Fleet Battle Beta 0.71: Welcome the Phamysht! (Released 11/30)

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Hello!

As a special post-Thanksgiving treat, we are releasing a new ship from the Phamysht!  They would consider it rude if you didn't allow them to eat you.  We have also done a game balance tune up and fixed bugs.  Read below for details.  

Summary

  • Phamysht (new ship) It would be very rude not to let them eat you. They have the following attacks:
    • Charbroiled - Single-fire shot that roasts enemy ships. 
    • Invitation -- The Phamysht make a series of very polite requests. Nearby ships' crew immediately disembark and floats towards the Phamyst ship for "dinner." 
  • Gameplay balance pass based on community feedback
  • Player-created ships are much peppier now 
  • Bug fixes 

Changelog

Gameplay

  • Arena:
    • Reduced asteroid damage
    • Increased arena size from 45 to 60
    • Decreased max separation from 45 to 40
    • Planet made slightly smaller, gravity radius increased.
    • Custom ships: reduced physics drag so they behave more like the core ships. 
  • Drenkend 
    • Drag increased from none to 0.1
    • Max Speed reduced from 6 to 4.5
    • Turn rate reduced from 120 to 60
    • Boarding party speed increased from 3 to 5.5
    • Boarding Ships are easier to pick up 
  • Earthling Ship: The Nuclear Missile is now destroyed by AOE weapons. 
  • Jeff is more aggressive
  • Menkmack: Mine radius reduced
  • Mowlings: Beam Carver damage significantly increased.
  • The Measured
    • Renamed weapon from "Paperwork" to "Red tape"
    • Updated the weapon effect 
    • Red tape duration increased from 10 to 120 seconds
    • Increased cooldown time between allowed Demotivator bursts.
  • Trandals: Increased collision area to better match the ship.
  • Phamysht (new ship) It would be very rude not to let them eat you. They have the following attacks:
    • Charbroiled - Single-fire shot that roasts enemy ships. 
    • Invitation -- The Phamysht make a series of very polite requests. Nearby ships' crew immediately disembark and floats towards Phamyst ship for "dinner." 
  • Scryve Scout 
  • Speed reduced from 9.5 to 4.5
  • Turn radius reduced from 360 to 240
  • Point cost reduced from 8 to 7
  • Health reduced from 27 to 15
  • Tywom: Turn rate reduced from 240 to 180

MP 

  • Ships are no longer occasionally invisible. Wasn't fair to the other life-form
  • Asteroids are better synced between peer and server. 
  • Enemy's ship trails now always show the correct color
  • Fixed a bug where the peer in Local Matches would sometimes get fully healed and charged for no good reason. 

UI

  • Right-clicking a ship in the Fleet configuration screen removes it from that player's fleet.
  • Scale sliders in the Ship Design Editor now display as ratios of 100%
  • Changed "Earth Ship" to "Earthlings Ship"
  • Added word wrap to the Upload Design dialog in Crafting menu
  • Increased the contrast on the crew meters' artwork so they'd show up better on certain displays (e.g. televisions) 
  • The '+' button no longer appears if your fleet was full.

Bugs 

  • Addressed several cases where the audio wasn't playing correctly on the peer.
  • Fixed a crash in the Ship Design List. This crash occurred when a ship design button was clicked after the exit button had been activated.
  • Fixed a bug where you could start a single player super melee game with no ships in the AI's fleet.
  • Added sounds for the Drenkend and Jeff.
  • Fixed pink edges on the arena planet on NVIDIA cards.
  • Weird characters won't prevent you from saving your ship designs.
  • Pressing "start game" while dragging a ship no longer crashes.
  • Fixed a problem where some ship designs weren't appearing on the ship design list if they weren't outfitted.
  • Fixed a problem where the Melee Config screen sometimes showed a '+' button even if there were no ships available to select.
  • The Measured will no longer fire only in one direction if the ship isn't moving.
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Reply #1 from StarControl Forums Top

Huzzah! Cannot wait to test this out at home.

Reply #2 from StarControl Forums Top

Invitation -- The Phamysht make a series of very polite requests. Nearby ships' crew immediately disembark and floats towards the Phamyst ship for "dinner."

"Hey look, we're on the guest list!"

"No, that's the menu..."

Galactic Civilizations III
Reply #3 from StarControl Forums Top

The Phamysht appears in my multiplayer games to be a very good ship.  It has a very fast-firing 'snipe' kind of shot that can cause problems to many ships from range.  And if they manage to get close, they're going to take damage in the same way The Measured attacks up close except the Phamysht can also use its attack to gain health as well.

  I couldn't tell if you could do this from the games but I suggest the ability for The Phamysht's opponents to be able to pick up their own crew back up if they manage to fly over them.  The Phamysht already has the advantage because the crew floats towards its ship, so it would be nice if there was at least a chance to recover your crew.

Reply #4 from StarControl Forums Top

Quoting Zenchess2, reply 3

  I couldn't tell if you could do this from the games but I suggest the ability for The Phamysht's opponents to be able to pick up their own crew back up if they manage to fly over them.  The Phamysht already has the advantage because the crew floats towards its ship, so it would be nice if there was at least a chance to recover your crew.

That's how they should be working now.  

Reply #5 from StarControl Forums Top

Hi guys! Just played a few rounds! Without going into specifics right now, the gameplay has improved tremendously for me...keep up the good work!

 

  • There's still the issue of the mouse pointer not being hidden when play start, so it just sits there.
  • The menus are still not navigable using a controller.
Reply #6 from StarControl Forums Top

I'm not sure about the mouse pointer, but the controller navigation is in the next build for sure (playing with it internally now!)

Reply #7 from StarControl Forums Top

Is it just me, or is my Phamysht's charbroiled shot just ghosting right through my enemy and not causing any damage?

Reply #8 from StarControl Forums Top

That's good news!

A few other things which could be improved:

  • When playing a 2-player vs game, the action continues in the background while one of the players is selecting a ship. It would be better to pause the action, or slow it down a lot, else the ship still on the battlefield drifts into the asteroids or into the planet etc.
  • When a 2-player vs game concludes the screen reads "You Won" or "You Lost", but player 2 is a person too! :grin:   Perhaps rather say "Player 1 Wins" or "Player 2 Wins" or something along those lines.
  • A casual 2-player match should have another mode where ships do not cost any points...It's often fun to load all the available slots with a particular type of ship...Yes, it's not balanced or fair, but is should be possible, because it is fun.

 

 

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