Cosmoteer Release Candidate 0.15.15 RC1 - Bug Fixes & Balance Tweaks

Walt

Hey everyone! Cosmoteer "unstable" release candidate 0.15.15 RC1 is finally ready for testing! This is mostly bug fixes and balance tweaks. Enjoy!

Download Cosmoteer 0.15.15_rc1 or auto-update via the built-in or Steam updater on the Unstable branch.

Changes since 0.15.14a:

Balance:
- All non-guided weapons can now shoot at targets at up to twice their range as long as they are predicted to be within their range by the time the projectile makes impact.
- Increased power usage of all thrusters by 50%.
- Reverted ship rotational inertia back to the original (most realistic) amount.
- Reduced Tractor Beam peak power usage from 6250 to 3000.
- Reduced Ammo Factory cost from 10000 to 6000.
Ship A.I.:
- Railguns and Ion Beams that are set to "Fire At Target" mode will now be happy to fire through enemy ships to hit the targeted part, just like they already do with "junk" ships.
- A.I. ships will now only target corridors, armor, and structure if there are no other parts that can be targeted.
User Interface:
- Translation updates from the Cosmoteer Translation Project.
- Pasting parts will now remove any control groups that don't belong to the pasted parts.
- It is now possible to select a ship that doesn't have any parts (such as a ship created in creative mode that has only blueprints) by dragging a selection box around its imaginary center.
- Dragging in a ship file while in build mode will now put that ship's parts into paste mode, similar to selecting a ship from the Ship Library.
- Setting a ship's attack radius and/or rotation will now save them in the ship save file as the defaults to use for new instances of that saved design.
- The default screenshot file type can now be selected in the Misc settings. (Options are JPEG, PNG, and BMP.)
- When the "Show Commands For All Ships" setting is enabled, commands will now be shown even when using Direct Control mode or inputting advanced commands.
- With the decal grab tool selected, you can now right-click on a decal to select that decal in the decals list.
- When dragging a selection box around a group of parts or decals with the Shift key held, the decals in the box will now be deselected if ALL of them are already selected.
- The "Ban Player" menu option in multiplayer games is now a checkbox when the player using it is not the host.
- A player leaving a multiplayer game will now un-ready all non-observers.
- When launching a multiplayer game, any text that has been typed into the game chat but not sent will be preserved and copied to the in-game chat for future sending.
Graphics:
- Improved appearance of mouse cursors when using U.I. scaling under 200%.
- The 'period' and 'I' decals are now properly centered.
Bug Fixes:
- Rare crash when hovering the cursor over a ship using the attack or follow commands and that ship is removed from the game.
- Clicking on a part immediately after pasting it would select all parts of that type.
- Any changes made to the Aim Ion Prism or Target Tractor Beam hotkeys weren't being saved upon closing the game.
- Pressing Alt+F to focus and rotation-lock the selected part(s) would rotate the camera but not actually lock its rotation to the ship.
- Middle-clicking in empty space while focused on a moving ship could cause the camera to jerk or glitch a little.
- Visual jitter when using the Rotate advanced command and hovering the mouse cursor over a fast-moving ship.
- Ion Beam Prisms would appear to be able to target themselves even though they are actually unable to.
- Changing multiplayer ship paint colors to "Original" during a multiplayer match wouldn't update the paint colors of any ship pieces that had split off from their original ship.
- Attacking with a ship with no weapons would default it to attacking from minimum distance.
- Weapons would refuse to fire through friendly structure when "friendly fire" was enabled.
- Flak Batteries set to "Fire At Target" mode couldn't be targeted without selecting the Flak Battery itself.
- Heavy Laser Blasters weren't waiting the proper amount of time before showing their "no power" icon.
- In multiplayer, selecting a ship that is being direct-controlled by another player and then hovering the mouse cursor over a different ship that is following the selected ship would display a flickering white silhouette of the hovered ship.
- Changing the maximum number of ships in a multiplayer game was not refreshing the remaining funds for players who had more than the new maximum number of ships selected.
- Changing the maximum number of ships in a multiplayer game and then removing a ship from a player's fleet would confusingly fill in the now-open slot with ships that were selected before the maximum was changed.
- Pasting copied parts in blueprint mode in such a way that no modifications are actually made would play the "delete" sound instead of the normal blueprint sound.
- It was possible to make a ship appear to target itself by having it follow another ship and then making that other ship attack it.
- In build mode with a door selected, the door icon near the mouse cursor would be rotated if the ship/view was rotated. It will now always be rendered vertically relative to the player's screen.
- Attempting to add an illegal ship during an Domination or Arena multiplayer games would (correctly) fail and then prevent any additional ships from being added.
- It was possible to copy & paste a newline/carriage-return into the chat window.
Modding:
- Version numbers for enabled mods are now included in log files.
- Criteria and PartCriteria blocks now support 'ExcludeID', 'ExcludeIDs', 'ExcludeCategory', and 'ExcludeCategories' parameters.
- Bullet and beam hit blocks now support an optional 'Offset' parameter that offsets its hit and media effects.
- TargetingRange wasn't properly allowing weapons to fire on targets that are out of standard range but predicted to be within standard range by the time of impact.

Ultranova

Walt Criteria and PartCriteria blocks now support 'ExcludeID', 'ExcludeIDs', 'ExcludeCategory', and 'ExcludeCategories' parameters.

Very epic

tinycube

: )

Omnisonix

Awesome balance changes, even tho I cant play😢

SpaceCat

Hi,

All non-guided weapons can now shoot at targets at up to twice their range as long as they are predicted to be within their range by the time the projectile makes impact.

😃 Great that "momentum aiming" is back for non guided projectiles!
Having to autofire to archieve it was a bit of a hassle.
This should help aiming at fast ships quite a bit.

Increased power usage of all thrusters by 50%.

☹ Thrusters dropping out and boost is very short due to this.
Feels rly unecessary and not rly helping against the speed meta.
Just hurts all ships.

Reverted ship rotational inertia back to the original (most realistic) amount.

😃 inertia back to "realistic" = comprehensible = good.

Reduced Tractor Beam peak power usage from 6250 to 3000.

😶 nothing to say about that one, having not enough expierience with tractor beams

Reduced Ammo Factory cost from 10000 to 6000.

☹ imho completely unecessary. cannons are strong already. probabaly just causes more canonwallspam

Railguns and Ion Beams that are set to "Fire At Target" mode will now be happy to fire through enemy ships to hit the targeted part, just like they already do with "junk" ships.

😃 Very nice! No more "why does my railgun not fire" rants in MP.

The 'period' and 'I' decals are now properly centered.

😸 rly i noticed that! - smoll but welcome Painting qol.

TY 4 all the Bugfixing! There are rly some meaty ones in there!

regards,