Week 19 (May 10th – 14th)

Hello everyone. Here are the progress notes of week 19 of 2021!

Please note that the “Progress Notes” are different from the Starbase Alpha “Patch Notes”. Progress Notes are snippets from the development team and what has been worked on during the previous week, and many of the features might not be present in the current or upcoming builds of the Closed Alpha. Some features, especially in the design portion, can be subject to change as the development continues.

Design

User Interface

• Interface design for Capital Ship screens continues
• Company medals design has been improved
• First version of shared ships in company has been finished, UI is in progress

Ship shops

• Changes in OKI 3 ship shop:
  • Removed: Mantis Hunter, Mantis Crusher, Mantis Brawler

Code

Gameplay

• Work on support for company owned ships and company ship access rights continues
• Optimizations for ship unloading have been worked on
• Fixes for station blueprint multiplayer have been worked on
• Several resource network related issues that caused unintentional resource consumptions have been fixed
• Thruster effects have been tweaked
• Cargo Beams no longer go through their own structures
• Lagging player poses have been fixed so that thrusters no longer incorrectly damage nearby players
• Resource Management UI showing cargo crate contents has been implemented
• Implementation of remaining functionality for animation locks has been worked on

In-game Designers

• Fix for an assert when copy-pasting multiple triangle thrusters in Spaceship Designer has been made

Art

Stations and Cities

• Sunny Ship Center’s holograms have been updated
• Landing platform holograms have been removed due to collision bug

Other

• Royal guard armorset textures have been updated
• Kingdom royal guard custom armorset color areas have been fixed
• Ship thruster FX now take ship’s velocity and direction into account
• Fixed an issue with Mounted Laser VFX not carrying beyond 500m
• Updates and optimizations to Mounted Laser Hit and Shoot VFX

Gallery

Don’t forget to join our official Starbase Forums and Starbase Discord for Starbase-related discussion and content!

See you next week! 🚀