Welcome to our Training Day Update. IASA engineers have prepared a new holographic tutorial mode to help you get to grips with lander and ship piloting before embarking on your mission. Practice as much as you want on friendly, hostile and dangerous planet types, as well as getting hands on experience with mining and navigating solar systems. We’ve also added some new features to the Daedalus-7, including new readouts showing where you’ll accumulate damage, and a new damage system that makes it easier to predict when systems are likely to fail.
On top of this, visited planets are now marked on your map to prevent pointless return visits. Also, galactic weapons are now colour-coded according to the kinds of damage they do, and glow according to their power. Stand and fight or flee? It’s now much easier to decide. Meanwhile, if you prefer to chat, Story Mode players will find aliens sticking around for longer before getting bored.
And that’s not all! Check out the full changelog below.
Your saves and option settings are not affected by the update. As ever, keep letting us know what you’d like to see. May your Journeys be eventful and your crews return home safe.
Tendrils crossed,
The TLJH Team
New Features:
New Training Mode
Learn how to play in the safety of IASA holographic training
Try out the basics of system flight and lander piloting from the main menu
The level contains fixed planets with different conditions so you can test and train your skills on friendly, challenging and hell-class worlds.
Improved damage and malfunction system
Plan your journey more effectively with displays of damage from different sources
Bridge and Lander Bay show the accumulated damage gathered by different sources like jump, hazards, etc
Ship and lander modules and devices are now tied to those damage categories
The accumulated stress bar displays the current risk for device damage on performing actions that additionally strain ship and lander systems.
Wounds and Medical systems overhaul
We tweaked the way crew members get wounds and ailments
Radiation damage from stars now afflicts the crew with a specific set of ailments (Coughing, Anxiety, Fever, Migraine, Nausea, Tremors) instead of burns
Medical items have redistributed effects and underwent a price reevaluation
There are items available that cure one, two or all types of ailments.
New particle effects for all weapons in game
Improved colour coding
Red projectiles damage your hull
Blue projectiles damage your shields
Purple projectiles penetrate your shields. Beware!
The more the shots glow, the more damage they will deal
Keyboard controls for Lander and Ship
Switch between arrow keys and WSAD in the options
The action pad on the lower right displays the currently used layout
Option menu overhaul
Tabs for the different categories: Graphics, Sound, Controller, Keyboard, Misc,..
Option to turn of the System Grid
Option to enable VSync
System:
Loading old save games into the new damage model should work
Added a checkmark in the System overview that indicates planets already visited
Improved loading times for switching between modes: Surface, Galaxy, Encounter, ...
Improved performance on gas planets
Improved performance on galaxy map
Improved mouse scrolling behaviour on galaxy map
Aliens in story mode will talk for longer before getting bored.
Quest:
“New” Quest: “The Return of the King”
Jassican’s Teeth can no longer end in a tie.
Fixed result bugs in the Ilitza Casino mission
The Lovestruck Wolphax does not return to his Quest intro after the princess is delivered
“A Lender Not A Borrower Be”
- Encountered hostile debtors are removed from quest
- Fixed a looping conversation when refusing the player
- Debtors from hostile aliens avoid the player now
- Fighting with a borrower removes him from the quest
“The Brain Trust”
- Quest now ends if you arrive at the lab without a weapon
- Quest now ends if you somehow manage to leave the sector on your own
Garbage collector emergency no longer persists after the first occurrence
Pirate wingmen should no longer turn hostile for no reason
Daedalus-8 no longer delivers an experimental shield when the player loses the lander before visiting Mars
Added a notification about amber removal on high radiation
General Bugs & Tweaks:
Gate Sound is back
Fixed several issues with the System Info widget
Increased the size of the docking area of the Black Market
Fixed graphical scanner effect when scanning infested planets
Fixed issues with some shaders for the thruster flame on planet surfaces
Changes to lighting of gas planets
Fixed some graphical issues on the Galaxy Map
- Alien icons no longer cut off when zoomed out
- Fixed white icons that popped up after a rapture event
Fixed an issue with some damage being carried over to a newly constructed lander
Siobhan has learned how to use the Distress Beacon
Ship is no longer automatically undocked at gate stations and the Entrope harvester
Reduced efficiency of the Nanobots device
Tons of very small bug fixes (especially on quests)
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