Week 32 (August 3rd -7th)

Hello everyone! Here are the progress notes of week 32:

Design

Features

• Demolition Job: Pincer shipwreck has been designed and added to the spawn list
• Demolition Job: the scrap attractors position has been adjusted so collected parts won’t float through the floor
• Damage model tests and adjustments have been made
• 14 new ships have been added to the game’s economy configurations
• Inventory tooltips for items have been improved to include more information
• Design for Cosmetics Shop UI is underway
• Design for the ability to change the position and properties of quickbar(s) is underway
• Design for the ability to create custom advertisement signs in-game has been started

Stations / Lot Designer

• Robur station has been added for the on-going PVP event

Spaceship Designer

• New modules for Spaceship Designer are under design
• Material Tool has been tested and fixes and improvements requested
• Design for the ability to add decals to spaceships is underway

Other

• FCU (all models) and MFC now have matching device field names by default

Code

Gameplay

• Object thickness and hit angle now affect projectile damage
• Fixes made to scrap detection and deletion system
• Lifeline warp and stun are disabled upon an Insurance transfer, and locking a Lifeline-bound chair with a Cargo Frame unbinds it
• Tractor Beam related bugs disabled, needs a refactoring for proper multiplayer support
• Players standing on ship cargo no longer push the cargo (or the ship)
• An issue that prevented picking up welded beams has been fixed

User Interface

• Mining backpack now correctly updates its slots when using a shop
• Work on adding additional slots to backpack is underway
• Work on fixing levers not being droppable is underway
• Company Roster not sending group invites fixed
• Work on adding Audio support for Resource Bridges is underway

Audio

• Socket tool audio support added
• Cargo beam and frame audio support added
• Thruster sound tweaks have been made

Spaceship Designer

• Some of the bugs in the newly introduced station system have been fixed
• An issue where buying custom ships created new saves when they weren’t needed has been fixed
• Item descriptions should now show correctly in Spaceship Designer
• Paint tool brush visualizer now ignores hidden layers and raycasts hit the paintable parts
• Parts’ durability is now updated when material type is changed

Art

Animations and Emotes

• Work on updating all 1st person “relaxed” animations continues
• 1st person animations polished for: Antigel, Assault rifle, Battle rifle, Gauss rifle, Laser rifle and Rail rifle
• Emote_chestpound and emote_ayy are in the making

Stations/Lot Designer

• VIS HQ LOD and farLOD models updated to floors: Sky deck, Office, Office base, Generator room and Loading dock B
• Marketplace updates: “Observation deck” and “intersection room” LODs have been updated,  LODs have been created for exterior holograms

Weapons

• Reload effect has been made for Pistol
• Rail Rifle: the particle spawn and scale rates adjusted to work better at greater distances and a “shock/pulse” has been added to the weapon
• Flame Thrower: the particle spawn and scale rates adjusted to work better at greater distances
• Bolter: new reload added, particle spawn and scale rates updated to work better at greater distances and a “shock/pulse” has been added to the Bolter
• Long Rifle: reload and shockwave effect added, the distance settings of particles tweaked
• Mini Gun: reload and shoot exhaust added

Other

• Moon fogs adjusted to not be so heavy
• YOLOL chip should no longer clip through the device rack chip reader
• Dreadnought armor set texture quality polished and paint jobs updated
• Red Brigand unique armor set coloring adjusted slightly because of the Dreadnought paint job update
• Juggernaut armor set texture quality update in progress

Gallery of the week

Videos

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See you next week!🪐