yeah. Spherical gravity generators mainly useful for asteroids or some cool decorations. LOD, level of detail, is now supported for mods to help with performance. Mechanisms work a bit better in multiplayer and won't explode as much. New armor textures. More respawn ships. Ship saving so you can make your own respawn ships now.
Video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsfh9CJdCgs#t=122Here's the blog post
http://forums.keenswh.com/post?id=7047855Summary
Spherical gravity generator has been added in Space Engineers, as well as new respawn ships and support for modding them. Many multiplayer synchronization issues have been fixed, including rotor, piston and landing gear problems. Also performance has been increased significantly in certain situations.
Features
- spherical gravity generator
- pre-fab and respawn ship modding
- new world setting for dedicated server - autosave interval
- more respawn ships
- high quality armor textures (on 64-bit version)
- export ship/station as prefab (in F11 screen)
Fixes
- improved piston and landing gear stability
- fixed piston, rotor and landing gear exploding in MP
- fixed large performance issue caused by asteroids
- fixed too large piston collision model
- fixed issue when loose blocks loosing ownership
- fixed death in survival disables chat window
- fixed toolbar not remembering functions from attachments
- fixed hot-keyed groups reset when using merge blocks
- fixed wrong value in Steam-ID on dedicated server
- fixed problems with character mods deforming hands or legs of astronaut
- fixed graphical glitch when doors were inside other blocks
- fixed inertia not preserved when block was unmerged
Planets is deffinitely a cool idea, but seems very impractical to create without using an instance based system or something like that, but the devs are wizzards and can probably add that. If anything that won't happen until way later... or next week since the devs are also wizzards in the sense that they are unpredictable as fack.
Though what I would love to see more than anything is an open universe type official server where we would all spawn at a planet and eventually build some sort of deep space travel like a warp drive or wormhole or magic, and be able to travel to other random uninhabited planets where you could eventually find other people.
Seems like a cool way to add some sort of purpose in the game.
Although the devs did say the technology used ingame would be something we would expect to have at a specific year in the future, so deep space travel might be out of the picture.
