The ancient curse has reappeared!

• Pumpkin Shredder

  A dangerous new weapon straight from the wicked dimension, coming with custom sounds and a fancy skull turret!
  

• Mysterious Ghost Ship

  Scare the 🎃 out of your enemies with a vessel of the undead!
  

Weapon qualities

• First stage of randomized weapon qualities
  
• Six new quality levels (3 weaker / 3 stronger)
  
  More improvements coming soon!
  

New sidequests & events

• Escort the tyrant or kill him
  
• Helping the Isaac Family to get their place on Earth has new content
  
• Visit new locations like SMD Woodrow or Damokles Station
  

Atlantic Rebels

• Own faction logo
  
• New ships & faction spawner
  

SFX

• Quick travel sound effect
• Sound is played when Lt. Devi pushes you into the corner the first time you visit Caduceus Station
  

• Autopilot with target selection double click
  
• Weapon upgrade HUD: Show the weapon changes
  
• FoW should fully hide unexplored areas
  
• A lot station sizes were increased, giving them a more station-like feel!
  
  
  
  
• Mine spawners - pirate fortresses look even more inviting with decorative mine fields around them!
  
• Display and compare Laser dps on tooltips
  
• Ship Trade HUD: increase linked rendering fps to 60
  
• Landable HUD: Support rendering Emitter
  
• Menu: Draw the FoW
  
• Map Mode: Show the player ship radar range
  
• Neptune visual improvements
  
  
  

• Autopilot evasion with big sprites fail
  
• Engine emitter are sometimes drawn over the ship
  
• "E" dialog skip does not work sometimes
  
• Fix the "The Scheherazade Embargo"
  
• Limit the text width of in-space quest info tooltips
  
• Do not draw quest target icons for respawning ships
  
• Auxilium "Hey! Where are you going?" can still endless loop if Auxilium reached his target pos
  
• Menu ships lose emitter after a while
  
• Draw area spawner geometry over the FoW
  
• Menu ships can collide with the player ship
  
• Asteroid impact emitter scaling broken
  
• Do not autosave when the script crashed
  
• Low texture quality breaks fonts
  
• "Simon Boswell" without "teal_visit" respawns when the cad station explodes
  
• Savegame upgrade: Create_Simon_Boswell() can be called when the caduceus_station does not exist anymore
  
• "Devi's Datacube" dialog can repeat endlessly after savegame load
  
• "Can't Chat. Enemies are nearby." should not happen if low affinity ships are nearby but not attacking
  
• Save upgrade: Cad station is not unlocked if "Crash Course" has ended
  
• "Asuka Langley" script crash
  
• Venturas has a wrong identifier
  
• A message request calling the fail_callback with a null person crashes the script
  

Coming up next

• SKYju's and Nookrium's first quests!
  
• More sidequests
  
• Let us know what you would like to see
  

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🐄 Latest update: 'Holy Cow!' (0.12)

Get into the Action!

• Explore an immersive and dynamic version of our solar system in the future
  
• Discover the hidden background story about a war fought not too long ago
  
• Dive into the Caduceus storyline with 10 missions and discover the truth behind the Ganymede Flu
  
• Find and solve around 40 individual sidequests (more coming!)
  
• Decision-making & consequences - influence the fate of characters in the world
  
• Fight pirates, hidden alien ships and bosses!
  
• Mine dozens of raw materials, upgrade your ship with devices, defensive shields and powerful weapons and turrets
  
• Buy OR build yourself over 50 new spacecrafts
  
• More storylines, sidequests, equipable stuff, ships and features are incoming - prepare yourself!
  

Story content

• Reworked beginning 💯
  
• More action, more speed, more decisions
  
• More NPCs with improved dialog flow
  
• Overall decision-making & consequences
  
• Bosses and secrets!
  
  📺 Watch gameplay videos
  

Original Soundtrack

Gameplay features:

• Hacking
  Currently used on freight containers, this feature is to be expanded in the future.
  
  
• Ship Crafting
  You no longer have to rely solely on ship dealers to expand your fleet - get new blueprints, collect the materials you need and craft them yourself, right in Rajid's garage!
  
  
• Carrier load of ships and weapons!
  
  • 50 purchasable ships and 40 craftable blueprints
    
  • Capital ships are now in the game (carrier functionality planned)
    
  • Upgradable weapons, growing weapon variety
    
  • Passive devices
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  

Game World

• Locations
  We added more locations and moons to discover, got rid of a lot of placeholder images 🖼 and polished what was there from the start. A quick compilation:
  
  
  
  
  

Also, you will find more of the following:
• Local NPCs & traders, asteroid fields, plasma fields, war memorials, hackable containers, hidden chests & threats!
  

Controls

• Gamepad Support (steady improvements but working)
  
• Improved mapping options
  

Steam achievements

📆 Release: Q2 / 2020

🎃 Spooky things

🐢 Warp Turtle

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🐄 No cows were harmed for the development of this update - actually it has nothing to do with cows at all.

📜 Story Content

• The Caduceus arc now has an additional mission, new events and dialog
  
• The Seraphim got their first station populated with NPCs, new locations, background story and sidequests
  
• Added the pirate leaders in game
  
• Support dialog camera targets
  

🛠️ Ship Crafting

• Random NPC ships have a small chance to drop their blueprint when destroyed!
  
• Purchase them from traders
  

🔫 Weapons

• Plasma, Photon and Nuke Torpedoes
  
• Atlantic, J12, Sphere and Seraphim Projectile Turrets
  
• Dual Missile turrets
  
• Drone Launcher
  
• Scattergun & Mine Shotguns
  
• Holy Mines
  
  
• Mining Lasers: newly-balanced, can now be upgraded to be more powerful
  
• Shock Cannons: newly-balanced, the regular one can be upgraded
  
  
• Random Weapon Qualities - hey NormireX ;)
  (This feature is almost done, but still in progress and will be enabled soon!)
  

💎 Celebrities!

🌇 Locations

• Jupiter J12 Colony
  
• Caduceus HQ & Nexus
  
• Bar: Zion & Atlantic
  
• Seraphim 'Hall of Prayers'
  
• Doomsday Fortress
  
• Seraphim Hospital & Workshop
  

🚀 New Ships & Stations

• Atlantic Destroyer "Aries"
  
• Zeraph
  
• J12 small attack Ship
  
• 2 Sphere civil ships
  
  
  

• Stolen Caduceus Guard (bad paintjob - will they trick you? :D)
  
• The old "Seraphim Station" was converted into a faction-spawned battleship (Mercia) and will soon be available!
  

🎭 Portraits

• 2 new Player portraits!
  
• New Seraphim males
  
• Old Seraphim male updated & back in game
  
• J12 male variations
  
• Various 'crowd' portraits
  
• Statue
  

💬 UI

• Controller button images
  
• Show the bullet weapon range in tooltips
  
• Remember the map zoom z position
  
• Savegame the last camera zoom positions
  
• Container hacking levels displayed in analysis
  

🔊 Sound

• All new weapons come with custom fire and hit sounds
  
• Projectile non-hit explosion sounds added
  
• Custom mine explosion sounds
  
• Custom spam weapon sound
  
• Repair sound added to dialogs
  

✨ FX

• Customized mine explosion emitters
  
• Astronaut cargo item
  
• Heat effect for new Seraphim weapons
  

Story

• A lot of NPC script and dialog improvements
  

Ships

• Caduceus: Guards, Hunters & Heimwehr's ship polishing
  

• Reduce the autopilot speed based on distance to target pos
  
• Waechter animated lights
  
• Tyrell Wharf visual improvements
  
• CoC & FTA Transporters were slower than their loaded versions
  

World

• General performance improvements
  
• Improved background starfield
  
• Earth texture: structure added
  
• Nebula edge & pixelation fixes
  (thx to 8ByteGaming for ploughing through all the pirate hordes twice to find them!)
  
• Greenhouse location pic details added
  
• Bar location pics polishing and faction-related details
  
• Rajid's Garage: sky added
  
• Bokaj Lab minor changes
  
• Turret Platform respawn time increased
  
• Some spawners added
  

UI

• Loading Screen: Hide the mouse cursor
  
• Loading Screen: Visualize the early level loading progress
  
• Side notifications (tutorial hints) centered
  
• Player portrait selection: temporary layout change
  
• Weapon comparison: DPS should be at the top
  

Portraits

• More updates on all player portraits
  
• Fancy backgrounds added on a lot of portraits, more to come
  
• Harrison Cruise polishing
  
• McKenzie polishing and leg version
  
• Some reassignments
  

FX

• Particle emitter performance improvements
  
• Main menu background improved
  
• Customized projectile explosions, more to come!
  
• 2-framed emitters optimized
  
• Projectile improvements
  

• Rare crash when loading "coll_geometry convex_polygon" settings
  
• Savegames: Mission Target can be lost
  
• Ship slot tooltips can stay indefinitely
  
• Flickering HUD emitter
  
• Some weapon volume fixes
  
• HUD auto pause should not override dialog auto pause
  
• Character HUD: Crash when leveling up from the script
  
• If a person with a ship is docked on a station and then moved to a new location, the location change HUD event can fail
  
• Enemy ships with the behavior set to autopilot are not considered for the fight music check (No auto fighting music during The Cure battle)
  
• Add an error when the active person dialog block changes while a dialog is still active (and don't crash)
  
• Support changing the player docked location when a dialog ends
  
• Crash when unloading a level with an active message request
  
• Landable news text breaks if one entry is too long
  
• Locked Caduceus HQ dialog returns you to Distribution Hall
  
• Laser scale could be too small
  
• Elisha dialog block 1_1 stage 2 can break (Albatross)
  
• Do not treat weaponless enemies as active enemies (Can't chat near Caduceus Drones)
  
• Turret only ships should distance themselves with the weapon range in fights
  
• Message HUD: Number keys sometimes don't work for answer confirmation (8byte)
  
• All blocking HUD windows exit differently with ESC if the focus is not on the main window anymore
  
• Landable HUD: Controller doesn't work
  
• Shield "Init Time" comparison is broken
  
• Savegame upgrades based on quest stages do not work
  
• Kalypso does not enter "Atlas HQ" when "Genocide Consignment" fails
  
• Eric Strong repair option broken
  
• Don't crash if a weapon drawable is missing
  
• A ship with a mining attack state does not defend itself when under attack (RoadsterTracker)
  
• Auto-pause missing for the first dialog with Vasquez
  
• Dialog repair removes less credits than displayed
  
• Destroyed containers should only drop 25% of the loot
  
• Persons do not restock on creation
  
• Noob does not retaliate on "Ambush Henderson."
  
• New Game Menu: Draw the ship emitter
  
• Some Auto-Pause events are triggered incorrectly
  
• Weapon range doesn't recognize decel (also breaks the fight ai)
  
• Emitter can miss the last emit if the last frame ends on the emitter ttl (see p_shockwave)
  
• CEGUI SharedStringStream Thread fix (failed to convert attribute 'position' with value '0.0' to float)
  
• Don't show a notification if a person credits change ended up becoming a 0
  
• Random NPC Fighting lines often not triggered
  
• Turret platforms have a wrong death sound
  
• Fix the Jurgen Winters corpse description
  
• Weapon comparison could have an empty "()" comparison block
  
• Weapon comparison line formatting does not match with lasers/bullets
  
• The small sprites mouse selection radius increase is broken
  
• Default_Dialog_Handler_gac is not used
  
• Reset the last camera zoom positions when starting a new game
  
• The CZE_TO_MAP camera zoom event ends instantly. Should only end when near the target z
  
• Ghost items in cargo ("type": 4) (not deleted on load)
  
• Shizhong goes to meeting point instead of Kalypso after hacking
  
• Controller: ship slots can be selected in ship crafting hud
  
• Controller: landable focus elements can be selected from blocking HUD windows (limit focus to the blocking window)
  

• Random weapon qualities
  Hold on, NormireX! ;)
  
• More sound customization
  As mentioned before - improving the overall impression
  
• Station scales
  Some are a bit off - using a real scale overview to balance sizes
  
• Halloween things!
  👻
  

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• Trading NPC items now restock
  
• High Harvey Mini Questline
  
• McKenzie is now helping to stop the CAD transport if you got his leg first
  

Location images

• Zion field location
  
• GAC gas / water mine locations
  

Weapons

• Ship Trade: Show the slot icons
  
• Missile Battery
  
• Med-Drone Launcher
  
• Weapon turrets are colored in faction schemes now
  

Portraits

• Pirate boss Dieu-Le-Veut, Simon Krull, Mr. Gates
  
• Adaptions: Vasquez' lizard own portrait, GAC male: Sun-Moon version
  

Other stuff

• More neon info signs (quick travel, ship trade, cargo container, garage, bar / café)
  
• Punch sounds added to various dialog scenes
  
• One-hit-exploding asteroids
  

Ships & weapons

• Capitals acceleration increased
  
• Weapon optimization (Capital lasers and more)
  

Engine

• General performance improvements
  
• Renderer modernization
  

UI

• Ship Trade: Show additional drawables and emitter
  
• Analysis HUD: Draw items and asteroids with emitter
  
• Tooltip improvements
  
• Readables inspect window: vert scrollbar added
  

Portraits

• Updates & polishing
  
  
  
  
  FTA random female, Atlas, J12 random military, J12 female, Mr. Shiro, Caduceus male, Supreme Court judge, FTA agent male
  
  
  
  

FX

• Missile lens flares, laser glow
  
• Big laser: recharge emitter improvement
  
• Daedalus signal lights added
  

Other stuff

• A lot of dialog and dialog format polishing
  
• Savegames: Validate shields and devices too
  
• General savegame improvements
  

• Savegames: docked ships loose the detail mode state
  
• Controller: Cursor gone after exiting trade window with B
  
• Thruster is always uncharged on savegame load
  
• Possible crash when a person is deleted but still has a pending Message Request
  
• Burst weapons can fail trying to finish the first recharge
  
• Ship AI does not attack the Player sometimes if no friendlies are nearby
  
• The Travel group waiting at destination state disables the ship target rotation (The Cure doesn't rotate during battle)
  
• Auxilium cannot attack the CAD Escort
  
• Crash when opening inventory (old savegame)
  
• Old saves could have an invalid rajid dialog block
  
• Ship selection stays after death when the respawn is delayed
  
• Only show autopilot landing/leaving when a docking state is active
  
• Autopilot says "landing" even if it cannot land
  
• End an auto pause, on dialog end, only when it came from the dialog
  
• Show the Cooldown HUD when a laser is bursting
  
• Minimum energy required for laser should be based on the p_ttl
  
• Remove the unused "Zion Farm" ship data
  

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• Automatically switch the UI shortcut hints when using a controller
  
• Show the customized shortcuts instead of the default ones where possible
  
• Capital ships balancing (thanks deymoslex)
  

• Add missing prices to some ships who still have the default pricing
  
• Savegame upgrade for "Simon Boswell" can crash the script if the cad station is destroyed
  
• Recreate persons that sell stuff for capital ships
  
• Don't compare the same equipped item multiple times in tooltips
  
• When large tooltips go out of screen they should check on which side the cutoff is less
  
• First free slot is not used on auto equip
  
• A very rare Landable HUD Player_Leaves() crash
  

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• New ships

  
  
  
  
  • Capital ships are available now!
    
    
    Each one is coming with a unique big type weapon slot (click for video).
    
    The capitals were added in dialog with the community – due to your wishes to actually fly these things, we revised our first plan to hold them back until the carrier feature arrives. We will just add more of the big guys as it gets implemented. Have fun!
    
    
  • Higher-level Mosura versions are also available!
    (Top level comes with FIVE weapon slots)
    
    
  
  
  

• Quests

  
  
  
  
  • Crash Course has been changed to include a pirate wave defense segment
    
  • New escort sidequest
    
  • New Rajid pirate bounty hunt mission
    
  
  
  
  

• Portraits

  
  
  
  
  • Because that last guy was just a placeholder (to re-appear as Jack Sperrholz), here is the real Vasquez - coming with a badass robo lizard!
    
  
  
  
  
  Captain Vasquez, new CoC random male
  
  
  
  

• UI

  
  
  
  
  • Map mode: Non-discovered quest targets selectable for auto pilot
    
  • Add a key shortkut "0" to re-center the camera to the player in map mode
    
  • Custom icon for readable items
    
  • Plasma field map icons
    (known bug: icons should not be visible from the start)
    
  
  
  

• Quests

  
  
  
  
  • Many dialog improvements and formatting fixes
    
  
  
  

• Ships / Stations

  
  
  
  
  • Ship movement prediction improvements
    
  • Wächter & Caduceus Station size increased
    
  • FTA Hub polishing
    
  • FTA Hub open version (placed only once for now, at FTA Nexsen)
    
  • Essex Wreck full res polishing
    
  • Zion farms: lights animation
    
  • J12 Capital overall edge-fixing
    
  • Shuttle: turret slots swapped
    
    Note: CoC Mining Stations are not landable anymore.
    
  
  
  
  
  

• Weapons

  
  
  
  
  • Shock weapons are burst weapons now
    
  • More weapon upgrades and some minor balancing
    
  • Added 3 big weapons for capital ships
    
  
  
  

• World

  
  
  
  
  • J12 & GAC colony pics updated
    
  • New kind of Nebula spawner at Zion Station
    
  • Some Pluto nebula gradient smoothing
    
  
  
  

• UI

  
  
  
  
  • Origin menu re-layout, ship preview added
    
  • Added Autopilot text status "following", "landing", or "leaving"
    
  • Journal sorting: Sort by Main/Side/Finished Quests
    
  • Hide invalid slots when a drag-and-drop event starts
    
  • Analysis HUD: Show distance
    
  • Add a location person list "Visitors" sub-header
    
  • Freight hacking: show "Hack failed" (red) and "Hacked" (green)
    
  • Inventory: ship stats re-layout (turn rate + view range added, cargo moved to list)
    
  • Make RESUME the first main menu button
    
  • Inventory HUD: Replace the first matching weapon/shield/device slot by double clicking or on controller select
    
  • Inventory HUD: Remove "Boost" if it is the same value
    
  • Ship Trade HUD: Add turn rate, radar range, view range and layout improvements
    
  • Inspect-item window responsive layout
    
    
    HUD emitters are only animated with auto-pause off.
    
  
  
  

• Portraits

  
  
  
  
  • Kouji polishing
    
  • ISA male polishing
    
  • Quick-polishing / backgrounds updated: Player #5, Bobby Cliff, Noob Henderson, Cram Bokaj, Teal, GAC Soldier x3, Zion female 1, Visitor
    
  • CoC male 2 added to random pool
    
  • James Lancaster -> Xander pic
    
  
  
  

• New pirate portraits

  
  
  
  
  • Dr. Rick
    
  • Colonel Hintz
    
  • Captain Jack Sperrholz
    
  
  
  
• "Resume game" button added to main menu
  

• Ships

  
  
  
  
  • Mosura -> 3 different versions (purchasable soon!)
    
  • Create a "human_dropped" emitter on player death
    
  
  
  

• World

  
  
  
  
  • Ship radar and detailed mode upgrade to include landed ships and add radar gain/loss events
    
  • Right-side world: Pirate spawners & Fortress
    
  • One Hard Day of Work quest improvements
    
  • New trashfields & asteroid spawners
    
  • Overall nebula parallax improvements (detailed nebulas slower, blurred ones remain)
    
  • Distance between station <-> turret platforms doubled
    
  • Repair sign redesign + animation
    
  • Nebula polishing / some artifact smoothing / final edge fixes
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • Callisto got an atmosphere (+slight texture improvement)
    
    
  
  
  

• UI

  
  
  
  
  • Add a free giveaway option if the trader doesn't have enough money
    
  • Ship trade hud: add credits info / overall layout cleanup
    
  • Character main: XP progress bar
    
  • Loading screen hints: key map update, quicksave info added
    
  • Show the patch notes when clicking on the version text
    
  
  
  

• Portrait updates

  
  
  
  
  • 3rd Zion male added to random spawner
    
  • Seraphim male replaced by Applicator pic
    
  • Ursa portrait switch
    
  • Overall assignment updates + some very old pics removed
    
  • Pirate default male polishing
    
  
  

• Some small JSON loading improvements
  

• Waechter hacking: The leaving ships are broken
  
• Detail range collision category can be overwritten when leaving (O Dog collision state is broken)
  
• Unicode crash when the Russian thousands separator is used
  
• Font getTextExtent() rare crash
  
• Text Box Popup: typing A+D keys fire focus events
  
• Atlas could have a nonexistent "7_1" dialog block
  
• Noob Henderson: Ignore the Pre-destroy callback when he is far away (is ignored)
  
• Auxi is now too fast out of range in the Tutorial stage
  
• Quest arrow draw can crash in map mode if the target has no map drawable set
  
• Use link_to_scale_is_instant for all engine/light/fan/sign emitter
  
• Savegames: When a docked parent of a ship is not available anymore the physics state is broken
  
• An empty analysis HUD is shown when a save is loaded with the Analysis HUD visible
  
• Map mode shows ships that shouldn't be visible
  
• AI: Don't mine or try to collect cargo if there is no cargo space
  
• Radar awareness improvements
  
• Hud: Radar elements can leave visual circle boundaries
  
• Different types of decimal point and thousands separator formatting
  
• fix an UnicodeStringException
  
• If a ship slot is clicked or controller activated the tooltip is lost
  
• Mouse cursor default image should be different in HUD windows
  
• When allow_target_loss_on_events is disabled don't retaliate when attacked
  
• Player turrets don't stop shooting when target is dead
  
• Trade HUD: Show the actual 'after trade credits' if one side doesn't have enough credits
  
• Handle message answer unicode strings correctly when animating (use the code point lengths)
  
• When allow_target_loss_on_events is disabled don't join fights on request
  
• Particle emitter data: Add the missing emitter_iteration_interval entries
  
• Input text: backspace repeat not working
  
• Tooltip comparison with lasers sometimes does not use the dps
  
• Add_Weapon_Cargo()/Add_Shield_Cargo()/Add_Device_Cargo() crashes when the element is not found
  
• Cancel the ship leaving state if the target distance is too big
  
• Never start the collision evasion when landing/leaving
  
• Pirates should not talk
  
• Ship data without a drawable set crashes the inventory HUD
  
• Landable HUD does not call the the hud window Enter/Leave event
  
• Old config files: The right mouse button could have 2 assignments
  
• Credits screen is broken if logic hz is over ~70
  
• Correctly unlink and delete Trade HUD cargo equipped links
  
• Devices are sometimes not deleted (memory leaks)
  

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New sidequests

• The Mutation
  Cram Bokaj first sidequest arc finishable (includes 2 new hidden sidequests)
  
  
• "We Can't Stop Here..."
  Introducing O-Dog's secret sideques
  
  
• Level of Subsistence
  A miniquest about stolen air filters on an ISA research station
  

Equipable devices

• Here is a new way to modify all of your ships - the passive device feature is done! The thruster feature has been bound to equips as well, which allows higher-tier thrusters - meaning more speeeed for your vessel!
  

New ships

• CoC ship pack: Strazh, Rabotnik, Potemkin
  
  
• 7 new ships purchasable at the Zion station
  
  
• Mysterious ship "Arakni Esphen"
  coming with custom turrets and a very unique laser weapon
  

• Rickstar ship added (not purchasable)
  

New weapons

• Zion weapons: Bucky, Matic, Betta Gun
  
• Jodorowsky Zapper
  
• Mining Tool
  
• More weapon upgrades
  
• New spotlight turret
  
  Spotlights are purchasable now, yet totally useless. ;)
  

UI

• Unique weapon icons for the turret class, spam, and shock weapons
  
• New trade icons
  
• Lab location icon
  

New achievements

• Overall ship speed balancing
  
• AI ship movement improvements
  
• J12 ships polishing
  
• The Waechter polishing
  
• Improve the ship landing behavior
  
• Add an option to switch to the ship after buying one
  
• Improve the weapon target is in range checks
  
• CoC transporters (resolution x2, turret fix, minor details - overview)
  
• CoC Mining Station small restructuring
  
• Some station sizes increased (more to come)
  

• Background vs. foreground wrecks: depth effect & parallax improvements*
  
• More Zion Farms (including more Trash selling opportunity)
  
• Randomly position the asteroid cargo drops inside the collision geometry
  
• Prometheus wreck station polishing
  
• New GAC ship wreck site added
  
• Faction spawner added to CoC Stargard
  
• Drones slightly highlighted
  
• Cliff Farm / Zion Farms small changes
  
  
• There is a known bug slowing down the parallax movement of background wrecks when zoomed-out - which looks wrong :D Should be fixed in one of the next patches
  

• New origin selection texts
  
• Intro dialog cuts (Auxilium, Shiro / Henderson)
  
• Many dialog corrections & improvements
  

• 3 Zion dudes
  
  
• FTA female, Atlantic female
  
  
• Cram Bokaj small corrections
  

• Dynamic foreground stars effect (higher-speeds feedback)
  
• Front thruster emitters for all ships
  
• Regular thruster FX improved
  
• Shuttle signal lights improved
  
• Neon signs (it's a sci-fi game after all!)
  
• Airlock "spaced" animation visibility & duration improved
  
• "Repeater" / echo effect, used on bats
  
• FX improvements on some projectiles (wip)
  
• Main menu background & animation improvements
  

General

• OpenGL rendering updates and performance improvements
  
• Safer game initialization
  
• Add a info.json for the level version info (also useful for modding)
  
• Add a savegame "version info not found" state
  
• Error logging improvements
  

UI

• Ship control instructions updated in tutorial & HUD hints
  
• Wei Xiu, Akihiko, Chin-Mae, Frakes, Getty, Huang Feihung, Marley, and Werner now use the Ship HUD
  
• Improve the Inventory HUD Cargo Tooltip
  
• Item comparison: hovered item is now highlighted
  
• Item data cleanup (icons assignments, descriptions & more)
  
• Inventory ship viewport expanded
  
• Fully integrate the quickbar when the Landable HUD is open
  
• Updated the GUI Renderer
  
• Add an "Inspect" button for items with text
  
• Sidequest icons are smaller
  
• Location info textbox expanded
  

• Shield does not regen when landed
  
• Trade amount window can't be closed with Esc
  
• Stationary Traders on planets and stations need more cargo space
  
• Unselectable answers can be selected with a controller
  
• Correctly restore the disabled_color for controller selected answers
  
• Changing music volume ingame from low to high does not work (it is clamped to the start volume)
  
• Burst firing is disabled on weapon equip or a forced stop fire event
  
• Mining NPC are stuck when they use mines as weapon
  
• Inventory HUD: Damage type in slot tooltips is widened
  
• Background stars z ordering is broken
  
• Location name can be behind the quest target icon
  
• Ship damage from asteroid collision is too low
  
• Radar window clashes with the notification window
  
• Mathilde shuttle can be owned by randoms
  
• Cooldown bars freeze when the map camera moves a certain distance
  
• Setup the player radar range state instantly on spawn (mainly for bullets)
  
• Old savegames: Recreate Bartholdys station if it's missing
  
• Hide the selection_info if the Landable HUD is visible
  
• A physics engine div by zero fix
  
• Show item received/removed notifications longer if on a landable
  
• Don't update the Radar HUD when it's not visible
  
• Turret lasers don't stop shooting after target was destroyed
  
• Bullet speed is displayed on laser tooltips
  
• Journal HUD: text lines vertical padding is missing
  
• Remove some possible spammy error logging
  
• Asteroid nitrogen debris emitter missing
  
• Character HUD: XP color is missing
  
• Ring spawner: asteroids missing at the arc end on savegame load
  
• Assign_Shield(): Initially charged shields can crash if the slot does not match
  
• AI: Max distance for shooting ignores the shield radius
  
• Firing is still enabled while bursting
  
• "Default drops" group added to gemstone asteroids (more drops)
  
• Some weapon slot positions and collision fixes
  
• Low turn rate ships can circle around landables infinitely
  
• Rename the "Decrease Velocity" shortcut key to "Reverse Velocity"
  
• Support modifying person savegame json data before loading starts
  
• Level_Savegame_Sprite_Json_Loaded() is sometimes not called
  
• Horizontal Map Crosshairs missing on lower resolutions
  
• Ambient 1 music track ending cut-off
  
• Henderson: The Pre_Destroy callback should not be active from the start
  
• ship_damage_lightning_1 emitter_iteration_interval is not set
  
• Fix Get_Primary_Shield() can return the wrong shield
  
• Shield bars blinking when only the second shield slot is equipped
  
• Planet rotations: more "authentic" speed and direction improvements
  
• Opaque glow removed from GAC ships
  
• Quest Item Counter does not display merged stacks correctly
  
• Script Get_Cargo_Amount() crashes
  
• Item data corrections
  
• Ship slot & assignment corrections
  
• Glyph missing (long hyphen not supported)
  
• Wreck station #5 collision fix
  
• Zion Farms have 2 shield slots (Medium + Big)
  

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🔥 Weapon Upgrades

Some weapons can now be upgraded with the loot from asteroids and other resources.

• Court location icon
  
  

• Target prediction
  
  
  
  • Predict the target future pos for turret weapons
    
  • Include projectile speed max when calculating the weapon target lead
    
  
  
  
• Pluto characters: New-Year's-polishing ✨
  click for hi-res
  

• Explosion FX tuning
  

• Sort fixed weapons first in lists
  
• Analysis HUD: Show the cargo item count
  
• Add a big text window for books/papers (Caduceus Brochure)
  
• Savegame Menu: Load the selected item with the controller select button
  
• Small performance improvements (~2%)
  
• OpenGL init improvements
  
• Spotlights for space memorial turrets
  
• J12 station resize (x2.25)
  
• Increase spotlight decay / blur out
  
• Increase the respawn time for some cad station ships
  
• Small Lashkar Gah surrounding improvements
  

• Zopa late game dialog crashes
  
• Zopa "sleeping_pod_lie" dialog crash
  
• Script crash when "Xentron Revealed" is finished
  
• Skill icons are missing after video options are changed
  
• Crash when ship.Attack() target is null
  
• Old Savegames: player id should not be modifiable (fixes the Kalypso Waechter Guards)
  
• Tiled background star drawable flickers
  
• Lasers don't hit missiles
  
• Revealed Hokucho map icon disappears
  
• Laser does not hit affinity enemies
  
• Smoke emitter placement is defined by the shield size
  
• Controller Button A selection breaks if the mouse select button was changed
  
• Savegames: Healthbar can be visible when a ship is dead
  
• Double "active_focus_frame" window crash
  
• Asteroid ring bg image are hidden too early when rotated
  
• Emitter could be hidden too early if particles are rotated
  
• Smoke emitter placement defined by shield size
  
• Savegames: Ghost turret platforms until they respawn
  
• Item cargo could be set with a null item from asteroid drops
  
• Set "CAD Guard Ally" to gaia and add affinity for the cad_transport quest
  
• Inventory HUD: Support equipping items and opening text items with the controller
  
• Controller: Support the exit button in the Question Box
  
• Popup Boxes: Select the default focus window (fixes the select button in the amount window)
  
• Trade HUD: Can't select merchant items with the controller
  
• Exiting the savegames/options menu with the controller does not show the logo again
  
• Sun/Saturn ring is spawned with each savegame load
  
• Inventory HUD: remove the item comparison text
  

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"LOST CHRISTMAS" UPDATE

New Quests!

An FTA shared cargo container and Rajid's cargo container!

Capital Ships!

Controller support for all HUD windows

Ship HUD for Rajid's Garage

New weapons

• X-mas content: Remains once unlocked.
  Snowball Cannon – releasing deadly balls of highly-concentrated H2O.
  Yellow Snowball Cannon – you really don't want to get hit by one of these.
  
  
• More mining lasers!
  
  
• J12 & Atlantic turrets: Laser (capital slot type), Spam, Missile
  
  
  

Other Stuff

• Background snowflakes (seasonal)
  
  

• Allow shooting down enemy missiles
  
• Improve turret weapons precision
  
• Re-enable the laser end drawable
  
• Weapon optimizations and fixes
  
• Controller: Support map movement
  
• Dialog improvements
  
• Projectile glow FX
  
• Icon rework – Mining laser distinction, new colony icon etc.
  
  
• Airlock drop animation visibility improved
  
• Bacterius fight should prevent the use of a circle tactic
  
• Some local asteroid spawners added
  
• Chests added to the first wreck, 'Prometheus'
  
• Add a kuff to the last transporter pirate wave
  
• Only show the landable location name on hover
  
• Hokucho and Nancho mass increased
  

• Pluto Colonists shuttles are empty when leaving
  
• Hokucho locations are twice for older saves
  
• Random cargo for shields is broken
  
• The health bar is hidden before the player shield fully recharged
  
• Wrong mouse cursor texture can be displayed
  
• Placeholder shuttle removed from landing overlay
  
• Tyrell Wharf doesn't respawn after being destroyed
  
• Ben does not sell shields
  
• Special asteroids mass and hull are the same
  
• Use a story var for the memorials read counter
  
• Free XP (+1XP from dying asteroids)
  
• Ships are spawned on every savegame load
  
• Controls: Select does not work with the keyboard
  
• Correctly default and load unassigned input controls
  
• Savegame upgrade: remove the old Memorial location
  
• Autopiloting to an Asteroid in map mode crashes
  
• Nebula can have a wrong texture when video options change
  
• Only update the image cache if in dev mode
  
• Inventory HUD: Selection is discarded on cargo changes
  
• Trade HUD can crash when re-opened with an old Tooltip still active
  
• Quest HUD: Don't allow setting a finished quest to active
  
• Controller back in Start menu does not show the logo again
  
• Controller: Drop Button is not updated in the Inventory HUD
  
• Trade HUD: Show Tooltip on Controller select
  
• Person death event can be fired twice
  
• FTA quick travel: camera stays on the old location when in map mode
  
• Sounds are not limited to the global volume when played simultaneously
  
• Music/Sound channel volume could be set without the group volume
  

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