In addition, 1.4036 is now in Beta.

• Numerous small bug fixes and performance optimisations
  
• Several new Audio files of Dave and Susan Steele have been activated, and should help guide our new players onto the right paths.
  
• Megatextures have been live since 1.4034 - you can turn these on in the Options menu. Megatextures demand a huge amount of CPU, RAM and will slowly fill up your hard drive - but for people with a powerful PC they're the ultimate Ascent graphical experience. If you stay near an outer planet long enough, it will build and cache a Megatexture set, which will load whenever you fly back to this planet. Megatextures are extremely high resolution, and mean that the transitions between textures and terrain engine are invisible even on huge monitors.
  

TERRAFORMING.

The HyperMegaUltra update is here!

• Co-Op combat is now live. You can see numerous pirate encounters in the outer systems, up to an including ones you should bring a fleet of friends along for.
  
• New single player campaign combat quest line is in, with more to follow soon.
  
• New ship - the Class 14 Heavy Cruiser known as the Ophan. This behemoth is ideal for combat. Which is handy because pirates seem to be multiplying.
  
• Deep core mining and Gems are now in game
  
• New asteroid and new metal added
  
• You can now build modular palaces on your colonies, the ultimate in-game status symbol for the super successful player. They also give useful bonuses.
  
• Upgraded to Unity 5, with new shaders for most items in game - huge graphics boost
  
• Replaced almost every interface in the game with new UI by an industry professional. Less clunk, more wow!
  
• So many bugs have been fixed it's ridiculous.
  
  

• Added Boomerang, the first true Carrier in the game
  
• Added IVA (lets you walk around inside the Carrier and later other ships)
  
• Added Mac and Linux versions. Feedback needed - try them
  out please!
  
• Windows now has a 64bit build, which will automatically be what Steam installs on 64bit systems. Hopefully.
  
• Core sample maps will now show blobs or boxes by request
  
• Core sample maps can now filter for specific resources
  
• Core sample maps can now be manually offset by the user to correct their inaccuracy, using the offsetoverlay x,y command
  
• The game client is now better at hiding NPCs that should be far, far away from you (doesn't load them at all which means they have virtually zero impact on performance now)
  
• Fixes for missing paint on other people's ships
  
• Possible improvement for Mac font filtering after 1.3163
  
• Some small sample map overlay memory usage and bug fixes
  
• Many small bug fixes
  

• Added ice layer visible and detectable by core sampling to the game
  
• Fixed searching for banned goods within a certain range
  
• Fixed no refresh cargo holds display when changing ships
  
• Fixed stock market entries' cached name now changes during the batch process if the colony name has changed
  
• Added /ignore and /report server side chat commands
  
• Numerous small fixes to NPC traders
  
• Fixed several other small bugs
  

• Chat now has multiple channels with a drop down to select between them. /join (channelname) and /part (channelname) to join or leave new channels
  
• Stock market interface finally has pages!
  
• Fixed some small bugs
  

• Fixed bug with tilted OSB structures
  
• Fixed bug with NPC locations getting reset when they get confused
  
• Fixed ultra low framerate with problematic customs patrol
  
• Fixed a bug when buying stellar credits when you had none to start with
  
• Fixed stock market skybeams so they're gold instead of green
  
• Fixed invincible guardians (they're now totally vincible!)
  
• Fixed numerous small and annoying bugs
  
• Added short purple skybeams for entertainment centers to make them easier to find
  
• Added more variation in jump-in point initialisation to reduce the number of player-player collisions, especially when ejumping
  
• Added another possible workaround for losing the "send" button at huge colonies
  
• Hawks no longer suffer as much from being overloaded
  

• You can now instruct your NPC pilots to Patrol one of your colonies. They will scan anyone's cargo they intercept, and confiscate anything illegal. Unless they get bribed. Shh.
  
• Smuggling is now "feature complete". I will probably add some more little options and flourishes to it, a LOT of balancing (it might only be profitable for newbies at the moment for example) and inevitable fixes as we go forward.
  
• Many small bugs have been fixed. And some large ones.
  
• Next major feature - MEGA CO-OP COMBAT.
  

• New Guardian model
  
• Fixed many small bugs
  
• Improved framerates on low end machines when near (or even far from) Space Stations
  
• Some small visual tweaks with shadows up close