• Docking in a station will now hide your ship, preventing it from being targeted or colliding with other ships. It will slowly regenerate your shields and energy (10% max energy/shield each second) instead of instantly charging both.
  
• Added option to jettison cargo item.
  
• Spaceship tooltip will now show if you already unlocked it or not.
  
• Stations are now stronger in hardcore mode to match AI spaceships, and slightly weaker in Relaxed Mode.
  
• Hardcore mode now has a slightly higher chance of acquiring higher quality loot.
  
• Jumpgate label now also shows the level of destination sector.
  
• 'Indoctrinated', 'White Collar' and 'Lone Wolf' perks are no longer acquired automatically, it will now prompt a quest for you to accept or reject it.
  
• When collecting loot with the inventory open, it will now try to select the same item after sorting occur.
  
• The bottom right log will now properly disappear or resize to not overlap other panels. This is only optimized for 16:9 aspect ratio resolutions or wider.
  
• Red Skull bellow level 5 will no longer use 'Hit and run' tactic.
  
• Fixed certain Perks being acquired in Relaxed mode without being previously unlocked in other modes. Although you can acquire and use any perk in Relaxed mode, you have to unlock most of them in other modes first.
  
• Fixed BUG that would cause enemies to inflict multiple damage impacts with a single projectile, which could cause instant kill.
  
• Fixed Hardcore frame on unlocked ship perks.
  
• Fixed ammo not being consumed right after being created by ammo replicator.
  

• Unlocking perks in hardcore mode are now distinguished from normal mode. Later on I might also add special bonuses.
  
• The spaceship density in sectors now better reflect what it says in the sector description (Population: Low, High, etc).
  
• Fixed a BUG in old saves that would prevent battle fleets to spawn.
  
• Fixed station turrets sometimes using much lower quality weapons (old saves: This will affect new stations only).
  

• Added two new game modes: Relaxed, where enemies are weaker, you have more cargo space and you can save anywhere; and Hardcore, where enemies are stronger, there is no manual save and has permanent death (if you die you lose your save).
  
• Added Red Skull Dreadnought: Cerberus.
  
• Several ship models received special bonuses, including a 20 weapon range bonus on the Dominance.
  
• Trade: Added "X" button where you can type how many items you want to Buy/Sell/Deposit/Load.
  
• Tutorial messages now pause the game until you click the Ok button. You can choose to turn this feature off.
  
• Reduced Red Skull presence in the starter sector.
  
• Each station turret is now independent and may attack a specific target, instead of every turret attacking the same enemy.
  
• Increased size of jumpgates and the syndicate docking bay.
  
• Reduced % Damage Resistance of some perks and armors in general.
  
• Titan weapon space reduced to 30 from 38.
  
• Increased weapon range bonus from ship class.
  
• Fixed "trail render artifacts", which was causing crashes on some machines.
  

• Added item compare tool-tip for unique items (which you can only have one equipped) and spaceships.
  
• Joystick support (partial) has been improved with additional options. You can find the changes in Menu - Setup - Control. Make sure to use 'Restore Default' to get updated joystick layout.
  
• Added controller selection screen when starting a new game.
  
• 'Load All' button will now fill ship cargo instead of trying to load everything.
  
• You can now equip/unequip items with shift + left click and sell with shift + right click.
  
• Added localization: Simplified Chinese, by Teh Eng Hee.
  
• Changed Lithium rarity to 3 (blue), Copper to 2 (green) and Platinum to 4 (purple).
  

Follow up fixes:

• Fixed game not loading because of corrupted user files (caused by a system crash, cheating, etc).
  

• Added Partial Joystick Support. You can control the ship and use some commands only with the joystick, but you still need keyboard and mouse for some actions like galaxy map, selecting skill points, trading, ship setup, etc. Until I add a couple more features, this will not be officially supported and therefore not appear in the Store Page.
  
• Removed ship class restriction for Warp Drives.
  
• Fixed ship collision during "Warp In" animations.
  
• Improved spawn position calculations.
  
• Added button to change steering mode in the left panel.
  

• Added new Setup options: graphics quality preset, resolution, antialiasing, fullscreen and projectile lights toggle.
  
• Added equipment: 'Cargo Expansion Module', 'Large Expansion Module' and 'Syndicate Expansion Module'.
  
• Weapon stats now always include bonuses from the character and current spaceship.
  
• Fixed repairing other ships counting as damage, and therefore resulting in reputation loss.
  
• Fixed mouse cursor going off-screen in some resolutions.
  
• The Log Panel (bottom right) is now hidden when the interface is open.
  

• Added "Warp In" animation for AI ships.
  
• Improved loot calculations (again) to diversify it more.
  
• Inventory now properly refresh if you pick an item while it is open, or when you scrap something.
  
• Trade goods in your cargo are now properly sorted.
  
• Fixed energy generation calculations.
  
• Crafting Modifiers are now sorted after added.
  
• Weapon name will no longer be reset after you craft a weapon.
  
• Drones max distance increased, based on it's owner ship size.
  

• Increased (and somewhat fixed) chance of high quality loot, specially from high level bosses.
  
• Reduced number of basic ore requested on quests.
  
• Item level is now also shown for equipment, not only tech level.
  
• Increased time between attacks against the player from enemy factions.
  
• You can no longer craft weapons without a weapon core, using only a booster.
  
• Crafted weapons have 2% less heat generation per Core added (max 50%).
  
• Stations will no longer have Indium and Lithium metals in stock by default.
  
• Civilian stations will properly appear as red in the minimap if the player is 'Marauder'.
  

Faction Wars - Part 1

Introduction

features

• Factions will occasionally send ships to hunt you. The more negative your reputation with them, more powerful the ships will be.
  
• Added Perk/Achievements: 'The Last Starfighter', 'Defender' and 'Legionary'
  
• Changed bonuses on 'Aggressive', 'Marauder' and 'Guardian Angel' perks.
  
• Dark Sectors (Pitch Black) are now only detected when in sensor range, but once it is spotted, its location is saved.
  
• Fixed labels and floating text being too small on 4K resolutions.
  
• Fixed 'Weaponry' skill bonus on burst weapons. It was being applied 'burst' times to each shot, instead of once. The skill bonus is now limited to 50% of weapon base damage, avoiding insanely high damage increases, which was very unbalanced. This only applies to weapons with more than 10 base damage.
  
• Fully exploring Asteroid Rush and Nebula sectors now give bonus XP.
  
• Reduced item drop chance from Elites to 50% instead of 100%, but increased base credit gained from all enemies.
  
• Enemy ships will now alternate fire between beam and projectile weapons when they have both types equipped. This will improve their aiming considerably, specially for heavy lasers on fixed hard points.
  
• Mercenaries from the same hideout will help each other when attacked.
  
• Faction ships in combat will ask for help from nearby allies.
  
• Ships will now spawn with green or red icon and label colors if they are from a friendly or hostile faction.
  
• Top speed reduced a bit overall, especially on bigger models.
  

Follow up fixes

• Fixed random crashes caused by a Unity bug.
  
• Fixed (hopefully) other crashes.
  
• Fixed a bug that would prevent new fleets to spawn in the current sector, and then after a reload it would appear on top of the station. Now all fleets will spawn away from any station, giving the faction time to build defenses.
  
• Added option to turn on/off AI ship names, divided by relation.

• The defending faction in a war will spawn a few more ships to help, as soon as a fleet warps in.
  
• Attack fleets will move faster towards the target the farther they are from it.
  
• Fleets will move in attack formation and the minimap icon will properly point towards the target station.
  
• The explosion animations will properly disappear from a sector tile after the battle ends.
  
• Fixed BUG when activating attack drones without a target selected.
  
• Fixed quests from a station not being removed after it get destroyed.
  
• Quests to assault pirate hideouts are back available on most stations.

• Speed Boost Toggle option added (Caps Lock as default)
  
• Added new Steering Mode with A and D instead of mouse cursor (you can swap to it with CTRL at any time).
  
• Reduced strength of random enemy fleets spawned to hunt the player.
  
• Fixed sectors that would remain under control of a faction even after all stations getting destroyed.

• Updated help screen (F1) with keys for changing steering mode and toggle speed boost.
  
• 'Steering Mode' (CTRL) and 'Speed Booster Toggle' (CAPS LOCK) states are now saved.
  
• Max reputation gain from a quest is now 250 points.
  
• Fixed reputation gains from 'Keeping the Peace' quest. This quest will no longer be available in stations after the hideout has being destroyed.
  
• Fixed extra quests showing up when not intended.

• Complete Key rebinding solution in-game (gamepad support is only partial at the moment).