MAIN CHANGES
Two things to look out for in this update:
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Your preferences have been reset in order to fix a memory corruption bug. (Preferences include: Galaxy hamburger menu (smooth zoom, notifications), Galaxy Overlay, tutorial messages)
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Scoring for the Galactic Cup has changed: Winner always gets 100 points. Loser gets points proportional to scoring difference (loser’s score / winner’s score). The new scoring rules apply retroactively to ongoing Galactic Cup #4 (i.e., your points have been recalculated).
And, as usual, a slew of multiplayer enhancements.
You can read more about multiplayer here: 🚀 Multiplayer
Bug/Idea medals will be awarded later in the day. 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
- all graphics options, which includes your window/borderless/fullscreen setting.
CHANGELOG
New features – Tweaks – Bug fixes – Internal changes
- Deleted 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 past week and have less than 10 minutes 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.
- Multiplayer: Fixed contacts-only games allowing entry to non-established contacts (@OneWingLunarian Bug)
- Fixed satellites appearing facing to the right (@trueuser Bug)
- Multiplayer browser: Added “hybrid” and “ironman” icons so that placeholders are not shown (@trueuser Bug)
- Multiplayer host now restarts conversation before responding to latency request.
- [incomplete v.89 fix] Reset all user preferences in order to fix memory corruption bug. Preferences include: Galaxy hamburger menu (smooth zoom, notifications), Galaxy Overlay, tutorial messages. (@DiamondGameZ Bug)
- Supernova direction is now decided per-stage (was per-mission) (@SA-GoldenBoss128 Idea)
- Inbox: Cup messages are now sorted at the top (@SA-GoldenBoss128 Bug)
- Multiplayer: Anomaly zones now also change global gravity when stepped on by the host (@Piotrek1113 @AmirMohammad.as Idea)
- Multiplayer: Removed “under development” warnings.
- Fixed bug: v.93 would ignore v.92 game configuration data when upgrading (it would instead upgrade from v.91 data, though, which masked the problem for most users).
- Added warning that competitive missions flown as multiplayer are automatically disqualified. (@SA-GoldenBoss128 Idea)
- Added multiplayer tutorial.
- Translations: Made multiplayer text translatable.
- Multiplayer: Fixed “weapon virtuosity” for Moron and “Medal of Extreme Unpreparedness” being awarded to everyone based on host’s values, rather than each individual guest’s.
- Strengthened anti-cheat measures for multiplayer games.
- Changed order of “Contacts-only” and “Everyone” multiplayer options (@SA-GoldenBoss128 Idea)
- Multiplayer: Fixed issue where subsequent “network connectivity” detections would fail when forcing a UDP port (caused by lingering UDP conversations). (@Pidgey Bug)
- Galactic Cup scoring has now changed: Winner always gets 100 points. Loser gets points proportional to scoring difference (loser’s score / winner’s score). (@C0mplex Idea)
- Multiplayer in-mission pause menu: Removed warning about disqualification (@SonicCrazyExe Idea)
- Multiplayer: Added “private” (password-protected) games.
- Translations: Added “New” sorting criterion, which (approximately) sorts by order in which phrases were added to the game (most recent at the top).
- Translations: Added “Approve existing translation” button.
- Multiplayer browser: Skill is now also shown.
- Replaced Early Access banner with nag (Q: Is it still Early Access? A: Yes, it is). Nags are never shown for accounts with purchases, or accounts less than tier 3.
- Multiplayer browser: Disabled skill selection in “Mission Config” screen. (@AmirMohammad.as Idea)
- Missions screen: Missions with an all-time best result of “PARTIAL” are now marked with a grey tickmark (@SA-GoldenBoss128 Idea)
- Galactic Cup: Fixed incorrect re-calculation of points for Cup #4 (@C0mplex Bug)
v94.2 Emergency patch (server-side)
- Completely fixed this bug: Multiplayer: Fixed issue where subsequent “network connectivity” detections would fail when forcing a UDP port (caused by lingering UDP conversations).
v94.3 Emergency patch (server-side)
- Instrumented server to debug “lives to remove” violations.
v94.4 Emergency patch (server-side)
- Missions flown as multiplayer can no longer be reflown/favourited/assigned (@CattyCheese Idea)
- Instrumented server to measure maintenance timings.
- Server is now compiled with -O2 instead of -O0 (improves maintenance times) (@SonicCrazyExe Bug)
- Galactic Cup: Top-4 players now advance to knockout rounds if there are 8+ players in each group, and top-8 advance for 16 players (@Tin Idea)