Item Manufacturers now defined in item data
Items are generated at specific quality tiers with associated colors, displayed in title of properties panel when selected
Items will switch themselves off below a customizable threshold to avoid damage
Player can toggle thermal override to disable safety shutdown
Selecting an item allows player to select whether the item will override
Clicking on the background of an inventory panel will display general ship settings (including thermal shutdown threshold)
Performance Stat evaluation has been moved to EquippedItem, slight performance improvement
Item online and active status are now reactive properties
Created player settings file to store e.g. shutdown threshold
Fixed crash when entering wormhole while enemies are visible
Added heat variation option for Performance Stats
Ability to toggle radiators on/off using H key
Item durability loss (Wear) is now heat dependent and incurred only when used
Restricted equip/unequip to docked (inactive) entities
Fixed race condition causing exceptions in database sync code
Converted entity materials to new fade shader
Implemented visibility system
Refactored per-instance entity code to run inside monobehavior on entity instances
Created state machine AI for enemy ships with basic patrol and combat routines
Removed legacy AI code (controller item behaviors)
Added automatic trigger group assignment for matched weapons
Created ship collision system
Created shield VFX and colliders
New damage system, much easier to understand
Splash damage support
Hardpoint armor consolidated with hull armor
Minimap shows view cone
New industry standard palette for temperature display
Temperature range display contains palette
Restoring loadouts now ignores temperature and armor
Items can ignore thermal mass when adding heat
Burst weapons can consume single ammo (mainly shotguns)
New missile type that follows crosshairs
New airburst projectile type that deals splash damage
Auto Shotgun and Charged Shotgun
Modified weapon scripts to eliminate specialized projectile behavior - allows charged weapons to have projectiles and modify weapon stats when charged
Added machine gun weapon & VFX
Moved third party code to Plugins folder to improve compile times
Weapons are now monolithic behaviors
Various new weapon behavior types implemented
All weapons have optional magazine and reload mechanic
Visibility now decays globally
