Release Notes for Star Control®: Origins Pre-order

Patch 0.71.15586 - Beta Build (04th December 2017)

Summary

• Phamysht (new ship) It would be very rude not to let them eat you. They have the following attacks:
• Charbroiled - Single-fire shot that roasts enemy ships.
• Invitation -- The Phamysht make a series of very polite requests. Nearby ships' crew immediately disembark and floats towards the Phamyst ship for "dinner."
• Gameplay balance pass based on community feedback
• Player-created ships are much peppier now
• Bug fixes

Changelog

Gameplay

Arena:

• Reduced asteroid damage
• Increased arena size from 45 to 60
• Decreased max separation from 45 to 40
• Planet made slightly smaller, gravity radius increased.
• Custom ships: reduced physics drag so they behave more like the core ships.

  Drenkend

• Drag increased from none to 0.1
• Max Speed reduced from 6 to 4.5
• Turn rate reduced from 120 to 60
• Boarding party speed increased from 3 to 5.5

  Earthling Ship: The Nuclear Missile is now destroyed by AOE weapons.

  Menkmack:

• Mine radius reduced
• Boarding Ships are easier to pick up

  Mowlings: Beam Carver damage significantly increased.

• Jeff is more aggressive

  The Measured

• Renamed weapon from "Paperwork" to "Red tape"
• Updated the weapon effect
• Red tape duration increased from 10 to 120 seconds
• Increased cooldown time between allowed Demotivator bursts.

  Trandals: Increased collision area to better match the ship.

  Phamysht (new ship) It would be very rude not to let them eat you. They have the following attacks:

• Charbroiled - Single-fire shot that roasts enemy ships.
• Invitation -- The Phamysht make a series of very polite requests. Nearby ships' crew immediately disembark and floats towards Phamyst ship for "dinner."

  Scryve Scout

• Speed reduced from 9.5 to 4.5
• Turn radius reduced from 360 to 240
• Point cost reduced from 8 to 7
• Health reduced from 27 to 15

  Tywom: Turn rate reduced from 240 to 180

MP

• Ships are no longer occasionally invisible. Wasn't fair to the other life-form
• Asteroids are better synced between peer and server.
• Enemy's ship trails now always show the correct color
• Fixed a bug where the peer in Local Matches would sometimes get fully healed and charged for no good reason.

UI

• Right-clicking a ship in the Fleet configuration screen removes it from that player's fleet.
• Scale sliders in the Ship Design Editor now display as ratios of 100%
• Changed "Earth Ship" to "Earthlings Ship"
• Added word wrap to the Upload Design dialog in Crafting menu
• Increased the contrast on the crew meters' artwork so they'd show up better on certain displays (e.g. televisions)
• The '+' button no longer appears if your fleet was full.

Bugs

• Addressed several cases where the audio wasn't playing correctly on the peer.
• Fixed a crash in the Ship Design List. This crash occurred when a ship design button was clicked after the exit button had been activated.
• Fixed a bug where you could start a single player super melee game with no ships in the AI's fleet.
• Added sounds for the Drenkend and Jeff.
• Fixed pink edges on the arena planet on NVIDIA cards.
• Weird characters won't prevent you from saving your ship designs.
• Pressing "start game" while dragging a ship no longer crashes.
• Fixed a problem where some ship designs weren't appearing on the ship design list if they weren't outfitted.
• Fixed a problem where the Melee Config screen sometimes showed a '+' button even if there were no ships available to select.
• The Measured will no longer fire only in one direction if the ship isn't moving.