Starsector - RT 2D indie space goodness

quaesta · Oct 28, 2022

Taka-Haradin puolipeikko said:

This thread makes me wanna replay Starsector, and this mod looks fun enough

cpmartins · Oct 28, 2022

quaesta said:
Taka-Haradin puolipeikko said:

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This thread makes me wanna replay Starsector, and this mod looks fun enough

I just finished a playthrough with UAF. The art is fantastic but it's completely unbalanced. Their frigates are so good I ended up doing a wolf-pack run and, by the end of it I had 14 of each of the little carriers and the front-liners. I was completely unstoppable. As in going against 4-5 ordo fleets at once and obliterating them without a single loss. It was fun though.

Black · Oct 28, 2022

cpmartins said:
it's completely unbalanced.

That's what stops me from trying out anything but QOL mods.

quaesta · Oct 28, 2022

Black said:
cpmartins said:

it's completely unbalanced.

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That's what stops me from trying out anything but QOL mods.

Really? I never mind unbalanced systems, as long as I can react in time and change my strategy.

Black · Oct 28, 2022

I just don't want to either get steamrolled or steamroll. Or rather I do, but because of me getting good at exploiting the game, not because the mod dev just went wild.

Commissar Draco · Jan 20, 2023

No update this december? Hope it won't be abandoned although actually lately I do play Star Valor instead a lot.

Technomancer · Jan 20, 2023

Commissar Draco said:
No update this december? Hope it won't be abandoned although actually lately I do play Star Valor instead a lot.

Update is soon. Like month or two soon. Still too fucking long.

Commissar Draco · Jan 26, 2023

Technomancer said:
Commissar Draco said:

No update this december? Hope it won't be abandoned although actually lately I do play Star Valor instead a lot.

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Update is soon. Like month or two soon. Still too fucking long.

Hurry up I want to play this before nukes fall.

thesecret1 · Jan 26, 2023

Been a long time since I last played. Did they improve on planet management? When I last played, it was trivial to essentially max out your planet

Modron · Jan 26, 2023

How long ago did you play? Because I am guessing you're only 1 patch behind or 2 at the most.

what am i doing · Jan 26, 2023

thesecret1 said:
Been a long time since I last played. Did they improve on planet management? When I last played, it was trivial to essentially max out your planet

Colonies are now capped at Size 6, aka 4 industries. So you can't just "build everything". There are more colony items, but they now come with restrictions or side effects, eg nanoforges add pollution (permanent) when used on worlds with Habitable, synchrotron cores and catalytic cores require No Atmosphere, etc. A rework to colony threats is coming next patch as well so instead of whack-a-mole with infinite pirate/pather bases, there's more of a gradual event chain that builds up and can be managed a few different ways.

I actually think it would be even better if they restricted players to only one size-6 colony (their capital), perhaps two size-5 colonies, and then everything else is limited to size 3 or 4 and classified as an outpost.

thesecret1 · Jan 26, 2023

Modron said:
How long ago did you play? Because I am guessing you're only 1 patch behind or 2 at the most.

I think it's about 3 years

what am i doing said:
thesecret1 said:

Been a long time since I last played. Did they improve on planet management? When I last played, it was trivial to essentially max out your planet

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Colonies are now capped at Size 6, aka 4 industries. So you can't just "build everything". There are more colony items, but they now come with restrictions or side effects, eg nanoforges add pollution (permanent) when used on worlds with Habitable, synchrotron cores and catalytic cores require No Atmosphere, etc. A rework to colony threats is coming next patch as well so instead of whack-a-mole with infinite pirate/pather bases, there's more of a gradual event chain that builds up and can be managed a few different ways.

I actually think it would be even better if they restricted players to only one size-6 colony (their capital), perhaps two size-5 colonies, and then everything else is limited to size 3 or 4 and classified as an outpost.

Thanks

Sarathiour · Jan 26, 2023

Also the incentive mechanism has been reworked, it's now an option that has to be checked, and if you do so, it applies a malus to the colony monetary gain depending on the hazard rating, but in turn negate the malus pop growth of hazard. You no longer throw a million cyberbrouzouf, because only old faction are allowed to have size 7 colonny.

Technomancer · Feb 2, 2023

Patch notes are here. No patch just yet.

Changes as of February 01, 2023

Campaign:

Added "The Usurpers" story mission

Added "Knight Errant" story mission

Added "The Pilgrim's Path" story mission

Added "major events" system

Each event tracks progress, from player actions and other wise

Various things happen as the event progresses

Added Hostile Activity "major event"

Handles various hostile fleets found in systems with your colonies

Multiple causes for hostile activity (use of AI cores, presence of a pirate base nearby, etc)

Different causes have different resolutions

If hostile activity is unchecked, colonies suffer penalties and eventually a major negative outcome of some sort (e.g. a raid or an act of Pather sabotage), after which there is a lull

Goal is to give the player more of a warning before major negative events, and a choice in whether they want to handle the resolve the causes individually to avert the negative outcomes, or to just fight hostile fleets and get it under control that way, without addressing the causes

Added "Hyperspace Topography" major event

Various player actions improve their knowledge of hyperspace, unlocking new bonuses

Slipstream detection around colonies

Much more efficient slipstream travel

Increased speed in hyperspace

Added Planetkiller and "Hostile Activity" related mission

Adjusted the compositions of most faction fleets

Factions now generally have capital ship(s) unique to them

And a more well-defined feel to the faction's fleets, overall

Specific weapons are now reliably found at specific faction markets/black markets

For example, the new directed-energy missiles can be found on Persean League colonies

Music:

Added new exploration music track when exploring non-core systems

Persean League now has its own music

Industries:

Commerce now adds a low-value, system-wide bounty while the hostile activity level is high enough

Added text to make your contacts easy to identify in the comm directory

Pressing F11 to hide the UI will now also hide the fleet circles

Certain high-end bounty will no longer be repeatable by abandoning the mission prior to attacking the target

Added "Missions" tag to "Analyze Entity" and "Survey Planet" missions

Ship recovery dialog now shows normal and story point recovery in the same screen

Displays up to 24 ships of each type, gets wider instead of taller

"Ship repairs completed" messages will now stack when many repairs finish at around the same time

Custom production limits increased to 100 units, regardless of ship/weapon size

Made some adjustments to the "bonus XP for battle difficulty" calculation that reins in the bonus for having just a single combat ship

Waystations now pull in a small quantity of Volatiles and Transplutonics

Officers for hire/from promotion will generally not share portraits with the player's existing officers (not guaranteed, not a bug if they do share it)

Cheap commodity mission: remote pickup of legal goods variation now requires other colony to not be hostile to the player

Bonus experience quadruples XP gains at max level instead of doubling them as normal

The Luddic Path no longer requires a military base to launch a punitive expedition

Added credit rewards to certain main-story missions

Accidents from zero CR that result in ship loss no longer cause loss of interesting/special cargo if over capacity

Added honorific selector to new game screen (sir/ma'am/captain)

AI cores in Domain derelict fleets now use Ballistic Mastery instead of Energy Mastery

Salamander MRM will not be mounted on derelict drones during the tutorial

Contact bounty intel items are now tagged with the target's faction, in addition to the normal tags

Galatia Academy story missions: made minor additions to various obscure dialog options

Added new player-selectable portraits

Added new illustrations to various planets and situations

Significantly reduced impact of d-mods on NPC-vs-NPC fights and on the "danger-to-the-player" estimate

Combat:

Added option to disable screen whiteout for large ship explosions

Whiteout no longer obscures the command UI (still obscures ship combat UI)

Improved ship explosion visual effect

Termination Sequence: missile changed to not deal friendly fire damage when it explodes

When the ship is overloaded or venting, the raise shields/phase cloak command will be buffered if it was issued within 0.2 seconds of the overload/vent ending

Disabled weapons will be shown in red on the selected group's weapon list (*not* in list of all weapon groups)

Reserve Deployment, for ships with only one fighter bay, now:

At least doubles wing size (minimum +2 craft)

Fighter replacement rate reduction is 15% instead of 25%

Added message explaining what's going on and what to do when there's no flagship deployed and the player starts in the command shuttle

Also improved visibility/clarity of the "nothing is deployed" message

And added a similar prompt to transfer command when the flagship is destroyed

Command points are no longer refunded when the last order given during a pause is cancelled

(Fundamental problem in that the same sequence of orders and a cancel could be a legitimate order or a "never mind")

Improved visual effect for Reaper torpedo explosions

Miscellaneous:

Autofit:

Will no longer puts flux distributor/coil adjunct on ships that could spend the ordnance points on more vents/caps instead, even if the hullmod is in the target variant

Added warning when resulting variant has too few weapons or fighters to be effective

Added "useSoftwareMouseCursor" option in data/config/settings.json

Ordering an individual ship to retreat no longer requires a command point or opens the command frequency if that ship is out of peak time

Fixed screen scaling issue with TOP SECRET minigame

Linux startup script: added shebang

Increased max permgen size to 128m

Added explicit hull size designation to ship tooltips

Made background of refit screen a bit darker and less busy-looking

Added a "generate ship name" button to the refit screen

If the current name does not match the faction's ship prefix, it will update the name instead

Ships:

Added Apex-class Heavy Droneship

Added Nova-class Drone Battlecruiser

Added Pegasus-class Battleship (midline)

Added Executor-class Battleship (version of the Pegasus)

Added Invictus-class Dreadnought (low tech)

Added Retribution-class Battlecruiser (low tech)

Added Lion's Guard versions of several midline ships

Added Venture (P)

Replaced mining drone with large missile slot pointing backwards

Medium missile slots changed to ballistic

Added Manticore (LP)

Large slot changed to missile

Medium slots changed to ballistic

Replaced built-in rangefinder with Safety Overrides

Added Venture (LP)

System changed to Orion Device

Medium missile slots changed to composite

Brawler(LP): Increased deployment and maintenance cost to 6 (was: 5)

Brilliant:

Changed system to Plasma Burn

Reduced shield upkeep to 0.4 (was: 0.5)

Removed fighter bay

Fulgent: added built-in Energy Bolt Coherer (increases base non-beam energy/hybrid weapon range)

Apogee: increased deployment/maintenance supply cost to 20 (was: 18)

Eagle:

Reduced deployment/maintenance supply cost to 18 (was: 22)

Increased base flux dissipation to 700 (was: 600)

Increased speed to 60 (was: 50), slightly increased acceleration

Reduced base cost to 100k credits (was: 120k)

Vigilance:

Increased hitpoints to 1750 (was: 1500)

Increased flux capacity to 2500 (was: 2000)

Eradicator: increased deployment/maintenance supply cost to 22 (was: 20)

Eradicator (P): increased cost from 17 to 18

Legion: increased ordnance points to 300 (was: 260)

Legion (XIV) increased ordnance points to 310 (was: 270)

Gemini:

Removed built-in Civilian-grade Hull

Increased ordnance points to 85 (was: 75)

Increased top speed to 60 (was: 50)

Adjusted stock variant

Changed starting Wolf variant to have the Pulse Laser on autofire (thanks, ZiggyD!)

Hyperion:

Reduced mass to 200 (was: 300); affects ship/ship and ship/asteroid collisions etc

Added built-in Delicate Machinery

Phase Teleporter:

No longer requires 0-flux boost

Cooldown increased to 15 seconds (was: 10)

Medusa:

Increased ordnance points to 100 (was: 95)

Habringer:

Increased top speed to 100 (was: 80)

Reduced maintenance and deployment supply costs to 18 (was: 20)

Updated Conquest sprite

Various other old ship sprites adjusted/improved

Fighters:

Added Sarissa-class Support Fighter

Zero roam range, always tries to stay in front of parent ship

Armed with a Canister Flak system and two Light Autocannons

Weapons:

Hit glow from Burst PD Laser and Heavy Burst Laser now brightens more quickly

Hurricane MIRV:

Increased submunition accuracy

Reduced number of submunitions by to 7 (was: 9)

Added IR Autolance energy weapon

Medium mount, beam weapon, low ordnance point cost

Uses charges

Fragmentation damage at 1000 range

High burst but low sustained DPS

Added Gorgon DEM SRM (small), Gorgon SRM Pod (medium)

Missile fires a laser from a good distance away from the target

Added Gazer DEM SRM (small), Gazer SRM Pod (medium)

Missile fires a 10-second graviton beam from long range

Added Dragonfire Torpedo (medium), Dragonfire Torpedo Pod (large)

Missile fires an extremely high damage, bomb-pumped laster from medium-long range

Added Hydra MDEM (large missile)

Splits into 6 warheads that flank the target and fire medium-damage lasers from both sides

Added Pilum LRM Catapult (large missile)

Low ordnance point cost

Fires 6 Pilums; has a higher overall RoF and ammo regeneration than two medium Pilum LRMs

Added Jackhammer (medium missile)

Fires 3-shot bursts of Hammer-class torpedoes

Lower-than-usual ammo and OP cost

Changed Rift Cascade Emitter explosions to be affected by energy weapon damage modifiers instead of missile ones

Squall MLRS:

Reduced base damage to 100 (was: 250)

Base damage increased to 250 when impacting shields (this then gets doubled by the kinetic damage multiplier)

Breach SRM: missile and weapon sprites adjusted to look more at home on high-tech ships

Typhoon Reaper Launcher: increased ammo to 7 (was: 5)

Cyclone Reaper Launcher:

Reduced delay between the two torpedoes in the salvo to 0.25 seconds (was: 1)

Full cycle time remains at 10 seconds

Missile is accelerated to full speed prior to leaving the launch tube

Hephaestus Assault Gun: halved recoil

Added two new weapons (Kinetic Blaster and Gigacannon), only available to/from the Lion's Guard

Updated Swarmer SMR description to better suit its intended role

LR PD Laser: reduced ordnance point cost to 4 (was: 5)

Burst PD Laser:

Reduced ordnance point cost to 6 (was: 7)

Increased max charges to 4 (was: 3)

Heavy Burst Laser:

Reduced OP cost to 9 (was: 11)

Increased max charges to 6 (was: 5)

Increased damage by a little over 10%

Removed ability to ignore decoy flares

Graviton Beam: 1/2/3 or more full-strength beams hitting shields increases all anti-shield damage dealt to the target (including by other ships) by 5/8/10%

Ion Beam: reduced flux/second to 150 (was: 200)

Pulse Laser:

Improved flux efficiency to 0.8 (was: 1.0)

Added to base blueprint package

Mining Laser:

Reduced OP cost to 1

Mount type changed to HYBRID (can be mounted in ballistic, energy, and hybrid slots)

Mining Blaster:

Changed to use regenerating charges, maximum of 4

Damage changed to 200 damage per shot, plus 100 armor-only damage

Damage type changed to High Explosive

Flux/shot is 300

Mount type changed to HYBRID (can be mounted in ballistic, energy, and hybrid slots)

Tactical Laser: reduced flux/second to 60 (was: 75)

Proxmimity Charge Launcher:

Added some inaccuracy to the direction of the launch

No longer affected by missile flight time and speed/acceleration modifiers

(Previously, ECCM Package would actually reduce its range)

Hullmods:

Many hullmods now have special effects when built into the hull using a story point

Cheaper hullmods have stronger bonuses

Hullmods costing around 5/10/15/25 ordnance points generally don't have an extra effect

Hullmods costing significantly more have relatively light penalties

As of this writing, there are 3 of those

Logistics hullmods have a significant bonus regardless of their cost (since it's still a sacrifice in combat power)

Bonus XP granted by building hullmods in is now 75/50/25/0% for frigates/destroyers/cruisers/capitals

Changed Unstable Injector description to clarify that it does not affect missile weapon range

Faulty Automated Systems: now increases crew requirements by only 50% (was: 100%)

Ballistic Rangefinder: tooltip grays out the not-currently-applicable bonus

New hullmod: Defensive Targeting Array

Increases fighter damage vs missiles and other fighters by 50%

Reduces fighter roam range to zero

Costs 2/4/6/10 ordnance points

Neural Integrator and Neural Interface modspecs should not longer drop

Rugged Construction:

Now also reduces the supply cost to recover from deployment by 50%

Multiplicative with similar bonus from having d-mods on a hull

New hullmod: Missile Autoloader

Reloads small missile weapons only, a limited number of times, out of a shared pool

Weapons that cost more OP generally require more points to reload

Reload capacity larger for ships that have very few small missile mounts relative to their size

Does not affect small missile weapons mounted in other types of slots (e.g. synergy, etc)

Integrated Point Defense AI:

Cost reduced to 3/6/9/15 (was: 4/8/12/20)

Gives abilty to ignore decoy flares and +50% damage to missiles

Converting small weapons to PD is now the s-mod effect bonus

High Resolution Sensors: changed cost to 4/6/9/15 (was: 9/9/9/15)

Shield Shunt, Makeshift Shield Generator:

Now incompatible with each other

Shield Shunt can be built in (and has an extra armor bonus effect when built in with a story point)

Ballistic Rangefinder: rephrased some things in the tooltip for clarity

Ship AI:

Made some improvements in behavior of shieldless ships being too cautious about closing in to an enemy that's about to explode

Fixed issue that sometimes caused ships to vent while under actually-significant fire

Fixed issue where it was not seeing MIRV submunitions as dangerous for some calculations

Fixed issue that could cause it to fire non-anti-fighter kinetic missiles at enemy fighters

Fixed issue that could cause it to fire missiles (including torpedos) at overloaded fighters

Fixed issue that could cause phase ships trying to move to a location to unphase inside a friendly ship

More willing to fire anti-armor missiles (i.e. the Breach SRM)

More willing to keep autofire on for unshielded non-phase ships

Made aware of when missile hardpoints are off-center and willing to accept greater potential inaccuracy when firing these

Mostly affects torpedoes and similar, e.g. in the medium mounts on the Venture

Fixed issue where the AI would sometimes turn autofire off on a group when its weapons were mid-burst, sometimes causing the firing weapons to turn away from the target

Improved danger detection from mines

Added a little extra radius where the AI considers them "dangerous"

Aware of the presence of nearby enemy fighters and asteroids that might trigger the mine early

Fixed issue that caused the AI to actually just ignore own mines that triggered by proximity and not timeout

Fixed issue that caused the AI to ignore own mines that were drifting even slightly away from it

The Doom friendly fire (especially self-friendly-fire) issues *should* be resolved

The issue where the AI would continue to shield towards a phased Doom while getting hit by mines from behind should be resolved, as well

Fixed issue where it was sometimes setting escort-only fighters to engage, losing the 0-flux bonus for no reason

More willing to close in against about-to-explode enemies when shields are up and facing the right way

Increased importance of STRIKE weapons for deciding when to use High Energy Focus and similar ship systems, made other minor improvements to deciding when to use the system

Fixed issue that could cause ships to refuse to engage when given an eliminate order and some specific numbers/sizes of ships on each side

This also applies more broadly to the "reckless" personality, making it more aggressive

And to "Full Assault!" as well

Now aware of using phase cloak to recharge weapons/get rid of soft flux more quickly

Will do this as the primary tactic, instead of trying to phase through and get behind the enemy, if:

The ship is a destroyer and its target is at least as big

The ship is a cruiser or a capital ship

Phase Anchor enhances this tactic, but is not required to trigger it, except as a very occasional use by frigates (which still prefer to phase through the enemy, regardless)

Phase ships will occasionally make the risky decision to vent in an unsafe spot if they're under a lot of pressure, trying to disengage, and there are no nearby allies to hide behind

More willing to expend multiple torpedo type (i.e. STRIKE) missiles on an overloaded/venting target

Phase Teleporter:

Fixed issue where it favored going left in certain situations

Now prefers to go in the desired direction given what the ship is trying to do

Made some minor improvements in how ships interact when ordered to go to a single waypoint

Improved threat assessment (some ships that were realistically not a thread could be counted as one)

Improved facing selection when escorting a friendly ship; will turn towards a specific target under more circumstances

Modding:

Fixed issue with certain BuffManager buffs only apply in combat erratically

Added to SettingsAPI:

WeaponSlotAPI createWeaponSlot(String id, WeaponType weaponType, WeaponSize slotSize, String slotTypeStr, String nodeId, Vector2f nodePos, float angle, float arc);

Added to ShipHullSpecAPI:

void setDescriptionPrefix(String descriptionPrefix);

WeaponSlotAPI getWeaponSlot(String slotId);

Added to ShieldSpecAPI:

void setRingColor(Color color);

void setInnerColor(Color innerColor);

Added to WeaponSlotAPI:

boolean isWeaponSlot();

Added "unrestorable" tag to hulls and variants

Added to WeaponAPI:

float getRefireDelay();

Added USE_LESS_VS_SHIELDS weapon hint

For weapons with charges: autofire will not use more than 20% of charges against shields

Otherwise: will not autofire at shields at all

No effect on the AI if it's manually selecting the weapon to fire

Does not apply when the target is a fighter

Added "no_autofit_unless_player" tag to hulls and variants

Added CombatUIAPI.areWeaponArcsOn()

Added "playFullFireSoundOne" to beam weapons; will make sure intro sound does not fade out and finishes playing even if the beam stops firing

Added to WeaponSpecAPI:

void setBeamSpeed(float beamSpeed);

void setMaxAmmo(int maxAmmo);

void setAmmoPerSecond(float ammoPerSecond);

float getReloadSize();

void setReloadSize(float reloadSize);

Added ProjectileWeaponSpecAPI

Check "instanceof" on a WeaponSpecAPI, then can cast to this

Methods:

float getEnergyPerShot();

void setEnergyPerShot(float energyPerShot);

float getRefireDelay();

void setRefireDelay(float refireDelay);

int getBurstSize();

void setBurstSize(int burstSize);

boolean isInterruptibleBurst();

void setInterruptibleBurst(boolean interruptibleBurst);

float getBurstDelay();

void setBurstDelay(float burstDelay);

float getMinSpread();

void setMinSpread(float minSpread);

float getMaxSpread();

void setMaxSpread(float maxSpread);

float getSpreadDecayRate();

void setSpreadDecayRate(float spreadDecayRate);

float getSpreadBuildup();

void setSpreadBuildup(float spreadBuildup);

boolean isAutoCharge();

void setAutoCharge(boolean autoCharge);

float getEnergyPerSecond();

void setEnergyPerSecond(float energyPerSecond);

boolean isRequiresFullCharge();

void setRequiresFullCharge(boolean requiresFullCharge);

float getProjectileSpeed(MutableShipStatsAPI shipStats, WeaponAPI weapon);

void setProjectileSpeed(float projectileSpeed);

boolean isSeparateRecoilForLinkedBarrels();

void setSeparateRecoilForLinkedBarrels(boolean individualLinkedRecoil);

Object getProjectileSpec();

float getChargeTime();

void setChargeTime(float chargeTime);

String getHardpointGunSpriteName();

void setHardpointGunSpriteName(String hardpointGunSpriteName);

String getTurretGunSpriteName();

void setTurretGunSpriteName(String turretGunSpriteName);

String getHardpointGlowSpriteName();

void setTurretGlowSpriteName(String turretGlowSpriteName);

String getTurretGlowSpriteName();

void setHardpointGlowSpriteName(String hardpointGlowSpriteName);

float getVisualRecoil();

void setVisualRecoil(float visualRecoil);

String getAccuracyDisplayName();

FleetCreatorMission.createFleet() method now returns fleets without a MissionFleetAutoDespawn script being added to them

Added PlanetAPI.changeType()

Added to CargoAPI:

boolean isUnlimitedStacks();

void setUnlimitedStacks(boolean unlimitedStacks);

Added no_auto_penalty tag (hulls and variants); ship does not get the CR penalty from Automated hullmod

Ships with the "unrestorable" tag are no longer affected by the Hull Restoration skill

Added retain_smods_on_recovery tag (hulls and variants)

Fixed issue where a torpedo impacting a module's shield could damage the body of the ship

Added to SettingsAPI:

JSONArray getMergedSpreadsheetData(String idColumn, String path)

JSONObject getMergedJSON(String path)

Added to CampaignUIAPI:

float getMinZoomFactor();

float getMaxZoomFactor();

void setMinZoomFactor(float min);

void setMaxZoomFactor(float max);

List<WeaponSpecAPI> getSystemWeaponSpecs();

Added HubMissionWithTriggers.triggerSetFleetCombatFleetPoints() to allow directly setting fleet point value for fleet

Added "useOldShipExplosions" to settings.json to use original ship explosion visuals

Added combatExplosionNonFlashColorOverride" to hull_styles.json, controls the color of the ship destruction explosion - not the smooth particle flash, but the more irregular part underneath

Added to ShipAPI:

boolean isForceHideFFOverlay();

void setForceHideFFOverlay(boolean forceHideFFOverlay);

Allows force-hiding the friend-or-foe overlay

Note: the "module_no_status_bar" tag can be added to the variant to hide the hull/flux bars

Carriers whose fighter range has been modified to 0 for all wings will now always keep them "pulled back"

Added FactionSpecAPI

Added SettingsAPI.getFactionSpec(String id)

Added FactionAPI.getFactionSpec()

Added to IntelUIAPI:

void saveSmallDescScrollState();

void restoreSmallDescScrollState();

Added ScrollPanelAPI:

float getXOffset();

float getYOffset();

void setXOffset(float xOffset);

void setYOffset(float yOffset);

Added to TooltipMakerAPI:

void setExternalScroller(ScrollPanelAPI scroller);

ScrollPanelAPI getExternalScroller();

Only set if added using CustomPanelAPI.addUIElement()

IntelUIAPI.selectItem(null) should now hide the detail for any intel that was previously selected

SubmarketPlugin.getTariffTextOverride() and similar methods can now be implemented one at a time, implementing all of them is not required

Addressed ship module duplication/replacement issue caused by adjusting weapon groups from the "you haven't adjusted the weapon groups since making changes" help popup

Fixed issue with fighters from main body of station showing up on station tooltip

Added to WeaponAPI:

void setWeaponGlowWidthMult(float weaponGlowWidthMult);

void setWeaponGlowHeightMult(float weaponGlowHeightMult);

Added "cjkMode" to settings.json; enables special line-wrapping support for Chinese/Japanese/Korean fonts

Added weapon tags: reload_1pt through reload_6pt, and no_reload, to override default MissileAutoloader point values

Added to TooltipMakerAPI:

void setButtonFontOrbitron20();

void setButtonFontOrbitron20Bold();

void setButtonFontOrbitron24();

void setButtonFontOrbitron24Bold();

Added to ButtonAPI:

float getGlowBrightness();

void setGlowBrightness(float glowBrightness);

Added to MissileAPI:

MutableShipStatsAPI.getStats();

TextFieldAPI now extends UIComponentAPI

Added to ButtonAPI:

void setText(String text);

String getText();

Bugfixing:

Fixed issue with Hull Restoration's modification of ship recovery probability

Fixed issue with hullmods that can't be built in sometimes showing up as s-mods on derelict ships

Removed point-defense flag from Proximity Charge Launcher; will no longer auto-target missiles

Fixed issue where derelicts with s-mods would always have 3 s-mods instead of 1, 2, or 3

Added "irradiated" condition to Hanan Pacha

Fixed "retrain" option being available when you have no story points

Fixed issue that could cause the Targeting Feed ship system to not be used by the AI when using certain fighters against large ships

Fixed engine placement on the Prometheus Mk.II

Fixed issue where viewing a custom production report while the ship is already in your fleet could briefly reset its combat readiness to zero

Fixed issue with certain randomly generated missions still targeting locations they shouldn't

Fixed issue where it was possible to fire while using certain ship systems (like Fortress Shield) by pausing the game, holding down the fire button, and unpausing

Fixed issue where certain random missions could target the Cryosleeper and be uncompletable because it's impossible to salvage it

Fixed issue with Sabot SRM (Single) being available in the base blueprint package

Fixed issue where hull damage would be instantly repaired when a ship with undamaged armor (but damaged hull) was deployed into combat

Fixed issue where damage from some EMP arcs would receive damage modifiers from the wrong source

Fixed issue with bar/contact mission frequency

Fixed issue with ship weapons being about 20% cheaper to buy than intended

Fixed issue where it was possible to put the player character in command of an automated ship

Fixed issue that was causing the weapon-range effect of ECCM Package to not apply

Fixed "cheap commodity" mission never offering a local variation

Fixed a few consistency issues with ship recovery when replaying the same battle

Fixed issue with allied fleet flagship being reset when the player joins a battle

Integrated Point Defense AI no longer flags strike weapons as point-defense; they would not autofire at missiles anyway

Fixed issues where raid marine casualties were higher than intended due to including "increased defender preparedness" for multiple raids to the initial raid as well

Fixed rare bug that could cause certain slipstreams to look like that old scream meme

Fixed issue causing enemy ships to not be given retreat orders when on low CR

(Hopefully) fixed rare crash caused by the Tempest's ship system and anything similar

Fixed issue where the same station could be targeted for both a normal and a more difficult bounty

Fixed issue with stations targeted by a bounty not showing the "mission-important" marker

Fixed rare fleet command tutorial crash

Fixed ship recovery dialog ship tooltip sometimes not reflecting the effect of Crew Training and similar

Player will now retain the Janus Device (and any other mission-important items) when they lose their entire fleet

Fixed several issues with autofit requiring several applications to get all the hullmods onto the ship under some circumstances

Fixed issue where joining a battle with a friendly station sometimes resulted in the battle ending immediately with no option to pursue

Fixed issue where switching from the hullmod picker dialog to the built-in dialog while hovering over the OP bar caused the tooltip to remain on top of the UI until the game was reloaded

Fixed issue that caused off-screen fleet members in the pre-combat dialog to still show tooltips on mouseover

Fixed it being possible to get the Red Planet mission multiple times (though only completable once)

Fixed sprite blurriness in several weapon sprites due to odd-numbered width/height

Fixed blueprint intel mission not completing properly when blueprint was gained from a derelict by recovering it instead of salvaging it

Fixed issue with habitable moons sometimes appearing in Duzahk and other core systems (really, this time)

pizza_microwave · Feb 2, 2023

holy fuck we finally got rid of the flashbang holyness affecting UI. alex might not be that retarded

tindrli · Feb 3, 2023

update indeed!

LizardWizard · Feb 4, 2023

pizza_microwave said:
alex might not be that retarded

Maybe, his hull mod changes are questionable and straight up stealing from modders at this point. Not sure why he hates money though.

Black said:
cpmartins said:

it's completely unbalanced.

Click to expand...

That's what stops me from trying out anything but QOL mods.

UAF is completely unbalanced weebshite.

Not surprised codexers are praising it.

Serus · Feb 4, 2023

LizardWizard said:
pizza_microwave said:

alex might not be that retarded

Click to expand...

Maybe, his hull mod changes are questionable and straight up stealing from modders at this point. Not sure why he hates money though.

Black said:

cpmartins said:

it's completely unbalanced.

Click to expand...

That's what stops me from trying out anything but QOL mods.

Click to expand...

UAF is completely unbalanced weebshite.

Not surprised codexers are praising it.

Wrote a guy answering to a Codexers who just said that he doesn't play unbalanced mods at all.

Not surprised a Codexer wrote it. :smug:

How is this game an ar-pee-gee? I played it a few years back and was no ar-pee-gee at all in this.

Harthwain · Feb 4, 2023

Serus said:
How is this game an ar-pee-gee? I played it a few years back and was no ar-pee-gee at all in this.

It has combat.

Seriously though, I guess this is because it has skills and reputation that can impact your playthrough (let's say you're trying to smuggle something and get caught), and it resembles Space Rangers in some ways, which is undoubtedly considered an RPG.

It's also called "open-world single-player space-combat, roleplaying, exploration, and economic game" by the developer on his site (source: https://fractalsoftworks.com/).

Modron · Feb 4, 2023

We should start betting on 1.0's release date, I'll go with an optimistic 5 years.

cpmartins · Feb 5, 2023

Technomancer said:
Patch notes are here. No patch just yet.

Changes as of February 01, 2023

Campaign:

Added "The Usurpers" story mission

Added "Knight Errant" story mission

Added "The Pilgrim's Path" story mission

Added "major events" system

Each event tracks progress, from player actions and other wise

Various things happen as the event progresses

Added Hostile Activity "major event"

Handles various hostile fleets found in systems with your colonies

Multiple causes for hostile activity (use of AI cores, presence of a pirate base nearby, etc)

Different causes have different resolutions

If hostile activity is unchecked, colonies suffer penalties and eventually a major negative outcome of some sort (e.g. a raid or an act of Pather sabotage), after which there is a lull

Goal is to give the player more of a warning before major negative events, and a choice in whether they want to handle the resolve the causes individually to avert the negative outcomes, or to just fight hostile fleets and get it under control that way, without addressing the causes

Added "Hyperspace Topography" major event

Various player actions improve their knowledge of hyperspace, unlocking new bonuses

Slipstream detection around colonies

Much more efficient slipstream travel

Increased speed in hyperspace

Added Planetkiller and "Hostile Activity" related mission

Adjusted the compositions of most faction fleets

Factions now generally have capital ship(s) unique to them

And a more well-defined feel to the faction's fleets, overall

Specific weapons are now reliably found at specific faction markets/black markets

For example, the new directed-energy missiles can be found on Persean League colonies

Music:

Added new exploration music track when exploring non-core systems

Persean League now has its own music

Industries:

Commerce now adds a low-value, system-wide bounty while the hostile activity level is high enough

Added text to make your contacts easy to identify in the comm directory

Pressing F11 to hide the UI will now also hide the fleet circles

Certain high-end bounty will no longer be repeatable by abandoning the mission prior to attacking the target

Added "Missions" tag to "Analyze Entity" and "Survey Planet" missions

Ship recovery dialog now shows normal and story point recovery in the same screen

Displays up to 24 ships of each type, gets wider instead of taller

"Ship repairs completed" messages will now stack when many repairs finish at around the same time

Custom production limits increased to 100 units, regardless of ship/weapon size

Made some adjustments to the "bonus XP for battle difficulty" calculation that reins in the bonus for having just a single combat ship

Waystations now pull in a small quantity of Volatiles and Transplutonics

Officers for hire/from promotion will generally not share portraits with the player's existing officers (not guaranteed, not a bug if they do share it)

Cheap commodity mission: remote pickup of legal goods variation now requires other colony to not be hostile to the player

Bonus experience quadruples XP gains at max level instead of doubling them as normal

The Luddic Path no longer requires a military base to launch a punitive expedition

Added credit rewards to certain main-story missions

Accidents from zero CR that result in ship loss no longer cause loss of interesting/special cargo if over capacity

Added honorific selector to new game screen (sir/ma'am/captain)

AI cores in Domain derelict fleets now use Ballistic Mastery instead of Energy Mastery

Salamander MRM will not be mounted on derelict drones during the tutorial

Contact bounty intel items are now tagged with the target's faction, in addition to the normal tags

Galatia Academy story missions: made minor additions to various obscure dialog options

Added new player-selectable portraits

Added new illustrations to various planets and situations

Significantly reduced impact of d-mods on NPC-vs-NPC fights and on the "danger-to-the-player" estimate

Combat:

Added option to disable screen whiteout for large ship explosions

Whiteout no longer obscures the command UI (still obscures ship combat UI)

Improved ship explosion visual effect

Termination Sequence: missile changed to not deal friendly fire damage when it explodes

When the ship is overloaded or venting, the raise shields/phase cloak command will be buffered if it was issued within 0.2 seconds of the overload/vent ending

Disabled weapons will be shown in red on the selected group's weapon list (*not* in list of all weapon groups)

Reserve Deployment, for ships with only one fighter bay, now:

At least doubles wing size (minimum +2 craft)

Fighter replacement rate reduction is 15% instead of 25%

Added message explaining what's going on and what to do when there's no flagship deployed and the player starts in the command shuttle

Also improved visibility/clarity of the "nothing is deployed" message

And added a similar prompt to transfer command when the flagship is destroyed

Command points are no longer refunded when the last order given during a pause is cancelled

(Fundamental problem in that the same sequence of orders and a cancel could be a legitimate order or a "never mind")

Improved visual effect for Reaper torpedo explosions

Miscellaneous:

Autofit:

Will no longer puts flux distributor/coil adjunct on ships that could spend the ordnance points on more vents/caps instead, even if the hullmod is in the target variant

Added warning when resulting variant has too few weapons or fighters to be effective

Added "useSoftwareMouseCursor" option in data/config/settings.json

Ordering an individual ship to retreat no longer requires a command point or opens the command frequency if that ship is out of peak time

Fixed screen scaling issue with TOP SECRET minigame

Linux startup script: added shebang

Increased max permgen size to 128m

Added explicit hull size designation to ship tooltips

Made background of refit screen a bit darker and less busy-looking

Added a "generate ship name" button to the refit screen

If the current name does not match the faction's ship prefix, it will update the name instead

Ships:

Added Apex-class Heavy Droneship

Added Nova-class Drone Battlecruiser

Added Pegasus-class Battleship (midline)

Added Executor-class Battleship (version of the Pegasus)

Added Invictus-class Dreadnought (low tech)

Added Retribution-class Battlecruiser (low tech)

Added Lion's Guard versions of several midline ships

Added Venture (P)

Replaced mining drone with large missile slot pointing backwards

Medium missile slots changed to ballistic

Added Manticore (LP)

Large slot changed to missile

Medium slots changed to ballistic

Replaced built-in rangefinder with Safety Overrides

Added Venture (LP)

System changed to Orion Device

Medium missile slots changed to composite

Brawler(LP): Increased deployment and maintenance cost to 6 (was: 5)

Brilliant:

Changed system to Plasma Burn

Reduced shield upkeep to 0.4 (was: 0.5)

Removed fighter bay

Fulgent: added built-in Energy Bolt Coherer (increases base non-beam energy/hybrid weapon range)

Apogee: increased deployment/maintenance supply cost to 20 (was: 18)

Eagle:

Reduced deployment/maintenance supply cost to 18 (was: 22)

Increased base flux dissipation to 700 (was: 600)

Increased speed to 60 (was: 50), slightly increased acceleration

Reduced base cost to 100k credits (was: 120k)

Vigilance:

Increased hitpoints to 1750 (was: 1500)

Increased flux capacity to 2500 (was: 2000)

Eradicator: increased deployment/maintenance supply cost to 22 (was: 20)

Eradicator (P): increased cost from 17 to 18

Legion: increased ordnance points to 300 (was: 260)

Legion (XIV) increased ordnance points to 310 (was: 270)

Gemini:

Removed built-in Civilian-grade Hull

Increased ordnance points to 85 (was: 75)

Increased top speed to 60 (was: 50)

Adjusted stock variant

Changed starting Wolf variant to have the Pulse Laser on autofire (thanks, ZiggyD!)

Hyperion:

Reduced mass to 200 (was: 300); affects ship/ship and ship/asteroid collisions etc

Added built-in Delicate Machinery

Phase Teleporter:

No longer requires 0-flux boost

Cooldown increased to 15 seconds (was: 10)

Medusa:

Increased ordnance points to 100 (was: 95)

Habringer:

Increased top speed to 100 (was: 80)

Reduced maintenance and deployment supply costs to 18 (was: 20)

Updated Conquest sprite

Various other old ship sprites adjusted/improved

Fighters:

Added Sarissa-class Support Fighter

Zero roam range, always tries to stay in front of parent ship

Armed with a Canister Flak system and two Light Autocannons

Weapons:

Hit glow from Burst PD Laser and Heavy Burst Laser now brightens more quickly

Hurricane MIRV:

Increased submunition accuracy

Reduced number of submunitions by to 7 (was: 9)

Added IR Autolance energy weapon

Medium mount, beam weapon, low ordnance point cost

Uses charges

Fragmentation damage at 1000 range

High burst but low sustained DPS

Added Gorgon DEM SRM (small), Gorgon SRM Pod (medium)

Missile fires a laser from a good distance away from the target

Added Gazer DEM SRM (small), Gazer SRM Pod (medium)

Missile fires a 10-second graviton beam from long range

Added Dragonfire Torpedo (medium), Dragonfire Torpedo Pod (large)

Missile fires an extremely high damage, bomb-pumped laster from medium-long range

Added Hydra MDEM (large missile)

Splits into 6 warheads that flank the target and fire medium-damage lasers from both sides

Added Pilum LRM Catapult (large missile)

Low ordnance point cost

Fires 6 Pilums; has a higher overall RoF and ammo regeneration than two medium Pilum LRMs

Added Jackhammer (medium missile)

Fires 3-shot bursts of Hammer-class torpedoes

Lower-than-usual ammo and OP cost

Changed Rift Cascade Emitter explosions to be affected by energy weapon damage modifiers instead of missile ones

Squall MLRS:

Reduced base damage to 100 (was: 250)

Base damage increased to 250 when impacting shields (this then gets doubled by the kinetic damage multiplier)

Breach SRM: missile and weapon sprites adjusted to look more at home on high-tech ships

Typhoon Reaper Launcher: increased ammo to 7 (was: 5)

Cyclone Reaper Launcher:

Reduced delay between the two torpedoes in the salvo to 0.25 seconds (was: 1)

Full cycle time remains at 10 seconds

Missile is accelerated to full speed prior to leaving the launch tube

Hephaestus Assault Gun: halved recoil

Added two new weapons (Kinetic Blaster and Gigacannon), only available to/from the Lion's Guard

Updated Swarmer SMR description to better suit its intended role

LR PD Laser: reduced ordnance point cost to 4 (was: 5)

Burst PD Laser:

Reduced ordnance point cost to 6 (was: 7)

Increased max charges to 4 (was: 3)

Heavy Burst Laser:

Reduced OP cost to 9 (was: 11)

Increased max charges to 6 (was: 5)

Increased damage by a little over 10%

Removed ability to ignore decoy flares

Graviton Beam: 1/2/3 or more full-strength beams hitting shields increases all anti-shield damage dealt to the target (including by other ships) by 5/8/10%

Ion Beam: reduced flux/second to 150 (was: 200)

Pulse Laser:

Improved flux efficiency to 0.8 (was: 1.0)

Added to base blueprint package

Mining Laser:

Reduced OP cost to 1

Mount type changed to HYBRID (can be mounted in ballistic, energy, and hybrid slots)

Mining Blaster:

Changed to use regenerating charges, maximum of 4

Damage changed to 200 damage per shot, plus 100 armor-only damage

Damage type changed to High Explosive

Flux/shot is 300

Mount type changed to HYBRID (can be mounted in ballistic, energy, and hybrid slots)

Tactical Laser: reduced flux/second to 60 (was: 75)

Proxmimity Charge Launcher:

Added some inaccuracy to the direction of the launch

No longer affected by missile flight time and speed/acceleration modifiers

(Previously, ECCM Package would actually reduce its range)

Hullmods:

Many hullmods now have special effects when built into the hull using a story point

Cheaper hullmods have stronger bonuses

Hullmods costing around 5/10/15/25 ordnance points generally don't have an extra effect

Hullmods costing significantly more have relatively light penalties

As of this writing, there are 3 of those

Logistics hullmods have a significant bonus regardless of their cost (since it's still a sacrifice in combat power)

Bonus XP granted by building hullmods in is now 75/50/25/0% for frigates/destroyers/cruisers/capitals

Changed Unstable Injector description to clarify that it does not affect missile weapon range

Faulty Automated Systems: now increases crew requirements by only 50% (was: 100%)

Ballistic Rangefinder: tooltip grays out the not-currently-applicable bonus

New hullmod: Defensive Targeting Array

Increases fighter damage vs missiles and other fighters by 50%

Reduces fighter roam range to zero

Costs 2/4/6/10 ordnance points

Neural Integrator and Neural Interface modspecs should not longer drop

Rugged Construction:

Now also reduces the supply cost to recover from deployment by 50%

Multiplicative with similar bonus from having d-mods on a hull

New hullmod: Missile Autoloader

Reloads small missile weapons only, a limited number of times, out of a shared pool

Weapons that cost more OP generally require more points to reload

Reload capacity larger for ships that have very few small missile mounts relative to their size

Does not affect small missile weapons mounted in other types of slots (e.g. synergy, etc)

Integrated Point Defense AI:

Cost reduced to 3/6/9/15 (was: 4/8/12/20)

Gives abilty to ignore decoy flares and +50% damage to missiles

Converting small weapons to PD is now the s-mod effect bonus

High Resolution Sensors: changed cost to 4/6/9/15 (was: 9/9/9/15)

Shield Shunt, Makeshift Shield Generator:

Now incompatible with each other

Shield Shunt can be built in (and has an extra armor bonus effect when built in with a story point)

Ballistic Rangefinder: rephrased some things in the tooltip for clarity

Ship AI:

Made some improvements in behavior of shieldless ships being too cautious about closing in to an enemy that's about to explode

Fixed issue that sometimes caused ships to vent while under actually-significant fire

Fixed issue where it was not seeing MIRV submunitions as dangerous for some calculations

Fixed issue that could cause it to fire non-anti-fighter kinetic missiles at enemy fighters

Fixed issue that could cause it to fire missiles (including torpedos) at overloaded fighters

Fixed issue that could cause phase ships trying to move to a location to unphase inside a friendly ship

More willing to fire anti-armor missiles (i.e. the Breach SRM)

More willing to keep autofire on for unshielded non-phase ships

Made aware of when missile hardpoints are off-center and willing to accept greater potential inaccuracy when firing these

Mostly affects torpedoes and similar, e.g. in the medium mounts on the Venture

Fixed issue where the AI would sometimes turn autofire off on a group when its weapons were mid-burst, sometimes causing the firing weapons to turn away from the target

Improved danger detection from mines

Added a little extra radius where the AI considers them "dangerous"

Aware of the presence of nearby enemy fighters and asteroids that might trigger the mine early

Fixed issue that caused the AI to actually just ignore own mines that triggered by proximity and not timeout

Fixed issue that caused the AI to ignore own mines that were drifting even slightly away from it

The Doom friendly fire (especially self-friendly-fire) issues *should* be resolved

The issue where the AI would continue to shield towards a phased Doom while getting hit by mines from behind should be resolved, as well

Fixed issue where it was sometimes setting escort-only fighters to engage, losing the 0-flux bonus for no reason

More willing to close in against about-to-explode enemies when shields are up and facing the right way

Increased importance of STRIKE weapons for deciding when to use High Energy Focus and similar ship systems, made other minor improvements to deciding when to use the system

Fixed issue that could cause ships to refuse to engage when given an eliminate order and some specific numbers/sizes of ships on each side

This also applies more broadly to the "reckless" personality, making it more aggressive

And to "Full Assault!" as well

Now aware of using phase cloak to recharge weapons/get rid of soft flux more quickly

Will do this as the primary tactic, instead of trying to phase through and get behind the enemy, if:

The ship is a destroyer and its target is at least as big

The ship is a cruiser or a capital ship

Phase Anchor enhances this tactic, but is not required to trigger it, except as a very occasional use by frigates (which still prefer to phase through the enemy, regardless)

Phase ships will occasionally make the risky decision to vent in an unsafe spot if they're under a lot of pressure, trying to disengage, and there are no nearby allies to hide behind

More willing to expend multiple torpedo type (i.e. STRIKE) missiles on an overloaded/venting target

Phase Teleporter:

Fixed issue where it favored going left in certain situations

Now prefers to go in the desired direction given what the ship is trying to do

Made some minor improvements in how ships interact when ordered to go to a single waypoint

Improved threat assessment (some ships that were realistically not a thread could be counted as one)

Improved facing selection when escorting a friendly ship; will turn towards a specific target under more circumstances

Modding:

Fixed issue with certain BuffManager buffs only apply in combat erratically

Added to SettingsAPI:

WeaponSlotAPI createWeaponSlot(String id, WeaponType weaponType, WeaponSize slotSize, String slotTypeStr, String nodeId, Vector2f nodePos, float angle, float arc);

Added to ShipHullSpecAPI:

void setDescriptionPrefix(String descriptionPrefix);

WeaponSlotAPI getWeaponSlot(String slotId);

Added to ShieldSpecAPI:

void setRingColor(Color color);

void setInnerColor(Color innerColor);

Added to WeaponSlotAPI:

boolean isWeaponSlot();

Added "unrestorable" tag to hulls and variants

Added to WeaponAPI:

float getRefireDelay();

Added USE_LESS_VS_SHIELDS weapon hint

For weapons with charges: autofire will not use more than 20% of charges against shields

Otherwise: will not autofire at shields at all

No effect on the AI if it's manually selecting the weapon to fire

Does not apply when the target is a fighter

Added "no_autofit_unless_player" tag to hulls and variants

Added CombatUIAPI.areWeaponArcsOn()

Added "playFullFireSoundOne" to beam weapons; will make sure intro sound does not fade out and finishes playing even if the beam stops firing

Added to WeaponSpecAPI:

void setBeamSpeed(float beamSpeed);

void setMaxAmmo(int maxAmmo);

void setAmmoPerSecond(float ammoPerSecond);

float getReloadSize();

void setReloadSize(float reloadSize);

Added ProjectileWeaponSpecAPI

Check "instanceof" on a WeaponSpecAPI, then can cast to this

Methods:

float getEnergyPerShot();

void setEnergyPerShot(float energyPerShot);

float getRefireDelay();

void setRefireDelay(float refireDelay);

int getBurstSize();

void setBurstSize(int burstSize);

boolean isInterruptibleBurst();

void setInterruptibleBurst(boolean interruptibleBurst);

float getBurstDelay();

void setBurstDelay(float burstDelay);

float getMinSpread();

void setMinSpread(float minSpread);

float getMaxSpread();

void setMaxSpread(float maxSpread);

float getSpreadDecayRate();

void setSpreadDecayRate(float spreadDecayRate);

float getSpreadBuildup();

void setSpreadBuildup(float spreadBuildup);

boolean isAutoCharge();

void setAutoCharge(boolean autoCharge);

float getEnergyPerSecond();

void setEnergyPerSecond(float energyPerSecond);

boolean isRequiresFullCharge();

void setRequiresFullCharge(boolean requiresFullCharge);

float getProjectileSpeed(MutableShipStatsAPI shipStats, WeaponAPI weapon);

void setProjectileSpeed(float projectileSpeed);

boolean isSeparateRecoilForLinkedBarrels();

void setSeparateRecoilForLinkedBarrels(boolean individualLinkedRecoil);

Object getProjectileSpec();

float getChargeTime();

void setChargeTime(float chargeTime);

String getHardpointGunSpriteName();

void setHardpointGunSpriteName(String hardpointGunSpriteName);

String getTurretGunSpriteName();

void setTurretGunSpriteName(String turretGunSpriteName);

String getHardpointGlowSpriteName();

void setTurretGlowSpriteName(String turretGlowSpriteName);

String getTurretGlowSpriteName();

void setHardpointGlowSpriteName(String hardpointGlowSpriteName);

float getVisualRecoil();

void setVisualRecoil(float visualRecoil);

String getAccuracyDisplayName();

FleetCreatorMission.createFleet() method now returns fleets without a MissionFleetAutoDespawn script being added to them

Added PlanetAPI.changeType()

Added to CargoAPI:

boolean isUnlimitedStacks();

void setUnlimitedStacks(boolean unlimitedStacks);

Added no_auto_penalty tag (hulls and variants); ship does not get the CR penalty from Automated hullmod

Ships with the "unrestorable" tag are no longer affected by the Hull Restoration skill

Added retain_smods_on_recovery tag (hulls and variants)

Fixed issue where a torpedo impacting a module's shield could damage the body of the ship

Added to SettingsAPI:

JSONArray getMergedSpreadsheetData(String idColumn, String path)

JSONObject getMergedJSON(String path)

Added to CampaignUIAPI:

float getMinZoomFactor();

float getMaxZoomFactor();

void setMinZoomFactor(float min);

void setMaxZoomFactor(float max);

List<WeaponSpecAPI> getSystemWeaponSpecs();

Added HubMissionWithTriggers.triggerSetFleetCombatFleetPoints() to allow directly setting fleet point value for fleet

Added "useOldShipExplosions" to settings.json to use original ship explosion visuals

Added combatExplosionNonFlashColorOverride" to hull_styles.json, controls the color of the ship destruction explosion - not the smooth particle flash, but the more irregular part underneath

Added to ShipAPI:

boolean isForceHideFFOverlay();

void setForceHideFFOverlay(boolean forceHideFFOverlay);

Allows force-hiding the friend-or-foe overlay

Note: the "module_no_status_bar" tag can be added to the variant to hide the hull/flux bars

Carriers whose fighter range has been modified to 0 for all wings will now always keep them "pulled back"

Added FactionSpecAPI

Added SettingsAPI.getFactionSpec(String id)

Added FactionAPI.getFactionSpec()

Added to IntelUIAPI:

void saveSmallDescScrollState();

void restoreSmallDescScrollState();

Added ScrollPanelAPI:

float getXOffset();

float getYOffset();

void setXOffset(float xOffset);

void setYOffset(float yOffset);

Added to TooltipMakerAPI:

void setExternalScroller(ScrollPanelAPI scroller);

ScrollPanelAPI getExternalScroller();

Only set if added using CustomPanelAPI.addUIElement()

IntelUIAPI.selectItem(null) should now hide the detail for any intel that was previously selected

SubmarketPlugin.getTariffTextOverride() and similar methods can now be implemented one at a time, implementing all of them is not required

Addressed ship module duplication/replacement issue caused by adjusting weapon groups from the "you haven't adjusted the weapon groups since making changes" help popup

Fixed issue with fighters from main body of station showing up on station tooltip

Added to WeaponAPI:

void setWeaponGlowWidthMult(float weaponGlowWidthMult);

void setWeaponGlowHeightMult(float weaponGlowHeightMult);

Added "cjkMode" to settings.json; enables special line-wrapping support for Chinese/Japanese/Korean fonts

Added weapon tags: reload_1pt through reload_6pt, and no_reload, to override default MissileAutoloader point values

Added to TooltipMakerAPI:

void setButtonFontOrbitron20();

void setButtonFontOrbitron20Bold();

void setButtonFontOrbitron24();

void setButtonFontOrbitron24Bold();

Added to ButtonAPI:

float getGlowBrightness();

void setGlowBrightness(float glowBrightness);

Added to MissileAPI:

MutableShipStatsAPI.getStats();

TextFieldAPI now extends UIComponentAPI

Added to ButtonAPI:

void setText(String text);

String getText();

Bugfixing:

Fixed issue with Hull Restoration's modification of ship recovery probability

Fixed issue with hullmods that can't be built in sometimes showing up as s-mods on derelict ships

Removed point-defense flag from Proximity Charge Launcher; will no longer auto-target missiles

Fixed issue where derelicts with s-mods would always have 3 s-mods instead of 1, 2, or 3

Added "irradiated" condition to Hanan Pacha

Fixed "retrain" option being available when you have no story points

Fixed issue that could cause the Targeting Feed ship system to not be used by the AI when using certain fighters against large ships

Fixed engine placement on the Prometheus Mk.II

Fixed issue where viewing a custom production report while the ship is already in your fleet could briefly reset its combat readiness to zero

Fixed issue with certain randomly generated missions still targeting locations they shouldn't

Fixed issue where it was possible to fire while using certain ship systems (like Fortress Shield) by pausing the game, holding down the fire button, and unpausing

Fixed issue where certain random missions could target the Cryosleeper and be uncompletable because it's impossible to salvage it

Fixed issue with Sabot SRM (Single) being available in the base blueprint package

Fixed issue where hull damage would be instantly repaired when a ship with undamaged armor (but damaged hull) was deployed into combat

Fixed issue where damage from some EMP arcs would receive damage modifiers from the wrong source

Fixed issue with bar/contact mission frequency

Fixed issue with ship weapons being about 20% cheaper to buy than intended

Fixed issue where it was possible to put the player character in command of an automated ship

Fixed issue that was causing the weapon-range effect of ECCM Package to not apply

Fixed "cheap commodity" mission never offering a local variation

Fixed a few consistency issues with ship recovery when replaying the same battle

Fixed issue with allied fleet flagship being reset when the player joins a battle

Integrated Point Defense AI no longer flags strike weapons as point-defense; they would not autofire at missiles anyway

Fixed issues where raid marine casualties were higher than intended due to including "increased defender preparedness" for multiple raids to the initial raid as well

Fixed rare bug that could cause certain slipstreams to look like that old scream meme

Fixed issue causing enemy ships to not be given retreat orders when on low CR

(Hopefully) fixed rare crash caused by the Tempest's ship system and anything similar

Fixed issue where the same station could be targeted for both a normal and a more difficult bounty

Fixed issue with stations targeted by a bounty not showing the "mission-important" marker

Fixed rare fleet command tutorial crash

Fixed ship recovery dialog ship tooltip sometimes not reflecting the effect of Crew Training and similar

Player will now retain the Janus Device (and any other mission-important items) when they lose their entire fleet

Fixed several issues with autofit requiring several applications to get all the hullmods onto the ship under some circumstances

Fixed issue where joining a battle with a friendly station sometimes resulted in the battle ending immediately with no option to pursue

Fixed issue where switching from the hullmod picker dialog to the built-in dialog while hovering over the OP bar caused the tooltip to remain on top of the UI until the game was reloaded

Fixed issue that caused off-screen fleet members in the pre-combat dialog to still show tooltips on mouseover

Fixed it being possible to get the Red Planet mission multiple times (though only completable once)

Fixed sprite blurriness in several weapon sprites due to odd-numbered width/height

Fixed blueprint intel mission not completing properly when blueprint was gained from a derelict by recovering it instead of salvaging it

Fixed issue with habitable moons sometimes appearing in Duzahk and other core systems (really, this time)

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Well, I just finished an Underrail run and was about to dive into the modding pit for another run, but now I think I'll just wait. Usually after he posts these changelogs it takes a week or two for the actual release. My last run I went with a "no colonies" self-imposed rule and had a blast. I actually had to keep an eye on my finances for a change.

LizardWizard · Feb 10, 2023

cpmartins said:
Technomancer said:

Patch notes are here. No patch just yet.

Changes as of February 01, 2023

Campaign:

Added "The Usurpers" story mission

Added "Knight Errant" story mission

Added "The Pilgrim's Path" story mission

Added "major events" system

Each event tracks progress, from player actions and other wise

Various things happen as the event progresses

Added Hostile Activity "major event"

Handles various hostile fleets found in systems with your colonies

Multiple causes for hostile activity (use of AI cores, presence of a pirate base nearby, etc)

Different causes have different resolutions

If hostile activity is unchecked, colonies suffer penalties and eventually a major negative outcome of some sort (e.g. a raid or an act of Pather sabotage), after which there is a lull

Goal is to give the player more of a warning before major negative events, and a choice in whether they want to handle the resolve the causes individually to avert the negative outcomes, or to just fight hostile fleets and get it under control that way, without addressing the causes

Added "Hyperspace Topography" major event

Various player actions improve their knowledge of hyperspace, unlocking new bonuses

Slipstream detection around colonies

Much more efficient slipstream travel

Increased speed in hyperspace

Added Planetkiller and "Hostile Activity" related mission

Adjusted the compositions of most faction fleets

Factions now generally have capital ship(s) unique to them

And a more well-defined feel to the faction's fleets, overall

Specific weapons are now reliably found at specific faction markets/black markets

For example, the new directed-energy missiles can be found on Persean League colonies

Music:

Added new exploration music track when exploring non-core systems

Persean League now has its own music

Industries:

Commerce now adds a low-value, system-wide bounty while the hostile activity level is high enough

Added text to make your contacts easy to identify in the comm directory

Pressing F11 to hide the UI will now also hide the fleet circles

Certain high-end bounty will no longer be repeatable by abandoning the mission prior to attacking the target

Added "Missions" tag to "Analyze Entity" and "Survey Planet" missions

Ship recovery dialog now shows normal and story point recovery in the same screen

Displays up to 24 ships of each type, gets wider instead of taller

"Ship repairs completed" messages will now stack when many repairs finish at around the same time

Custom production limits increased to 100 units, regardless of ship/weapon size

Made some adjustments to the "bonus XP for battle difficulty" calculation that reins in the bonus for having just a single combat ship

Waystations now pull in a small quantity of Volatiles and Transplutonics

Officers for hire/from promotion will generally not share portraits with the player's existing officers (not guaranteed, not a bug if they do share it)

Cheap commodity mission: remote pickup of legal goods variation now requires other colony to not be hostile to the player

Bonus experience quadruples XP gains at max level instead of doubling them as normal

The Luddic Path no longer requires a military base to launch a punitive expedition

Added credit rewards to certain main-story missions

Accidents from zero CR that result in ship loss no longer cause loss of interesting/special cargo if over capacity

Added honorific selector to new game screen (sir/ma'am/captain)

AI cores in Domain derelict fleets now use Ballistic Mastery instead of Energy Mastery

Salamander MRM will not be mounted on derelict drones during the tutorial

Contact bounty intel items are now tagged with the target's faction, in addition to the normal tags

Galatia Academy story missions: made minor additions to various obscure dialog options

Added new player-selectable portraits

Added new illustrations to various planets and situations

Significantly reduced impact of d-mods on NPC-vs-NPC fights and on the "danger-to-the-player" estimate

Combat:

Added option to disable screen whiteout for large ship explosions

Whiteout no longer obscures the command UI (still obscures ship combat UI)

Improved ship explosion visual effect

Termination Sequence: missile changed to not deal friendly fire damage when it explodes

When the ship is overloaded or venting, the raise shields/phase cloak command will be buffered if it was issued within 0.2 seconds of the overload/vent ending

Disabled weapons will be shown in red on the selected group's weapon list (*not* in list of all weapon groups)

Reserve Deployment, for ships with only one fighter bay, now:

At least doubles wing size (minimum +2 craft)

Fighter replacement rate reduction is 15% instead of 25%

Added message explaining what's going on and what to do when there's no flagship deployed and the player starts in the command shuttle

Also improved visibility/clarity of the "nothing is deployed" message

And added a similar prompt to transfer command when the flagship is destroyed

Command points are no longer refunded when the last order given during a pause is cancelled

(Fundamental problem in that the same sequence of orders and a cancel could be a legitimate order or a "never mind")

Improved visual effect for Reaper torpedo explosions

Miscellaneous:

Autofit:

Will no longer puts flux distributor/coil adjunct on ships that could spend the ordnance points on more vents/caps instead, even if the hullmod is in the target variant

Added warning when resulting variant has too few weapons or fighters to be effective

Added "useSoftwareMouseCursor" option in data/config/settings.json

Ordering an individual ship to retreat no longer requires a command point or opens the command frequency if that ship is out of peak time

Fixed screen scaling issue with TOP SECRET minigame

Linux startup script: added shebang

Increased max permgen size to 128m

Added explicit hull size designation to ship tooltips

Made background of refit screen a bit darker and less busy-looking

Added a "generate ship name" button to the refit screen

If the current name does not match the faction's ship prefix, it will update the name instead

Ships:

Added Apex-class Heavy Droneship

Added Nova-class Drone Battlecruiser

Added Pegasus-class Battleship (midline)

Added Executor-class Battleship (version of the Pegasus)

Added Invictus-class Dreadnought (low tech)

Added Retribution-class Battlecruiser (low tech)

Added Lion's Guard versions of several midline ships

Added Venture (P)

Replaced mining drone with large missile slot pointing backwards

Medium missile slots changed to ballistic

Added Manticore (LP)

Large slot changed to missile

Medium slots changed to ballistic

Replaced built-in rangefinder with Safety Overrides

Added Venture (LP)

System changed to Orion Device

Medium missile slots changed to composite

Brawler(LP): Increased deployment and maintenance cost to 6 (was: 5)

Brilliant:

Changed system to Plasma Burn

Reduced shield upkeep to 0.4 (was: 0.5)

Removed fighter bay

Fulgent: added built-in Energy Bolt Coherer (increases base non-beam energy/hybrid weapon range)

Apogee: increased deployment/maintenance supply cost to 20 (was: 18)

Eagle:

Reduced deployment/maintenance supply cost to 18 (was: 22)

Increased base flux dissipation to 700 (was: 600)

Increased speed to 60 (was: 50), slightly increased acceleration

Reduced base cost to 100k credits (was: 120k)

Vigilance:

Increased hitpoints to 1750 (was: 1500)

Increased flux capacity to 2500 (was: 2000)

Eradicator: increased deployment/maintenance supply cost to 22 (was: 20)

Eradicator (P): increased cost from 17 to 18

Legion: increased ordnance points to 300 (was: 260)

Legion (XIV) increased ordnance points to 310 (was: 270)

Gemini:

Removed built-in Civilian-grade Hull

Increased ordnance points to 85 (was: 75)

Increased top speed to 60 (was: 50)

Adjusted stock variant

Changed starting Wolf variant to have the Pulse Laser on autofire (thanks, ZiggyD!)

Hyperion:

Reduced mass to 200 (was: 300); affects ship/ship and ship/asteroid collisions etc

Added built-in Delicate Machinery

Phase Teleporter:

No longer requires 0-flux boost

Cooldown increased to 15 seconds (was: 10)

Medusa:

Increased ordnance points to 100 (was: 95)

Habringer:

Increased top speed to 100 (was: 80)

Reduced maintenance and deployment supply costs to 18 (was: 20)

Updated Conquest sprite

Various other old ship sprites adjusted/improved

Fighters:

Added Sarissa-class Support Fighter

Zero roam range, always tries to stay in front of parent ship

Armed with a Canister Flak system and two Light Autocannons

Weapons:

Hit glow from Burst PD Laser and Heavy Burst Laser now brightens more quickly

Hurricane MIRV:

Increased submunition accuracy

Reduced number of submunitions by to 7 (was: 9)

Added IR Autolance energy weapon

Medium mount, beam weapon, low ordnance point cost

Uses charges

Fragmentation damage at 1000 range

High burst but low sustained DPS

Added Gorgon DEM SRM (small), Gorgon SRM Pod (medium)

Missile fires a laser from a good distance away from the target

Added Gazer DEM SRM (small), Gazer SRM Pod (medium)

Missile fires a 10-second graviton beam from long range

Added Dragonfire Torpedo (medium), Dragonfire Torpedo Pod (large)

Missile fires an extremely high damage, bomb-pumped laster from medium-long range

Added Hydra MDEM (large missile)

Splits into 6 warheads that flank the target and fire medium-damage lasers from both sides

Added Pilum LRM Catapult (large missile)

Low ordnance point cost

Fires 6 Pilums; has a higher overall RoF and ammo regeneration than two medium Pilum LRMs

Added Jackhammer (medium missile)

Fires 3-shot bursts of Hammer-class torpedoes

Lower-than-usual ammo and OP cost

Changed Rift Cascade Emitter explosions to be affected by energy weapon damage modifiers instead of missile ones

Squall MLRS:

Reduced base damage to 100 (was: 250)

Base damage increased to 250 when impacting shields (this then gets doubled by the kinetic damage multiplier)

Breach SRM: missile and weapon sprites adjusted to look more at home on high-tech ships

Typhoon Reaper Launcher: increased ammo to 7 (was: 5)

Cyclone Reaper Launcher:

Reduced delay between the two torpedoes in the salvo to 0.25 seconds (was: 1)

Full cycle time remains at 10 seconds

Missile is accelerated to full speed prior to leaving the launch tube

Hephaestus Assault Gun: halved recoil

Added two new weapons (Kinetic Blaster and Gigacannon), only available to/from the Lion's Guard

Updated Swarmer SMR description to better suit its intended role

LR PD Laser: reduced ordnance point cost to 4 (was: 5)

Burst PD Laser:

Reduced ordnance point cost to 6 (was: 7)

Increased max charges to 4 (was: 3)

Heavy Burst Laser:

Reduced OP cost to 9 (was: 11)

Increased max charges to 6 (was: 5)

Increased damage by a little over 10%

Removed ability to ignore decoy flares

Graviton Beam: 1/2/3 or more full-strength beams hitting shields increases all anti-shield damage dealt to the target (including by other ships) by 5/8/10%

Ion Beam: reduced flux/second to 150 (was: 200)

Pulse Laser:

Improved flux efficiency to 0.8 (was: 1.0)

Added to base blueprint package

Mining Laser:

Reduced OP cost to 1

Mount type changed to HYBRID (can be mounted in ballistic, energy, and hybrid slots)

Mining Blaster:

Changed to use regenerating charges, maximum of 4

Damage changed to 200 damage per shot, plus 100 armor-only damage

Damage type changed to High Explosive

Flux/shot is 300

Mount type changed to HYBRID (can be mounted in ballistic, energy, and hybrid slots)

Tactical Laser: reduced flux/second to 60 (was: 75)

Proxmimity Charge Launcher:

Added some inaccuracy to the direction of the launch

No longer affected by missile flight time and speed/acceleration modifiers

(Previously, ECCM Package would actually reduce its range)

Hullmods:

Many hullmods now have special effects when built into the hull using a story point

Cheaper hullmods have stronger bonuses

Hullmods costing around 5/10/15/25 ordnance points generally don't have an extra effect

Hullmods costing significantly more have relatively light penalties

As of this writing, there are 3 of those

Logistics hullmods have a significant bonus regardless of their cost (since it's still a sacrifice in combat power)

Bonus XP granted by building hullmods in is now 75/50/25/0% for frigates/destroyers/cruisers/capitals

Changed Unstable Injector description to clarify that it does not affect missile weapon range

Faulty Automated Systems: now increases crew requirements by only 50% (was: 100%)

Ballistic Rangefinder: tooltip grays out the not-currently-applicable bonus

New hullmod: Defensive Targeting Array

Increases fighter damage vs missiles and other fighters by 50%

Reduces fighter roam range to zero

Costs 2/4/6/10 ordnance points

Neural Integrator and Neural Interface modspecs should not longer drop

Rugged Construction:

Now also reduces the supply cost to recover from deployment by 50%

Multiplicative with similar bonus from having d-mods on a hull

New hullmod: Missile Autoloader

Reloads small missile weapons only, a limited number of times, out of a shared pool

Weapons that cost more OP generally require more points to reload

Reload capacity larger for ships that have very few small missile mounts relative to their size

Does not affect small missile weapons mounted in other types of slots (e.g. synergy, etc)

Integrated Point Defense AI:

Cost reduced to 3/6/9/15 (was: 4/8/12/20)

Gives abilty to ignore decoy flares and +50% damage to missiles

Converting small weapons to PD is now the s-mod effect bonus

High Resolution Sensors: changed cost to 4/6/9/15 (was: 9/9/9/15)

Shield Shunt, Makeshift Shield Generator:

Now incompatible with each other

Shield Shunt can be built in (and has an extra armor bonus effect when built in with a story point)

Ballistic Rangefinder: rephrased some things in the tooltip for clarity

Ship AI:

Made some improvements in behavior of shieldless ships being too cautious about closing in to an enemy that's about to explode

Fixed issue that sometimes caused ships to vent while under actually-significant fire

Fixed issue where it was not seeing MIRV submunitions as dangerous for some calculations

Fixed issue that could cause it to fire non-anti-fighter kinetic missiles at enemy fighters

Fixed issue that could cause it to fire missiles (including torpedos) at overloaded fighters

Fixed issue that could cause phase ships trying to move to a location to unphase inside a friendly ship

More willing to fire anti-armor missiles (i.e. the Breach SRM)

More willing to keep autofire on for unshielded non-phase ships

Made aware of when missile hardpoints are off-center and willing to accept greater potential inaccuracy when firing these

Mostly affects torpedoes and similar, e.g. in the medium mounts on the Venture

Fixed issue where the AI would sometimes turn autofire off on a group when its weapons were mid-burst, sometimes causing the firing weapons to turn away from the target

Improved danger detection from mines

Added a little extra radius where the AI considers them "dangerous"

Aware of the presence of nearby enemy fighters and asteroids that might trigger the mine early

Fixed issue that caused the AI to actually just ignore own mines that triggered by proximity and not timeout

Fixed issue that caused the AI to ignore own mines that were drifting even slightly away from it

The Doom friendly fire (especially self-friendly-fire) issues *should* be resolved

The issue where the AI would continue to shield towards a phased Doom while getting hit by mines from behind should be resolved, as well

Fixed issue where it was sometimes setting escort-only fighters to engage, losing the 0-flux bonus for no reason

More willing to close in against about-to-explode enemies when shields are up and facing the right way

Increased importance of STRIKE weapons for deciding when to use High Energy Focus and similar ship systems, made other minor improvements to deciding when to use the system

Fixed issue that could cause ships to refuse to engage when given an eliminate order and some specific numbers/sizes of ships on each side

This also applies more broadly to the "reckless" personality, making it more aggressive

And to "Full Assault!" as well

Now aware of using phase cloak to recharge weapons/get rid of soft flux more quickly

Will do this as the primary tactic, instead of trying to phase through and get behind the enemy, if:

The ship is a destroyer and its target is at least as big

The ship is a cruiser or a capital ship

Phase Anchor enhances this tactic, but is not required to trigger it, except as a very occasional use by frigates (which still prefer to phase through the enemy, regardless)

Phase ships will occasionally make the risky decision to vent in an unsafe spot if they're under a lot of pressure, trying to disengage, and there are no nearby allies to hide behind

More willing to expend multiple torpedo type (i.e. STRIKE) missiles on an overloaded/venting target

Phase Teleporter:

Fixed issue where it favored going left in certain situations

Now prefers to go in the desired direction given what the ship is trying to do

Made some minor improvements in how ships interact when ordered to go to a single waypoint

Improved threat assessment (some ships that were realistically not a thread could be counted as one)

Improved facing selection when escorting a friendly ship; will turn towards a specific target under more circumstances

Modding:

Fixed issue with certain BuffManager buffs only apply in combat erratically

Added to SettingsAPI:

WeaponSlotAPI createWeaponSlot(String id, WeaponType weaponType, WeaponSize slotSize, String slotTypeStr, String nodeId, Vector2f nodePos, float angle, float arc);

Added to ShipHullSpecAPI:

void setDescriptionPrefix(String descriptionPrefix);

WeaponSlotAPI getWeaponSlot(String slotId);

Added to ShieldSpecAPI:

void setRingColor(Color color);

void setInnerColor(Color innerColor);

Added to WeaponSlotAPI:

boolean isWeaponSlot();

Added "unrestorable" tag to hulls and variants

Added to WeaponAPI:

float getRefireDelay();

Added USE_LESS_VS_SHIELDS weapon hint

For weapons with charges: autofire will not use more than 20% of charges against shields

Otherwise: will not autofire at shields at all

No effect on the AI if it's manually selecting the weapon to fire

Does not apply when the target is a fighter

Added "no_autofit_unless_player" tag to hulls and variants

Added CombatUIAPI.areWeaponArcsOn()

Added "playFullFireSoundOne" to beam weapons; will make sure intro sound does not fade out and finishes playing even if the beam stops firing

Added to WeaponSpecAPI:

void setBeamSpeed(float beamSpeed);

void setMaxAmmo(int maxAmmo);

void setAmmoPerSecond(float ammoPerSecond);

float getReloadSize();

void setReloadSize(float reloadSize);

Added ProjectileWeaponSpecAPI

Check "instanceof" on a WeaponSpecAPI, then can cast to this

Methods:

float getEnergyPerShot();

void setEnergyPerShot(float energyPerShot);

float getRefireDelay();

void setRefireDelay(float refireDelay);

int getBurstSize();

void setBurstSize(int burstSize);

boolean isInterruptibleBurst();

void setInterruptibleBurst(boolean interruptibleBurst);

float getBurstDelay();

void setBurstDelay(float burstDelay);

float getMinSpread();

void setMinSpread(float minSpread);

float getMaxSpread();

void setMaxSpread(float maxSpread);

float getSpreadDecayRate();

void setSpreadDecayRate(float spreadDecayRate);

float getSpreadBuildup();

void setSpreadBuildup(float spreadBuildup);

boolean isAutoCharge();

void setAutoCharge(boolean autoCharge);

float getEnergyPerSecond();

void setEnergyPerSecond(float energyPerSecond);

boolean isRequiresFullCharge();

void setRequiresFullCharge(boolean requiresFullCharge);

float getProjectileSpeed(MutableShipStatsAPI shipStats, WeaponAPI weapon);

void setProjectileSpeed(float projectileSpeed);

boolean isSeparateRecoilForLinkedBarrels();

void setSeparateRecoilForLinkedBarrels(boolean individualLinkedRecoil);

Object getProjectileSpec();

float getChargeTime();

void setChargeTime(float chargeTime);

String getHardpointGunSpriteName();

void setHardpointGunSpriteName(String hardpointGunSpriteName);

String getTurretGunSpriteName();

void setTurretGunSpriteName(String turretGunSpriteName);

String getHardpointGlowSpriteName();

void setTurretGlowSpriteName(String turretGlowSpriteName);

String getTurretGlowSpriteName();

void setHardpointGlowSpriteName(String hardpointGlowSpriteName);

float getVisualRecoil();

void setVisualRecoil(float visualRecoil);

String getAccuracyDisplayName();

FleetCreatorMission.createFleet() method now returns fleets without a MissionFleetAutoDespawn script being added to them

Added PlanetAPI.changeType()

Added to CargoAPI:

boolean isUnlimitedStacks();

void setUnlimitedStacks(boolean unlimitedStacks);

Added no_auto_penalty tag (hulls and variants); ship does not get the CR penalty from Automated hullmod

Ships with the "unrestorable" tag are no longer affected by the Hull Restoration skill

Added retain_smods_on_recovery tag (hulls and variants)

Fixed issue where a torpedo impacting a module's shield could damage the body of the ship

Added to SettingsAPI:

JSONArray getMergedSpreadsheetData(String idColumn, String path)

JSONObject getMergedJSON(String path)

Added to CampaignUIAPI:

float getMinZoomFactor();

float getMaxZoomFactor();

void setMinZoomFactor(float min);

void setMaxZoomFactor(float max);

List<WeaponSpecAPI> getSystemWeaponSpecs();

Added HubMissionWithTriggers.triggerSetFleetCombatFleetPoints() to allow directly setting fleet point value for fleet

Added "useOldShipExplosions" to settings.json to use original ship explosion visuals

Added combatExplosionNonFlashColorOverride" to hull_styles.json, controls the color of the ship destruction explosion - not the smooth particle flash, but the more irregular part underneath

Added to ShipAPI:

boolean isForceHideFFOverlay();

void setForceHideFFOverlay(boolean forceHideFFOverlay);

Allows force-hiding the friend-or-foe overlay

Note: the "module_no_status_bar" tag can be added to the variant to hide the hull/flux bars

Carriers whose fighter range has been modified to 0 for all wings will now always keep them "pulled back"

Added FactionSpecAPI

Added SettingsAPI.getFactionSpec(String id)

Added FactionAPI.getFactionSpec()

Added to IntelUIAPI:

void saveSmallDescScrollState();

void restoreSmallDescScrollState();

Added ScrollPanelAPI:

float getXOffset();

float getYOffset();

void setXOffset(float xOffset);

void setYOffset(float yOffset);

Added to TooltipMakerAPI:

void setExternalScroller(ScrollPanelAPI scroller);

ScrollPanelAPI getExternalScroller();

Only set if added using CustomPanelAPI.addUIElement()

IntelUIAPI.selectItem(null) should now hide the detail for any intel that was previously selected

SubmarketPlugin.getTariffTextOverride() and similar methods can now be implemented one at a time, implementing all of them is not required

Addressed ship module duplication/replacement issue caused by adjusting weapon groups from the "you haven't adjusted the weapon groups since making changes" help popup

Fixed issue with fighters from main body of station showing up on station tooltip

Added to WeaponAPI:

void setWeaponGlowWidthMult(float weaponGlowWidthMult);

void setWeaponGlowHeightMult(float weaponGlowHeightMult);

Added "cjkMode" to settings.json; enables special line-wrapping support for Chinese/Japanese/Korean fonts

Added weapon tags: reload_1pt through reload_6pt, and no_reload, to override default MissileAutoloader point values

Added to TooltipMakerAPI:

void setButtonFontOrbitron20();

void setButtonFontOrbitron20Bold();

void setButtonFontOrbitron24();

void setButtonFontOrbitron24Bold();

Added to ButtonAPI:

float getGlowBrightness();

void setGlowBrightness(float glowBrightness);

Added to MissileAPI:

MutableShipStatsAPI.getStats();

TextFieldAPI now extends UIComponentAPI

Added to ButtonAPI:

void setText(String text);

String getText();

Bugfixing:

Fixed issue with Hull Restoration's modification of ship recovery probability

Fixed issue with hullmods that can't be built in sometimes showing up as s-mods on derelict ships

Removed point-defense flag from Proximity Charge Launcher; will no longer auto-target missiles

Fixed issue where derelicts with s-mods would always have 3 s-mods instead of 1, 2, or 3

Added "irradiated" condition to Hanan Pacha

Fixed "retrain" option being available when you have no story points

Fixed issue that could cause the Targeting Feed ship system to not be used by the AI when using certain fighters against large ships

Fixed engine placement on the Prometheus Mk.II

Fixed issue where viewing a custom production report while the ship is already in your fleet could briefly reset its combat readiness to zero

Fixed issue with certain randomly generated missions still targeting locations they shouldn't

Fixed issue where it was possible to fire while using certain ship systems (like Fortress Shield) by pausing the game, holding down the fire button, and unpausing

Fixed issue where certain random missions could target the Cryosleeper and be uncompletable because it's impossible to salvage it

Fixed issue with Sabot SRM (Single) being available in the base blueprint package

Fixed issue where hull damage would be instantly repaired when a ship with undamaged armor (but damaged hull) was deployed into combat

Fixed issue where damage from some EMP arcs would receive damage modifiers from the wrong source

Fixed issue with bar/contact mission frequency

Fixed issue with ship weapons being about 20% cheaper to buy than intended

Fixed issue where it was possible to put the player character in command of an automated ship

Fixed issue that was causing the weapon-range effect of ECCM Package to not apply

Fixed "cheap commodity" mission never offering a local variation

Fixed a few consistency issues with ship recovery when replaying the same battle

Fixed issue with allied fleet flagship being reset when the player joins a battle

Integrated Point Defense AI no longer flags strike weapons as point-defense; they would not autofire at missiles anyway

Fixed issues where raid marine casualties were higher than intended due to including "increased defender preparedness" for multiple raids to the initial raid as well

Fixed rare bug that could cause certain slipstreams to look like that old scream meme

Fixed issue causing enemy ships to not be given retreat orders when on low CR

(Hopefully) fixed rare crash caused by the Tempest's ship system and anything similar

Fixed issue where the same station could be targeted for both a normal and a more difficult bounty

Fixed issue with stations targeted by a bounty not showing the "mission-important" marker

Fixed rare fleet command tutorial crash

Fixed ship recovery dialog ship tooltip sometimes not reflecting the effect of Crew Training and similar

Player will now retain the Janus Device (and any other mission-important items) when they lose their entire fleet

Fixed several issues with autofit requiring several applications to get all the hullmods onto the ship under some circumstances

Fixed issue where joining a battle with a friendly station sometimes resulted in the battle ending immediately with no option to pursue

Fixed issue where switching from the hullmod picker dialog to the built-in dialog while hovering over the OP bar caused the tooltip to remain on top of the UI until the game was reloaded

Fixed issue that caused off-screen fleet members in the pre-combat dialog to still show tooltips on mouseover

Fixed it being possible to get the Red Planet mission multiple times (though only completable once)

Fixed sprite blurriness in several weapon sprites due to odd-numbered width/height

Fixed blueprint intel mission not completing properly when blueprint was gained from a derelict by recovering it instead of salvaging it

Fixed issue with habitable moons sometimes appearing in Duzahk and other core systems (really, this time)

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Well, I just finished an Underrail run and was about to dive into the modding pit for another run, but now I think I'll just wait. Usually after he posts these changelogs it takes a week or two for the actual release. My last run I went with a "no colonies" self-imposed rule and had a blast. I actually had to keep an eye on my finances for a change

Honestly wouldn't recommend Starsector without Nex, which should honestly be vanilla at this point as Alex already straight up stole from the better S-mods.

Good news is Nex usually updates pretty fast and most of hardcore modders have been waiting to update their overhauls before the patch is live.

tindrli · Feb 13, 2023

i started to play with NEX and others as soon as i found out about it. Great addon and i never looked back and never regretted it

MadMaxHellfire · Feb 14, 2023

tindrli said:
i started to play with NEX

link please?

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