*** CLOSED BETA UPDATES & DISCUSSION/BUG REPORTS VI ***

About reducing fidelity on nebula/ion/radiation effects for 'fastest' I will bring up to the dev team for sure, I thought it was supposed to be reduced, I should try my old laptop and see how it slows things down.
Agreed about seeing ships more easily (possibly a highlight option via keyboard) because when I'm playing on my lower res laptop, its sometimes harder to tell where the ships are (especially on zoom). I'll request a feature once we're in beta.

 

Space Wars Patch Notes 11/01/2017

• Each type of support ship now has a unique icon for indicating what nodes they affect.
  
• Players will now be able to see the support ship icons of their allies.
  
• The server select screen now has new icons associated to each server name.
  
• Fixed an issue where sectors with structures was not properly showing the structure icon in all cases on the galaxy map.
  
• Fixed an issue where credit amounts were not properly updating if a player changed their captain portrait multiple times.
  
• A notification message will now be displayed in chat to a player if they post too frequently over a period of time instead of a popup.
  
• When a player is muted by an administrator the notification message will now be displayed in the chat to the player instead of a popup.
  
• Fixed an issue where an invalid selection error would be triggered when deselecting support ships on the Spacedock.
  
• Trying to move after pressing leave map during free flight will no longer generate an invalid map error.

 

Will see about gathering the specs on that old laptop and comparing the results to my two laptops as well during our conversation tomorrow. Was talking to Xeen about testing my two low end laptops that are between 5 and 10 years old each to see how they performed.

Extremely excited about the unique icons for node affects, and the basis for the other server slots is also enticing. Looking forward to the 6th!

 

The 1.3 k monitors are always going to have issues with some of the GUI/text, I remember playing Pillars of Eternity and it was near impossible to read anything. The game has been optimized for 1080p, there was just no way to cram everything into smaller monitors. Since the ship cards were done manually by me, and not dynamic, there's no way around it.

 

BTW New Terra system is supposed to be 'hard to get' for Genari, I personally wouldn't want to take that region as Genari and aim for others.

 

Exe: the skirmish mode is a bit wonky, for some reason ancient bugs persist on that mode. In the maingame you shouldn't see that bug at all. It would read 6 DMG. The 3/3 is the charges it takes to arm, so 3 power to arm.

 

BTW the server select screen, Xeen: this was the original comp I made for the programmers to follow. So you can see the 'finished servers' and the 'coming soon'.

 

One thing I've just noticed is that if you press the Dock button and accidentally queue up a movement command right after, it locks the dock button until you leave map and come back in. Not sure if that's been brought up yet.

 

Latest bug to post is that there was an empty transit phase during our battle to lock off a genari section. Following this, upon locking the sector and clearing the remaining ships the combat phase would not end.

Further, it stayed at 00:00 for over 5 minutes, would not allow the turn to pass even though xeen had already exited the game.

EDIT: I Alt f4'd to exit the map. Upon logging back in, the ship was lost.