Outpost Zero news & patch notes

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• Fix player characters not dismounting vehicles when they are destroyed
• Fix vehicle unstuck to be slightly different than "fell out of world" and not explode the bike
• Fix new player restart when they have an existing body - will now prioritize spawning in any living bodies after dying over spawning a new one
• Fix a possible crash when hosting or playing SP after visiting the server screen
• Fix memory leak and progressive performance issue
• Fix scanner and structure interacts for certain
• Add a bunch of consumable items that grant various types of XP
• Rework science lab as a crafting station which crafts those items
• Fix for some UI issues

Greetings Overseers, Today we have a patch of performance and bug fixes for you. See below for full patch notes.

• Fix a bug with attack only animals causing bots to be passive
• Fix electric floor damage radius, increase damage by 5x, and make them snap properly and unable to be stacked. Fix welding electric floors with handy
• Fix timer switch
• Make fallaway floor work properly (retracted when powered on, regular floor when powered off)
• Fixup handy upgrade tiers on reload
• Fix pressure switch to work based on "hit"
• Fix some issues that may have allowed bots to walk through certain walls/doors
• Fix for possible crash in server list
• Show all incompatible servers in server list, but greyed out if version doesn't match
• Better status info on server list
• Add right click to copy member and colony ID to clipboard
• Show all offline memebers in your own colony
• Add WipeCorp cheat
• Performance improvements for servers and hosted games
• Fix some checkbox issues with the social menu
• Fixes for Compass and Map UI performance issues on client, and make sure they update more consistently
• Fix weapon range stat display
• Fix for a possible client-side hitch that could occur every 5 sec in dense areas
• Fix weapon and armor names prefix/postfix to be properly based on stats (should retroactively fix old item names so everything isn't "Accurate X of Marksmanship")
• Fix a bug causing texture quality settings not to properly apply or load causing memory issues

Greetings Overseers! We have a patch of several bug fixes for you here today. Please note below - Fix a bug with promoting other players to corporation leader - Allow players to rename their corporations by clicking the name field in the "P" menu and editing it -Nerf drilling damage versus buildings by 2/3 -Buff pipeline armor from 50% to 90% - Significantly increase damage from rockets vs animals and bots - Fix a bug with the "AOE" damage of rockets not always applying - Fix an issue when player relogs or reloads a savegame when riding a vehicle, the player should now properly control the vehicle again - If a player "endlessly falls" through the unstuck teleport, the 3rd attempt will kill the player and teleport their corpse to their home location - Hopefully fix a bug allowing players to glitch through doors - Fix a bug where drop pod check wasnt firing on player connection, and fix drop pod contents - Fix the PvP Droppod reward when killing an enemy player so that it doesn't cover their corpse - Fix conquest "objectives" to show proper keybind to bring up Social menu with conquest leaderboard - Make it clear which Player/Corp is responsible for destroying your bots/buildings with explosive and projectile damage - Make "building and bot ownership" transmit more quickly upon connecting to server - Fix a bug where you would see subtitles in center screen for AI outside hearing range - all subtitles for AI VO should now be on their chat bubble - Fix a bug in Multiplayer where weapon wasn't visible until re-equipping it, and on other players until they re-equipped

Greetings Overseers, We've patched our servers to deal with the lag issues, and some save file issues that occurred around server reset time. Servers will be down to patch for about 20 min, and then should be back up. This patch should also make Hosted matches run much faster for the Host. Thanks The Dev Team

Greetings Overseers, Small hotfix patch today that will force load all old/orphaned savefiles which cause people to sometimes find their bases missing. You should no longer have any missing bases after this patch, aside from engine version updates that may invalidate old files.

Greetings Overseers, Today we have a small hotfix patch intended to fix some issues with savegames. Here's more info - SP games will no longer auto-restart - Fixed Auto-restart on servers which had a possibility of wiping savefiles - Add a keybind for auto-attack toggle - Fix for canceling infinite crafting - Fix for missing UI showing skill unlock needed for upgrading structures - Fix bugs where players may respawn in drop pod outside of the map - Fix some pirate loot drop bugs where lower level pirates had higher rare drop chances than higher level pirates, flip this back around so it's correct

Greetings Overseers, We have a hotfix patch live now with the following bug fixes - Re-Fix hosted online game name to be the player's name in a way that won't cause crashes - Fix a bunch of structures that won't place with new support rules - Increase max UI interact range in case you UI focus something but are far away from it - Fix several cases where skill text doesn't match actual levels - Removed duplicate items in the machine shop and equipment table - Tutorial: Move "set drone order to build" to its own tutorial bullet so it's less confusing for some players - Fix for being able to slip through doors - Increased mining radius for things like large trees - Don't show "skill to unlock" in the structure upgrade button if it's already skilled and just missing resources - Fix military rank not spawning you with some items

https://imgur.com/DlzR7DD.gif Greetings overseers! Outpost Zero is out now featuring a heavy 1.0 patch.

Launch Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eCkmG4TThE&feature=youtu.be Think of Outpost Zero as a "first person real time strategy game" mixed with survival elements. You survive on an alien planet fighting the harsh environment, hostile locals, space pirates, all the while building out a safe home for yourself (and your friends) -- and build processes with your AI controlled drones. Unlike other survival games out there, in Outpost Zero you build yourself an army of drones that automate resource gathering, and help you in battles against other players and the environment. Welcome to Outpost Zero, and enjoy! https://store.steampowered.com/app/677480/Outpost_Zero/

1.0 Patch Changelog

Fix for animals occasionally stuck in terrain

Fix hosted game session name

Make it possible to search for friends in hosted games

Fix for occasional lost save data and XP/Skills

Improve shadowrunner flee behavior

Fix various server log spam and errors

Visual improvements to handy overheat steam

Unlock repair o tron at Defense Construction 3 like it says in the tooltip

Fix a possible crash when exiting to Main Menu

Fix a silent crash upon exiting the game, causing it to remain "running" in steam

Replace EA loading screen

Fix a bug where upgraded handy would revert back to Handy Mk1

Fix a possible bug with AI finding items after merging corporations

Default scrapper and autocrafter to AI Ignore.

Make autocrafter UI visible from afar with power icons.

Make it a bit easier to place walls slightly into rocks and terrain

Fix for pirates not dropping rare loot

Allow you to snap walls to side of ramp

Fix a possible structure exploit causing infinite support

Players can no longer fly up out of the map

Greetings Overseers! Today we have a small hotfix patch for several high priority bugs 1) A bug with disconnecting from the server after a few seconds of play 2) Corporate log not working properly upon login 3) Fix for respawning inside drop pod 4) Fixes for stacking ramps on top of one another and using them for support 5) Fixes for some bots and players falling out of the world and not properly recovering Note that structures that used exploits to gain support when they shouldn't may collapse with this patch.

Greetings Overseers! We have a small patch of bug fixes and optimizations for you today. See the full patch notes below

PATCH NOTES

• Drone bots will now properly play their idle animations
• Make AI less "escape artisty", add failsafes to prevent AI from getting "stuck"
• Fix minion bot "retire" spam
• Make animals better at attacking. Improve crab attack anim
• Fix a bug with AI not finding the items in storage they need for crafting
• Fix building and animal attacks in water
• Show proper amounts when picking up resources in notification popups near player panel
• Significant optimizations to server side networking code
• Fix resource manifest showing bogus resources
• Fix for melee block resulting in negative armor values
• Make level 3+ handy never overheat
• Fix turn left/right binding which wasn't showing in options menu
• Reskin proximity switch properly, give it a proper name and description
• Plants rare resource popout properly skinned to look like wood/carbon
• Fix Corporate advanced crafting skill definitions so Miners are displayed only in the proper spot
• Add expansion slots to many of the armors
• Increase placement distance of certain large structures like extractors and large foundations
• Don't show an permanent enemy compass icon for player
• Clicking Show offline in social menu immediately refreshes
• Default social menu to "show all"
• Fix hotbar slots sometimes being reset upon login
• Fix a bug that prevented players from leaving a corporation

https://i.imgur.com/0zUgRso.gif Greetings everyone! Starting now and until next Thursday, Outpost Zero is free to try and is 30% off! The Free Week is to help us test out a few updates as the game gears up to go into 1.0 at the end of the Free Week! Go ahead and give it a try: https://store.steampowered.com/app/677480/Outpost_Zero/

Greetings Overseers! We have a couple of bug fixes and balance tweaks here today, as follows

PATCH NOTES

• Add "join our discord" button to main menu
• Update our major version to 0.9
• Make esc not hide objectives when pressed, just stop VO
• Fix ammo scrapper dupe bug - No more scrapping ammo and consumables
• Update to conquest UI and objectives. Move Conquest UI to social menu. Updates to some text and UI layouts to make it clearer what's going on. Add "objectives" to conquest colony so player generally knows what to try and do.
• Fix for a possible bug with animal loot, and a balance bug allowing high level rare drops from level 1 animals
• Fix some "use" inconsistencies allowing players to stay connected to energy rocks and crafting stations
• Add a harvesting Popup when harvesting animal, which also informs player about harvesting when inventory is full
• Various server side and single player optimizations
• Fix AI unable to access non-storage structures to find
• Add "JoinCorp" cheat which will directly join player to a corporation
• Increase T2 and T3 rocket launcher base damage by a lot but reduce their stack counts
• Make animal damage depend on LOS check. Reduce animal damage vs structures by a further 67%
• Animals have an easier time hitting you while kiting, fix mauler charge to properly damage
• Fix a bug with other UE4 survival game inis clobbering ours causing keybinds to break
• Increase C4 weapon radius and damage
• "Special" pirates now only appear once every 4 raids with Pirate Captains, and there will be max 1 "special" pirate per raid
• Make pirate captain a bit larger and more menacing
• AI Crafting behavior improvements - cycle through aborted crafting tasks faster instead of wandering in between each one by skipping tasks that can't be accomplished. Announce when they abort task for better player-side debugging.
• Fix a bug resulting in too many Pirate Builders
• Fix a bug with weapon equips not working on the first try when dragged from another inventory
• Fix a bug with picking up weapons dropped on the ground
• Fix anonymous user data sending
• Weapon pickups no longer show incongruous ammo counts in notification popups
• Fix control buildings cheat to also control AI bots
• Fix a bug allowing AI to go outside their task zone to retrieve items
• Fix Desperate low power AI cancelling charging stations!
• Pirate compass warning will always be large instead of fading into distance
• Fix a bug that caused compass points to duplicate and overwhelm the UI
• Update AI combat state combat so it doesn't result in "confused".
• Update AI recharge state so consuming energy pack doesn't result in "confused".
• Pirates can only unstuck "upwards"
• Add occasional job switch to AI crafters, ensure they don't get laser focused on just one job

https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/013/361/404/large/outpost-zero-outpostzero-leftbehind.jpg?1539242109 Greetings Overseers! We have a major patch for you today! Of note, we have implemented several major new features - Pirate Bases, Dropships, and AutoCrafters! Pirate Bases: The pirates are fed up with corporate control of the planet and have started to develop a foothold of their own! Find the bases in the world, destroy their defense turrets, decommission their pirate workers and then loot the spoils for yourself! Dropships: Build these new huge VTOL flying machines at a T3 vehicle pad! Dropships can hold up to 4 of your buddies for fun raiding missions, and fire T1 rockets at a limited range! AutoCrafters: For those who don't want to depend on the whimsy of hapless minions, unlock an AutoCrafter with your Advanced Crafting skill, and place them on Machine Shops and Materials Processors. AutoCrafters will automatically craft from their own inventory just like a bot, but without the annoying jibber jabber. You can even pipe in and out of their inventories to move items around and truly automate your production facilities. See a full patch list below.

UI

• Play a warning sound when displaying warning text
• Fix a bug that caused minion stats not to display correctly in the UI
• Fix for a "double interact" UI that can popup when you finish building something
• Make sure the tooltip always disappears when you close your inventory
• Fix for some inconsistencies with scanning when playing multiplayer
• POIs on the compass and map will now have better icons displaying what the thing is
• Better description for multitool to indicate that it is useful for crafting
• Fix vehicle damage popups which weren't previously displaying
• Better info on who/what killed a player or bot (death by power loss is now "Power Loss" instead of "Gaiya", death by falling is "Gravity")
• Fix for some interact inconsistencies that required players to tap "USE" several times to open something
• ESC will now properly cancel all VO and messages including scanning messages.
• Hitting ESC 3x will still prompt to cancel tutorial, but if the player refuses will not prompt again until 6 more hits
• Eliminate "double notification" of player death

AI

• NEW: Added randomly generated pirate bases. Pirate bases will spawn in the world and pirate builders will inhabit them and begin to build and upgrade them
• NEW: Add "auto loot dead bodies" behavior to AI in patrol and following modes. Patrol bots will also drop off their loot at pipelines or storage in range.
• Stop AI from spinning and facing an invalid location in between moves and targeting
• Add new aggression stances for minions - aggressive to bots and aggressive to animals. Both these settings will be defensive by default but will attack the specified target on sight
• Pirates will now be aggressive to bots by default so they are less likely to be sidetracked by animals when raiding your base
• Pirates will now properly attack structures that they are set to raid
• Animals corpses will now expire after 5 min if not looted
• Fix for minion "unstuck" behavior
• Fix animals that get stuck on rocks and such and then "rubberband" on the server
• Fix a bug causing pirates not to deliver their VO lines in combat
• Fix a bug causing pirates not to drop loot if killed by turrets
• Make loot drops more consistent between pirates and animals based on level, sharing a global rare loot table
• Fix biggs death animation, better stomp FX, reduce stomp damage so it doesn't quite 1-shot newbies
• All animals now do less damage to structures
• Fix nightstalker running animation so it looks correct
• Greatly reduce AI handy welding and impact sounds so a large factory floor doesn't sound like such a cacophony

STRUCTURES

• NEW: Autocrafter that can be piped to/from and will craft from its inventory like a bot. Can only be placed on Machine Shops and Material Processors.
• NEW: Proximity switch that toggles when an enemy bot is sensed nearby
• NEW: Timer switch that toggles on/off on a set timer
• NEW: Alarm that plays a sound and shows a warning light when turned on
• NEW: Added new "drop shield" structure that can be placed from your hotbar in enemy territory. Drop shields only last a short time and can be used as cover.
• Fix a bug with large foundation support. Fix snapping of large foundations. Large foundations can now be placed much "higher" from the terrain.
• Turrets now all fire projectiles which can be dodged at longer distances
• Fix a bug with pipe and connecting pipe collision, should now match visuals much better
• Change base shield visuals to look cooler
• Change territory claimer visuals to look cooler and also fix "disappearing" tiers
• Better science lab description to show what can actually be researched there, and fixed science lab visuals
• Structure upgrades now unlock with the specific skill, instead of with a global "upgrades" skill (i.e. upgrade Power Systems to unlock higher Steam Generator tiers)
• Structures that don't require unlock can be upgraded by improving the "craftsman" skill
• Fix "stackable" large ceiling
• Enemy players can no longer access friendly structures except to loot their inventory.
• Nuclear generators will no longer block wall placement around them
• Pipelines will now enforce a one-stack per item type limit, so that an entire T3 pipe can't be clogged by one resource type. Autocrafter has the same ability so it can't be filled with materials leaving no space for crafting results.

GAMEPLAY

• NEW: Add Pirate Jetbiker and Mind Controlled animals to pirate raids at higher levels.
• NEW: Added a VTOL dropship to the game that can carry up to 4 teammates and fire rockets
• NEW: Handy now has unlockable levels. Base handy stats are buffed, but handy will now "overheat" after being used for too long without a break
• NEW: Added a bunch of "accessory" items that can be equipped in the offhand as stats boosts. Accessories can only be found as rare loot from pirates and animals.
• Make it so "dropped items" reflects the actual visuals of the thing that dropped it.
• Vehicles now dismount with Q
• Vehicles will now do a small "jump" with space, and space will make the dropship ascend, crouch will descend
• Vehicles now strafe with A/D by default instead of turning when driving
• Vehicles should now drive more stably with less rubber banding on a server
• Reduce all vehicle costs by about 50%
• Fix handy welding sound so that it no longer "cuts out"
• Performance improvements on server
• Fixed a bug that would cause ammo counts to desync on an equipped weapon when looted
• Fix a bug with viewing player inventory when riding a vehicle
• Audio pass to make distance explosions and gunshots more audible
• Fix a crash on the server search menu
• SMG Tier 3 now uses 7.62 ammo
• Fix a bug causing armor to be invisible on respawn
• Fix a bug causing max rogue level not to work properly with pirates
• Time of Day will now be saved in an SP game (will not reset to 10am upon restart)
• Added tutorial objectives for unlocking the players first skill
• Added "/cheat theonecheattorulethemall" which gives players a big stack of each resource, weapon, ammo, armor, base stats and etc
• Left click will now throw grenades and C4 instead of having to right-click + left-click to throw them
• Make sure all higher tier weapons have distinct visuals
• All weapons now do more damage across the board, bringing T1 and T3 weapons closer in terms of overall damage. Slightly increase animal HPs from mid->high level ranges to compensate for this.

Greetings Overseers! Here are a bunch of bug fixes in today's patch. Of note - we are fixing the walking Drop Pod bug, the issue causing Crafting/Hauling AI to run way outside their job zone in search of items, and more. Check the full patch change log below

• Remove superfluous tooltip on non-equipment slots (i.e. "head" tooltip when looking at a storage locker)
• Add some rare random loot that occasionally spawns a valuable droppod, decked out corpse, salvageable wreckage, or storage chest with various different loot packages in place of animals
• Corporation invite will now popup a confirmation box (instead of just having to click on text in chat, which is still there)
• Interact widget fixes - increase text size, make sure colors are correct, don't show "0 hp" on stuff that doesn't have HP, adjust layout to look better
• Fix spawn sequence (walking around droppod)
• Slight modification to how AI unstuck works - if no navigable area nearby, teleport to a random point in 100/100 bounding box
• Make sure rare resource shows proper "gathered" text and show gathered text at proper location (fixes stuff like water gathering) Change text color, pfx, and sound to be more overtly "bonus". Make rare resource ejection more "floaty" and bigger so it's a bit more challenging. Assign rare resources to deposits that didn't have them. Add a rare resource multiplier, and give all plants a chance to spawn a 10x carbon rare resource.
• Fix for Rebinds: No more swapping rebinds or trying to "fix them up". Properly catch mouse input on rebind menu.
• Start window on primary monitor
• Make "hoverbike out of fuel" more intuitive (turn off lights, eliminate rubberbanding, generally make it less buggy)
• Make esc properly escape all menus and also escape non-VO based warning messages in top right
• Fix a bug causing pirates that "timeout" to drop their loot
• Fix for AI running way outside their range for storage containers

Greetings Overseers! Today we have some major bug fixes for you focused on AI and building structures. We also have a couple new features - Spare Chassis - build one and respawn here! - Server performance improvements - switch to using TCP sockets instead of UDP for chat system Over the next several weeks we will be making some huge steps forward in AI robustness and "intelligence" so check back with us for the next patch! Full notes below

PATCH NOTES

• Some major fixes to building system
• Structures should always properly show green when they can be built even when connected to server, and show red when they can't
• Structures should properly account for their own size when determining if attached objects are supported
• There should no longer be any "spam stackable" structures (occupying the same space)
• Foundations can now be snapped and supported properly with one another
• Fixed a bug with electric floors giving infinite support
• Fixed/removed some confusing snap points that led to structure snaps becoming desynchronized
• AI can now deposit and grab inventory from farther away
• Fixed a bug preventing AI from finding a charging station to charge at
• Fixed a bug for AI getting hung up on small stacks of crafting ingredients
• Fixed a bug causing AI not to find some items when crafting
• AI will now occasionally drop off their inventory when crafting, instead of waiting until they are COMPLETELY full, so other bots can use the fruits of their labors
• AI will do a better job of "unstucking" themselves if they clearly spawn or find their way inside a foundation
• Make animal melee attacks less laggy on a server game
• TAB will always reopen inventory, not skill menu if it was last open
• Changed it so all "random" item interacts show a ? widget instead of the power icon (dropped backpacks, oddities, etc)
• Convert the chat system to use TCP connections instead of UDP connections (major server performance improvement)
• Greatly expand the limitations of the Corporation Log based on new TCP connections (can now store up to 500 messages while offline)
• Fix various chat related bugs
• Damage popups from firing weapons now properly happen at the hit location, not the "root" location of the object hit
• Power grid UI has been revamped to make it clearer how it works
• Power grid UI has been added back to Crafting station
• Fix a bug with rogue weapons appearing after death, and being duplicated
• Any "owned" dropped backpack that falls beneath the world should be teleported back to the owners base
• New Building: Spare Chassis Mount - used to craft a spare chassis that the player can inhabit if they die (players will respawn into the spare chassis upon death. If no spare chassis exist they will fall in a droppod)

The patch is currently in test and should be released later tonight!

Greetings Overseers! Today we have some major fixes to AI, overhauled Pirate system, and some fixes for common structure/base building exploits and bugs. In order to accommodate these changes, we have had to wipe old save files as they were incompatible with some of the new systems. Please see below for the full patch notes.

STRUCTURES

• Fixup "old pipes" becoming invisible
• Cube is now replaced with a foundation, which is now stackable but won't allow exploiting supports
• Fix spam click structure stacking bug, ensure better authority by server over what can be placed and when
• Fix daily drop pod inventory
• Fix daily drop pod not informing players where it landed
• Power no longer transmits along pipes
• Pylons can no longer connect to hostile bases
• WIRING is now in the STRUCTURE menu (power submenu) instead of done via hotbar. Uses the same method as connecting pipes
• Double biology lab size
• Fix Science lab placement and functionality
• Fix various snap points on large structures
• Large ceilings have longer support distance

GAME

• Restore densite drops to high level animals and BIGGS
• Change the way movespeed stat works so it only affects sprint speed
• Stat bonuses are now immediately applied when a skill is unlocked
• Pirate raids will now begin at corporate value of 1M
• Revamp pirate raids so they are more consistent
• Pirates will now select a single command center, territory controller, bot, player, or high value storage container as a raid target
• Fix raid messaging so its clearer what's happening
• Pirate captains will only show up with "hard" raid, "hard" raid will only occur after 4 successful defenses

AI

• Fix for animals ignoring player
• Animals will now properly peel off aggro after chasing the player for a certain distance
• Added some debug functionality to AI to help track down stuck states
• Fixed some common stuck states in hauling and crafting trees
• Haulers can now refuel generators directly from harvesting machines
• Crafters will no longer think they have run out of inventory space if they have an unfilled stack of the item type they're making
• AI will now automatically "unstuck" themselves when they fall into the "confused" state if they can't move
• Re-add Dodge-Roll to AI combat states
• Make sure Pirate raids don't get "stuck" and last forever
• Fix mauler charge so it can't spin around on a dime and can be more easily dodged
• Make biggs stomp more obvious and easier to dodge

UI

• Add an equipment slot tooltip to inventory slots so you know which slot is which
• Fix intro movie
• Skills menu has been moved to the player inventory screen
• Fix FOV bug with Ansel enabled
• Fix UI highlight so that it's the correct color
• Fix the compass widget disappearing in certain orientations
• Revamp the corporation menu, add a corporate log showing the last several things to happen with timestamps
• Make sure that the thing that destroys your structures/bots/etc is properly identified in the warning message (including their corporate affiliation)
• Fix the active player tracker in corporate menu
• Add a large "alert" that shows over animals when they're about to execute a special move (mauler charge, crab teleport, biggs stomp)

https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/013/122/492/large/outpost-zero-outpost-zero-kabby.jpg?1538149282 Greetings Overseers! We have a hefty patch for you today - we've reworked two major systems in our game and introduced a new ability PIPELINES have been reworked to be much easier to place and more intuitive. Inflow and outflow pipes have been consolidated to one Connector pipe, and items can now be piped into ANY structure with inventory! You can now setup pipeline flows directly to your generators, turrets, scrapper, etc. SKILLS have been introduced to replace the simple XP level system. You can now spend XP on unlocking skills, which will allow you to unlock structures, tiers, character boosts, new abilities, and more. Find the SKILLS menu in the MAP tab. SKINNING mechanic has been added to the game to add to the progression system and improve the loot dropped by higher level animals as you level up. Notably, we've also fixed some major performance issues for both client and server, as well as an annoying issue causing structure misalignment when placing on the server. Now triangles should work perfectly! Below is a full list of patch notes

WORLD

• Fix the wind effect on grass and foliage around the map so it doesn't look like it slides in the ground
• Fix some lighting issues with the time of day system

STRUCTURES

• Completely reworked pipelines into one object - no more long and short ones
• Pipelines will have a "source" and "target" lock when being built so they can be setup more accurately
• Inflow and Outflow pipes have been reworked to a single "connector" pipe which can connect ANY two structures with inventory
• Made connector pipeline much more intuitive and direct to place, connecting the source and target by selection
• Fixed issues causing pipes to "move around" and connect to different things - pipes will now save and load consistently
• Fixed an issue where walls and etc wouldn't show which Corporation they belonged to
• Fixed a major client performance issue with large bases
• Fixed a major loading issue with large bases
• Fixed a major server performance issue with miners, harvesters, and extractors
• Fixed a major server misalignment issue causing compounding errors with snapping structures. Triangles should now place perfectly on the server.
• Added several missing storage filters
• Various structure collision and placement fixes

SKILLS

• Replaced XP level system with a new "skill" system. The skill menu can be found as a tab on the map and must be unlocked using XP.
• Renamed "pirate" XP to "explorer" XP, rebalanced all XP rewards for all actions
• Corp XP is now awarded for building and crafting
• Soldier XP is now awarded for fighting enemy players/bots and pirates
• Explorer XP is now awarded for fighting animals and scanning new data
• Added a bunch of new Skill unlocks, including structure unlocks and tier upgrades
• New skill system is PERSISTENT across server resets, but is not yet synced between servers (future update)

SKINNING

• Implemented a new "Skinning" system allowing players to get much higher level biological ingredients from killing animals
• Skinning can be unlocked and upgraded via the Explorer skill tree
• All animals now grant basic bio materials on death, but must be "skinned" after being killed to access the higher level materials
• Rebalanced loot for all animals

MISC

• Fix a bug causing weapons to sometimes "stop working"
• Fix a bug that wouldn't show the player talking in the chat box
• Fix a bug with keybinding - all keybinds should now be possible and work properly
• Add "off" as an anti aliasing option
• Fix a bug with disbanding a Corporation that would result in the player(s) being placed in multiple corporations and seeing strange artifacts with this
• Fix the "destroyed by" text to work with turrets and etc and inform you which Corporation owns the thing that killed you
• Fixed a bug preventing animals from destroying certain structures

Greetings Overseers! We have been hard at work on a larger content patch over the past 6 weeks. It is in testing now and should be released within the next 24 hours. Here are some of the new features you can look forward to

• Upgrade weapons with permanent enhancements
• A new scanning system and codex with unlockable entries
• A beta version of our Conquest mode
• Revamped weapons, now projectile based

See the full list of patch notes below.

CONQUEST

• Add a beta version of conquest game mode. Gaiyacite will begin spawning after a warmup period, and unlock the following Win conditions
• Pyrrhic Victory - Build and fully charge a volcano bomb in the mouth of the volcano
• Economic Victory - Consolidate a certain amount of Gaiyacite in your storage
• Technology Victory - Build and charge tech scanners on active alien artifacts
• Revolution Victory - Build and charge a launch pad to launch a satellite that frees all bots from corporate control
• New Structures - Volcano bomb, Tech Scanner, Launch Pad
• Conquest mode will be available for testing in SP and private servers but will not yet be active on official servers. Use Game=Conquest on commandline

UI

• Expanded the map to add tabs with a bunch of new info
• New "Corporation" menu - contains manifest, and various other corporate info (Work in progress)
• New "Character" menu - contains XP progression with full progression tiers (Work in progress)
• New "Codex" menu - contains unlockable entries that expand on various items and gameplay features, as well as some story and lore elements (Work in progress)
• Rework the compass to be linear instead of semi-circular, with a clearer delineation of important waypoints along the bottom
• Interact widgets will no longer "expand" until you mouse over the object, and will fade out over distance to reduce screen clutter
• Also fixes bugs where interact widgets clutter the screen when riding a vehicle
• Inventory icon coloring will now correspond to a "quality" level as opposed to item class. Grey for common, Green for uncommon, blue for rare, Purple for Epic
• Build structures list is no longer sorted alphabetically, instead sorted by how common the item is used

GAMEPLAY

• All weapons except railgun and shotgun are now "projectile based", meaning the shots have travel times and tracers can be observed
• Rebalanced all weapons to make them feel distinctive
• Added a new type of consumable item which can permanently enhance weapons and armor
• Rebalanced animal loot around drops which can be used to create weapon enhancements
• Added "hunting" stat that can be increased by leveling up the "explorer" tree, and
• Added a new "Scan" ability (Default hotkey: I) for most items in the game. Scanning something for the first time will grant a small amount of XP, an explanatory VO snippet, and a new Codex entry
• Heavily buff the wind turbine generator, so it generates more power at lower elevations
• Add some sounds that play when gaining XP, and a better "Level up" notice messag
• Inflow and Outflow pipes can now connect from a pipeline, to ANY object that has storage, allowing you to automate things like generator filling and scrapping
• Pirates now give "pirate XP" when killed instead of Soldier and Corp XP.
• New structure: Science lab. Place samples collected from Gaiya and return later for some XP reward
• New structure: Biology lab. Use material gained from hunting animals to create permanent weapon and armor enhancements

BUGS

• Fix an issue that may have been causing some character and animal Jittering
• Fix the randomized server-generated wind direction/intensity and associated sound
• Fix some generator power radius issues
• Fixed the persistent issue with pirate weapons never going away and cluttering the ground
• Fixed an AI bug with haulers that caused them to freeze up, they should be better at hauling now

Over the next few weeks, we will primarily be working on

• Bug fixes, especially AI bugs
• Pipeline usability rework
• Performance issues
• New revamped progression system, spending XP points in a skill tree instead of automatic unlocks

Greetings overseers! Today's patch is a relatively small one due to most of the team being out for prolonged holidays, but we have some bugfixes for annoying issues and some fallout from the engine upgrade. See below

• Increase performance of many different elements of the game based on performance profiles gathered.
• Some fixes for VXGI settings not being setup properly on game start causing some rendering performance issues
• Fixed for AI constantly chattering, their less important messages should be much less frequent
• Fix for AI sending radio message with low priority messages
• Fixed character collision issue.
• Can't merge corporations with more than one shield
• Made the one cheat to rule them all better.
• Made sure a regular interact doesn't appear while placing turrets. Structure interact will be shown once placed.
• Fixed build menu scrolling issue.
• Prevent player from firing with an inventory or build menu open.
• Generators all get 1 more slot to start.
• Increase max search results during server search
• Vehicles are now displayed on map
• Unhooked the pirate raid and tutorial systems. Pirates will now raid any corporation over 10M value
• Add better FX for charging station - show a tether to a player when charging.
• Fix an issue causing charging station to not work in SP
• Fix an issue causing charging station radius to be much larger than normal
• Placeholder Tutorial game selection in SP/Hosted menu. Will eventually move most tutorial functionality into this selection, instead of main game mode.
• No longer show negative HP on dead Animals in UI

https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/011/166/678/large/outpost-zero-piratebot-maybee.jpg?1528185001 Greetings overseers! Today we are releasing our major engine upgrade to UE4.19! This will help us continue to develop the game with the new features and improvements in the engine, as well as bring some major upgrades to you, the players! In particular, we now have VXGI 2.0 integrated, which should make basic VXGI functionality much more accessible to the average PC! If you have a reasonably recent GPU, try the game with VXGI on low or medium to see some new lighting FX that should be much more performant! Also, Ansel is now available in our game out of the box, meaning you can take those high res 360 screenshots of your sweet base and all your bots! We have a number of additional bug fixes and changes listed below.

Engine

• Updated engine to UE4.19, fixing various rendering and settings related issues
• Updated VXGI to VXGI 2.0 bring major performance improvements
• Updated Ansel to latest versions allowing ansel to work out of the box

Game

• Activate cataclysm mode on all servers on a 2 week timer.
• Cataclysm mode will not be activated on SP or Hosted games.
• Wiped all save files for SP, Hosted, and Servers
• Fix for scrapping stacks - scrapping will give you the stack amount of resources
• Fixed cheat access in SP and Hosted games
• Hot-swap key (T) will now properly swap back and forth between handy and main hand weapon
• Night time will now be a bit darker
• Fix the "fell out of world" detection to properly catch you and teleport you back to where you fell from
• Major optimization pass for UI
• Major optimization pass for SP
• Fixed a crash bug in server list

UI

• Major optimizations to map and compass icons
• Added a confirmation box to delete save
• Map icons will now refresh position in realtime so there's no lag while scrolling/zooming
• Dead bots corpse icons will now be properly labeled with their names
• Updated main menu newsmessage to pull from a place that can be more easily modified

AI

• Bots will no longer be able to store non-liquids into liquid containers
• Populated all the proper bot audio from some that were missing
• Fixed Mauler collision size

Structures

• Turrets are now properly counted towards colony value
• Fix triangle ceiling attach points
• Fixed corner support issue
• Fixed dome support issue
• Fix a support issue that was causing ceilings, and anything attached to ceilings, to hover forever after all foundations are removed
• Fix wall light material and light settings
• Fixed a bug where charging station sometimes wouldn't work in SP after reloading
• Players can now open auto-doors while mounted on a vehicle
• Increase HP of long pipelines by 2x

Happy holidays from all of us at Symmetric Games, we can't wait to share what we're working on in the new year!

Greetings Overseers! We have a small bugfix patch today with some more fixes to map and compass UI elements and some other small issues. Here's a full list of patch notes.

• Fixed starting resource node values.
• Fixed selected bot radius circle on the map.
• Fixed the map and the bot frame so they don't overlap. Decreased the time that colony refreshes info from 10 seconds to 5 seconds.
• Significant performance improvements for CPU related to enemy icons on the compass.
• Fix POI icons on the compass.
• Properly show inventory capacity as number of backpack slots, not equipment slots plus backpack slots.
• Fixed the cost to upgrade t3 of auto wleder and repair o tron.
• Fixed a few run time errors
• No longer allow colonies to merge if thier bot or turret populations would be too large.
• Colonies can't merge with multiple command centers either now.
• Fix for enemy icons on compass.
• Fix for a possible cheat vulnerability
• Fix for map Icons.
• Bot and resource manifest now overlap and use a dropdown box for selection in map view

In other news, this week and next we will be upgrading our engine to UE4.19, which will give everyone access to VXGI 2.0 (with much improved performance and fidelity), Ansel, and other performance improvements. We are going to be testing a bunch this week, so feel free to join us on our test servers if you'd like to help us out and get an early look at the new version.

Greetings Overseers! Today we have a small bug fix and optimizations patch that focuses on some specific issues - namely optimizations for the compass and map, and for servers loading large savefiles that were causing them to crash on startup. Testing is complete on these features and the patch is being pushed live now. Later this week we hope to push another patch with a small list of bug fixes pertaining to corporation ownership, some rare single player crashes, and a few high priority gameplay bugs. Stay tuned for more info. Below are the full patch notes for this patch

• Fixed a bug causing some AI to think they could path into the middle of a large foundation
• Make sure the radar sphere doesn't sometimes appear to other players
• Fixed fire rate and reload rate being faster instead of slower during snowstorm
• Adjusted animal XP scaling slightly so that it's based on difficulty instead of purely the level
• Heavily optimized the worldmap and compass UI performance
• Fixed UI runtime error/log spam in right hand inventory
• Fixed territory circles not being cleared and showing up as if they're solid
• Some network optimizations for corporation info when map is open
• Fix for low HP resource nodes on start.
• Adjusted range bonus on scanners so they are more consistent.
• fix for weapon swap not affecting scanner properly
• faster loading code for structures, server loads should generally be much faster
• Fix a bug with servers not registering with steam if they take too long to load

https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/013/318/641/large/outpost-zero-outpostzero-smash.jpg?1539067800 Greetings Overseers! Today we're releasing a big patch of bug fixes for AI and Structures! In particular we have focused a lot on AI automation, pathfinding, and using crafting structures. AI should path much better around pipelines and doorways, and auto-doors no longer let in non-allied creatures. We've fixed some major usability and UI issues, especially related to the power grid info, and we have added some nice quality of life features to the UI. See the full list of patch notes below.

World

• Rebalanced resources in RedPlanet.They should be more abundant all over - but all should be scaled better from top right to bottom left.

AI

• Fix AI step height, nav step height, and collision for pipelines(and possibly other structures)
• Fix pathfinding through auto doors. Now only friendly AI bots will path through doors, not enemies, pirates, or animals.
• Add more failsafes to move to destination, fix a possible server stability issue with AI pathing

Structures

• Added a "direction" arrow to all structures when placing, not just pipes
• Fixed foundation snapping not working with other types of foundations.
• Added Cancel structure upgrade: Get the mats back and set back to tier - 1.
• Fixed all attach points on furnature.
• Make charging station AOE based when on. Just move within charging station AOE to charge, no interact required. Fixed AI to work with new system.
• Add charging FX to the charging station when charging hookup starts, to make it clearer what's going on
• Updated Large Walls, Ceilings and Foundations for Appropriate Scaling / Visuals
• Fix inflow pipe snapping
• Increase structure build and destroy XP amount
• Updated the names - stand points - and attach points of all the basic structures(walls, floors, ceilings)
• Default daily drop pod to "haul away"
• Bug OZ - 214 - Can't place ceiling triangle when all 3 walls are placed on a triangle foundation.
• Place cube in the floor and ceiling section.
• Bug OZ - 63 Wall light placement broken.
• Fix placing ceiling lights
• Adjusted collision on battery and pillar to solve issue OZ - 381 and try to solve the battery issue(need Will to make a new placing mesh.
• Can place walls down middle lines of large walls and ceilings/foundations
• Can Place ceilings half way up large walls
• Can place Ramps to wall tops.
• Fixed some wall attach point issues.
• Fixed a bunch of structure collision issues with foundations, large buildings, and ceilings.
• Make sure that generators and crafting station structures properly block navigation

Game

• Crashed Ship WIll now destory 5 - 10 minutes after being looted.
• Added difficult animals to the crashed ship spawner so its not always spawning ships.
• Fixed the damage on the starting Iron
• Significantly increase Volcano damage.
• Fixed deep freeze so it slows reload and shooting instead of increases.
• Submit a first pass of cataclysm mode.The Volcano will explode every 10 days. Winning corporation is saved and displays current MVP to P menu
• Added Admin cheat to enable cataclysm
• Fix sprint not working when released
• Update Charging FX to be less "in your face"
• Added additional failsafe for falling out of world.
• Added community volunteers to default bot name list.
• Added TheOneCheatToRuleThemAll

UI

• Fix the massive amounts of interact widgets on screen when riding bike
• Fixed a bunch of UI formatting issues.
• Making sure crafting tooltip is readable.
• Make autofire red text pinkish like weapons.
• Make crafting tooltip show up when you mouse over the bottom part of the crafting slot.
• Change some UI text color for contrast.
• made XP tooltip show all the perks.
• Properly event driven hiding of the HUD when menu is opened and closed.
• Fix keybinding a key that's already bound. Swap keys instead of just failing.
• Made sure you can't drag the tooltip in the right hand inventory window.
• Fixed confirmation box clobbering "don't ask again" - different questions use different settings.
• Power grid displays a timer, simplify the UI a bit, make it a bit clearer
• Fix an issue with the power component not updating / replicating on something that is disabled - this should fix inconsistencies with the power grid info
• Fixed for Slate menu UI infinite loop on double escape when open.
• Fix level numbers in XP Frame
• Add a news string to main menu
• added all the common 16:9 aspect ratios to screen options (missing 1440p and below 720 before).
• Titanium icon Is now no longer the Iron Icon
• Fixed "sort and loot all button" visiblity so it appears in the UI for all things with inventory components.
• Mousewheel will now scroll menu faster

Over the next few weeks we will be working to upgrade our engine to UE4.19, which will include support for - VXGI 2.0, which greatly improves the performance of VXGI, making it more usable on lower end video cards - DLSS for those with hot new NVIDIA cards! - Ansel support - Better server and multiplayer performance - Much more! Stay tuned for more info

https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/013/387/378/large/outpost-zero-outpostzero-deltariders.jpg?1539356366 Greetings Overseers! The long dormant volcano is now active! All our servers have been wiped by extreme volcanic activity, and Gaiya is again ripe for the picking! If you haven't joined us in some time, you may have missed quite a few changes that have come in the past few months

• Jet-bike and Hover-Sled Vehicles
• Pipelines to carry resources long distances
• Large Minion AI improvements to enable sustained automation
• Proximity Voice Chat
• Major new structures, like Auto-welder, Repair-o-tron, Base Shield, and more
• Triangular ceilings and foundations
• Customizable game settings
• New "birdy" combat drone
• Locally hosted matches, and join-a-friend
• New XP progression system for unlocking perks and structure blueprints
• Major rebalance to weapons, combat, and loot
• Major updates to map UI, to command your bots and base
• Daily login supply drop bonuses
• Pirate occupied bases
• Pirate ambush attacks while exploring
• Long list of bug fixes, optimizations, and QOL improvements

Moving forward from here, some of our servers will periodically experience Cataclysm events which wipe the surface of Gaiya to make room for a new batch of explorers. The corporation with the highest value when the volcano hits will earn the title of "Market Leader" and gain a major XP bonus. Please join us this weekend for our next big streaming event! A full list of patch notes is below

Gameplay

• Fix for voice chat channel connections
• Implement a persistent player XP system. Player gains Pirate XP from killing enemy players bots and structures, Corp XP from constructing buildings, and Soldier XP from killing animals and pirates. XP is locked to the server and player, not corporation
• Unlock various perks as a player levels up. Some advanced structures must now be unlocked via Corporate XP levels
• Fix for jetbike constantly spinning, unable to mount, creeping forward when out of fuel
• Vehicles: Display OUT OF FUEL in flashing red. Don't play engine PFX or SFX when out of fuel. Don't rotate hoverbike with the player when out of fuel. Play a warning sound same as player with low energy when out of fuel.
• Improve weapon muzzle light FX
• Better trail FX for all guns
• Increase gun sound range
• Add a daily supply drop that occurs when player logs in, every 24 hrs. Supply drop contents depend on the player's various XP levels
• Make all weapons more accurate when in ironsights
• Make sure you can't transfer items to slots they don't fit into. Also, dropping any equipment into slots other than the one it fits, will try to instead drop into the proper spot
• Use G to toggle auto attack on and off instead of the options menu.

UI

• Fixed some UI formatting issues
• Replaced the intro cinema with a lower bitrate and and mp4V2 single pass compression version that doesn't skip.
• Fix the damage type ballistic notice
• Fixed corporation value display $M vs *10^n
• Fixed for accidentally looting all when hitting Q with inventory closed.
• Major performance update to UI
• Major updates and improvements to server list - auto refresh now works properly and UI is skinned correctly
• Official servers are sorted to the top of server list
• Make job radius easier for people to understand that you can edit that text field.
• Add version number to main menu. Set major/minor versions to 0.8
• Added random hint text to loading screen with various hints about how to play
• Fixed the showing of ammount of ammo on the playerframe being hidden.

AI

• Bots will no longer place Circuit boards in iron storage
• Reduced timings of the pirate pathing, so they don't walk into walls so much
• Bots will properly aggro turrets
• AI will run around to the backside of walls less when they walk to a structure
• Fixed pirates dropping their pirate weapons on death.
• Fix pirate personality setting so their audio uses the right voice
• Fix all friendly AI aggroing across the map when player shoots something. Now only following AI will do this
• Fixed PVE pirate base damage - can now damage Pirate bases in PvE and PvP-Lite servers
• Bots should only try to find friendly charging stations

STRUCTURES

• Gas generator now takes petroleum or fuel, with petroleum providing half the power
• Change drop pod name and description
• Added large (2x2) wall
• Added large (2x2) foundation
• Added large (2x2) ceiling
• Added long (3x) Pipeline
• Long structures have more HP and are proportionately less expensive than equivalent number of small structures

https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/011/203/367/original/outpost-zero-outpostzero-nightcrawlercloseupm.gif?1528355949 Greetings Overseers! Today we have a patch intended to fix a lot of the AI crafting and hauling functionality, as well as some structure and vehicle fixes. For the rest of the week we'll be working on solidifying our QA process so we can continue to release high quality patches with plenty of fixes for you all. Next week we will be unveiling our Cataclysm mode, and announcing our next big community event. Stay tuned!

Full Patch Notes

• Full efficient alphabetical sort implemented. Reskin the social system menu.
• Minor adjustments to the placement and location of other UI elements so that everything fits better and doesn't clip over eachother as much.
• Fixed the wall light placement
• Increase spawn exclusion range to 25m and only in claimed territory
• Use RaidingAllowed to turn on/off ambushes
• Reskinned "P" Menu
• Increase placement dist of Extractor so you don't get stuck and is easier to place. Scale down to 75% of previous size.
• Turrets won't shoot animals until they aggro
• Vehicles will now immediately stop when dismounting.
• Vehicles can be mounted if they have no fuel, and display "no fuel" in the fuel bar
• Vehicles will now be "owned" after jacking them so your turrets dont shoot them
• Fixed a bug where vehicles would move/slide forward when unmounted
• Fixed vehicle strafe/reverse speed being too high and resulting in odd behavior
• Added /cheat GetPerformanceReport duration runs a profile for duration on the server.
• Fixed the power UI in the E menu for buildings to be like it is in the interact.
• Removed 1s cooldown on upgrade button
• Warning sound will now play if below 100 shields or 200 energy
• AI Bots, Pirates, and Animals will not path into lava anymore. This may affect bases built over lava.
• Added /cheat fly - use mouse wheel up and down to fly. Then use /cheat walk to go back to the ground.
• Full alphabetic sort on crafting list instead of just first letter.
• UI Fixes for the right hand inventory
• Fix a bug with caching items on server reload, causing issues with crafting and hauling
• Change the AI storage usage system so that it's based on a drop down list, with tooltips to describe how AI use them
• Various fixes to deposit and hauling behaviors to avoid superfluous and confusing AI speech
• Fixed some config variable issues, all config variables should now work correctly
• AI will "ignore" pipelines by default
• Fix shield placement
• Make cowardly bots search a much larger distance for their cowardly base destination, and take fewer breaks when running. If none found, make them run farther from the enemy.
• Reskinned Grenades
• Fixed door UI so the auto checkbox doesn't clip at the bottom and be unselectable.
• Fix hoversled engine FX
• Move storage manifest to other side of map
• Fix thrown weapon spamming, and update damage and gravity values on thrown projectiles
• Inflow pipelines only transfer in stacks of > 20

https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/011/553/018/large/outpost-zero-outpostzero-pirateshiptrio.jpg?1530165519 Greetings Overseers! Today we have a big bug fix patch, intended to address some new and old bugs. We also have some rebalancing of certain features that were annoying to players (like animal loot tables). Our primary motivation was to increase the amount of action in the early and mid game, but also improve your ability to combat it. We increased the frequency of pirate raids, and added a pirate hit squad that will seek you out when you haven't undergone combat in some time. To counteract this, we greatly buffed Drone, Combat Drone, and GUARD bot base statistics. You should see them MUCH more powerful when engaging pesky animals and pirates. We have a new QA process in place to attempt to prevent any more major issues (like what we saw in the last patch with exploding storages). From here on out, please join our public "test" branch if you'd like to help us with testing our game. We will be heavily refocusing on bug fixing and quality improvements, instead of new features, and moving to a slightly slower patch schedule of 1/week, in an attempt to continue to improve stability of our existing features. Stay tuned for our list of fixes for next week!

Bug Fixes

• Pirates that takeover bases will patrol the command station and properly aggro players (WIP)
• Fix the turret not animating properly
• Fix for the door checkbox not being properly set when you open a different door.
• Touchup collision on doors to auto open
• Auto Doors will be more responsive
• Add a pirate "hit squad" that spawns every 20-30 min if you haven't been in combat within that time
• Reduce default pirate raid timers, back to a reasonable amount (20-30 min on easy, 18-20 min on hard, 16-18 min on impossible)
• Every 5th pirate raid is a "mega raid" with 3 more pirates all 10 levels higher than the norm.
• Significant buffs to minion bot base stats. Drones can now handle most weak animals and low level pirates, and GUARDS can handle medium level animals and pirates even with no gear on
• Add the proper repair pack recipe to machine shop for AutoWelder
• Fix a problem with the inventory manifest on server load and structure upgrade
• Improvements to inflow and outflow pipelines: add arrows to indicate direction, make sure a pipe can't connect source and target to same object, and fix an issue with snapping being too "sticky"
• Fix doorways so AI can path through them again
• Big rebalance of animal loot tables - make higher level animals guaranteed drop high level animal crafting materials, and make the rare drops even better
• Change spawning system so territory doesn't govern exclusion, just proximity to structures. Structure within 10m will disable spawns.
• Resource gathering structures are more tolerant of server stress in terms of resources per minute
• Fix a bug where player could stay connected to power grid after logout
• Fix some UI issues with the right-hand inventory
• Fixed some scrap rewards and make sure you can't scrap if scrapable but no scrap reward.
• Fixed issue where jumping a bunch right at spawn sequence start (getupanim) would cause the drop to retrigger many times and call many droppods.
• Fixed if tutorial is complete destory drop pod on spawning in.
• Added a text indicator for turret counts in the map
• Fixed turret count not updating properly and displaying properly on the map.
• Fixed various world art bugs
• Added Mauler Camp in X2Y2, added several art details
• An attempt at a better location for choosing raid points. Use world spawner locations that are far enough away from the home location
• Fix some bugs with voice chat
• Fix AI perception bugs, again
• No more building while the player is in deep enough water to be "swimming"
• Redid crafting entries slightly so it looks better and takes up less space
• Sorted all the other inventory lists alphabetically (to the first letter)
• Make upgrade button have a 1 second cooldown so it can't be accidentally spammed.
• Valid dropped backpacks will now count towards colony value.
• If players aren't finished with the tutorial and have a colony value under 250k then they spawn with their first spawn inventory.
• ShowMeTheMoney is now sorted alphabetically and all the empty names are taken out.
• Can no longer place things that aren't liquid in the stoage tanks.
• Fixed resource mining so that the popups will now display FULL in red if your inventory is full.
• Fixed it so that you can't gather more resources from a node than it has left
• Fixed quickmove not working for the first 8 slots on containers and such.
• Fix find nearby deposit distance check when AI search for mining deposits
• Add a dedicated charge point search task when AI need to charge

https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/011/694/827/large/outpost-zero-outpostzero-patience.jpg?1530897934 Greetings Overseers! Today we have a large patch that fixes many issues in the world, including some significant performance issues that were developing on live servers. Next week we will be tackling some more gameplay issues and continuing to fix bugs with the new pirate takeover system, long term AI automation, and more.

WORLD

• Fixed various art bugs in the world

AI

• Add 2 checkboxes to all resource storage classes, allowing you to dictate which ones AI will deposit or haul from
• Direct friendly AI focus to the leader's current combat target
• Readding the use of AI stand locations. AI should no longer walk around to the back of a structure to work on it
• Show the currently selected bot's job radius on the map in the form of a light blue circle
• Fix some AI issues with finding items in containers
• Major performance improvements to AI finding items in containers
• Highlight the currently selected bot on the Compass in yellow, at all times, even when outside its sensor range
• Fix a bug where AI were having trouble finding a container to deposit items into

STRUCTURES

• Make sure that power relays don't derive structural support from remote stuff they overlap for power distribution.
• Make sure objects that require attachment can't derive support from landscape placement
• Better structure snapping - ramp snaps from longer distance and objects should no longer snap to edges whose rotations are on different planes
• Sort the bottom of the Filtered Item list alphabetically 1 letter deep
• Fix for ceiling face/accessory snapping and pillar snapping
• Remove collision to inflow/outflow pipes and add obstacle nav area to pipelines, so AI will be less confused around them
• Add a button to sortup and sortdown the container inventory you're viewing
• Slow down structure rotation with mousewheel so it's easier to get the rotation you want
• Changing a pipeline filter also affects all downstream pipes.
• A fix for outflow pipeline snapping - ensure it picks the best overlapped object instead of the "last" one
• Better triangle snapping - more exact math
• Fix geothermal snapping
• Fix wall snap offsets
• Remove a bad snap point on the ramp
• Fix for structures rotation snapping sometimes snapping to the wrong point
• Increase ramp snap distance
• Make sure structures don't get stability updates if they're invalid (pending kill)
• Move door auto state to a checkbox on the info panel, instead of a Q state

GAME

• Fix a bug with swapping away from weapon to handy while jumping
• Make it so the leader can disband their Corporation. Disbanding will now move all players to new corporations and let the pirates takeover the old one
• Fixing some opacity issues in the menu.
• Added a /unstuck functionality for the player in the chat box that can only be used every 5 minutes, and not in enemy territory. Will teleport a player to a known good location.
• Implement basic laser rangefinder into UI
• Performance fix for animal spawns
• Add territory control info to the map in the form of red/green circles
• Adding Icons: Ender and Kioku Grenades, Wind Turbine, Healing Structure
• Control right click moves all stacks of selected item type to/from the container
• Add a way to turn off the confirmation dialogue when demolishing structures
• Fix a bug with enviorment events ending.
• Fix a bug where alt-tabbing may cause the game to become unresponsive
• Fix a bug where certain inventory functions weren't using the SetInventoryItem accessor
• Add a resource manifest to the top of the map above bots
• Fixed the issue causing players to loose their colony on relog after disbanding a corporation.

Thanks for your continued support!

https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/011/782/926/original/outpost-zero-outpostlanding.gif?1531380295 Greetings Overseers! Today we are announcing the beginning of a big push over the next few weeks to finish implementing some important mid-game and late-game content goals for players. The major things we'll be tackling over the next several weeks are 1) Pirates will take over abandoned player bases for other players to assault 2) Pirates will randomly build their own bases for players to assault 3) Massive improvements to pirate raids - pirates will be bringing warbirds, jetbikes, mind controlled animals, and more varied base assault tactics to make late game pirate raids a real challenge for players! 4) World bosses - massive unique animal bosses that will require raid-style tactics to take down, with huge rewards 5) Loot rebalance, with ultra-rare drops from high level pirate captains (from both raids and pirate bases) and world bosses, which will unlock some ultra-powerful Tier 4 gear Today we'll be releasing our first pass implementation of #1 above in our test server with the patch, and hopefully have it live by Friday. In addition to the above, we'll be implementing Cataclysm mode on our servers with rolling resets built into the official game mode. Every 2 weeks our servers will be wiped with the previous "winner" of biggest corporation enshrined with their name as the server champion. In the future, we will be adding persistent account-based rewards that will be unlocked from "winning" a Cataclysm event, stay tuned for more information on this! Finally, with this big push towards mid and late game content, we will also be refocusing a bit on fixing some major bugs. We've been trying to get a ton of new features and content in, but as we round out this next batch of stuff, we will start to naturally slow down a bit on getting "new" stuff in and focus a bit more on fixing the "old" stuff. This means constant tweaks of balance, small changes, bug fixes, exploit fixes, performance upgrades, and more. Full Patch Notes below

World

• Fixed some duplicate resources
• Fix some holes in terrain

AI

• Animals will no longer float above ground and rubberband on server
• Fixed Bot Auto-Unstuck so it no longer falls through the ground
• Increased radius of manual bot unstuck/drag to 25m
• Add a message when too far to manually unstuck/drag a bot
• Bots that fall through the world or go outside map bounds will be respawned at the player's command center
• Bots will go to multiple containers if necessary to deposit more stuff up
• Bots will be better about depositing things they no longer need
• Bots will only grab one stack at a time when crafting so they have sufficient space for results
• AI Bots set to "hauling" will now attempt to harvest plants from planters

Structures

• Abandoned player bases (4 days, 6 hours without login) will be claimed by pirates!
• Pirate bases can be assaulted on PvP, PvPLite, and PvE servers for loot and glory!
• Fix for bug allowing damage to Territory Claimers and Command Centers in PvE mode or during ORP
• Planters now give 50 * tier resources per 10 min
• Destroyed CCs will now reset the player's Corporation level
• Fix for cases where inflow and outflow pipes can be disconnected on reload
• Turrets now shoot at enemy vehicles
• Added a new AOE repair structure which uses repair packs
• Added a wind generator, which increases power generated with height and wind strength

Game

• Fixed readability of the first line due to the UI initalization and animation playing. delay first line a bit.
• Fix some Gaia->Gaiya typos
• Subtitles are now printed in chat log so player can re-read them
• Some items in machine shop have been renamed and reordered for consistency
• Added throwable grenade, TnT, and C4 explosives to machine shop
• T2 rocket launchers now have much higher speed and slightly higher radius, and more damage
• T3 rocket launchers still fire at slow speed, but have a MASSIVE radius and VERY increased damage
• New FX for T2 and T3 rocket launchers, including a thermonuclear mushroom cloud and earthquake effect
• Fix some big possible performance issues with Animals on dedicated servers
• Fix a stats exploit with rapidly swapping weapons
• Attempt to fix vehicles flying off when dismounting, and not being found
• Welder will now heal vehicles in stead of damaging them
• Added binaural wind corresponding to wind strength
• Added Jetpack to robotics factory crafting - these will let you jump extremely high
• Added new visual for Speed boots

Let us know your thoughts on these upcoming changes!