Overheating Reactors, Ship Instadeath, and Other Fixes
Hotfix addressing overheating, ship explosions, weapon accuracy, AI targeting, and reactor behavior with several reliability and UI fixes.
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- Targeting and weapon accuracy
- Combat pilot weapons:Weapon targeting now better predicts future positions, increasing hit accuracy against high-VCRS targets.→Improved
- Targeted weapons:Destroyed ships cease returning fire, preventing phantom hits after destruction.→Honors destroyed status
- Targeting arc and VCRS interactionWeapon targeting arc:Projectiles now respect arc and VCRS interactions more accurately, improving hit rate across weapon arcs.→Corrected
✚Bug fixes4
- Ship explosions and physics edge caseStranded ships no longer explode due to rare math edge case between vectors and arccosine under exact 16x speed scenarios.→Fixed
- AI pilots around CeresAI pilots around Ceres no longer loop trying to reach speeds they cannot sustain, improving navigation decisions.→Fixed
- Weapons MFD UIUI cleanup to prevent accidental opening of the COMMS menu from the Weapons MFD.→Fixed
- Power system and fast-forward fixesLaser-induced heating stabilized; lasers reliably turn on/off with reactor after restarts.→Fixed
◆Other changes4
- Reactor and heat systems
- Reactor heat generation and heating behavior corrected to prevent runaway heat from laser arrays and to align heater behavior with other reactor components.→Fixed
- Laser arrays now reliably power on and off in sync with reactor cycling.→Fixed
- Power system and fast-forward fixesPower system now behaves consistently during fast-forward, with reactor modules drawing power properly.→Aligned
- General fixesMiscellaneous bugfixes improving AI behavior, weapon cooldowns, and ensuring destroyed targets stop returning fire.
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Hotfix 0.15.0.18 for Fire in the Hold fixes several stability, UI, and flow issues including docking safety, NAV visibility, encounter flow, null references, and tutorial resilience.
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Hotfix patch addressing null reference errors during tutorial save/load and game transitions.
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