Update 0.34

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Content, Features & Improvements:

• New flyable aircraft: VT-7 Vagrant

• New sea vessel: Surf Class Patrol BoatSteam post image

• Artillery Units: (MSV Multiple Launch Rocket System, HLT Mobile Artillery)

  

  

• New models & textures for pilot seats

  

• New wheel models & textures for all aircraft previously missing them

  

• Surface based missile launchers now take time to reload and consume ammo to do so

• Munitions trucks have AI now, and will ferry ammo from storage facilities to units that need resupplying

• Munitions bunkers, dumps, containers and trucks now hold a limited amount of ammunition

• Glancing collisions with water at high speed will sever aircraft parts

• Severed aircraft parts now induce drag

• Smoother take off transition for ducted thrust and swivel duct VTOLs

• Flight assist no longer toggles Auto/Manual for ducted thrust systems. Like in the FS-12 Vortex, this toggle is determined by Custom Axis 1 position. Full forward is Auto, while any other position is a manual override.

• Stability Assist is enforced while auto-hover is active

• Aircraft fuel fires have been reworked and will exhibit much more consistent and predictable behaviour

• Vehicle wrecks no longer stop vehicles on first collision

• Vehicles now have better controlled self-righting behaviour

• Added machine gun emplacement

• Added Infantry Bunker unit

• Garrisoned infantry (such as on guard towers, vehicle depots and infantry bunkers) can now use RPGs

• Added new roads to assist with vehicle access to several Heartland areas

  

  

• Missiles now proximity fuse according their target's actual location instead of observed/known location

• Improved CI-22 Cricket ground steering

• FPS limit setting

• Max Pixel Lights setting

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed landing gear wheels being unable to roll backwards

• Fixed missing Eyeball Mk. II loadout for Ibis fuselage pylons

• Fixed Eyeball Mk. II not giving spotting rewards to the launching player

• Fixed "double smoke trail bug" on multi-stage rocket motors

• Fixed mission editor placement on angled surfaces not aligning correctly

• Fixed D-pad down not being default bound to landing gear, despite the tutorial saying so

• Fix hangars not opening for AI if all weapons on a hardpoint are restricted

• Fixed some cases of buggy road pathfinding

• Fixed some cases of AI aircraft missing runway during landing approach

• Fixed multi-weapon turrets sometimes firing before recalculating trajectory for newly selected weapon

• Fixed cursor class CIWS turrets missing targets when ship is in motion

• Fix Modify Environment outcome not updating wind

• Fixed potential index out of range errors in Target Detector system

• Fixed potential index out of range error in unit firing state tracking

• Fixed issue that would cause AI unit to select more targets than the network sync allows

• Fixed potential index out of range error with Damage Effects

• Fixed an unintended performance issue with Bullet Simulation System

• Fixed potential null reference error with Inertial Seeker

• Fixed Kinematic Rigidbody Velocity Warnings for Missiles

AI:

• AI Pilots equipped with multiple forward fixed guns now use linked firing

• Improved shell gliding behaviour

• Long range SAM sites do a better job of not wasting missiles on low hit probability targets

• Anti-air missile launchers will ignore economically unfavourable interceptions

• Improved vehicle turning behaviour

• Improved vehicles navigating around obstacles

• Improved vehicles passing each other head-on

• Improved landing AI behaviour

• Added AI system for munitions trucks

• Added AI system for artillery units

• Fixed AI helicopters prematurely ejecting during landings

Interface:

• Improved votekick UI

• HUD now indicates the closest aircraft via a chevron under the HUD Unit Marker

• HUD now indicates the platform/player name of the unit closest to the targeting cursor

• UI Theme system allowing custom HUD and map colors to be defined

• Upgraded HUD text rendering

• AdjustedInput System UpdateRewired updated to newer version to prepare for future Input System improvements

• Added "Reduce Collective" warning label for low rotor RPM

• Added controls for camera elevation in cockpit view

• Additional unit icons

• Additional info on target selection filter : lased targets, number of inbound missiles.

• Added reaming overlay on map screen for visualisation of unit ammo management

• Added weapon station status indicator

• Improved waypoint circle sizing

• AdjustedSettings Menuchanged TrackIR checkbox to a generic Head Tracker checkbox, and added a dropdown for Head Tracker selection to prepare for future updates.
• AdjustedSettings Menuimproved readability of Control Bindings Menu
• AddedSettings Menuadded Controller Glyphs to Control Bindings Menu
• AddedMain Menuadded one time notification for Input Manager System Update
• AdjustedSteam WorkshopImproved steam workshop search to fetch more items with matching name

Audio/Effects:

• Optimisation pass to reduce performance cost of loading and unloading particle systems and tracers

• Fixed some instances of pitch oscillations when spectating fast moving units

• Camera centric wind rushing sound now fades out with reducing air pressure

• Additional rocket motor sounds for missiles with long burn times

• Added rocket motor transition effects for Scimitar

• Added internal lighting to hangars

• Lights & smoke effects added to refinery prop

• Structure/ship lights can now blink

• Added shadows to debris particle effects

• Added elevator warning lights to aircraft carriers

• Fixed jittery laser VFX

• Fix sun position being delayed by a frame

• Some visual effects received a performance optimization pass to improve average frame times

• Added potential ammo fires for most ammo storage units

• Improved appearance of and visual consistency between different types of ammo explosions

• Improved appearance of bullet hits on terrain when impacts are grouped closely

Balance:

• Increased Compass dry mass from 5320kg to 6111kg, increased engine thrust from 28kN to 31.6kN, increased effective wing area proportionally

• A-19 Brawler wing slats will deploy during turns

• Tweaked center of lift and drag for all aircraft to improve handling feel

• Scythes will now fail to track if fired at something greater than 80 degrees off boresight

• Fixed bug which caused very short range scythe shots to exhibit perfect accuracy off the rail, even against ground targets

• Missiles with home-on-jam capability no longer spread out from each other

• ARADs are now capable of leading fast moving targets

• R9 lock persistence increased from 2 seconds to 3 seconds

• Slightly increased Boltstrike radar power, fire rate and scan frequency

• The value of a unit's stored munitions is now included in the kill reward

• Munitions containers & pallets are substantially cheaper

• Missile proximity fuse now functions independently of guidance, meaning shots from directly behind/head on may have to be physically dodged even if tracking is lost

• Compass can carry 2 additional Scythes under its middle wing pylons.

• AAM-29 Scythe drag increased, allowing kinematic evasion outside of ~16km

• Increased AT-145 laser resistance

• Increased AGM-99 cost from $480k to $1.25m

• SAH-46 Chicane moved from Rank 2 to Rank 1

• VL-49 Tarantula moved from Rank 3 to Rank 2

Mission Editor:

• Added faction skill multipliers in scenario settings

• Increased maximum height bounds for unit placement

• Skill & bravery settings added for aircraft in editor. Skill currently has very limited effect on aircraft behaviour

• Missiles spawned via the editor can now be assigned a faction

• Missiles spawned via the editor can now be assigned a target and a guiding radar for SARH.

• Added RevealUnits outcome

• Added box selection for selecting multiple units

• Added direct click-and-drag editing for selected units. Drag to reposition, Alt-drag to move vertically, and Shift-drag to rotate toward the cursor

• Added copy and paste support for selected units

• Added unit browser to filter unit selection and list currently selected or all filtered units

• Added position and angle snapping option

• Added terrain following toggle for new unit placement

• New unit placement rotation no longer follows the camera and can be adjusted with the scroll wheel

• add completeOnEnterRange option for ReachWaypoints Objective

• Increase ShowMessage text box size

• Keybind hint to acknowledge dialogue box

• Dynamic keybind glyphs for dialogue box

• "add selected" and "select assigned" buttons to objectives menu

• Altitude line for selected units

• Improved mission format: Objective and Outcome values are now stored directly instead of via data list

• Visual Graph Editor for Objectives and Outcomes

Networking:

• Player Name Syncing: player name is now fetched locally from steam instead of syncing over the network

• Improved Vote Kick UI: votes shown in progress bar to make it more clear what number is required for vote to pass

• Improved Anti-cheat for aircraft flying under terrain

Known Issues:

• Ammo information overlay on map displaying units requesting rearm currently doesn't work for remote clients in multiplayer. This will be patched in a hotfix soon.