Cosmoteer Release Candidate 0.15.6 RC2

Walt

Thanks everyone for helping test RC1! RC2 is now available for testing.

Download 0.15.6_rc2 or auto-update via the "unstable" branch in Misc->Settings or on Steam.

Changes since RC1:

A handful of translation updates.
You can now specify a --cores N command-line argument (where N is a number) to tell Cosmoteer how many cores it should assume your computer has. Specifying a number greater than the actual number of physical cores (usually half the number of "logical processors" that appears in Task Manager) on your computer may be very bad for performance. You can use a lower number than the number of cores you have to tell Cosmoteer to use less CPU, such as if you want to conserve battery life or leave CPU cores available for other applications.
RC Bugfix: Crash when issuing an attack order while holding the mouse button and dragging away from the enemy ship.
RC Bugfix: Likely crash when multiple Ion Beams on the same ship automatically target Ion Prisms at the same time.
RC Bugfix: Crash when trying to load an extremely large ship into Creative Mode.
RC Bugfix: Rare crash when changing crew priority while some of the crew are waiting to pick up power or ammo.
RC Bugfix: Crash when spawning a ship that has no crew.
RC Bugfix: Launchers were firing multiple missiles simultaneously.

clojelo

Walt A handful of translation updates.

Minor typo at Tutorials.Railguns1.Loader

...a <yellow>Loader</yellow> module at the ~~aft~~ end, which is.."

CGDW

I was testing (battle helper in creative mode), when after a couple of minutes Cosmoteer froze. (Background music kept playing, no other activity) Since it didn't technically crash (I closed it myself), there's no log I can show. I'm going to try it again and see if it crashes again.
Edit: froze again on the 2nd try, at roughly (did not measure) the same amount of time into the battle.

CaptainRedstone

CGDW Walt and I are troubleshooting this on the discord right now. If you could provide more details about what ships are fighting and such, it could help narrow things down, given the crash leaves no log, leaving it hard to pin down

False_God

woooo thanks for the fix

CGDW

CaptainRedstone
The battles had 3 of the first ship against 3 of the second. I just set camera to follow all 6 ships and gave no further input aside from moving the camera around a little.
image https://forum.cosmoteer.net/assets/images/2367-qONdrBBz1q9M2XcK.png

image https://forum.cosmoteer.net/assets/images/2367-1ngVOI8c76fkvXhx.png

Walt

clojelo That's not a typo.

Kroom

Some ships tend to bounce more, I am not sure if its with this version, I just noticed it now, here is a save:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/u8dc9spbvxsrttc/000.savedgame/file

CaptainRedstone

Fixed in RC 3 🙂

Walt RC Bugfix: Any errors that happened on multicore threads would hang the game instead of showing an error message. Any errors not already fixed should now show an error on screen and in the log.

Walt RC Bugfix: Sometimes ships would bounce off of each other at very high velocity. (Unfortunately fixing this required disabling physics multicore support, but the speedup from that was actually very small, so I don't think this should impact performance too much.)