Version 0.98

[george moromisato]

Thanks for your patience. I've just uploaded the new version to the site:

http://www.neurohack.com/transcendence/Version0.98.html

http://www.neurohack.com/transcendence/Downloads.html

As usual, I haven't tested this release as much as I'd like. I'm sure there are a lot of bugs, so please let me know when you find some.

Enjoy!

[Betelgeuse]

very cool some things I like at first glance are

Weapon enhancements implemented.
Calls for reinforcements decrease if reinforcements fails to arrive.
Sapphire starts out with more money.
Stations don't offer as much money for weapons/armor/devices.
Some corporate stations have enhanced items for sale.
deviceSlots attribute to control number of slots that a device uses.
failureChance attribute on weapons.
OnAttackedByPlayer event on ship classes. (activate self destruct )
<Trade> element for station types defines what stations will buy and sell.
(objFireEvent obj event) to fire a custom event.
(dbgOutput) to output text to command line window.
<EncounterTable> definitions supported in extensions.

OnCreate event called for star systems. (is the player ship created before or after the first system is created?)

and you was afraid this one was too small

edit: it is a bit sad that the Sapphire has less maxDevices than the Wolfen considering the earlier start with the Wolfen and the better speed.

thinking about it more the Wolfen has been buffed up alot. Basically it got two extra slots with the patch spider going to 0 and the extra weapon slot. At least the Sapphire has the same credit potential as the Wolfen now the 15 MW reactor isn't anything due to you need to upgrade to 25 and that still costs the same between them.

[Yugi]

This is great!

The (player ship) freighter has a new graphic

I'd write more but I wanna play.

Edit: Noticed a "bug" already. Shouldn't devices that the ship starts with not be unknown? I added a jumpdrive and on the new ship-select screen it has the "arcane alien device" instead of "TranspaceJumpdrive".

Since, in-game, unknown things become known as soon as you install them, shouldn't they be known if you start off with them?

EditII: Noticed another bug - If you dock with the Korolev station in charon while the pirates are attacking, it acts just like an ordinary Korolev - None of the "Get out there and kill them!" stuff.

[Yugi]

OMFG!!!!!



Here I was, minding my own business, when I noticed loads of reds on my radar. "I'll go and check it out," I thought, and BAM! flew straight into those
Funnily enough, I did not survive.

Edit: Wtf?! I saved just before I died and when I go "Continue game" it crashes!


New Ares stuff:
Phobos-class Dreadnought
Deimos Destroyer
Chasm Heavy Gunship

Ares Shipyard

Cydonian Heavy shields
Kaidun shields
Ares Plasma Cannon

[george moromisato]

Edit: Wtf?! I saved just before I died and when I go "Continue game" it crashes!

Please send me the save file for this...I would love to look at the crash. Thanks!

[dvlenk6]

That screen shot looks pretty nasty .
I haven't gotten that far yet.
I just got killed right out of Rigel. Got cocky and ended flying into a Heliotrope Colony with a class II shield .

I caught a nasty case of Transcendencitis this morning and had to take the day off work, so I'll get on towards the end of the game here before too long.

[evilbob]

as much as I'd love to show off what I've found, I haven't found anything, since I haven't played yet (I tried once, but my mod isn't functional with 0.98, apparently due to an image unid change. More on that later- I belive it's just an easily fixed error)

[Kamikaze]

I think I found another bug. Mu Casser does not have an exit stargate.

It popped up as the system directly after St. K's

EDIT: I don't want to have to redownload 10 megs for bugfixes, so would a "patch" be possible? I.E replace the files that need to be replaced, no others.)

[Yugi]

I think I found another bug. Mu Casser does not have an exit stargate.

That's not a bug, trust me.

Just keep looking.

[Kamikaze]

I've still got laser weapons

Where the ____ is it?

[Yugi]

Me fighting the Ares Dread:



This thing has gotta be stronger than the Iocrym!

Here's a tip: If you're a Fleet Commander on the CSC fleet and are given a mission that goes something along the lines of "We have detected an unkown hostile. Would you like to destroy it?", DO NOT take it! (Unless you want to go up against this thing, which I bet most people will want to at least once)
It has that great huge cannon thing, and a very souped up version of the Ares Lightning Cannon.

Not only that, but the beetle-like thing with the frontal dome is very powerful a well, with that souped-up Ares Lightning Cannon.


I did eventually defeat it, with the assistance of a CSC.

[dvlenk6]

I ran into a Ares Dreadnought guarding one of the new Ares Shipyards.
I wasn't on a mission.
I had to run away. I couldn't bring the shield down and it's Plasma Cannon was tearing my shield to pieces.
Maybe I'll be able to come back later when I have better equipment. I had only a dual TeV9 and Invincible Shield. Maybe with an Iocrym Veil and a heavy ion blaster (w/ boosts on it, I have 4 of them stored up waiting to find a Heavy Ion Blaster and a fire rate enhancer saved for it too.)

[OddBob]

Yay! Played a little last night to Rigel and died...haven't seen a lot of the new stuff, but:


Fire rate enhancers are amazing....I put one on my Shuriken.

And mining is fun.

[Yugi]

Yeah, the +Fast enhancer is great

Also, weapon upgrades now pile up! 1 longzhu = 20%, 2 = %30, and adding ten percent on every longzhu afterwards.

I have a +50% IM90

[FAD]

Spoilers already and I've just finished the DL...