New beta patch released!

[Darrosquall]

Still missing more command fleets, but this is an huge patch!

New Feature: Player-owned ships and stations can now be renamed.
• New Feature: Smalltalk reward allowing you to receive trade offer updates for a station remotely.
• Added logbook entries for refuelling, trade and building.
• Added call from manager when a station is low on credits.
• Added ship name when player gets a call requiring a response from a player owned ship.
• Fixed a cause of occasional crashes when loading savegame.
• Fixed a cause of occasional crashes during large battles.
• Fixed several other causes of occasional crashes.
• Fixed another cause of the game hanging after Alt-Tab.
• Added prices for small ships so that these can now be sold.
• Cargo value is now taken into account when selling a ship; you get roughly half it's value.
• Fixed price calculations for intermediate wares.
• Fixed two causes of disappearing ships and one of ships ending up in strange places.
• Fixed certain station elements being rotated incorrectly after loading a savegame.
• Fixed problem with random station elements being built and preventing further building.
• Fixed problem with small ships preventing building.
• Fixed problem with drones not being able to dock at certain mining ships.
• Fixed incorrect container amount being dropped from cargo drones.
• Fixed another issue with cargo collection.
• Fixed buy offers for more wares than can be stored.
• Fixed player being able to start multiple boarding operations on the same ship.
• Fixed abort button for boarding operations.
• Fixed info and comm options for externally docked ships.
• Fixed issue with operational range settings resulting in ships looking for trades in the wrong places.
• Improved station-owned mining ship AI to prevent station from filling with more resources than it wants.
• Improved shooting logic for NPC ships (more improvements to come).
• Fixed a problem resulting in inactive patrol ships.
• Fixed a problem with NPC beam weapons not firing correctly.
• Fixed tag darts occasionally tagging something other than their intended target.
• Added inter-system traders to DeVries.
• Fixed station scan mode remaining active when it shouldn't.
• Fixed rare case resulting in missing info points and dock icons.
• Fixed subordinate count in orders menu.
• Fixed incorrect trade status in ship menu.
• Fixed "+" button not working in map menu under certain circumstances.
• Fixed sold ships and collected drones being displayed as destroyed in the logbook.
• Added missing descriptions for systems to encyclopedia.
• Improved rewards after successful smalltalk on platforms, including trade subscriptions.
• Improved dialog structure to find people on platforms.
• Fixed missing architect on plot builder ship.
• Fixed player being sent to a hostile NPC when asking for directions.
• Fixed ships not in player squad requesting player input when out of fuel.
• Fixed visual flicker when returning to the cockpit from a platform.
• Fixed location of visor/glasses on certain NPCs.
• Fixed missing physics data when loading a savegame.
• Added graphics settings for SSAO, Glow and Distortion.
• Fixed incorrect display of certain options in graphics menu.
• Fixed incorrect resolutions when changing displays in borderless mode.
• Improved stability of job system and patch code with modified games.
• Added support for catalog files in mods.
• Added Korean localisation (text only).
• Added Spanish localisation (text only, incomplete but included to enable feedback to translators).
• Further optimisations resulting in small performance improvements, particularly on lower-end graphics hardware.

[Santi]

Thanks for the heads up Darrosquall, and now to read the changelog.

[RedEclipse]

Control F joystick meh :/

I don't really understand why they don't fix the joystick/mouse issue, it's the most visible issue in 1.24... Maybe it is really difficult to solve ? :/

The day they solve this, I guess lots of people will change their mind about the game, since a lot of people wait for this to be solved and, as of 1.24, you can play through the campaign with (to me) pleasure.

[Darrosquall]

Control F joystick meh :/

I don't really understand why they don't fix the joystick/mouse issue, it's the most visible issue in 1.24... Maybe it is really difficult to solve ? :/

The day they solve this, I guess lots of people will change their mind about the game, since a lot of people wait for this to be solved and, as of 1.24, you can play through the campaign with (to me) pleasure.

my "dream" is to have the same mood than I have when I fly in Evochron Mercenaries. This is one the biggest flaw of the game in my opinion, the fly ship.

[Earth Ultimatum IV.]

I played X:R today before knowing anything about the new patch, launched the game, and I was like "wtf why is it so smooth suddenly".
Now I checked the forum and noticed that Iam playing on 1.25 hehe.
GJ egosoft.

[pref]

- Cargo value is now taken into account when selling a ship; you get roughly half it's value.

Wont this make things way too easy?

[Sam L.R. Griffiths]

- Cargo value is now taken into account when selling a ship; you get roughly half it's value.

Wont this make things way too easy?

I don't see how, it would (roughly?) make it the same sale behaviour as per X-Trilogy.

The boarding of friendly ships without rep penalty is really the primary exploit that perhaps should be addressed. It seems silly to me that a ship stays friendly when your boarding crew is executing a hostile takeover.

[Santi]

Boarding is a choice, but I have to agree that right now, Pirates and Buccaneers are swimming in gold. NPC factions should be a lot more aggressive targeting illegal activity and how they deal with it. Is the same issue as with trading, so far trading only in Albion, but none of my squad ships have been attacked or damaged by pirates. Zero risk so far.

[RedEclipse]

• Fixed player being sent to a hostile NPC when asking for directions.

Not needed imo : the guy the player asks is not supposed to know the players's standings...

I'm translating this in french, there's some points let in shadows for me :
"cargo collections", "tag darts", "trade subscription"

[Santi]

It is very annoying that after 5 minutes looking for crew, you get one and then, cannot hire it because of the standing, it is a waste of time and effort and not enjoyable.

[RedEclipse]

It is very annoying that after 5 minutes looking for crew, you get one and then, cannot hire it because of the standing, it is a waste of time and effort and not enjoyable.

Well, ok. But in that case, I guess that could be a cause of "You ? The one I know wouldn't say yes !" instead of auto-filtering a NPC that can be hired by the player (if it's done like that).

[ICO_hr]

It is very annoying that after 5 minutes looking for crew, you get one and then, cannot hire it because of the standing, it is a waste of time and effort and not enjoyable.

+1!!!

[Earth Ultimatum IV.]

OMG we can rename ships now!
Anybody else noticed?
Because it isn´t mentioned in the changelog!

[RedEclipse]

OMG we can rename ships now!
Anybody else noticed?
Because it isn´t mentioned in the changelog!

Because it is.
First line

[Berserk Knight]

• Added prices for small ships so that these can now be sold.

Potentially good. If it does it's job right, my BuildSmallShips doesn't need to add the prices for these things now. However, I just hope the prices they set reflect the ACTUAL performance of those ships...
Small fighters usually come in 3 classes per series. Raider for Light, Vanguard for Medium, and Sentinel for Heavy.
The thing is, Raiders are generally close together in terms of specs, but starting at Vanguards, things get out of hand. The HoA Eterscel Sentinels are inferior to Vanguards from all other series.
Small craft that aren't dedicated fighters rank somewhere below the Light class fighters, and then we have Pirate ships that are almost 1 full tier below the military fighters.
(Eterscel Sentinels are weaker than the Pirate Heavy Fighter.)


• Fixed player being able to start multiple boarding operations on the same ship.

Yeah, I encountered this bug back in 1.22.


• Added Korean localisation (text only).

...Huh. Something for me to proofread.

[Earth Ultimatum IV.]

Holy god, OP please don´t forget that "•" symbol next time.

[Scoob]

Renaming ships is boring, don't know why they added that. The excitement and risk of accidentally selling the wrong ship - and not getting the price of the cargo is something I'll miss!

Seriously though, I've already renamed all my ships and stations - much much clearer now!

The new logbook entries are very welcome too, I've been monitoring those. They're - gasp - useful!

My broken Spice Plantation is now letting me extend it - very nice.

Additionally, while my Freighters still don't drop off multiple ware types in one go at the same station / CV, they are doing far far less of a loop around between trades now, which is an improvement.

One of my factories did run low on cash (700cr left) yet I had no notification, possibly a timing issue with applying the update.

I built an extension to a factory and didn't have to leave the sector for the perfectly clear build site to become "un-blocked". Nice.

Regarding:

• Fixed incorrect trade status in ship menu.

Not sure what this was meant to fix exactly, but there's still lots of "Trading with nil" ships owned by my stations. This status just means "idle" from what I can tell, so no big deal.

Game playing quite smoothly, though I am in DeVries currently, not played with the new graphical settings yet.

All in all, a positive patch for me so far. Will keep playing.

Note: one potential down-side. As more features are added - which is great - the interface feels even more clunky at times. Hopefully things can be stream-lined more. Basically, I think it's safe for ES to make the assumption that most players have a keyboard...

Scoob.

[eldyran]

Huh. It always amazes me that people love to trash a game, but when the devs show real progress, no one from that crowd goes:

"You are making good on trying to fix this."

I personally am -ecstatic- that I can sell small ships for credits, and that cargo is taken into consideration. This weekend I hope to use those funds to put some better shields on the Skunk, and maybe even *gasp* finish the plot!

[Earth Ultimatum IV.]

Huh. It always amazes me that people love to trash a game, but when the devs show real progress, no one from that crowd goes:

"You are making good on trying to fix this."

Except for me?

I played X:R today before knowing anything about the new patch, launched the game, and I was like "wtf why is it so smooth suddenly".
Now I checked the forum and noticed that Iam playing on 1.25 hehe.
GJ egosoft.

[linolafett]

Pro tip: you can now also rename your own ship, the Skunk

EDIT: wont change the spoken parts of course.