Monthly Featured Community Planetoid in Release Update FIVE

Yet another update with a HUEG list of new features, improvements, and fixes - check them out below! Especially if the game used to crash on you at start or later, a big update to the GUI middleware we're using should clear many of these issues up (they completely replaced the memory handling system).

Now, monthly, we are automatically featuring a Contributor Community-created Planetoid

right inside the game's Asteroid Belt map! You can now subscribe to, and vote up and down on these Workshop scenes, from the in-game menu. When the author of one of these subscribed-to scenes updates them, they will automatically get pushed to your game, and indicate that they're refreshed. We're kicking off the end of May here with filipex2000's brutal zombie-bashing minigame, which will cycle to something else at the beginning of each coming month! NOTE: If you get one of these messages when launching the game now, don't be alarmed! It just means there's a log file from a previous crash that we would love to take a look at. The game should load fine after you click through this message box:

Most notable updates this time around:

• Featured monthly Planetoids will start appearing in your asteroid belt

• Many if not most of those previous random crashes should be gone now due to updated GUI middleware

• Automatic error reporting which will aide us in fixing the crashes and problems some of you reported

• Working component system to build your own vehicles (more on that later)

• Lots of new reactor blueprints for scene makers

Full changelog:

• Added one more featured planetoid

• Added save slots: offline and networked

• More-robust "special" styling of vote buttons

• Added way to fade appropriate button when already-upvoted/downvoted

• Vote buttons are square

• Todd's updates on editor tool tips

• Fixed AB with nil check

• Got back Blank Planetoid instead of my net-test version

• Switched OFF network shortcuts in release config

• Fixed determinism bug with GetApproxPos

• Determinism test buffer corruption check

• Log update and bug fix on net game

• Made all new code in network thread-safe

• Easier connecting and creating net game on one or two computers

• Net test small update

• Net update - waiting for clients to finish loading

• Net game testing updates

• AB reacts to auto DL setting

• Fixed lines in the way when unlocking new ptoid ,added shakes

• Added simple camera.shake()

• Fixed AB errors without steam, added warning if steam isnt running

• Blank Planetoid net version test

• Server UDP discovery test

• Added functions to start / stop client / server and bound them to shortcuts

• Net frame update fix and Client time catch up

• Updates on net game and bp menu handling

• Polished ui in ab

• Polished unlock hints

• Added optional gravityPoint arg to fade around to math.fadePosition()

• Made AB spark travel much smoother

• Fixed ui lines wrong for one frame

• Fixed lines appearing for one frame when starting scene in AB

• AdjustedABtweaked spark pos and size depending on zoom to be always well visible

• AB: showing which planetoids get unlocked by completing, cleaned up some code

• Added measuring of network ping and game delay between computers

• Applied lua syntax and other errors catching also to LuaMan::RunScript()

• Matched TO colors with fog of war in AB map

• Made lua syntax error and other errors appear in lua errors window

• Adjusted AB TO color to match fog of war

• Adding scene to RemovedScenes immediately on Unsubscribe call

• Fixed and polished fading to game and back to menu

• Removed debug warning and some old TODO MIRO