Current Version (v1.1) List of Known Bugs / Glitches

Current Version (v1.1) List of Known Bugs / Glitches

Sat Apr 27, 2013 2:58 am

#1 by JoshParnell

Most recent release in Op post

Version - Limit Theory Prototype v1.1
Date - 2013-5-13
Patch - Available Here

Green Items are solved in the next release.
Orange items have been rejected.

Current known issues with the prototype

I. Critical Issues

Poor support on some integrated chipsets

II. Major Issues

Items of same type sometimes not stacking (related to load/save problem)
Crashes on ultra mode when loading immediately at the main menu
Resolution problems / strangeness on TVs
Able to get cheap repairs by first unequipping armor and shield, repairing ship, then re-equipping
Quick groups in Command View are not saved with the save game, have to re set up each time
Weapons cannot take damage or be disabled (damage tracking)

III. Minor Issues

Exit to menu lag when the menu is displaying a different background system than what the player is in
Still impossible to tell which side of the acceleration gate is which (link)
ESC should back you out of sub-menus (New game, settings, etc)
Debug display options (FPS and other information; similar to minecraft's F3)
No scale of distance; how fast am I going? How far is the object?
Equipped subsystems should take away from cargo capacity
Cannot uninstall subsystems via drag/drop (or sell them by dragging to an open sell window)
Would be nice to automatically install subsystems that you buy if a hardpoint is free
Negative joystick/gamepad axis binding is wonkey
No option to configure yaw/pitch binding
Beam weapon loop sound not playing
Railgun auto-aim is slightly off
No power distribution hotkeys
No constant thrust option (need it especially for joysticks)
No confirmation boxes when loading/deleting games
Expanded save/load functionality
Shield hits do not scale correctly with the size of the munition hitting them
Better formation coherence for enemy & ally fleets in missions
Better way to revert changes if the player makes a mistake (e.g. Setting too small of a crosshair making it difficult to revert back) / Reset to defaults button
Better indication of how much storage space is left in destination when purchasing items
'Smart' updating to not disrupt the player when buying/selling (e.g. Store inventory list expands AROUND the cursor, prevent items from selling when the player has it open)
Not obvious when a mission is accepted / failed
Sometimes when docked, ship appears within another ship
Lack of consolidated and optimized repair for fleet instead of individual ships
No way to define custom fire groups
When changing which ship to pilot, orders of 'follow me' are reset to 'idle'
Would be nice to have a 'center on ship' button in command view
Sometimes hard to open the right-click menu in command view if zoomed too far out
Control config: would be nice to be bind more than one key to a function
Control config: when binding F1 to another function, the screenshot window comes up
Visualise weapon firing arcs. Whole weapon HUD symbol shown in red if it can not bear on this target. Yellow if it's still turning towards that target.
Installable systems do not list a Power Consumption and the ship does not display a Power Supply value. Can not tell if a particular system would draw too much power to be useful for the ship.
Orders while paused. Ability to pause the game without the "game paused" display getting in the way when using the UI
Ships will sometimes keep attacking a 'dead' ship
Camera issues with Corvettes in 3rd person view
Can bind the screenshot button to the left mouse button, which then causes impossibility to navigate the game and play as well as no way to revert changes without crashing out the game
Unplugging a gamepad while in-game will cause the game to crash (Issue with the SFML library used with the game and not an actual fault of LT)

IV. Change Log

Major Fixes
- New option to decouple the camera viewing angle from the ship's rotation, allowing for greater combat proficiency (especially with big ships!); bound to Z key by default
- Vertical sync is now available in the launch options, and is turned on by default; should fix GPU heat issues
- Docking AI has been significantly improved - no more suicidal dockers
- Ally and enemy target colors are now configurable for colorblind friendliness
- UI smooth resizing has been disabled, leading to a faster and more responsive UI
Minor Fixes
- Fixed rate-of-fire inaccuracy for high-ROF weapons
- Fixed beam weapon "wiggle"
- Improved accuracy to picking in command interface
- Cruise mode automatically engages thrusters (no need to hold forward thrust)
- Docking disables cruise mode, re-enabling other subsystems
- Docking automatically causes weapons to reload
- Acceleration lanes are more pilot-friendly (although still dangerous to large ships). In addition, left-right layout should allow easier understanding of directionality. Left is incoming, right is outgoing, like American traffic laws.
- Destroyers and frigates have been switched (destroyers are the big ones now)
- More keys can be recognized and bound in configuration
- Beam weapons can no longer hit the source ship
- Resolved bug in UI that prevented scrolling to the bottom of some menus
- No longer possible to aim at own ship
- Text fields properly capture keyboard on hover
- "Load" button is now appropriately called "Load/Save" when in-game
- "Cargo / Storage" have been renamed to "Ship / Station" to clarify
- Improved debugging support, making crash reports more useful for me

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.” ~ Henry Ford

Current Prototype (Pre-Prototype) Bugs / Glitches

Sun Apr 28, 2013 7:29 pm

#2 by DWMagus

Version - Pre-Prototype RC v1.0
Date - 2013-4-27

Green Items are solved in the next release.
Orange items have been rejected.

Current known issues with the prototype

Game-Breaking Issues

If you do not own any storage and open the market, switch to 'Storage' mode, then remove the last reward from storage, then buy something from the market (subsequently telling it to send to storage when the storage no longer exists), the game hard-locks
When clicking SELL -> SELL:Storage... if base STORAGE is empty
When clicking SELL -> SELL:Storage -> SELL item... if this sale empties STORAGE
Whenever the SELL tab tries to access the contents of STORAGE and doesn't find any
Integrated chipsets do NOT work or experience strange behaviour

Bugs (Issues dealing with gameplay that require fixing)

Sound issues when dealing with a large number of sounds
Performance issues if sound is enabled and you're in a large engagement
If the game is at full screen at a different resolution than the desktop, when you alt-tab, your desktop changes to that resolution. Resetting the desktop resolution and then alt-tabbing back in will change the game's resolution to your desktop's. (This is not really a bug, it's a behavior of windows - it sends a resize signal to the applciation)
If you quickload while the "You Died" window is on screen, the load is successful. If you then click the OK on the "You Died" window to get it out of the way, you die and go back to the main menu
If you keep closing in on your target, the objective markers vanish completely before the target markers are visible
If a Distress mission fails while you are still shooting one of those enemies, said enemy will be hostile to you while showing blue target brackets (neutral)
No tooltips on power distribution window
Strafing and backwards thrust do not work (They do, but none of the generated ships have front-facing or side thrusters yet)
After undocking from a base, the ship isn't always pointing away from the base
On some mission types, the mission reward is missing a digit in the credits, either to the left or right (Conflict missions especially) (??)
Some missions will complete themselves without the player undocking
AI players are rather suicidal with respect to acceleration lanes
Cannot scroll all the way down in some UI elements; the last element is half cut-off (does not prevent you from clicking it)
Rate-of-fire is incorrect for weapons with very high ROF
The camera/mouselook is locked to the front view, but not so for the AI ships
No colorblind support (enemy and ally target marker colors are non-changeable)
Not possible to tell which half of the acceleration gates "works" for going into the direction you are facing. Maybe display the "field" only on the usable half.
Frigates and destroyers are mixed up. Destroyers should be the bigger one. Derrrp.

Complaints (Issues not affecting gameplay that would be nice to fix)

The game has no icon on the task bar or while alt-tabbing
When selecting a starting system, the outline is hard to see
When dragging a system from the cargo area, all locations highlight, not just the correct one
When clicking an installed system, you cannot see its data screen
Keyboard shortcuts for certain actions; e.g. I can press Shift+D to dock, but once I'm docked, I can't press Shift+D to undock
No loading progress bars/screens
ESC does not back you out of sub-menus (New game, settings, etc)
ESC should close all open tabs (BUY, ship cargo). A second press of ESC would then get you the main menu.
Lead tracker is based on the slowest weapon (mostly visual - every weapon actually tracks independently)
Debug display options (FPS and other information; similar to minecraft's F3)
No scale of distance; how fast am I going? How far is the object?
Equipped subsystems should take away from cargo capacity
Cannot uninstall subsystems via drag/drop
Would be nice to automatically install subsystems that you buy if a hardpoint is free
Negative joystick/gamepad axis binding is wonkey
No option to configure yaw/pitch binding
Beam weapon "wiggle"
Beam weapon loop sound not playing
Railgun auto-aim is slightly off
No power distribution hotkeys
When docked, your SHIPS tab should have a red icon (instead of white) if your ship is in need of repairs.
No constant thrust option (need it especially for joysticks)
Cruise mode should automatically engage thrusters, no need to hold W

Documentation (Things that would have been nice to know)

CTRL+S is the quick save button
ESC in-game brings you to the main menu immediately. Pressing ESC again takes you back to the game--No button that says "Resume Game"
Game does not pause when alt-tabbed
Space bar is the alt-menu and release mouse from game button
Log file location is - %userprofile%\My Documents\my games\LT Prototype\logErrors.txt
No separate throttle control; must hold down to maintain forward speed
No keyboard navigation in menus
In order to buy and sell multiple different items, you need to hold shift
In a New Game you start docked at a station and your ship does not have any weapons or shields. You have to buy some, then install them from the cargo screen (C).

Early Spring - 1055: Well, I made it to Boatmurdered, and my initial impressions can be set forth in three words: What. The. F*ck.

Current Version (v1.0) List of Known Bugs / Glitches

Mon May 13, 2013 9:34 pm

#3 by DWMagus

Most recent release in Op post

Version - Limit Theory Prototype v1.0
Date - 2013-4-28

Green Items are solved in the next release.
Orange items have been rejected.

Current known issues with the prototype

I. Critical Issues

Poor support on some integrated chipsets

II. Major Issues

Rate-of-fire is incorrect for weapons with very high ROF
Not possible to tell which half of the acceleration gates "works" for going into the direction you are facing. Maybe display the "field" only on the usable half.
Capital ships do not fit through the acceleration gates so they are destroyed by the collision
Frigates and destroyers are mixed up. Destroyers should be the bigger one. Derrrp.
Need option for VSync in the launcher
Ships in fleet can possibly destroy themselves when ordered to dock
Ships can get 'stuck' in base object when undocking
Possible to destroy self with weapons when you have a turret on one side of your ship and aim at the extreme opposite side, forcing the weapon to fire 'through' your ship
Possible to aim at your own ship
Asteroids are generated randomly rather than from a fixed seed
Textfield does not capture keyboard when hovered but not clicked
The camera/mouselook is locked to the front view, but not so for the AI ships
Control config does not recognize all keys. "\" on the main keyboard, several on the numpad - different ones with NumLock on/off.
No colorblind support (enemy and ally target marker colors are non-changeable)
Cannot scroll all the way down in some UI elements; the last element is half cut-off (does not prevent you from clicking it)
Crashes on ultra mode when loading immediately at the main menu
Resolution problems / strangeness on TVs
Able to get cheap repairs by first unequipping armor and shield, repairing ship, then re-equipping
Quick groups in Command View are not saved with the save game, have to re set up each time
Weapons cannot take damage or be disabled (damage tracking)
Possible to destroy self when docking by docking too late / too close to the station (Not a bug. Slow down!)

III. Minor Issues

Cruise mode should automatically engage thrusters, no need to hold W
Quotation marks not showing up correctly in the EULA
Docking doesn't reset Cruise Mode toggle
Weapons don't automatically reload when docked
Saving is done by clicking "Load"
Difference between Cargo and Storage is not intuitive (both can be understood as being located on your ship). Maybe rename Storage to Warehouse or Station Storage.
Beam weapon "wiggle"
When targeting in the general direction of a star the same color as the cross hair, it is impossible to see the cross hair (like this?) The "UI" pointer has the same issue.
ESC should back you out of sub-menus (New game, settings, etc)
Debug display options (FPS and other information; similar to minecraft's F3)
No scale of distance; how fast am I going? How far is the object?
Equipped subsystems should take away from cargo capacity
Cannot uninstall subsystems via drag/drop (or sell them by dragging to an open sell window)
Would be nice to automatically install subsystems that you buy if a hardpoint is free
Negative joystick/gamepad axis binding is wonkey
No option to configure yaw/pitch binding
Beam weapon loop sound not playing
Railgun auto-aim is slightly off
No power distribution hotkeys
When docked, your SHIPS tab should have a red icon (instead of white) if your ship is in need of repairs.
No constant thrust option (need it especially for joysticks)
No confirmation boxes when loading/deleting games
Expanded save/load functionality
Shield hits do not scale correctly with the size of the munition hitting them
Better formation coherence for enemy & ally fleets in missions
Better way to revert changes if the player makes a mistake (e.g. Setting too small of a crosshair making it difficult to revert back) / Reset to defaults button
Better indication of how much storage space is left in destination when purchasing items
'Smart' updating to not disrupt the player when buying/selling (e.g. Store inventory list expands AROUND the cursor, prevent items from selling when the player has it open)
Not obvious when a mission is accepted / failed
Sometimes when docked, ship appears within another ship
Lack of consolidated and optimized repair for fleet instead of individual ships
No way to define custom fire groups
Exit to menu lag when the menu is displaying a different background system than what the player is in
When changing which ship to pilot, orders of 'follow me' are reset to 'idle'
Would be nice to have a 'center on ship' button in command view
Sometimes hard to open the right-click menu in command view if zoomed too far out
Control config: would be nice to be bind more than one key to a function
Control config: when binding F1 to another function, the screenshot window comes up
Visualise weapon firing arcs. Whole weapon HUD symbol shown in red if it can not bear on this target. Yellow if it's still turning towards that target.
Installable systems do not list a Power Consumption and the ship does not display a Power Supply value. Can not tell if a particular system would draw too much power to be useful for the ship.
Orders while paused. Ability to pause the game without the "game paused" display getting in the way when using the UI
Would be nice to have chassis type listed independent of asset rename (But you don't always want to keep the ship type in the name, need to allow players to choose)
Control config: in order to assign key combinations (SHIFT-w) you have to... first hold down SHIFT, then LMB click into the field you want to set, then press w. If you LMB click onto the field, then try to anter SHIFT-w, the keydown event of SHIFT is the only thing that will register. (Not true, but you have to hit it relatively shortly thereafter)

Early Spring - 1055: Well, I made it to Boatmurdered, and my initial impressions can be set forth in three words: What. The. F*ck.