SE3 Release 2.3

September 7, 2024 · 7 min read

Space Eternity creator

Welcome to the official release of Space Eternity 3! Finally, after 3 years and 7 months of hard work I am ready to upload the final product. This also means, that there is no plans for future updates, unless there will be high demand on them. Anyway, here is a list of all changes in version 2.3:

New features:

Added new biome: Copper Facilities
Added shield potion, which makes you immune to all damage for 2.5s. Obtainable from copper facility treasures.
Added copper cogs.
Added small copper chimneys.
Added copper chimneys.
Added bedrock cogs.
Added micro bedrock chimneys.
Added factory asteroid, which generates on copper facilities.
Added treasure base, which collects treasures generated in factory.
Added diamond base, which boosts factory efficiency when activated with a diamond.
Added supreme white diode, the rarest fob in the entire game with only 0.2% drop rate from copper facility treasures.
Added possibility to customize Unity quality levels in settings.

Old feature changes:

Resurrecting aliens through crafting is no longer possible.
Copper chimneys now drop 5 small copper chimneys when broken.
Copper chimneys and small copper chimneys have a bigger pick up range from now.
Treasures have a larger mouse collider from now.
Packed fobs have a bit larger collision collider from now.
Multiplayer compass under TAB, indicating you, will now be always disabled instead of pointing to your respawn point. It is more intuitive.
Impulse artefact nerfed, it deals 8 instead of 10 damage from now.
Impulse artefact nerfed, power regeneration speed reduced: 1 -> 0.75

Artistic changes:

Rocket nose will no longer be highlighted when cursor is over fob.
Copper asteroid can have both rectangular and triangular texture and it's more metalic from now.
Copper stone and packed copper meterials have changed a bit.
Copper texture colors changed a bit to be more consistent with other copper objects: copper, packed copper, copper bullet
Artefact fob light sphere will now be positioned properly relatively to the camera.
Artefact base material changed to be more metalic.
Damage sound volume has changed: 0.25 -> 0.18 (it was too loud compared to other sounds)
Star and Starandus generate a bit louder geyzer sounds from now to compensate recent changes in their volume.
Octogone bullet start sound volume reduced: 0.35 -> 0.25
Main menu music changed, credits in main menu, music volume changed: 0.4 -> 0.7
Added push inventory animation. Developer was inspired by the older version, where it was present.
Boss and player nicks are TextMeshPro instead of regular Text from now.

UI changes:

Text "Version: " was removed from the universe selection menu. The version name will be displayed alone from now.
Text "Recharge artefact using star" changed to "Recharge artefact near star".
Music and Volume settings can now be set to all whole values from 0% to 100%.
In main menu information about game creator and music source will be visible.
Coordinate mode is default from now instead of compass mode.

Configurables:

Added gameplay variables in datapack format:
- shield_potion_duration: 2,5;
- factory_default_diode_chance: 0,03165;
- factory_diamond_modifier: 1,35;
- active_diamond_base_chance: 0,2;
Default boss colors moved from Unity to datapack like it is with biomes.
Craftings changed a bit, check in game for details.
Treasure loottable has been modified, for example:
- Unstable matter no longer generates on dark cementeries.
- Diamonds can now be found everywhere with the highest chance on dark cementeries.
Metal treasure has an assigned loottable for copper facilities from now.
Chances for biomes and structures changed:
- Cementeries: 2.7% -> 2%
- Dark cementeries: 1.3% -> 1%
- Copper facilities: 0% -> 1,5%
- All treasure biomes: 4% -> 4,5%
It is now possible to customize target_packet_frequency value in server config.
It is now possible to customize in config, with which objects will boss bullets on multiplayer collide.
Added possibility to disable chat messages through config. Players will still be able to send them, but server will ignore it.
Added new seon command: instant (forces objects in the structure to spawn instantly)
The default zoom is 0% instead of 50% from now to increase vision range of new players. You can still change it to bigger values.

Technical changes:

Anti-aliasing increased from x4 to x8 on ultra (default) settings.
Reworked impulse shield system and added potion shield system.
Reworked storage material system to automatically generate item materials.
Treasure string format updated to handle treasure bases.
Settings format changed to fit quality settings.
Asteroids with ID 14 and 15 are stone_clone and copper_clone from now, with properly assigned drill_loot for them.
Reworked dynamic object movement smoothing (spaceships, bosses, bullets), which resulted in much better performance.
Player rotation is now locked using Rigidbody component and not through script, as it was before.
Increased target packet frequency value 25 -> 60, which results in more accurate entity position calculations (server side).
Path to saves directory is now set independently from game directory, which means, that direct downloading is possible from now.
Textures are rendered using trilinear mode instead of bilinear from now.
Item textures rendering improved.
Inventory moves more smoothly from now.
Give command code slightly improved to handle impossible give counts.
Boss bullet collision system ignores non-structural asteroids from now to increase performance.
Asteroids generate spiraly from now, which prioritizes asteroids near player.
5 generated asteroids per frame reduced to 2 to increase performance.
Structures will generate in parts from now, which should reduce spike lag during loading.
Universe data saves asynchroneously on singleplayer from now, which reduces spike lag during saving.
Server no longer saves all data to files when new player joins.
Added possibility to disable saving synchronization in config to reduce server lags on disconnecting players.
- Warning: It can result in some item duplication glitches if server crashes right after disconnecting a player.
Removed max_messages_per_second system in hope, that WebSocket will handle this.
Boss nick/bar canvas will refresh only when it's necessary (at least I hope so).
SC_boss.FixedUpdate will always execute directly after server commands from now.
crash_size has a limit from now, which means, thats crash damage can't be dangerously high.

Bug fixes:

Impulse "god-mode" is no longer possible through cheats.
SND_fire sound (for fire and wind bullets) had some weird artefacts at the end.
Error texture in storages was magnetic alien instead of particle texture.
Respawn had a broken behaviour while holding mouse both over UI and over it.
It was possible to highlight storages and even activate a boss while not alive.
Server could rarely enter the broken loop state when it was starting, which was causing majority of the update code to not execute.
Other players' respawns weren't visible when player wasn't living.
Fixed bug, which was sometimes causing unexpected player movements.
Background texture was generating mipmaps, which was causing it to have worse quality on lower resolutions.
Some velocity modifiers could affect static impulse velocity, for example geyzers or adecodron spikes.
Camera could sometimes shake after player's death.
UI wasn't disappearing instantly after entering pause menu.
Diodes on vanishing asteroids could sometimes cause some weird visual bugs.
Fobs could be affected by player during boss animations.
Server side bullets invisible to player were still affecting him in other ways (effect or velocity changing).
crash.log file wasn't openning on Linux when game crashed.
Unstabling could be used when having stickybulb effect.

Thanks for your attention. Enjoy Space Eternity 3 and wait for more games in the future!
See you next time!

Kamiloso