Rings of Saturn

• New Enceladus News Network broadcast for the Enceladian Billboards.
  
• Added baked-in depth-of-field effect for the Enceladian Billboards to reduce aliasing artefacts and make displayed information easier to read.
  
• Point Defence Systems of stations and ships would try to snipe out equipment from your cradle that they didn’t like. Due to their overzealousness, this often resulted in an escalation of violence. All PDT systems will now treat hardware attached to your ship through cradles the same as your ship - but the crew might still not like that you bring wiretaps to their area.
  
• Some claim beacons could boot up while they were still attached to your ship - and tried to contribute to your ship manoeuvres with their own thrust. While commendable, this often resulted in overheating damage.
  
• Adjusted physical collider shape on Antonoff-Titan AT-K225.
  
• Ingesting cargo containers into your main hull and flying with them back to the station this way will now yield their contents, just like you had them attached to a dedicated cradle arm.
  
• Changed the collision algorithm for carbon-based ice. Previously used raycast was precise for small, fast-moving objects, but tended to experience problems with multiple items confined in a cargo hull.
  
• Limited the number of music tracks that can be mixed simultaneously. While all our soundtracks were designed to be mixed seamlessly, if you put 4 together, that didn’t sound very coherent.
  
• Ship logs now display progressively, eliminating a lag spike in late-game saves.
  
• Ghosts of deceased spacemen won’t haunt you with eerie music for the rest of your dive if you fail to put them to rest.
  
• Adjusted OSX fullscreen mode handling. On some M1 systems, window manipulation could induce a race condition that caused the game to crash when you switched modes while it was running.
  
• Updated translations.
  

• Ship in equipment menu simulations are not real and thus should not cause the simulated ore they catch of have in their cargo hold to transfer into the players inventory on a subsequent dive.
  

• Control button hint in the Hardware menu is now bigger, and is displayed on both the Description and User Manual tabs.
  
• Adjusted some dialogue trees so you cannot inquire details about information that was not yet revealed to you.
  
• Grinders of an Mining Companion that is fully enclosed in your cargo bay will not prevent astrogation anymore.
  
• Astrogation labels on the Astrogator tab for destinations, whose tracking expires while you are flying in the rings will now disappear.
  
• Hiring wingmen will now make them more friendly towards you.
  
• Hired wingmen that dig out ore for you will now send over both processed and raw ore when you return to the Enceladus Prime station.
  
• Hired miners will not transfer the ore to you when they run out of propellant before you and return to the station on their own.
  
• Added a missing key prompt for manually operated point defence turrets.
  
• The camera on the Enceladus Prime station will now pan to the side when you open menus, so they won’t obscure information from the background.
  
• Interlunar transit usage on the Dive Selection screen used to flash a higher value for a fraction of a second after you pressed the Launch Dive button.
  
• Updated translations.
  

• You can now toggle your main torch with a hotkey.
  
• NPC ships now understand how Haul Nanodrone system works and will use them to their full potential.
  
• Friendly AI ships, such as wingmen and mining companions, have now more incentive to stay in the general area of your ship and will not get lost kilometres away when hunting for expensive ore chunks.
  
• NPC ships are now aware of your craft at longer range, since they can also observe your thruster flashes on their visual feeds.
  
• Expanded the ship detection range for your Mining Companion, since they have a constant radio uplink with your ship.
  
• B8 Claim Beacons installed on a Pelican Prospector will not damage your ship anymore.
  
• Racing HUD will not show the overheat glitch shader when it is not overheating.
  
• The demo version now supports Steam Cloud saves.
  

• Fixed a bug that caused derelict events and crew conversations to not trigger.
  
• Changed description of “Streaming mode” to “Don’t pause in the background”.
  
• Updated translations.
  

• Pirate crews setting up traps are now more patient.
  
• An hardware category in the Hardware menu will not close itself when you purchase new hardware anymore.
  
• Tooltips will now show in the Settings menu when opened in the Rings.
  
• Fixed some tooltips displaying twice in the Hardware menu.
  
• Tooltips for missing electrical or thermal power will now display when playing with a gamepad.
  
• Tooltips for the autopilot and manual controls category in the Settings menu will now display when playing with a keyboard alone.
  
• Updated the translations.
  

New hardware approved for ring use

Tighter exhaust emission limits

Macroscopic quantum tunnelling debunked

Maintenance Logs

• Ships can now have limits on what kind of hardware they can install.
  
• New hardware options for big ships - bigger propellant tanks, more nanodrone and kinetic ammunition storage.
  
• Changed the in-game video codec to an older one, which has a bit bigger download sizes, but uses a lot fewer resources to play, making the playback consistent on all platforms, even when the movie is used during loading and initializing the game. This affects both the intro animation and the in-universe ads displayed on billboards on Enceladus Prime station.
  
• Performance enhancements - collision precision testing is now dynamically adjusted based on the physics tick rate, increasing the precision when it’s most crucial. This will improve CPU performance on mid to high-range hardware, and on low-end hardware, it will prevent cargo from phasing through ship hulls.
  
• Optimized exhaust gas simulation. This will improve performance when multiple thrusters are operating, specifically when there are multiple ships nearby.
  
• The plume detail slider will not only control the display of rocket plumes but now will affect the detail of the exhaust simulation. This will improve performance significantly on low-end machines when you limit the details.
  
• Additional steps for detail sliders in the Settings/Details menu will allow you to fine-tune the performance and appearance of your game to better suit your preferences.
  
• Morale adjustment indicators on Enceladus Prime are now updated each hour instead of once a day. This fixes the indicators not appearing immediately after visits to The Twins.
  
• Fine-tuned AI and detection range for the racing team, so it’s much harder to outrun them to the point where the race is considered cheating. While the racer is still obeying the same physics rules as you, it will be able to fly more recklessly if necessary to keep up.
  
• You can now enable the in-game performance profiling tool using the F11 key.
  
• Internationalization polishing - consistent number formatting. All the numbers are now displayed in locale-specific format, including dynamically generated content.
  
• Updated translations - Spanish translation is now 100% complete.
  
• Updated translations - Hungarian translation is now available, 34% complete.
  

• Fixed a bug that would cause the game to crash if you uninstalled your HUD completely and tried to use Astrogator, Pilot or Geologist tabs in OMS.
  
• Dynamic lighting on the preview of the gamepad control scheme in the settings was missing, making the gamepad difficult to read.
  
• An in-game reboot of Elon Interstellar Model E HUD caused it to re-appear much brighter than it was originally.
  
• Fixed a graphical glitch on the excavator of Elon Interstellar Model E ship.
  
• Updated translations - extended Spanish translation.
  
• Updated credits page.
  

Used ship import restrictions lifted

Graphene superconducting coils breakthrough

Digital Mimas Halloween special concert

Maintainance Logs

• New ship variant: Mitsudaya-Starbus / Titan Heavy Industries Pelican Prospector.
  
• New ship variant: Rusatom-Antonoff / Triskellion-Armstrong KTA24.
  
• New ship variant: Conlido Cothon-217 “Bender”.
  
• Re-balanced Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage systems. Their capacity is now based on the latest estimations for graphene-based coils, effectively tripling their capacity. The charge/discharge behaviour now relies on the internal capacitor state rather than the power balance, making them more suitable to power high-draw appliances for prolonged periods. As a side effect, the new heuristics combined with increased capacity make them charge at a slower rate.
  
• Added intro animation when starting a new save.
  
• Additional soundtrack.
  
• Fixed a bug in the dynamic simulation range routines that caused them to not take into account asteroid simulations, only ship simulations. This improves performance in dense areas and will make the ships despawn further away, making events that rely on flying together with an NPC ship, like patrols or races, to be more consistent.
  
• Changed full-screen mode on OSX systems to not display docks or menu bars under any circumstances.
  
• Updated translations and credits screen.
  

• Changed the dive target selection screen gamepad controls. You can now pick the location with the right analogue stick, while the left one controls the sliders, making it consistent with other menus.
  
• The chat bubble comms reply prompt is now bigger and contains the button icon both on the Keyboard and Gamepad control schemes.
  
• The IFF sliders on the Pilot tab of OMS are now easier to control with the gamepad.
  
• Improved performance of some UI elements.
  
• Fixed a race condition that could cause the Settings menu to crash on some systems, occasionally preventing the game from being launched at all.
  
• NPC ships flying with nanodrone systems will now use them only on the ore they actually wish to collect.
  
• Nanodrone system simulation will now ignore geologist settings, as no geologists are present in the simulation.
  
• The pause menu will not be affected by auto-exposure. This makes the gamma slider helper image useful in-game.
  
• Updated translations
  
• Updated OSX engine version.
  
• The new OSX full-screen mode conforms to the OS full-screen convention.