[2020] Starbase – Progress Notes Week 38 (2020)

Week 38 (September 14th -September 18th)

Hello everyone! Here are the progress notes of week 38:

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Design

Features

• Infantry combat changes
  • Damage reduction done to torso from other body parts has been reduced to 30% (originally 70%)
  • A headshot multiplier of 1.2x damage has been added
  • Antigel damage has been decreased from 40 to 30
  • Antigel hipfire accuracy has been decreased a bit
• Following weapons have been re-tuned:
  • Long Rifle
  • Rail Gun
  • Repeater Pistol
• Ore distribution in the new belt has been fixed: ores are now more locally distributed and Valkite can now be found from the belt
• New power consumption design for the Ore Collector has been designed, players will be able to adjust the collecting speed
• Durability system improvements are in the works
• Design for alloy support in Spaceship Designer material selector is in the works
• Armor system is being reworked: armor stat system is being completely redesigned

Stations

• Ship Design Workshops’ work areas have been made larger
• Refuel slots have been added to Starting and Proia stations
• Fixer’s Coyote has been relocated from Rando 2 to Okim Industries 1
• Greatmatenate’s 201 Bruiser has been removed from Rando 2, as it’s already in Okim Industries 1
• New player spaceships added: Merino; Vigo; Port Authority Shuttle; Ironwing; Estoc; The Sky walker and Sparrow IV

Spaceships / Spaceship Designer

• Global/Local Transform toggle button has been added (Top toolbar)
• Show spaceship orientation -button has been added (Top toolbar): shows the orientation of the spaceship when it is spawned from a terminal

Code

Gameplay

• The frame integrity durability view was adjusted to better display the stress of each part
• Two bugs mostly related to updating thruster blocked-ness were fixed
• Weld objects which previously appeared as “localization missing” are now hidden in Ship Designer’s scene view window
• A settings option for using weapons while sitting was made, allowing all actions with a weapon equipped while sitting
• Station building is being worked on
• Auction House is being worked on

User Interface

• Item collections were set to have calculated material information as well
• Quickbar was set to try and find new similar items from player inventory if the original bound item has been removed
• Company Job menu is being worked on
• Tutorial is being worked on

Audio

• Chat window sounds were updated

Spaceship Designer

• Buttons for scene orientation and transform mode were added
• Material tool tooltips in Spaceship Designer were adjusted to match inventory ones

Art

Animations and Emotes

• Work on remote explosive animation continues
• Work on explosive drill animation continues
• Rummage animation was made for remote explosive (3rd person)
• Rummage animation was made for unarmed prone (3rd person)

Stations

• Legacy level art assets have been removed and replaced with proper ones in various station scenes.
• Various LOD updates based on the legacy asset removal.
• Additional level art added to Demolition job hall
• Minor color issues were fixed on various maps

 Armor

• Strix armorset texture polishing is in progress

Other

• Tests for large ice/snow asteroids in the new asteroid belt is underway
• Asset icons for generator assets, thrusters and furnace parts have been created.
• Asset icons for the devices in the lamps, navigation, networking, YOLOL and hardpoint categories have been created.

Gallery of the week

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