CHANGELOG
DEV STAGING SERVER
TECH SUPPORT

THOUGH THE GAME IS STILL IN DEVELOPMENT AND THINGS WILL BREAK FROM TIME TO TIME, IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT WE FIX THINGS AS THEY ARE REPORTED TO US. MORE IMPORTANTLY, CRASH BUGS ARE HARD TO FIND AND FIX. WHICH IS WHY WE IMPLEMENTED (Build 00.09.05.04 | 15-08-04) A BUG TRACKING SOLUTION (SEE KB70). PLEASE SEND THOSE IN TO US. YOU DON’T NEED TO ENTER ANY PERSONAL DETAILS. JUST A SHORT DESCRIPTION OF WHAT YOU WERE DOING WHEN THE CRASH OCCURRED. DOING SO MAKES IT EASIER FOR US TO TAKE A LOOK AT THE CRASH DUMP AND TRACE THE ORIGINS OF THE CRASH SO WE CAN FIX IT. IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING!

• Optimizations, scene cleanup and fixes e.g. geometry clipping, seams in buildings, floating objects, objects missing collision mesh etc

This is on-going. As for optimizations, upon release we expect to achieve the highest performance metric possible for the game’s system requirements.

• Issues with passengers joining an air/space craft at a supply platform.

Read the game docs or this FAQ topic for more info on how this actually works.

• Issue with the ATS shuttles

We disabled the AI controlled Automated Transport System in 00.09.06.07 until we can revise their flight path method so they stop getting stuck at waypoints.

WORLD SCENES

Various terrain texture issues. e.g. some missing snow textures on Frostbite.

Seams in some areas in Starguard and Vanguard geometry (collision mesh); allowing view into space

Heatwave guard towers have low ceiling and doors that are too small for the player to enter without crouching

Issue with Solar Plant’s collision mesh

CLIENT / SERVER

In windowed mode, using ALT+TAB to switch away from the game and back will sometimes cause movement keys to lose context

On the deployment screen some scenes are sometimes listed as unavailable though they’re online. Also unable to connect to some scenes.

A scene will show as off-line if it fails to connect to the server cluster. If a scene is offline, attempting to connect to or launch a craft into it will fail. For example, if Lyrius space scene is down, you won’t be able to launch a fighter from Arkangel or Starguard, as they are both located in the Lyrius space region. All the game’s 13 scenes are designed to run independently, and have a fail-safe restart mode. This means that if a scene (e.g. Heatwave planetary starbase) goes down, all clients in that scene will be disconnected, and will have to redeploy at another scene until Heatwave resets and restarts.

Some issues with the fps controller (camera, movement, physics). Still doesn’t feel “right”

First person weapon view character animation needs adjustments. e.g. the POV incorrectly looks down on the weapon

With a bad client connection, using a docking bay in space will sometimes only transfer one player to the station

Aircraft altitude limit on the planet can be bypassed

Missiles can collide with your own ship while flying (~350 m/s) in space and firing

No seating chart shown when in passenger seats in shuttles or gunships

SC490 shuttle passengers are not showing as seated in third person

In some aircraft (aggressor gunship), the player character can be seen sitting in a position outside the craft instead of in the cockpit

Aircraft passengers can still activate jumpgates after transferring from pilot seat

Some aircraft bleeding too much energy during turns; thus requiring constant throttle during flight. Also needs preset (0-9) thrust settings

Activating the third-person camera (CTRL) sometimes removes the first-person GUI. Workaround is to activate the map (M), then exit

When swimming you cannot go under water because the up/down directional keys don’t work in this mode

After activating the cheat mode third-person camera, character movement animations aren’t played when moving in this mode