Battle Challenges

• Can now subscribe to battle challenges from the workshop using the Steam client or Steam Workshop website.
  
• Can now publish your own battle challenges to the workhop from the battle challenges screen in-game.
  
• Battle challenges screen now shows a preview image of the level including level bounds, asteroids, ships and deployment areas.
  

Fleet Editor

• Stores each ship's state before editing, desired state before editing, and edited state.
  
• Can display the fleet in any of the stored states.
  
• Can compare any of the stored states with a visual overlay that shows changed, removed and added modules.
  
• Replaced ship rebuild command with a more featured revert command that can revert to any stored state and shows a live preview.
  
• Can now display damage and engagement range overlays in the fleet editor. Toggle using shortcuts: left Ctrl + F1, left Ctrl + F3.
  

Ship Editor

• Now tracks how many of each module type has been added and removed in the ship.
  
• Can display a comparison overlay between ship state before and after current edits.
  
• Added shortcut: double click on a module to select all modules of the same type.
  

Miscellaneous / minor

• Replaced all battle background music. Old battle background music added to the menu music playlist.
  
• Refactored handling of ship active core switch and splitting so that the ship origin no longer changes. This should help with some glitches and improve performance of those operations somewhat.
  
• Ship blueprints loaded from battle challenges are no longer shown in the ship blueprint browser.
  
• Ship blueprint browser now retains selection when updated.
  
• Made radio button labels clickable in the publish to workshop dialog.
  
• Can now scroll through the challenges using the up and down arrow keys.
  
• Battle challenges now have separate title and description.
  
• Resizable columns in the battle challenges listing.
  

Module dragging

• Selected modules can be moved at once by dragging them to desired location and dropping.
  
• Selected modules can be duplicated by dragging and holding left ctrl when releasing the drag.
  
• Modules can be dragged to disconnected positions, but the ship has to be in one piece to exit editing.
  
• Note: Active origin (core) module can't be replaced or deleted by dragging other modules over it.
  
• Core and thruster modules can be moved by dragging as well.
  

Ship motion traces

• New missile launch controls UI allows disabling automatic launching and lets player manually launch missiles from selected ships.
  
• Launching missiles can be queued and is automatically optimized to launch requested number of missiles as fast as possible.
  
• Missiles can now be selected and followed with camera.
  
• Missiles can be given movement command that sets their heading.
  
• Missile target can be manually set as a ship or module within a ship.
  
• A group of missiles can be given multiple targets at once. Game logic distributes the targets between the selected missiles.
  
• Enemy missiles can be now set as targets, but still only beam weapons will damage them.
  

• Waypoints are not supported. This also means that ships won't navigate around asteroids.
  
• Reflexxes only supports symmetrical acceleration and deacceleration so a lower value dictates ship's performance.
  
• Formations tend to break apart during movement if speed limiter is turned off. I think this is because phase synchronization not working without a speed limit.
  
• Missiles don't support synchronized motion.
  

• Added "select similar" action by double clicking on a ship or missile in battle.
  
• Fixed "module disabled" effects getting applied to chemical thrusters when they run out of fuel.
  
• Camera no longer stops following object when it gets disabled.
  
• Organized fleet command buttons to a collapsible widget.
  

• New flame and smoke effect when an active (not armor or hull) module gets disabled.
  
• Redesigned explosion effect when a propellant tank module gets destroyed.
  
• New explosion effect when a core module gets disabled.
  
• New Explosion effect for impact explosive missiles.
  
• Smaller tweaks to all other particle effects as well.
  
• Updated particle effect textures and infra to allow different sprite sizes. The sprites are now defined in a separate file.
  
• Added separate spawn rate multipliers for effect and debris particles to the settings screen.
  
• Various improvements to particle emitter code to make flame and smoke effects look better when attached to accelerating and rotating objects.
  
• Increased visual size of projectiles when not zoomed in very close.
  
• Increased visual size of missiles in "icons overlay" shown when zoomed far out.
  

• Armor plate simulation with per-segment damage independent from module damage
  
• Explosion simulation
  
• Armor piercing explosive projectiles that explode after penetrating
  
• Projectile passthrough, ship internal ricochets
  
• Projectile penetration, armor plate and module damage visualization
  
• Beam (weapon) penetration and passthrough, distance-based shield interaction
  

• All stock ship designs either improved or replaced with new ones
  
• Existing challenge levels updated and tweaked to take the new game balance into account
  
• 3 new challenge levels: "Canyon battle", "Obstacle race 2", "Obstacle race 3"
  

• Implemented new collision avoidance check that calculates where the ship would stop if it "hit the brakes" and tries to stop the ship if that point is inside an obstacle or outside level bounds.
  
• Improved ship movement along (around) asteroids by fixing some issues and adding some new flight control logic for that
  
• Improved "movement disabled" check that is a condition in enemy ship surrendering logic
  
• Fixed fleet creation challenges sometimes getting the enemy ships moved and asteroids added to them
  
• Fixed some rare exceptions / crash related to ships getting disabled
  
• Fixed projectiles that exit ship to a void left by a single module within the ship not colliding again with the ship properly, causing them to pass through some modules
  
• Fixed player fleet ship listing not showing at all in battle setup screen if the fleet contains ships that are not in the blueprint library
  

• Change from heavy to medium armor except in critical places. This reduces weight and ship cost a lot.
  
• Place hull modules for additional light armor inside ship.
  
• Use corner and slope armor pieces where possible to benefit from increased effective armor thickness.
  
• Add more gas tank modules to ships with chemical thrusters.
  
• Cut number of weapon modules to reduce ship cost. Add power generation and radiators to get better fire rate instead.
  
• Shields now use even more power when under strain. Reduce number of shield modules and add power generation.
  
• Check the ship's center of mass since armor is now very heavy.
  

• Fixed projectile impacts sometimes causing ships to jump or shake.
  
• Fixed exception if user clicks "release ship control" button twice very quickly.
  
• Fixed a crash related to module targets.
  
• Core modules now explode (but still don't necessarily get destroyed) when they get disabled.
  
• Improved mobility stat calculation to take relative actuator strength into account. This affects automatic classification to ships and platforms.
  
• Improved enemy surrender logic to keep enemies fighting longer.
  
• Balance: Buffed armor effectiveness against kinetic projectiles.
  
• Balance: Increased armored thruster thrust slightly.
  
• Balance: Increased beam weapon range.
  
• Balance: Module price changes.
  
• Balance: Tweaked weapon ranges.
  
• Balance: Reduced medium plasma electricity use and increased that of medium gauss.
  

What?

• Modules now have separate armor plating, which is divided to small segments. Each segment takes damage independently. Previously there was only a simple armor hitpoints value for each module.
  
• Projectile hits first consider armor penetration and damage to the hit armor segment, then may penetrate and cause damage to the module.
  
• Projectiles can now penetrate into a ship, hit internal armor, ricochet internally, explode with a timed fuse, or pass through entire ship and still hit something else.
  
• Beams now lose energy according to distance traveled within enemy shields, can penetrate into ship and even pass through a ship.
  
• Internal and external explosions are now modeled in detail as well, with armor plating providing cover against damage.
  
• New damage overlay provides slowed-down animation of penetrating projectiles and explosions, shows armor plating state, and damage to enemy ships as well.
  
• Kinetic weapons can now fire both armor piercing and armor piercing explosive projectiles. Explosive projectiles have lower velocity and thus penetration, explosions damage armor plates and cause mostly functional area damage.
  

• Armor is now much heavier and expensive.
  
• Weapon modules are now much more expensive.
  
• Kinetic projectiles (medium and super gauss) do lots of functional damage if they pass into a module, but very little structural damage. Functional damage makes modules disabled, structural destroys the module.
  
• Medium and heavy armor are very effective against kinetic projectiles.
  
• Plasma is especially effective at burning away armor plates and causes lots of structural damage, but doesn't penetrate armor or module to module. Shields are now more effective against plasma projectiles.
  
• Beam weapons do decent damage all-around and have some penetration. Shields are now more effective against beams, 2 overlapping shields can stop a beam completely.
  
• Beam weapons now use more energy.
  
• Medium gauss can now benefit from radiators, fire rate drops after 4 shots otherwise.
  
• Plasma and kinetic weapon ranges have been tuned. Projectile type affects kinetic weapon range to maintain same flight time.
  
• Chemical thruster and gas tank modules carry less fuel. The gas tanks are much less prone to chain-explosions but cause area damage when blown up.
  

Why?

Usability changes

• Fleet editor now opens with a core only ship already in it. Note that you can always easily restore your previous fleet setup by loading the "autosave" fleet.
  
• Free skirmish battle setup screen now automatically remembers last used settings within session.
  

Bug fixes

• Fixed missiles being pointlessly transferred between launchers. Missiles now get launched faster overall, in salvos of equal size.
  
• Fixed point defence not working when the ship didn't have a primary target.
  
• Tweaked fighting to escaping battle AI trigger logic so that missile heavy ship designs will stick around to use their other weapons as well.
  
• Fixed display of fleet, level, and battle file modification date when using a different locale.
  
• No longer possible to enter direct ship control mode in deployment phase by using its shortcut key.
  
• Fixed redoing in ship editor causing reference to the ship's original blueprint getting lost.
  
• Fixed rebuild action in ship editor creating an incorrect undo state containing only the ship's core.
  
• Fixed an oversight that allowed non-core module to be set as origin in ship editor, causing the ship to become permanently disabled.
  
• Fixed surrendered ships potentially getting re-activated when split by enemy fire.
  
• Fixed scrolling in menus affecting initial camera zoom when entering battle, battle editor, or fleet editor screen.
  

• Added a tool that can mirror your ship design by any horizontal or vertical axis, replacing the other side. This can effectively reduce your module placement effort by half! Works with undo as well.
  
• Reimplemented some core motion control math to take moving target frame's own movement during planned motion into account. Generally ships should now reach and keep their desired engagement distance better.
  
• Improved fixed weapon accuracy by refining their firing timing algorithm. The logic now extrapolates motion of the weapon and target to expected next frame's time and doesn't fire if the next frame's firing solution seems to yield a hit closer to the target's center.
  
• Some small / rare bugs fixed.