Cosmoteer Release Candidate 0.14.10_rc2

Walt

Thanks to everyone who tested RC1! RC2 is now available for testing! It fixes a bunch of issues and also significantly modifies the beam combination math. (It is now optimal two combine two equally-sized beams per prism.) Please send me your feedback!

Download 0.14.10_rc2

Changes since RC1:

Balance:
- Changed the Ion Beam Prism math when multiple beams are inputting into a prism such that each additional beam contributes 25% less power than the previous. In the case where multiple beams have different amounts of power, the smaller beams will be inputted first such that they lose the least amount of power, meaning for optimal power output it's best to always combine two equally-sized beams. In some cases, combining a smaller beam with a larger one won't increase power output at all, though it will never reduce power output.
User Interface & Convenience:
- Ion Beam Prisms can no longer be targeted on enemy prisms without specifically selecting the prism and using the link or target commands.
- Ships will now spawn with prisms already pointing at their linked prisms.
- Prism links can now be queued just like normal targets.
- Added stats showing the prisms beam combination falloff percentages.
Graphics:
- Ion beams are now rendered beneath ships.
Bug fixes:
- (RC1) Frequent desyncs caused by changes to weapon targeting.
- (RC1) Canceling a prism's target, toggling its power state, or loading a saved game in which a prism is firing would briefly cause damage to friendly structure pieces.
- (RC1) Turning on Friendly Fire will would cause shots to damage friendly structure and cause friendly structure to block line of sight.
- (RC1) Ion beams wouldn't automatically fire through prisms when their ship was set to "Junk" allegiance.
- (RC1) When a prism first fires, the initial frame of damage would be doubled.
- (RC1) Junk ships will would damage their own structure when firing weapons. They will no longer do so unless they are explicitly targeting themselves.
- (RC1) Crash when observing an Arena multiplayer game.
Modding:
- Added an 'IonEnergyStorage' component that can be used to accumulate "ammo" from multiple input sources, where each additional input source becomes less and less (or more and more) efficient.
- Filter blocks now contain 'Self' and 'TargetedSelf' filters. If those aren't specified, it will fallback to using 'Friendly' and 'TargetedFriendly', respectively.
- The 'BulletCategories' filter in Filter blocks is now called 'OnlyBulletCategories'. There is also a new 'ExcludeBulletCategories' filter.
- AmmoScaleFactor is now supported by all emitter types, not just BeamEmitter.
- Removed the RC1 ability to give exponents min/max modes since it's not used anymore in vanilla and has a non-zero runtime cost.
- Removed the 'EffectsScaleFactorExponent', 'AmmoScaleFactorExponent', and 'ValueScaleFactorExponent' parameters from BeamEmitter because vanilla doesn't use them and they have a non-zero runtime cost.

Kroom

Walt There is a small graphic bug with the bullet Indicators when loading a game.

beef1213

One bug when I target with some ships the ship targets sideways

Walt

beef1213 I don't understand what you mean. Can you please post a saved game?

thatPolarBear

beef1213 if the ship has all the ions facing sideways the ai might be thinking that the highest firepower is on the side.

beef1213

Walt heres a picture. the one on the bottom always targets like that now and i have to edit the direction its faces when attacking

Nordwolf

Bug report:
If a prism is destroyed, other prisms that were linked to it don't deal damage until the prisms are specifically targeted (non-global part target) or given cancel orders command.

Nordwolf

Nordwolf Bug report:
If a prism is destroyed, other prisms that were linked to it don't deal damage until the prisms are specifically targeted (non-global part target) or given cancel orders command.

Ok, some changes to the bug report:
The prisms don't deal damage when their target prism is disconnected, not when it is destroyed.

Also another one for me, is this intended behavior?
Ions fail to damage enemy prisms, using them as one of their own, or for whatever other reason.
EDIT: It also doesn't destory junk, not normally and not when you target it (and it doesn't use the prism to transfer the beam when it's junk and not linked)

Walt

Kroom Strange, will fix, thanks!

Walt

Nordwolf The prisms don't deal damage when their target prism is disconnected, not when it is destroyed.
Nordwolf It also doesn't destory junk, not normally and not when you target it (and it doesn't use the prism to transfer the beam when it's junk and not linked)

These should both be fixed in RC3, thanks!

Nordwolf Ions fail to damage enemy prisms, using them as one of their own, or for whatever other reason.

This is intended. (Though whether it's the right design, I'm not sure.)