Game Update 28

Hello Pilots,

We are deploying an update to all live servers on Wednesday, December 11th code re-factoring and some features.

The code re-factoring is not visible during game play, but was necessary in order to clean up code and means for our Development Team the solid groundwork for future features. It should also slightly affect performance positively.

This update will need a server maintenance of approx. 120 minutes overall. We are going to start to shut the servers down at 9.30am CET (UTC+1). The countdown will start around 15 minutes beforehand on each server.

The game update will be deployed as following:

9.30 am CET – EU Kobol
10.00 am CET – EU Libran, Virgon, Canceron
10.30 am CET – EU Tauron, Picon, Sagittaron
11.00 am CET – US EAST
11.30 am CET – US WEST

This release will contain

Features:
- Environment: We increased the amount of freighters cruising around in the galaxy
- Graphics: We added to all flight controls the awesome thruster effects during hard turns
- Controls: Added a hotkey to switch to advanced flight controls (not bound by default).

Pilots,


We applied a hotfix on our servers to fix the following three issues:

- Fixed a display issue where the HP percentage of a “Freighter in Distress” was jumping between random numbers
- Fixed an issue where the Carrier target designator didn’t work after login / switching ships
- Fixed an issue where freighters have been invisible when being further away than 4000 meters

Since this hotfix was applied to the live servers without a restart it needs a client restart to pick up the carrier fix. The fix for the “Freighter in Distress” will be applied to all events that started past 6pm. Events currently running may still show the bug.


Your Battlestar Galactica Team