Release notes/20161006-c

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General

• Jumping and pitch control in space have been improved to act more smoothly and consistently.
• Targeting has been greatly improved on ground maps when aiming or targeting friendly or enemy NPCs.
• Resolved a number of issues which were occasionally causing maps to crash.
• Resolved a crash that would occur when trying to claim an upgraded item when the player’s inventory was full.
• Resolved a crash that occured when pressing A on the ground while in a loading screen.
• Resolved a crash that happened when trying to retrieve items from the Account Bank.
• Resolved an issue where occasionally in the tailor, images would take too long to load.
• Resolved an issue where character creation would fail if any name field had less than 3 characters.
  • Player cannot complete character creation until each name field has at least 3 characters.
• Companions better match speed with player when player is walking slowly.
• Resolved an issue where lighting would be incorrect in many indoor maps.
• Added some VO, sound effects, and ambient audio which was missing throughout the title.
• The player is now locked in place when in the queue lobby window.
• Added a number of new loading screens.
• Resolved an issue where scarves would move around wildly when moving.

UI

• Made numerous small updates to the UI throughout the Start Menu Options and Character Creation to make information more clear.
• Added an EBS message to the login screen to convey when the server is down for maintenance.
• The newsfeed on the login screen now updates when the player first sees the screen.
• Choosing to Revert to Defaults now functions correctly in Options.
• The following Console active abilities will now show up in the correct radial menu:
  • Analyze Weakness
  • Fleet Maneuver Alpha
  • Fleet Maneuver Gamma
  • Tachyon Inversion Beams
  • Variable Auto-Targeting Armament Systems:
• Character Sheet: Stats
  • Removed Progress tab
  • Removed Stealth Detection Rating stat
  • Health and Shields now go by "Max Health" and "Max Shields"
  • Ship Shields now represented by one value rather than "Fore", "Aft", etc.
  • Separated things in "Stats" to "Attack" and "Defense" categories
  • Removed Inertia stat
  • Removed Officers passives box
• Character Creator:
  • Player cannot now select a disabled Fleet slot.
  • There is now a new "Slot Type" selector when a player modifies or creates a costume that makes it clearer what costume types players can have.
  • Added a recently selected color section to the color palate in the character creator so a player can more easily match colors to other pieces of the uniform.
  • Presets are now their own tab.
  • Resolved an issue where sliders in the character creator would lose precision the more they were adjusted.
  • Each category has its own subtabs, including ‘Advanced’ if appropriate.
  • The last selected/currently applied item in the grids now has a blue outline except for Uniforms.
  • Uniform presets now show if they cost Zen.
  • In the Advanced subtab, if it exists for the category, the headers are now selectable when they are selected, show the Randomize and Reset functions.
  • There’s no longer a consistent glow around a player’s head in the character creator.
• Transwarp Window:
  • Corrected the transwarp cost display.
  • Added a display of the player's current resources and disabled the "OK" button if the transwarp cost was too high, to make it clearer when transwarping was disabled.
• Players can now move items from the inventory into the account bank.
• The Travel menu is always set to appear but the Transwarp button is disabled if the player can't afford to Transwarp.
• Team UI no longer overlaps the item received pop up window.
• Added a System List to the map while in Sector space.
• "Aim mode as toggle" setting now appears in the settings menu when in space.
• Scrollbars are now reset to the top of a window when the window is reopened.
• Resolved an issue which displayed the incorrect rank of a captain when comparing the information on a ground map versus a space map.
• Resolved a few issues where text overlapped in the Options menu.
• Resolved an issue where item description would stay on screen even when it’s no longer highlighted.
• PVP: Resolved an issue where players who are not the host could select a PVP Queue map selector and change kill count.
• Increased bottom margin of Away Team Picker so status text doesn't overlap button prompts.
• The d-pad icon for full impulse is no longer overlapped by player icons in queues.
• Added a bottom margin to the "options" context menu for missions in the journal.
• Made the Space Reticle more visible.
• Altered the design of the shield tray space HUD element to match other updated HUD elements.
• The Show Scoreboard button for PvP is no longer appearing in PvE queues.
• Resolved an issue where closing a store in the Sell Tab and then opening a different store without a sell tab would break the store.
• The private message from the Fleet Details menu no longer opens behind the window.
• Added the total Zen amount to the bottom of Featured Products and Item Description pages in C-Store.
• Made the inactive weapon icon smaller than the active weapon icon.
• Made the inactive weapon icon darker.
• Added energy credits currency symbol to Edit Record UI's cost label.
• Updated look of the Team status UI elements with faction specific designs to match the rest of the HUD.
• Holding Joypad Down in space now sets the throttle to zero.
• Resolved an issue where functionality would be lost on the Captain’s Log screen.
• Resolved an issue where the button to view gamercard was greyed out on Xbox.
• Made the "Terms of Service" button always be present in the Options menu in the Login screen.
• The three PvP report UIs now hide themselves when the player is no longer in a PvP map with a scoreboard.
• The Crew Stations UI has been updated to more clearly show all information.
• Sector map closes after a navigation destination has been selected.
• Rename Ship menu now correctly displays the total cost by only charging the player for fields the player has actually changed.
• If the player has no incoming hails, a message is displayed explaining this, and the hail description is cleared.
• Resolved an issue where Science and Tactical power radials did not display all powers when using the Dyson Science Destroyer ships.
• The single letter in the ship Registry field is no longer half cut off.
• Added an Arc Link button to the login screen.
• Ready indicators for special ships power bars are now hidden in sector space.
• Crew Stations list now shows all ranks of powers instead of just Ensign rank powers.
• If the selected item is unaffordable in the C-Store, the "Select" option is now greyed out and does nothing.
• Ship Tailor: Materials that have a Zen cost have the Zen icon displayed next to their labels.
• Bridge Officers now use the Bridge Officer class instead of the player's class.
  • This was causing Bridge Officers to default to the costume color scheme of their captain instead of their own class.
• The extra Alien trait slot is now in the correct spot with the beginning traits for Alien captains.
• Resolved numerous issues where options changes would not actually save.
• Rank display has been added to the Bridge Officer Crew Stations window.
• Added an error message when trying to Dry Dock a ship but the player has filled all Dry Dock slots.
• Resolved an issue where Tier 1 unlocks for Specializations appeared available when they were not.
• Resolved an issue where the top issue in a list when using a slider would get cut off.
• Resolved an issue where the commission officer window would close as soon as it opened when commissioning an officer.
• Players can now plot a course to a Quadrant on the Galaxy Map.

Content

• Stranded in Space:
  • Added Waypoint back to the Azura in the final step.
  • Increased the interaction distance to save the Captain.
  • Process to leave the final map of "Stranded in Space" is now easier to complete.
• Smash and Grab: Tovan Kev is now lit in contact windows.
• Resolved an issue where players could be blocked from entering the Vega Colony in the Federation tutorial.
• Sphere of Influence: Resolved an issue where progression could sometimes be blocked at the “Decide fate of the Gateway” objective.
• Night of the Comet: Player is no longer attacked in the contact window at the end of the episode.
• Skirmish: Player is no longer attacked in the contact window at the end of the episode.
• Coliseum: Resolved an issue where the Communications Array spawned under the terrain making it hard to interact with.
• Alpha: Resolved an issue where episode would not always complete when choosing to Beam Out at the end.
• Resolved a few episodes where auto-travel was not sending the player to the correct location.
• Resolved an issue that could block progress in the episode “The Ultimate Klingon”.
• Resolved an issue that could block progress in the episode “Jabberwocky”.
• Added more waypoints for mission steps in episodes such as:
  • The Hunt is On
  • Tradecraft to Azha System
  • Blood of the Empire
  • Bringing Down the House
  • Temporal Ambassador
  • Heading Out
  • Doomsday Device
• Updated the minimum rank on the Federation 2800 missions to match previous Cardassian missions as well as the Klingon equivalents.
• Resolved an issue where players could fly outside the map in Qo’noS System.
• Resolved an issue where the "Claim a New Ship" mission objective in rank upgrade missions completes without meeting the requirements.
  • Player will need to claim the ship in order to finish this.

Systems

• Resolved an issue where certain kits were not upgrading correctly.
• Fleet Maneuver Gamma now has applies a lockout period to the player’s team when used.
• Updated the name of the spinkick from Sweeping Strikes to "Sweeping Strikes" to be consistent.

Known Issues

• Kassae II has a low FPS issue.
• Some maps have a low lighting issue.
• Some highlight arrows in the UI get slightly cut off such as with Specializations.