Empyrion - Galactic Survival

[SithAfrikaan]

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

one of the really nice tweaks Liberator:

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

[CMDR SpaceBeagle]

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

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 )

[Liberator]

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.

[Liberator]

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.

[OldBloke]

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.

I'm on it

[OldBloke]

Server updated to Alpha 4.1.1 (Build 678)

Bug 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)

[sulky_uk]

and its on sale this weekend on steam

[Dilli]

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

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....

[CMDR SpaceBeagle]

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!

[Dilli]

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.

[CMDR SpaceBeagle]

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.

[Dilli]

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

[Sparko]

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

[Dilli]

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

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

[OldBloke]

Server updated to Alpha 4.2 (Build 688)

Main Features:
- Added tracer effects for bullets to certain weapons
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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
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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
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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