog)

<blockquote restore="" "=""> Hi everyone,

EDIT: the beta is now available to download!

The Elite: Dangerous Powerplay Beta will be available for download for those players with beta access, from approximately 4PM BST today (26/05/2015).

The bug reporting forum can be found here: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=121

Thanks in advance to everyone who takes part, and for all the feedback we get from you playing! We can't wait to see what you think.

Here's the full change-log:

New Content/Features:

Powerplay added

Power map views added to galaxy map

Added power information and action screens

Power specific ship modules added

Power specific ambient traffic added

Spawn AI to hunt player if they defect

Power specific goods and actions added

Playable ship Imperial Courier added

Playable ship Diamondback added

Cargo/Mining chunk collection drones added

Fuel transfer drones added

Prospector drones added

Mission system overhaul

Inbox integration for branching missions

Missions scaling up based on rank

Missions scaling up based on reputation with mission giver

Mission targets can be generated in supercruise rather than USSs

Spawned AI difficulty determined by mission (if spawned by mission)

Missions requiring only mineable materials added

Revamped military progression missions

Added Founders and Elite ranked missions

More mission variants added

Chatter tables updated

Updated bounty system

Bounties cannot be paid off (Pilot's Fed contact is gone!), but expire after 7 days.

Major factions don't record crimes anymore, only minor factions. (You may have major faction stuff in your saves left over from the previous system).

Fines now take 7 days to expire, but never coexist with bounties (bounties absorb fines and dormant bounties with the same faction).

Expiry only actually happens when you login, hyperspace or resurrect. (This stops cases of "I attacked a wanted ship that had no bounty a few seconds ago")

Friendly fire values relaxed

Add select nav target functionality to system map

Add mining bonus for mining operations within extraction sites

Added Painite as a minable commodity

Added osmium as a minable commodity

Added low and high intensity resource extraction site scenarios

Loan ceiling scales based on player's highest Elite rank

Founder decal now gold

Added crimes for reckless flying (collisions) within starport no fire zones:

Shields only collisions above speed limit is a fine

Hull damage only above speed limit is a larger fine

Ship destruction within short window after collision above speed limit is a bounty

Respects 'Report crimes against me' setting

Allow any general purpose slot on any ship to contain a fuel tank module

Show progress to next PF rank

NPC chatter works in supercruise

Added rank up messages and animations to inbox

Stability Fixes:

Fix crash when entering icy rings as they have no possible minerals

Fix possible stability issue with AI entering resource extraction sites

Fix access violation when interdicting NPCs

Fix crash when taking high res screen shots with super sampling turned on

Don't try and transfer group leadership for player-owned groups

Fix a crash in keyboard helper when it is unable to find a keyboard locale

Fix for skybox render crash on exit

Fix for memory crash in system map

Fix a crash in the system generation

Fix rank-restricted ships being purchasable and causing server errors

Fix for streaming crash on shut down

Fix server error entering some empty systems

Prevent Module Data Gather crashing when setting modules while looking at the fire groups tab

Fix for invalid shield value in network traffic

Fix ships setting their faction to the non-existent "Anarchy" faction when there aren't any factions around

Fix AI crash in combat zone

[OSX] Fix memory allocation crash

Don't kill the server if we have a hash collision on system name

Fix issue with low level maths during ship docking

OSX: Don't crash if an attached joystick has an invalid product ID

OSX: Fix crash if memory allocation fails

OSX: Fix for various crashes on launch associated with some keyboards and locales

General Tweaks/Fixes

Fix ring scaling on stars in system map

Made the streaks on the Cobra windscreen less noticeable, but more balanced

When we're clearing bounties and resetting hostility states, make sure we do it on remote authorities as well.

Searching for 'PAND' in the galaxy map brings up 'PANDAMONIUM' as the first result fixed

Galaxy map camera now caches its current position for retrieval on returning to the galaxy map

Fix planet popping on approach

Replaced the mute button mode (toggle/hold) with a bespoke option which allows for toggle, push to talk and push to mute modes

Enabling wing beacon enables voice comms fixed

Stop the system info popup preventing clicking the system itself

The minimum value of the lighting curves for stars has been altered so that it scales from a universal base value with star temperature

Moved the UI camera lock on option to the input options screen, to hopefully make it more visible

Updated all resource extraction scenario CSM's to heavily reduce the number of NPC's

Fix missing black hole effect in certain systems - such as Phua Aub SO-Z

Make trade voucher redemption menu options consistent with bounty vouchers - separate menu items for each, and local factions only

Fix police ships spawning at lawless mining scenarios

Reset current target contact when pressing the "select next route system" key

Fix Shield Bank Module not filling properly; this lead to a missing cell when using "reload all" option in station services

Fix to Render order problem with section of Adder cockpit

Changed WING RANGE to EXCEEDS WING for nav panel system buttons

Fix some new modules the wrong amount of ammo (e.g. Shield Cell Banks)

Rebalanced mass lock values across all ships to fix various inconsistencies and also ensured ships overheat when self destructing

Population data inconsistencies between galaxy and system map fixed Belt information are now displayed for stars in the system map

Fix surprise non-zero throttle after pre-flight checks (unless you're using the throttle axis binding)

Toxic corrosive damage from carried cargo now ignores broken modules

Fixed the Fer-de-Lance clipped inside landing pad

Prevent sleeping cargo canisters from penetrating asteroids

One suspected cause for driver micro-stutters addressed

Weapon lighting optimisations

Lighting overdraw optimisations to ship exteriors

Lighting overdraw optimisations to ship cockpits

Lighting overdraw optimisations to landing pads

Fix radiators being damaged and broken by corrosive cargo when nothing else could touch them

Self destruct and Reboot/repair are not shown in the functions tab when in supercruise

Headlook disabled during panel focus fixed

Transaction pane now matches entries using both the id and the type, so the focus no longer jumps to a different section when it updates

When nav lock auto jump fails and suppresses a warning, also suppress the audio for the notification

Default ships to not being full-members of factions - only police/military should be full members. Escorts/wingmen will get the full-member status of their lead

Give escorts/wingmen a default generic escort chatter table rather than the same as their lead

Make AIs respect the FSD cooldown timer, the same as the long timer for players (as NPCs never submit)

Fix incorrect orbital period for Pluto

Move Castellan Station away from Lave 2 to prevent people not being able to supercruise away

AI not subject to heat targeting mechanic in same way as players fixed

Make SSAO respond to being toggled in the options menu

Docking computer not working at outposts fixed

AI ships experiencing difficulty leaving Orbis starport interior fixed

Docking computer gives wrong setting fixed

Removed extra radius added to the 'am I close enough to dock' maths so the distance on the GUI matches the distance required to allow a successful docking request

Fix problem of Outfitting showing the incorrect maximum ammo for Shield Cell Banks

Disable vignette effect for debug fly camera

Fix typos in Leestian Evil Juice description

Update to pirate scanning behaviour. Always scan, whatever the threat value, but potentially block attacking because of threat

Updated station ad screens

NPC bounty hunter scanning update: New chatter triggers added. Added new behaviour: if target is scanned, found to have a bounty below the minimum (but non-zero), warned, then later scanned again, it will then be attacked

Make sure we spend fuel when we hyperspace, even if disconnect before the save-on-arrival

Adjusted military archetypes in war zones, to distinguish them a bit more from lockdowns and the subsequent blockade. Won't interdict clean ships in war, as they are too busy fighting a war to do that

Made the stars and planets wait until they are ready to render, this will fix planets showing up as white for a short time after entering the game

When police scans a wanted target that has a very high threat score, previously it would ignore it; now it starts attacking, says a chatter line, and calls reinforcements

Wing beacon is turning off or timing out and not updating the GUI fixed

When the player equips a module and their ship has insufficient power - we should warn them about power management

Fix no distinction between dormant and active bounties in the transactions panel

Fix throttle going to full when hyperspacing from normal space with FAOff and without using the throttle axis

Interdictions do 10% of the damage of a normal emergency drop

Chance that NPC escorts won't flee but stay and fight

Fix for Commuters having a crazy high chance to flee when their hull got to about 50%

Improved and highly optimised Hangar lighting

Visual improvements, rebalancing and optimisation to hangar particle effects

Fixed typo in basic discovery scanner description

Fix typos in water giant description

Fix spelling for Luyten 347-14 system permit

Remove extraneous space in class M star description

Fix incorrect starting explorer description

Remove unneeded secondary economy from Auta Isuang

Jovian texture replaced wrong default terrestrial texture, schematic height params for this planet type slightly raised for better definition

Fix turrets set to Target Only deciding to fire when you're in the hangar

Adjusted the height of the flood lights around the large landing pad (raised them up by 5 metres) so that they interfere less with the Chat panel in the GUI

Give turret mounts the ability to track 5 degrees down past horizontal, to help ships like the python be able to actually hit small ships in front of it

Friendly fire rules should apply to player Vs player, not just AI

Fix NPCs not giving themselves local bounties

Added ampersand character to text rendering on starports

Don't allow NPC's to jump if they have 0% hull

Prevent docking after the police 'notice' that a player is wanted. This is the same reaction with committing a violent crime near the station

The contents of an asteroid are now deterministic again, and will be the same every time a players logs in and for every player

A history of mined asteroids is stored per player on the web server. If a player tries to mine a previously mined asteroid, they get nothing

Asteroids can now contain up to 3 minerals, chunks still contain 2 minerals

Fix typo in star class L description

Don't go through the process of choosing a new group leader if when the leader dies we aren't the authority, as this will be an authority transfer rather than the leader dying

When a ship is dying and we're setting its behaviour to "Just hit me", we only need to set this as the current behaviour, not the default state

Fix repeat exploration scans cancelling previous scans

Outpost hangars now have new and improved lighting

Rich hangars and inner dock now have new and improved lighting

Fix underside of flood light poking through a hangar and a texture issue on a LOD in the Rich Station interior

Fix police defending wanted ships in their own faction

Thickened up the fine strut detail on the Solar Array LODs which was causing a lot of aliasing as much of the geometry could become sub-pixel at distance. This seems to have improved render quality somewhat, especially in the mid-range LODs

Fix the test that zeroed throttle when docked to only zero when docking state *changes* - allows the throttle to work when using accumulated controls during a pre-flight check

Don't show a ship's health bar if the schematic is showing a subsystem/module

Fixed the decal cameras for the Imperial Clipper

Make sure that an NPC appears after an interdiction if it has been interdicted by more than one player

Make sure that the lead ship wouldn't always head for the wake to drop out into the interdiction

Fix alignment issues with tiny and medium hardpoints, and also splits the doors into separate CSM files so that they can open independently

Fix rings becoming invisible when entering or exiting supercruise

Docking computer resets timer back to 10:00 fixed

Docking computer cannot land the ship if the player resumes control after the docking computer has piloted the ship inside the station fixed

Eagle interior cockpit now has texture

Fix for Asp landing gear not locking down

Improve Vulture LODs

Fix landing gear for Type 6

Fix landing gear for Type 7

Fixed shadow sharpness on cockpits

Fed Dropship Lowest LOD fix

Add a 'Hostile' sign in the same place as the 'Wanted' sign to indicate when the police will attack the player due to bad reputation

Add a missing check that meant mines were being targeted even if there was a better target around

Added rank progress bars

Decal pass for Mercenary paintjobs

Chaff now affects turrets and gimbals by the same amount

Improvements to engine effects overhaul

Improved the appearance of the Hauler drive effects

Stop Spinning AI Ships in Supercruise

AI will try to avoid crossing a player's firing line

Optimisation for partial name search in galaxy map

Fixed hole in Adder cockpit geometry

Pilot and chair added to external cockpits

Reduced range of Medium Empire thrusters light so it doesn't illuminate the Empire Courier's cockpit

Cap bounties to 10 million per jurisdiction - fines remain unlimited

Fixed Asp Gun Barrel Clipping in Outfitting

Inconsistency in the Class Y dwarf stars description fixed

Minor Typos in the Lakon Type-9 Heavy ship text description fixed

Fixed some mixed up commodity labels in French

Fix broken non-breaking spaces in French

Make sure that the gunsights system has sensible start values to prevent odd jumping

Fix a few cases of people with old weapon loadouts being unable to fire

On the galaxy map, "Plan Route" should be "Route Planen" in German

FSD cool-down timer should read "FSA-ABKÜHLZEIT" in German

When receiving machine details in response to wing/invite, try to connect to the machine - fix for some invites not getting through

Various translation fixes

Altered flicker on light to be more subtle in Fer-de-Lance cockpit

Shields persist in supercruise

Fixed not being able to supercruise through a completely invisible ring

Steadily loosen rank limits on supercruise interdiction as security decreases

Allow players to adjust their power pips in Supercruise

Make every capacitor recharge at max rate while docked, since station UI can steal the power controls, leaving players without any sys energy to bring their shield back up

Station entrance VFX optimisations

Don't skip the long shield recharge delay on location transition if your shield were at 0 health

Fix 2.5s hyperspace transition time when jumping from Supercruise

Don't duplicate ships when following a wake

Landing gears are initialised 'down' if you start docked, instead of starting 'up' and immediately deploying

New take on chaff effect, visible from greater distances

Encourage mining chunks to float away from asteroids, not inside them. Also push them out along that direction a little when spawning to help prevent fast moving asteroids from rotating through the new chunks

When weapons have a shot blocked and fail to fire, no longer drain weapon power spuriously

Adjusted some hitcheck were it may be possible to ram your way through a wall in the Coriolis station due to an acute angle in the mesh

Transactions panel will now update the vouchers if they change while it's open

When firing at a moving target turrets confusion is affected by distance so that turrets are more easily confused by sharp manoeuvres at short range than long

Confusion is based on the acceleration of the target in both absolute space and relative to the firer

Rather than Wobbling when the gun gets confused, turrets now tend to lag behind their target instead.

Fix for cartography data being fetched but requested in the previous page refresh

Shipyard now accounts for fitted modules in the Shields and Armour values

Prevent cap ship fighters spawning on top of each other

Only apply capital ship exclusion zone to player ships

Don't say "Warning! Landing gear" when approaching a landing pad if your gears are currently deploying

Class 2 Seeker missiles sometimes fire backwards in a Python fixed

Tweaked ammo amounts for multicannon and rail gun.

When targeting a Point of Interest, show the second detail as the name of the body it's around rather than the type of body. Also show minor faction names instead of major faction

Fix for weapons that fire atomic bursts - rather than draining energy per shot, the energy for the whole burst is drained up-front to prevent the burst getting oddly straddled over time if you're low on power

Added support for warming up shaders - a likely issue causing the big stalls approaching planets

Added better description to highlight the technical limitation of the kill warrant scanner

Fix clothing and consumer technology being the wrong way round in Russian

Speculative fix for Achenar star description is missing in German version

Medium pulse turret stopping aiming fixed

Stop AI ships jumping with a destroyed Frame Shift Drive

Shorten some French strings to fit on the gauge panel better

Fixed incorrect permit ID for Phekda that was causing it to appear as a debug

Update to the Police Hivemind numbers, slight rebalance to minimum delay, max strength and max bounty numbers

Balance pass on SC hunter/target chatter distances

Added alternative mapping for CH combat stick

Fix some inconsistencies in ship vs. environment collisions

Increase persistence for NPCs that are hunting player ships for various readings - this means they are more likely to chase for longer and not so easily thrown off the scent

The new collision crime now checks both ships in the collision; if either has Report Crimes set to true then it'll issue a bounty to both.

Adjusted weapon impacts to reduce spin craziness

Fix to part of Type 9 cockpit which stuck out so far it could be seen rendering through external hull

Fixed a problem where in menus players could choose to play in a private group which they weren't yet members of

The forth user who joins the wing will appear as 'In the menu' to the third user despite being in game fixed

Redesigned control scheme based on suggested scheme found on the forums for Warthog controls

"Prism as One" faction has no description fixed - along with any other Imperial cooperative factions

Fixed some errors in the Imperial Slaves commodity description

Text cut-off in OUTFITTING: FRAME SHIFT DRIVE fixed

Fix spelling for CS Camelopardalis

Mines now do both thermic and explosive damage

Dead NPCs no longer taunt from beyond the grave

Stop NPCs jumping if they are about to die

If stellar surface tessellation fails then make sure we try again on the next frame

Prevent immediately restarting an interdiction tether when an interdiction succeeds

Don't show multiple locations for mission stations in the galaxy map

Further changes to how people manage turrets:

Turrets not in a firegroup won't do anything.

Turrets in Fire at Will cannot commit Assault.

Turrets in Fire at Will won't fire at illegal targets.

Target Only is now a manual/latched fire mode, and can be used on illegal targets.

Fix a non-deterministic 1-frame lag in weapons fire.

Remove the crime exception for point defence guns as they're now covered under the above rules.

Fixed missing mass value for Type 9 reactive armour

Add consumed by and produced by information to Chemical Waste

Improved model culling with stations

Orerve description states system is a planet fixed

Fixed some incorrect Russian words

Improve reconnect handling if a connection to the game server fails

Try not to spawn players inside asteroid belts and more specifically not inside asteroids

Russian translation for 'Jettison All Cargo' fixed

Network optimisations for copying game objects

OSX: enable [Cmd]+[V] to be used to paste text (as [Ctrl]+[V] is used on Windows)

OSX: Fixed the broken planet rings on OSX caused by mips not being generated correctly

Police ships shouldn't ram the player just because they are scanning them

Updates to ring fog system

German language feedback pass integrated

Balance pass on metal types in different ring types

When we are docked, do not allow anything to add wear to our ship

Show whether a black market is present on the station in the system map

Galaxy map popup now always shows who is in charge of a system, regardless of which view is active

OSX: Fix for game window being positioned incorrectly on a secondary monitor arranged to the left of the primary monitor, in OSX System Preferences terms

OSX: Fix for the game thinking that the [Enter] key is still held down after using the [Alt]+[Enter] key combination to switch between windowed and full-screen modes

OSX: Fix for a Core Animation warning on shutdown

Modules can be repaired partially from the repairs screen

Indications to commodity descriptions for their legality (if applicable)

Popup message to go with the inbox message when the player gains a Pilots Federation rank

Audio:

PowerPlay interface and PowerPlay Galaxy-map audio added.

Diamondback audio.

Empire Courier audio.

PowerPlay reward modules audio added.

Audio for new drone types.

New ship voice lines added.

Added separate GUI blip for when collecting a chunk.

More station announcer voice characters have been added to all factions.

Rank animations audio added.

Deploy and stow on other ships is now audible.

Reduced volume of the gui target hit indicator.

When two weapons of the same type are firing, the volume should no longer increase as much.

Various tweaks to weapons fire so they more or less sound equally loud and don't drown out engines and impacts.

Supercruise engines are improved and have subtle 'judder' when overshooting a planet.

Combat music volume tweaks.

Improved Cobra engines when at a static speed.

Torpedo's explode a little more prominently as befit their esteem.

Fixed several broken Eagle sounds.

Improved looping audio on Hauler.

Improved landing gear audio.

Reduced loud reload on the multi-cannon

Reduced reverb on weapon deploys, to fix oddness in stations.

Allowed impacts caused by own weapons to use a bit of the centre channel.

Tweaks to frame-shift transitions.

Tweaks to NightTime mode and inaudible explosions.

Mix pass on shield SFX for other ships.

Put a slight fade-in on the shield break sounds to make them a wee bit less percussive.

Improved mix on hyperspace tunnel whispers and flybys.

Voice comms mix improvements for better audibility.

Muted unpredictable engine roar on buying a new ship.

Improved the audibility of collision alert sounds.

StellarAmbient/Music in System/GalaxyMap tweaked.

New distance element added for delayed secondary explosions.

Added section to the logo-ident music to transition gracefully between pre-caching of shaders and menu.

Improved lift animations have improved sound also now.

Proximity alarm muted when stationary.

Added a bit more bass to Cannon fire.

The beamlaser had major low end issues when the beam connects to a target which has been fixed (and we could make the non-issued bass louder as a result!)

Added interactive mixing to combat music which responds to how much is going on; fights stay exciting throughout an engagement.

Volume tweak to ambiences in the system map.

Improved cockpit ambiences in Gutamaya and Saud Kruger ships.

Improvements to landing area atmosphere.

Multi-cannon is a little louder and 'clunkier'.

Improved target indicator sound to be less piercing at high volume.

Improved (slightly) Eagle and Vulture sounds.

Improved differentiation of small, medium and large explosions and redistributed these more evenly across ship types.

Improved Explosions so that they remain powerful/satisfying even when further away.

Added sound for when passive scan resolves target as wanted/unwanted.

Added slight delay to ship voice saying "Target Shields Offline" so the shield breaking audio is audible also.

Improvements to deploying/stowing weapons audio.

Light switching on/off is a little clunkier and audible.

Improved audibility on heat alarms.

Reversed the FSD cool-down sound as before it sounded too much like a prelude to a big event.

Improved audibility of mass lock, safe to disengage and speed warning sound.

Improved navigating the system map audio when using mouse.

Improved growl and orientation noises on the Asp, improved boost sound.

Safe to Disengage, Slow Down gui sounds so they are more distinct from each other.

Improved construction hubs; added construction ambiences to the bits that are under construction.

Slightly increased volume of inflicter impacts so they sit better in all mix modes.

Improved station forcefield in night time mode.

Fixed issues with hangar bay mechanical noises and landing gear.

Removed the "warning" from the no cargo voice asset.

Shieldboost and Shields going up/down should be audible on others again.

The explosion when your own ship goes down (booo!) was clipping (double booo!) so now it is at least a nice and clear booo-m!

Fixed sounds being cut out in the GUI when moving quickly over options.

Reinstated missing barrel sound on pulse lasers.

Paintjob audio is audible again.

Fixed missing audio on Beamlaser Turret medium/small.

Fixed some silly clicks on fuelscoop.

Fixed missing front thruster acceleration audio on Orca.

Fixed a bug that removed all bass from cargo pick up sounds.

Fixed missing super-cruise thunder.

Optimized beam impact sounds to reduce memory usage.

Set pulse laser mechanized elements to use different attenuation to help mix it on large ships.

Reverbs use less memory.

Optimisation pass on Black Box flight recorder.

Improved explosion usage of memory.

Reduced length of the Panel loop which saves memory.

SERVER SIDE

Increase mark up when selling illegal goods in black markets

Apply 10% price penalty when selling modules

Increased Vequess' tech level and stocked it with shields

Automatically apply the Sol permit in another situation

Reduced cooldowns on minor faction states: expansion, war, election

Increase minimum tech level required to activate the shipyard and outfitting shops

Reduced the bounty cap to 1 million credits per voucher

Rename some minor factions to make them more unique across the galaxy

Increased outfitting stock levels by 20%

Extremely high and extremely low faction reputations now slowly decay towards less extreme values

Make smuggling profits count towards trade ranks as well as crime ranks
rpmcmurphy Member EpicPosts: 3,502

May 2015

Really enjoying what I've seen so far, lots of great changes to the game. Hell, even mining looks kind of fun when using drones. Bounty hunting actually requires hunting, interdicting and killing as opposed to finding the right signal source. The AI has been improved quite significantly as well. Missions have local rep requirements as well as Pilot's Federation ranking and seem to scale much better. Game performance is also much better, overall FPS improvement, no stuttering in supercruise etc.

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