Early Access version 49

[InterAction_studios]

MAIN CHANGES

This is an emergency update to fix the game-breaking “no overheat” bug. Still, a couple of other fixes made it in here (most notably, the Laser/Hypergun balancing now works fully kind of).

Also, as a result of a server crash last night, you won’t receive a “most active squadron” message today.

Bug/Idea medals will be awarded later in the day (even after your medal is awarded, you’ll need to re-connect to see it). Your medal cannot be awarded if your in-game callsign doesn’t match your forum name (send it to me in a private message).

COMPATIBILITY

You will lose:

• any in-mission progress
• any graphics options you have configured (under particular circumstances, all menu options could be lost)

CHANGELOG

New features – Tweaks – Bug fixes – Internal changes

• Deleted users that haven’t logged in in the past 4 weeks and have less than an hour of playtime.
• Laser Cannon rework: Applied overlooked v.48 changes: Beam damage 150/300/450/600; increased overheat time to 5.9s (@minasam123 Bug)
• Made “Surrender” text orange in “All-time best result” (@minasam123 Bug)
• Hypergun rework: Applied overlooked v.48 changes: Projectile damage is now 150/300 (@minasam123 Bug)
• Fixed “never overheat” bug (@BoggY Bug)
• Fixed end-mission hints overlapping HUD (@505 Bug)
• Added “fill in field first” error message when callsign/squadron name is left empty (@Francis Bug)
• Boron: Impact flares now match color of projectile (@SonicCrazyExe Bug)
• Comet chase: Reduced number of comets to x2.5 at 100% difficulty.
• Fixed server crash during rankings daily maintenance (phase 1).

BACKUPS

You are reminded that during Early Access you are responsible for backing up your own progress. Make a copy of everything under C:\ProgramData\InterAction studios\CIU (including all sub-folders). Never rename files or move them from one version folder to another. Simply make a copy and then later put it back exactly where you found it.

[Kylo-Hen]

@InterAction_studios

Fixed “never overheat” bug (@BoggY Bug)

Ahh well. 'Twas fun while it lasted.

But in all seriousness, should be good to check out how the new stuff is actually supposed to work.

[ans1382]

The fastest update in the world!

[Francis]

Meh, I’ve seen faster updates

[Kylo-Hen]

K, so the new laser cannon is amazing.

[Rabbit_Dude]

This is quite the update of being fast since today lol

[Sufi]

Something tells me Hypergun’s projectile damage is the same still.

[samuelronban]

I have missed the entire version 48 topic!

[InterAction_studios]

@Sufi

Something tells me Hypergun’s projectile damage is the same still.

Pfff. Fixed in v.50 Bug

[Sufi]

I’d like you to keep the medal. I’m not the one who caught that bug, and it’s also not big enough for it to warrant a medal. To me, at least.

[Recruit_75]

Is it just me or is the Mysterious Ship’s chance of spawning too small. Like I used to play the dailies like normal and then there’s today’s daily challenge which has a mysterious ship, and then I realized just how rare that boss was, so can it get a frequency buff?

[InterAction_studios]

It appears with the same frequency as any other boss. But you need to be playing at 50-60% difficulty at least.

[OneWingLunarian]

Unfortunate UCO Encounter when

[Enhawk]

I think the Vulcan Chaingun gift should be dark blue base with a white ribbon, as that’s the non-overheated bullet form. Plus it would be distinguishable from Absolver.

[gabytzu]

is missing the squadron activity of monday…

[Sufi]

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[Kylo-Hen]

I think key rush is better now? Got 310 from a 10 wave, spent 15 min on it. Seems about right-ish.

Comet Chase is perfect currently.

[Akemisora]

Is it just me who’s hard to distinguish among Vulcan - Absolver - Photon’s gift colour?

[medo]

Can you make the font color same the color of the icons?

[Recruit_75]

You know, Sufi still deserves a medal as well cause he found out that it still wasn’t buffed even in V49, you’ll also have a medal cause you reported it for v48, so I’d go with a shared medal here…