Capital Ships
- Liberty Carrier given Drone Bay hardpoint to test NPC drones.
- Drone bays sold on Juneau, Norfolk, Washington Shipyards for testing. Plugin not active yet.
- Added Crayter Battlecruiser weapons.
- Core Battlecruiser: Fixed arcs.
- Scorpion Gunboat: armor 120k -> 100k; turn rate 37.24 -> 32.47
- Ish'tar Forward Gun:
- Refire rate: 5 -> 10
- Power consumption: 1m -> 1.5m
- Efficiency: 0.3 -> 0.2
- Nomad Battleship pulse beam turret efficiency: 0.20 -> 0.05
- Nomad Battlecruiser pulse beam Damage: 195k -> 175k, Efficiency: 0.30 -> 0.08
- Nomad Cruiser pulse beam efficiency: 0.40 -> 0.10
Snubs/Other
- Hades Pulse Cannon:
- Power: 5.4k
- Range: 1.6k
- New Wyvern, Heavy Lifter hitbox.
- Reverted Eagle hitbox to Vanilla.
- Arrow, Hayabusa cargo increased to 40.
Ships
- Added Argus Crayter Battlecruiser.
The new Bretonia Carrier was planned for this patch, however we are still trying to determine the cause of a bug which is causing its hitbox to malfunction in an unusual way.
FEATURES
- Added Help System.
- Added integrated FPS limiter.
- All undocking is now instant, except for docking rings.
- Beginner restart is now the default for new characters.
- Added Hardcore restart (Stargazer on Barrier Gate with no map)
- Added Bretonia Privateer restart.
- Added Pirate restart.
- Added Clydesdale sellpoint to Kilrea Orbital Station.
- Added Eclipse and Sunbeam to Monte Carlo Freeport, Provence.
- Various equipment and shipdealer requests for Farmers Alliance.
- Re-added Nomad Battleship Annihilator turret (Nomad Battleship Mortar.)
- Added Sprague planetscape with landing sequence, used by some Atmospheric Entrypoint bases.
ECONOMY
- Added Uranium Ore commodity.
- Added Ice Asteroid "ore" commodity (1 unit occupies 750 cargo.)
- Added Uranium Ore field to Sigma-21 for the upcoming mining update. Currently inactive.
- Added Ice Asteroid field to Omega-49 for the upcoming mining update. Currently inactive.
SYSTEMS
- Renamed Koeln to Cologne.
- Nerfed all stationary battleship loadouts to use station turrets and pulses. Old battleship loadouts are now used in Guard locations only.
- Alaska now connects to Omicron Minor instead of Omicron Sigma.
- Added exclusion paths to the Cambridge jump hole in Omega-5.
- Port Said (Order) moved to Sigma-21.
- Winchester Station (BAF Guard) redesigned, renamed to Fort Winchester.
- Misuto Base (Wild) name reverted to Sesan Base.
- Kensington Shipping Platform Dev Request for Gateway Shipping.
- Bautzen Station Dev Request for DWR.
- Changed the appearance of a few other stations mainly in Kusari, changes in some other systems including Auvergne and Orleanais.
- Nerfed Omicron Chi radiation to normal levels.
- Renamed fighter-only and one-way jump holes to Unstable Jump Hole.
- Added Pirate double bribe available on Ithaca Base and Freeport 2.
FIXES
- Fixed missing Battleship Yamaguchi.
- Fixed Nagumo wreck.
- Fixed exclusion path visibility in Omega-5 and Omega-41.
- Fix for Tau-23 Niobium Field.
- Hopefully fixed POB dealer framerate drop - credit to Kazinsal for investigating the problem
- Fixed mooring points on the Samura Gas Miner (Corinth/Caernarfon) model, enabled unused animations.
- Fixed NPC names on various bases.
- Fixed both Kurile interiors.
- Recruit ID is now sold on New Haven only, removed from every other base.
- Fixed Ish'tar Forward Gun class.
- Fixed Sunburst having an incompatible shield in its package.
- Fixed cockpit glass color of Challenger, Havoc Mk II.
Snubs/Other
- Reduced cost of Bomber Chaingun ammo to 250.
Ships
- Infocard for Argus
FEATURES
- Liberty Separatist IFF is now a full NPC faction with NPCs and bribes.
- Added Auxesia IFF.
- Moors Revamped - Most moors now place you outside and parallel to the station upon undocking, like Mooring Fixtures.
- Disabled most cutscenes for bar NPCs. Bribes, rumors, missions etc. display instantly instead.
- Added a new intro screen - Omicron Delta.
- Added 12 new cargo pod models.
- Added Edge Worlds guns to Coalition, Core and Order bases.
- Removed Edge Worlds guns from Carrier Tarrafal.
- Coalition, Core and Order now have at least one sellpoint for Edge Worlds ships.
- Added Hessian Gunship, Ragnar and Tiger Shark to Planet Tangier.
- Added Eagle, Roc and Osprey to Carrier Tarrafal.
- LH shipdealer request.
ECONOMY
- Changes to commodity rep/purchase criteria.
SYSTEMS
- Added New London Gate Construction Site (EFL) to Leeds.
- Nomad Irra (Omicron Mu) has been recycled.
- Activated Nauru Docking Ring (Core) in Omicron Delta.
- Markham Picket (LPI) in Ontario has been recycled.
- Activated Planet JiangXi Docking Ring (Coalition) in Omega-52.
- Merzig Depot (RHA) in Omega-52 has been recycled.
- Added Moros Atmospheric Entrypoint (Nomad Guard) to Omicron Lost.
- Nomad Irra in Omicron Rho has been recycled.
- Added Valravn Citadel (Auxesia) to Inverness.
- Destroyer Graviton (Liberty Rogues) in Coronado has been recycled.
- Added Marshall Station (Separatists) to Bering.
- Battleship Wheeling in Virginia has been recycled.
- Changed Altair Research Complex and Lichtenfelde Complex to Wild IFF.
- Schatten Jamming Array, MND request.
- Schatten Minefield mine damage and detection radius buffed.
- Renamed Battleship Mars to Battleship Jupiter, Core request.
- Renamed Neu Augsburg Outpost to New Augsburg Outpost, language consistency.
- Removed Help System as it has been superseded by /helpmenu and there is no point maintaining two separate help systems.
- Infocards for Carrier Tarrafal, Port Said and all recycled bases.
FIXES
- Reverted FPS limiter.
- Fixed broken Chugoku-Hiroshima jump hole.
- Fixed ex-LWB guns not being sold on Bundschuh bases.
- Fixed various bugs with Kaiserslautern and Bautzen.
- Fixed Kruger mining ships in Dresden.
- Fixed Red Hessian Guard IFF having allegiance to the Unioners.
- Fixed Transgressor docking light, re-buy to fix.
- Fixed red jump hole effect being bright green.
- Changed Jump gate and hole FX to activate instantly.
- Fixed Planet De Aar archetype having no atmosphere.
- Fixed mass of all solars to prevent capital ships from pushing spinning solars (eg. Omega-3 comet.)
- Fixed Wild appearing as targets for assassination missions (They are all called Unknown.)
- Fixed Cairo station not selling transport turrets.
- Fixed Maquis ID not being sold on some bases because of a typo.
INFOCARDS
- Numerous new infocards for ships, equipment that previously didn't have any, including Core, Nomad and GMG tech.
- Cryo-organisms commodity now has a description.
- Removed reference to specific fleet numbers in the GRN infocard.
FEATURES
- Added Nomad Vagrant Jump Drives I-III, Survey Module sold on Moros and Nomad Jump Drive Batteries sold on all Nomad bases.
- Replacement texture for Houston-type desert planets.
- Bundschuh and Unioner NPCs use the Sichel VHF
- Corsair NPCs use the Murmillo instead of the Osiris
- Added Havoc sellpoint to Thunder Bay.
- Added Derelict Nomad Artifact to the Nomad Reactor in Omicron Major.
- Race Countdown can be activated by shooting the Starting Buoy at racetracks.
ECONOMY
- Improved visibility of Military Salvage field in Bering, standardized dynamic asteroid spawn rates.
- Moved Tau-23 mining fields further apart to try and fix the Niobium Ore bug.
SYSTEMS
- Added Capetown Station (Core) to Omicron Minor.
- Battlecruiser Luna (Core) in Sigma-19 has been recycled and is now an undockable object in Omicron Rho.
- Added Tarancon Base (Junkers) to Omicron Minor.
- Nomad Irra in Alaska has been recycled.
- Added Ibusuki Construction Site (GMG) to Sigma-21.
- Milazzo Outpost in Poole has been recycled.
- Capital ships and transports can now dock with the Moros Nomad Lair, Omicron Lost.
- Exclusion zone added around Planet Moros.
- Removed AFC racetrack from Kepler.
- Trade lane to Osaka Wreck in Honshu now references Battleship Hyono as the nearest dockable solar instead.
- Changes to Omicron Minor to make it closer to its original vanilla appearance.
- Battleship Isis wreck changed to actually look wrecked.
- Restored "Nomad Artifact" object to Omicron Iota.
- Fixed lighting in Omega-54 being yellow instead of orange like the suns.
FIXES
- Instant undock has been removed due to it interfering with formation.
- Nomad Reactor and Azurite Reactor had FX changed/removed to improve FPS.
- Fixed Guadalajara/Jiangxi docking ring mixup.
- Fixed Marshall Station interior.
- Fixed Alabama Shipyard selling Interspace ID instead of Core ID.
- Core ships and equipment sold on Valravn Citadel now require 0.89 reputation with the Auxesia IFF to buy.
- Fixed Council fighter wrecks dropping Gallic Small Station Turrets.
- Fixed Dorado light hardpoints.
- Fixed Sichel and Sense infocards referring to them as LWB ships instead of Black Market Rheinland.
- Fixed LWB NPCs still spawning in some places.
Capital Ships
- New model for the Bretonia Carrier.
- Removed Heavy hardpoints from the Liberty Carrier for Drone Plugin testing.
- Drone plugin enabled for Liberty Carrier for testing.
FIXES
- Re-exported all of the hitboxes from Patch 4 that may have been broken.
- Fixed Sunrider hitbox.
- Fixed Tarancon Base commodity trader offering missions.
- Fixed Invergordon Station bar.
- Fixed Raubling Station shipdealer.
- Fixed Ibusuki Construction Site infocard XML.
- Fixed Lagos Depot infocard.
- Fixed Planet Waterford death zone.
- Fixed Crayter Battlecruiser Secondary infocard.
- Fixed Nomad Jump Drive equipment classes.
- Fixed missing Equipment Type 1 slots for Nomad Dreadnought, Battleship and Cruiser.
- Fixed some economy bugs.
KUDOS
- @Alex. - Drone Bay fixes
- @Durandal - Discovering the cause of the hitbox bug affecting the Bretonia Carrier
- @Kazinsal - QA, bug testing
- @Remnant - Drone Bay Plugin
- @Unlucky_Soul - Bretonia Carrier model
- @Xalrok
Discovery 4.90.1 Patch 6 Hotfix 2
FIXES
- Fixed Docking Modules disappearing upon login.
Capital Ships
- New model for the Scorpion Gunboat.
- Liberty Carrier has received a carrier-specific powercore: 6m power, 200k recharge.
- Jump Drives Type III and IV including Nomad versions can now be used with 6 million core.
- New capital ship missiles (Nightmare, etc.) can no longer be traded.
- Added Redemption Council Battleship sellpoint to Perpignan Spaceport.
- Moved Council Gunboat sellpoint to Planet Toulouse.
- Adjustments to Bullhead Core Battlecruiser turret hardpoints.
Snubs/Other
- Marlin turn rate: 70.97 -> 68.2
- Marlin response time: 0.48 -> 0.46
- TDGWM5K Shield damage increased from 340 to 400, Energy cost Reduced from 89 to 70.
- Fighter Codenames have had their hitpoints increased.
- Musket range fix.
INFOCARDS
- Fixed Trenton Outpost referring to DSE as a member of the Big Three (Ageira, Interspace Commerce and Universal) as vanilla rumor IDS 131877 states they aren't a member.
FEATURES
- Added GRN Gallia restart (GaNavyCo), places the player on Battleship Rocroi in Burgundy
- Added GRN Bretonia restart (GaNavyBr), places the player on Battleship La Riche in Edinburgh, based on upcoming changes in 4.90 Middle.
- Added Council Gallia restart (GaCouncilCo), places the player on Battleship Cambrai in Champagne
- Renamed Council Roussillon restart to GaCouncilBw
- Added pimpship to Fort Carthage, Omicron Epsilon.
FIXES
- Fixed Ryuku base infocard.
- Fixed Nago Station bar having no music.
- Fixed extra SRP IDs having not appearing in the scanner window.
- New hitbox for Kujira GMG Whale and Bullhead Core Battlecruiser.
KUDOS
- @Aristaan - Various balance changes
- @Durandal - Hitboxes, various balance changes, Scorpion adjustments
- @Kazinsal - SRP IDs fix
- @Kuze - Scorpion Gunboat model
- @Xalrok - Various
- @Xoria - Economy changes
In other news, system editing work for 4.90 Part 2 is 99% done. At this point all we are waiting on infocards to be written and then fixing up bases and factions that have changed.
FEATURES
- Added FPS limiter plugin.
- Updated Dronebays plugin.
- Added Wyvern sellpoint to Battleship Hyono, Sigma-21.
ECONOMY
- Moved Xeno Relics mining to Planet Knossos. Malvada field disabled.
- Added BMM indie 3.0 bonus for uncut diamonds in Omega-2
- Added BMF official 4.0 bonus for uncut diamonds in Omega-2
- Added IMG indie 2.0 bonus for uncut diamonds in Omega-2
- Added IMG official 3.0 bonus for uncut diamonds in Omega-2
SYSTEMS
- Added exclusion paths to Baffin and Coronado.
FIXES
- Fixed Omicron Chi Nomad Lair CTD
- Fixed Planet Memel death zone in Konigsberg.
- Fixed Konigsberg clouds spawning too many wisps that caused FPS lag.
- Fixed Wadern Forward Base still existing in Omega-54.
- Fixed missing infocard for Recklinghausen Base in Omega-58.
- Fixed Sarissa camera.
FEATURES
- Added sellpoint for Wyvern, Wyrm and Umibozu to Narita Outpost, New Tokyo.
INFOCARDS
- Renamed Konigsberg to Thuringia, renamed everything inside the system to match the region.
- Renamed Battleship Jupiter to Battleship Mars.
FIXES
- Fixed CTD around Ryuku Base.
- Fixed CTD on Battleship McNeil Island.
- Fixed Kaibyo having one headlight floating 5 metres away from its intended mount.
ECONOMY
- All lawful ore sellpoints in Gallia moved to Sarcelles Shipping Facility, Ile-de-France.
- Added unlawful Uncut Diamonds sellpoint to Epernon Base, Orleanais.
FEATURES
- Added Nomad TLAGSNET. Detects players using Alien Jump Gates and Nomad Lanes inside the Omicrons. Available to Vagrants, K'Hara, Indies and Wild (Tomorrow)
- Battleship engine reverse fractions standardized for large battleships.
- Flaks standardized across all houses (Damage, energy, range, and velocity).
- Flak damage increased to 6550 from 4550.
- Flak projectile velocity increased to 650m/s from 350m/s.
- Energy draw adjusted for all variants to be 440,000.
- Nomad Deflector damage increased to 6000 from 4000.
- Nomad Deflector energy cost remains 380,000.
- Nomad Deflector projectile velocity increased to 700m/s from 400m/s.
- Sounds for Flaks and Gunboats standarized.
- Rheinland gunboat forward gun sound changed to battleship cerberus
- All bolt/laser/beam gunboat sounds changed to a more fitting sound effect.
- Crayterian, Legion, and Core Primary turrets given impact visual effects.
Snubs/Other
- The Celestra is now a Freighter.
- Fixed stats of Krsnik SRP fighter (-hull, +turn rate)
Sabre reverted to 4.86
- Armor: 11900 -> 11200
- Response time: 0.4720 -> 0.4835
- Strafe speed: 20000 -> 21000
- Power core: 10400 -> 11400 (You do not have to rebuy the ship for this to apply.)
- Starblazer codename slots 3 -> 5
- Added unique light SHF power core
- Werewolf and OSC Shuttle power core changed to ge_shf_power01 (You do not have to rebuy the ship for this to apply.)
- Increased SHF light power core to 1650/29000 from 1650/15900
- Increased SHF medium power core to 1950/36000 from 1650/36000
- Increased downward barrel arcs on Zappers, Lyre Heavy Transport Turret, SUPERSONIC, Manticore Class 8 beams from 10 to 40 degrees to give them firing arcs similar to normal weapons.
- TDGWM5K's Energy draw increased to 74 from 70 per shot.
- Fury 5 turret adjusted to match its gun counterpart. (Like every other turret.)
FEATURES
- Added a Bretonian NPC voice.
- Added glowmaps to lava asteroids.
- Added undockable Border Control cruisers/destroyers to Frankfurt and Honshu. They have weak loadouts that do not interfere with piracy.
- Added Wyrm, Drone, Falchion to Sesan base in Sigma-21, replaced Rheinland equipment with Kusari.
- Added Surveyor to Planet Tangier, added mining equipment.
- Added Jackdaw, Ravens Talon and Waran to Fort Ramsey.
- Changed sellpoints of Rheinland capital ships.
ECONOMY
- Attempted to standardize drops in the Nomad Azurite Reactor field to that of other fields.
SYSTEMS
- Visual changes to Omicron Rho, replaced an asteroid field with an Edge Nebula cloud.
- Modified the Nomad Azurite Reactor in Omicron Delta to allow Hegemons inside.
- Visual changes to Baffin.
- Minor visual changes to Omicron Tau, Planet Soledad.
- Changed Dur-Shurrikun so docking with it selected sends you to the Entrance Gate like a planet with a docking ring.
- Moved entrance to Planet Knossos.
- Added anti-capital anti-spawncamping loadouts to Battleship Bayern and Hyono in Sigma-21.
- Disabled Lichtenfelde's Nomad Weapons Platforms.
FIXES
- Fixed Fort Sommerda killing battleships on undock by giving it a mooring fixture.
- Fixed Otaru Border Station door.
- Fixed Hammersee not appearing on the bases visited list.
- Fixed trade lane attacks in Tau-53 happening constantly.
- Fixed missing DELUSION and TWILIGHT wrecks; restored to Omega-58 and Omicron Chi
- Removed second GUARDIAN wreck from Omega-55.
- Removed second PROMETHEUS wreck from Puerto Rico.
- Removed ARCHANGEL wreck from Sigma-59, can be looted in Tottori.
- Fixed missing hexagon particle textures on Vulture projectile.
- Fixed Light Mortar/Mortar/Light Trebuchet/Trebuchet explosions showing squares instead of the proper texture.
- Fixed Freighters having an incompatible shield equipped in their package.
