Hey all,
3079 has been updated to v2.11.10b
LOTS of stuff in this update. First, I wanted to get the mini-ships completed. Urcheon made 3079 some sweet cockpit graphics, each for the different faction ships. Lots of multiplayer synchronization stuff was improved for the mini-ships & an afterburners feature was added. Turrets are now in, and they can be found in cities, faction-controlled forts and also constructed by players. To keep things balanced, you can only build 3 turrets, and they go away when you leave the area. Elevators can now be built, which should help with your sniper towers
I also implemented lots of request interface improvements, like having the escape key get rid of dialogs without showing the "exit game" message. I've also added options to delete games & restart games with previous characters.
What is next? I hope to find a solution for 3D weapons and get some new items added. I also have a few more loose ends in multiplayer to fix, like guys getting stuck in floors.
Here is the complete list of changes:
- Turrets! Now you can build and find automatic defense turrets
- Mini-ships are almost complete: cockpits added (thanks to Urcheon) & many bugs fixed
- Mini-ships can now be safely stopped by holding the "stop ship" key
- Mini-ships are now immune to crashes for a few moments when taking off
- Mini-ships now have a thruster sound
- Mini-ships now have an afterburner ability by holding forward
- Added options to restart new worlds and delete previously saved games
- Fixed the ESC key to close out dialogs without popping up "exit game" message
- Added a confirmation dialog to committing suicide
- You can now build elevators
- Fixed a bug that caused mini-ships to spawn inside buildings
- Fixed characters being alive while showing 0% health
- Fixed a crash that happened when clicking "cancel" on the connection address dialog
- Fixed many server-related crashes, which caused "frozen characters" for clients
- Added new Humoid & Neander face textures (thanks again to Urcheon)
- Added a new "Very Basic" graphics setting for slow hardware that reduces draw distance
- Construction options can now be cycled quicker by quickly clicking the right-mouse button
- Fixed the storage box's construction point cost
- Improved starting faction with Humoids so accidental attacks won't cause global hatred
- Disabled camouflage while in a mini-ship
- Demons should no longer spawn in air when the Demon King is dead
- Attacking mini-ships will now affect the player's faction
- Removed rounding errors when characters are finding the correct rotation to look & aim
- You can now immediately activate batteries & generators when purchased at merchants
- Fixed a bug that caused the chat history log to stop updating after awhile
- Limited the console text entry length to avoid really long chat lines
- Found ways to improve networking performance by pre-compressing known item names
- Fixed a bug that made players stay invisible when using ships outside your view area
- Made tweaks to AI so characters investigate when losing a target, instead of still "attacking"
- Found some areas to improve CPU performance
- Made some tweaks to hopefully fix characters not showing up for other players in multiplayer
Thank you again for your support!
- Jeremy (aka Phr00t)
Yes now I can finally use the escape button I am also grateful for making the ships not crash for a few moments as I could not fly due to flying into the ground I tried to take off in
Awesome :)
Nice work Phr00t.
Nice nice , keep going guys !
Looks great, gonna get stuck in now
good good indeed ; but you should do something about the grappling hook : it's too useful!!!! we shouldn't have to equip it , but using a button . quicker and better :3
looks great cant wait to play around with
This is awesome, I complain about the thing with the batteries and merchants, and the next update it gets fixed!
Awesome update Phr00t!
(Oh! and TURRETS! nuff' said)
Sweet now I can ride in a ship without dying on the first seconed :)