NQ-Nomad

September 29, 2022

Hi Noveans,

We have resolved a number of issues with the Dual Access Coupon (DAC) system, and they are now accessible once more through the account pages on the website. The special access that has been granted to some players to circumvent the issue will be revoked on Monday, October 3rd at 08:30 UTC.

Thank you for your patience and support, and we are working hard at fixing other issues.

Cheers,

Nomad

June 2, 2022

Hi Noveans,

We just deployed a new hotfix. DU is now in version 0.29.11 and changes are below:

Improvements

[Radar] Improved functionality in handling planet safe zones.

Bug Fixes

Fixed transponder not active at server restart.
Fixed report abuse cooldown being 250 hours rather than 15 minutes.

Thanks for your support!

Cheers,

Nomad

May 31, 2022

Hi Noveans,

A new hotfix is available today. DU is now in version 0.29.10. Changes are below:

Improvement

[Shields] Base Shields can now be toggled on and off.

Bug Fixes

Aphelia constructs are no longer wrongly marked as unclaimed.
Fixed the build mode grid display.
Fixed a typo in the outpost screen.

Known Issue

The fix deployed today to hide the "remember this device" checkbox on the login screen when running on Nvidia GeForce Now didn't work as intended. We're investigating this issue.

Thank you for your support!

Cheers,

Nomad

May 24, 2022

Hi Noveans,

We just released a new hotfix today. DU is now in version 0.29.9. Please find the changelog below:

Improvements

[FTUE Outpost Screen] Connected the following five tutorials to the screen: Construction, Gunnery, Atmospheric Piloting, Ground Piloting and Speeder Upgrade.
[FTUE Outpost Screen] Added more information in the descriptions of objective tabs not yet connected to tutorials.

Crash Fixes

Fixed a crash when loading a Programing Board config with too many slots.

Bug Fixes

Fixed transponders not working.
Fixed radar not working near asteroids.

Thanks for your support!

Cheers,

Nomad

May 17, 2022

Hi Noveans,

We have released a new patch today. Dual Universe is now in version 0.29.8 and you can find the changes below:

General Note

We’ve revised the backend working of radars and though this should be an unnoticeable change for players, we’d like to invite you to send us a report should you encounter issues with radars. We’ll be monitoring radar performance and reports closely.

Improvements

[Radar] There are now fewer attack announcements.
[Radar] Warning in widget if radar linked using generic control plugs
Prevent the player from putting the maneuvered construct in an unreachable position.
[Radar] Similarly to weapons, radar will now have a visibility cone that will need to be clear of voxels and other elements for the radar to function. Unlike weapons, there will be no cone falloff and obstruction will be a binary state, the cone will either be obstructed and the radar will not work, or it will be unobstructed and it will work.
[Build Helper] Added a new Combat category with information about radars and weapons.
[Weapons] Increased rotation speed.
Changed to the inworld mark layout: mark base icons are smaller. Selection & hover are now displayed as a circle around the mark. Name is now under the mark with distance below the name and threat info is on the side of the mark icon.
Added an ‘identification bar,’ that grows with identification progress.
Added an option to ignore default engine tags.
[Build Helper] List CCS Capacity in the Construct Information.

Bug Fixes

[Marks] Fixed names of radar targets not being updated.
[Radar] Fixed abandoned constructs occasionally not showing as abandoned.
Fixed a bug where players were able to board inactive constructs in space, without proper RDMS having been set.
Fixed freezes that could occur when loading very large images in Lua screen units.
Fixed a bug where Point Of Interest names were cut on fullscreen mode (which was specifically a problem for the market district numbers).
Last camera settings when entering a cockpit are now saved.
Fixed invalid player position after a surrogate session.
Mining units now catch up with server downtime.
[Parenting] Fixed an issue preventing some destroyed constructs being properly removed from the game.
Damages due to collision/friction can now affect docked constructs.
Fixed bookmarks that could be erased in some rare conditions.
Player is no longer unboarded when refreshing the rights of the current construct.
Player is no longer unboarded at the end of the loading screen.
Fixed maneuver information being sometimes displayed while not maneuvering.
Fixed the, ‘retro skin,’ for Programming Boards.
Display an intelligible error when trying to remove fuel and the player inventory is full.
Mining Unit and Plasma extractor animations stop when they are broken.

Thanks for your support!

Cheers,

Nomad

March 8, 2022

Hi Noveans,

We just released a small update with the following fix:

Bug Fix

[Air Delivery] Fixed a bug where the challenge could no longer complete objectives if a player dragged any other kind of element into the delivery container.

Thanks for your support!

Cheers,

Nomad

February 17, 2022

Hi Noveans,

We have just released an update today, DU is now in version 0.28.2. The changes can be found below:

Improvements

Auto-scroll in the talent queue is activated even when the mouse is not moving.
When selecting a talent in the Talent queue, it will display all the information in the center panel.
[RDMS Tutorial] Adjusted Aphelia's dialogues to be in line with the new RDMS UI.

Crash Fixes

Fixed a crash linked to Inactive Asset Requisition (IAR). Sometimes, a construct was not fully deleted from visibility, leading to a client disconnection in the area of the said deleted construct.

Bug Fixes

Fixed the display of talent levels in the categories.
Fixed a bug where a player could not edit packages from a linked container if it was unloaded but still accessible from the inventory.
Consuming claimed warp cells now works as expected.
[RDMS Tutorial] Fixed objective "Add Right" not completing as intended.
[RDMS Tutorial] Fixed a typo in one of Aphelia's speeches.
[Hovercraft Upgrade Tutorial] Fixed Open Atmospheric Flight Engineer Report objective not progressing.

Known Issues

Some markets and tiles owned by Aphelia located more than 5 km above sea level are not affected by the IAR, most notably on Thades and Feli. A fix is in progress and constructs will become subject to IAR unclaiming in a future update if left untouched for longer than seven days.

Thanks for your support!

Cheers,

Nomad

November 26, 2021

Hello Noveans,

Another hotfix is live today. DU version is now 0.27.5. You'll find the fixes brought below:

Bug fixes

Updated Mining Unit right description and name.
Fixed mining units that were not aware of the change of ownership.
[Fetch] Fixed desynchronization, which could cause constructs to regain speed or move incorrectly after being fetched.
Updated GDRP warning text in report abuse feature (a placeholder text has been previously pushed by mistake).
Update of warning of report abuse.

Miscellaneous

Removed mining tutorial temporarily from the tutorial list because it demonstrates planetary mining. This will be replaced by an asteroid mining tutorial in the future.

Thanks for your support!

Cheers,

Nomad

November 25, 2021

Hi Noveans,

A new hotfix has just been released today. Dual Universe is now in version 0.27.4 and you can find the changes brought below:

Crash Fixes

[Repair tool] Fixed occasional crashes linked to element highlight.

Bug fixes

[GUI] Added a check to prevent setting a sanctuary territory as headquarters.
[GUI] Removed wrong warning when removing a sanctuary territory as headquarters for players that already set up a sanctuary territory as headquarters before this release.
[GUI] Fixed edge zone indicator being visible in some cases due to teleportation/anti-bury.
[GUI] Fixed a case where headquarter state of a tile was not updated correctly client-side after the removal of a territory unit.
[GUI] Fixed "set final calibration" button starting incorrectly with "active" state when starting to extract a minigame not for the first time during a game session.
[GUI] Cleared description inputs when quanta are sent.
[GUI] Fixed error messages when sending quanta.
Updated in-game roadmap on login screen.
Fixed a potential issue with the flatten tool.

Known Issues

Some players may experience a crash due to destroyed items. This is a GPU driver issue, which we fixed with the Demeter update, but which may still be present for some players. A potential (but not 100% effective) solution for affected players could be to delete their "AppData\Local\NQ" folder.

Thanks for your support!

Cheers,

Nomad

Setzar · October 13, 2021

Hello Noveans,

Earlier today we released a server update that brought the following changes:

New Feature

Recruit a Friend program: Get exclusive in-game rewards, element skins, and game time when friends you’ve invited to play Dual Universe become subscribers. Get the details here.

Bug Fixes

Fixed an exploit related to the DSAT.
Fixed an exploit related to Packages.
Fixed offline player death not being applied.

As always, thank you so much for your support!

Cheers,

Nomad

October 5, 2021

Hi Noveans,

A new hotfix is out. DU is now in 0.26.16 version! Changes brought are below:

Bug Fixes

Fixed organization recruitment from the search panel.
Fixed a bug that made the shield still work when destroyed by PvE damage.

Known Issues

[Codex] core.getBoardedAvatars() is incorrect, the correct function name is core.getPlayersOnBoard().
[Lua] Edit Lua Parameters can fail to be applied with some specific custom configurations. After investigation, we’ll need time to fix this and can’t provide an ETA yet.
[Lua] We are aware of and investigating a number of other Lua-related crashes and freezes.

Thanks for your support.

Cheers,

Nomad

September 30, 2021

Hello Noveans,

A new hotfix has been deployed. DU is now in 0.26.15 version. Changelog is below:

Bug Fixes

Fixed an exploit with Repair Units.
[Asteroids] Construct speed near asteroids isn't limited to 500 km/h anymore.
Fixed a bug that caused shields to be hidden after a server restart.

Known Issues

[Codex] core.getBoardedAvatars() is incorrect, the correct function name is core.getPlayersOnBoard().
[Lua] Edit Lua Parameters can fail to be applied with some specific custom configurations. After investigation, we’ll need time to fix this and can’t provide an ETA yet.
[Lua] We are aware of and investigating a number of other Lua-related crashes and freezes.

Thanks for your support!

Cheers,

Nomad

September 28, 2021

Hello Noveans,

DU is now in 0.26.14 version. You'll find the changelog below:

New Feature

Added the possibility to interact with the windowed Codex version in the Lua Editor. This will allow you to search and copy functions directly from the codex while coding.

Crash Fixes

Fixed a crash when attempting to place an element in a colliding position.
Fixed a crash when opening the Edit Lua parameters window.

Improvements

Displays "all" as language for organizations that selected "all" as language (rather than nothing).
[PvP] Weapon hits counted to combat core stress appear in the combat log.
Added Shield Lua function : stopVenting(): Deactivate shield venting.

Gameplay changes

Changed fallback inventory tile background color.

Bug Fixes

Shield UI: Fixed Stop Venting button not working.
[Market] Fixed lowest/highest price label in Create Order modal.
Fixed a bug blocking the activation of a transponder after deleting an active transponder.
[Launcher] Fixed a crash when a hardware check failed.

Known Issues

[Codex] core.getBoardedAvatars() is incorrect, the correct function name is core.getPlayersOnBoard().
[Lua] Edit Lua Parameters can fail to be applied with some specific custom configurations. This is complex to fix. In the meantime, we recommend that players do not write too long lines of code instructions and use the line break.
[Lua] We are aware of and investigating a number of other Lua-related crashes and freezes.

We hope you'll like the improvements brought here. We continue working hard to improve things. As always, we're eager to get your feedback. Thanks for your support!

Cheers,

Nomad

September 23, 2021

Hi Noveans,

We just released a hotfix today. DU is now in 0.26.13 version. You can read the fixes below:

Crash Fixes

The inventory background image bug reappeared in 0.26.12 despite our efforts to fix it. We’re back to the previous “workaround” solution as a temporary fix while we work towards a solution to squish this one for good.

Bug Fixes

Fixed the ratio of roadmap image size. It should now be "contained" to ensure that the image is not cut off on panoramic resolutions.
Fixed a random freeze during the game loading process during the black "Dual Universe" screen.
Fixed the default market price sorting order being reversed.
Fixed an issue that caused some shields to have no shield hitpoints following the Ares update. If you encounter this issue after the hotfix deployment, you will have to pickup and replace down the shield to "fix" the issue.

Known Issues

[Crash] Overlapping an element in build mode may cause a crash when attempting to place the element.
[GUI] “Stop Venting” button not working.
[CODEX] core.getBoardedAvatars() is incorrect, the correct function name is core.getPlayersOnBoard().
[Lua] Editing Lua settings may cause a crash with some custom configurations.
[Lua] We are aware of a number of other Lua-related crashes and freezes, we are investigating.

We continue fixinx things following up on your feedback. Thank you for your support!

Cheers,

Nomad

September 21, 2021

Hi Noveans,

Today, we're releasing the Ares update! In many ways, Ares is a big complementary companion to the Apollo (0.26) update. Released in August, Apollo introduced the first wave of PVP-centric assets, balancing, and features. Now, Ares update, our fifth major update so far this year, named after the Greek god of war, is packed with new things, improvements, and fixes regarding PvP and even more! Here's the changelog to keep you busy during maintenance time:

New Features

Explicit docking and boarding system (previously called “parenting”)

Avatars must now have the "Right to board" dynamic constructs. Similarly, any dynamic construct is now able to dock to any other dynamic construct of strictly smaller size if the pilot has the necessary "Right to dock" permission.

Owners can use the Rights and Duties Management System (RDMS) to assign a right to board or a right to dock to their constructions that will allow others to board or dock or to prohibit such requests.

When a ship or a player is docked or boarded, it moves with the "parent" construct, and its mass is then added to the physics of the parent.

The constructs now have two zones, a "red" zone corresponding to the bounding box of the construct, and a "blue" zone corresponding to the surrounding zone of the ship; the size of this zone depends on the size of the core of the potential parent construct, from 32m to 128m.

In order to board or dock, a player or a ship will have to be close to the candidate construct, in the blue zone, and have the appropriate rights, else the player or the ship will be repulsed.

For the previous things added to the docking and boarding system, you can read the Boarding and Docking devblog.

Updated two construct rights: “Right to board” and “Right to dock” (formerly “Parent Construct”).
Docked constructs and boarded players (including offline players) and their mass are now listed in the Build Helper. Offline players can be ejected from that window.
Docking status of a construct and nearby constructs are displayed in the docking widget. Boarding status of a player is displayed in the player UI at the top right of the screen next to the mini-map.
Widget is triggered by Lua (as usual). Players can auto configure their ships to get the widget or add in the start event of the lua unit slot :
- parentingPanelId = system.createWidgetPanel("Docking")
- parentingWidgetId = system.createWidget(parentingPanelId,"parenting")
- system.addDataToWidget(unit.getDataId(),parentingWidgetId)
The owner of a construct can maneuver all other docked constructs even if they don't have the right to those constructs. They can also choose to undock them once they are outside of the parent construct either by right-clicking on it or from the Build Helper. To be more specific, you can be "docked" to a construct while not being inside the construct but simply "near" the construct. You can not forcibly undock a construct that is inside of your construct. But if a construct is still docked to your construct while being "near" your construct, you can forcibly undock it.
Using the Maneuver Tool to dock a construct displays the nearest construct you can dock to. You can use ALT+T to dock the construct.
As a pilot, there are three different docking modes:
- MANUAL: You have to manually dock your construct.
- PROXIMITY: If the construct is not docked but in the bounding box of the parent candidate construct, it automatically docks if able.
- OWNER: As proximity, but only when the construct owners of both the parent candidate and the piloted construct are the same.
You can switch the docking mode by using the docking widget.
Constructs that are not docked to another construct are physically repulsed when trying to enter it.
All players can board (walk on) inactive (unpiloted) constructs. Players without the boarding right are ejected when the construct becomes active.
Added Lua functions and event on core unit API:
- getPlayersOnBoard(): Returns the list of player IDs on board the construct.
- getDockedConstructs(): Returns the list of IDs of constructs docked to the construct.
- isPlayerBoarded(pid): Returns 1 if the given player is boarded to the construct.
- isConstructDocked(cid): Returns 1 if the given construct is docked to the construct.
- forceDeboard(pid): Sends a request to the server to attempt to forcibly unboard a player with the given ID.
- forceUndock(cid): Sends a request to the server to attempt to forcibly undock a construct with the given ID.
- playerBoarded(pid) event: Emitted when a player boards the construct.
- constructDocked(cid) event: Emitted when another construct docks this construct.
- getBoardedPlayerMass(pid): Returns the mass of the given player if it is on board the construct.
- getDockedConstructMass(cid): Returns the mass of the given construct if it is docked to the construct.
- getParent(): Returns the ID of the parent construct of your active construct.
- getCloseParents(): Returns the list of IDs of nearby constructs to which the construct can dock.
- getClosestParent(): Returns the ID of the nearest construct to which the construct can dock.
- dock(): Sends a request to dock to the given construct. Limited to piloting controllers.
- undock(): Sends a request to undock the construct. Limited to piloting controllers.
- docked(cid) event: Emitted when the construct becomes docked.
- undocked(cid) event: Emitted when the construct is undocked.
- setDockingMode(mode): Sets the docking mode.
- getDockingMode(): Returns the current docking mode.
Added Lua functions on control unit API:
- getMasterPlayerParent(): Returns the ID of the construct on which the active player is boarded.
- getMasterPlayerMass(): Returns the mass of the active player.

Core Combat Stress (CCS)

Core combat stress (CCS) represents a core unit's ability to keep functioning under weapons fire. CCS is basically a second loss condition on a construct during PvP fights. It works in tandem with generic core unit destruction. It does not matter which one happens first, only the one that happens eventually. A ship can now be destroyed in combat independent of voxel damage.

A core unit that takes too much stress will be destroyed and will be considered a fair PvP destruction. Stress will be accumulated as the construct takes non-shield weapons hits. A devblog about this was recently released; read it here.

The maximum stress supported by a construct is based on the number of honeycombs that compose it.

Added core combat stress widget.
Added stress level warning SFX at 25%, 50%, 75% and 95% of stress.
Added Lua functions and events on core unit API:
- getCoreStress(): The core's current stress, destroyed when reaching max stress.
- getMaxCoreStress(): The maximum stress the core can bear before it gets destroyed.
- getCoreStressRatio(): The core's current stress-to-max stress ratio.
- stressChanged(stress) event: Emitted when core unit stress has changed.

Shields V2

The Ares update introduces two new shield modules for PvP fights: the adjustable resistances and the venting mechanic:

Added venting game mechanic to allow regeneration of shield hitpoints during combat. Players will now have to think more strategically during combat.
- Players may vent their shields at any point.
- Venting shields will do two things:
- Turn off the shields. (They cannot be reactivated during venting.)
- Start a shield regeneration of a certain percent/second.
- Venting can be deactivated at will.
- Arriving at max shields will auto-deactivate venting.
- Venting has a cooldown after usage.
Added adjustable resistances game mechanic: Players can now allocate points to better prepare and adapt during a fight, depending on the weapons of their opponents:
- Shields start at a base resistance value of 10/10/10/10.
- There is a shield resistance pool of an extra 60% resistance.
- Players can assign these extra resistances by increments of five to any of the four resistances, i.e. 10/10/10/70 or 25/25/25/25.
- Players may lock in their resistance selection and that selection will be active and cannot be changed for 60 seconds.
- Once the time has expired, the set resistances stay as set unless the player recalibrates them.
- Shields UI provides feedback to indicate which resistances are taking the most damage on the shield regardless of what resistances are set.
Shield venting cooldown depends on the size of the shield generator:
- XS: 60s
- S: 120s
- M: 240s
- L: 480s
Update Shield Generator widget according to new additions.
Added raw hitpoints as arguments of the absorbed Lua event.
Renamed functions containing HitPoints to Hitpoints.
Adjusted base resistance of shields: Now 10/10/10/10 down from 15/15/15/15.
Balanced shields hitpoints :
- XS: 500,000
- S: 2,000,000
- M: 7,500,000
- L: 20,000,000
Lua shield generator API additions:
- toggled(active) event: Emitted when a state change is triggered (active/inactive).
- venting (active, restoredHitpoints) event: Emitted when venting has started, stopped or restored some hitpoints.
- startVenting(): Activate shield venting to restore hit points.
- isVenting(): Check whether venting is in progress, return 1 if it is venting.
- getVentingCooldown(): Returns time after which venting is possible again.
- getVentingMaxCooldown(): Returns maximal cooldown between venting.
- getResistances(): Returns distribution of resistance pool over resistance types.
- setResistances(antimatter,electromagnetic,kinetic,thermic): Distribute the resistance pool according to damage.
- getResistancesCooldown(): Returns time after which adjusting resistances is possible again.
- getResistancesMaxCooldown(): Returns maximum cooldown between adjusting resistances.
- getResistancesPool(): Returns total resistance pool that may be distributed.
- getResistancesRemaining(): Returns the remaining amount of the resistance pool that can be distributed.
- getStressRatio(): Returns ratio per damage type of recent weapon impacts after applying resistance.
- getStressRatioRaw(): Returns ratio per damage type of recent weapon impacts without resistance.
- getStressHitpoints(): Returns stress, that is the total hit points of recent weapon impacts after applying.
- getStressHitpointsRaw(): Returns stress, that is the total hit points of recent weapon impacts without resistance.

Gameplay Changes

Core units are no longer destroyed by environment damages (i.e. crash on planets, other construct collisions, etc).
Resume speed is reset when the core unit is destroyed.
Offline players are killed on core unit destruction.
Constructs are now only affected by the artificial gravity of constructs of equal or bigger size.
[Warp] Fixed the warping loop sound that never ended while warping with passengers.
[Warp] More explicit Warp Drive widget and notifications.
[Warp] PvP strike can cancel warp during start/spool sequence.
[Warp] Updated required warp cell quantity when distance changes.
[Warp] Warp Stop button is active only 1s after warp start, to prevent annoying misclick.
[Warp] When you cannot warp, the button is visually disabled.
Warp drive has been rebalanced: speed reduced, initiation duration increased.
Changed allowed timing between industry start/stop/set_recipe Lua queries.
[Emitters/Receivers] Restored multiple channels support on emitters and receivers.
- Listening is now restricted on the channels defined on the receiver.
- Restored emitter.send(channel,message): Send a message on the given channel.
- Restored receiver.receive(channel, message) event: Emitted when a message is received on any channel defined on the element.
- Added receiver.setChannels(channelList): Set the channels list on the element.
- Added receiver.getChannels(): Returns the channels list.

Improvements

[Radar] Improved identified construct markers and periscope interpolation.
Improved precise element placement on non-axis aligned surfaces.
[UEF Store] All the ships at the UEF store have had a quality improvement (Mark 2) pass. Some ships look very similar to their predecessors with power, lift, and balance tweaks, while some others (such as the Dragonfly, the Mule, and Specters) have been overhauled so that their performance improvements are also matched by visual improvements. The ship prices have also been adjusted to match current market conditions. (Note: Eclipses are currently unavailable.)
[Market] Market buy orders are now sorting in descending order initially (meaning that best offers are displayed first).
[Building] Improved element collision detection in Build mode.
[Screen units] Increased maximum visible Lua screen units from 16 to 32.

Crash Fixes

Fixed a random crash when exiting the game.
Fixed crash when other ship toggles shield via Lua.
Fixed various crashes including those related to inventory.
Fixed a crash that could occur with a specific invalid Lua autoconf file.
Fixed a crash when a ship with a linked container receives shield damage while standing on an asteroid.

Exploits Fixes

A destroyed construct will now stop in place. Resume speed cannot trigger on destroyed constructs.
Offline players aboard a construct are now killed when its core unit is destroyed.
Fixed an industry duplicate production.
Fixed an exploit that allowed the placement of several elements in the same position. (Element Stacking)
Fixed an exploit about tokenized constructs.

Bug Fixes

Fixed organization vote refresh update.
Added reticule loading when requesting element use.
Fixed job completion issue with modal.
Fixed elements disappearing at high speed.
Fixed force fields extending unexpectedly at high speed.
Fixed reward display in sandbox history if reward is empty.
Fixed character speed when entering a cockpit while moving.
Fixed potential freeze from construct loading.
Fixed a framerate drop issue when loading construct meshes.
Fixed click sound spam when closing context menu.
Blueprints now properly preserve element names.
Fixed occasional hit prediction error when preselecting targets.
Fixed pending friend requests that cannot be deleted by the sender.
Fixed separation taken/created on hauling mission when viewing history of another player.
Fixed other cases of the issue where the client could freeze indefinitely (especially prevalent on AMD CPUs).
Fixed the chat settings "Remove notifications for.." which hid the notification from the different chat rooms.
Fixed undefined behavior (not working/editing another order) when editing a market order too soon after the last interaction with the market.
[FTUE] The Air Delivery Challenge no longer breaks if you speedrun.
[FTUE] Gunner Tutorial: Fixed an issue where moving multiple ammo types at once in the ammo container would not complete both related objectives.
[FTUE] Fixed a bug where during Gunnery Tutorial "open the order by menu" did not trigger Aphelia anymore.
[Market Tutorial] Fixed a typo in the instruction of one of the objectives.
[GUI] Fixed input disabled text on Industries.
[GUI] Fixed market modal that was not closing.
[GUI] Extended height of the gunner seat notification chat.
[GUI] Fixed the sort function of the gunner seat dropdowns.
[GUI] Fixed iFrame scrollbar style for organization manifest.
[GUI] Fixed case sensitive chat room creation.
[GUI] Redirect item global item inspector to active container.
[GUI] Asteroid name now properly shows on HUD.
[GUI] Fixed cut button on talents (queue & cancel buttons).
[GUI] Fixed wrong message when trying to drop undroppable items.
[GUI] Periscope is now updated correctly when preselecting targets.
[GUI] Fixed graphic setting overflow issue on 16:10 windows resolution.
[GUI] Fixed the remaining visible red border of the mining debugging panel.
[GUI] Partially fixed animation on Talent progress bar.
[GUI] Fixed crosshair information not displaying when standing still on a moving construct.
[GUI] Minor fixes for Inventory/container view (font families issues/tabs overflow).
[GUI] Minor fixes for consumables bar: item scale label is now visible all the time.
[GUI] Minor fixes for PvP combat logs: fixed correct wording for hit PvP logs.
[GUI] Center screen notification now correctly displays source and destination container name when moving multiple items.
[GUI] Fixed the reset of the scanner graph when the player opened the radial scanner.
[GUI] Fixed number field incrementing without stopping if clicked with both left and right mouse button.
[GUI] Set bigger market dropdown in order view so that market name stays on one line for easier reading.
[GUI] When editing a tag on a territory a territory icon is now displayed rather than a missing icon placeholder.
[GUI] Fixed coordinate comparison that was previously broken for world position created coordinates.
[GUI] When selecting a construct on the construct list, it will only open the planet map for the nearest planet if the construct is in its sphere of influence.
[Market] Fixed formatting currency.
[Market] Fixed market order sorting.
[Loc] Various fixes about ammo descriptions.
[Codex] Fixed shield generator codex texts.
[Mining] Fixed mining that was still possible until 10 minutes after a territory became private.
[Tool] Fixed a bug where “Replace” tool coordinates were not displayed.
[Building] Fixed BuildingZone flickering when voxels reach the limits.
[Lua] Fixed Lua getAxisAngleRad with angles > 90.
[Lua] Fixed Lua Parameter edition that could display code instead of values only.
[Lua] Replaced all uses of Lua atan2 by atan.
[Lua] Fixed a bug where Lua widgets were not always up-to-date when launched from a RemoteControlUnit.
[Screen Units] Fixed a bug where switching on a screen unit could read a wrong mouse value at first frame.
[Audio] Fixed a bug where engine sounds were not played and dynamic construct sweeteners were heard instead.

Known Issues

Some shield units may currently have zero maximum shield hitpoints following the update, if this is the case simply pick up and place down the shield to restore its hitpoints to the new maximum value.
[PvP] Using multiple weapons can still result in a low miss rate due to internal timeouts.
[Shields] In certain situations when constructs load, shields will not be visible to individual players. Deactivating and reactivating the shield will cause it to become visible for those players. This does not affect the functionality of the shield and is a visual issue only.
[Shields] Shields sometimes do not correctly fully encapsulate the construct to which they belong. This does not affect the functionality of the shield and is a visual issue only.
[Screen Units] Non-standard aspect screens, like signs, currently do not render correctly and stretch.
[Loc] Numerous French and German localization issues have already been spotted.
A random rendering crash may occur under some conditions due to low GPU/driver resources. Setting shadows to ‘Low’ and disabling Volumetric Clouds in Graphic settings may help.
Voxel crashes may occur due to low disk/memory.
[Industries] Talents that impact ingredients of schematic products are not displayed client-side, but the schematics are updated with the server schematics when starting.
[Industries] Some inconsistencies in schematics and tiered elements.
[Screens] High-frequency text updates on screens in HTML mode cause text to not display or flash.
Various lighting, shadow, and reflection issues might be seen due to ongoing rendering rework.
In some cases, DU stops responding when the game is minimized for too long. We’re investigating this issue right now.
Animated elements can be visually duplicated when broken during an animation.
Wrong highlight mesh for shield generators (XS, M, L).
[Codex] Missing Lua Screen Units codex page.
[Docking] Players will slide off of docked constructs if both they and the construct they are docked to are moving, which gets more severe with higher speeds.
[Docking] Piloting a construct while docked to another one that is flying very quickly will frequently induce strong rotations upon colliding with the docked construct.
[Docking] The child construct can be teleported when using the maneuvering tool on a moving parent construct.

We hope you'll like this update. The team has been working hard and continues to do so; we can't wait to have your feedback! Thank you very much for your support.

Cheers,

Nomad

September 13, 2021

Hi Noveans,

We just released a small patch. DU is now in 0.26.11 version and fixes and changes are listed below:

Exploit Fix

Fixed an industry duplicate production.

Improvements

[District Markets] Two changes have been made to the markets in the district areas in accordance with the new market construct rules laid out here:
- A green perimeter line has been added to all market buildings; the green line zone is in fact a "non-obstructive" zone where no constructs (regardless of being a ship or not) are allowed.
- According to the new market rules, only ships are allowed now on the market landing pad outside the green perimeter. In short, advertising displays, stores, etc., are no longer allowed in the market area.
- Teleportation pads have been added to connect the district market with the nearest district center to facilitate players wanting to look at other players’ shop constructs, advertisements, and dispensers.

Bug Fixes

Fixed pending friend requests that cannot be deleted by the sender.
[GUI] Asteroid name now properly shows on HUD.

Thanks for your support!

Cheers,

Nomad

September 2, 2021

Hello Noveans,

A new hotfix has been released on the Live server. DU is now in 0.26.10 version. Changlog is the following:

Improvements

Updated roadmap.

Bug Fixes

[GUI] Fixed the reset of the scanner graph history when the player reopens the hand scanner.
[GUI] Fixed the chat settings "Remove notifications for..." which hide the notification from the different chat rooms.
[FTUE] Fixed a bug during the gunnery tutorial where "open the order by menu" did not trigger Aphelia anymore.
[Market] Fixed market order sorting.

Thanks for your support!

Cheers,

Nomad

August 24, 2021

Hi Noveans,

A new hotfix is live! DU is now in 0.26.9 version.

Bug Fix

Temporarily removed dynamic construct sweetener sounds to prevent player annoyance until the related bug is fixed.

Thanks for your support!

Cheers,

Nomad

August 18, 2021

Hello Noveans,

A new hotfix is available. DU si now in 0.26.8 versions. Fixes brought are the following:

Crash Fixes

[PvP shield] Fixed crash when ship with linked cointainer receives shield damage while standing on asteroid.
[PvP shield] Fixed crash when other ship toggles shield via Lua.

Thanks for your support!

Cheers,

Nomad

August 16, 2021

Hi Noveans,

A new patch is available. DU is now in 0.26.7 version. Changes brought by this update are below:

Bug Fixes

[Screen units] Fixed transparent screen units being sometimes opaque white.
[GUI] Fixed number field incrementing without stopping if clicked with both left & right mouse button.
[GUI] Fixed market modal that was not closing.
[GUI] Set bigger market dropdown in order view (so that market name stays on 1 line for easier reading).
[GUI] Do not reset selected wallet on market on wallet update. Issues were particularly hurting if you were trading for your organizations, and lots of wallet updates occurred (due to selling sell orders for example).
[GUI] Center screen notification now correctly displays source and destination container name when moving multiple items.
[GUI] When editing a tag on a territory, we now have a territory icon, rather than a missing icon placeholder).
[GUI] If a dispenser is not named, notification displays: "... from <dispenserName>" or “... from a dispenser".
[GUI] Fixed coordinate comparison (was previously broken for world position created coordinates).
[GUI] When selecting a construct on the construct list, only open the planet map for the nearest planet if the construct is in its sphere of influence.

Improvement

[Screen units] Increased maximum visible Lua screen units from 16 to 32.

Crash Fix

New attempt to fix the inventory related crash (hopefully this one will work), thanks for your patience!

As always, thanks for your support!

Cheers,

Nomad

August 13, 2021

Hello Noveans,

We just released a hotfix improving or fixing the AMD freezes situation for numerous players. DU is now in 0.26.6 version:

Fixed an issue where the client could freeze indefinitely (especially prevalent on AMD CPUs)

Thanks for your support!

Cheers,

Nomad

August 11, 2021

Hi Noveans,

We just released a hotfix. DU is now in 0.26.5 version. Changes brought are the followings:

Fixed (hopefully) a crash when loading inventory background image.
Updated the roadmap on the login page.

Thanks for your support!

Cheers,

Nomad

August 5, 2021

Hi Noveans,

We just released the 0.26.4 version of Dual Universe. This is a hotfix and you'll find its changelog below:

Bug Fixes

[PvP] Gunner control units exceeding PvP capacity won't work until some weapons or radars are unlinked and the capacity is brought below maximum values.
[PvP] Fixed various incorrect range, cone, and tracking values on weapon variations.
[Missions] Fixed an issue with Aphelia’s mission packages.
[FTUE] Fixed forcefield collision not being properly calculated when reactivated.
[Chat] Fixed chat Help room.

Thank you for your support, we continue the hard work to improve and fix things!

Cheers,

Nomad

August 4, 2021

Hello Noveans,

Following up on your feedback, we just released a hotfix following up on the Apollo release of yesterday. DU is now in 0.26.3 version. The team continues monitoring things, of course, and fixing issues. Changelog is below:

Bug Fixes

Fixed VR teleport exploit.
Fixed the help message “spamming” (which ultimately led to server disconnections).
Fixed a bug occurring when chatting with a player on a private chat where each player could only see what the other wrote but not their own sentences.
Fixed the restoration of the chat room when logging in.
Fixed a freeze when opening the main menu (Escape key) for the first time.
Fixed font family issues on Codex (concerning the table description).
Fixed missing screens and control unit content

Thanks for your support!

Cheers,

Nomad

GEEKsogen · August 3, 2021

Hi Noveans,

Today, we're releasing the 0.26.2 version of Dual Universe. This update is named "Apollo". You'll find its massive changelog below:

NEW FEATURES

Asteroids

Asteroids filled with precious ore will now spawn in the game world.
A new element, the deep space asteroid tracker (DSAT), will be available. The DSAT will be used to find and track down asteroids.
In the DSAT there will also be a global asteroid tracker (GAT), an interface which tracks all asteroids in the game world.
Asteroids will be available in tiers from one to five, representing their rarity. Safe space will only have asteroids of tier one and two.
Asteroids will cycle weekly, as they come in and out of the system.
At the beginning of each cycle, asteroids will spawn over the course of 24 hours and will be available for a week at which point a new cycle will start.
The fractured space potato chunks that surround Thades are not asteroids.

PvP Shields

Added shield generators that protect constructs in PvP.
Shield generators will serve as a first layer of protection for dynamic constructs during combat.
Shields will absorb damage until depleted at which point they will stay depleted until the end of combat defined per the combat timer.
Shields will only be available on dynamic constructs.
Shields placed during a combat timer will start from 0.
Added Shield Lua API :
- activate(): Activate the shield.
- deactivate(): Deactivate the shield.
- toggle(): Toggle the state of the shield.
- getState(): Returns the activation state of the shield. Returns 1 when the shield is active, 0 otherwise.
- getShieldHitPoints(): Returns the current hit points of the shield.
- getMaxShieldHitPoints(): Returns the maximal hit points of the shield.
- absorbed(hitpoints) event : Emitted when the shield absorbed incoming damage (accessible with hitpoints argument).
- down() event : Emitted when the shield hit points reached 0 or deactivation.
- restored() event : Emitted when the shield hit points are fully restored.

Combat Timer

The combat timer is a construct-based timer which indicates if a construct has recently participated in PvP activity.
Both firing and receiving weapons fire will trigger or restart the combat timer on a construct.
Currently the combat timer will affect two things:
- Shield generator regeneration
- Warp drive activation
The combat timer is currently set at 10 minutes.
Added in Core Unit Lua API:
- getPvPTimer() : Returns the remaining time of the PvP Timer (in seconds), or 0.0 if elapsed.
- pvpTimer(active) event : Emitted when the PvP Timer started or elapsed

Lua Screen Units

The current API is not added to the codex yet. Full documentation can be found on the PTS forum here:
Introduced a new screen content editor UI to allow switching between HTML & Lua content type for screen content:
- Syntax highlighting and character count display.
- Error display for render script content (Lua).
Shortcut "Ctrl + L" to open the content editor on a screen unit.
“setCenteredText” and “setImage” will set the screen content with render script; "Set Quick SVG" will not be available.
Fixed an issue where the render cost of borders was only half of the correct value.
Fixed an issue where non-ASCII characters caused immediate render cost overflow.
Fixed an issue where floating-point font sizes resulted in tiny fonts instead of correctly rounding.
Fixed an issue where the render cost of a Lua screen unit started at ~500k instead of 0.
Optimized the render cost of lines to be invariant under rotation.
Layers now have a fixed render cost of 50000 instead of a hard limit of 8.

Render Script API

Added: addBoxRounded(layer, x, y, width, height, radius) : add a rounded box.
Added: getCursorDown() -> boolean : return true if the mouse cursor is currently pressed down on the screen, false otherwise.
Added: getCursorPressed() -> boolean : return true if the mouse button changed from being released to being pressed at any point since the last update.
Added: getCursorReleased() -> boolean : return true if the mouse button changed from being pressed to being released at any point since the last update.
Added: getInput() -> string : return a string of input data (or an empty string, if no input has been set) that can be set via the screen programming board API using screen.setScriptInput(string).
Added: getFontMetrics(font) -> float, float : return the ascender and descender height of the font.
Added: getTextBounds(font, text) -> float, float : return the computed bounding box (width x height)” of the given text in the given font.
Added: setBackgroundColor(r, g, b) : set the background color of the screen unit.
Added: setNextShadow(layer, radius, r, g, b, a) : set the radius and color of the outer shadow for the next element.
Added: setDefaultXXX(layer, shapeType, propertyValue) : a set of functions for setting default values of properties ( FillColor, Rotation, Shadow, StrokeColor, StrokeWidth), segregated by shape type:
- Shape_Box
- Shape_BoxRounded
- Shape_Circle
- Shape_Image
- Shape_Line
- Shape_Polygon
- Shape_Text
Added: setNextTextAlign(layer, alignX, alignY) : set the alignment of the next text string, relative to the bounding box of the entire string using the horizontal alignment enum:
- AlignH_Left
- AlignH_Center
- AlignH_Right
And vertical alignment enum:
- AlignV_Ascender:
- AlignV_Top
- AlignV_Middle
- AlignV_Baseline
- AlignV_Bottom
- AlignV_Descender
Added: setOutput(string) : set the screen's script output to string, for use with control units screen.getScriptOutput().
Added: isImageLoaded(imageId) -> bool : return true if the given image is loaded.
Added: logMessage(message) : write in the Lua chat if the output checkbox is checked.
Added several monospaced fonts.
Added Lua built in setmetatable to whitelisted functions.

Screen Unit API

Added: clearScriptOutput() : clear the render script output string, such that the next call to getScriptOutput will return the empty string, until the next time a render script is executed and calls setOutput.
Added: getScriptOutput() -> string : return the last output string of the screen's render script, or an empty string.
Added: setScriptInput(string) : set a string of input data that can be retrieved from the screen's render script by calling getInput.

IMPROVEMENTS

New PvP rebalancing
- Deployed weapons properties were changed and applied talents were reset.
New talents
Honeycomb refining for the following honeycombs:
- Concrete
- Marble
- Carbon Fiber
- Wood
- Brick
Honeycomb Productivity for the following honeycombs:
- Concrete
- Marble
- Carbon Fiber
- Wood
- Brick
Mission system
- Players can now sell Aphelia mission package content to bots on the market. The price is lower than the lowest colateral of Aphelia missions using those packages.
Bot orders
- Removal of tier 2 ore buy orders from bots. Only tier 1 ores can now be sold to bots.
New Elements: shield generators
- Extra-Small Shield Generator
  - Level: 3
  - Mass: 670
  - Volume: 210
  - Hitpoints: 1400
  - Shield Hp: 300000
  - Shield resistances:
    - Antimatter: 15%
    - Thermic: 15%
    - Kinetic: 15%
    - Electromagnetic: 15%
  - Element resistances:
    - Antimatter: 10%
    - Thermic: 10%
    - Kinetic: 10%
    - Electromagnetic: 10%
- Small Shield Generator
  - Level: 3
  - Mass: 3300
  - Volume: 950
  - Hitpoints: 4500
  - Shield Hp: 1750000
  - Shield resistances:
    - Antimatter: 15%
    - Thermic: 15%
    - Kinetic: 15%
    - Electromagnetic: 15%
  - Element resistances:
    - Antimatter: 10%
    - Thermic: 10%
    - Kinetic: 10%
    - Electromagnetic: 10%
- Medium Shield Generator
  - Level: 3
  - Mass: 17000
  - Volume: 4500
  - Hitpoints: 6750
  - Shield Hp: 8000000
  - Shield resistances:
    - Antimatter: 15%
    - Thermic: 15%
    - Kinetic: 15%
    - Electromagnetic: 15%
  - Element resistances:
    - Antimatter: 10%
    - Thermic: 10%
    - Kinetic: 10%
    - Electromagnetic: 10%
- Large Shield Generator
  - Level: 3
  - Mass: 92000
  - Volume: 22700
  - Hitpoints: 31500
  - Shield Hp: 25000000
  - Shield resistances:
    - Antimatter: 15%
    - Thermic: 15%
    - Kinetic: 15%
    - Electromagnetic: 15%
  - Element resistances:
    - Antimatter: 10%
    - Thermic: 10%
    - Kinetic: 10%
    - Electromagnetic: 10%

WEAPON BALANCE CHANGES

Weapon tier scaling changes
- The scaling multiplier for variants has been reduced for both positive and negative aspects of the weapon.
  - Advanced: 1.15x > 1.1x
  - Rare: 1.32x > 1.21x
  - Exotic: 1.52x > 1.33x
Weapon stat changes
- Stat changes are listed as old > new.
- Defense, precision, agile, and heavy variants are not listed; however, they still follow the same weapon variant pattern with the tier scaling reduction.
Cannons
- Cannon XS
  - Base damage: 2000 > 6000
  - Optimal tracking: 20 > 10
  - Falloff tracking: 20 >10
  - Aiming cone: 10 > 30
  - Falloff aiming cone: 20 > 60
  - Weapon capacity: 30 > 25
  - Reload time: 5 > 10
- Cannon S
  - Base damage: 4000 > 11100
  - Optimal tracking: 10 > 5
  - Falloff tracking: 10 > 5
  - Aiming cone: 10 >30
  - Falloff aiming cone: 20 > 60
  - Weapon capacity: 150 >125
  - Rate of fire: 2 > 2.7
  - Reload time: 5 > 10
- Cannon M
  - Base damage: 8000 > 20535
  - Optimal tracking: 5 > 2.5
  - Falloff tracking: 5 > 2.5
  - Aiming cone: 10 >30
  - Falloff aiming cone: 20 > 60
  - Weapon capacity: 750 > 625
  - Rate of fire: 2 > 3.645
  - Reload time: 5 > 10
- Cannon L
- Base damage: 16000 > 37990
- Optimal tracking: 2.5 > 1.25
- Falloff tracking: 2.5 > 1.25
- Aiming cone: 10 >30
- Falloff aiming cone: 20 > 60
- Weapon capacity: 3750 > 3125
- Rate of fire: 2 > 4.92
- Reload time: 5 > 10

Lasers
- Laser XS
  - Base damage: 2500 > 7000
  - Optimal tracking: 10 > 5
  - Falloff tracking: 10 > 5
  - Aiming cone: 15 > 60
  - Falloff aiming cone: 5 >15
  - Weapon capacity: 40 > 80
  - Reload time: 10 > 15
- Laser S
  - Base damage: 5000 > 12950
  - Optimal tracking: 5 > 2.5
  - Falloff tracking: 5 > 2.5
  - Aiming cone: 15 > 60
  - Falloff aiming cone: 5 >15
  - Weapon capacity: 200 > 400
  - Rate of fire: 3 > 4.05
  - Reload time: 10 > 15
- Laser M
  - Base damage: 10000 > 23957
  - Optimal tracking: 2.5 > 1.25
  - Falloff tracking: 2.5 > 1.25
  - Aiming cone: 15 > 60
  - Falloff aiming cone: 5 >15
  - Weapon capacity: 1000 > 2000
  - Rate of fire: 3 > 5.47
  - Reload time: 10 > 15
- Laser L
  - Base damage: 20000 > 44321
  - Optimal tracking: 1.25 > 0.625
  - Falloff tracking: 1.25 > 0.625
  - Aiming cone: 15 > 60
  - Falloff aiming cone: 5 >15
  - Weapon capacity: 5000 > 10000
  - Rate of fire: 3 > 7.38
  - Reload time: 10 > 15

Missiles
- Missile XS
  - Base damage: 7500 > 14000
  - Optimal tracking: 15 > 7.5
  - Falloff tracking: 15 > 7.5
  - Weapon capacity: 25 > 24
  - Rate of fire: 5 > 4
  - Reload time: 30 > 45
- Missile S
  - Base damage: 15000 > 25900
  - Optimal tracking: 7.5 > 3.75
  - Falloff tracking: 7.5 > 3.75
  - Weapon capacity: 125 > 120
  - Rate of fire: 5 > 5.4
  - Reload time: 30 > 45
- Missile M
  - Base damage: 30000 > 47915
  - Optimal tracking: 3.75 > 1.875
  - Falloff tracking: 3.75 > 1.875
  - Weapon capacity: 625 > 600
  - Rate of fire: 5 > 7.29
  - Reload time: 30 > 45
- Missile L
  - Base damage: 60000 > 88642.75
  - Optimal tracking: 1.875 > 0.9375
  - Falloff tracking: 1.875 > 0.9375
  - Weapon capacity: 3125 > 3000
  - Rate of fire: 5 > 9.8
  - Reload time: 30 > 45

Railguns
- Railgun XS
  - Base damage: 5000 > 11000
  - Optimal tracking: 5 > 2.5
  - Optimal falloff: 5 > 2.5
  - Aiming cone: 5 > 15
  - Falloff aiming cone: 5 > 15
  - Weapon capacity: 100 > 150
  - Rate of fire: 8 > 7
  - Reload time: 15 > 25
- Railgun S
  - Base damage: 10000 > 20350
  - Optimal tracking: 2.5 > 1.25
  - Optimal falloff: 2.5 > 1.25
  - Aiming cone: 5 > 15
  - Falloff aiming cone: 5 > 15
  - Weapon capacity: 500 > 750
  - Rate of fire: 8 > 9.45
  - Reload time: 15 > 25
- Railgun M
  - Base damage: 20000 > 37647
  - Optimal tracking: 1.25 > 0.625
  - Falloff tracking: 1.25 > 0.625
  - Aiming cone: 5 > 15
  - Falloff aiming cone: 5 > 15
  - Weapon capacity: 2500 > 3750
  - Rate of fire: 8 > 12.7575
  - Reload time: 15 > 25
- Railgun L
  - Base damage: 40000 > 69648
  - Optimal tracking: 0.625 > 0.3125
  - Falloff tracking: 0.625 > 0.3125
  - Aiming cone: 5 > 15
  - Falloff aiming cone: 5 > 15
  - Weapon capacity: 12500 > 18750
  - Rate of fire: 8 > 17.222625
  - Reload time: 15 > 25

Ammo volume size changes
- The amount of inventory space in litres that missiles take up has been reduced. Listed as old > new.
  - XS: 5 > 3
  - S: 25 > 15
  - M: 125 > 75
  - L: 625 > 375

Honeycomb health changes

Honeycomb health per m³ changes are listed as old > new.
Carbon: 1452 > 1560
Silicon: 1491 > 1586
Aluminium: 1728 > 1730
Iron: 5024 > 2763
Sodium: 620 > 846
Calcium: 992 > 1211
Chromium: 4601 > 2686
Copper: 5734 > 2873
Lithium: 339 > 500
Sulfur: 1164 > 1352
Nickel: 5702 > 2869
Silver: 6713 > 2997
Gold: 12352 > 3198
Cobalt: 5696 > 2868
Scandium: 1910 > 1831
Fluorine: 1085 > 1289
Titanium: 2886 > 2245
Manganese: 4614 > 2689
Niobium: 5484 > 2837
Vanadium: 3840 > 2521
Plastic: 896 > 1125
Silumin: 1920 > 1836
Steel: 5152 > 2784
Duralumin: 1792 > 1767
Stainless Steel: 4960 > 2752
AlLi: 1600 > 1654
Inconel: 5438 > 2830
ScAl: 1824 > 1784
Maraging Steel: 5267 > 2803
Grade 5 Titanium Alloy: 2835 > 2227
Mangalloy: 5013 > 2761
Concrete: 1230 > 1403
Brick: 384 > 560
Wood: 960 > 1183
Carbon Fiber: 1728 > 1730
Marble: 1728 > 1730
Luminescent White Glass: 1664 > 1693

New assets for PvP and other

Added new chair surface element that allows the placement of seat positions everywhere, the gold part indicates the front of the seat. It has three modes cycled via the R key:
- On the ground
- At seated height
- Sunk into surface
Added new cannon models.
Added new laser models.
Added new missile launcher models.
Added new railgun models.
Added new unique Gunner Seat S/M/L models.
New Ammo Containers XS/S/M/L models.
Added Space Radar variation skins.
Added Weapons variation skins.
Changed textures of home set elements (Chairs, Sofa, Tables, Club, Dresser, Wardrobe)
Changed textures of Hover Engines.
Changed Planet Hologram icon.
New FX update for the bonsai, green to blue.
New FX update for the resurrection node: blue and smaller in height.
New FX for the teleportation node.
New FX for the DSAT deploy, run, and screen.

Improvements

[Map] Added Territories section. Similar to the construct list, you will be able to see your territories and territories of organizations of which you are a legate.
[Map] Added ability to declare a territory you own as "Welcoming visitors” via the map screen (for trade, showrooms, ship shops, museums, events ...etc).This adds an icon on the map visible to all (this icon is visible from a certain zoom level). You can revoke it at any time.
[Map] Added ability to rename a territory you own via the map screen.
[Map] Revamped tile filters in planet map now allows you to navigate between tiles without searching on map. It also now uses your active container rather than the inventory when filtering for territory scans.
[Map] Updated points of interest list.
[Map] Improved planet loading in map interface
Regrouped different dispenser settings into a unified dispenser configuration panel.
You can now use "Right-click -> inspect element" for a placed element on a construct to open an item inspector window for that element. This item inspector will display the applied "onDeploy" modifiers currently applied on that element.
New dispenser configuration that allows you to redirect the money transfer to a recipient different from the owner of the dispenser. (Should help set up stores for people that rent core units.)
Added shift-click multiple selection in inventory.
Achievement panel revamp, including some minor additional information on achievements.
Operation taxes are now applied also to order updates.
Polish the scanner tool UI.
Schematics now display their produced products and required industry units in the item inspector.
Added contact request notification icon in bottom right of the HUD.
The layout of the Item inspector was changed.
Classic interactions on widget buttons (click/hover) have been added.
HUD notification icons and chat improvements.
[Performance] When a modification happens in an inventory, we no longer perform a search directly if the view of that container is not visible (inventory closed). This avoids costly search operations in lots of situations (when mining, for example).
[Performance] Improved PopcornFX performance.
Optimized operations on planets.
Temporarily removed a small animation when hovering item slots to avoid frame drop in inventory.
[Art] FX update for industries about their level of detail (LOD) to improve performance.
Minor polish of error notifications messages.

Gameplay Balancing/Changes

[Avatar] Resetting character customization doesn't reset character type anymore.
Updated the roadmap on the login screen.
Emitter unit Lua method “send(channel, message)” has been deprecated. The channel can no longer be set dynamically. The message will be sent with the static channel set on the emitter element itself. Use the new method “broadcast(message)” instead.
Receiver unit Lua event “receive(channel, message)” is now deprecated. To be future-proof, use the new event “receive(message)”. For privacy reasons, those two methods will only listen to the receiver static channel defined on the receiver element itself.
[Art] Icon update for the Metalwork industry element.
[Art] FX update for decorative plants, holograms, and elevators level of detail (LOD) to improve performance.
[Art] FX update for the surrogate pod station with a smaller FX height.
[Art] New FX for the teleportation node to follow the new VFX direction.
[Art] New size for the railgun L, smaller and closer to the rest of the large weapons family.
[Art] UI VFX now shows the current tracking step.

Crash Fix

Fixed crash with incorrect data in Lua “setWaypoint()”.

Bug Fixes

Radar capacity handling talents text corrected to five percent per level instead of 10 (text fix only).
Radar targeting handling talent (identification speed on put down) now working.
Fixed weird trajectory and constructs sometimes getting destroyed when warping through a planet.
Fixed a bug where surrogate pods became public on core destruction.
[GUI] Fixed a bug where the bigger the name of an item was, the less its info was visible on the bottom part of the inventory.
[GUI] Fixed ammo container display name.
[Visual] Fixed overly-bright light reflections on smooth surfaces.
Fixed a bug that allowed everyone to access the wallet of any org.
Fixed a bug that removed element property when adding an element from the inventory.
Fixed drag-and-drop between container and inventory when the item is too large for your container that displays only the modal without the gauge.
Fixed the crash of the market operation direct buy/sell modal while opening it.
Fixed a bug where VR challenge next reward time was reset when tested.
[Industries] Fixed metalworks status lights.
Fixed a bug where elements could be placed with the deploy element tool while players were inside the element.
[Loc] Various localization fixes.
Fixed the landing gear element appearing to be extended every time it was loaded regardless of its actual state.
[Settings] Fixed a bug with the graphic option "Environmental Shadows" to "None" that broke the flashlight. (User could still see the "angle" HUD but no light source.)
[Talents] Fixed a bug where player talents would not apply to industry unit run when the player is in VR or in a tutorial.
[Missions] Fixed a bug that prevents job details from showing up if a respondent is offline.
[Friends] Fixed a bug that prevented players from removing a friend from the friend list in some rare cases.
[GUI] Applied a max length to bookmark names and their description. Fixed overflow of the description that prevented it from scrolling horizontally.
[GUI] Fixed missing search arrow on member column in organization search.
[GUI] Fixed double quanta symbol in some wallet log entries.
[GUI] Fixed tooltip on crafting tab not updating.
Fixed incorrect display in some cases of surrogate loading screens.
[GUI] Fixed dropdown for camera lens settings (no longer goes outside of the screen) and searched entity dropdown in tile filter block.
[GUI] Fixed build helper window that was not interactable in some cases.
[Chat] After a resize of the game window (includes alt-tab when in fullscreen), we now force the chat to scroll to the bottom.
[GUI] Fixed some already existing default inventory sub filters. Added "combat & defense" and "airfoil" sub filters.
[Org] Fixed super legate who could no longer be targeted for "change super legate", "exclude" or "demote" vote at vote creation.
[Tutorial] Fixed a bug where the mining tutorial could not be finished because the scanner range change was not detected.
[Art] Fixed a bug on the cannon S rig where parts of the mesh were not following the rotation.
[Art] New gunner seats meshes (element/collision) update (position), contact surface & anchor character realigned following that.
[Art] Cannons variations colors big update and minor fixes (mesh and mats).
[Art] Fixed a bug where the interior of the railgun S and L were visible in some situations.
Fixed a rare bug that prevented warp without Aphelia mission package present in some conditions.
[GUI] Fixed a typo in number input that was causing an issue in dispenser configuration panel.
[GUI] Fixed input capture for tag entry in dispenser panel. Pressing "o" will no longer open the wallet if focused in the input field.
[GUI] Fixed market registering the input too soon and not checking if input was captured, causing the "j" key to open the market when the dispenser panel was opened.
Fixed a bug where space core unit XS could be displayed with the wrong mesh.
Fixed radar capacity handling talent description.

Known Issues

[PvP] Firing multiple weapons leads to very high rates of missing due to internal timeouts. We are actively investigating the issue.
[Shields] Shields sometimes do not correctly fully encapsulate the construct they belong to. This does not affect the functionality of the shield and is a visual issue only.
[Screen Units] Non-standard aspect screens like signs currently do not render correctly and stretch.
Numerous French and German localization issues have already been spotted.
A random rendering crash may occur under some conditions due to low GPU/driver resources. Setting shadows to ‘Low’ and disabling Volumetric Clouds in Graphic settings may help.
Voxel crashes may occur due to low disk/memory.
[Industries] Talents that impact ingredients of schematic products are not displayed client-side, but the schematic updates with the server schematic when starting.
[Industries] Some inconsistencies in schematics and tiered elements.
[Screens] Transparent screens display as solid white when loading in close proximity.
[Screens] High-frequency text updates on screens in HTML mode cause text to not display or flash.
[Elements] In certain situations, elements unload at high speeds.
Various lighting, shadow, and reflection issues might be seen due to ongoing rendering rework.
In some cases, DU stops responding when the game is minimized for too long. We’re investigating this issue right now.
Animated elements can be visually duplicated when broken during an animation.
Wrong highlight mesh for shield generators (XS, M, L)

As always, we thank you for your support and we can't wait to hear your thoughts about the Apollo update!

Cheers,

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