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Steam News2 December 20178y ago

Patch 0.9.3 - VR support, improved HUD, tighter controls, and much more

Gameplay All levels now playable in VR (tested with Oculus) - Increased auto-thrust aggression to allow tighter turns - Radio-messages can now be heard/seen as a spectator - Spectator max-time increased from 10s to 20s

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What changed

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  • Gameplay
  • Compatibility
  • Balance
  • Fixes
  • Performance
addedGameplayAll levels now playable in VR (tested with Oculus) - Increased auto-thrust aggression to allow tighter turns - Radio-messages can now be heard/seen as a spectator - Spectator max-time increased from 10s to 20s - Re-balanced several missions - Missile-boats are now present in more OBA-missions - Added a planet and more asteroids to Maki Transit mission - Added territory-objectives to Menace mission - Smoothed out auto-movement throttle (thrusters now operate more smoothly when braking)
changedAIAI will now abort rearming if an enemy-target is in range (and they are capable of attacking it) - AI is now generally more accurate with their shots (especially interceptors) - Smoothed out AI-targeting (less erratic movements)
addedUISimplified mission-selection by placing all missions (including tutorials) into missions-menu - Added VR-menu - All menus are now 3D menus (for VR compatibility) - Controls-menu is now accessible from the main-menu - Gamepad and keyboard now control a mouse-cursor to navigate menus - Developer console is now available for debugging
addedGraphicsOptimized internal graphics-settings for VR - Screen no longer darkens when using a lower post-process quality - Reticles are now thinner and brighter - Turret-reticles now scale with distance to reduce visual clutter - Radio-beacons now have a pulsating-effect - Health-bars in cockpit are now comprised of thinner bars - Increased the size/readability of some cockpit-text
fixedBugsFixed issue with control-mappings not being saved between game-sessions - Fixed rare random freeze that occured while browsing menus - Turret-hitboxes are now properly destroyed (were previously left floating in space) - Fixed issue with Ishtar not detecting opponents in some missions
removedCoreReticles and objectives are now rendered in 3D-space instead of being drawn directly to the screen - Optimized cockpit-rendering by reducing re-draws of several text-elements - Moved cockpit-room out of level-bounds in all missions - Projectiles no longer collide with the fighter or turret they were fired from - Now using an up-to-date basescalability.ini

ASTROKILL changes

addedAll levels now playable in VR (tested with Oculus) - Increased auto-thrust aggression to allow tighter turns - Radio-messages can now be heard/seen as a spectator - Spectator max-time increased from 10s to 20s - Re-balanced several missions - Missile-boats are now present in more OBA-missions - Added a planet and more asteroids to Maki Transit mission - Added territory-objectives to Menace mission - Smoothed out auto-movement throttle (thrusters now operate more smoothly when braking)
changedAI will now abort rearming if an enemy-target is in range (and they are capable of attacking it) - AI is now generally more accurate with their shots (especially interceptors) - Smoothed out AI-targeting (less erratic movements)
addedSimplified mission-selection by placing all missions (including tutorials) into missions-menu - Added VR-menu - All menus are now 3D menus (for VR compatibility) - Controls-menu is now accessible from the main-menu - Gamepad and keyboard now control a mouse-cursor to navigate menus - Developer console is now available for debugging
addedOptimized internal graphics-settings for VR - Screen no longer darkens when using a lower post-process quality - Reticles are now thinner and brighter - Turret-reticles now scale with distance to reduce visual clutter - Radio-beacons now have a pulsating-effect - Health-bars in cockpit are now comprised of thinner bars - Increased the size/readability of some cockpit-text
fixedFixed issue with control-mappings not being saved between game-sessions - Fixed rare random freeze that occured while browsing menus - Turret-hitboxes are now properly destroyed (were previously left floating in space) - Fixed issue with Ishtar not detecting opponents in some missions

Gameplay

  • All levels now playable in VR (tested with Oculus) - Increased auto-thrust aggression to allow tighter turns - Radio-messages can now be heard/seen as a spectator - Spectator max-time increased from 10s to 20s - Re-balanced several missions - Missile-boats are now present in more OBA-missions - Added a planet and more asteroids to Maki Transit mission - Added territory-objectives to Menace mission - Smoothed out auto-movement throttle (thrusters now operate more smoothly when braking)

AI

  • AI will now abort rearming if an enemy-target is in range (and they are capable of attacking it) - AI is now generally more accurate with their shots (especially interceptors) - Smoothed out AI-targeting (less erratic movements)

UI

  • Simplified mission-selection by placing all missions (including tutorials) into missions-menu - Added VR-menu - All menus are now 3D menus (for VR compatibility) - Controls-menu is now accessible from the main-menu - Gamepad and keyboard now control a mouse-cursor to navigate menus - Developer console is now available for debugging

Graphics

  • Optimized internal graphics-settings for VR - Screen no longer darkens when using a lower post-process quality - Reticles are now thinner and brighter - Turret-reticles now scale with distance to reduce visual clutter - Radio-beacons now have a pulsating-effect - Health-bars in cockpit are now comprised of thinner bars - Increased the size/readability of some cockpit-text

Bugs

  • Fixed issue with control-mappings not being saved between game-sessions - Fixed rare random freeze that occured while browsing menus - Turret-hitboxes are now properly destroyed (were previously left floating in space) - Fixed issue with Ishtar not detecting opponents in some missions

Core

  • Reticles and objectives are now rendered in 3D-space instead of being drawn directly to the screen - Optimized cockpit-rendering by reducing re-draws of several text-elements - Moved cockpit-room out of level-bounds in all missions - Projectiles no longer collide with the fighter or turret they were fired from - Now using an up-to-date basescalability.ini

Source

Steam News / 2 December 2017

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