Patch 6316 Notes - 16th March 2016

[Veloci]

Greetings Admirals!

The first patch (6316) for the beta is now live.

We have been focused on ironing out the particularly major technical issues, so this patch is mainly made up of bug fixes:

Bug Fix
- Fixed a major crash occurring when finding an opponent in matchmaking
- The game now detects QWERTY/AZERTY keyboards properly
- Fixed an issue affecting the gamma option which didn’t behave properly
- The AI cannot drop bombs outside the game area anymore
- Transport ships now have their own icon in the deploying phase
- Fixed a bug causing the “Execute” button to display as “Cancel Warp”
- Fixed an issue that allowed players to go below 0 HP
- Fixed a graphical issue that affected disrupting bombs
- Fixed an issue affecting the display of tooltips on Chaos ships with a favor.
- Fixed an issue causing the ending cameras in multiplayer to be focused on empty space
- Fixed a graphical issue causing Chaos turrets to be red instead of green
- Fixed an issue causing some players' ships to be immune to taunt
- Fixed an issue causing the camera being able to follow an invisible ship if it was focused on it beforehand
- Chaos battleships are now able to use Tzeench and Slaneesh favors.

GUI
- Added multiple tooltips on various elements, including fleet composition in pre-game
- Ordnances skills « Bombers » and « Assault boats » now indicate the number of attack crafts are launched per Launch Bay, as well as the number of Fighters that escort them.
- The “Critical Damages” icons have been moved

Balancing
- All ships have had their troop value increased by 10 points, making it harder to crit through assault actions
- An assault boat squadron now deploys 2 ships instead of 3
- Assault boats no longer modify the enemy troop resist value

[Mr Snugglesworth]

THE EMPEROR WILL BE PLEASED BY YOUR SERVICE! TOO ME BATTLE BROTHERS! WE MUST GO FORTH AND PURGE THE EVER SPAWNING HORDES OF BUGS I MEAN TYRANIDS!

[Nemean Lion]

Awesome update, thank you! While you're on the forums, could you maybe talk a little about co-op vs AI skirmish possibility? Not a campaign, just the "Solo Skirmish" game mode with a friend. Please? :)

[Dinos]

Massive list of bug fixes and even 1 balance change. Sweet. Hopefully, with bugs fixed developers can focus on gameplay next patch. Thank you.

[Samlow]

Good update, especially crash being important.

Would really like to see recovery over time from crits just like in the boardgame.
(you get dice depending on hp left, and on a 6, 1 crit repairs)

[Stonks]

Still no invitation system? .-. i so want to play this game with friends.........

[Suebbo]

good job keep it up

[[EPIC]HERO]

Can someone verify that they're not crashing constantly please? :D

[Samlow]

When my opponent crashes on fleet loadout, I no longer get the back button in the bottom left.

[Grand Hazzard]

Wooot! When do we get 2v2s?

[TiguriusX]

Please comment on changing the REPAIR action to restore module/crits

This would greatly impact the balance due to assault boats crippling ships and shift the game towards hull destruction as the primary goal

[Queco Jones21]

Very nice! Thanks!

[CommissarBRO]

Pre-game tooltips! Small things like that make me happy.

[Veloci]

Originally posted by Smark667:

cheers guys. small problem though... now when i search for a multiplayer game, instead of going to ship selection i'm sent to the 'this is the beta...' frontpage

Thanks for letting us know this! We've investigated, and it happens when you get paired with someone who hasn't updated their game yet (or vice-versa). If you run into the issue, we'd suggest closing your game, restarting Steam, and ensuring the game is all updated.

[Smark667]

done and done, in game now. thanks! game rocks too \m/

[ElSofaFuerte]

>nerf the only good ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ weapon Chaos get
>dont nerf Nova Cannons, a massively controversial weapon on multiplayer.