Changelog v1.10 B4232 2023-06-27

Gameplay

• Added the ‘Drone Bay’: You can now craft and place the Drone Bay and equip it with Defense Drones. A Drone Bay Spawner is required for starting the drones.[olist]
• Pay attention to the direction you set the drone spawner block & also place it on the outside of the vessel so the drones have easy access to it to spawn & despawn from.
• To “retrieve” spawned drones toggle the power off for the drone bay & wait for them to return & despawn. When they are close to your vessel keep it still so they can find the spawner & despawn.
• Please note this is the first iteration of this feature. Please leave you feedback here
[/olist] https://empyriononline.com/threads/v-1-10-drone-bay.101751/
• Replaced player bike with a player hover bike: Note that the Hoverbike cannot go over water
https://empyriononline.com/threads/v-1-10-hover-bike.101752/

Building: Blueprint Parts Collection Tool

• Added a new tool to manage blueprint part collections “Blueprint Parts Collection Tool”. [previewyoutube=BDZ0Rof3cbw;full]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDZ0Rof3cbw [/previewyoutube]
• Added possibility to create snap points to combine blueprint parts together. With that POIs can be created very fast and easy, especially out of construction sets.
• Added console command 'bpcoll' to show the blueprint parts collection window
• A demonstration video for the snap points feature to help guide you through the process of creating snap points and utilizing them in your blueprints effectively.
[previewyoutube=pTgzsSmI9VQ;full]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTgzsSmI9VQ [/previewyoutube]
• We encourage you to try out the feature firsthand in the game and share your valuable feedback with us over here: https://empyriononline.com/threads/v1-10-building-blueprint-parts-collection-toolset.101753/
• Snap points are an incredibly powerful addition, and once you become familiar with their functionality, you'll discover that they are a remarkable time-saving tool.

Building: Blocks & Shapes

• Added 23 new blockshapes; You can find the new blockshapes by checking for missing slots and white blanks on the Cubes, Round and Connector tabs OR hover over the seemingly empty slots on the 2nd page of the "basic shapes" tab
• Added: Ramp Round Medium Transition (All blockshapes for 1.10 are now added)
• Fixed mirror issues with new blockshapes
• Updated new shape icons for clarity
• Water and Lava Blocks are now available from in the Item Menu for POI building
• Added WaterSplash at high speed fall
• Changed: Water block now has 8° temperature effect + drops purified water when picked up in survival
• Changed: Lava block now drops rockdust when picked up in survival

Default Scenario Update:

POI & OPVs:

• Added/updated about 300 space & ground stations, wreckages, dungeons, small and large, weak and strong combat and civilian vessels - created, reworked and updated by various authors and community contributors (check details at: https://empyriononline.com/forums/showroom-submissions.108/).
• Thanks a lot to everyone building for Empyrion <3

Missions

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• Added locale mission arcs (with 5 missions each) to all starter planets:

• Note: To start the mission, find the main mission hub on the playfield (there are indications in PDAs and/or notifiers when approaching a mission relevant POI)
• Adjusted main storyline contents, mission structure and dialogues (eg. shortened amount of text and/or added more SKIP routes)
• Changed start location and context of main storyline (Prelude now starts when arriving on Omicron Sector!)

Most important changes:

• Updated: Story Mission 'Totally Overpowered' updated to new settings and faction references. Dialogues updated to reflect context changes.
• Updated: Story Mission 'Glacial Grave': Reduced Log content (amount of text) found on the system consoles down to 1-page logs and made several other refinements on procedures.
• Updated: Story Mission 'Ancient Revelations': fixed issues with opening doors too early, changed creatures to variants that better fit some room sizes. Staircase now cleared when using shortcut from main access to upper level; added some additional markers in some places.
• Updated: Story Mission 'Uncertain Outcomes': fixed several issues in mission progression; Set stations to civil + admin cores; removed Tier3 ores from mission asteroids.
• Updated: Story Mission Interlude 'Meet the GLaD': added some skip areas to Dialogues and streamlined text info for summaries
• Updated: Story Mission 'Sigma Fulcrum': Reduced clickcount on station console (each message now only shown once as long as player stays in the dialogue); Fixed a few inconsistencies with mission progress; Note the station is still set to Colonists faction you won't damage your reputation with. So first ask, then shoot.
• Updated: Story Mission 'Unexpected Allies': Fixed faction settings to not break mission progress. Updated some dialogues; updated info + added more SKIP routes in dialogues.
• Updated: Story Mission 'Wins and losses': Adjusted some text elements; Fixed progression issues. (Note, this is currently the LAST mission. Final mission might be added for 1.11 or 1.12)
• Deactivated 'Murky Christmas' mission (as this is seasonal content).
• General change on story mission factions & enemies: When there is no chance to proceed in a story mission other than to fight against a dynamic-RP faction, the opponents will be set to "Alien" to not forcefully ruin player reputation. If there is a choice, e.g. to trade, talk or fight, a dynamic faction might be used & the decision to ruin the Reputation towards them is up to the players themselves.
• Factions & Reputation & NPCs
• Set UCH to dynamic faction reputation
• Added a static player-friendly 'technical' faction 'PlayerAssistDefaultHostile' (PDH) to help with mission setups that require combat against default-hostile factions and RP is not spoiled by friendly-fire or the faction is already used in another context. The faction is not intended to have POI or territories but is a "technical" static faction only.
• Reworked faction reputation matrix: eg. added more crossover effects (pos and negative), removed too strong level-drop effects and added specific RP-loss amounts to some blocks (f.ex. Cores)
• Changed NPC groups (EclassConfig) and updated terrain-spawned patrol groups (Egroup)
• Telluropod now available from NPC Spawners
• Updated the UCH faction NPCs: the faction now uses a dedicated set of NPC types for military and civilians.
• For builders, use the male and female military and non-military variants for NPC spawns that start with ‘UCH’ (eg. UCHSoldierFemale2AssaultRifle, UCHPilotMaleRed, UCHCivilianMale1 and so on.

Gameworld

• Updated home systems and home planets for all major and minor factions (1st iteration)
• Added home systems for community-submitted factions
• Sorted/changed blueprint groups of lots of POIs for the factions
• Sorted blueprint groups for all faction OPVs (space and planet) into tiers.
• Note: if your scenario uses default BP groups, their contents might have changed!
• Changed: Several story-mission-relevant POI did not have an admin core
• Changed: Enemy attack in story mission context is now mostly set to "alien" faction to avoid spoiling reputation unintentionally.
• Added a few battered, free-roaming cannon drones to Ningues, Skillon and Masperon (Alien faction; will attack player, but not other NPCs)
• Changed: Activated Base Attacks on Akua (Talon) and Masperon (Zirax/Abyssal)
• Changed: Akua SupplyDepot swapped Raptor02 with RaptorNight and interior AlienBug01v2 with Spider01
• Updated Ocean planet (decoration, atmosphere, textures & biomes)

Game World Maintenance

• GalaxyConfig / in-system map: Fix for SmBH ‘star halo’ having sharp edges
• Removed some lore-unfitting creature spawns
• Added some creature spawnzones
• Fixed some missing deposit textures
• Tweaked some POI spawning positions: Further away from poles
• Fixed missing deposit textures for TemperateSwamp
• Switched HomeworldUCH to new decoration system
• Merged Default GalaxyConfig with the Default Multiplayer Scenario
• Merged Default Factions with the Default Multiplayer Scenario
• Merged Default DefReputation with the Default Multiplayer Scenario
• Adjusted Tresari Group contents
• Fixed: Karana playfield fixes

Gameworld - Stars

• Space: Tweaked looks for star types O,B,F,A,G,K,M, LegacyNexusHub
• Space: Adjusted playfield lighting colours and brightness. (O: Much brighter; B: Bright)
• Galaxy map: Star types easier to tell apart in distance
• Increased size class for G, A type stars and SmBH

Planets:

• Added Aluminium and Platinum ground deposit (removed Carbon for it)
• Aluminium: Alien, Arid, Barren, Desert, TemperateSwamp
• Platinum: BarrenMetal, LavaNascent, TemperatePlateau
• Added RockResourceCarbon to Barren
• Barren: Very slight decoration tweak
• Arid: Bound some deposits to biomes

Multiplayer / Coop

• Added PlayerFaction Role dropdown UI to Control Panel's Devices page. To use this select a device on your base or vessel & select the role level you want to restrict the devices access to & in the Faction GUI window apply the appropriate roles to faction members. https://empyriononline.com/threads/v-1-10-player-faction-roles-permissions.101761/

Config Changes

Global configs

• Important change: Mass/Volume/CPU/Blocklimit = default on (Can be changed in settings at gamestart!); Full changelog & feedback & known issues thread: < >
• Important change: Blueprints cannot be put into the Factory if the player hasn't unlocked the needed items in the techtree yet!
• New optional parameter "ignoreOtherTarget" is available for Pf-Ops SpawnDrone, SpawnOPV and SpawnTroopTransport
• Updated info in galaxyconfig.ecf about hiding a solar system
• Added information about AuxPoi setup to example playfield yaml
• Added new parameter 'DisableProximityLog' (true/false) for gameoptions.yaml to allow disabling the proximity log button in registry

Dialogue System

• Added possibility to omit the cone for NPC with dialogues (class NPCDialogue) by adding the property OmitCone: true in BlocksConfig.ecf
• Added function string GetFaction(int entityId) that returns the faction name from the FactionConfig.ecf
• Added a property "DialogueState" to BlocksConfig.ecf to be used in blocks of class "NPCDialogue" to allow specifying a hard coded target dialog. If this is present, this block can be placed by users on player bases and be also triggered using "F".
• Added new function GetStructure(entityId)[

Creative Mode / Scenario

• Creative mode improvement: if SHIFT (run key) is pressed the focus box now focuses inside the target block (pressing RMB will remove it and LMB will replace it). The removal was working before, but now the focus is also placed correctly.
• BuildSettingsMenu: Green pasted area can now also be mirrored "in place"
• BuildSettingsMenu: Green pasted area will now collide with its surrounding structure if pressing LEFT-SHIFT while moving (using the move handles)
• Default Creative scenario: Updated Temperate and Arid playfields to new decoration. Updated selection pictures.

Visual Refinements & Controller upgrades

• Added Global Illumination, Dynamic Shadows & Terrain Tessellation & video options to toggle these on & off https://empyriononline.com/threads/v-1-10-visuals-tesselation-forcefields-and-more.101764/
• New force field VFX added to all blocks that have a forcefield visible

• New swimming animations added

Sound / SFX:

• Added dynamic combat soundtracks for planets & space
• WIP: Adjusted device volume levels to be lower overall: Ramps, Shutters, doors, hangar doors, blast doors, water generators
• Added some new sounds for power generators, shield generator, water generator & the warp drive
• Lowered the distance some NPC’s can be heard from (particularly noticeable in POI’s)

Fixes:

• Explorer Token for faction homeworlds should now work/be given again (also for the new dynamic factions!)
• Explorer Token for first-pickup for ores did not work anymore or were given randomly
• Falling animation is playing when you fly a vessel.
• 00858: Collision model for deco block - Antena 05 is missed
• 00912: Collision model for block Deco SVDecoAeroblister01 is missed
• 00897: Retractable turrets can be invisible when they are turned off
• 00910: Large thrusters is flickering in 1PV after resume the game
• Fixed Blueprint spawn crash
• Fixed: BA_PolarisDroneBase offset missing
• Fixed: BA_UCHSettlement was missing FillerBlocks at the corners
• 00917: Ctrl + Alt key combo toggles free look
• 00991: Sensor-related exception when changing playfields
• Multiple fixes done during exp v1.10 https://empyriononline.com/forums/fixed.90/

EAH:

• https://eah.empyrion-homeworld.net/download/patch-notes-emp-admin-helper-full