The first update for Discovery Freelancer 4.85: Reunion will soon go online. With months of hard work in which a major part of the dev team participated, this update includes significant balance changes, improved mining system and trade routes, as well as changes related to systems, ship models, infocards, and serverside tools. And, of course, hundreds of various bug fixes.
Most players will be able to update automatically via Cannon's Discovery Updater. If you cannot update automatically for some reason, please download the update from the link available in the next posts of this thread, and follow installation instructions on how to apply it.
We encourage other server administrators to update the mod on their servers as soon as possible.
New in Discovery 4.85 Reunion Update 1 (4.85.0):
- Updated mining system. Many asteroid fields have been moved and new fields added. Most fields now drop metal ore as a commodity rather than the original commodity. Several existing ships have been re-tasked as mining ships and a new mining turret have been added.
- New command line options are available when launching Freelancer. These include suppression of new and departing player messages, wide screen support and player chat logging. See below for a description of the available options.
- Support for a server controlled option has been added to disable the ship power plant when the ship enters cruises. The power plant will not start charging again until the ship leaves cruise.
- A anticheat feature has been added to prevent the most common ini file based cheats.
- Trade route system improved significantly, to provide more routes - and better routes - to players.
- Cruising now drains ship energy as a means to avoid abuse of cruise in combat situations.
- Significant balance changes related both to whole ship classes (Bombers, Freighters), and to specific ships. Details on balance changes are available below in this thread, and will be explained further on the forums.
- Multiple improvements for specific ships, equipment, and systems.
- Fixed a large number of bugs related to systems, infocards, equipment, and other areas.
Huge thanks for making this update possible go to:
- Cannon for the command line tools, anticheat, bug fixing, infocard work, update packages, and lots of various stuff;
- Dusty Lens, Blodo and Cannon for the mining update, with contributions from Seth Karlo and NEXUS;
- Mjolnir for creating update packages, leading the balance work, bug fixing, and updating hardpoints on certain models;
- Dusty Lens for huge infocard work and other contributions;
- Jinx for model updates and other contributions;;
- MarvinCZ for NPC accessories code, and balance contributions;
- Jure for balance contributions, and organizing the testing process;
- Xoria for trade routes redesign;
- Blodo, Exile, mwerte, Bluntpencil, MarvinCZ, Dab, Frozen, Lohingren, McNeo, Kuraine, Kress, SevereTrinity, Hyung Soong, Mule for working on balance, code, and testing;
- Markam, Enko, Dart, HotShot, Fletcher and others whom I missed for testing;
- TheMilliers for the new BHG BS hitbox.
- Igiss for fooling around and pretending he's organizing the process;
- Treewyrm for providing additional host for the update.
In the next posts of this thread, you will find a detailed changelog and download link for the update.
