Patch Notes for v0.9.8 - Contracts&Criminals Update

Version 0.9.8 Patch Notes

Alterations:

• Contracts are now streamlined - taking a contract loads the cargo, and you now deliver the cargo from the destination station's contract terminal.

• You can now move cargo from your tablet by dragging it from pod to pod, while docked at a station.

• Added ability for players to engage in piracy by hailing merchants and threatening them.

• Added ability for players to use their hack modules to find smugglers, and report them for a profit to authority ships.

• Added ability for players to report possible pirates to authority vessels, who will investigate the area.

• Added ability to begin with no fog obscuring any point in the map.

• Added an estimate of time to next waypoint and to final destination on the top-left of the nav map.

• Added 'skipintro=true' option to config files to go straight to main menu.

• Removed 'Time Compression Cancelled' message when beginning docking procedures.

• Re-balanced the emissions rating of all components

Arduino:

• Added a feature where a hardware_commands.txt file showing the current accessible boolean checks, numerical gets and ship commands (along with descriptions where available) are dumped to a file when the game is executed with hardware support on.

• Fixed the TOGGLE_ and CONNECT_ commands.

General:

• Fixed a bug where spinning up your jump drive or having your IFF off were not responded to by authority ships escorting you back to a base.

• Fixed a bug where torpedos were not being saved sometimes in campaign mode.

• Fixed a bug where clicking 'hail' on certain NPC ships would cause a crash.

• Fixed a bug which could cause a crash while moving about in some derelicts.

• Fixed a bug which sometimes caused a crash when undocking from space stations.

• Fixed a bug which caused text clipping errors on the cargo screen while docked with some derelicts.

• Fixed an exploit where a ship with no pods would re-load with two new ones no matter what.

• Fixed a bug which could sometimes cause duplicate authority or military ships to appear in a sector after loading game.

• Fixed a bug which caused custom graphic signage to not appear correctly on windows sometimes.

• Fixed a bug where quitting back to menu would leave cargo from previous sessions there, allowing cargo duplication.

• Fixed a bug where mooring with a cargo pod didn't re-set your currently selected pod on the moored object.

• Fixed some visual glitches with the cargo/pod screen.

• Fixed a bug where loading game on a space station sometimes made the UI appear the wrong colour.

• Fixed a bug where hack and grappling modules incorrectly showed the percent-complete when in use.

• Fixed a bug where PDA Note about Aya Grant contract remained indefinitely if you failed to get to the contract in time

• Fixed a bug where colour was not being used correctly in the hack result emails.

• Fixed various rendering issues with the waypoint ETA part of the nav screen.

• Fixed a bug where a ship's own torpedo will count as a 'threat' when determining AI behaviour and detecting whether time compression should be allowed.

• Optimised debug print routines to speed up game on machines with lower hard drives.

• Fixed a bug where sometimes a contract could be taken when your cargo hold could not hold all the required goods.

• Fixed a bug which sometimes caused non-steam versions to not run on Mac.

• Fixed a bug where the tutorial notes still appeared in sandbox mode sometimes.

• Fixed a freeze in the conversation with Black Annie Bolan

• Temporarily removed an extraneous conversation with Sheng Xu which was causing crashes

• Fixed a bug where a PDA Note to hack a ship for Avelina Dembo would stay indefinitely if you failed the hack

• Fixed a freeze in the conversation with Mary Devlin

• Fixed a freeze in the conversation with Jackson Farlane

• Fixed a freeze in the conversation with Liam Ong

• Fixed a freeze in the second conversation with Sharmilla Singh

• Fixed a crash in the conversation with Marchelline Smith

• Fixed a freeze in the conversation with Marie Marks

• Fixed a freeze in the conversation with Angela Reddy

• Fixed a freeze in the second conversation with Jinghua Wong

• Fixed a freeze in the conversation with Sylvia Garcia

• Fixed a bug where Tuisin Brown would appear constantly at any given airlock even after you'd already completed his mission

Proxima:

• Fixed the hitbox issues with the Proxima's airlock buttons.

• Fixed the camera position on the comms room's computer terminal.

• Fixed the screen in the airlock and the bug when you click on it.

• Fixed the lack of sound bug with one fo the proxima airlock doors.

• Fixed a camera angle bug when using the component & terminal screen on the proxima.