New Features:

• Controller Support (Beta)
  
• Geisha portrait
  
• Atlantic male kid portrait
  
• Triton Colony polishing (New Dialog, New NPCs, changed portraits)
  
• Allow customizing the mouse shortcuts
  
• Add an enlarge fonts option
  
• New Dialog for Lexa
  
• New Caduceus weapons and shields
  

Improvements:

• Fire each weapon only if it is in range
  
• Auxi should mention red arrows for weapon targeting
  
• Add support for mouse button 4 and 5
  
• Allow to reset one input config entry with backspace
  
• Add a mouse hover highlight for the shortcuts list
  

Bug Fixes:

• Waechter hacking first wave can block the story from progressing
  
• Create Shiro if he does not exist on save load
  
• Ship/Rocket smoke alpha is reset when parent is destroyed
  
• Krill and Zorg: Zorg doesn't attack
  
• Interrupt the Transport: Some ships have no weapons
  
• Genocide Consigment: Auxilium can be missed
  
• Atlas has a wrong Dialog Block after the Diversion mission
  
• Trade HUD: Sorting by price/weight is incorrect
  
• Target icon for Xander/Trade Node is visible on all stations
  
• Auxilium ship has a small red outline/edge at the bottom right
  
• Flowers have the quest item color and icon
  
• fix: "Attempt to delete Window that does not exist"
  

New Features:

• Music: New title theme! (by Miguel Johnson)
  
• Neptune moons: Triton & Nereid
  
• Pirate portrait
  
• Jerome portrait
  
• Added a bouncer to the CoC Bars
  
• More CoC traders
  
• FTA Ship type: small loaded
  

Improvements:

• Many performance improvements (especially near asteroid rings)
  
• Improved Mission 2 mechanics and dialog
  
• Thruster will now stay active once activated for the full boost duration
  
• Pirate bounty missions: Pirates positioned differently, Tate Tobin dialog improved
  
• UI: Character stats cleanup, Inventory "drop" button added, Progress bar optimization (and more)
  
• GAC male portrait update, facial tattoo
  
• Show multiple Quest descriptions on the map tooltip
  
• J12 polishing & animated lights
  
• O-Dog Fight polishing: background lightnings
  
• P4 + P5 Defense guns price increased and dmg reduced
  

Bug Fixes:

• Restore dialog when loading
  
• Some J12 portrait links broken
  
• UI fixes: Character menu portrait clipping, long savegame names unscrollable, inventory "Max Speed" clipping at 4:3 res
  
• Some quest markers don't disappear
  
• A lot of dialog corrections & polishing (Heimwehr, Kalypso, Auxi, Zopa, Ganymede Node, Waechter... + many more)
  
• Multiple Quest target icons visible with the Blood Testing quest
  
• Person names in landable list are not centered anymore
  
• Travel groups can be broken if leading person is in defend state while the group should be traveling
  
• Game is auto paused in dialogs when enemy ships are nearby but not actually attacking the player
  
• FTA Transporters engine positions corrected
  
• Assault Spammer broken sound link fixed
  
• Auxi Missiles: turret rotation off
  
• Many rocket types had no trails
  
• Earth Nebula edge fix
  
• Kalypso guard fight start can crash if a patrol ship died
  
• When Lopez is not available the kalypso script can crash
  
• Added the missing Barkeepers to the CoC Station
  
• Game Over is drawn behind game sprites
  
• Jurgen quest: Heimwehr is target but has nothing to do with the quest
  
• Shift in trade activates thrusters
  
• Exiting an auto-paused HUD releases the dialog autopause
  
• Bartholdy is not spawned
  
• Enable F10 and F11 only in dev mode
  

Improvements:

• AA Congress Center graphic updated
  
• ISA Male (e.g. Paitoon) portrait updated
  
• Fade music out when entering landable
  
• Add credits screen music
  

Bug Fixes:

• Physic hangs and crashes
  
• Cracks/Pops when a new music track is started
  
• More story NPCs with a correct minimum affinity
  
• In-Space Message box scaling issue (4:3) fixed
  
• Landable Portrait size does not fit completely
  
• Esc on landable opens menu before exiting planet
  
• Health bar is only shown if under 50%
  
• Health bar is sometimes not shown for null AI ships (drones)
  
• CoC Sidequest 'One Hard Day of Work' multiple bugs
  
• Ludwick/Epstein jr/Iris/Miss Peel/Omar/Wenzel dialog is broken (FTA Rookie License)
  
• Loading a savegame should correctly respawn asteroids
  
• Draw layer ordering can overflow after a long time
  
• Volume is too high (sounds noisy/broken) when music with a fade in starts
  
• Fighting ships move too fast
  
• Explosion shockwave + Shield hit + Asteroid/Item collision sparks are not drawn
  
• Tracked damage hits counter is not increased
  
• Only start the crash with kalypso if the zopa_arrival stages are finished
  
• Savegame Menu: Handle Return + Arrow keys + Begin/End keys
  
• Add text input box cancel button (for the Savegame overwrite confirmation)
  
• Deleting a savegame does not delete the FoW file
  

• New sidequests
  
• New NPCs
  
• Added and polished character portraits
  
• More ships & stations
  
• New weapons, shields and items
  
• New locations
  
• Basic skill tree implementation
  
• Thrusters (travel at x3 speed!)
  
• New ambient-, landable- and event music by Miguel Johnson
  
• New key mapping options, Quicksave / Quickload Shortcuts
  
• Savegame feature improved
  
• Loading screen animation
  
• Quest-related features
  
• General UX improvements
  

• A lot of bug- and crashfixes
  
• AI improvements (mining AI, general bugs fixed)
  
• Loading times decreased
  
• Improved dialogs (cuts, dialog system, general polishing)
  
• Weapons, shields and enemies balanced
  
• Audio volume levels adjusted
  
• Hud feedback improvement (XP, received items, Level Up...)
  
• More detail animations
  
• High quality music tracks
  
• High quality textures added
  
• Icon set improvements & additions
  
• Story-related improvements / fixes
  
• Insane polishing!
  

New Features:

• Character Skills
  
• Character Stats
  
• Europa Colony
  
• Enceladus Colony
  
• Ambient track "Gaia" by Miguel Johnson
  
• Critical hit chance (skill-based)
  

Improvements:

• High quality music tracks
  
• Only show active cooldowns
  
• "Auto Pause" notification when auto-activated
  
• Heat warning notification updated
  

Bug Fixes:

• Addai dialog is unfinished
  
• Loading time reduced
  
• Ship tracked damage last hit counter survives saving
  
• Show the remaining thruster boost in the cooldown hud
  
• Quickbar does not come back after leaving landable
  
• Thrusters / Weapons visible on landable if not fully recharged
  
• Pluto nebula edge fix
  
• Player loses autopilot when destroying a nearby weapon target
  
• Crash when exiting the game on the planet selection start menu
  
• Map camera key info stays visible on landable if in map mode
  
• Ship engine sound pos is not updated when fading out
  
• Savegames: update music tracks
  

New Features:

• New ambient track: "Dead Space" by Miguel Johnson
  
• New Nebula at CoC Stargard
  

Improvements:

• FTA male 1 portrait update
  
• GAC civil female portrait update + face tattoo
  
• Change progressbar colors of the stats HUD

Bug Fixes:

• HUD sounds missing
  
• Gerain script can crash
  
• Autopilot reduces the thruster boost
  
• FoW could sometimes not be loaded from saves
  
• Autopilot goes crazy when it should evade the sun
  
• Start thruster progressbar cooldown at 0
  
• Radar HUD is shown on the Landable HUD when another blocking HUD closes
  
• Credits text overlaps
  
• Fill the new game loading progressbar completely
  

Improvements:

• Show the quickbar on the Landable HUD
  
• Allow the HUD shortcuts on the Landable HUD
  
• Thruster cooldown HUD
  
• Add the Thruster key to the options
  
• Jolly Rockets (Snigg + Pirate Fortresses) damage reduced
  

Bug Fixes:

• Event Music is not loaded from savegames
  
• If Music is activated ingame it plays the main menu track
  
• FoW progress is not updated instantly when loading a savegame
  
• Stations should stay near their start pos
  
• Loading a save that crashes the script can crash the game
  
• Shiro is crashing into the caduceus station
  
• Loading the waechter hacking ended dialog autosave breaks the script
  
• Planet atmo is drawn once when loading a level
  
• O Dog quest update can be triggered endlessly
  
• Hide the "Recreate cache" button
  
• Some possible memory leak fixes
  

New Features:

• THRUSTERS! (testing)
  Hold shift to activate, cooldown 1 min (HUD element should be coming with the next version)
  
• New Ships:
  - Atlantic Alliance Ambassador Cruiser
  
  - FTA Hub station, FTA Guard ship
  
  
• New NPC Visitors at Caduceus Station
  
• A new Quest from Dr. Orish 'Playing Doctor'
  
• O-Dog coffin drops
  
  
  

Improvements:

• All major stations have faction-colored turret platforms
  
• Lab icon for ISA Research Station on the map
  
  
• Leveling up shows an animated Arrow
  
  
• Slight nebula polishing
  
• FTA ships: Weapon type switched to turret
  
  
• Some dialog and script changes on Caduceus Station
  
• (Atlantic Mining Station shield radius reduced)
  

Bug Fixes:

• Some crashes fixed
  
• Turret Platforms respawn after death
  

New Features:

• Lume portrait
  
  

Improvements:

• Show Reward Money/XP and received items on landables
  

Bug Fixes:

• After reaching the autopilot target pos ships with a passive AI fly back to their spawn pos
  
• FoW is not saved if the account name has extended characters
  
• Quest items are not removed after the quest (The Disposal) is finished
  
• Farnsworth dialog is broken
  
• GUI Layer ordering could change
  
• Rare endless leave moving state when saved while leaving landable (thanks flickerdown)
  

Improvements:

• Performance improvements
  
• Weapon/Shield tooltip improvements
  
• Bar image update
  

Bug Fixes:

• Memory fragmentation reduced a lot
  
• Ships and Turrets don't defend Stations when they should
  
• The "map mode camera" text stays visible when going back to the main menu
  
• Emperor2/COC mining stations have no faction set
  
• Empty dialog window stays visible sometimes (maybe fixed)
  
• Some memory leak fixes