Rings of Saturn

• Support for the Dutch language.
  
• New story event.
  
• Expanded friendly pirate dialogue tree, giving you more opportunities to befriend them and see what they really want.
  
• Friendly ships that are in combat now can call you and request support or offer combat-related dialogue options.
  
• Expanded the Vilcy dialogue tree, so you have an opportunity to query for drop points and combat patrols whenever applicable.
  
• Ships you take on combat patrols will now talk more and will give you a better indication of what is going on.
  
• The reconnaissance drone camera range is now displayed on your LIDAR screen.
  
• Improved performance of ships spawning and loading the dialogue trees.
  
• Better support for vertical monitors.
  
• A bug caused only one ship to spawn in some circumstances where there should be multiple. This makes some ambushes more dangerous.
  
• Ringracers will now complain if you catch the drone before the race even starts.
  
• Changed the description of Rusatom-Anonoff MPU to make it clear that it has propellant reprocessing capability.
  
• A bug could cause AI to freeze up and take no action if an object it was examining was destroyed unexpectedly.
  
• If you encounter a habitat that just finished construction once and then loses track of it, it won’t say they just finished construction if you manage to discover them again.
  
• Added a tooltip for tutorial button prompts to make it clear that they represent a keyboard key and not a widget to be clicked with the mouse.
  
• Changed colour of the keyboard/gamepad dialogue highlight.
  
• Sounds were not playing then you navigated some of the menus with the keyboard or a gamepad.
  
• You could only move down in the tuning menu when using a keyboard or a gamepad.
  
• Fixed number of typos.
  

Possible parallel universes

A class-action lawsuit against Nakamura Dynamics

Ring-rage incidents on the rise

Maintenance records

• The new game button, after you finish the tutorial, allows you to re-roll your starting ship name and pick one of the parallel universes, which changes the seed for procedural generation, giving you a unique experience. You will now start the game at Enceladus, allowing you to customize your crew and your ship before the very first dive.
  
• Multithreaded performance improvements speed up the frame rate on systems with multiple, but slower cores, especially when other ships are around.
  
• Additional general AI performance improvements across all systems will make the game run faster when other ships are around you, including faster pathfinding and decision-making routines.
  
• Re-balanced the faction and personal hostility and fear adjustments from being shot at by the player to consider the actual amount of damage taken. This makes NPCs less likely to turn hostile from glazing accidental shots and quicker to act when under concentrated fire.
  
• Fixed a race condition that caused random crashes on some systems.
  
• The undocking procedure from the Big Bad Wolf is now gentler.
  
• Rebalanced experience gains for your crew. Geologists and Astrogators will now level up a bit slower, and Pilots and Mechanics will level up faster.
  
• Additional protection from cargo piercing your ship hull.
  
• “Guide us through the thicket” questlet now has the ship asking you for a favour to assert its course, showing you exactly where they want to go.
  
• You can now re-deploy claim beacons that you pick up in the rings during your dive.
  
• Drone-mounted microwave dishes are now a bit smaller and will not poke through the hull of your ship if you have one in your cargo hold.
  
• Adjusted number of dialogue trees that could look weird if you undocked during the course of discussion.
  
• When you dock to a ship or a station while having your comms channel opened to another ship, you will be contacted by your host as soon as you finish, allowing you to pick trade options and transfer prisoners even if interrupted.
  
• Money notification during in-ring mineral sales will now use a monospaced font, which makes the values easier to follow as they change in real-time.
  
• The demo version can now delete saves.
  
• Updated translations and updated some missing strings.
  

Organized crime activity

Increased interlunar bandwidth

Insurance investigations

Maintenance Records

• Added streaming-friendly mode to the Settings menu.
  
• Added more interaction with the pirate faction. You can now communicate with them even when you are in combat, trading insults and having multiple opportunities to defuse the situation. Pirates will also attempt negotiations when the tide of the battle is against them.
  
• Turning the onboard computer off will now provide resistance to short circuits and overheating.
  
• Increased chance of getting quest-related interactions with ships you came across, so crew quests don’t feel stalled.
  
• You can now salvage ships that are part of crew quests if it makes sense in the context of that quest.
  
• Pirates could try to extort you while being terrified, which made them open fire on you and try to escape while they were asking for money.
  
• Faction and personal reputations could coincide in a way that made it impossible for an NPC ship to break away from combat.
  
• You will now get some adrenaline slowdown when you use the Adrenaline Booster even if you don’t have a pilot on board.
  
• Nearby hypervelocity explosion will now trigger an adrenaline boost, giving you time to react or at least perceive the impact that damages your ship.
  
• Tuning Direct Energy Mining Tool power input used to change its efficiency in a way that cancelled out any extra power you pumped into the device, making power tuning of lasers and microwaves next to useless.
  
• THI Cargo Containers used to fly away from you even before you ordered them to return to the station if they managed to get away from you before booting up.
  
• Active cargo, such as drones, could boot up and fly around or even explode on the Enceladus dive summary screen if you gave them enough time.
  
• When your crew was returning from sick leave and there is not enough space for them on board your ship, the game added them to the roster and immediately removed them, displaying confusing notifications.
  
• Improved performance of the mass driver hypervelocity bullet simulation.
  
• Improved performance of the Enceladus station crew display.
  
• Improved performance of ship collision detection.
  
• Improved performance of ship spawning.
  
• Bullets can now collide with other bullets.
  
• When you established a claim beacon, the notification of the claim price didn’t play, which made the price of your claim be counted towards your next in-ring sale or purchase, displaying confusing money counters.
  
• Your salvage manipulator will now go into the Tsukuyomi-class docking bay when you dock.
  
• Adjusted the thruster configuration of the Tsukuyomi-class frigates so they are less likely to accidentally burn ships they are docking with.
  
• When you transfer criminals from a disabled ship into custody, the ship is now considered a legitimate salvage.
  
• You can now turn in criminals held in lifepods caught in your ship cradles.
  
• When making quick course adjustments with your mouse the autopilot vector could snap back to your current velocity if your adjustment was quick enough to be registered as a mouse click.
  
• Logs showing your propellant usage during the dive could be inaccurate if the framerate changed during your mission.
  
• Changed nanodrone storage descriptions to make it clear that it’s a consumable storage container and not an independent drone system.
  
• Clicking on a tuning item header will now switch the description and simulation to this item.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused your mouse pointer to stay on screen much longer than needed.
  
• New game-over screen if you manage to blow your ship up.
  
• A ship that lost all power and propellant won’t be able to keep the cargo it has in external cradles or salvage manipulators during a rescue operation.
  
• Updated translations.
  

• When a crewmember tells you that they quit once you get back to the station they actually quit once you get back to the station, not immediately.
  
• Times displayed in the astrogation panel menu and the details on the map will match now for all locations.
  
• The storyteller module is now aware of the prices and dangers of salvage operations and will use that knowledge to give you a more balanced and compelling narrative.
  
• Friendly ships will now approach you before initiating dialogue.
  
• Only valid cargo will be displayed on the Dive Summary screen. This prevents mining companions from showing up (and booting up and flying around stealing your ore) if you manage to fit them into your cargo hold.
  
• When you install multiple point defense turrets, you can now configure them separately in the Tuning menu.
  
• Points of Interest and Drop Points won’t be generated outside of the game map anymore. If you had any astrogation targets that were generated this way, they will be automatically adjusted.
  
• Adjusted internal space of Conlido Cothon-212 to better match what is visible outside. This should fix ores poking out the sides of the cargo hold.
  
• Found and fixed a number of bugs that could cause a crash when you astrogated back to Enceladus station with unusual things in your cargo hold or salvage manipulator.
  
• Fixed a number of typos and rephrased some texts in the game to make them clearer.
  

Gifts from Enceladus

• ★ (NEW!) Seamlessly looping 1080p animations for streaming or desktop backgrounds.
  
• E-book "Howling at the Stars".
  
• A digital artbook.
  
• Desktop wallpapers.
  
• Avatar images.
  
• Cellphone wallpapers and ringtones.
  
• 3d ship models.
  
• Full-resolution crew portraits.
  
• Ship paint templates.
  

A handy FAQ

• Improved AI pathfinding performance by 80%, sacrificing 20% of its rock-evasion capabilities. This should result in much better performance when non-player controlled ships are present while having a negligible change in behaviour.
  
• Adjusted storytelling options for the “missing child” quest to not finish too abruptly.
  
• Talking with Vilcy patrols once you get the location of the drop point will not make the ship you are about to meet wait for you 30 days longer each time you interact.
  
• You can’t buy more than one round of drinks at The Space Bar if you undock and re-dock immediately, raising the crew morale indefinitely.
  
• The bartender at The Space Bar won’t order its docking arms to throw you out if she is taking your order.
  
• You won't be able to tell habitats multiple times about the same event.
  
• Ships that run out of propellant during calculating astrogation sequence will abort the jump.
  
• Adjusted power draw warning for Eagle Prospector heads-up display in the numerical section to 150MW for warning and 500MW for critical level.
  
• Processed cargo in Titan Heavy Industries Cargo Container will now count towards the Blue Gold achievement.
  
• Enceladus station background won’t turn black if you set the background FPS to 0 and change your HUD scale while docked at the station.
  
• Non-player controlled ships caught by docking arms of stations and habitats won’t forget the player anymore.
  
• Adjusted cargo bay shapes on Elon Interstellar Model E, so ore hitting the edge between open jaws and ship hull from behind are not counted towards cargo temporarily, thus losing autopilot targeting and geologist marks.
  
• You will now trigger automatic return protocol when you get into the Encke Gap, over 3005km, just as you get the achievement. Any POI you could have in your save deeper in will be moved to maintain savegame compatibility.
  
• Clicking on the menu buttons when you have the Dive Target Selection screen open will now close it.
  
• Keyboard focus will move correctly to the last menu item you had selected on Enceladus when you close the Dive Target Selection screen.
  

• When you launch the game for the very first time, you won’t be able to skip past photosensitive epilepsy warnings.
  
• Reworked XASER burn event visuals, removing rapidly flashing lights in favour of gentler ones to reduce risks of photosensitive epilepsy.
  
• Changed the visual cue of changing music for hearing-impaired players to be more subtle and clearer. It will now display correctly with portrait monitor orientation.
  
• If your ship is too heavy to decelerate before handing you the controls in the initial cutscene, the entry sequence will skip the final flip to allow it to use its main torch on the entire approach.
  
• If your ship has a big enough cargo hold to fit an entire THI Cargo Container or an NT Mining Companion, these drones will count as cargo and your salvage manipulator won’t try to reach for them.
  
• Renamed “unclassified” mineral filter to “unmarked” on the Geologist tab to make it clear that it means the ore nuggets that don’t have apprisal marks placed on them yet.
  
• Adjusted physical model of Conlido Cothon-212. Its cargo hold is now a bit narrower, with reinforced walls. This prevents both cargoes from piercing your cargo hold and a visual glitch that enabled you to see ore poking through the left side of the ship. As a consequence, the size of its cargo hold is a bit smaller.
  
• When adjusting Onboard Maintenance System with a keyboard or a gamepad, your cursor was not clearly visible.
  
• Audio subsystem could hit a division by zero, which flooded the logs with warnings and decreased performance.
  
• Hardware simulations of SPC Gungnir left charged asteroids floating around when you switched between simulations, electrocuting your simulated ship at the very start of a new simulation.
  
• Adjusted physics setting to make small collisions more accurate.
  
• Updated translations.
  
• Fixed typos.
  

• Performance improvements in the graphics rendering pipeline drastically speed up the game on some systems.
  
• Improved performance of ship system simulation.
  
• Optimized memory requirements of The Dealer menu.
  
• Improved performance of particle effects of leaking reactor.
  
• Adjusted mounting point for AEMD14 articulated mass driver so it won’t accidentally damage your ship while tracking targets.
  
• Adjusted location of cradles for THI Cargo Containers on Eagle Prospector.
  
• Changed shape of Voyager RSLS fabrication plant on Eagle Prospector to make it not choke so easily.
  
• When loading a save made directly after returning to Enceladus, the value of ores changed slightly upon each load.
  
• Docking arms and equipment cradles used a different equation to compute their location during a cutscene and during normal gameplay, which caused docked ships and cradled equipment to jerk when transitioning to interactive gameplay.
  
• When you catch a lifepod with a ship-mounted cradle, your gimbaled thrusters will now avoid hitting it with their exhaust.
  
• Weapons and equipment mounted on Elon Interstellar Model E will not render above docking clamps.
  
• A damaged space station that lacks propulsion won’t relocate to another location anymore.
  
• Changing the focus of the tuning sliders without adjusting the value was causing the tuning option to reset to the value set upon opening the menu, without being visible in any way.
  
• Nakamura-Titan Mining Companion cradles have now more torque. This increases their power requirement when operating, but allow them to position the Companion correctly even after collisions or rapid manoeuvres.
  
• Prevent slight lag when a ship explodes for the first time.
  
• Fixed a number of typos.
  

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• Some ship builds were spinning uncontrollably when you rapidly changed simulations in the Tuning menu.
  
• Software cursor will be hidden in the pause menu if you opt for a hardware cursor.
  
• The Big Bad Wolf docking arm will now release you when you engage your autopilot.
  
• Updated translations.
  
• Fixed some typos.