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Weekly Update #118


Originally posted by I-NovaeFlavien CTO/President & Cofounder - source link

 


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Greetings everybody. This week in Infinity: Battlescape, we have been working on the haulers implementation. The algorithm to figure out a navigation path between planets has taken more time than anticipated but should be resolved this week. We are actually planning on making it more generic than just establishing a route for haulers, so that the algorithm can be reused for AI bots later on when we revisit the AI commander which assembles a fleet of ships. At the moment the AI commander spawns the fleet in range of the objective ( a couple hundred Kilometers away from it ) which means that it is not possible to scout and prepare for an enemy fleet’s arrival. In the future, with this new navigation path algorithm each NPC in the assembled fleet could spawn at an ally team’s station and navigate through the star system to reach the objective to attack. This will make scouting enemy fleets a strategical part of the game.

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Heated battle around a station

Of course, we’re not there yet. For now this algorithm will be exclusively used for establishing a trade route for haulers. Haulers will enter warp once they reach low orbit, so as I mentionned last time, we’re going to introduce a warp interdiction mechanic in the next patch. The way it will be implemented is by introducing internal ship equipments that will consume cargo points ( bigger ships will have a higher amount of cargo points ). In the future we will also introduce more internal ship equipments and probably turn some of the existing functionalities ( ex.: warp drive ) into ship equipments. The goal in the longer term ( in a few months, but before beta ) is to introduce a loadout customization menu where the player can select which weapons to mount on hardpoints and which equipments to fit in the internal ship cargo. This might possibly affect the ship mass and physics.

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Battle around another station

This week I’ve also been investigating many technical bugs on the server side. I’m happy to report that two crashes were fixed ( the actual server hasn’t been patched yet though ) and a third one is currently under progress. We read some feedback from the community about weapons on capital ships lacking player skill, so in the next patch we are going to make an experiment for turrets that will now manually fire at the mouse cursor instead of being auto-aiming. This will only apply to the main / heaviest weapons, the light anti-fighter turrets will still pick up a nearby target and aim at it automatically.

Once the haulers patch is out, we’ll resume work on carriers spawning ( which sadly couldn’t make it into the alpha ) and the star map ( which is really a big blocker at the moment to figure out the game objectives ).

-Flavien Brebion

 


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Atmospheric Landings, Massive Spaceship Battles - What is Infinity Battlescape?

 

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Weekly Update #119


Originally posted by I-NovaeFlavien CTO/President & Cofounder - source link

 


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This week in Infinity: Battlescape, we have continued to work on the hauler, which has turned out to be more complex than anticipated. The AI navigation path is now almost finished but still far from perfect. A path can be generated from a planetary ground installation to another, either on the same planet or another planet. The path generator properly sets up a course to avoid collisions with a planet, which as you can imagine is pretty useful :)

What it currently doesn’t do (yet) is to figure out whether there’s a third-party planet ( like a gas giant ) in the way. Also some generated paths are sub optimal, but improving the algorithm can be deferred to another iteration, so I think it’s good enough for our first implementation.

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Planet-to-planet generated path

 

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Jan and Kristian have been working on the warp interdiction visual effect and sound which is now ready for the upcoming patch. Our artists have also been working on the carrier geometry for a while ( although at a lower priority due to other tasks ) but an update will be coming in a few weeks. Finally, Dan and Kristian have started to work on the Kickstarter-exclusive mercenery operative interceptor reward which will be a cosmetic alternative to the current interceptor.

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Warp interdiction effect WIP

 

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In other news, ObsidiantAnt has published a small video of Infinity: Battlescape’s Alpha, which you can view here:

 

That’s it for now, see you next week !

-Flavien Brebion

 


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Weekly Update #120


Originally posted by I-NovaeFlavien CTO/President & Cofounder - source link



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This week, I will keep the update short. Jan and Kristian have been in vacation and Dan is still busy on figuring out the mercenary op interceptor variant. Our art team has also been working on the carrier for a while now, updating the geometry and refining the shapes and plating, adding asymmetric details here and there. Many parts are still placeholder, but you can see a new work in progress render below:

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Carrier WIP render

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Keith has been working on the backend to support direct pledging on our website, without passing through IndieGoGo. Doing so will be a huge step up in properly communicating instructions to new backers and being able to play the game as soon as the pledge is registered ( there are limitations on IGG that prevent us from being as user-friendly as we’d like to be, resulting in many support e-mails ). Testing the new pledge system will take a little while but should be available within a few weeks.

Finally, on the game side, haulers path generation is now complete. Last week I mentionned that it still had to avoid third-party planets in the way ( like in the scenario where you have a gas giant and two moons: the hauler spawns on one moon, and has its destination on the second moon, which is on the other side of the gas giant ! ), this problem is now solved. I have tested the algorithm in a bunch of configuration scenarios, but due to the pseudo-randomized nature of the Battlescapes at match startup it might be possible for the generated path to be sub-optimal or even buggy. We will have to test it in real conditions and improve it over time if needed.

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Haulers path between moon-gasgiant-moon

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The next step is having the haulers follow this navigation path and enter / exit warp. Fortunately most of the AI code is already written thanks to the existing bots so this step shouldn’t take more than a day or two of implementation and testing. After that we’ll still need to implement the warp interdiction, which should go fairly quickly, and produce the new patch.

-Flavien Brebion



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Information for our Second Alpha Community Gathering

 

Originally posted by I-Novae Hutchings - Developer/Artist - source

 

I’ll also schedule future events more advance warning, so we can get more players online. Please let me know if you have a preferred time, or if this time works well enough (it can be tough to co-ordinate with such a global community)


I-Novae Community Event

 

Saturday, July 28th 2018 : Alpha Community Gathering No.2


Event Time…

19:00 Saturday, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)

World time Buddy Event http://bit.ly/2LSuEbz


We’ll likely be online for a few hours, but I’d encourage everyone to get online near the start of the event, so we can push those concurrent player numbers up.

 

I’ll likely stream during the event, although it should take the form of a “Gameplay format” more than “Feature tour” format.

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Event “Schedule”

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Form teams for PVP play, Red vrs Green

Get some PVP gameplay going

We are likely to stream the gameplay on the I-Novae YouTube channel

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Infinity: Battlescape - Alpha Community Event


Originally posted by I-NovaeHutchings - Developer/Artist - source

 

 

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Just found this thread, game looks interesting... (like a cross between No Man's Sky and Star Citizen). How is it to play?

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7 hours ago, Zando Bob said:

Just found this thread, game looks interesting... (like a cross between No Man's Sky and Star Citizen). How is it to play?

Check in on the forums, lots of current alpha access members playing the alpha dev build.     The scope is small for a very small team scattered all around the world.  New features being added weekly and mostly focusing on gameplay work at the moment.

 

 

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Weekly Update #121


Originally posted by I-NovaeFlavien CTO/President & Cofounder - source link

 


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Greetings everybody. I apologize for the lack of update last week, as I fell ill to influenza combined to a serious heat wave where I reside ( Belgium ) and I was basically unable to work for the entire week. This is forcing us to postpone the hauler patch to mid-august right after I come back from a trip to France. The good news is that most of the work is done, haulers are now able to fly properly along their navigation paths and to transport resources between planets. There is still a bit of work to do related to spawning / despawning them ( and converting their resources into credits ) and on warp, but this should go a lot faster now once I come back.

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Following a hauler
 

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Jan has resumed his work on the carrier while Kristian is revamping some factory modules ( plus created some new storage tanks ). Dan has been working on the mercenary op interceptor variant for Kickstarter backers, as you can see in the comparison pictures below ( note that it’s only a variant: its in-game statistics and physics parameters will pretty much be the same, so it’s mostly a cosmetic variant ).

 

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Interceptor ( current )

 

 

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Interceptor ( mercenary op variant )

 

 

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-Flavien Brebion

 


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Weekly Update #122


Originally posted by I-NovaeFlavien CTO/President & Cofounder - source link



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Hey everybody. I came back from vacation last week and resumed work on the haulers implementation. We’re getting close and finally putting the last pieces of the puzzle together. What remains is mostly bug fixing and polishing, so the next patch should come soon - current ETA is next Sunday, but it’s not 100% set in stone and could be delayed to the next week, depending on the amount of bugs and problems to finalize.

One thing which took more time than anticipated was the spawning / despawning of the haulers. We encountered two major issues. One is related to the factory hangar module, whose entrance could not fit the hauler. We had rescaled the hauler months ago by a small factor ( 20% IIRC ) but didn’t check that the hangar door was large enough to fit the new rescaled hauler. Kristian is currently busy remodelling ( and adding more details while he’s at it ) this module.

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Carrier geometry WIP

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The second thing which we overlooked is docking haulers at space stations. The original plan was to reuse the capital ship docking modules, but they’re far bigger than a hauler, so a docking hauler looked out-of-place compared to the size of the module. In addition, these capital ships docks were designed for players, and allowing haulers to dock there generated potential conflicts with spawning players which would require more work to solve via some form of traffic control. For all of these reasons, we decided we’d need a dedicated hauler docking module, which Jan has been working on. All station layouts are currently being updated to add one or many of these hauler docking ports.

On the topic of docking modules, we’re probably going to need to add a dedicated carrier docking module in the future, too. Since we rescaled the carrier and doubled its size, it no longer fits any of the capital ships docking modules, so at the moment carriers spawn in a random area around the space station. It doesn’t check for the presence of other players or ships in this area, so there’s potential for funky behavior there, but that will be addressed later on once we add dedicated carrier spawns.

Dan has been doing some good progress on the interceptor spec-ops mercenary variant and added little winglets on the back sides. We’re getting pretty close to the final design now, and we hope you will like it. Keep in mind this ship is just a cosmetic variant of the normal interceptor and will have the same stats. Jan has also been doing more work on the carrier geometry, as you can see in the render above.

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Interceptor variant design WIP

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-Flavien Brebion



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Weekly Update #123


Originally posted by I-NovaeFlavien CTO/President & Cofounder - source link

 


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Hey everybody. In this week’s update, good news. The last major issues for the haulers implementation have been solved. ETA for the next patch is next sunday (09/16). Haulers are now fully functionnal; they spawn at factory hangars and carry resources (the amount of resources is based on the factory type: small, medium, large; and the state of the factory, and especially the amount of storage tanks that have been destroyed or not). They travel to the nearest space station and dock with it, turning the resources into team credits. These credits then get split amongst all players (or if there aren’t enough players on the server, between players and the AI commander). Obviously, if a hauler gets destroyed on its way the resources are lost and the team will not gain credits from it. Haulers will defend themselves when attacked and resume course on their path once the way is cleared.

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Hauler flying towards a space station
 
 

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In the coming days, what remains to be done is mostly tuning and rebalancing the game around haulers. They will become the most important way of earning credits in the game, so protecting them is your team’s responsability. Note that it’s only the first implementation for haulers gameplay. As usual we’ll iterate on it once we figure out what works or not and what causes issues/bugs. Also note that the game still suffers from a lack of awareness problem which we’ll address in the coming months by revamping the HUD and introducing the star system map, and more clear objectives. In the mean time we’re probably going to use small tricks (like “pinging” haulers under attack) but the global picture might still feel confusing.

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Hauler docking at the space station

 
 

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On the art side, Kristian is almost done with his update of the factory hanglar module; Jan continues to work on the carrier (he’s moved to the back side) and Dan has started to work on designing the statue rewards for Kickstarter backers

-Flavien Brebion


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Game Patch - Alpha 0.3.1.0 ( Sunday, 16 September 2018 )


Originally posted by I-Flavien CTO/President & Cofounder - source link

 

This is the “haulers” patch, which revamps the resource generation side of the game by introducing haulers that fly between factories and stations to turn their resources into team credits. As usual, this is a first implementation which will probably introduce a fair number of small bugs, please do not hesitate to report them on our forums.

 

Of particular interest is watching the behavior of haulers and checking that they have no trouble ferrying resources along their path. If you notice any funny behavior, we would be interested in a description of the behavior and some screenshots.

 

 

Gameplay


In the previous versions, factories generated credits every few minutes. The amount of generated credits depended on the factory category (small, medium, large) and the amount of tank storages destroyed or alive in the factory.

In the new system, a hauler spawns every 5 minutes at each factory hangar. An algorithm decides a destination installation which will typically be one of the space stations in orbit of the same planet. The same station will be chosen all the times a hauler spawns, until that station gets destroyed, at which point the algorithm will switch to another station. Haulers follow the same path, slowly taking off from the surface, accelerating to reach low orbit then jump into warp. They’ll exit warp a dozen kilometers away from the destination station, then transition to docking mode and will disappear once docked, turning their ferried resources into team credits.

 

Team credits then get split amongst players and AIs as previously, preferring players over AI when the player count is sufficient.

When flying along their course in warp, haulers will stay in orbit around the planet and fly at 50 km/sec. Since it is not possible to attack when in warp, we’ve introduced a “warp jam” equipment, currently available on corvettes and destroyers. To use them, you need to be in warp yourself, closely following the hauler (< 20 Km away from it) at the same speed of 50 km/sec. To activate warp, open the ship system menu wheel (default: V) and select “Warp Jam”. It will generate a bubble around your ship, which will force out of warp any ship within the bubble (of radius 20 Km). The cooldown is 30 seconds. Warp on affected ships will stay down for the same amount of time.

 

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Another change is the introducion of manual firing towards the mouse cursor for capital ships MK1 and MK2 weapons. Smaller weapons still aim at enemy ships automatically. The goal here is to introduce player skill to capital ships (rather than the more passive select-hold-fire-and-wait). Feedback on this new mode is also welcome.

 

 

HUD / UI / input

  • Introduced auto-aim versus manual aim and updated HUD to show reticles when manual aiming.
  • Disabled weapon groups no longer display the weapons aim-at dots on the HUD.


Assets, visual effects, performance, sounds…

  • Added hauler assets and lights.
  • Added warp jam particle effect and sounds.


Networking, AI, server

  • Server crash fix when player does not exist anymore but a property was set.
  • Crash fix for socket sending an ack packet despite being closed.
  • Fixed a bug with AI that used incorrect propulsion parameters during warp.
  • Revamped AI orientation on planets, should now look more coherent with their travel direction.


Misc

  • Minor fixes for warnings and dumping settings to the log file.
  • Fixed a bug that caused shaking/alerts when observing an actor in space.

 


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Weekly Update #124


Originally posted by I-NovaeFlavien CTO/President & Cofounder - source link

 


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Last Sunday we released alpha patch 0.3.1.0 which contains the long-awaited initial haulers implementation. As a reminder, in the previous placeholder implementation prior to this patch, factories generated team credits at a constant rate. In the new patch, haulers spawn in a hangar, take off from the planet until low orbit, then enter warp until they reach a destination space station, converting the resources they carry into team credits.

This allows players to escort or try to intercept and destroy enemy haulers. To that end, we have introduced a warp jam mechanic to the game, currently available on corvettes and destroyers. Later on, this will become part of the potential ship upgrades.

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Hauler taking off from a planet
 
 

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Roadmap

 

Now that the initial hauler implementation is done, what is next ?

Our next goal is the initial implementation of carriers acting as mobile spawn points and revamp resupply/repair mechanics for corvettes. There are also a couple of outstanding technical issues related to collisions between small and large ships so this will be the occasion to do some research on how to address them.

 

After that we’ll probably work on the first pass for the star system map to show which installations are under attack, what are the “hot spots” ( battlefields ), which haulers are threatened, etc… It’s very important since the game currently suffers from awareness issues, especially for new players that aren’t familiar yet with controls and how to fly around. We want to address that before beta. We will also probably continue to improve the HUD meanwhile to avoid cluttering the target indicators on top of each others.

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Updated factory hangar render

 
 

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In parallel we are going to start working on the new dedicated control scheme for capital ships. The cursor-based navigation solution does not allow independent targets aiming and selection, so it’s a bit awkyard and only works well for the smaller ships. For capital ships, we are going to separate ship movement from camera look, in third-person.

 

Coming november / december we are also going to add more weapons and implement upgradable ship equipments / systems which will be the fundation to starting balancing the game.

 

Our goal is to deliver the beta version around January 2019. Just like we did for alpha access, we will host some “beta access week-ends” in the coming months. The first one will come in October but no specific date has been decided yet. More on that in the coming weeks.


Videos

 

Here’s a quick animation showing the new warp jam effect: https://gfycat.com/NextScrawnyItalianbrownbear

 

I posted a quick tutorial on Youtube showing how to detect and intercep haulers with the warp jam ( sorry for the Frenglish, enable sub-titles ! ):

 

 

-Flavien Brebion

 

 

 


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Information for our Third Alpha Community Gathering

 

Originally posted by I-Novae Hutchings - Developer/Artist - source

 

I-Novae Community Event

 

Saturday, October 6th 2018 : Alpha Community Gathering No.3


Event Time…

 

19:00 Saturday, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)

World time Buddy Event : http://bit.ly/2N6njVp

 

We’ll likely be online for a few hours, but I’d encourage everyone to get online near the start of the event, so we can push those concurrent player numbers up.

 

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As this patch will include Carrier testing, we’ll need to rack up some points, maybe a little PVP to farm, protect and escort haulers etc.

Then, when we can afford carriers, test out the mobile spawn mechanics, repair / rearm, assault some stations, take out some enemy haulers, etc.

We are likely to stream a portion of the event on the I-Novae YouTube channel

 

We are likely to stream the gameplay on the I-Novae YouTube channel

 

https://www.youtube.com/user/InfinitySupport/videos


 

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Weekly Update #125


Originally posted by I-NovaeFlavien CTO/President & Cofounder - source link

 


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Hey everybody, Flavien here for another weekly update. This week we’ve been working on network improvements, bug fixes and adding new special effects to the game. Work on the carrier patch is progressing well, with an ETA scheduled for next friday. Also, we’re going to host a new community playtest for alpha backers next saturday. More information on this playtest below.

 


Networking

 

One of our backers (Lomsor, thanks to him) reported jitter, causing the player ship/camera to micro-jump around when the network conditions have deteriorated and become unstable. We found two issues. The first one was related to physics inputs: when the server runs the physics simulation and a player input packet is missing (due to lag or network stability), the server was assuming no input was given, resulting in a temporary loss of control of the ship (until the next input packet is received). Instead, in this scenario we instead repeat the latest input, which makes controls feel smoother and more natural (again: this only applies to bad network conditions, when the latency suddenly jumps around).

The second issue was related to error correction. The client and server run their physics simulations in parallel; to prevent cheating, the server is authoritative, meaning that when a mismatch is detected between the client and the server, the client applies a correction to its local player. We normally smooth this error correction over time to avoid micro-jumps, but due to a small bug in the algorithm, smoothing was disabled when flying at high velocities like in warp. This bug is now fixed which should make network jitter unnoticeable to the player.

 

TLDR: we’ve improved our network code so that it behaves more smoothly and naturally when the network conditions degrade.

 

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Spawn markers

 

This week Jan created a spawn marker effect that gets placed on top of spawns to make it easier for new players to understand where the available spawns are (for example if they need to fly back to repair or resupply their ship). It is color encoded, blue being the default (spawn is available). The spawn marker turns green for your own ship when docking, or red when the spawn is unavailable (due to another ship docking in the spawn).


 

Community playtest event

 

We’re happy to announce our third alpha community gathering, for players that have alpha access:

Saturday, October 6th 2018 (in one week), 19:00 UTC

 

See this post for more information: I-Novae Community Events

 

As usual Dan will stream the event, so make sure to check out our Youtube channel if you’re interested !

 

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Interceptors flying in formation
 
 

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-Flavien Brebion

 

 


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Game Patch - Alpha 0.3.2.0 ( Saturday, 6 October 2018 )


Originally posted by I-Flavien CTO/President & Cofounder - source link


This new patch introduces spawning at carriers and update the repair/resupply mechanics available on corvettes and at spawns.


Gameplay

  • Carrier spawns are now available; the carrier owner must fly under 100 m/s and turn slowly (or not at all) for spawns to be enabled.
  • Removed resupply crates mechanism on corvettes. It has been replaced by a repair/resupply aura (currently 1 km radius). Players have to match their velocity with an ally corvette and stay within a 1 km radius and will be repaired and resupplied in ammo at a constant rate.
  • Repairing hull and resupplying ammo is also available in hangar spawns (for fighters and corvettes) and docking spawns at stations (for capital ships).

Bug fixes

  • Fixed incorrect warp jam section in ship systems radial menu.
  • Fix for crash due to large characters in chinese fontset.
  • Fixed haulers flying towards infinity when they bypass their destination.
  • Removed forgotten debug code associated to M key on client (was spawning a test effect at origin).
  • Fix for reticles (unlocked when out of range, and showing reticles for auto-aiming turrets).
  • Fix for Prev/Next target speed event while in warp (it wasn’t functional before).

Assets, visual effects, performance, sounds…

  • Added spawn markers to hangars and docking bays.
  • Spawn markers are color encoded: blue for default (available), green when your ship is occupying it and red when another ship is occupying it.
  • Added warp entry and exit visual effect.
  • Increased size of aim helper dots for turrets on HUD.

Networking, AI, server

  • Fixed server crash bug when server is shut down as a player is logging in.
  • Fixed end-of-game condition when a team no longer has available spawns.
  • Improved empty input queue by repeating last input packet instead of assuming zero input.
  • Fixed error correction smoothing when flying at high velocities like in warp.

Misc

  • Added a fallback to create a DirectX 11 device with debug flag for more information when creating a device fails.
  • Added a CameraNextMode event that cycles through camera modes.
  • Added experimental alternative collision mesh to body components for more accurate small ship vs capship collisions; this feature is currently disabled but will be enabled later on when it becomes more robust.
  • Added support for dynamic mesh bodies to the physics engine (same).

 

 

The game loader can be re-downloaded from the Infinity: Battlescape website: https://inovaestudios.com/Battlescape

 

 


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A re-post

 

 

Information for our Third Alpha Community Gathering

 

Originally posted by I-Novae Hutchings - Developer/Artist - source

 

I-Novae Community Event

Saturday, October 6th 2018 : Alpha Community Gathering No.3


Event Time…

19:00 Saturday, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)

World time Buddy Event : http://bit.ly/2N6njVp

We’ll likely be online for a few hours, but I’d encourage everyone to get online near the start of the event, so we can push those concurrent player numbers up.

 

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As this patch will include Carrier testing, we’ll need to rack up some points, maybe a little PVP to farm, protect and escort haulers etc.

Then, when we can afford carriers, test out the mobile spawn mechanics, repair / rearm, assault some stations, take out some enemy haulers, etc.

We are likely to stream a portion of the event on the I-Novae YouTube channel

 

We are likely to stream the gameplay on the I-Novae YouTube channel

https://www.youtube.com/user/InfinitySupport/videos

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Infinity: Battlescape - ALPHA Access Community Event


Originally posted on the official I-Novae Studios youtube channel.

 


Game Patch - Alpha 0.3.2.0 Feedback thread.

 

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Weekly Update #127:  First Beta-access Week-end - 12-15th October

 

Originally posted by I-NovaeFlavien CTO/President & Cofounder - source link

 


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We are happy to announce that the first beta-access week-end for beta backers and above will launch on the 12th to 15th October week-end, starting next Friday at 19:00 UTC.

 

Any Infinity Battlescape backer who pledged at the beta tier ( Lunar supporter ) or above is elligible to participate and to get a taste of the game for the first time.

 

Note that the game is still in alpha development; this is not an announcement for the official beta launch. As you know, development of the game has been delayed by almost a year by now so just like we did for alpha backers, we are now hosting restricted play-test week-ends for beta backers so that they can experience the game as soon as possible.

Permanent beta access is currently scheduled for early 2019.

 

If this is your first time playing the game, you will have to associate your Kickstarter or IndieGoGo email to an I-Novae account. More information about this procedure and the beta week-end can be found in this thread:

 

https://forums.inovaestudios.com/t/infinity-battlescape-beta-week-end-12-15-october-2018/7112

 

We are hoping to see you in-game this next week-end !

 

 

Patch 0.3.2.0

 

Yesterday we released patch 0.3.2.0. This patch adds support for respawning at carriers, which now act as mobile bases. The patch also revamped the repair/rearm mechanics. In previous versions, corvettes could generate a “supply crate”, which had to be picked up in the battlefield in order to get ammo. During testing we found this mechanic to be too difficult to use during battles, so instead we are now generating a passive aura around corvettes which automatically repair and rearm allied ships within range. It is now also possible to get repaired or resupplied while docking back in bases and stations hangars.

 

Going forward, we will release a new patch next thursday right before the beta-access week-end launch. As there are only 4 days left, we will primarily focus on stability, a pass of optimization, bug fixing and HUD improvements.

 

Dan hosted a community event (where a bunch of players gather on the server at the same time and play together) yesterday evening. If you missed it, the VOD is available on youtube:

 


-Flavien Brebion

 


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Infinity Battlescape Beta weekend 12-15 October 2018

 

Originally posted by I-NovaeFlavien CTO/President & Cofounder - source link - FAQ about the beta weekend.

 


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Doing gods work here with the constant updates, much appreciated !

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Beta Week-end #1 - OUT - post feedback here

 

 

Originally posted by I-NovaeFlavien CTO/President & Cofounder - source link

 

 

https://forums.inovaestudios.com/t/beta-week-end-1-out-post-feedback-here/7814

 

 

The first Beta Week-end has just started.

 

Post any feedback you have ( especially if it’s your first trial of the game ) in this thread.

 

Screenshots / videos / etc… welcome too.

 

 

 


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