Game Update 19

Game Update 19 – Come fly with me!


We are deploying an update to all live servers on Monday, September 9th. This update will contain our new Flight controls for strike class ships and some adjustments to our new weapons.





Pilots,

Brace yourselves for one of the biggest changes in BSGO history. Get ready for an overwhelming new feel in your game: A more agile, more dynamic and more exciting way to experience dog fighting in a strike vessel.

With this Game Update we’re introducing: Our new flight controls!

So hop into your ship, undock and get a taste of a brand new Battlestar feel, with our new mouse-based controls.

We also implemented two new systems to switch between the “Classic Controls” and the “New Advanced Controls” – just look in your hold for the Combat Avionics Maneuvering System (CAMS) and its Basic version (BAMS). See their icons below:

Get more information in our recent DEV Blog here: http://blog.bigpoint.net/?p=979 or – since moving pictures could give you a better image – check out our YouTube channel, where we posted a video with in-game footage here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COu6XPI3Esk&hd=1


Furthermore we made necessary changes to the newly implemented weapons, available as special rewards from our new interdiction missions:

Fixed the bug where medium range weapons had the short range cooldown
Fixed the bug where light missile launcher didn’t have the medium range values
Rounded the durability values up/down
To make the weapons more interesting in lower upgrade level ranges we adjusted the progression of optimal range for guns and range for missile launchers to be more linear and raised the range slightly overall
Increased the values for min and max damage slightly




This update will need a server maintenance of approx. 30 minutes per server. We are going to start to shut the servers down at 8am CEST (UTC+2). The countdown will start around 15 minutes beforehand on each server.

The game update will be deployed as following:

8.00 am CEST – EU Libran
8.30 am CEST – EU Virgon
9.00 am CEST – EU Canceron
9.30 am CEST – EU Tauron
10.00 am CEST – EU Picon
10.30 am CEST – EU Sagittaron
11.00 am CEST – US E Scorpia
11.30 pm CEST – US E Aquaria
12.00 pm CEST – US E Aerilon
12.30 pm CEST – US W Caprica
1.00 pm CEST – US W Gemenon



Features:
Introducing our new Flight Controls

Made changes to the new weapons from the reward table interdiction mission

Implemented the option to activate and deactivate enemy and friendly brackets in our options menu

Removed the undock cooldown after repairing or changing ships when docked anywhere except outposts

Based on the multiple feedback from the community we implemented a function to filter items in your hold and locker:



Bugfixes:

Fixed the issue where cubits won during the Dradis game where put into hold instead of locker

Fixed the issue where it wasn’t possible to use a Divine Inspiration during Double XP events








Your Battlestar Galactica Online Team