Woo! Finally.
EDIT-
"Transporter Beacon
The transporter beacon is a personal tool that enables the user to warp to a transporter as long as the vessel is in vicinity. Just use its beam to mark the transporter controller you want to be warped to, then open your inventory, right click on the item, and hit ‘transport’ to be warped to that transporter. This is very handy for exploration without a proper way to get back. In a future update there will also be a ship beam that lets the player set a manual target for a transporter."
God dammit. Why? I was hoping this would NOT be a thing, so that shuttles would at least have some use still. Nope. Are ground-based creatures or hostiles even going to be an issue with this? Just warp back up to your ship if you find a nasty alien in a cave!
I also don't see anything about damage beam range fixes.