Patch Notes - 0.5.2.4:250127-1956 — NEBULOUS: Fleet Command Steam update #510690

Hello Spacers! We've got another round of bugfixes and optimizations, as well as our first balance tweaks. On the balance front we've cut down the number of missiles the Pike can carry, which had previously escaped being cut in half in testing like all the other craft, and decreased the damage of 100mm Flak. These are pretty minor but should address some issues we've been seeing in multiplayer games. Aside from a few bug and exploit fixes, optimization is at the center of this patch. With the number of signatures and sensors/seekers now active at any given time with the addition of spacecraft, I've overhauled the way signatures are managed and partitioned in the map so that sensors only have to evaluate the signatures that are nearby to them. Passive missile seekers in particular were also optimized substantially. In my benchmarks with 45 dual-seeker missiles searching for targets I saw ...