(Cross posted from News)

VO 1.8.330 includes:

- Raptor UDV thrust increased from 215 to 225.
- Renamed "Gatling Turrets" to "Gatling Cannon" MkII and MkIII.
- New "Gatling Turret" created for actual turret usage, by small vessels with turret capabilities.
- Fixed problems with collision hulls for recently-updated, high-def asteroids on PC platforms.
- Fixed Voice Chat menu size issue on Android.

A couple of belated enhancements based on Suggestions Forum threads from earlier this month. The new Gatling Turret is only available in a couple of sectors. That may be controversial, but it's easy enough to expand availability later.

We have a lot more major development going on in the background, which should come to light before long. In addition, we're in the midst of completing a pretty major network migration for our office, which we've managed to make largely invisible to the game itself (does not change the servers), but does have a huge impact on our development. So, getting through that migration has been pretty important, although also time consuming.

Thanks everyone. We hope you'll stop by on Sunday for the Nation War event! Take care.

Yay user feedback! Congrats on nearly completing your network swap.

Sweet.

Nice update.

Useful update, thanks inc.

Thanks incarnate! A very nice update. Had to explain to some newbies that the Gat Turret was actually a Gatling Cannon Mkll just yesterday. Funny that you guys changed it just now :P
Have to yet find the Gatling Turret, seems it is not widely distributed in the lower parts of grey :)

A question anyway: What is this Gatling Cannon Mk3? I only see the basic Gat showing as Mk1 and the "old" Gat now showing as Mk2. Is there another new secret type or was that a typo?

Maybe it's the hive queen one...although that one was already called a cannon. Maybe it's the one you get at the conq stations

Thanks for the update!

No the HV is still the HV. Gatling turrets are in serco research stations.

Checked all the Gats that are not the turret, we have:

Gatling Cannon (Mk1)
Gatling Cannon Mkll
Gatling Cannon HV
Hive Queen Gatling Cannon

So that's just a typo by incarnate probably.

Controversial? Nah. Serco can keep their crappy nerfed turret. Without the AutoAim, it's not really worth an additional 2000kg.

So that's just a typo by incarnate probably.

Actually, there is an item that I described, but it probably doesn't exist in the game. I was pretty tired yesterday, and I didn't check to see if the item was for sale anywhere before changing the name or mentioning it. Oh well.

Controversial? Nah. Serco can keep their crappy nerfed turret. Without the AutoAim, it's not really worth an additional 2000kg.

Well, if someone wants to raise (or re-raise) the issue of AA in turrets on Suggestions, be my guest. The turret itself has the same AA settings, it's directly derived from the Cannon MkII (AGT).

I was just doing what I could, on short notice, to add some content to an otherwise boring update.

Maybe a bug then? The L-port version has a noticeably bigger AA cone than the Turret does.

Edit: Bug report thread here.

Thanks for posting it there. We'll check it out.