5.2.2

[Barrier]

Discovery 5.2.2, released on Dec 1.

- Added: Tribute to our friend and community member Connor, who passed away in November. Nergal canonized, character Rebecca Cotton moved to West Point as a Liberty Navy Lieutenant. More details to the two assets will be given in the next hotfix, due to the unfortunate event happening just before the patch.
- Added: Omicron Alpha soft rework - flavor set pieces, patrols, QA pass (rumors, infocards, etc.)
- Added: Omicron Gamma soft rework - flavor set pieces, patrols, QA pass (rumors, infocards, etc.)
- Added: Thuringia Guard Forces are now in command of restricted areas in Frankfurt and Thuringia
- Added: AI (the faction) re-added properly everywhere
- Added: Rochester Outcast NPC
- Added: Experimental jumpgate in Connecticut
- Added: A secondary texture to Platinum Asteroids to create a clear contrast between different "pieces" of the mineable asteroid.
- Added: "Rockhound" Cruiser Rocket Launcher: a dumbfire missile designed for (new) mining that can hold its own in combat
- Added: "Stonebreaker" Battlecruiser Rocket Launcher: a slightly larger but equally dumb version of the Rockhound
- Added: Ship Dealer HUD now shows page count and current page you're browsing.
- Added: More ship buy locations (Borderworld snub line at Bristol Bay and Freeport 6; various at Damstadt; various at Wichter)
- Added: Military Salvage now uses less cargo space on Fighters and Bombers through a volume override
- Added: Gaian bonuses for Food Ration Farming and Artifact Concealment
- Added: Transport spawns in Galileo
- Added: A wreck in New London
- Added: Coronado comet FX and object entry
- Added: Drone and Kusari GB to Heaven's Gate and Aonyobo, along with GB equipment
- Added: Lesser Nomad Prototype, Lesser Nomad Hybrid Blaster, Lesser Nomad Hybrid Cannon. Class 1 guns for Wild
- Added: Omega-48 infocard for the Gran Canaria mooring terminal
- Added: Clientside crash logging

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- Changed: Omicron Alpha upscaled
- Changed: Corsica Shipyard drydocks merged into one base
- Changed: Omicron Gamma upscaled
- Changed: Reduced Omicron Gamma sun corona size
- Changed: Rhodes ships merged into Tripoli
- Changed: Carrier Orion has returned to Inverness
- Changed: Battlecruiser Trier has moved its hunting grounds
- Changed: Docking ring replacements for story consistency (Crete, Malta - mooring terminal; Akabat, Gammu, Nauru, Gran Canaria - atmospheric entry; Pygar - removed)
- Changed: Slightly repositioned various objects in Kappa
- Changed: Kappa radiation damage decreased
- Changed: Houston junction repositioned
- Changed: Omicron Theta minor patrol and area changes
- Changed: Reduced Inishmore size in Dublin
- Changed: Galileo buoys
- Changed: Champagne object improvements
- Changed: Tau-29 <-> Freeport 6 lane extended due to proximity to Shinjuku
- Changed: Further increased the lethality of deadly minefields.
- Changed: Encounter NPC hitpoints reduced
- Changed: The AI have taken over Secundus and Primus. All your base are belong to us.
- Changed: Improved Benford infocard
- Changed: Bochum wreck infocard
- Changed: All Battlecruiser thrust speed reduced by 10 m/s.
- Changed: All Cruiser impulse speed reduced by 10 m/s.
- Changed: Cruiser Primary Turret dispersion halved; power usage reduced; energy damage removed.
- Changed: Battlecruiser Primary Turret damage damage increased; power usage reduced; energy damage removed.
- Changed: Cruiser flak shield/energy damage reduced.
- Changed: Slight fighter/bomber gun efficiency formula adjustments.
- Changed: Ikazuchi (Kudestroyer prototype) now has a defense turret slot
- Changed: Pygar's economy has moved to Corfu
- Changed: Platinum producer price increased by $20
- Changed: Econ and distances adjusted based on various system changes
- Changed: Modified Rhodes list of buy/sell commodities
- Changed: Reduced thruster recipe requirements
- Changed: Some contraband-related econ changes. TL;DR: Concealed Contraband now sells better on lawful bases, while smuggling and unlawful stations are happy to pay just as much for non-concealed stuff
- Changed: Bretonia Cruiser Liner cargo increased by 100 units
- Changed: Gunboat and Frigate strafe force increased; significant strafe power drain added.
- Changed: Codename weapons no longer use cargo space
- Changed: Sunfury 1s are all Sunfrenzy 1s
- Changed: Hogosha snub weapon slots shuffled
- Changed: Barge nanobots merged into hull
- Changed: Updated ship stat infocards to be more clear
- Changed: Nomad missiles rebalanced
- Changed: Archon camera improved
- Changed: Tachi and Wyvern cameras improved
- Changed: Various transport and capital ship camera acceleration tweaks
- Changed: Large Train turret view zoomed out
- Changed: MND bases ship sellpoints updated
- Changed: Sabre, Lynx, Lich, and Eagle camera changes. Damaged Eagle bank angle increased
- Changed: Rebel, Banshee, Prosecutor camera updates
- Changed: Reduced the cargo expenditure of hyperspace survey modules.
- Changed: Democritus now have passenger volume overrides (part of Class 10)
- Changed: Unstable JH effect optimized.
- Changed: Nomad lair generators in Tohoku are vulnerable for the siege.

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- Fixed: Shutendoji loadout
- Fixed: Sigma-17 Samura Platform repositioned
- Fixed: LN shooting its Alaskan friends
- Fixed: POB model LOD distances more consistent
- Fixed: Magellan - New York jumpgate infocard
- Fixed: Shigeakiki recipe now consumes sake
- Fixed: Reducing ship collisions with Erie
- Fixed: Cleanser infocard
- Fixed: Supply depot solar type
- Fixed: Solarius station announcer remembered its name
- Fixed: Atmospheric entry points are now mute
- Fixed: Tau-23 anomaly spawns
- Fixed: NPCs hogging docking at Wichter
- Fixed: Undocking from Aonyobo Annex
- Fixed: Gallic lane infocards in Orleanais
- Fixed: Nomad hybrid cloak infocard
- Fixed: SPRINGROSE thruster drain
- Fixed: GNI bonus for Exotic Systems added.
- Fixed: Nightmare torpedo and Harpoon sometimes not tracking. Nightmare - motor changed to accelerate through its arming time. Lowered top_speed by 10ms. Increased lifetime by about 300m. Harpoon - Lifetime increased by 200m, seeker range reduced by 100m
- Fixed: Various Gallic infocards
- Fixed: Battlecruiser Core Distributor is now a Power Plant instead of a negative drain Shield Generator
- Fixed: Storta file entries and docking bay animation
- Fixed: Outcast BS and Destroyer NPC loadouts
- Fixed: Ships are no longer impossible to select when in a high-solar-count areas such as Primus Orbit
- Fixed: Dumbfire missiles now produce reticles as if they were guns
- Fixed: Missiles no longer appear as standing still for a split second after being fired in Multiplayer
- Fixed: Missiles now list their muzzle velocity in the infocard
- Fixed: Tractor failing in some very specific circumstances.

@Aingar - Coding, Infocards, QOL
@Alex. - Keeping It All Running
@Antonio - Infocards, NPCs, QOL, Story, Systems
@Barrier - Systems
@Enko - Econ
@Erremnart - Infocards, Story
@Fab - Art
@Haste - Balance, Econ, Infocards
@HonourWolf - Balance, Econ, Infocards, QOL
@jammi - Infocards, Story, Systems
@Kauket - Art
@Skorak - Systems
@Sombs - Systems
@Titan* - Art, NPCs

@Laz - CrashWalker, the clientside crash report utility.