Dead Men Walking

Saw this mentioned on a review somewhere for No Mans Sky" as better value for money.

Early access space survival game, currently on 50% off until 22nd and has dedicated server code. Looks to be updated frequently.

Looks like Space Engineers meets ARK.


Empyrion - Galactic Survival (http://store.steampowered.com/app/383120/)


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I like the look of that! https://www.twitch.tv/xanathon87 is a nice stream if you ignore the language but just look at the quality of the game in action.

I think this is a rather nice find. +1 Lib

I'm in ... again :doh:

Quote from: OldBloke;415826I'm in ... again :doh:

Didn't you ask me about this game mouths ago oldie ?

Not enough time for me, Ark fills my survival game quota for now.

I'm thinking this may be a more low maintenance survival game, with full co-op mode. I had been looking at it a few days earlier and though, I'll get that if it goes on sale. Low and behold, it drops to 50% a few days later. Probably riding on the back of the NMS over hype. I started looking at the game after seeing a review of NMS that said spend your money on this and have more fun and teamplay.

This game is still an estimated 2 years from completion but ticks a lot of boxes for me. It has a random seed for the initial solar system, has high tech bad guys to attack, raid and assume command of their buildings or just take them as scrap, AI is a little basic right now. Getting to a level where you can leave the planet and go build in space sounds fun.

The game has a blueprint system and steam workshop integration for simple resource and tech tree required builds. So you can load up a design from the workshop or design your own and share it.

Dedicated server is currently Windows only and requires the game code, but not sure if you can just copy out the directory and run it away from Steam, will have to play. You can't currently start a server from within the game.

The forums say you can keep adding new planets into the solar system and so keep it fresh if new planet types appear.

Having said all that, I'm still only at a level where I'm sat on the bare ground with a supplied motorbike, emergency constructor and emergency oxygen generator. But only had it running for a few game days.

Toby, check out this from 6:00. Has some swearing.

[video=youtube;kwreGPErdFI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwreGPErdFI[/video]

Okay, played a few hours now and enjoying it.

Managed to build a very open base (wooden platform), with most of the tools required to make guns, ammo and an automated defence turret. As soon as your base goes on-line it becomes a target for the Epsilons, they start sending over some mini-gun drones to say hello. The defence turret takes some fire and needs repairing after each attack, but you can salvage a lot of good stuff off the drones which help you build more kit. You get an alert that drones are on their way before they get there, so you have time to return home if needed.

Still only on the motorbike (which needs serious physics work), I've come under fire from a few outposts and found some of the wreckage of what I assume is the ship you were on prior to the escape pod which you start the game in. This is also a good source of materials and once you build a muti-tool you can disassemble it into component parts for your own use.

Whilst there I took out a couple of drones, then got a message that a troop ship was coming. It landed next to the wreck and dropped a few aliens and their sniffer..... err... dogs? Killing and looting the soldiers gets you some good booty as well.

Whilst riding around you get notified of anything within 500m of your location and it gets marked on the map, these include alien bases, wrecks and more importantly ore deposits. These are pretty easy to mine and are pretty large. I've drilled a huge cobalt mine and still there is 90% of the resources left.

Just off to see if there are any blueprints for a decent hover ship to have a mobile base whilst mining, hunting and salvaging, then do the same for a small ship once I have enough resources.

I've died a few times, it gives you the option to re-spawn at base (if you have a cloning chamber, which I don't yet) or close to last location, so you can attempt to get your gear back, which drops in a case like ARK.

I'm in it!
It's Awesome!
(http://puu.sh/qIkti/8f31a77804.jpg)

OK. Played a few hours last night. Definitely enjoying it. It doesn't pull its punches in terms of difficulty. Ark's interface and construction system tends to hold your hand a fair bit. This one does not. I can see why that could be off putting for some.

All in all though, I'm really having a lot of fun. It doesn't take that long to collect resources, which is a bonus. Just have to build up now so we can build our DeathStar.

It has a crafting learning curve not because you have to learn the recipes but because interface is not quite intuitive.

I found that once you make the Fabricator the best thing to do is search the Templates/ blueprints for the one you need to work on. Note the recipe parts needed then drag them all from your player inventory into the Fabricator inventory.

I is lacking a way for the loaded recipe to see what your player is holding and auto use the parts in the build. Might be a good thing to avoid using resources you don't intend to.

I agree with Galatoni, it's not as much of a grind for parts link Ark can be (stone, wood, flint, etc.)

Dark is really dark, as in no torch, no see a darn thing. The assault rifle saved my life, it has a tac light.

Things are dark, but there is a way to shed some light on it. Worklights are very easy to produce and take hardly any resources. There is also the worklight 2 which does very much the same thing - only better.

The server settings are a bit light on the ground, which is a shame. The red symbol (if you didn't know) is the anti grief system. Assuming we set up a faction, we could build a single base which could cater for all our needs near the starting location and spread out from there to build our own houses/bases etc.

Once the initial base is set up, people seem to use this as a redeploy station for an orbital platform. Its there that they set up the capital ship they're building further down the line.

http://empyrion.gamepedia.com/ makes for some good reading. Apparently we can easily create faction controlled buildings/structures. But it is the owning player that must do it.

Yeah, need to work out why my turret was targeting friendlies. Had a drone attack last night and so I stuck some bullets into my defence cannon and it made short work of them.

Once you have a large constructor built it all gets easier, the emergency constructor is a manual process, whereas when you have the large constructor running it will automatically start making the component parts to whatever you told it to make.

A few of you started your buildings using a blueprint, unfortunately some of the components for that are not achievable without the large constructor and food processor station. If you bring the resources over, I can build you those crop plots.

Ha. Indeedy. I assumed they were part of the game (so-to-speak). Turns our they're from the Steam Workshop. Still, this is all good practice for when the server resets. Seems like a good community game, here.

Quote from: Galatoni;415909Seems like a good community game, here.

I have a whole bunch of planets to find things to feed you to now! :norty:

Figured a few things out!

My default FOV was 60 changing it to 80 showed a dark rim around the edge of the screen when wearing a helmet!
ALSO
Getting blown up on another planet is a really quick way to losing everything you have!

Lib and I destroyed and deconstucted a MK 1 Epsilon base. Revenge is sweet.

After a little bit of mining out in the asteroids Sith was blown out of the sky whilst on his return home. I Popped over to see if we could find his ship and discovered it still hovering between a rock and a hard place.

Went to Siths and he bolted a pillion seat to my ship and we went over, took a few rocket hits so dived behind a ridge. We managed to sneak around the fire to a crater and his backpack, the former being what was left of his ship.

Sith ordered up a replacement and half an hour later he was bolting rocket launchers to his new SV. Then he went all Rambo on the Epsilon centre and I just turned up to see the aftermath and collect some seeds.

Is this still on the test server ... So to speak or is this the main server now that we will be using ?

what are the server details please?

Quote from: RogueTaylor;415927Is this still on the test server ... So to speak or is this the main server now that we will be using ?

dMw's official server will be up in the next day or so.

Quote from: OldBloke;415931dMw's official server will be up in the next day or so.

..../awaits details!

QuoteSith ordered up a replacement and half an hour later he was bolting rocket launchers to his new SV. Then he went all Rambo on the Epsilon centre and I just turned up to see the aftermath and collect some seeds.

Is this the same guy who managed to land that wrecked transit van of a ship from last night? Honestly, I've not laughed to hard at a game in a very long time.

Quote from: Galatoni;415938Is this the same guy who managed to land that wrecked transit van of a ship from last night? Honestly, I've not laughed to hard at a game in a very long time.

For me when I lost the ability to  breath due to laughing was when he managed to get this thing in the air.  Then to fly straight rotated so the nose was had the booster and shot off in to the distance backwards.  Amazing giggling now about it.

Quote from: OldBloke;415931dMw's official server will be up in the next day or so.

Ah okay then thanks a lot oldie that much appreciated, can't wait to get on here and get killed by more drones

Quote from: BrotherTobious;415939For me when I lost the ability to  breath due to laughing was when he managed to get this thing in the air.  Then to fly straight rotated so the nose was had the booster and shot off in to the distance backwards.  Amazing giggling now about it.

It was like watching a crash in reverse, it slowly wobbled and fell over, then rocked back and forth, rolling over onto it's roof before blasting up into the air backwards in a sort of ballistic parabola over the mountains.

Quote from: Liberator;415947It was like watching a crash in reverse, it slowly wobbled and fell over, then rocked back and forth, rolling over onto it's roof before blasting up into the air backwards in a sort of ballistic parabola over the mountains.

God this message made me laugh, gentleman I salute you, as the man that risked it all to achieve atmospheric breach, be it the a r s e first or not hahahaha :roflmao:

Hi all!
I'm a fan of Empyrion, with quite a few hours of solo play. I thought it would be cool to try my luck on-line joining other explorers, who had the misfortune to crash on the same planet. Looking at various servers I found yours. It seems that you started just couple days ago. I'm a relaxed player, interested in exploration and building. I do not like fighting with other players, but can join a PvE raid if needed. I play every day or two.

So, can I join? If that is so, what's the password?

Cheers,
thomson

Hello and and welcome Thomson.

Normally our server passwords etc are here: http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/forumdisplay.php?60-Game-Server-amp-Teamspeak-Details-and-Passwords

however I see that hasn't quite been updated. I'm sure one of our fellow crashees will be along shortly to help. :-)

I hopped onto TS and asked the crew currently playing

Go to the server search bar and look for deadmenwalking all one word.

It may be an idea to join TS.

Good luck :)

Hi Thomson

Welcome to dMw :byebye:

Our hosted server literally went up this evening. We're running this server for the community to explore the teamwork elements of Empyrion to eventually decide on whether or not to make it one of our officially supported games. If you've read any of the posts here detailing our ethos then you'd be aware that we value teamwork much, much more than solo play.

So far ... all looks good.

I'll be adding the server details to the post Pen linked to sometime tomorrow. The server can be found in the server browser as Dead Men Walking (no idea who Pen asked about this but they gave him bum info :D ).

Look forward to seeing you on the server. Do join TS as well, though, as it makes it much easier to help each other ... and it's a good laugh too.

Ok I have left some protection for the bases armed and powered up.  Good luck

Thanks to all who played on the Test Server I have the saved files for it if you want  it.

brilliant oldie thanks for getting this server up and going. It was great fun on Toby's server I know that it was a lot more fun with people, like when sith went to see the green friendly trader space station and found out that they were so friendly they were giving away free rockets .... Lucky it wasn't sith's ship.

Can't wait to get on this after work and get started on surviving.

Welcome to DMW Thomson, see you in game and ts hopefully

Quote from: RogueTaylor;416036brilliant oldie thanks for getting this server up and going. It was great fun on Toby's server I know that it was a lot more fun with people....

I know we don't count Toby as a person, for obvious reasons! :p

Quote from: albert;416037I know we don't count Toby as a person, for obvious reasons! :p

:narnar:  you know that I mean lol don't change my words haha

You lot are seriously tempting me here damn it.

It's worth every penny Ben, just to listen to Sulky.

Thanks so much for getting the server up and working Oldie!
LOVE the new difficulty setting, been killed 14 times by a dual minigun drone pair chasing me omw to some ore A+++

Setting up shop a bit away from the rest atm, See you all later!
:D

Server details are now posted.

This server is running as a test - use it or lose it.

If it proves to be consistently busy then a decision will be made on the game's official adoption i.e. appointing a GL and an admin team to promote the game and to ensure it's run inline with our ethos. I would remind all players that, adopted or not, you should always play in accordance with our values.

Both Toby and Lib have been given admin powers within the game should an intervention be necessary.

The game's settings have been intentionally set to a ridiculously hard level so do not expect an easy ride. The idea is to force players to work together to achieve a common goal. You have been warned :devil:

I made a grave mistake of starting on Omicron, rather than Akua. Omicron is more fun in general, because there's no breathable atmosphere and oxygen survival is a new dimension. But it's not a fun anymore if everyone is on Akua and I'm the only one on Omicron. With the difficulty level there's really hard uphill battle to do even basics, much less a hope for building a base or a small ship to get off that hell hole.

So if you join this game for the first time MAKE SURE YOU START ON AKUA.

Someone on TS said he could delete my save data if I give my steamd64. So here it is 76561198071105849. Hopefully that will work.

Alternatively, if you guys build a capital vessel, maybe you could fly a rescue expedition to Omicron?

Quote from: thomson;416075I made a grave mistake of starting on Omicron, rather than Akua. Omicron is more fun in general, because there's no breathable atmosphere and oxygen survival is a new dimension. But it's not a fun anymore if everyone is on Akua and I'm the only one on Omicron. With the difficulty level there's really hard uphill battle to do even basics, much less a hope for building a base or a small ship to get off that hell hole.

So if you join this game for the first time MAKE SURE YOU START ON AKUA.

Someone on TS said he could delete my save data if I give my steamd64. So here it is 76561198071105849. Hopefully that will work.

Alternatively, if you guys build a capital vessel, maybe you could fly a rescue expedition to Omicron?

I'll delete your player profile tomorrow morning so you can start again with us :D

thomson - your profile has been deleted so please try to join us on Akua :D

Totally confused by this game!

Managed to cock up my first attempt by ejecting from the pod before it landed. Shortly after lost my bike blueprints :)

Then after 2 more attempts to follow the tutorial, I have less and less materials to start with, so no base building etc. How am I supposed to survive with a chainsaw and no equipment? Am I missing something obvious here?

I think everyone is first time out. The contents of your pod and the backpack you drop when you die are critical. You have to go back and get the backpack each time it's dropped otherwise you lose gear that is difficult to replace in the beginning.

Suggest your character is wiped and you restart the game when on TS with others so you can meet up.

F1 - Tutorial is also very useful, it has good descriptions of all activities and a way to bypass tutorial steps if you have already completed them.

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There are many guides available online, but none of them are really useful when it comes to the first hour. Unusually for most games, the first hour is totally critical for ensuring that the character you've generated will actually be playable (on solo) or not. Few pointers for first time players:

* Regardless of what happens, only control your escape pod directionally, until it hits the ground. If you leave the escape pod during the descent, there is a good chance all your starting gear will be lost (why they don't just put it in your inventory is beyond me). If you do lose your starting gear, there is little chance you will have a solo-playable character. There have also been instances where flying into the green fields has had the same effect.
* When picking a planet to start on don't pick Omicron. Its really hard to start with, when you're just starting out, the game is hard enough.
* Once you've landed, you must take all the equipment out of the escape pod before leaving it.
* The tutorials should be able to guide you most of the way.
* Since combat is almost certainly going to find you 3 seconds after you've landed its important to note that not everything appears on your map. Only drones do.
* The only part of the terrain that is bullet proof is the ground itself and other drones that you've downed. Use this to your advantage.
* Not everything moving will try and kill you, however. As a rule of thumb, if its moving towards you and is following you around, you look tasty.
* Save your ammo! Its easy enough to make, but early on its precious.
* There are many edible plants around, check them in your inventory when you hover over them once you've collected them. If you get some stats and it doesn't mention that the item is 'intermediary', winner-winner, chicken dinner. Do check the stats though.
* There is a small chance that any plant you pick up and eat could give you food poisoning. I don't like this either, I think it ruins it.
* There is a bike kit in your inventory. It has to be constructed before it can be used. Once deployed, some items can be recollected, the bike is amongst them. The popup will tell you if it can be.

Its actually a very steep initial learning curve, but it gets much easier after the first hour or so. Its a very enjoyable game with much to explore, we're only scratching the surface here.

I feel you Mugi.

It has got a very steep learning curve, exacerbated somewhat by an interface which isn't the most intuitive. However when compared to other games it is a lot less grindey for resources. When you get them they do go a long way.

Food is a perennial problem and I find I'm also struggling to get that sorted.  Certainly join Akura as that's where most of us are and there are others on hand to help and to explore with.

Damn it.. purchased.

Adding to Galatoni's fine list of advice.

Once you find a safe place to stop and think(!) lol

* TAB opens your inventory. In there is a small constructor which needs to be placed in a quick slot and equipped and put in place on the ground to use. Once deployed F enters the crafting page. shift-f picks the constructor up again, it's a portable device.
* Once in the crafting view, place ingredients into the middle window. The things you can make are on the right, each tab has a different category (if you accidentally filter this area then some items may not show up, clear the filter).
* Drag the thing you want to make into the Q e.g. Motor Bike Construction kit goes into the ingredient window then the motor bike blueprint into the Q. Provided all the necessary parts are in the middle window the final product will start building automatically once you......
*Switch the constructor to ON! (top right).

Other stuff:

* Come on TS before you join the server and ask if it's night or day where the clan has made camp. It's going to be easier to meet up if there is half a chance it's daytime.
* When you are hurtling to the ground on first login and land you take everything from your inventory (with the take all arrow left button), look around for a mine. If one is nearby, leg it. You can equip your drill and dig down into it to survive. From there you can compose yourself, see what's in the inventory and make your bike and some basic survival stuff. If it's a magnesium mine then your quids in, you can make bullets.
* If you die, re-spawn nearby and there will be a waypoint under 100m from you where you backpack is lying. Scout for the creature that killed you and if it's still around, lure it off into the distance and circle back and get your backpack. (You move fast but stamina will run out over time!)
* U takes off your helmet. You don't need it on the starting planet, if you do use it you will use up O2 in the system which you might need later for diving.
* J switches on your jet pack, space makes you fly (rather than just jump/ hop), you can sprint and fly in bursts to move fast away from enemies. Do this in equal measures and you shouldn't run out of stamina or jet power.
* Don't drive your bike into water, you will be thrown off (maybe not if you are wearing a helmet) and the bike will continue onwards. You'll have to dive for it and shift-f to pick it up.
* There are large white plants that look like eggs or pods of some sort. Them is good! They give you health and food but also are a poison antidote.

In addition to the excellent advice already meted out ...

Please build a base a minimum of 100m from your nearest neighbour. This is close enough to get help quickly but far enough not to fall victim of the protected area around everyone's base.

Ah I think I see where I may have gone wrong. Each time I've died I've restarted and crashed my little pod to the ground without collecting my old goods.

With regards to help, I try and shy away from other player bases. Not only do I not know what will happen, but I don't want to tread on toes. If someone is set up and then suddenly I appear and start taking resources, I'd feel a bit douchey.

Could someone please delete my data so I can start fresh. Character name is ross. Thanks!

It's actually not that difficult to start somewhere less congested with other people if you can get past the first few days and builds. And you can always get nearly 100% of your gear back each time you die anyway, just don't log off without first recovering your pack.

Mugi this is a team based survival game we are supost to survive together, there is a big lake where most people are putting there bases around. I am currently on my own on the other side of be planet and am more then happy for people to join me over there, right now I have most the resources because it's just me who lives in the area. Don't feel like your stepping on people's toes aslong as your base is about 100m minimum from another players base you should be fine to move and make a base where ever you want. Normally if we are on ts feel free to join, or use in game Chat to ask for help I am more then sure that anyone would be happy to help you.

The start of this game is the hardest part of the game so far once your set up its a bit more easier unless you go looking for a harder time. A word of warning is avoid all buildings unless your know there friendly or empty, avoid any building on the map called drone bases or skyports. When your in our faction you will be able to see all other faction players who are online on the map Aswell as people's bases. You can see the lake where everyone is set up so if you want to join them you can just stay away from the island in the middle of the lake because that is going to be a community project.

The idea of this game is survival and it's not to hard to do this when you know how. Some people will moan about this game saying its to hard but it's like anything else once you learn it then it's easy to survive. One point I have seen and heard is poisoning, if you went to a random plant and started to eat it plants ... Your probably going to get sick. If I go off to Africa and walk around eating plants I will proberly get sick but you learn what you can eat and how to heal yourself, after all is it a survival game. Sick to it and you will get the hang of this game soon, if oldie has time he might be able to reset you but always go back for your bag and the items in your drop pod you need them else you will find yourself having a very very hard time setting up

Quote from: Mugi;416122... Could someone please delete my data so I can start fresh. Character name is ross. Thanks!

I can do that for you but I'll need your Steam64 ID first please.

Quote from: OldBloke;416126I can do that for you but I'll need your Steam64 ID first please.

I'm rather hoping this is what you are after!

76561198048456303

Quote from: Mugi;416145I'm rather hoping this is what you are after!

76561198048456303

Indeed. Should now be done.

Appreciate it Sir, will look out for other survivors and pitch a tent nearby :)

Quote from: OldBloke;416126I can do that for you but I'll need your Steam64 ID first please.

I will not be able to play as I was hoping, so you can delete my save to Oldie.
Here is my profile ID (ithink) 76561197991528388

So can someone with more knowledge explain to me how I keep my fresh items from spoiling overnight?

I stocked my generator up with all slots full of Promethium Power Cells and left it powered on when I logged off.

All cells were spent when I logged on just now and all my hard earned food and other fresh things spoiled.

I'm 100% certain I was running the generator when I logged off as we spoke about this earlier (Lib).

Any clues lads?

Oldie, could you please reset me, steam 64 ID 76561198007656122?

Quote from: Tuna;416194Oldie, could you please reset me, steam 64 ID 76561198007656122?

Done :thumb:

Quote from: vobler;416163I will not be able to play as I was hoping, so you can delete my save to Oldie.
Here is my profile ID (ithink) 76561197991528388

Are you saying you want your profile deleted so you can start again?

Quote from: OldBloke;416202Are you saying you want your profile deleted so you can start again?

I'm not sure I'll be back, at least not in a while. :sad:

Quote from: vobler;416209I'm not sure I'll be back, at least not in a while. :sad:

Sorry to hear that :sad:

I'll leave your profile as it is for now.

Server updated to Alpha 3.3

QuoteChanges / Improvements:
- Added spawn-to-surface mechanism in case a player or player-in-vessel has fallen through the ground
- Added info about the effective range of a weapon to the HUD
- Added new server setting: AntiGriefDistance now separates Player BA from Ore Deposits (see dedicated.yaml)
- Motorbike can now turn faster (decreased turn radius)

World:
- Added new starter BA Tier 4 (Thanks to Vexray)
- Added new starter HV Tier 2 (Thanks to ShadowRavenRaz)
- Added refurbished model for crashed ship (thanks to Vexray)
- Added alien dead tree to Masperon
- Added orange bush to Oscutune

Other Tweaks:
- Reduced volume and distance of flie sound (worm plant)
- Increased opening speed of Automatic Doors (player does not stop anymore when approaching a door while walking)
- Tweaked escape pod landing sequence slightly: longer black fade time, added sound on exit, slightly changed particle effect
- Structure performance improvements
- Slightly updated starter CV Tier 2
- Changed: Old HV Tier 2 is now Tier 3
- Tweaked hand position on Open Cockpit SV / HV
- Open Cockpit SV / HV is now Level 7 instead of 10
- A ‘No build’ icon is now also shown when near a resource deposit
- Improved hit animation on Zirax
- Replaced durian plant with better model
- Changed growing stage 1 of Pumpkin plant
- Updated some tree models on Omicron
- Added missing triggers (more plants) for PDA Chapter 2 - Gardening
 
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed: Movement lagging when flying / snatchy when turning (MP only)
- Fixed: Ultra high GPU load leading to severe issues with overheating in idle state
- Fixed: Infinite Drone Waves (settings 5,6,7) does not enable infinite waves
- Fixed: Flying through green barrier when descending with capsule leads to capsule loss and broken movement
- Fixed: Explosion damage kills player in SV cockpit
- Fixed: Severe FPS drops when passing by a large firing ship or base
- Fixed: Motorbike can be destroyed by other players in PVE
- Fixed: Some terrain placeable can be picked up by any player in PVE
- Fixed: Endless pickup exploit for plants
- Fixed: Tools/weapons sometimes severely shaking when idle
- Fixed: Vertically placed grass shows up sometimes
- Fixed: Change & Rotate Tool handling: Rotate Box not covering the to be rotated object
- Fixed: Water Jug used in Food Processor blocks production / jams device
- Fixed: Memory leak due to decorations
- Fixed: Dying in open or closed seat (SV+CV) leads to player being locked in place after respawn
- Fixed: Muzzle fire of handheld minigun blocking view
- Fixed: Docked SV/HV vanishes when passenger dies too close to orbit and re-enters the vessel (MP only)
- Fixed: Sometimes grass not removed after teleport
- Fixed: Problem with UseFixed Seed in playfield.yaml
- Fixed: Seed problem with decoration - sometimes decoration is different on clients
- Fixed: Player bike placing problems
- Fixed: Corner Long B Placement issue
- Fixed: Can't upgrade HS blocks to CA blocks on CV Starter Tier 3
- Fixed: Sitting position in Cockpit 3
- Fixed: Missing collider on Umbrella Tree (Akua) in multiplayer
- Fixed: Placing a Motorbike while walking and pressing ‘F’ often leads to error
- Fixed: Player view clipping into roof when seated on Planet (Tier 2 Starter CV)
- Fixed: Hit animation loop and shader of Spinosaurs (Note: Spinosaurs not used in official playfields)
- Fixed: Telnet: Setposition does not work via Telnet
- Fixed: T2 drill charges available before unlock
- Fixed: Preview image of Mission "Dangerous space" is now shown also in action
- Fixed: Occasional error on escape pod exit when you join a server with incompatible PDA data

Motorbike can now turn faster (decreased turn radius)

That's nice.

Quote from: OldBloke;416218Server updated to Alpha 3.3

Thanks OB

Seems they have already released a patch. 3.3.1 is out on Steam and auto-updated.

Quote from: albert;416253Seems they have already released a patch. 3.3.1 is out on Steam and auto-updated.

Server updated to 3.3.1

Can you add me OB: profiles/76561197961193558/

Just a thought after last night where we tried to do some stuff in the game and couldn't find anything new to work on.

The incredible flaw in this game is once certain things have been completed, new players can't redo them.

Are there any missions or activities we can do that haven't already been completed by the more experienced players of the game?

This is a problem that me and lib have spoke about a lot. Sadly once a base/ mission is done that's it for the game there no coming back of the enemy. A good amount of mission have already been done on the first world, there are a few near my base and duvels now ( I am no longer lonly :D ) so come over and do one of them but not all of them just do one on the home planet so you know what to expect when you go to other planets and find stronger bases and enemy's. The space port above me has be complete but the drone base beneath me has had all its turrets destroyed because it started on me :) any other one near my base should be active unless people have been over already and done everything

I've ended up in a position where i've been left with less than nothing after returning from a long trip (and Jewelsy losing my stuff :P ) I'm actually finding there are number of things I would have perhaps have done differently. I quite enjoy the exploration element, but there seemed to been a rush to get off world. Part of this I can understand, its a new game, you'd like to see what it has to offer. I'm wondering if it might be have been better to temper this slightly and built a community Capital ship of some kind. Heck, I'm just trying to have a go with the hover stuff before I start on a ship.

To be honest, i'm not even sure that would've helped.

I think it might be worth while approaching this with a new difficulty level, or at least discussing possible options or self-imposed limitations.

Quote from: Galatoni;416485I'm actually finding there are number of things I would have perhaps have done differently. I quite enjoy the exploration element, but there seemed to been a rush to get off world. I'm wondering if it might be have been better to temper this slightly and built a community Capital ship of some kind.

Yeah this is another thing I have spoke to lib about a lot, when this server was made the idea was making a big community capital ship that we would all work on but the way that people play games some have already done most things and have made there own ship leaving the planet and .... Well getting there ass kicked on another planet. I am still on the starter planet and have no plans of leaving yet, maybe to see the moon but that's all.

Hopefully we might be able To get a plan together to sort out a capital ship in this game that we can all work on. I would love to make a capital ship that can hold a few of our smaller vessels so when we come to a new planet we leave the ship in orbit and take down out smaller ones. Maybe even a drop ship ?

Ha. Sorted your quote out. You forgot the closing slash.

I think we consider this on balance with the game being taken on (if at all) it might be worth laying down some ground rules regarding constructions. I'm not sure if existing planets can be removed and new ones respawned with the consoles? Might be just a case of then saying to people that anything built on planets other than the starter world are subject to destruction.

Thanks gal for fixing it :D

Currently from what I know no one has built anything in any other planet yet, apart from the starter planet the only other thing people might be building/living on is that beautiful space station that sith and you took over. A lot of people have only just started to build there small vessels, I know lib helped most people to make them small cute vessels that work so most people should be upgrading them ready for combat and ability to get to the moon.

The trouble is we don't need bases on Akua. I basically live in orbit now and only pop down to say hello and get oxygen from my generator. All other resources and others, can be mined on other planets. My Capital Ship is my base all be it, a few blocks of iron and the essentials.

I still think that dominating an AI base and putting it up for new ownership can save people with limited play time exactly that, time, I'm quite proud to have been able to offer sneaky the structure I took over, nothing of value was in place, not cheatlevel resources, just a nice sized chunky strong base. Same goes for the Space Station, while I'd love to build something like that with the community, and still would, having the core shape available without having to start from literal block one is such a bonus, because building takes a ridiculous amount of time.
ALSO
Everything we've stolen from the AI has come at great cost, Jewelz can testify to that I think Lib and Galatoni too, the high stress combat shinanigans is a lot of fun, and the rewards are well earned...

Personally I would build my own cap ship anyway, because I simply don't want to be limited to planet exploring only when X member is online and agreeable, since the ownership and the time spent on the build makes it a massive risk using it. Jewelz's cap ship came back in chunks from our trip to the dangerzone (now I'm singing that) and really, lucky it came back at all. I literally never want to have that conversation with the group if I managed to get the cap ship ten people helped build blown to pieces... BrotherTobious knows how I fly! :woot2:

Aye, its a tall order to ask people not to build stuff - kind of defeats the point. But I think where they build might be an option. I've no idea to be honest.

Seeing what we accomplished in an evening with the Cap ship I'm more confident than ever that the AI stuff that we change ownership of isn't nearly as cool as stuff we've made ourselves...

Quote from: SithAfrikaan;416564Seeing what we accomplished in an evening with the Cap ship I'm more confident than ever that the AI stuff that we change ownership of isn't nearly as cool as stuff we've made ourselves...

Any chance of a few screenshots? Could help encourage others to start playing if they see what you guys are all making.

Do you think we could do a group run to get some Erestrum and Zacosium.

They're the ores which several of us need to progress in the game and may make for a nice team-based event?

Quote from: Penfold;416571Do you think we could do a group run to get some Erestrum and Zacosium.

They're the ores which several of us need to progress in the game and may make for a nice team-based event?

To get these ores we would need to go off world and I don't mean just to the moon but a whole other deadly planet. It would be a good trip to go on tho but we will need a capital ship to be Able to get us to these planets. If someone is happy for us to use it then it would be a good trip and people can see what the other worlds are like and what's on them.

There is a way to regenerate Alien POI's, But I need to experiment first.

:flirty:

group run tonight pen, oldie anyone else?

ill warp you there and sit in orbit, you guys collect what we need and warp back..job done.

Lib hold off regening the aliens for now, be a shame to lose the ship 1st time out...may quit if that were to happen

I'm up for joining in but I think we need to try and work more like a team when we are out there as I heard the aliens are brutal and if anyone gets isolated and dies getting their pack back could be difficult.

Quote from: albert;416582I'm up for joining in but I think we need to try and work more like a team when we are out there as I heard the aliens are brutal and if anyone gets isolated and dies getting their pack back could be difficult.

Isnt that half the fun?

I can't do tonight I'm afraid but can do tomorrow (unless it's early and relatively quick).

I appreciate it's hard which was why I suggested a group run. Frankly, anything which we can do together as a group would be nice tbh.

If you have room for a newbie I will come along... but I have yet to build a ship / work out what on earth I am doing in this game.

I'd like to come along if that's ok, I don't have a ship either but have played enough to know the basics

Not sure how it works with a capital vessel and if we all need seats. If not then I guess the more the merrier. If so then it may pose a problem. However without any ships it's going to be a challenge to get you guys to the planet.

Easy everyone brings their own seat :)

Just drop a passenger seat on every small vessel. The if/ when we get attacked the passenger gets knocked off first !

Human Shields..... I like it :devil:

Quote from: Penfold;416602Human Shields..... I like it :devil:

I haven't actually died yet, so I'm not sure lol

Quote from: Sparko;416603I haven't actually died yet, so I'm not sure lol

Masperon will sort that out for you mate.

We started building a behemoth Capital Ship yesterday at the SS. It probably won't look amazing as it's not really following any plans, more winging it. It actually feels like a big car park but does look better than I imagined it would, PEN, Sulky and OB ideas.

I would love to have it kitted out with guns and passenger seats so 10 players can dock and man weapons around the hull.

So far we have all the basic parts of the ship in place, 4 XL Thrusters. (No directional yet). Top and bottom decks for docking, growing etc. Basic bridge area.

I was thinking maybe we could mount a hangar door up over the main front cockpit and when in battle raise the blast shield :D

Long way to go and a lot of steel and hardened steel plates to make. Also some standard parts were used out of the SS Advanced Constructor and some Advanced CPU parts. I have enough resources to replenish this stock.

I have the remaining parts for the ship in my character inventory. Anyone should feel free to contribute to building this, it's a clan ship. Just drop any recovered materials in one of the cargo boxes and hit Y before leaving the area, unless you want to grow food or use the fridge of course. If you leave these monster thrusters on the fuel will go pretty quickly.

Just a  thought when we were leaving last night. Where are you wanting the warp core. It might fit near the fuel tanks area, or in the hanger deck. Ad for the shutter idea...that sounds cool

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I was thinking of placing the Warp core in the center not far from the fuel tanks. We still need to armor around the central area as it hold all our main assets so I was thinking to keep the warp core and main core as high up as possible so we are never leaving them vulnerable from below where most of the fire comes from.

Don't forget the "small thermal exhaust port" that leads straight to main reactor.

I have been wondering why the blueprints system is disabled.  Can anyone explain?  From my perspective, I would quite like to see it enabled.  While I enjoy building things, for me it's not the primary motivator and would I would quite like the option to use it.

Have you applied points using f3,    I think that unlocks stuff in the constructor

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Quote from: Tuna;416694I have been wondering why the blueprints system is disabled.  Can anyone explain?  From my perspective, I would quite like to see it enabled.  While I enjoy building things, for me it's not the primary motivator and would I would quite like the option to use it.

we had it disabled because it was way to easy to build ships with it. The ideas of it is amazing and i would love to be able to have it on but on the first server we found it way to easy to build ships both small vessels and capital ship. We also found that using that it would also allow for people to build above there leave. To build a ship using blueprints all you need is the ores/metals and that was it you put all what you needed inot the factory and the after a varied amount of time from 30m- 5 hours+ and then boom new easy ship that you didn't really build only collected some ores for. So in turn they decided to turn it off due to the game being way to easy to play if they had that on.

Quote from: Tuna;416694I have been wondering why the blueprints system is disabled.  Can anyone explain?  From my perspective, I would quite like to see it enabled.  While I enjoy building things, for me it's not the primary motivator and would I would quite like the option to use it.

As Rogue said....

We learned from the first ARK server that setting things too easy can quickly lose the interest of the players, on this one we set everything up to be a long and enjoyable experience.

We spent a week playing on a private server Toby set up and within a day we had people ordering hover vehicles and small ships, after two days we had people ordering up a capitol ships whilst still living on an open top wooden platform and not having even unlocked the tech that was required to make it.

So we decided that the factory system was a game exploit and would lead to people just going around collecting resources and "buying" a ship from the store.

Having it enabled would mean people could just go mining for ore, convert it to ingots in their survival constructor, order up a base or any of the ships and go fly around without ever having to have done any of the main points of the game.

Bases would just be ordered and dropped onto a planet as a disposable item and be fully defensible out of the wrapper. Ships would become throwaway items and you'd have people downloading every interesting blueprint they could find, mining the resources and ordering the ship. If it gets blown up, who cares, spend half an hour mining and just order another. You'd have ships just everywhere.

None of this is what you would class as a survival game, which is what this is supposed to start off as.

With the system disabled people have to get together and help design their own ships, which they will tend to be more careful with and strip down to redesign it as they decide on improvements that you think are required, rather than one some university engineering student has knocked up for anyone to buy.

 It doesn't take much gameplay to get to a point where you can build your first ship. From there the rest of the game starts to open up and changes focus.

With the server ramped up to 11 it also means that once you unlock all the tech and have a capitol vessel you are still not finished by any stretch, last night our most advanced CV went off to test out its new bristling guns. It did not look too good when it returned home, after an emergency construction of a new warp core, huge holes in its hardened steel hull and the destruction of the magazine left them defenceless.

Lesson brutally learnt and new design ideas already under way.

Quote from: Liberator;416752Lesson brutally learnt and new design ideas already under way.

Thought I'd just post a pic for reference, this was our advanced, and very heavily armed beautiful ship on its painful return home:
(http://puu.sh/r2XL5/be3e35337b.jpg)

Some facts about that trip:

• Strafing didn't help, once a volley of shots hit it kept hitting and bore a hole through the front right to the back where the warp drive was blowing it up.
• The ammo box was destroyed on first hit, leaving all those beautiful guns completely inert.
• The cockpit took enough damage to read 16/50 hp. If it'd been blown up, not only would be sitting ducks, we'd have been stranded, in another planets space, far far away from Akua.
• This is only lvl 2 difficulty, it's Omnicron's space, the other STARTING planet my dudes.

Very narrowly escaped.
Very excited about the new build which starts construction immediatly :D

Adapt, explore, survive!

i now know what i'm doing and have me own ship.  If anyone needs a hand with anything i'm happy to come help, or should i say, is there anything i can get involved in with you all?

Quote from: Sparko;416761i now know what i'm doing and have me own ship.  If anyone needs a hand with anything i'm happy to come help, or should i say, is there anything i can get involved in with you all?

I mean I'd happily take you on my next mission with no likely return :D

In terms of Blueprints, can we BP our own creations so we can get them back if they are destroyed and work to improve them. Perhaps share them with others on the server once they are at a level to make them?


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Also Sulky/ Pen, if you want to go ahead and take our cap ship out for a spin, don't feel the need to wait for me, I'm on holiday until Sunday. Just do one thing... Hardened Steel plate on every outside panel and hardened glass everywhere there's glass. Combat steel plate around the warp core and on the steel at the bridge. We know from Sith what happens if you have less than 200hp at vulnerable points!

Perhaps we need to move the pilot station back out of the firing line a bit? Perhaps even put it in its own combat steel room and fly 3rd person?

Edit.. And few of each of the resouces from the ice and fire planets wouls be Appreciated if you do go.

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Quote from: albert;416776We know from Sith what happens if you have less than 200hp at vulnerable points!

"Sometimes you're life means you're just a lesson to others"

And for that I thank you both ☺

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Quote from: albert;416776Also Sulky/ Pen, if you want to go ahead and take our cap ship out for a spin, don't feel the need to wait for me, I'm on holiday until Sunday. Just do one thing... Hardened Steel plate on every outside panel and hardened glass everywhere there's glass. Combat steel plate around the warp core and on the steel at the bridge. We know from Sith what happens if you have less than 200hp at vulnerable points!

Perhaps we need to move the pilot station back out of the firing line a bit? Perhaps even put it in its own combat steel room and fly 3rd person?

Edit.. And few of each of the resouces from the ice and fire planets wouls be Appreciated if you do go.

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Been living out of a hotel for the last couple of nights but hopefully back into the land of the living later or tomorrow.

Sith, could you increase the size of your hanger in your next capital ship?

Then we could dock more small vessels which we could use a fighters to try and take out the aliens drones and turrets.
I think the CV's are better suited as a mobile base from which to launch attacks rather than trying to attack with it as it's an immobile lump.

If you have a clone chamber on the CV then we could have a few spare SVs in the inevitable case someone gets vaped. So they can get back into the fight. (assuming the clone chambers are useable by others?)

The other CV near the Space Station should have room for about 6 SVs maybe more and has a clone station. Of course we still need to finish reinforcing the hull and glass and add guns but other than that it's ready to go. How about a trip on Sunday evening with all CVs?

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i recently have started a CV, its ready for orbit.  I was thinking maybe i could make its primary purpose to house sv's for the fleet?  a hardened steel ship park in space or something? just an idea.

we could house lots of generic sv's as backup if it was needed.

You should see what's up in orbit already........

Basically any flat surface is an anchor point for an SV anyway, hangars are just nice to run into if needed.

Sith and Galatoni have changed their approach now and they are using the CV as an attack gunship rather than a carrier.

Albert, pen, oldie and myself have been doing a group build, and it has space for about 10 sv's. I also have a cv as an emergency warp capable ship in case it all goes wrong..you know, die spawn at home base get my CV, warp in, collect the guys and any bits that are left,  escape sort of thing

Quote from: Liberator;416853Sith and Galatoni have changed their approach now and they are using the CV as an attack gunship rather than a carrier.

Hey Snooks,
What he said, once we got ourselves suitably blown up, we dismantled, and rebuilt, and the African Toni MK II now stands up to at least one volley from the [REDACTED] on [REDACTED] with extreme maneuvering and narrow sking of the teeth level luck, we got back into orbit and away safe, Jewels ship was parked on side that got hit and only suffered a small amount of splash damage, and the only parts lost were parts that were hardened steel. Everything Combat steel, or behind combat steel seems to have been undamaged...
The current design does as intended, get to the surface fast, park, defend. It can ferry SV's to the surface if people don't want to fly down, but I think the more massive constructions are better suited to the orbital mobile base now...

God I love this...

I was thinking. Since we're never really gonnna pilot these ships in 1st person, putting CH Steel wall over the cockpit may be an option.

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Guys server needs an update. 3.4 is now out and I cant get on to top up my power

I think OB is at work Arm. For Early Access games with almost daily updates like this I suggest not auto-updating your client.

Quote- Fixed: Turrets on Public structures (CV, BA) do not attack

Sith, they fixed it.

good idea Albert

Quote from: Armitage;416983Guys server needs an update. 3.4 is now out and I cant get on to top up my power

Sorry. I can't do this until later :-(

On a plus note, I found Sparko's Chav mobile.

Still in orbit around Akua but in a weird location, I couldn't grab it as it's 'Private' locked will pick you up and take you there if you want Sparko.

Edit: Of course someone needs to come pick you up from that planet you logged out on last night.

Quote from: Liberator;417014Sith, they fixed it.

Gosh darnit right after we got it working last night!
Can't wait to see that disappearing ship fix make people a lot more happy :D

Quote from: OldBloke;417016Sorry. I can't do this until later :-(

No problem. Thanks Oldie, I know you spend hours updating the servers as are always quick off the mark (well usually). :D

Quote from: Liberator;417022On a plus note, I found Sparko's Chav mobile.

Still in orbit around Akua but in a weird location, I couldn't grab it as it's 'Private' locked will pick you up and take you there if you want Sparko.

Edit: Of course someone needs to come pick you up from that planet you logged out on last night.

Yay!! Thanks Lib :D

Yeah I realised after I logged out the I'll need someone to rescue me from the other system.

Would someone be able to come get me later on? I'll chip in for fuel etc :)

Regarding last night - there was a little frustration and apologies if I sounded angst. Wasn't majorly but it kinda wasn't what we envisioned.

The idea was a group incursion going together, fighting in teams but it kinda fell apart. I appreciate the enemy shooting/glitching through the hill was troublesome and why some went ahead but the principle remains. Also seems to be a bit of a bun fight in the bases. The teamwork on building ships etc is great (yay dMw), it just seems to go a bit south on the missions.

Anyways. I think we'll need to consider resetting some instances if we can as quite a lot has been completed now?

Quote from: Sparko;417038Yay!! Thanks Lib :D

Yeah I realised after I logged out the I'll need someone to rescue me from the other system.

Would someone be able to come get me later on? I'll chip in for fuel etc :)

Yes of course. I think my CV is flyable now.... worse case we'll just both be stuck. I'll try to be on later as needed.

Quote from: Penfold;417040Yes of course. I think my CV is flyable now.... worse case we'll just both be stuck. I'll try to be on later as needed.

Cheers Pen :thumb:

Im begining to think my sv wasn't docked.  I changed my cv to dMw when i let Jewelz in to have a look but not my sv.  Would this make it undock? with my sv being private and my cv not?
Its the only thing i can think of as to why it vanished.

Quote from: Penfold;417040Yes of course. I think my CV is flyable now.... worse case we'll just both be stuck. I'll try to be on later as needed.

I'll join you if you like and fly down and pick up Sparko from the planet.

if that's last nights planet I would like to come.  see if my back pack is till there.  lost loads of stuff last night :(

It should still be visible on the M view. We'll find it tonight. Of course one of the guys may have picked it up.

Quote from: Armitage;417058if that's last nights planet I would like to come.  see if my back pack is till there.  lost loads of stuff last night :(

I picked it up for you and it's sitting in the cargo box on the CV ship. May need to sort through it to find your stuff but it's all there.

your a top man :)

May help if you can kinda list what you had and I'll collate it but ottomh
bike, torch, couple of emergency rations, small medkit, drill, mutlitool, assault rifle, pistol.
What else?

i was mid CV construction before our little trip I think I have elevator shaft, may be some warp stuff and 100 or 200 metal blocks,  not sure what I put in my ship before we went raiding. I'll speak to you later on TS.  but my inventory was pretty  full.

Server updated to 3.4.0

QuoteCHANGELOG: Alpha 3.4.0 (Build 603)

General:
- Switched game engine to Unity 5.4

Improvements to avoid vessel loss:
- Added security check for playfield transfers as an interim measure to reduce vessel loss (player/vessel is set back to the old playfield if the destination playfield is not ready yet)
- Changed the way how playfield servers save player and vessels to avoid loss of vessels
- Improved spawn-to-surface if player or player-in-vessel falls through the ground

Landing gear:
- Docking is now possible in all directions
- Single and double landing gears (SV) are now placeable in all directions
- Heavy landing gear (previously only CV) can now also be placed on SV
- Re-balanced HP on landing gears

World:
- Added more deco blocks which can be found under block groups "Deco Blocks" and "Artificial Indoor Plants"
- Added animal bones as deco on some planets (for now: Akua and Omicron)
- Added new Alien Desert Plant

Game Settings:
- Changed name creation of in-game backups and manual copies: to avoid game names becoming too long, those backups / copies now have date and time at the end
- Changed: NEW GAME default difficulty set to EASY instead of MEDIUM
- Changed: DECAYTIME 0 means OFF instead of instant (see dedicated.yaml)
- Changed Shadow Setting: De-activate light shadows in "Medium" setting
- Changed: Player can now set the maximal allowed frame rate
- Set Video Options to use negative progression (Low -> Medium -> High instead of High -> Medium -> Low)
- Added info to dedicated yaml that some difficulty changes only take effect for a NEW game

Changes / Improvements:
- Not showing 'No build' icon nearby ore deposits any more in Single Player
- Tweaked emissive of cockpits SV: screens are now black without power
- Default color of cockpits SV is now grey (instead of blue)
- Tweaked particles when drilling (reduced particle count and size of stone particles)
- Tweaked drill particle effect (improved texture of stones that drop)
- Removed glass from RCS block
- Added improved model for antenna
- Added more experience points for higher unlock levels

New Starter Blueprints:
- Added new Starter BA Tier 1 and 4 (thanks to Haroden). Old BA Tier 4 is now Tier 5
- Added new Starter SV Tier 3 (thanks to Vexray and gahro_nahvah) and SV Tier 5 (thanks to Vexray)
- Added Starter HV Tier 2 (thanks to |ANIMA|_|ULTRIX|) and HV Tier 3 (thanks to Tina_Pedersen)

Bug Fixes:
- Fixed: Placing an O2, H2 or O2/H2 generator no longer relocates the Survival Constructor map icon
- Fixed: Vessels are not docked when resuming a game for a couple of seconds
- Fixed: Placing blocks leads sometimes to lags
- Fixed: Endless loading screen in some use cases - you will now be able to enter the game
- Fixed: Backpacks falling through the world if player is too high up in the air or dying in a moving vessel
- Fixed: Turrets on Public structures (CV, BA) do not attack
- Fixed: Leaving a faction makes the Motorbike unusable
- Fixed: Strong FPS drop when mining terrain / mining meteorites
- Fixed: Tree trunc LOD culling immersion breaking on Fast
- Fixed: PDA Mission "Akua Huntsmen" does not work on MP (PDA action "SubjectKilled" didn't work on MP clients)
- Fixed: Weapon Range info on SV / CV does not update when switching playfield
- Fixed: Preview uses upside down orientation when adding a landing gear to a vessel
- Fixed: Switching Options with RMB does not unlock the APPLY button - Disabled RMB Activation for Menu Buttons
- Fixed: Space Durians Item still yellow instead of blue
- Fixed: Drilling in the snow brings up red particles in multiplayer
- Fixed mission trigger: Explosion splash damage was not considered in MP (e.g. you could not destroy a block with rocket launcher in MP)
- Fixed: Prevent Drones/Players glitching into Building Blocks
- Partially fixed: Sound clicks and cracks when turning vessels (Thrusters)
- Fixed Graphic settings: Shadow Quality & Sky Reflections Quality do not save (Visual issue only)
- Fixed: VSync does not work with BEST and FAST without manual action
- Fixed: Change Vsync on/off into a setting with different values
- Small fix for animator settings on doors
- Fixed: Error linked to dynamic collider (reported on support email)
- Fixed: Texture resolution change not working
- Fixed: Problem that escape pod is not moving after landing with it on a planet
- Fixed: Clipping of RCS block
- Possible fix: Empty Control Panel and Error Spam in Console

Quote from: Armitage;417072i was mid CV construction before our little trip I think I have elevator shaft, may be some warp stuff and 100 or 200 metal blocks,  not sure what I put in my ship before we went raiding. I'll speak to you later on TS.  but my inventory was pretty  full.

Everything that was in the cargo box that Pen filled has been placed into your ship's cargo box. The hangar door is open so just hitch a lift up and you can grab the ship and parts. There were about 3 rows of gear, ammo, only a few blocks.

I'm in the process of upgrading the whole of the hull of Blue Dwarf to Combat steel and after that I'll be installing some turrets.

Would be nice to take it to another system with our SV's and go on a mission if anyone is up for it at some point, there are now plenty of places to park.  

ill have to leave it in orbit though

I'm up for that mate.

My CV will be getting a complete redesign this evening. Or I may just destroy it and keep the base as a space farm for the community.

There has been a small update, please can the server be updated :)

QuoteWe just released a small patch that addresses some issues introduced in the last update.

Changelog: Alpha 3.4.1 (Build 309)

Bug Fixes:
- Fixed: SV cannot undock / cannot undock after Warp
- Fixed: Error that sometimes appeared in Resume Game menu
- Fixed: Error that sometimes appeared when removing last block on a structure
- Fixed: Texture resolution and shadow settings not carrying over when restarting game
- Fixed: On-desk screen flickering on computer table and improved color mask (new deco object)

Oldie's currently on vacation so unless anyone else can do it?

Quote from: Penfold;417274Oldie's currently on vacation so unless anyone else can do it?

Not sure how Oldie set it up, but it would need someone with remote access at the server level to do things and make sure the YAML files are not the default names.

Good thing that they fixed the undock thingy though, it was getting a bit annoying. The fix was to have your Cap ship as Private and switch your SV to Public so it was forced to undock.

I have no previous experience but am attempting to shut it down and run the update...It should be back soon (assuming the six pints of John Smiths I had this afternoon don't affect things too much :D)

EDIT: Updated and restarted!

Thanks Whitey.

Go and have another beer.

:stroke:

Excellent :) thanks Whitey

So any update on when we are going to have the things reset back to the starting setup?

Everything has been cleared so there's nowt left for us part-timers to do in the immediate area around Akua.

Would it be worth scheduling regular resets, maybe once a week?

I know how to do this, but to do it cleanly needs access to the server.

I did find a "fully operational space station" out there.

And the space station next to our ships..If the server was reset would we be able to get to our ships

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Might I suggest that the spaceships are re-located to a safer location? :g:

Quote from: Liberator;417725I know how to do this, but to do it cleanly needs access to the server.

I did find a "fully operational space station" out there.

We may have to go and investigate it.

Quote from: Sn00ks;417763Might I suggest that the spaceships are re-located to a safer location? :g:

Definitely need to do this...

Also an update has been released today

QuoteHi Galactic Survivalists,

We have just released our final round of bug fixes before the next major update of Empyrion.

Changelog: Alpha 3.4.2 (Build 620)

Bug Fixes:
- Fixed: Tags of Bases, POI and Vessels do not vanish if Core is destroyed (structures with 0 blocks will now be removed completely and also their tags on map)
- Fixed: Duplicate exploit in MP related to containers when opening and closing very fast
- Fixed: Black screen problem with blood overlay/damage effect
- Fixed: Drone Base still spawns drones even if Alien Core destroyed
- Fixed: Resuming a game sometimes shows "congrats you have disabled the drone base, there will be no more drone attacks" message
- Fixed: Survival Constructor Item on all planets and orbits visible
- Fixed: Turrets on some bases (e.g. drone base Xenu P1 on Masperon) shooting through terrain in SP and MP
- Fixed: Vessels sometimes flip over when landed on a planet with thrusters still activated
- Fixed: Capital vessels lose steering ability sometimes (CV sometimes suddenly turn extremely slow when using mouse. They sometimes don't even react to using the arrow keys anymore. This can only be resolved by hitting Q/E and dragging the mouse simultaneously.)
- Fixed: HV issues: Shift-Space will get HV stuck in any material ceiling - if you accidentally or on purpose use the Shift-Space jump of a HV in a room with a ceiling that is too low, you will get stuck/glued to the blocks (either steel or terrain)
- Fixed: HV: Boost-Jump still available when Hover Engine removed
- Fixed: Console Spam with error message: "Attempting to update a disabled Reflection Probe. Action will be ignored."
- Fixed: Bottom of randomly placed POIs may have negative y coordinate, therefore teleporting player back to surface when accessing lower levels of POI
- Fixed: Drone bases sometimes spawn below / in a lake
- Fixed: Ships that were built into up direction, getting incorrectly teleported up
- Fixed: Jetpack Exploit: Permanent fly around on planet like a SV (MP/SP)
- Fixed: “SubjectKilled” does not trigger in SP
- Fixed: Mission “No Man on the moon” does not trigger / wrong check
- Fixed: Wrong Asset: Pyramid crystals on Aitis regrow as straight crystals

Changes / Improvements:
- Offline protection shield is now impermeable from both sides
- Player drone can now be spawned when flashlight is equipped
- Pressing horizontal alignment button "O" in space now allows alignment with default space plane
- Alien Humanoid Insect (Akua) is now in Predator faction

Please can the server be updated when someone gets chance :)

Those are a lot of the issues we have actually noticed whilst playing, the Alien Humanoid Insect set off my CV mini-guns and rocket launchers when I have those set to not attack predators or factions.

Oldies SV was a victim of the "shooting through landscape" bug.

So just need the server updating please.

God I'm glad to see that bug list!

Quote from: SithAfrikaan;417799God I'm glad to see that bug list!

Still missing the "keeping sync with all players in area and no time travelling"

Oldie is still on vacation so unless Whitey can handle this it'll need to wait until the weekend.

I just noticed this as I don't always read all the threads on the forum.  Can you please post requests for server work in the appropriate thread in the GL section and then I will know about them.  I'll have a look at doing the update tomorrow.

Quote from: Whitey;417806I just noticed this as I don't always read all the threads on the forum.  Can you please post requests for server work in the appropriate thread in the GL section and then I will know about them.  I'll have a look at doing the update tomorrow.

Will do, thanks Whitey :)

Quote from: Whitey;417806I just noticed this as I don't always read all the threads on the forum.  Can you please post requests for server work in the appropriate thread in the GL section and then I will know about them.  I'll have a look at doing the update tomorrow.

We like to make you come out and play with us in the main forums occasionally, we get concerned you aren't getting enough sunlight.

But the sunlight burns! :D

That's it updated and restarted.

Swearing alert, whilst looking for a jpeg idolizing Whitey's awesomeness, I came across this:

http://sd.keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk/i/****-whitey-and-carry-on.png - replace the **** with your favorite swear word beginning with F.

Not appropriate for work or other sensitive environments.

Server updated

Changelog: Alpha 3.4.2 (Build 623)

Bug Fixes:
- Fixed: Severe server lags (opening containers, interacting with devices etc) on busy playfields

Guys, whats happening with this? are we resetting things? would love to be able to do missions again with everyone. seems to have gone a bit stagnant :(

Not forgotten, just make sure for the time being that your ship is safely on or in orbit around Akua when you log out.

The process is very manual at the moment and because we have visited everything in our area it will be quite messy to clean up.

Pretty sure all my kit is in Akua. When are you wiping?

Quote from: Jewelz^;418381Pretty sure all my kit is in Akua. When are you wiping?

Quick do it now! :devil:

Do we need to be out of range of the space ststion where we built the CVs? Or can you exclude spawning that again?

Sent from my LG-H962 using Tapatalk

The wiping is restricted to playfields, we can leave individual planets and orbital space intact. Anything that needs to transition between is a different playfield.

As most of us are in orbit we'll leave that and the planet safe.

Safe
Akua
Akua Orbit

Reset
Akua Moon
Everything else

Cool let's do it :thumb:

Quote from: Sparko;418424Cool let's do it :thumb:

I'll give it a go tonight.

Quote from: OldBloke;418426I'll give it a go tonight.

Done ... I think :blink:

Uh oh

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Quote from: OldBloke;418447Done ... I think :blink:

Thanks OB :thumb:

Thanks Oldbloke!

Cheers OB!

It's not quire reset fully so I'll have another bash this evening. Please stay on Akua or in Akua Orbit until advised otherwise.

Quote from: OldBloke;418473... Please stay on Akua or in Akua Orbit until advised otherwise.

Second attempt completed.

Thanks Oldie, that one did the trick.

Nice one Oldie :) appreciate it

Quote from: Liberator;418499Thanks Oldie, that one did the trick.

So everything besides Akua and Akua Orbit is rest??

And thanks again Oldie!

Quote from: SithAfrikaan;418504So everything besides Akua and Akua Orbit is rest??

And thanks again Oldie!

I believe so, Akua moon has nasty people on it again and I had to rediscover the ore's

Quote from: Sparko;418505I had to rediscover the ore's

Awesome!!

Quote from: SithAfrikaan;418652Awesome!!

Oresome ?!

Could we please get the server updated to the new 4.0 build?
It adds so much stuff!
http://empyriononline.com/threads/alpha-4-0-out-now.7749/ (//Update%20list%20here)

Quote13. Separation of Client and Server:
- Client and server are now separated
- You can download “Empyrion - Galactic Survival Dedicated Server” from the Steam client via Library -> Tools
- If the Empyrion dedicated server does not show up under Tools in your Library, you can install it via SteamCMD as follows:
a. Install SteamCMD from https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SteamCMD
b. Open console/command line prompt and navigate to the directory you installed SteamCMD
c. Enter the following command:
steamcmd +login anonymous +force_install_dir "../Empyrion - Dedicated Server" +app_update 530870 +quit

Following this procedure will install the Empyrion Dedicated Server in  the folder “Empyrion â€" Dedicated Server” beside the folder where  steamcmd is installed. If needed, you may change the folder name to your  liking.

Something to be aware of Oldie.

Quote from: SithAfrikaan;418705Could we please get the server updated to the new 4.0 build?
It adds so much stuff!
http://empyriononline.com/threads/alpha-4-0-out-now.7749/ (//Update%20list%20here)

Pretty excited about this update, however this is a little concerning:

QuoteWe recommend starting a new game in Alpha 4.0. Please note, however, that your old save games are technically compatible in Alpha 4.0 but the visuals (e.g. light intensity - especially during night) will be messed up due to the switch to linear space

not sure if this is going to be an issue...

Glad you guys read all that, I got to the auto miner and repair pad and I was to excited to carry on!

I would strongly suggest a wipe :sad:

Quote from: OldBloke;418711I would strongly suggest a wipe :sad:

:( probably going to have to, i can see us running into more issues otherwise in future updates.

The trials and tribulations of Alphas.

Would have been nice to fly the big ship into the planet first.

Maybe update first and then let people say their goodbyes before a wipe.

Would that not just cause more work for OB though?  

Once we have wiped and started a fresh, can I suggest we set up a 'community hub' on Akua as a centre point. - nice community project :)

As has been proved on other survival games which eventually don't rely on group protection, people just go off and do their own thing or just aren't interested in the survival aspect of... err..... the survival game :blink:.

Unfortunately most promising survival games seem to be more PvP oriented after initial comfort is established.

The island in the lake in the current map was originally earmarked as a community area, but in a game where your start location depends on the time of day you join and the amount of time you play, it's hard to do a central base. It also takes away a lot of the initial survival aspects. As such we had people on other planets before we had some people with roof over their heads and the centre island start block despawned.

Orbit is probably the only place you can do a community area and that's purely a staging area for sorties.

Maybe as the game is enhanced further we may get regenerating enemy structures and such or attacks from space, I would love some sort of regenerating fleet staging area which we could have battles with the AI or AI which could capture our own structures when we are away for too long.

Quote from: OldBloke;418711I would strongly suggest a wipe :sad:

Could we wipe but have blueprints available for a short period to get our caps back? If the answer is no I totally understand and respect it!

I've backed up the old server and created a vanilla new one.

Sith, Sparko and Jewelz have decided to start on Omicron this time.

oldie can you reset/wipe my profile, i landed in the middle of 6 drones and cant even get to my back pack every time i'm killed, even though i re-spawned from space again to lure them away they were still waiting. lost count and rage quit at 20 deaths in 5 mins..just cant get near my 1st pack....

disregard my last post

Quote from: OldBloke;418728I've backed up the old server and created a vanilla new one.

Sith, Sparko and Jewelz have decided to start on Omicron this time.

Cheers Oldie,

Omnicron is no picnic. Siths death count is racking up nicely.

There's been a patch released today:

QuoteHi everyone,

We just released a patch that fixes some bugs introduced in Alpha 4.0. We are working on fixing the remaining bugs.

If you have problems with a blueprint, check these help topics first: https://eleon.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/categories/201081145-Knowledge
If this does NOT resolve your issue with RED or ORANGE markers, PLEASE send in your blueprint for review in the bug thread or submit to support.empyriongame.com

Changelog: Alpha 4.0.0 (Build 659)

Bug Fixes:
- Fixed: Error when spawning very large blueprints
- Fixed: Emergency O2 Generator has no map icon
- Fixed: Error that sometimes occurred when connecting to a server
- Fixed: Can not place block at Center of Mass position
- Fixed: Error that sometimes occurred when flying over terrain
- Fixed: Problem that SV and CV did not slide anymore on a planet when tilted

Changes / Improvements:
- Reduced light intensity on player drone and enemy drones
- Added additional hover engines to stock prefab HV Tier 2
- Tweaked textures on male character

No need to update the server i don't think as i can still get on it with this update.

Quote from: Sparko;418745There's been a patch released today

I'll update it when I get home (it's not one I can do remotely),

Quote from: OldBloke;418751I'll update it when I get home (it's not one I can do remotely),

Not sure there is one server side Oldie, as i am able to connect and play fine with the new update.

Server updated to Alpha 4.0.1 (Build 660)

Quote- Fixed: Error that sometimes occurred when connecting to a server (2nd try)
- Potentially Fixed: Crash that sometimes occurred when accessing player inventory or player setup window (only happening on ATI cards)
- Fixed: Problem that BA blueprint was not spawnable (appearing in red) if rocket turret was placed

QuoteBug Fixes:
- Fixed: Error when spawning very large blueprints
- Fixed: Emergency O2 Generator has no map icon
- Fixed: Error that sometimes occurred when connecting to a server
- Fixed: Can not place block at Center of Mass position
- Fixed: Error that sometimes occurred when flying over terrain
- Fixed: Problem that SV and CV did not slide anymore on a planet when tilted

Changes / Improvements:
- Reduced light intensity on player drone and enemy drones
- Added additional hover engines to stock prefab HV Tier 2
- Tweaked textures on male character

Thanks Oldie :)

Server updated to v4.0.2 (Build 664)

QuoteAlpha 4.0.2 (Build 664)

Changes / Improvements:
- Extended manual console cmd "replaceblocks" to convert all blocks automatically

Alpha 4.0.1 (Build 663)

Changes / Improvements:
- Added check on opening Main Menu to force half texture resolution if VRam < 1500mb or DRam < 4500mb
- Reduced resolution of UMA character textures

Bug Fixes:
- Fixed: Wrong assigned texture on female helmet
- Fixed: Colouring on female armour
- Fixed: Blank menu/background texture on DX9
- Fixed: Preset selecting in options window

They seem to be quick on the patching of this new version, which is nice.

Hit a very annoying bug last night which caused me to lose about 300 hydrogen cells, shift+click took out the required amount of stuff  from my inventory to fill an empty tank but only filled one position. Didn't realise until I'd lost it all. Log out and back in fixed it.

yeah its good that they are shifting bugs before releasing the next version rather than just adding them to a list.

I have a weird thing happening when i get into my sv in space.  i now always get a message pop up when i get into the cockpit saying 'Only passengers can enter a planet' :blink:

....only started happening since the main update.   ......its probably me doing something wrong no doubt.

Quote from: Sparko;418849yeah its good that they are shifting bugs before releasing the next version rather than just adding them to a list.

I have a weird thing happening when i get into my sv in space.  i now always get a message pop up when i get into the cockpit saying 'Only passengers can enter a planet' :blink:

....only started happening since the main update.   ......its probably me doing something wrong no doubt.

You'll get that when you are docked with a CV that's powered up. It's warning you that only CV passengers can travel and that anyone inside an SV attached to a CV will probably get killed.

Thought I'd just post it here that EMPYRION is on SALE I think at its lowest price yet! Just over £7!
So anyone who's thinking of giving it a go, or maybe has a friend that would like it, let em know!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/383120 (http://store.steampowered.com/app/383120)

EDIT: and the trailer on Steam is a much earlier build that was considerably more ugly!

Quote from: SithAfrikaan;418866Thought I'd just post it here that EMPYRION is on SALE I think at its lowest price yet! Just over £7!
So anyone who's thinking of giving it a go, or maybe has a friend that would like it, let em know!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/383120 (http://store.steampowered.com/app/383120)

EDIT: and the trailer on Steam is a much earlier build that was considerably more ugly!

Definitely a steal at £7.49 guys! It's an Alpha but packed with things to keep you occupied. Enjoying this a lot and would recommend it highly. Come join us :)

Just a few pointers for those that do want to partake......

1. Do yourself a favour and have a play at single player on easy for at least an hour, just to get a feel, the dMw server is on the hardest setting and is unforgiving.

2. Spawn on "Akua" and not "Omnicron", this is the fluffy planet, but will still kill you pretty fast and at least has breathable air.

3. You start in a slightly steerable escape pod, steer away from any buildings you can see. It's preferable to be near water as there are currently no water predators and you can put on your helmet and breath if you need to hide. If a red marker appears on your radar then get in the water and wait for it to leave. It's a drone and once it sees you it will hang around. The mountains are pretty safe, but there's nothing there to eat. About 20% of the fauna will attempt to eat you.

4. If killed, "respawn at current position", do not "restart", your start position is determined by the time of day on the spawn planet. If you restart then you will spawn with none of the initial supplies you get from first spawn, you will spawn a long way from your old body and you have made life considerably harder. Respawning at current position will move you a short distance from where you died, but you then have a chance at getting all your gear back. Whatever killed you will still be around though.

5. It gets easier after you have got your base and a defensive canon up.

Nice update available whenever you get the chance please Oldie or any of the admin team keeping an eye on this for us :D

one of the really nice tweaks Liberator:

QuoteGeneral tweaks:
- Tweaked multitool: It should now be much stronger (especially multitool T2) - handle with care when using it ;-)

I did successfully connect on server yesterday for a few minutes, just to try out and to see what is like. I also installed TeamSpeak, but I didn’t had time for testing it or play the game more. Anyhow, unfortunately my earphones & mic was not working properly (kind of broken), and I will buy a new one. Have some older headset, and some separate mics, will try that also…

Now I have few questions as a new kid in town… well on planet :D

Just for my better starting, what are the general DMW rules in game? Lots of thing are changed in Alpha 4, especially in multiplayer.

- Are you/we playing together from single base, or separate in clan, or everybody is for himself but against aliens.

- What’s with ore resources, as I landed two meteorites fall down somewhere. Are anything visible (in personal radar range) or - fist to get claim ownership, and become invisible for others? Something like that is introduced in a4.

- What are the general settings for the world on server? I can 'feel' it is on hard, but is there some extra hard stuff added (small amount of ore, extra bug spawn, etc.). Can’t see that anywhere.

(gamemaster can answer me in PM, if everybody know DMW rules :) )

Our server admin is OldBloke, the game is not an adopted game yet, we're running it on trial.

As for difficulty, that all depends on where you spawned, the falling of meteors makes me think it's probably Omnicron, bold move because the atmosphere isn't breathable. I'm not sure what the current resource levels are like on Akua, so you may be there.

We're playing the game as PvE although the other planets are still set to PvP, we may change that. It's up to you how you want to play, I enjoy doing a lot of things myself to get the most out of the game and help others out if they want, but not too much :devil:, some like to team up and work together from the off and just enjoy the building side of things.

To force you to "enjoy" the building side of things we have disabled the ability to import blueprints or use the factory. It makes for much more entertaining builds.

Raising the levels increases the number of drones whilst also making the local wildlife a lot harder to kill. Resources are never an issue because once a mine is exhausted it will send down a meteor to replace it. Meteors will despawn after a short while if nobody is on planet and so you'll normally get the same messages when you rejoin an empty world.

Omnicron's drone population has been greatly reduced, I believe Akua still has a reasonable population though. I'm not sure if we've taken over any alien bases this time around, the ones that have guns anyway.

Hopefully they will work on the alien AI and make them try to retake their outposts in the future and spawn more drones to replace the ones we have downed.

As Sith has said, the client is now 4.1 and the server is 4.0, so we're locked out until Oldie or maybe Whitey does the needful.

Quote from: Liberator;419003As Sith has said, the client is now 4.1 and the server is 4.0, so we're locked out until Oldie or maybe Whitey does the needful.

I'm on it :D

Server updated to Alpha 4.1.1 (Build 678)

QuoteBug Fixes:
- Fixed internal error (Number #278C9 from support email)
- Fixed: Problem that one could not see particle effects (including sound) of other players in multiplayer anymore (rotation not yet fixed)
- Fixed: Problem that Change & Rotate Tool could be used on foreign structures/bases
- Fixed layer problem on lava planet
- Fixed: "Error 102" on startup

Changes / Improvements:
- Increased Hitpoints for Concrete and Wood blocks
- BP Factory: Rock Dust now allowed as base ingredient for blueprints made of Concrete (instead of Cement)

and its on sale this weekend on steam

So, after finding a post from Sparky on the Empyrion forums pimping out your server, I signed up. Finally worked out that Post #1 in the passwords list is by default on the last page (confused the life out of me...)

It was an entertaining first day on the Empy server, I spawned in and was promptly almost gang banged by 3 alien insects, several night raptors and a couple of plant monsters. This left me at level 5, but with zero ammunition left, so after I scavenged the bottom of the lake for seaweed, I started out hunting for iron/magnesium deposits, whereupon I came across an unsubdued Epsilon base that promptly blew the crap out of me and twice more while trying to retrieve my backpack.

Once this was achieved, I find myself in a promethium deposit and plonked down the survival constructor, only to see it vanish in front of my eyes! This led to a suicide pact with myself and a fresh start in order to get a new constructor. Unfortunately, the pod spawned on the opposite side of the planet to where I topped myself, in a tropical forest in the dark. Luckily though I got a new chainsaw and some biofuel, and the chainsaw does chop the spiders up pretty quickly.

After 10 minutes running around the planet, I get back to my backpack and retrieve the contents and set out to mine myself enough for a simple base inside a mountain top, complete with an enclosed underground hangar. This got me up to level 10, and I set out to build myself an SV. Finding out the blueprint system was unavailable was a bit of a blow, as I'm not terribly creative. I did however manage to create a ship that not only flies well, but doesn't look like a box with crap wings bolted on the side. I just need to texture/colour it up now.

I finished up the night by finding the mid and back sections of the MS titan, and managed to mine out all the cargo containers and quite a few of the thrusters to disassemble, which gives me the T2 drill. I then looked at the clock and found it was just past 3am, so I was a little late for work this morning :D

I'll get TS installed tonight and set-up. I have to admit that the server was really quiet last night, didn't see anything in chat, so maybe I was just all alone like a true survival game should be to start with.

Next plan is to get myself up to the Sathium 'roids and harden my little ship up, then it's payback time for that damn Epsilon base....

It looks like somebody new tried yesterday evening to join (unsuccessfully) on Omicron. I found his full basic backpack (next to the another empty one) around midnight as I was returning to my home base before logging-off.
Or….. was it a Dilli’s one, mysteriously teleported to Omicron from distant land of Akua (there was also like 5 wood logs inside, and I picked up saved everything) :g:

Setup on game server is not all that difficult, XP points are obtained very-very fast and you are on level 20 in no time after some mining & hunting. Also Aliens & Drones are nowhere to be found, but those first moments with lots of aggressive bugs & animals can be really hard. I quickly died 2-3 times on first logging, and also discovered ‘the hard way’ that now in Alpha 4 diving in to water is not safe â€" they can all see, attack & kill you!

Especially hard for newcomer can be landing in dark with ore depositories already discovered by some existing Faction â€" then they are much harder to find. Before I was called to join Omicron [OMG] faction I could not find any Iron driving around on motorcycle, but after joining you can see everything they already ‘own’. Boys came to my rescue, and saved me, they lend me some iron/copper/cobalt, which I later repay them back. :yahoo:
Didn’t know all that thing about ‘faction’ stuff from my single play :(

@ Dilli â€" press ‘B’ to see who is in the same game on server with you and where (I discovered that last night â€" I knew about ‘scoreboard’ from before, but this location thing is great â€" I went to visit Liberator in Omicron orbit fighting Shipyard, he didn’t need my help and I circled around a couple of times and returned back down to dismantle Epsilon Radar for steel plates for my big ship)

I’m grinding a lot last couple of days to catch up with others, already made 2 SV (small vessel), one is for exploring/transporting and other is for combat. This evening I will probably try to build my CV. I did raid some alien bases (on Omicron & moon) but for some reason there are almost only cheap white containers with junk in them, so no zascosium or erestrum ingets (green & red brown ones) and I only found 3 power coil thingies to build one Advanced Constructor â€" but still no rail guns for my SV.

Now is my turn to help others. When you join server and land on Omicron and have some serious problems â€" hit ‘coma’, it is global chat, and call for help â€" if I’m later today in game building my spaceship I will fly over in my brand new Kosmobus SV, and you will get a seat by the window. Drop me a note in PM if you like for timing.

BTW, is there someone interested in raid on Abandoned Factory tonight? I did knock out door or two on entrance there to look in first few containers, but didn’t go down there to have all the fun by myself.

Sorry for ‘longish’ writings on this wall, but black space void is calling us all!

These are my builds, it took some time and some experiments to make them fly properly â€" things are definitely not same in Alpha 4 as they were before, regarding flying machines and engines, not at all!

(https://s16.postimg.org/5s0h433ol/sbc_1.jpg)

Nope, it wasn't me, I spawned into Akua, and as the post above yours, I still had a bit of a tough start. The Red/Grey ship looks smart, I've yet to try the wing blocks yet, as I was rapidly running out of ores for my build. I'm probably going to texture/colour it tonight if I don't get sucked into starting on the Ark server to get a headstart on Thursdays community play.

Once I get the SV done, I'll stick a screenie up, I'm pretty happy with it considering I normally use the workshop blueprints or build in creative and blueprint, and building in survival is a new thing.

One simple tip from me regarding mining for ore in early game â€" when you want to mine in longer single run far away from your base in ‘hostile’ land. Always take with you your starting mobile Constructor and Filler/Flatten tool, beside working lights and of course your drill!

You can put mobile constructor in your hole, or outside, so that you can pop out to hunt and make sausages during work â€" also with F&F tool you can close entry hole, or make it much smaller. Animals and bugs can drop in and attack from behind.

Couple of bigger runs like this and you are good to go, later recycling enemy bases can be enough.

Yeah, I realise this. I have logged 750 hours so far in Empyrion, so I do have a decent grasp on the game :D

Welcome Dilli, I shall be around at some point tonight, will be on TS too hope to see you in game at some point.

So, I've just been and harvested a huge amount of Sathium and upgraded my SV to hardened steel. Colourised the thing too.

So here's a quick screenie of my first proper SV and built in survival too :D

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=791605321

Server updated to Alpha 4.2 (Build 688)

QuoteMain Features:
- Added tracer effects for bullets to certain weapons
[ATTACH=CONFIG]3770[/ATTACH]
The new tracer effects that we added to several weapons (including mounted weapons and turrets)

- Added possibility to change 3rd person camera position in vessels by Page UP and Page DOWN buttons (saving camera y and z offset in blueprint)
[ATTACH=CONFIG]3771[/ATTACH]
You can now adjust the third person camera for you vessels to find your preferred position.

- Deco trees/bushes/rocks get destroyed when CV collides with them (larger deco will not get destroyed, smaller deco does get destroyed)
[ATTACH=CONFIG]3772[/ATTACH]
Remember the situations when a little bush prevented your vessel from landing? These times are over now...

- Added several new wings + possibility to change wings of same size via Change Tool (equip tool, aim at the wing and hit LMB to cycle through the variants)
[ATTACH=CONFIG]3773[/ATTACH]
This picture shows a part of the new set of wings that we integrated - the full set of wings is waiting for you! (note: as shown in screenshot, you can easily change the texture on the wings)

- Added new set of thrusters for SV
[ATTACH=CONFIG]3774[/ATTACH]
This is the new set of jet-style thrusters

- Added new weapons: Mounted rocket launcher with homing missiles for SV and hand-held rocket launcher with homing missiles
[ATTACH=CONFIG]3775[/ATTACH]
Try out the brand-new handheld rocket launcher with homing missiles. It is a lot of fun to shoot down drones with this goodie!

Changes / Improvements:
- Slightly increased zoom of turrets and reduced rotation speed if player zooms in a turret
- Nights are darker again on some planets (changes take effect in New Game or for unvisited playfields)
- Added directional tags to thrusters in Control Panel
- Re-balanced HV Thrusters, Hover Engine T2 and Hover Booster based on community feedback
- Re-balanced SV Thrusters based on community feedback
- Reduced size of muzzle flash for certain weapons
- Added damage states for emergency o2 generator
- Improved ship statistics: swapped m/s with degree/sec for pitch, yaw, roll based on ships current torque
- Optimized polygon count on several building blocks to avoid problems with large blueprints
- Disabled Undo and Redo in building-helper menu for Survival Mode
- Reduced mass of small O2 tank
- Reduced output in template for purified water
- Renamed "Small Constructor" to "Mobile Constructor" for SV and HV
- Some renaming of homing missiles
- Better faction output in 'ents' console command
- Better wireframe blue/red displaying of rotate tool
- Some internal weapon optimizations

Weapon Balancing:
- CV: Allowed Rocketlauncher/Pulse Laser (fixed weapons) for planetary use
- SV: Increased RPM for Plasma Gun, Railgun and Rocketlauncher
- HV: Increased RPM for Plasma Gun and Rocketlauncher
- SVHV: Increased range of all weapons and turrets (~50-100m)

Updates:
- Updated Unity to 5.4.2
- Updated Easy Anti Cheat (EAC) to newest version

Bug Fixes:
- Fixed: Problem that shooting was still in-accurate for minigun and cannon turrets
- Fixed: Problem that turrets could still be shot manually from underground
- Fixed: Problem that up/down rotation on player characters was not working in MP
- Fixed: Problem that upgrading autominers did not work correctly
- Fixed: Problem that highest-tier Autominer T3 still showed upgrade possibility -> by using this, you get the components infinitely
- Fixed: Problem that equipped weapons are shown for other players when on motorbike (MP only) - partially fixed
- Fixed: Lockcode exploit: "Go Back" arrow could lead to full access of private structures (e.g. constructors)
- Fixed: Blueprint client-side exploit: copy blueprints in cache folder in BpProducts and use on MP server
- Fixed: Problem that splash of Player-turrets could kill Players in PvE
- Fixed: Problem that waypoint arrows in HUD were missing after relogin (MP only)
- Fixed: Problem that Lock Code 0000 (public access) did not work with certain devices
- Fixed: Problem that vessels rolled while trying to yaw with mouse (left right movement)
- Fixed: Problem that some trees jumped around when being harvested
- Fixed: Problem that light of spotlights traveled through solid blocks, but not through curved windows
- Fixed: Problem that inside of windows was very milky in certain light conditions
- Fixed: Problem that it was still possible to dive and move underwater in deep water with vessels
- Fixed: Glossiness / white dots on NPCs and some plants
- Fixed: Graphical issue in player inventory -> strange reflection on helmet
- Fixed: Layer problem on Aitis and Akua (now only grey rocks as layers on Akua)
- Fixed: Several line-placed block shapes had missing faces
- Fixed: Problem that no smoke was visible when watching other players falling down with capsule
- Fixed: Weapon hold on chainsaw
- Fixed: Wings were offset in blue preview box
- Fixed: Visual issue when looking from certain angle on hull texture
- Fixed: Preview color of blocks was wrong for certain blocks
- Fixed: Texture problem with wings for certain textures
- Fixed: Square flare around Sun
- Fixed: Idle animation on certain NPC (animation did not loop)
- Fixed: Error reported on support email linked to turret shooting - #CE018
- Fixed: Error reported on support email linked to Resume Game menu - #85A8B

Game  is starting to look good

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Some good additions in this update

Thanks again OB :thumb:

Just needs to look into the PvE side of things and have some sort of fight back.

Will look at pimping out the SV tonight with the new stuff,

Really fast server upgrade, great stuff :thumb:

Just as I manage to fix my SV’s to fly properly - they enter whole new family of big fat jets for them… and I still didn’t made a single hoover “tank-explorer” with new alpha 4 mechanics…

They also need to upgrade armor on ALL alien bases, most of them are still made in of now tinfoil ‘50’ armor. One shot from any (vessel) weapon can destroy half of building… Even alien canons can be taken-out with one precise salvo.

Quote from: CMDR SpaceBeagle;419171Really fast server upgrade, great stuff :thumb:

Just as I manage to fix my SV’s to fly properly - they enter whole new family of big fat jets for them… and I still didn’t made a single hoover “tank-explorer” with new alpha 4 mechanics…

They also need to upgrade armor on ALL alien bases, most of them are still made in of now tinfoil ‘50’ armor. One shot from any (vessel) weapon can destroy half of building… Even alien canons can be taken-out with one precise salvo.

Indeed, I took down the Drone Base on Akua this morning using an HV arty turret. The zoom function works really well on that, and I popped it from about 600m out, but the towers suffered badly in the assault (as in, no towers left after the salvo) :D

Well, for a game still in Alpha it's not looking bad.

A lot of the top 3 requests in their forum are for better AI and AI to launch assaults to take back and rebuild their POI's.

Until then try not to build anything off the starter planets Omnicron and Akua, that way once we have cleansed the system of AI we can reset the playfields of all but our home planets and have them all populated again.

Full server wipes will probably be done at the major releases so we can enjoy it all over again.:D

Looks like we definitely have a Interdimensional (alpha) Rift on our home planet Omicron! :tumbleweed:

Last night this “thing” was floating (standing) in midair over desert, somewhere in between T.Hub and A.Factory… it was solid. I think it could be near the same place I found abandoned dead men’s starter pack with some wood logs, few nights ago.

Two nights ago I had green arrow marker, like it was Liberator, moving around ‘my base’ but there wasn’t anyone there â€" I found Liberator hunting meat all the way up in the north (and mi casa is down south).

Oh, the creepy beauty of multiplayer bugs in independent-made alpha game. :lmfao:

(https://s14.postimg.org/grs939ftt/UFO.jpg)

Yeah there are still a few bugs with the mapping.

Quite a few times the player icon is not actually where the player is and you see someone's SV go flying off without them, sometimes travelling through the green barrier will mess things up on the client end as well.

Server updated to Alpha 4.3 (Build 706)

Details here. (http://empyriononline.com/)

Thanks OB :thumb:

Fastest service in Galaxy :thumb:

BTW,

Is it possible to ’unlock’ blueprints (someday) for a day or two so that I can save big "CV battleship" that I build… Or is it possible for server admin to download it for me?
Its kind a nice one, turned out better than I expected for my first original build on MP server â€" but now I would like to pimp it more off-line in creative mode :rolleyes:

It's possible to save your builds for local use, just not use the BP system to rebuild them.

Use "Right-Alt+O".

Quote from: CMDR SpaceBeagle;419472... Is it possible to ’unlock’ blueprints (someday) for a day or two so that I can save big "CV battleship" that I build…

Anyone have any objections to this?

EDIT: Ignore. See Lib's post above.:rolleyes:

Quote from: Liberator;419473It's possible to save your builds for local use, just not use the BP system to rebuild them.

Use "Right-Alt+O".

Oh my Hesus Alah Buda Space Krist... OK, i'm so SO stupid - I dindt even TRIED save option :poster_oops:

It's all right, i just saved it from MP and open it in SP creative game :D

Battleship Yolomato is safe :clap:

Thanks Lib. and OldBloke, no need for 'unlocking' :byebye:

Server updated to Alpha 4.3.1 (Build 710)

Quote(Build 710)

Bug Fixes:
- Fixed memory leak on Nvidia and recent Ati cards (memory leak still persistant on Radeon HD 55xx to 77xx)
- Fixed problem that NPC did not reliably attack anymore
- Fixed problem that rocket launcher could shoot through doors / walls when standing close to object
- Fixed problem that you could not hit asteroids with rocket turrets anymore

Changes / Improvements:
- Added new glass railing blocks: regular, round and L-shape
- Added SV thrusters to block group (regular, slant and enclosed) similar to CV thrusters
- Added new enclosed thruster for HV and added HV thrusters to block group (regular, slant and enclosed)
- Minor renaming of all thrusters
- Changed: Using UTC time in log line time stamps, allows easy comparing of log files from different timezones
- When using "autogroup" in Control Panel, thrusters are now grouped by directional status. Note: Thruster positions for grouping are set when "autogroup" is executed. If cockpit orientation is changed after auto-grouping this will not yet be taken into account

(Build 708)

Bug Fixes:
- Fixed: Inventory crash on machines with a certain type of Radeon graphics card
- Fixed: Drones / Predators / NPCs / Bases do not attack player anymore (MP)
- Fixed: Turrets in PvP do no fire on other factions (MP)
- Fixed: Not possible to place a BP in Orbit
- Fixed: Symmetry problem with new windows L and 3-sided (we had to adapt the default position of these 2 windows - so maybe you have to rotate these blocks on your blueprints again)
- Fixed: Icon of Autominer remains on Map and Radar if destroyed
- Fixed: Another use case of the "infinite plant pickup bug"
- Fixed: CV Thruster M group has broken preview image
- Fixed: Random error that happened when entering Omicron

Changes / Improvements:
- Enhanced player data output in console ('plys' command)
- Changed 'say' command variant addressing a single player: now using the player's persistent id
- Improved EAC handling, increased default heartbeat timeout for clients
- Optimized lights on new BA Tier 6
- Minor renaming: Walkway Blocks -> Walkway & Railing Blocks

Hofix 4.3.0 b 707

- Fixed can-non-warp issue

thanks, need to finish my dropship :thumb:

Cheers Oldie, good job you waited last night as the latest fix appeared at 22:20.

Quote from: Liberator;419540Cheers Oldie, good job you waited last night as the latest fix appeared at 22:20.

Indeed. It does make me think that maybe I'm too quick with these updates to our server. Perhaps I should be waiting for the fix to the fix to the patch of the patch :blink:

A little warning to the players.... They've fixed the Zirax AI, these buggers can now shoot upwards and downwards, damage has been buffed, and they will drop you very quickly if you get surprised by them.

Quote from: Dilli;419560A little warning to the players.... They've fixed the Zirax AI, these buggers can now shoot upwards and downwards, damage has been buffed, and they will drop you very quickly if you get surprised by them.

Good, it's about time they became an actual force. Now if they can just make sure the structures are combat steel on the next big wipe........

Dynamic retaliation would be nice as well, but.... Alpha... maybe taking a break and revisiting when the game reaches Beta would be advisable.

I suppose that the problem with unrestricted early access, you marvel at the changes whilst being fatigued by starting all over again and having the rules change underneath your feet, more so when that game is a survival game.

That being said, I still like the concept of Empyrion and don't mind just flying about and checking the changes when they appear. But really hoping the AI gets a complete overhaul soonish.

Yeah the AI need to be more intelligent and more destructive, it's far to easy to take over a base imo.

I feel the same, I think I may Park it for a few releases and then revisit but I do like to keep popping in.

Server updated to Alpha 4.3.1 (Build 712)

Quote- Fixed all problems with EAC
- Fixed: Internal error that sometimes occurred when player is stuck under cockpit and he gets detached
- Fixed: When switching fullscreen, character loses color and becomes grey

they also done what they promised last week, no more "Tinfoil Alien Armor" - upgrade from 50 to 500 :)

QuoteAlpha Experimental 4.3.2
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- Increased hitpoints on hull blocks of all old POIs to 500 HP

Server updated to Alpha 4.4.1 (729)

QuoteAlpha 4.4.1 (Build 729)

Bug Fixes:
- Fixed: Severe FPS drops when flying large CVs or sometimes already when starting their engines

QuoteAlpha 4.4 (Build 728)

Modular Building:
- Added possibility to build in a modular way and separate mother base from child bases

How modular building works:
Look at your mother base, open "Building Tools" menu (hotkey N) and select "Connect to" -> you can now place the next block freely on the terrain in a grid (i.e., 90° with respect to the mother base). The new block defines the foundation of the "child base" which will be the same structure as the mother base but the child bases can be physically disconnected from the mother base (and you do not need an extra core). Since the mother and child bases are the same structure, they can be controlled together via the Control Panel.


Merging Structures:
- Added "mergestructs" and "setposition" console commands (Creative mode): you can now download different bases from Workshop and merge them together in one base (e.g. to build an outpost with several separate buildings or a small city)

How "mergestructs" and "setposition" console commands work:
1. mergestructs ID_mother ID_child
-> this will position child into grid of mother (child and mother can still be adjusted)
2a. setposition ID y+/-OFFSET
2b. setposition ID x+/-OFFSET
2c. setposition ID z+/-OFFSET
3. mergestructs ID_mother ID_child -ex
-> this cmd will execute the merge command. You can now save the new structure as a blueprint

Please note that this is the first iteration of modular building and structure merging - we will improve & refine these features over time.

New Blocks / Devices:
- Added 30 new block shapes (+ increased slot count of block group window to 64)
- Added several new window blocks


- Added new lab deco blocks -> See "Lab Equipment (Deco)"

- Added new deco blocks: modular tables -> See "Furnishing"
- Added ancient temple deco
- Added containers to block group (added other Sci-Fi containers to this group as well)
- Added more 3d models of lights and introduced a block group that includes all these models
- Added another energy pack called "Fusion Cell" with energy value of 300
- Added several new symbols to Texture tool (symbols on page 4): white line / double line + yellow hazard stripes


HUD objects visibility update:
- HUD objects not shown anymore when docked + reduced distances for powered off structures (Planet: 80m, Space: 250m)

Regarding HUD object visibility, here is an overview of the status quo:
1. Own faction, own private or public:
Planet: HUD object visible (with name) - 500m (300m)
Space: HUD object visible (with name) - 2500m (1250m)
2. Other faction / other private:
Planet: HUD object visible (with name) - 350m (300m)
Space: HUD object visible (with name) - 1500m (1250m)
3. Powered off:
Planet: HUD object visible: 80m
Space: HUD object visible: 250m
4. Docked: HUD object never visible

Gameplay:
- Toggle main power and Control Panel now also working when standing close to a structure and focusing it
- Added storage capabilities to some deco blocks - these blocks will spawn loot in a POI
- Added blocks / devices that were introduced in this and last updates to loot that can be found in POIs (repair bay, hangar doors, new jet thrusters, new turrets, etc)
- Sniper zoom: added dampening factor when zooming

Balancing Changes:
- Re-balanced drones: increased their overall weapon damage against building blocks and devices (adapted to recent hull HP balancing)
- Reduced weapon damage of mounted weapons / turrets against drones, NPCs and players
- Increased hitpoints on hull blocks of all old POIs to 500 HP
- Increased hitpoints of shutter windows on old POIs to 250 HP
- Adapted templates of Auto Mining Devices

Improved Visuals and Sound:
- Added better sniper scope view
- Adapted laser shot on pulse laser turret (laser shot better visible now)
- Tweaked HV turrets: turret base is now a bit smaller + tweaked color of HV turret texture (to avoid color artifacts)
- Added better sound to pulse laser turrets and rocket turrets + tweaked sound of plasma turrets.
- Added custom rotate sounds to several turrets
- Added better names for new deco blocks
- Updated color mask on turrets to have a cleaner color look (overall tweak to color masks - also for other blocks )
- Adapted color mask on Container 1
- Less barrel movement on pulse laser turret when shooting

Server-Client Improvements:
- First implementation of invisible god mode: when now using godmode player is invisible (very useful for server managers)
- Improved log outputs regarding Steam kicks and disconnects
- Client-side EAC disconnect only executed once
- Improved log output (Steam kick, Uptime)
- Re-implemented new EAC compliant Steam Family Share player re-registration
- Added first implementation of Server modding API - much more to come in near future. We will provide documentation soon.

Other Changes / Improvements:
- Increased size of drop container to avoid problem of losing stuff when e.g. full constructor is destroyed / removed
- Updated stock prefab SV Tier 5
- Some re-arrangements to templates thrusters (better ordering)
- Re-arranged several blocks (in deco groups)
- Tweaked some templates (deco blocks) + some renaming based on community feedback
- Added better info to doors / shutter doors SV that they do not open automatically
- Added LODs to many deco blocks for optimization purposes
- Increased brightness of "Other Player" icons in map
- LCDs are now in "Device" category
- Added Player Window to localisation setup
- Updated naming of window blocks (shorter names)
- Added time zone info (TZ) in log's startup info line

Bug Fixes:
- Fixed: Memory leak also on all Radeon graphic cards
- Fixed: Problem that Troop Transporter did not deploy troops reliably in 1st wave
- Fixed: Problem that homing missiles exceeded range indicated in weapon info (now they should have range as shown in weapon info)
- Fixed: Problem that vertical door was not upgraded to armored vertical door
- Fixed: Problem that Planet-Forbidden Turrets could be fired once on planet
- Fixed: Problem that message "you cannot shoot this weapon on a planet/space" was not displayed anymore
- Fixed: Error when closing background window before closing color picker in LCDs
- Fixed: Problem with camera clipping on rocket turret in certain use cases
- Fixed: Problem that old, obsolete rocket turret BA (still present in some BPs) could not be fired on planet
- Fixed: Problem with Statistics window: Cargo Boxes counted with +1 (caused by Fridges being added to Cargo Count, added separate Fridges count now)
- Fixed: Problem that upgraded Autominer was not shown on Map anymore
- Fixed: Problem with ship controller (instability of ship when colliding with deco)
- Fixed: Problem that ALT-view mode in 1st person allowed to "turn" fixed weapons
- Fixed: Problem that drones could shoot at submerged players (now: it is not possible to shoot handheld weapons under water anymore)
- Fixed: Problem that creating a new savegame with period characters at the end lead to error
- Fixed: Problem that thrust direction autogroup had reversed U/D labels
- Fixed: Problem that fade out of certain blocks and devices was not consistent (some seem to never fade, some different)
- Fixed: Problem that player character was not centered on Motorbike when driving
- Fixed: Problem that several devices were blocking player movement (full collision box instead of scaled down/fitting)
- Fixed: Spacemap/radar inconsistent behaviour
- Fixed: Base Plasma turret infobox: Ammo usage says Pl.Charge CV instead of Pl.Charge BA
- Fixed: Problem that HP of CV Thrusters M an L got swapped
- Fixed: Problem that Bunk Bed was black and could not be colored anymore
- Fixed: Problem that beam of Auto Mining Device ends in mid air (extended beam to bedrock)
- Fixed: Problem that own private bases shoot at own faction vessel in PvP
- Fixed: Problem that sun shines through planet in space (2nd try)
- Fixed: Problem with heartbeat client code leading to server lock-ups in certain use cases
- Fixed: Marketplace Dupe bug via Error Exploit (by disabling global commands while a dialog is displayed)
- Fixed: Problem that Thruster Blocks M had Slant Thruster as preview icon instead of cubic thruster
- Fixed: Several internal errors reported on support email (thanks for sending those in)
- Fixed: Several internal errors found in server logs

Thanks Oldie

Thanks oldie, going to jump on tonight if anyone is around?

Anyone interested in picking this up and joining us it's currently back on 50% sale at steam, and remember the trailer featured is not nearly covering all the improvements to the game already in the playable build!
Empyrion Galactic Survival @ Steam (http://store.steampowered.com/app/383120/)
And don't forget to nominate this for a suitable award! I just did -
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Server updated to Alpha 4.4.2 (Build 732)

QuoteBug Fixes:
- Fixed: Problem that seated players were invisible to others
- Fixed: Problem that faction players could access other faction player private properties
- Fixed: Problem that maximal block count in each direction from the core was reduced.
- Fixed: Problems that enemies were not attacking in "godmode fly" (note that we now have 2 godmodes: "godmode fly" [default] and "godmode invisible")
- Fixed: Stability problem when vessels were colliding with deco or ground
- Fixed: Problem that de-constructing Lab deco / Console deco returned components for "Furnishing" blocks
- Fixed: Problem that de-constructing Light Blocks did not return any materials
- Fixed: Problem that Round Corner did not fit other round blocks anymore
- Fixed: Texture problems on block shapes: Wall and Round Slope Edge Thin
- Fixed: Problem with invisible sides on Slope Half and fixed problem with normals on this block shape
- Fixed: Texture issue on Ramp Bottom A
- Fixed: Scaling issue on window Round Corner Thin

Changes / Improvements:
- Reduced thickness of Walkway Plate to match thickness of normal window
- Allowing to access everything (other faction's CP, containers) in god mode
- Lowered height of first person camera when sitting in CV cockpit
- Increased weapon strength of mounted weapons & turrets against NPCs/drones/players
- Increased weapon damage of drones against structures/devices by 25%

Server updated to Alpha 4.4.3 (Build 740)

Quote- Fixed exploit that vessels whose weapons have hacked/cheated magazine sizes could be spawned in Survival mode
- Fixed exploit that hull blocks with 500 HP could be used for SV / HV
- Fixed problem that crashing with a large CV into trees could lead to ship teleporting back and forth until all touching trees are destroyed

Cheers Oldie, just bugfixes this time. But at least they are pounding away at it still.

It'd be nice to be able to snoop around patch 5.0.X oldie? Any chance we could get an update/ wipe/ restart or whatever is needed or has the ship sunk in terms of keeping a server up for this? I totally understand if it has :D

Quote from: SithAfrikaan;420618It'd be nice to be able to snoop around patch 5.0.X oldie? Any chance we could get an update/ wipe/ restart or whatever is needed or has the ship sunk in terms of keeping a server up for this? I totally understand if it has :D

Happy to keep updating as long as we have members wanting to play :D

I can't see anywhere that a wipe is necessary with this update so I'll try an update without one.

BRB ...

Server updated to Alpha 5.0.3 (Build 789)

just been on, no issues as far as i can see with update and the server

Thanks OB,

I have just been taking a break from this whilst they add content etc but will be popping back on the server at some point in the near future.  Thanks again :)

I've been watering the plants and topping up the fuel.

Supposedly there are AI ships flying around in orbits now, not sure if that will mean a fresh start.

Quote from: OldBloke;420623Server updated to Alpha 5.0.3 (Build 789)

Thanks so much!

Server updated to Alpha 5.0.3 (Build 792)

Quote- Fixed problem that particle effect of drill turret HV was broken after login (we changed the particle effect temporarily as a workaround)
- Fixed problem that Mission "Clans of Akua" could not be fulfilled
- Possible fix for problem that sometimes removed terrain suddenly re-appeared
- Fixed internal exception

Server update to Alpha 5.0.4 (Build 795)

QuoteImprovements:
- Changed underlying network communication

Bug Fixes:
- Fixed: Duplication exploit with container content
- Fixed: Problem that changes of colors in Player Menu did not affect the in-game player avatar
- Fixed: Problem that homing rockets did not shoot at crosshair
- Fixed: "Sequence number mismatch" error by using improved networking
- Fixed: Exception in Resume Game menu
- Fixed: Problem that requesting client logs by server host did not work
- Fixed: Several internal exceptions reported on support email

Version 5.1 has been released. It looks to me that the server would benefit from a wipe for this one.

Any thoughts on this?

http://empyriononline.com/threads/alpha-5-1-loot-resources-convenience-and-bug-fixes.9181/

Quote from: OldBloke;421151Version 5.1 has been released. It looks to me that the server would benefit from a wipe for this one.

Any thoughts on this?

http://empyriononline.com/threads/alpha-5-1-loot-resources-convenience-and-bug-fixes.9181/

Not sure when last any of the other guys have logged on Oldie, I was snooping about the features last week, I'd say its fine for a wipe, since these changes atm are regular and huge I don't think anyones grafted serious time into it?

Maybe give everyone a chance to save some blueprints if they haven't done so?

Quote from: SithAfrikaan;421270Not sure when last any of the other guys have logged on Oldie, I was snooping about the features last week, I'd say its fine for a wipe, since these changes atm are regular and huge I don't think anyones grafted serious time into it?

Maybe give everyone a chance to save some blueprints if they haven't done so?

OK. Wipe this weekend unless anyone has an objection.

Yup, the introduction of roaming NPC ships a few updates ago probably needed the wipe as well to introduce them into our system.

I've been hopping onto the server every now and again and found that my plants have not been growing, so I guess nobody has been on our planet.

Not sure about players on the other world though.

If your game has been auto updating then you can't get onto the server anyway, 5.0 is not compatible with 5.1.

Maybe update the server first to allow blueprint grabbing, then wipe it for the restart.

Quote from: Liberator;421276... If your game has been auto updating then you can't get onto the server anyway, 5.0 is not compatible with 5.1.

Maybe update the server first to allow blueprint grabbing, then wipe it for the restart.

Makes sense. I'll update the server this evening and wipe at the weekend.

ive been going on every now and again...another wipe! dont know if i can be bothered doing it all again how do you save blueprints..if i have any?

Quote from: sulky_uk;421278ive been going on every now and again...another wipe! dont know if i can be bothered doing it all again how do you save blueprints..if i have any?

f2 on whatever you are standing on brings up a menu that allows you to save the structure i believe XD...probably,maybe,possibly

v5.1.1 just dropped so good timing for an update. Doing it now ...

Done.

Hey guys,

Just wondered have you tried mining with the Ladybug frpm the blue prints?

total life saver....

also:

Quote from: SithAfrikaan;421270Not sure when last any of the other guys have logged on Oldie, I was snooping about the features last week, I'd say its fine for a wipe, since these changes atm are regular and huge I don't think anyones grafted serious time into it?

Maybe give everyone a chance to save some blueprints if they haven't done so?

Its right-alt and O to save a blueprint to your library.

Always worth remembering to keep updating your custom blueprints especially before you go on a mission.

can we get the server updated plz

Quote from: sulky_uk;421913can we get the server updated plz

'tis done :thumb:

Oh my days, addx and I have been fooling around with the new features currently in the experimental branch, and let me tell you IT IS AWESOME!!! OMG!

Hopefully its not long away to patchtime

Quote from: SithAfrikaan;422466Oh my days, addx and I have been fooling around with the new features currently in the experimental branch, and let me tell you IT IS AWESOME!!! OMG!

To much info on your personal life there Sith....:flirty::flasher::getmecoat:

Quote from: SithAfrikaan;422466fooling around with the new features currently in the experimental branch....

Examples dear boy! What's awesomeness without perspective 🤠

Quote from: albert;422472Examples dear boy!

I hear you, have a look at this post, all this stuff is in the experimental build, and a LOT of it is working like a charm so really exciting stuff.
http://steamcommunity.com/games/383120/announcements/detail/469904564217217950 (http://steamcommunity.com/games/383120/announcements/detail/469904564217217950)

Nice, force fields on buildings and teleportation portals!

Exactly! And what's been particularly exciting to see in effect is how the oxygen and radiation systems work, like having to seal a structure so that it becomes a breathable atmosphere inside etc, mix that with the suit upgrades, I see lots of great adventures in this game coming up!

I popped back on with add and this game does seem to have Improved a lot, temperatures and even radiation I found when I logged back in so I can't wait to see what's that's done to me. I think all the new features and the use of the blueprints this will make for a nice return to the game

Experimental part 1 has been in the works for a few weeks and check this out, hot off the press, http://empyriononline.com/threads/alpha-experimental-6-0-part-ii.10553/ (http://empyriononline.com/threads/alpha-experimental-6-0-part-ii.10553/) they are now on part 2 of the experimental build which adds dynamic weather and the first iteration of scenarios!

Just radical what these guys are getting up to!

Although I'm keen to see what's progressed I'm staying way until they get close to their finished product. Don't get me wrong, I think that this is going to be a corker and I've enjoyed it so far, but the constant restart fatigue sets in.

I know Sith and Gal have been waiting for the airtight buildings and I am very interested to see what they have done with the AI and see if they will attack and rebuild, they were the main thing that needed fixing. I reckon that it could be a damn fine PvE with those fixed, with just enough survival so that it made things tough to start.

Server updated to latest beta experimental version. Map wiped. All blueprints on.

Quote from: Liberator;422503Although I'm keen to see what's progressed I'm staying way until they get close to their finished product.

I'm with Lib on this, we both put in countless hours when it went quiet and there were only a few of us playing it only for the server to be reset. I'll definitely start playing this again once it's closer to the 'official' release.  I just can't be bothered with another grind to get where I want to be at this moment in time.

Server needs an update again please Oldie, 6.0.4

Quote from: SithAfrikaan;422513Server needs an update again please Oldie, 6.0.4

Sorted :thumb:

Thanks ever so much oldie hopefully they don't keep bring out updates ever few hours else this could be a real pain in your ass.

Quote from: RogueTaylor;422521hopefully they don't keep bring out updates ever few hours

Funny you should mention that.... :D Oldie it needs an update when you've got a chance again please, and thanks again! It's saying we're on 6.05 now, and unable to connect :D

Quote from: SithAfrikaan;422532Funny you should mention that.... :D Oldie it needs an update when you've got a chance again please, and thanks again! It's saying we're on 6.05 now, and unable to connect :D

Server won't let me connect so I've kicked off a restart. Watch this space ...

Server updated and restarted.

Thanks a lot oldie. Sorry to be a pain to you.

Morning dudes!
Next chunk of experimental features are in, so could we please have a reboot/patch Oldie? It's big on this end at just about 1.0gb

DRONES WILL SHOOT AGAIN... Just saying, loud n clear, death will roam the skies once more.

[EDIT added this] http://empyriononline.com/threads/alpha-experimental-6-0-part-iii.10694/ (http://empyriononline.com/threads/alpha-experimental-6-0-part-iii.10694/)

Quote from: SithAfrikaan;422687... Next chunk of experimental features are in, so could we please have a reboot/patch Oldie?

All done :)

Quote from: OldBloke;422710All done :)

Thank you very much Oldie!

The next chunk of experimental features are in if you dont mind re-booting and patching please oldie? :D

Where have you guys spawned this time? Might get back into it and see what's new

Quote from: Sparko;422863Where have you guys spawned this time? Might get back into it and see what's new

We've spawned on Omnicron, and blueprints are enabled for building/saving stuff you make man, but
DISCLAIMER: This is the experimental branch of Empyrion and we've had to wipe the server a couple of times so come have a look and help test stuff out, but please bare in mind that if it all gets fried which is likely, that you did so at your own risk lol :D

Quote from: SithAfrikaan;422860The next chunk of experimental features are in if you dont mind re-booting and patching please oldie? :D

'tis done me ol' mucker :D

These dev's don't rest up, next update is in Oldie if you don't mind doing the honors please :D
http://steamcommunity.com/games/383120/announcements/detail/1295192999813408497 (http://steamcommunity.com/games/383120/announcements/detail/1295192999813408497)

Quote from: SithAfrikaan;423031These dev's don't rest up, next update is in Oldie if you don't mind doing the honors please :D
http://steamcommunity.com/games/383120/announcements/detail/1295192999813408497 (http://steamcommunity.com/games/383120/announcements/detail/1295192999813408497)

All done, Sithy.

Server updated.

Thanks Whitey!

OH TO THE GREAT ADMIN GODS OF THIS BEAUTIFUL GAME MAY I ASK ONE SMALL FAVOR AGAIN! please could you update the server please! thanks from me and sith!

Quote from: addx9;423452OH TO THE GREAT ADMIN GODS OF THIS BEAUTIFUL GAME MAY I ASK ONE SMALL FAVOR AGAIN! please could you update the server please! thanks from me and sith!

Done :thumb:

Quote from: OldBloke;423453Done :thumb:

Welcome back! And thanks for the update!

Quote from: OldBloke;423453Done :thumb:

Fanks Bae! ... yes... yes that did just happen.

Fresh off the back of the previous update, we do in fact have,
ANOTHER update!

If you could please do the honors kind sirs, I think the release build is nearing completion, so hopefully a break in this madness soon :D
Thanks again!

Updated :thumb:

Quote from: OldBloke;423487Updated :thumb:

Thanks again!

Almost worse than Ark's early days this oldie, if we could please have a server update again that'd be great, and could you throw in a total wipe please?

Quote from: SithAfrikaan;423510Almost worse than Ark's early days this oldie, if we could please have a server update again that'd be great, and could you throw in a total wipe please?

I'm doing it right now, matey. BRB ...

Quote from: OldBloke;423526I'm doing it right now, matey. BRB ...

Finished.

Thanks oldie!

Thanks oldie!

Yeah..... so oldie you know that time when i couldn't join the server after dieing.... yeah it's happened again and i think im going to need a character reset if you dont mind at some point thanks!!

Quote from: addx9;423560Yeah..... so oldie you know that time when i couldn't join the server after dieing.... yeah it's happened again and i think im going to need a character reset if you dont mind at some point thanks!!

Try now matey.

Lets whet those appetites!
Empyrion's absolutely HUGE update, Alpha version 6 of the game is set to launch 07 June, it brings an absolute monster load of changes to the game including among a myriad of other features:
Oxygen! and the need for ventilators etc in bases.
Radiation, some planets will poison you without the right...
Armour Mods, modify your suit with different effects like easier EVA or temperature protection/ radiation protection etc...
Trade Stations with AI that you can use your credits at!
Enemy troop ships, and cv's that actively try to kill you..
And so so much more my doods...

Remember Empyrion is still not for the faint of heart, while Addx and I have tested these experiementals a lot, the Drones still relentlessly slaughter you, but there are all sorts of systems in place to make those initial hours less frustrating.

It'd be great if you all came back to have a look once this update lands, there's really a lot more to the game to enjoy.
Here's the trailer for this update:
[video=youtube;61c1_iA2Ce0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61c1_iA2Ce0[/video]

I'll be coming back once the big release is pushed Sith, been playing single player at the moment just to try and keep on top of things but definitely want to jump in with a group of us again :thumb:

Aye. Have to admit I'm tempted to have a go :)

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will this update force a server wipe does anyone know? Just out of interest

Server will be wiped :D

Anyone planning to come back and have a go with all the awesome features, I have some tips!

SPAWN AT AKUA! If you spawn at Omnicron, be prepared for a hellish start! I would much prefer us all to establish something on Akua then move out into the solar system, the drones are just as evil as before, and now that the radiation and temperature and oxygen all factor into your survival, the green friendly planet never looked so good!

STOCK Blueprints are enabled, so if you absolutely hate the idea of building something from scratch, Empyrion's own blueprints are there to save you some time.

Don't forget to do the solo missions accessable from the PDA, they reward you with some much needed coins and equipment early on, and are another reason to start on Akua!

 Above all else Have fun! There is an absolute heap of new features, I'll post the patch notes here once they are out, the game has all sorts of horrible things ready to kill us, friendly npc's that just want to trade, enemy CV's that will rain hellfire down on all of us, just to name a few!

Spot on! Looking forward to this. Lots of new stuff and rather exciting

I'll also be streaming the new content, so if you don't have this game yet or are reluctant to start 'the grind' again until you have seen what it offers, then you can view it via twitch during the day on our communities channel until tea time before the Overwatch stream starts in the evening.

Here with the BIG FAQ about the patch that is still due today:
Have a look, have a read, and don't let me catch anyone asking why the medic bays aren't auto healing you anymore! It's all in these notes! :flirty:
http://empyriononline.com/threads/read-first-alpha-6-0-gameplay-faq.10344/ (http://empyriononline.com/threads/read-first-alpha-6-0-gameplay-faq.10344/)

going live now with the experimental version while we wait for the update.

Its out!
http://store.steampowered.com/news/?appids=383120 (http://store.steampowered.com/news/?appids=383120)

Going LIVE on our Empyrion server shortly :boxing:

Anyone joining and thinking that the resources seem scarce fear not! Remember that the Blueprint system is activated, and by placing DISASSEMBLED blocks into it you still get refunded the value of those items in their base metals. For example, if you are trying to figure out where you are supposed to get 2000 iron from, but you have 4000 steel plates lying around since you deconstructed that base you placed your core in, then fear not! uploading the steel plates directly into the factory not only loads the amount of iron, in this case, 0.5 per steel plate I think it is, counting towards your iron ore req, but also changes the crafting time since you've put refined blocks in, the tiear 1 CV Sithy's Super Chode mk1 took only 1hour 36 minutes to produce, and cost me half of an "outpost" in resources.

This is a great way to get yourself space bound, and warp bound, and even if you don't like the prefab tier1 at the very least you can deconstruct whole parts of it to change it or rebuild it from scratch! :D

Now, where to find more promethium... :norty:

Empyrion is now 50% off guys until 14th June. £7.49 is a bargain if you don't already have it


http://store.steampowered.com/app/383120/Empyrion__Galactic_Survival/ (http://store.steampowered.com/app/383120/Empyrion__Galactic_Survival/)

will be streaming from 7pm tonight on Empyrion

SO as of today the Dev's have released 6.1... WOW!... its expected to be as big of an update as 6.0 with loads of little updates every other day.... (these guys are seriously kicking it up a notch) However. This means that in order to acquire these new updates we would have to restart the server every single update, which Personally I don't think is worth it. I think it would be wise to leave the server at 6.0 and wait till the official release of 6.1 then we can decide what to do then, Instead of having to reset the server every other day... As for accessing the other experimental versions that will be coming out before 6.1, I have found a small server in which to play on which seems to be updating with the experimental and is resetting every time. this way I'm not too bothered about losing stuff because it's not my main server. I suggest everyone who wants to try out the new features of the update should do the same =D

as 6.1 has now been officially released after two updates I would like to push that we get the server updated. I don't know if the server needs to be wiped before hand but if it does i do not object but I'm certain some people will object. I ask that people post in here if they would be okay with a server wipe or not

im ok with a server wipe

I'm ok with a wipe too, and if it's going to be more regular that we completely allow the blueprint system, and switch the difficulty back to easy peasy resources mode, that will hopefully offset the crazy time it's taking us to progress effectively...

Update and wipe in progress ...

Quote from: OldBloke;424175Update and wipe in progress ...

All done. Server version is Alpha 6.1.2 1100

Going based on the server details thread - has the password been changed?

Meant to be #########but won't allow me access.

sorry to be a pain to you, but would you be able to update this game ? mugi and i cant get on as i needs to updated to 6.2 sorry to be a bother

Quote from: RogueTaylor;424424sorry to be a pain to you, but would you be able to update this game ? mugi and i cant get on as i needs to updated to 6.2 sorry to be a bother

Server updated to v6.2.0 1109

Thanks ever so much oldie, sorry to be a pain

I know there's stilla few of us that lurk for updates to this awesome game, and in case you all missed it check out whats been going on in this Anniversary update change list, it's really turning into a bafflingly insane game, maybe not quite ready for permanent hosting yet since each of these updates need a world wipe to affect all the changes they introduce, but definitely worth keeping note of!

Liberator should be most impressed with them flashing light!?? :roflmao:

Check out the vid here:
[video=youtube;Yr8XcY4MLzI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr8XcY4MLzI[/video]

Next Experimental build is out there in the wild check out some of the new features!
Plenty of us are interested in how Empyrion is developing, and honestly if you've not had a look in a while you might have missed the insane amount of work this Dev team have put in, if you just want to check the current experimental announcement have a look here:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/?appids=383120 (https://store.steampowered.com/news/?appids=383120)

Empyrion has released a massive new update called Alpha 10, is there any chance we could host this for those of us that would like to take a sniff at the new features? There is plenty new stuff, as well as completely overhauled systems.
More info here: https://steamcommunity.com/games/383120/announcements/detail/2430169961249139594 (https://steamcommunity.com/games/383120/announcements/detail/2430169961249139594)

Do we have a server up? Or are you guys playing it somewhere else? I’d like to check out the new stuff

We don't currently, that's why I'm asking :)

Quote from: SithAfrikaan;438188We don't currently, that's why I'm asking :)

I've asked Whitey to spin one up.

Picked this one up and am messing with the single player at the moment.

Quote from: OldBloke;438193I've asked Whitey to spin one up.

Thank OB :)

Started a single player also last night.............looked at the clock a while later to find i'd been at it for 3 hours which seemed like half an hour :blink:

My motorcycle was eaten by a triceratops, I swear. Four Hours in and this is a seriously addictive survival game. A dMw server would be great.

It's one that we all really liked and played it to death, alien AI was a bit primitive at the time. Definitely on the "Play Again" list, but once they get close to release I like to wait for the full drop.

Digging this old thread up since the game has just dropped Alpha 12!
It looks insanely interesting, and it would seem they are going for the throat of Space Engi's!
Check out the video below and afterward head to https://empyriononline.com/threads/alpha-12-public-version-release.93917/ (https://empyriononline.com/threads/alpha-12-public-version-release.93917/) for the full read up!
[video=youtube;nlXYsKCU818]https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=nlXYsKCU818&feature=emb_title[/video]

Daaaaaaamn!

Whitey has kindly fired up a dMw server for us to see what this update has to offer.  

Server is called: dMwEmpyrion
Password is in the main password thread

Go build, fly, shoot things, crash into things, grow things and also have fun :)

Can't join XD there was an update for Empyrion this morning, the server needs updating to the new patch XD

ive join ok just now

I'm installing now, will hop on and give it a go :)

Yep server is 12.0.0 and the client appears to be 12.0.1 :crying:

It has been updated.

Whitey has just updated the server to 12.0.1,
Cheers!

Been playing single player all day and ........ it's not for me.

Thanks for sorting this out server gods!