Cosmoteer Release Candidate 0.14.11 RC2 & RC3

Walt

Thanks to everyone who helped test 0.14.11 RC1! RC2 is now available for testing!

EDIT: RC2 had a nasty crash bug, so here's RC3 to fix that:

Changes since RC1:

Added an "Enable Weapons Control" option that, if turned off, will disable direct control of weapon aiming and firing. When turned off, the weapons can be targeted normally by right-clicking on an enemy part.
In Domination mode, Control points that are being contested by multiple players/teams will no longer revert to neutral. They will stay with their current team and level of capture until they are no longer being contested by multiple teams.
Updated Domination map generation to reduce the average distance between control points and to always put the spawn areas on the edges of the map.
Doubled the amount of time it takes to capture a control point in Domination mode.
Changed the explosive charge detonation hotkey from Ctrl+D to Ctrl+Shift+D to prevent it from conflicting with the hotkey to toggle Direct Control Mode.
Added a hotkey (Ctrl+F) that can be pressed while in direct control mode to toggle the "Auto Face Toward Cursor" setting without having to go into the settings menu.
Updated the multiplayer player/team colors to no longer use white, which was too hard to tell apart from the neutral gray color. Pink is now used instead of white.
Updated the appearance of the "gold nebula" background to look a lot nicer.
Improved the visual appearance of very large ion beams.
RC1 Bugfix: Crash in multiplayer when selecting a part while in Direct Control Mode.
RC1 Bugfix: Crash when saving the game while in Direct Control Mode while parts are selected.
RC1 Bugfix: Crash when detonating an Explosive Charge via its hotkey.
RC1 Bugfix: Crash when a Flak Battery destroys itself with friendly fire.
RC1 Bugfix: Error loading some saved games from before 0.14.11.
RC1 Bugfix: Ships with "junk" allegiance weren't able to hurt other junk ships when using direct control mode.
RC1 Bugfix: Ion Beam Emitters would damage their own prisms when friendly fire was enabled.
0.14.10 Bugfix: Crash when taking a screenshot while a game is being saved or loaded.

Nordwolf

Walt Added a hotkey (Ctrl+F) that can be pressed while in direct control mode to toggle the "Auto Face Toward Cursor" setting without having to go into the settings menu.

I believe Alt+F already does that, I guess the behavior is very slightly different but I still find that they are duplicating functionality.

Also, mirroring Verania's post in the other thread, while there is a lot of great QoL, I don't like some of the changes to how you control ships, one particular issue I have is that when attacking enemy ship, when I press R and hover over enemy ship it snaps to central position instead of towards the mouse cursor. Now I know you can press (ctrl or shift? I don't remember) to rotate towards a part, however absolute rotation towards cursor under enemy ship should be default imo, now I constantly need to click before or after the ship to get the desired effect, making it less precise and much less convenient. I think rotating towards the center of a ship while in combat should be secondary to any other functionality.

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:thumbup: 😁

ErisBlackwolf

I may be late to the discussion, but an issue I had with the turning lay in that the engines will not "spool" down in order to even out the distribution of thrust when moving forward.

In large ships with multiple huge thrusters, going forward is a pain because of how if even one huge thruster momentary spools down, while a thruster on the other side stays fully active, the whole system is thrown off balance.
I'm not sure how to fix this, but perhaps link the spooling of the thrusters with each other so that thrusters spool at the same rate together.

A small issue I have with turning is how inflexible it is. If per-say I was holding down W and D, the ship will begin to rotate with small, if any regard, to moving forward. I would like an option where, holding down two buttons will evoke 50% of each buttons assigned thrusters.

All in all, everything's mostly great. This was a great update.

0huixuan0

Nordwolf Well, Alt+F doesn't change operation mode I think, it just re-focuses the camera.

Walt

Nordwolf I believe Alt+F already does that, I guess the behavior is very slightly different but I still find that they are duplicating functionality.

No they are completely different. Alt+F makes the camera rotate with the ship. Ctrl+F makes the ship rotate to face the mouse cursor.

Nordwolf absolute rotation towards cursor under enemy ship

Why do you want this?

Nordwolf

0huixuan0 F focuses on your ship, Alt + F makes the camera rotate with the ship as well.

Nordwolf

Walt No they are completely different. Alt+F makes the camera rotate with the ship. Ctrl+F makes the ship rotate to face the mouse cursor.

I need to do some reading comprehension assignments, thank you, you basically implemented what I asked 😛

Walt Nordwolf absolute rotation towards cursor under enemy ship

Why do you want this?

Uhm I always used that? Hard to say right away because it seems kind of obvious to me. But... to give a few specific examples:
- Rail fanning, when doing that you want to rotate your ship past the target, not onto it, and sometimes if the enemy ship is a big one when rotating you would click under/over it.
- Weapons not aligned with the center of the ship - same thing, you might not want to target a specific part but somewhere nearby
- Ship rotational response is usually not very fast, so if you target a specific part, your ship would rarely actually face it while doing maneuvers, but you can compensate that with absolute rotation if you know what you are doing.

Walt

FYI, RC2 had a nasty crash bug, so I just released RC3 to fix that. Not making a new thread since the only change RC3 makes is to fix that bug.

Walt

Nordwolf Thanks, I'll think about those cases. (Note that you can click-and-drag to provide a rotational offset, for cases where your weapons aren't aligned with the center of your ship or you want to compensate in some way.)

Nordwolf

Walt Thanks, noted, click and drag is fairly slow though and to me not very comfortable to use, if you are doing rotation adjustments every second or a few seconds in hard maneuvers it's pretty much useless.