Обновление v0.17.3 "Within The Horizon" вышло из бета-теста!

Три недели назад я выпустил обновление «Within The Horizon» в публичную бету. В этот раз я не получил меньше отчетов об ошибках, потому что игра стала чуть более стабильной в целом. Хотя и приближение новогодних праздников тоже могло повлиять. В любом случае я сам откопал пачку багов, пока делал новый расширенный туториал для игры. Мне также не поступали жалобы о каких-либо критичных проблемах от пользователей, которые попробовали обновление, поэтому считаю, что бета-тест прошел успешно.

Коротко об основных фичах версии v0.17: Венера, самолеты, зеркальная симметрия, симметричное удаление, новый продвинутый туториал, более 25 новых деталей, включая большие топливные баки, и очередная куча исправлений багов и проблем, подобного объема которых прежде не было.

Напомню также, что в игре будет проходить ограниченный по времени зимнее праздничное событие. Оно продлится с 24 декабря по 14 января и привнесет в игру немного новогоднего настроения.

Ниже приведены списки изменений патча и все изменения версии 0.17. Спасибо, что играете в игру и помогаете ее улучшать!

Release notes v0.17.3

Features:

• new planet: Venus;
• added aero (wings) and control surfaces (aileron, rudder ecs);
• added fixed and steering wheels;
• added new engine type: turboprop engine;
• added new fuel type: kerosene;
• implemented mirror symmetry;
• new vechicle forces overlays in the assembly shop;
• added symmetry delete / reattach;
• new fuel tank radius: 2.5m;
• added two decoupler modes for all decouplers;
• rocket part connections can now handle up to 64 sockets (previously was only 16);
• one new connector and one new socket for new fuel tank radius;
• added new line socket type for planes;
• slots and connectors on rocket parts will only be shown during rocket assembly;
• added runway for spaceport, that will store spacecraft separately;
• added AMD Fidelity FX and NVIDIA DLSS support;
• sun’s lens flares effect rework and improvements;
• added new “Adnanced Rocket Assembly” tutorial.

New rocket parts:

• added around 25 new rocket parts, most of them are bigger fuel tanks and parts for planes;

Part changes:

• Basic adjusted size and mass;
• increased radius of big payload farings so sizde staged rockets are now possible;
• adjusted size of some eingines so they will fit well on new connector;
• changed connector on engine 0 from triple to rectangle;
• reduced all socket and connector sizes by a factor of one and a half;
• fixed a bunch of geometry issues, seams and other visual bugs on different rocket parts;
• reduced mass of nose cones a bit;
• added kerosine fuel configuration for all small fuel tanks;
• added no fuel configuration for all fuel tanks;
• reduced throttle limit for engine 4 from 90% to 80%.

Changes:

• only some parts (like fuel tanks, engines, batteries) generate explosion force on destroying;
• improved autostatbilization speed on large heading differences;
• sun flares and sun size will depend on distance to it;
• CPU consumption improvement in the spaceport and assembly shop;
• attachments with two or more sockets can have a small offset along surfaces and induce additional rotation on a part;
• [Assembly] rewroked craft overlays buttons (borderless buttons);
• [Assembly] chaning category will automatically close part configuration;
• greatly improved search of approach nodes and increased search distance around target body, especially for small celestial bodies;
• reworked geometry of all 2.5m parts, so no more artefacts on rotation;
• fixed visible seams on 2.5m fuel tank caps;
• improved materials on all 2.5m fuel tanks;
• tanks no longer auto rotate on connecting;
• slightly improved automatic stage builder.

Settings:

• new hotkey for brakes (B);
• new hotkeys for wheels steering (A/D);
• new hotkey for mirror symmetry (M);
• added separate marker size setting for celestial markers;
• added scale rendering settings to the video settings;
• sometimes the rocket part tooltip does not show connections.

Fixes:

• unnececary drag calculations performed when spacecraft is over planet with no atmosphere;
• parts inside the payload fairings produce drag;
• some payload fairing sections produce additional drag;
• spacecrafts a bit less responsive when rotating them clockwise;
• controls setting have no setting for spacecraft systems (ligts, landing gear, etc);
• drag data calculated incorrectly for a part if it has more than one material;
• sun flares are visible through the planet;
• exception, when using symmetry on rcs_mounting_point_1;
• sometimes rocket could start behave incorrectly when some parts were destroyed or removed;
• custom Surface mod is not saving if already modified surface was modified;
• reduced window flickering in the assembly shop;
• center of mass and root part markers have wrong position after the whole rocket was moved in the assembly;
• when reattaching part from socket to socket within the same part, game sometimes doesn’t register place click;
• engines got negative thrust on Venus;
• some ambient and engine sounds not respect audio volume;
• error when creating subassembly from whole rocket, then placing it back and then removing any part from it;
• newly created subassembly could be unexpectidly edited when used during another rocket assembly;
• if subassembly was placed into new rocket and then any part was removed, the whole subassembly disappears;
• game sometimes stuck if you interrupt tutorial;
• rectangle socket now prevents selecting middle slot on a heptahedron socket;
• some part names are not localized.