MAIN CHANGES
Credits! If you have helped the game anytime in the last four years, either by submitting ideas, reported bugs, or performed translations, then you are included in the game credits (accessible on the main menu). The credits list will be updated regularly with new contributors, or changed callsigns of existing contributors (there is a delay of at least two versions for any changes to propagate to the credits, so please be patient).
Cheating. Although cheating has always been officially disallowed, during Early Access there was some leniency towards cheaters (they would be kicked out, but not banned). Recently, however, the increase in number of players attempting to cheat, as well as the unsophisticated, crude approach of the cheats (which result in many crashes, corruptions, and general instability), have necessitated a change in the cheating policy.
The new policy is stated here: ⚠ Exploit & cheating policy .
Otherwise this is a minor maintenance update. Enjoy!
Bug/Idea medals will be awarded later in the day. Note that your medal cannot be awarded if your in-game callsign doesn’t match your forum name (put it in your forum profile where it says “name” so I can find it).
COMPATIBILITY
You will lose:
- any mid-mission progress
- your language selection
CHANGELOG
New features –
Tweaks –
Bug fixes –
Internal changes
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Deleted users who haven’t logged in during the past week and have less than 10 minutes of playtime, and also users who haven’t logged in during the past 4 weeks and have less than an hour of playtime, and also users who haven’t logged in during the last 12 months and haven’t set an e-mail. Note that users with any purchase are never deleted.
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Christmas Edition: Henperor lights now also blink during “Chicken Exponentiality” wave (@DePeeper
Bug)
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Fixed validateEmail_strict() incorrectly only performing “permissive” validation.
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Windows version compiled with VS 17.4.3
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2002 mode: Replaced
game3-CI4
andgame3-CI5
music due to YouTube Content ID claims. -
Made 3D galaxy appearance consistent between independent instantiations (@VerMishelb
Bug)
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Notifications now say “Player joined …” when joining a multiplayer mission (@Mohammed_exe
Idea)
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Added “Credits” button to main menu.
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Added “Reset to default” button to Controls menu (@darkchan @PlasmaX @RainbowBoyVN
Idea)
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Controls->Touchscreen->Button placement screen: Added captions to buttons (@iIfireIi
Idea)
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Changed “computer” references to “device” (@Mohammed_exe
Idea)
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Quests: Milestones past “Supreme Admiral” can now be completed (@SA-GoldenBoss128
Bug)
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Translation editing now requires tier 20 minimum.
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“Twice Infinity” boss: Prevented repeatedly targetting the bottom half of the screen (@SA-GoldenBoss128 @neonep
Idea)
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“It’s a bird! It’s a plane!” boss: When moving randomly. trajectory tangent is now unaffected by speed.
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Touchscreen: Fixed mission immediately being quit when prior game was quit via “pause” button, and the subsequent game is joined while paused (@Mohammed_exe @Bandicoot @OMARESYT
Bug)
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Information Overlay: Added filter by “Asteroid Belt” (@PlasmaX
Idea)
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League: Fixed cases of “gaining -0.00 dare points” (@DamHaiYen @PlasmaX
Bug)
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Prevented Wormholes from being used as intermediate hops in trip itineraries (bug introduced with galaxy regeneration in v.70) (@darkchan
Bug)
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“Report player” button now requires tier 10 minimum.
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More descriptive server message when trying to change the e-mail for a deleted account.
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Removed Christmas party.
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“Report player” screen no longer automatically quits after reporting a player (@iIfireIi
Idea)
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Removed “2002 party” mode. The visual filtering can still be accessed via the
-2002mode
command-line parameter. -
Messages are now sent to initiating player whenever a contact request is accepted (@DePeeper @SA-GoldenBoss128
Idea)
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Reworked touchscreen input system. Moving spacecraft by more than one fingers is now prevented (@ScarletCuboids @DamHaiYen
Idea)
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Strengthened anti-cheat measures (@iIfireIi
Idea)
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Reworked paths for 1x, 2x, and x-independent gfx resources. -
Fixed RNG output for negative ranges (is backwards-compatible with old RNG
)
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Removed unused second keyset from game configuration data. Due to this change, all menu Options will be lost.
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Unicode Character
(U+1F595) is no longer allowed in callsigns (@Starbrockle
Idea)
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Strengthened anti-cheat measures (@QuackQuack @DamHaiYen @Aquarius_OVA
Idea)
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Certain Unicode ranges are now disallowed from callsigns and squadron names.
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Made callsign validation stricter (@Starbrockle
Idea)
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Removed Christmas Edition content.