Hard Vacuum Update 3

Update 3 is now live.

Capital Ships

• Carriers and destroyers now have 2 or 3 power relays located around the hull that can be destroyed to inflict extra damage

• The engines of the enemy destroyer, carrier and flagship can now be destroyed to inflict extra damage

Balance Changes

• AI ship accuracy has been reduced

• There is now a cap on how many ships can target any other ship at any one time and this is influenced by the difficulty setting

• The number of AI ships is now modified by difficulty in some instances

• Player health on the recruit difficulty has been increased

• All ship maximum speeds and thrust speed have been increased

• The pitch speed of the light fighter has been increased

• The pitch, roll and yaw speeds of the interceptor have been increased

• The yaw and roll speeds of the strike fighter have been increased

• The maximum locking range of the targeting computer has been increased

• Enemy missiles and Trebuchet missiles do less damage

• Hydra missiles do more damage

• Turrets lead targets more effectively

• The health of large turrets have been reduced

• The damage of small turrets have been reduced

• Elevation and turn speeds of all turrets increased

Player

• The fade time of text on the in cockpit display has been increased from 10 to 15 seconds

• The player shield effect is now a little more transparent and less bright

• Some objectives are now highlighted on the radar

• The targeting computer now selects targets in a more predictable manner

• The default head and joystick positions have been tweaked to be a little more practical

• The strike fighter's weapons have been adjusted to have a tighter grouping and hit more consistently

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue with the AI state machine getting stuck in some circumstances

• Fixed an issue with AI targeting that would occasionally send a shot to the world space origin instead of the target

• Sometimes missiles would bypass active shields and damage the hull directly

• Fixed an issue with missile collision sometimes causing odd behaviour on launch

• All missiles now correctly update their position when object positions are offset to mitigate floating point errors

• Fixed a lingering issue related to hit detection

• Fixed an issue related to destroyer movement