Patch notes

General Gameplay

• Fixed technology becoming instantly fully charged when repaired
• Fixed ship appearing on incorrect pad in space station after loading
• Added interactable objects that required certain tech to collect
• Added shootable objects that require certain tech to mine
• Rebalanced resource availability and technology charge requirements
• Fixed initial game flow – where travelling to space too quickly after visiting the monolith could prevent the first atlas station notification appearing
• Prevented player being prompted to scan for buildings before leaving the system after visiting the monolith
• Prevented laser and melee attacks while in space from attempting to edit terrain
• Improved calculation of resources received when mining terrain
• Renamed Signal Scanners to Signal Boosters
• Signal booster objects updated to search for playable bases, suit upgrade pods, and mineable resources
• Removed signal booster from being distributed on terrain, as player can now build them
• Improved accuracy of environment detection, fixing cases where it rained inside caves
• Fixed galactic waypoints not loading correctly across saves
• Removed atlas pass v1 requirement from doors in stations
• Suit upgrade pods are no longer spawned in stations
• Suit upgrade pods can now only be used once
• Fixed collision in anomaly that was causing issues when exiting larger ships
• Increased the number of different NPC character models generated per system
• Fixed the game always remaining in day time for players who began their save prior to patch 1.03
• Fixed a potential crash in foliage instance renderer

Localisation

• Fixed stats page in asian languages
• Fixed multiple issues with asian language formatting
• Multiple improvements and fixes to localisation text in all languages

UI

• Added new icons for specific types of primary resources
• Fixed health bars not appearing on some targets
• Added hazard and life support drain indicators
• Fixed mission messages not appearing in a timely fashion
• Beacons now notify the player that they will save the game
• Fixed crash when creature IK animations were updated under certain conditions on the discovery screen
• Improved navigation in discovery UI
• Massive speed improvements to browsing huge discovery lists
• Increased size of discovery storage
• Added option to load “Earliest” previous save in Options menu
• Fixed weapon naming
• Added icon to remind players of the reload button when weapon is empty
• Multiple fixes for viewing discoveries

PS4

• Added photo mode
• Large optimisations to the engine to accommodate base building

PC

• Added support for up to 8 mouse buttons
• Fixed better order position history for mouse smoothing
• Fixed bug where setting gamma to zero gave a fully bright rather than fully dark image
• Fixed hard-limiting on save sizes, with appropriate warning about free space on boot
• Player is now notified when shaders are being loaded
• Fixed occasional crash on exit
• Fixed performance of trail renderer for some AMD cards
• Large optimisations to the engine to accommodate base building

Generation

• Added biome specific plants
• Adopted new method of distributing resource plants on terrain, for more lifelike clumps of plants
• Improved distribution of plant life across all terrain types
• Introduced visual differentiation of red, green and blue star systems
• Introduced new mineable terrain resources found only in red, green and blue star systems
• Reduced average building frequency
• Introduced planets with elevated building density
• Introduced planets with no buildings or sentient life
• Increased the proportion of lush and tropical planets
• Decreased the proportion of lifeless planets
• Fixed bug where multiple ships could appear, overlapping, at the player’s start scene
• Prevented certain building types being incorrectly placed underwater
• Prevented multiple buildings occasionally being placed in overlapping positions
• Prevented buildings occasionally being placed intersecting with the terrain
• Improved and altered per-planet terrain resource generation, improving gameplay and visuals

Creatures

• Fixed elevation cache mismatches, causing errors in creature knowledge and pathing
• Fixed slow memory leak in creature role allocation
• Improved creature animation speeds
• Fixed issues where some creatures turns had the incorrect frame count
• Fixed occasional crash when interacting with creatures

Atmospherics

• Increased proportion of vibrant blue skies
• Corrected cloud levels for clear skies
• Improved average cloud level settings
• Fixed cloud rendering while flying in your ship
• Improved atmosphere depth when transitioning to space
• Increased fidelity of atmosphere rendering on nearest planet
• Improved atmospheric fog as you fly to a planet
• Improved fog method for planets seen on the horizon

Terrain

• Improved terrain generation algorithms
• Improved and extended blend areas between different terrain noise types
• Terrains now generate more open spaces
• Smaller features now appear at nearer lods to improve visuals in the distance
• Fixed objects being placed on incorrect terrain material types
• Improved resolution of distant planet terrain
• Decreased differences between planet as seen from space and actual planet terrain
• Fixed seams on planets when seen from space
• Improvements to terrain material selection and terrain material blending
• Terrain generation priority and cost calculation improvements
• Fixed terrain generation angle calculations, which would previously prevent nearest region being generated first
• We now generate caves on lower terrain lods to decrease visual differences in lower detail terrain
• Introduced more varied and vibrant colouring to terrain for each biome
• Decreased frequency of brown terrain colour selections
• Changed texture scales to improve transition between terrain lods
• Improved terrain colour combinations to add variety and better match terrain contouring
• Improved terrain texture blending method to better retain vibrant colours
• Improved settings for hue, saturation and value noise variation on terrain
• Fixed a number of issues causing holes to be seen in the planet terrain
• Fixed occasional crash when mining terrain

Visuals

• Fixed colour of muzzle flashes on player weapons
• Added muzzle flashes to ship weapons
• Added cockpit lighting for damage and weapon firing
• Added debris to freighter explosion effect
• Improved freighter cargo explosions
• Improved photon cannon hit and space explosion effects
• Improved turret explosion effect
• Improved grass colour selection
• Improved grass colouring method to match underlying terrain colour
• Improved grass placement to match gradient of terrain, and rocky terrain slope patches
• Improved lighting on grass
• Improved alpha cutoffs and blending for grass in the distance
• Improved colouring method for on-planet buildings
• Fixed “pop” in lighting when flying between planets
• Fixed incorrect lighting seen in shadow areas
• Improved lighting method when rendering tree leaves
• Fixed procedural texturing on objects with multiple overlapping textures
• Fixed size of certain texture atlas normal maps
• Fixed texture scaling on asteroids
• Zinc plant is now more obvious when it has been gathered
• Fixed occasional rendering errors due to precision on cockpit during warp
• Fixed pulse lines not appearing when pulse driving out from planet atmosphere
• Fixed shadowing artefacts on imposters

Space

• Improved asteroids to allow much denser fields
• Improved explosion effects
• Fixed scale of moons on the space map
• Added freighter groups to the space map
• Changed distribution of resources in asteroids
• AI ships will now clear asteroids in their path
• Planets are now scannable from space to see their resources

Space Combat

• Fixed bounty targets warping out too soon
• Improved HUD indicators in space combat
• Added damaged ship effect on AI starships
• Added formation flying
• Improved locking on passive starships
• Improved AI combat flight patterns
• Added new ship weapon technology
• Holding brake whilst turning now activates drift for fast turns
• Improved AI ship freighter attacking
• Improved freighter targeting code when under attack by enemy ships

Freighters

• Fixed pulse drive to prevent travel through freighters
• Improved docking code
• Added hangar to the lead freighter
• Added docking in freighters
• Added icon to accessible freighter hangars
• Added colouring to cargo drops to identify what is in them
• You can now only pick up cargo drops that will fit in your inventory
• Added auxiliary freight ships to freighter groups
• Added alert lights and alarm audio for when freighters are in combat
• Improved turret lights and explosions
• Improved muzzle flashes on freighter turrets
• Added indicator of cargo contents
• Freighter Commanders now give rewards for rescuing them from pirate attack
• Fixed collision on freighter cargo containers

Audio

• Updated the lush ambience to make the wind sounds less noisy
• Ambient background fauna now checks for the presence of creatures
• Added rain on foliage
• Added rain on ship
• Added freighter specific footsteps
• When on a dead planet, no music will play
• Round table prop now plays an appropriate sound
• Added more music to the loading sequence and game start
• Added audio to new base building props
• Created sounds for new base building props
• Added audio to freighter doors and internal freighter ambiences
• Added freighter explosions
• Added freighter alarm
• Added ambient radio comms when approaching a freighter
• Fixed missing sounds when in a space station due to the mix settings
• Multi-tool upgrades now affect audio
• Lots of minor mix changes
• Changed some compression settings for PS4 audio to make the sub-channel audio play more reliably