VO 1.8.251-252 up to tonight includes:Tonight:- Conquerable Station defense-turret armor reduced from 450k to 90k, making conquest an easier prospect.*** Vendetta 1.8.252- Improved game controller support for Android (including Ouya). Changed some of the default analog binds for new installations. For specifics of device support (including flightsticks), see the new sticky thread on the Android forum.- Added a 'virtual mouse' that is controlled by the left stick with 'A' being the 'left mouse button'. Any other button will cancel the virtual mouse. You can press and hold 'A' to drag items or to long-press in the navmenu to create waypoints. Added D-Pad support in the virtual keyboard. Other controller buttons are shortcuts for different actions in the virtual keyboard. 'X' is backspace, 'Y' switches between symbols and alpha characters, 'L3' toggles Shift, 'R3' is space, 'L1' and 'R1' move the caret left and right. 'A' selects the active key, and 'B' cancels the virtual keyboard. - Game controllers can now be connected to an Android device while the game is running and the controller will be automatically detected when any of the analog controls on the controller are moved.- Added native support for game controller HID devices but requires an apk update. *** Vendetta 1.8.251- Added a new XAudio2 audio driver for Windows Vista, 7, 8 that should work across more hardware configurations. Existing players will need to change to that driver in Options->Audio->Change Driver... but will default to that driver on new installations.- Fixed bug where some settings weren't being saved.- Targeted Character Info menu now fits on smaller device screens.- Account conversion menu now allows for choosing an account name instead of using the auto-generated one.- iup.image has returned for use in UI plugins.I've been a little behind on posting some of our patch updates to news, but in particular the recent joystick changes needed to undergo some testing before we announced them. However, at this point we're pretty excited by the options the new joystick support will give to Android players, and we highly recommend they check out the sticky-thread on the Android forum.Although support for joysticks might seem to be a secondary goal compared to game mechanics, these developments are needed for some time-sensitive co-marketing relationships and other opportunities to help raise the profile of the game. And, as a whole, they should make it that much easier for our Android players to be competitive with the PC userbase.Many other tweaks and fixes have also been added, and we're currently also trying to track down a bug that is causing sporadic crashes for certain specific Android players. This
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Odyssey Overview Live Streams, May 29 and May 30 – EVE Community community.eveonline.com Our favorite EVE TV crew will be hosting not one but TWO live streams featuring members of the development teams who've been busy preparing your Odyssey! They will join us on set to show off their features and answer your questions live from the Twitch chat!
With the dual deployment of Retribution 1.2.4 and the new launcher on May 21, our web servers became overloaded due to a technical glitch that took us a few hours to isolate and solve.
While this issue was not universally experienced and over 30,000 pilots were able to log in normally before we fixed the issue, we do feel this special case does require a special thank you (for your patience) from CCP.
Since it's close to impossible to find out exactly who was affected and who wasn't, we added 50.000 skillpoints (representing a day’s worth of intense skill training) to the skill point pool of the highest skilled character on each account during today's downtime.
Here’s a quick guide on how to apply those skillpoints to a skill of your choice. Check out the FAQ on the May 21 launcher issues here and please fly safe o7.
With the dual deployment of Retribution 1.2.4 and the new launcher on May 21, our web servers became overloaded due to a technical glitch that took us a few hours to isolate and solve.
While this issue was not universally experienced and over 30,000 pilots were able to log in normally before we fixed the issue, we do feel this special case does require a special thank you (for your patience) from CCP.
Since it's close to impossible to find out exactly who was affected and who wasn't, we added 50.000 skillpoints (representing a day’s worth of intense skill training) to the skill point pool of the highest skilled character on each account during today's downtime.
Here’s a quick guide on how to apply those skillpoints to a skill of your choice. Check out the FAQ on the May 21 launcher issues here and please fly safe o7.
We will be holding another mass test to test new features for the Odyssey release. Areas of focus will be the new jump and pod death transitions, the new sensor overlay and the hacking minigame. If you’re interested in attending please join us on the Singularity test server, Monday, May 27th, at 17:00 UTC.
All participants will receive a small reward of two million skill points on Singularity.
Please refer to this thread for more information about how you participate in the test, and this EVElopedia article for more information on mass testing.
We will be holding another mass test to test new features for the Odyssey release. Areas of focus will be the new jump and pod death transitions, the new sensor overlay and the hacking minigame. If you’re interested in attending please join us on the Singularity test server, Monday, May 27th, at 17:00 UTC.
All participants will receive a small reward of two million skill points on Singularity.
Please refer to this thread for more information about how you participate in the test, and this EVElopedia article for more information on mass testing.
Odyssey nears with all its cool world shaping features and we want to employ every medium at our disposal to brief you on what is coming, and to give you a good idea of how it will affect the universe which you inhabit by choice.
