Rings of Saturn

• New auto-exposure and tonemap settings make the screen not go so dark when you use bright light sources.
  
• You could get multiple rewards if you managed to re-dock to Big Bad Wolf after releasing prisoners.
  
• Tab navigation shortcuts were backwards.
  
• Stray bullets that you had autopilot lock on will lose that lock when you catch them in your cargo hold.
  
• Items that are held in salvage manipulators and cradles cannot be targeted by guiding drones anymore.
  
• Autopilot rotational adaptation for ER42 and MA-337 autopilots were confused by powerful pulsed thrusters, making the rotational manoeuvres erratic.
  
• Individual disposition changes for patrols propagate, so you won't end up with one Vilcy leaving you alone while other shadows you or one pirate harassing you when you made a truce with the other one.
  
• Phage-class stations and habitats won't try to rotate to face you anymore.
  
• Some pilots - civilians, Vilcy and pirates alike - can fly on manual, not relying solely on autopilots. Microwave emitters will still disrupt their flight but will not stun everyone unconditionally.
  
• The dialogue option that results in you hanging up now has a distinct hang-up indicator.
  
• Fixed Edge Runner ship thruster allocations, so it's nimble again.
  
• Drones and claim beacons won't try to turn to face you.
  
• AI will not be afraid of itself - and thus, your point defence will never shoot your beacons nor drones.
  
• Astrogating with a lifepod in a cradle won't cause your ship to spin uncontrollably.
  
• Increasing physics simulation FPS caused your excavator to deal less damage to rocks.
  
• You can't send over your crew to a ship that is currently salvaged by the search & rescue team.
  
• CERF search and rescue craft will not rotate to fly backwards during fast transits, as its symmetrical and backflip serves no purpose.
  
• Derelict ships your crew managed to boot up won't follow you through astrogation jumps if you choose to astrogate before they depart.
  
• Catching ship with AR1500 manipulator when you have an autopilot lock on its reactor or other equipment will release that lock.
  
• Adjusted physics collision settings to prevent cargo from phasing through ship hulls.
  
• Derelict ships are now more damaged and should be a bit more challenging to catch.
  
• You can now ask Vilcy patrols for drop point coordinates even when you already have a bounty-hunting licence.
  
• The "Reset to default" button for microwave resonance tuning will correctly reset the slider to 50%.
  
• Adjusted the cargo hold of Elon Interstellar Model E to prevent ore from causing damage from inside the cargo hold.
  
• You cannot abuse claim beacons to generate multiple events astrogating between the two. They will now attract just one event per dive.
  

• Fusion reactor rebalance - the fusion powerplants of ships will not shut down when your ship is damaged by electromagnetic pulses or microwaves.
  
• New achievements.
  
• Added photosensitivity warning screen.
  
• Fixed scale of electromagnetic sparks on Elon Interstellar Model E.
  
• Display of the EIME HUD is now darker, making it easier to see the background.
  
• Auxiliary Power Systems are now counted towards power warning in the Upgrade menu.
  
• Foreground rocks were missing in point defence upgrade simulation.
  
• Setting background FPS to 0 will not block preview and promotional videos in the Dealer menu.
  
• The AR1500 Manipulator will not throw away light objects you approach slowly.
  
• Multiple adjustments to manipulator and docking arm code, making them behave more like real machines.
  

• Replaces libraries bundled with M1 build with correct ones.
  

The Synchrotron Controversy

New photosensors for reconnaissance drones

Superconductor Improvements

Maintenance Records

• New SPC Gungnir Proton Cannon.
  
• Game engine upgraded to Godot 3.4, featuring: better stability, performance and native support for M1 processors.
  
• Improved quality of post-processing light effects.
  
• Improved collision detection accuracy between ship hulls and small objects.
  
• Enhanced the game background.
  
• New DTSS feature to smooth out the gameplay can dynamically adapt your framerate to the CPU power available.
  
• Superconductive Magnetic Energy Storage systems will now be more reliable.
  
• Point defence systems can now target drones and unusual hostile ships.
  
• Racing was not offering another race if you won a couple of times.
  
• NPC ships were confused by the complex shapes of Ganymedian Anarchy station and The Space Bar and sometimes tried to fly right through them.
  
• Chanced the way AI handles emotions to behave more like a human would.
  
• Added tooltips to the controls menu icons.
  
• The pause menu will not be affected by your camera exposure.
  
• Adjusted colour balance.
  
• Crew leave time is now listed in red.
  
• If you send your crew over to an EI1337 equipped derelict for salvage and it fails, the derelict will not attempt to fly by itself with it’s autopilot.
  
• Some derelicts were listed as older than their initial production date.
  
• Position lights on AR1500 Manipulator won’t turn themselves on after you adjust light settings.
  
• Pirates won’t open fire on you shortly after asking for a truce.
  
• Added mouse zoom and camera sensitivity sliders in the Controls menu.
  
• Vilcy patrols will now leave you alone when you do no business with them.
  
• Big Bad Wolf won’t follow your ship even when you have good standing with the bounty hunters.
  
• Rebooting your computer will now clear guiding drone, geologist and astrogator displays.
  
• AR1500 Manipulator will not throw light objects away.
  
• Marking many items for your guiding drone will not glitch out the drone path overlay.
  
• Updated translations.
  

• Astrogating just next to a habitat could cause a remote selling connection to be established.
  
• Adjusted Search and Rescue AI not to eject rescued ships when distracted by player interaction.
  
• Hiring a replacement crew when your crew is on sick leave will not cause overpopulating your ship when they come back.
  
• Next salary and leave time for your crew will now display dates without exact hours.
  
• Your ship can’t be damaged when you don’t have control over it due to a cutscene playing.
  
• Improved performance when asteroids break outside of your field of view.
  
• You will now get “Diving Licence” achievement even if you completed the tutorial in the free demo.
  
• AI will not be confused by ore flying directly towards it.
  
• Hacking enemy ships will now have more random outcomes.
  
• Fixed race condition that could make the game crash when ships were exiting detailed simulation range.
  
• Updated translations.
  

New hardware simulation provider

Subcontractor records leaked

Updated salvage policy

Maintenance Records

• Added Steam Leaderboards support.
  
• New upgrade simulations showcase the difference in the handling of ships before and after installing an upgrade.
  
• Most of the hardware you install now has its mass.
  
• The processing sound of various mineral processing units is quieter now.
  
• You cannot hire people who just died anymore.
  
• The gravimetric drone display scale was slightly different from your LIDAR scale on K37, Eagle Prospector and Cothon HUDs.
  
• The “missing child” quest could lock up in certain circumstances preventing progress.
  
• Internal cargo bay floodlight of Elon Interstellar Model-E will not illuminate exhaust gas that passes above the cargo bay.
  
• Augmented Reality overlay on EIME HUD is now darker, making the ship easier to see.
  
• You can now send your crew over to derelict ships to attempt salvage.
  
• The hardware activation button in the upgrade menu is now more prominent.
  
• NPC ships will use drone systems only when actively excavating.
  
• Purchases, sales and insurance gained while performing a ring dive are now listed in your ship logs.
  
• Added “reset do default” button to the gamma slider in settings.
  
• Updated translations, including numerous typo fixes.
  

• New External Impact Absorber upgrade.
  
• Expanded the bounty hunting dialogues.
  
• Smoothed the camera zoom and made it respond faster to zoom controls.
  
• Changed the algorithm for ore collision detection to prevent ore from being stuck in the reactor after a high-velocity impact.
  
• The camera on Enceladus Prime will not follow your mouse anymore.
  
• Mining Companions are now much better at catching ore that escapes at high relative velocity.
  
• I added an immobile background option for Enceladus Prime.
  
• Obonto stations will fire their point defence turrets on pirates harassing the player if they get close enough.
  
• Your astrogator skill will not extend the rally point specified by Vilcy combat patrol.
  
• Boresights are now clearly visible on the NDCI autopilot preview simulation.
  
• Drone system filters on the geologist panel will now respect apprisal delay.
  
• Microseismic drone installed on Eagle Prospector reported wrong values.
  
• Disabled power draw alert on Eagle Prospector, which fired every time you ignited a fusion torch.
  
• Massdriver projectiles will not explode from hitting an exhaust gas cloud.
  
• Drone systems will now favour their current target and not waste as many nanodrones by frequently switching targets.
  
• Fixed several typos.
  

• Added a new mineral vein map for the geologist panel.
  
• You can now tune your microwaves.
  
• Camera zoom is now much more responsive.
  
• Made several adjustments to the physics engine to prevent baffle-related physics glitches.
  
• Damage from constant-beam weapons, like microwaves generators and beam lasers, fluctuated if your framerate changed during operation.
  
• A bug caused sparks from your mass-driver rounds to appear at the edge of your screen even if the bullet shattered further away and long ago.
  
• NPC ships are now aware that they were in combat just a few seconds ago and respond accordingly.
  
• Vilcy patrols are now aware of when Big Bad Wolf was destroyed and react accordingly.
  
• You could click and select dialogue options that were still not fully visible.
  
• In busy areas, reactor explosion shockwaves could be delated and could happen even a dozen seconds after a ship exploded.
  
• On the geologist panel, the mineral you are working with is now clearly highlighted.
  
• You can’t zoom the camera during cutscenes anymore.
  
• When tuning weapon systems, the simulation window will now present boresights.
  
• Improved integration with Steam services and overlay.
  
• Several stability improvements.
  

New wergild rates

Anarchy Sightings

Ganymedian Prejudice

Maintenance Records

• You can now join Vilcy on combat patrols.
  
• You can get a bounty hunting licence now and collect wergilds.
  
• Your crew now knows other miners in rings, offering custom dialogue options.
  
• New shader for overheating computer.
  
• You can now permanently destroy the Big Bad Wolf.
  
• You can now dock to Big Bad Wolf as a part of a quest.
  
• The dealer provided ships with installed railguns but without any ammunition. Such ships confused both the Upgrades menu and NPC AI.
  
• A bug was causing Vilcy not to approach you with dialogue when they liked you.
  
• A bug could cause a railgun to hit part of your ship in the right conditions.
  
• Centrifugal forces can now shatter a mass-driver projectile, which prevents strange ricochets.
  
• You can now astrogate even if you opt to remove your ship HUD.
  
• Participating in space battles will now improve your standing with the group you are helping.
  
• Added friendly conversations with Ganymedean Anarchy pirates if you manage to win their favour.
  
• Changed the way the comms system highlights dialogue options when you have both keyboard and mouse cursor over them.
  
• The AR1500 Salvage Manipulator will not attempt to grab space stations and ice mountains anymore.
  
• Fixed several memory leaks in AR1500 code that could cause crashes.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused your crew not to speak to you, even if they wanted if there were a friendly ship, drone or beacon nearby.
  
• Unit conversions bug in auxiliary power generators caused them to consume much more thermal power than they should.
  
• Thrusters that do have not enough thermal power to fire will now visually fizzle.
  
• I rebalanced power delivery of auxiliary power storage systems. Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage systems will now deliver twice the power when discharging.
  
• A bug in the comms system caused your dialogue to be interrupted if you docked in the middle of it.
  
• An auto-exposure bug caused the screen to flash white when you started a new mission briefly.
  
• NPC AI bug could cause the game to crash when you astrogated with friendly ships in visual range.
  
• New achievements.
  
• Translations update.