Space Clouds

Server & Client Patch December 20, 2013 (Updated Jan 16)

This is a small patch, mostly to get the stuff needed by this year christmas event in and a few bug fixes / improvements and will be live at 23h00 SS time (see homepage for current server time).

Client changes:

  • particles system change, higher fluidity and shorter trails all around (smoother animation as well), on very high especially (lower graphic also gain smoothness but not as much)
  • particles system massive performance increase. This patch improved the performance of the particles rendering system by nearly 300% (which allowed us to make most existing case much smoother without impacting performances)
  • greatly improved memory bandwidth and rendering efficiency (speed if it was your bottleneck) on all dynamically generated meshes, (like the suns and the spheres used in some projectiles), also fixed a memory leak on that side which was one of the last remaining known client crash
  • added /lkc distortion for those who dont like the distortion effect on laser / trans applied at veryhigh, /lkc 1.1 would disable them completly.
  • more debug data to help me pinpoint the last known crash still existing (the one where you alt tab during an autopilot jump and it sometime crash). I am sure there are other crashes left, but the 2 mentioned here are the last 2 i was able to prove existed.
  • fixed a bug that caused engine particles to not update after an engine change until you undocked a second time.
  • Added new assets for the holidays.

Server changes:

  • Fix for the crash that has been happening every 26-30hours for the past week.
  • Event galaxies now have their own layer on the map.
  • Added support to missions to be open for set periods of time automatically (event missions automaticly becoming unavailable after a set time).
  • new christmas missions and content.
  • Made untanglers which stop tweaks stop imparted weapon affects
  • Fix Seer Virus Transmission Laser intro mission (Leo Branton chain)
  • Changes to the Bhisajayu and Samgrahak’ayu Healing Burst and Regenerative Burst super items.

Jan 16 EDIT:

There was a micro patch between Dec 20 patch and Jan 16 that fixed a bug related to healing experience not degrading properly.

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