• Added a single-player campaign as a limited preview
  

• Autospeed match 'close' setting does not work as expected
  
• Carrier and Large Transport do not have death animations and blink out of existence on death
  
• Colliders for Fighter, Gunship, Carrier, and Large Transport are not optimized for best fitting
  
• Jump-out animations are not scaled correctly for ships bigger than a gunship
  

• Campaign: Single-player campaign as a limited preview
  
• Campaign: 3 main missions for the campaign
  
• Campaign: 5 side missions for the campaign
  
• Campaign: Player Item rewards for completing a main mission in the campaign
  
• Campaign: Player Prestige rewards for completing main and side missions in the campaign
  
• Campaign: Player Experience rewards for completing main and side missions in the campaign (used to unlock following main missions)
  
• Campaign: Player Prestige and experience rewards for kills
  
• Skirmish: Wingmen will now spawn in formation with their wing leader
  
• New Ship: Fighter (only available to AI actors in the campaign)
  
• New ship: Gunship (only available to AI actors in the campaign)
  
• New ship: Carrier (only available to AI actors in the campaign)
  
• New ship: Large Transport (only available to AI actors in the campaign)
  
• New primary weapon: Hydracannon as XXS size (only available to AI actors in the campaign using the Fighter)
  
• New secondary weapon: Guided bomb (only available to AI actors in the campaign using the Gunship)
  
• New turret weapon: Autocannon as XS size (only available to AI actors in the campaign using the Gunship)
  

• Limited frame rate to 30FPS when in menus
  
• Luhansk corvette mass was too low (raised from 200,000 to 2,000,000) and will no longer be spun around as much by weapon hits
  

• Faction Active/Dying unit tracking was left in an erroneous state when starting a mission, preventing further missions from completing correctly
  
• Explosive damage was not being applied correctly against moving structures
  
• AI actors would get stuck attempting to complete a priority objective that was impossible to complete
  
• Selecting a target from cleared selection selects 2nd contact in the list rather than first
  
• NullReference when firing missiles
  
• Fixed an issue with lateral thruster burn time calculations for AI actors
  

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• Autospeed match 'close' setting does not work as expected
  

• Pressing F1 in any menu will open a help webpage
  
• First-time players will be presented with a popup box explaining the F1 functionality
  
• A popup box will appear on loading the game warning if the keybindings have been reset for existing players
  
• Feedback form button added to the main menu, which will open in your default web browser
  
• Added afterburner functionality to all playable ships
  
• Added a forward reticle to the flight HUD
  
• Repair time is now functional on the damage control panel
  
• Players' current target subsystems' health is displayed alongside the subsystem name on the target panel as a percentage
  
• Turrets will disappear on 0 health and re-appear when their health is fully regenerated after a time
  
• Skirmish Menu: Added skybox selection with a choice of 3 skybox backgrounds
  

• Changed default controller bindings for keyboard: Afterburn (Tab), Nearest Attacker (CTRL+R)
  
• Adjusted sound effects volumes to use logarithmic roll-off, weapon audio effects should not feel as overwhelming
  
• Turrets are targetable once more
  
• Increased the angle on firing solution checks, as it was failing too much
  
• Doubled the subsystem damage for all projectile weapons
  

• Equipment Selection: The item will remain visible in the preview after equipping to an empty slot and then removing the item from the same slot
  
• Subsystem explosion damage is now applied from the source position, rather than the middle position of the parent ship
  
• Subsystems were not being damaged when the projectile has 0 primary damage (affected the railgun)
  
• Autocannon/16 incorrectly using Autocannon/8 Shells for less damage than intended
  
• Explosions were not applying falloff damage based on distance, and wrongly applied full damage within the explosive radius
  

• Lots of changes to improve the player experience
  
• Kherson ship has the first implementation of Afterburner (includes reverse afterburner!)
  

• Autospeed match 'close' setting does not work as expected
  

• Default control bindings for gamepads
  
• Afterburner added to the Kherson (other ships yet to have the functiona implemented)
  
• Skirmish Menu: Show Total Costs and number of ships per Team
  
• HUD Color Picker is now fully navigable with a gamepad controller
  
• Ship/Equipment Selection: Primary and turret weapons now visible on the preview model
  

• Ship Selection: Vessel specification text changes for defensive and offensive stats to make more compact
  
• Ship Selection: Updated the ship descriptors with basic information
  
• Equipment Selection: When clicking on an equipped item slot, the available items list is updated, as it does when clicking an empty
  
• Equipment Selection: Using mouse to click on an equipment slot will no longer select the first inventory item
  
• Equipment Selection: Updated weapon descriptors with basic information
  

• Turret gunners are trigger happy, firing too early, and missing their target on the opening salvo
  
• 'The Action "Clear Target1" does not exist' warning in the player log.
  
• Target damage quadrant display remains hidden after clearing the current target and then re-selecting target in a single action
  
• Afterburner button missing from Flight category binding in control mapper
  
• Control Mapper Combo Group category bindings not functioning as intended
  
• Fixed missing Prestige Costs for ships
  
• Skirmish Menu: Deleting last bot line prevents controller navigation
  
• Skirmish Menu: Ship base cost is now included in the Cost value for each added ship
  
• Auto Target panel positioned behind the Radar panel on the flight HUD
  

• AI fixes
  
• Adjusted hitpoints across flyable ships for faster times to kill
  
• Various fixes and improvements
  

• Autospeed match 'close' setting does not work as expected
  
• Turret gunners are trigger happy generally firing too early and very likely to miss their target at longer distances on the initial trigger press
  

• Torpedo launcher now available
  

• Hitpoints on the enemy faction ships have been approximately halved
  
• Reduced armour regeneration rate from 500 to 100 hitpoints per sec
  
• Adjusted HULL hitpoints on Luhansk, Donetsk, and Kherson, to be more in line with other available ships
  
• Corrected Small Artillery Turret prices overinflated pricing
  
• Ship selection screen 'Exit Mission' button renamed to 'Exit'
  
• Changed AI implementation from Behaviour Tree to State Machine
  
• AI will no longer appear unresponsive to the player staying on their tail
  
• Prestige Cost now updates across player lines in the Skirmish menu
  

• Weapon Panel border and title misaligned
  
• AI will fully complete their evasion behaviors per their rule set
  
• Running the game from a 2nd Steam account on the same computer as the 1st account will prevent the game from getting past the initial loading screen.
  
• Targeting bracket for Donetsk incorrectly scaling
  
• 'The Action "Clear Target1" does not exist' warning in the player log.
  

• A focus on improving the user experience as a demo candidate for the next Steam Fest
  

• Weapon Panel border and title misaligned
  
• Autospeed match 'close' setting does not work as expected
  
• Turret gunners are trigger happy generally firing too early and very likely to miss their target at longer distances on the initial trigger press
  

• Key binding for cycling only Hostile targets
  
• Key binding for cycling only Friendly targets
  
• Key binding for cycling only Neutral targets
  
• Distinct debris for Kherson, Luhansk, and Donetsk
  
• Added control binding Group 2 & 3 in Control Mapper
  
• Added 'Classification' to current target display in HUD
  
• New HUD Color Picker, for changing colors on HUD elements (Options > Game > Edit HUD Colors)
  
• Screen flash effect on the player taking hull damage (Options > Game > Flash Screen on Critical Damage)
  
• Primary guns will now point over the closest hotspot on a target, instead of focusing at the center of the target
  

• Disabled controller thumbstick for menu navigation due to interfering with Control Mapper Configuration of axis controls
  
• Renamed 'Pilot' category to 'Flight' in Control Mapper
  
• Renamed the 'Shift 1' category and bindings to 'Group 1' in Control Mapper
  
• Proofread and updated descriptors for key bindings in Control Mapper
  
• Added headings under categories sections, and re-ordered binding controls in Control Mapper
  
• Second ship collider for testing against ship collisions to avoid ships wedging each other
  
• Minor adjustments to Slide, Flight Assist, and similar indicators
  
• Ship armour sections will regenerate, as long as the section does not take damage for 10 seconds. Regeneration will be interrupted on taking damage
  
• Top and bottom armour sections added to all ships
  
• Explosions, caused by weapons (i.e. artillery), inherit the velocity of the object they hit
  
• controllerData.cfg is now located inside the player's Profile directory (allowing multiple Steam users to have their own unique controller bindings)
  
• settings.cfg now located inside the player's Profile directory (allowing multiple Steam users to have their own unique settings)
  
• Armour/Hull Quadrant display flash effect now animated over time
  
• Radar display quadrants light up when the player takes damage in that quadrant
  
• Primary gun pointers now have state changes (solid = ready to fire, hollow = reloading)
  
• Changed AU damage evasion modifiers. AI pilots will make efforts to avoid taking weapon fire more frequently
  

• Static gun pip displayed on HUD if no primary weapon is equipped
  
• Issue preventing accuracy of primary weapons, causing unintentional misses
  
• Mouse bindings incorrectly configured