General

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  • Improves stability and performance for all platforms
  • Mac OSX 10.7 is no longer supported
  • DirectX11 is the default mode
  • Updated Workshop client (engine and video options)
  • Allow captain priority entire squadron, and make it more forgiving to mark planes
  • Ram killing planes no longer counts in stats
  • Tweaked Anglean player ship mesh for wider room for the back engines
  • Spectator - HP bars of NPC enemies being attacked by players should now be visible
  • Auto display enemy health
  • Tweaked collider to Arashi player ship
  • Tweaked particles for planes destructions
  • Enemy physics more responsive to disables
  • Always Spot bosses
  • Changed Merchant boss ship's weak points around instead of its sails
  • Display enemy health when crew damages enemy ship
  • Tweaked texture particles for polish
  • Female Yesha Hat receives hair color changes
  • Barge capture more obvious and consistent
  • Shrike: metal pillars are removed near heavy guns to avoid character animation clipping
  • Crusader: adjusted collisions
  • Better decision making and targeting of player by bosses
  • Tweaks to higher difficulties to emphasize more coordination and responding to threat instead of bigger meat shields
  • Retrieve game mode escalates faster and has better initial enemy spawning to prevent too-fast matches
  • Reduced number of objectives in Assault game mode
  • More fine tuned hull and component health scaling on convoys and bosses based on # of player ships in match for additional dynamic difficulty
  • Difficulty and threat level across bosses should feel more similar
  • Pilot tutorial: countdown to reach area starts when ship starts moving instead of when player mounts the helm
  • Gunner tutorial won’t remind you not to shoot the balloon when the mortar damages it with AOE
  • Wilson’s Notes expanded
  • Increased hull armor to 335 (from 230) so that it requires an additional rebuild hit with the Spanner
  • Decreased hull health to 450 (from 950) to address complaints about tankiness and maintain the design goal of “nimble but weak”
  • Gun arcs more forward to emphasize weapons platform design
  • Lower side guns turned forward by 5 degrees (-45 to -40, 45 to 40)
  • Top side guns turned forward by 10 degrees (-50 to -40, 50 to 40)
  • Decreased forward and vertical maneuverability to increase attack commitment, but same rotation maneuverability to maintain close range effectiveness
  • Top forward speed decreased to 26m/s (from 28)
  • Forward acceleration decreased to 3.5m/s2 (from 4.25)
  • Vertical acceleration decreased to 4.75m/s2 (from 7.5)
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    • “Stuttering” framerate (seemingly random periods of lower framerate)
    • Low framerate plus low resource (GPU and CPU) usage
    • Lower framerate and stability as more matches are played in a single session
    • [LINUX] Missing tray icon
    • [LINUX] Missing UI elements
    • Restored missing Devil's Eye/Alleron lightmaps
    • Flickering textures on building (parous glen)
    • World map Icons stick around after territory flips
    • Traveller theme on merchant ship isn't using cubemap lighting shader
    • Devil's eye lod and mat was pink
    • Missing map colors
    • Misplaced main engine on boss ship
    • "against your faction" warning stuck on screen
    • In World Progression, the foggy fade gradient on the sides of the map screen prevents players from clicking mission buttons
    • Added planer mesh for the chandelier on Magnate
    • Main base UI health bar does not line up with the weakpoints
    • Different ship flickers in ship menu when player completes match
    • Escape pods not spawning
    • When in Faction Screen, the territory markers in Battle are still showing in the back
    • MasterBase Stages needs specific colliders for the weakpoints to be targeted inside of the shell
    • Mispositioned Fire Control FX
    • You can attack drill before it lands on Defense
    • Clean Up Navigation Meshes for All Coop Ships & Some PvP Ships Under Components
    • Laser gun's ray goes through target
    • Unlocking territories on faction map adds one point per click
    • Odd visuals for faction territory
    • Missing textures for player freight ship in wrought lod
    • Missing fire Particles on Heavy guns
    • Missile Circus: mismatch between server and client paths
    • Damage smoke was too white
    • Missing flyby sound on the boss beam gun
    • Faction avatars lack lighting when choosing to switch factions through the skirmish mode menus
    • OSX memory crash/corruption
    • The needle of the gas mortar jumping out without animation while reload
    • Lightning gun missing unpredictably
    • Crash on exit
    • Decoration of Traveller theme blocks view on Crusader in third person
    • Crusader fade out/in on the engine
    • Rubberbanding on Crusader between the heavy guns
    • War chest size is 0 before playing for the faction
    • Armor kit and fail safe displaying swapped skill upgrade descriptions
    • Masterbase mini. Fixed z fighting and reverse normals
    • SFX volume slider has no effect on lens gun sounds
    • Figureheads placed at the helm on Corsair
    • Flickering Damage States every time the hull was shot
    • Player receives negative progression score after losing an Alliance match
    • The last drill doesn't show up in Defense
    • Crusader + traveller theme carpet placing issue
    • Crusader top left and right light guns placed slightly above the floor
    • Crusader navigation mesh is causing AI to get stuck
    • Balloon tube missing on Crusader and Magnate
    • damaged Magnate rope clipping
    • Crusader + fortress theme barbed wire placing issue
    • Stormbreaker AI path issues
    • Initial spawns can overlap on some maps
    • In lobby, switching to spectator may change class
    • Match end screen "team" tab doesn't get highlighted by default
    • Startup crashes in some cases
    • FPS lock not working when window is minimized
    • AFK when you are in end match screen and there is nothing you can do to end it
    • Engine volume differences
    • Getting stuck when jumping down at the ladder on Spire
    • Last shot of a Heavy Carronade has no firing effect
    • Crew form system message typo
    • The target dummies do not attack you at the end of the Engineering tutorial

  The engine upgrade fixes some major threading/rendering issues that manifested as:

  Alliance Beta (For Open Period)

  Skirmish

Unity 5.4 Upgrade

Alliance Beta (For Open Period)

Skirmish

 

Balance:

Squid

Mobula

Fixes:

General