Empyrion – Alpha 7.6.1: Patch Notes!

Greetings!A small patch comes to the Alpha 7 branch of Empyrion. It offers some optimizations, a tutorial update, and a slew of bug fixes. Next week we can expect to receive more information on the “Road to Alpha 8: Development Update” and the Alpha 8 release. For now, please continue to report bugs and issues to the Alpha 7 Bug Reports section in the forum.  Check out the full list of the changes and notes featured in this patch below!

A full list of the changes and fixes:

Changelog: Alpha 7.6.1 (Build 1466)

Changes:

• Optimized turrets to obtain a big performance gain when a lot of turrets are involved
• Removed the “last open“ mechanism in favor of “open log if mission is active“ if PDA is opened (e.g. open PDA with an active mission > show PDA log page)
• Changed the way how the “energy left” is calculated for a base: now we only take into account the current amount of energy in fuel tank + battery and divide it by the current consumption
• Updated Akua + Omicron Playfields:
• Trading Station is now further away from enemy POIs
• Omicron: resource deposits are placed around wreckage POI
• Akua: resource deposits are closer to wreckage POI

Tutorial Update:

• Added info on how to re-read messages to some of the message popups
• Adjusted wording of some messages
• Added Alien honey to Greenhouse2 fridge

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed: Problem with huge number of drones gathering at position (0,0,0)
• Fixed: HV’s getting stuck under water after going through the green wall.
• Fixed: Survival Constructor ‘Allow faction access’ & ‘Show on map’ missing from UI.
• Fixed: End of stairs can create an invisible block
• Fixed: Problem that resource asteroids did not spawn when a low amount was configured in yaml
• Fixed: After removing the capacitor, the solar panel LED’s remained on until the game was reloaded
• Fixed: Problem with “ManagerShipFighter Write unknown task” warning
• Fixed: Playfield server exception spam
• Fixed: Several other internal exceptions
• Updated Empyrion Admin Helper (EAH) Tool

Patch notes – 1.40.3.7

• Added: Changed Player column “Cheat” to “Warning”
• Added: Backpack Backup working for remote slave
• Added: Config Discord: Send Auto-Chat’s to discord
• Added: Deposit Check (only on local tools): For now it lists all deposits and their current status. The refresh function has to be delayed till A8.0
• Added: Feedback for GetShipDown
• Added: New Items
• Added: Structure limits: Added overall limits for CV/SV/HV Player/Faction
• Added: Admin Profile: Fill automatically with all in-game admins
• Added: Player/Structure: Warp to me
• Fixed: Logs about wrong triangle count
• Fixed: To many space warnings on full backups
• Fixed: Removed Hoover vacuum cleaner and added Hover 😉
• Fixed: Structure limit: Warning sound not right. Now showing high warnings for the last 3 messages

 

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