TBU News and Updates

Welcome to week #3 of Space Engineers Bugfixes.

One notable change is that piston height has gone from 2 blocks to 3. This is should help with stability. They have also reduced the range of missiles down to 800m.

Patch Notes:

Features
– changed the piston’s height from 2-blocks to 3-blocks. Pistons should be more stable now (your current creations will not be affected by this change)

Fixes
– default missile range has changed from 1000m to 800m
– fixed piston performance issues
– improved ship collision performance
– fixed rotor performance issues
– fixed player not being able to remotely control ship when locked via LG
– fixed stacked piston group toolbar issues
– fixed spotlight’s light bit ahead of themselves and shine in only one direction
– fixed player not being able to exit remote control when second player enters the cockpit
– fixed placing block with tool in hand
– fixed wrong offset for flight seat camera
– fixed cannot control the ship after using and disabling thruster override
– fixed pistons shape is causing small ship rotation
– fixed unable to place sloped light armor blocks (texture crash)
– fixed ProjectileTrailColor tag preventing weapon mods from loading
– fixed crash when spawning in modded re-spawn ship
– fixed large bomb effect when detonating small and large warheads together
– fixed beacon HUD being visible without power
– fixed issues with pasting blueprints into the world
– fixed crash when exiting from game to menu
– fixed minor model viewer issues
– fixed broadcasting always switching ON after loading a world
– fixed jetpack flames getting into view in 3rd person
– fixed missile launcher not shooting at each crank & missile turret shoots only from center
– new programmers added to credits screen

EDIT 11/14/2014:
Update 01.056.013
– fixed huge slowdowns and DS/MP issues
– fixed crash when turrets on small ship were in the game
– fixed crash when merging two ships together
– fixed G-menu search terms not updating

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Fixes, fixes, and more fixes.

This is the first week of just fixes for Space Engineers. The dev’s are going to be focusing on stabilizing the game before adding more features to it.

Patch Notes

Features
There are no new features this week

Fixes
– fixed major lag/freeze after drilling any asteroid
– fixed groups disappearing when player left the server
– fixed gatling gun damage is too soft
– fixed assembler co-operate mod unchecking itself in multiplayer
– fixed sound levels resetting after loading the map
– fixed exploding piston after grinding it on small ship
– fixed crash when exporting a model from the game
– fixed crash when pasting grid with mods that you don’t have
– fixed advanced rotor staying in control panel
– fixed various crashes when player was shooting
– fixed mass blocks acting weird on dedicated server
– fixed large reactor model being too small
– fixed music issues when loading a map
– fixed issues where player could not place a block
– fixed performance drop issue with many turrets
– fixed not being able to reload reloadable rocket launcher from the front
– fixed emissivity for spotlight block
– fixed issue with choosing reloadable rocket launcher in toolbar
– fixed bullets having no visible particle effect
– fixed placing light armor block under interior light on platform
– fixed missing particle effect when player is welding
– fixed remote control not working when ship flights over 250m away from the platform (DS)
– fixed unfinished assemblers unmarked in production menu
– fixed pressing “Y” shuts off all reactors regardless of ownership and sharing
– fixed re-spawn ships not being deleted after logout
– fixed connector keeps disconnecting
– fixed missing aiming dot for missile launchers on large grids
– fixed texture issue on small reactors
– fixed question about ownership in re-spawn screen
– fixed missing audio files message in logs
– fixed joining issues when character died
– fixed wrong size of the floating objects
– fixed warheads exploding but doing no damage
– fixed collision with attached parts in 3rd person view
– fixed broken piston while deleting the top part in some situations (creative mode)
– fixed master assembler pulling small amounts of material

EDIT 10/31/2014:
UPDATE 01.054.009
Fixes
– fixed lag on server side when server was shooting missiles into asteroid
– fixed glass issues in new mwmbuilder
– fixed rotor displacement possibilities

Known issues
– we know about lights issues and we are working on a fix

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