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Hello and welcome to StarMade,
The shield system has finally been refined to be much lighter on the resources, as well as easier to control and to design.
Shield System
The Spherical shield system has been replaced with a "skin" shield system, which can be understand as a layer on your ship. Every shield module on your ship (independent from its position) will now provide for that one shield. The capacity and recharge rate depends on the amount of shield modules on the this. But be warned: shields now have a constant pretty high power consumption. Once, the shields on a ship have been taken out (the more red, the impact, the less hp are left on the shield), the shield goes into a 10 second recover period, until it starts recharging again. That 10 seconds are reset every time the ship has been hit while its in recovery state.
The system is still not completed. Here is a list of things that will be added in the future:
Furthermore the implementation of the new shield shader open a whole new array of possibilities for more graphical effects
Other Changes
(the US server is down at the moment, but will be up in around 30 minutes)
Thanks for playing StarMade,
- schema
The shield system has finally been refined to be much lighter on the resources, as well as easier to control and to design.
Shield System
The Spherical shield system has been replaced with a "skin" shield system, which can be understand as a layer on your ship. Every shield module on your ship (independent from its position) will now provide for that one shield. The capacity and recharge rate depends on the amount of shield modules on the this. But be warned: shields now have a constant pretty high power consumption. Once, the shields on a ship have been taken out (the more red, the impact, the less hp are left on the shield), the shield goes into a 10 second recover period, until it starts recharging again. That 10 seconds are reset every time the ship has been hit while its in recovery state.
The system is still not completed. Here is a list of things that will be added in the future:
Shields will very good against missiles (at the moment, it does nothing)
The player will be able to regulate (in %) how much power is transferred to the shields
There will be greater detail in shield distribution (regions of a ship)
The player will be forced to build shield generators on the outer hull (or near to it)
Furthermore the implementation of the new shield shader open a whole new array of possibilities for more graphical effects
Other Changes
Client cache is now cleared when changing server. This prevents bugs, that are caused when having a ship with the same name in single and multiplayer on a server.
Another server memory leak has been fixed, which should greatly prolong the lifetime of out servers for the long term
If power blocks are deleted, the current power will no longer remain if the new maximal capacity is smaller than the current power.
(the US server is down at the moment, but will be up in around 30 minutes)
Thanks for playing StarMade,
- schema