• Added two new songs (chill and tense ambient).
  
• Enemies higher level than the player are now harder to defeat (starting at level 10) according to the level difference.
  
• Reduced quantity of items needed for freighter quests, especially for rare items.
  
• NPCs can no longer move your ship while docked.
  
• Reputation gains for buying goods now only goes up to friendly (1000) and won't have any effect when hostile (-1000) or lower.
  
• Updated Portuguese (Brazil) localization.
  
• Fixed Doom Cannon not using ammo.
  
• Fixed projectiles colliding with jump gates.
  
• Fixed a BUG when getting location for quests.
  
• Fixed galaxy map sectors not updating color after reputation changes.
  

• Added new ships: Hauler (replaced Rhino), Luna (replaced Space Fly), Mercury, Galaxy (tutorial version), Theseus, Raven, Geraki (Sam Holo's unique ship), Dorothy and 8 new and exclusive Syndicate Ships (all sizes except Dreadnought for now).
  
• Added special abilities for Syndicate ships: Warp distance bonus, base shield absorption and trade bonus.
  
• Added intro scene when starting a new game.
  
• Changed starting ship and tutorial quests (All quests from older version saves will be deleted to avoid issues). By the end of the tutorial you´ll receive a special ship according to the path you chose (independent, mining or trading).
  
• Removed reputation gains with PMC from mining and added repeatable quests to turn in crystals in order to gain reputation.
  
• Changed reputation gains with Syndicate from trading to only affect buying trade goods.
  
• Increased Vulcan projectile speed from 60 to 80 and changed shooting sound.
  
• NPC spaceships will now also travel to locations like stations (and stay there for a while) or ship graveyards.
  
• Changed loot to more often prioritize drops around the same level as the enemy defeated.
  
• Changed 'reset skills' point gain to 1 every 20 levels instead of 10.
  
• Added GPU instancing for asteroids and other objects to improve performance.
  
• Mercenaries now warp away when you end the escort.
  
• Fixed Venghi bases sound not scaling with sfx volume.
  
• Fixed being able to equip incompatible items when changing ship.
  

Complementary fixes

• Adjusted loot to drop more varied items as high level rewards.
  
• Added reputation changes on tutorial quests.
  
• Fixed reputation gain with syndicate for buying anything instead of just trade goods.
  
• Fixed negative reputation with CoT and Venghi not resetting after the tutorial.
  
• Fixed unique ships being sold at stations.
  
• Added new aggro system that also affects mercenaries (and Sam Holo), which should reduce the amount of fights they start.
  

• Spaceship balance: All Yachts and Corvettes had their equipment space changed (mostly increased).
  
• Added 2 Venghi Station models.
  
• Added 2 independent (civilian) ship models: Galaxy and Komb-E. Both are intended for story quest use but players can try them as well.
  
• Fighter Pilot and Fleet Commander knowledge now cannot be higher than your character level and are harder to obtain: The higher the level, the more enemies you need to defeat (Elite and Bosses are more effective).
  
• Fleet Commander now gives bonuses to mercenaries and followers: +0.5% damage per point and 2% Damage Reduction for each 5 points. This bonuses are twice as effective with Leadership skill (Relations).
  
• Mercenaries and followers will repair their ship and restock ammo (if available) when close to friendly Stations. Other NPC ships can also do that.
  
• Elites now drop 1 item instead of 2.
  
• Bosses now drop 2 items instead of 3 but the quality can be up to Legendary (orange, very tiny chance).
  
• Added option to turn bump damage (collision) on/off when starting a new game. Existing save games will have it set to 'Off'.
  
• Added some background reflections to improve visuals.
  
• Fixed ship repair costs for 10% being higher than full repair.
  

Complementary fixes - 28/Aug/2018

• Fixed credits drop being way too high in some cases.
  
• Fixed sector info showing quests that were not there.
  
• Fixed Fleet Commander appearing doubled on knowledge panel (When character has Leadership skill).
  

• Added translation for French (Thanks Anthony Charrault!).
  
• Sector map now scales better with square resolutions (4:3 aspect).
  
• Fixed tooltip getting out of the screen when showing ship models.
  
• Fixed energy cost of Station Weapons.
  
• Fixed some FPS spikes in crowded sectors, which should improve performance.
  

• Added 10 exclusive faction ships for PMC (Proxima Mining Company), with unique faction bonuses, including Ammo Replicator.
  
• Added spaceships: Walrus (Independent) and Corsair (Red Skull Pirates).
  
• Added translation for German (Thanks David Kristall!) and Spanish (Thanks Ariel Alejandro!).
  
• Increased "Station Weapons" heat generated, space used and range, making it harder for players to use, but still very powerful.
  
• Changed some faction names. New names are Venghi Ascension, Children of Terra and Technomancers (former Brotherhood).
  
• Reduced effect of Large Gyroscope to 45 from 60.
  
• Reduced Claymore armor to 750 from 840.
  
• Added Steam Cloud support, so you can play your save-game anywhere.
  
• Reduced all ammo price and space occupied.
  
• Reduced number of cloud particles in nebula sectors to improve performance.
  
• Reputation levels now have a cap of 10000, right above Allied.
  
• Slightly Increased XP needed to level.
  
• FIXED Game freeze when spawning moving objects (relics).
  
• FIXED a bug that allowed using a station after it was destroyed.
  
• FIXED a bug that allowed small ships to equip large items when swapping ship models.
  
• FIXED showing asteroid drop info for spaceships.
  

• Added Boss Ship, which spawns mostly in sectors with no faction control or Pitch Black. They are always visible in the sector map.
  
• FIXED a bug that made most AI spaceships have the lowest pilot skill possible (bad aim).
  
• AI spaceship power increased in higher levels.
  
• Increased effect of tier 1 skills and reduced point limit to 5 (characters with more than 5 points in one skill will have all skills reset).
  
• Increased warp distance bonus of Master Explorer skill to 3.
  
• Items gained through scraping are now shown in side panel.
  
• Renamed ship sizes to (1: Shuttle, 2: Yacht, 3: Corvette, 4: Frigate, 5: Cruiser, 6: Dreadnought, 7: Kraken), ship class (role) will be added later on.
  
• Weapon slot heat allowance now increases for bigger ship sizes.
  
• Reduced size of Heavy and Capital Impulse Drives.
  
• Reduced Drone parts base price to 50 from 80.
  
• Increased base stock quantity for trade goods.
  
• Added Capital Impulse Drive Mk. IV and increased acceleration power for lower models.
  
• Increased acceleration cap for ship size 6 (now named Dreadnought).
  
• Increased turning speed cap for ship size 5.
  
• Reduced heat and energy increase on burst modifier (crafting).
  
• Reputation panel now shows how much points are needed for next rank.
  
• Objects like asteroids or stations will not spawn in the center of the map (0,0) anymore.
  
• Added option to change the speed boost button (default shift) on game launch setup.
  
• Added option to turn VSync on/off in game setup.
  
• FIXED save game on sector with no faction control.
  
• FIXED freeze on "invalid quest" message.
  

• Added option to abandon quests (not available to story-line quest);
  
• Sector icons on galaxy map now also shows the quests you have there, and their objectives;
  
• A waypoint can now be added simply by clicking the sector map (click on it again to remove it);
  
• Camera zoom level is now saved;
  
• Added equipment (drop only): Holocron (3 types), which is used to learn Tech Level up to a limit (3, 5 and 7);
  
• Added minimum speed and acceleration without impulse drive;
  
• AI ships bellow level 5 will not have shields now;
  
• Full Stop (default: space bar) can now be bind to a different key at game start up;
  
• FIXED: Upgrading stacks of items with only one Ancient Relic;
  
• FIXED: "Saving Game" message was shown even when you were not in safe zones and sometimes it would stick to the screen.
  

• Game is now paused when the quest log opens
  
• Crystal drop from asteroids now have a random chance (average chance is the same), making the "asteroid scanning" skill more useful.
  
• Reduced XP gain from destroying stations
  
• Increased turning speed cap for destroyers and cruisers
  
• KNOWLEDGE: Fighter Pilot and Fleet Commander can be gained now, but has no effect yet.
  
• FIXED: Storyline quest being added twice
  
• FIXED: Some english spell errors
  

• Raised level cap to 50
  
• Increased XP needed in higher levels and slightly decreased in lower levels.
  
• Reduced combat XP gained based on enemy level
  
• Reduced XP gained by crafting
  
• Enabled towing (with tractor beam) of drifting ships to be collected in friendly stations.
  
• Ship mass change in items (mostly armor) is now also affected by rarity.
  
• Replaced "$" symbol with "ͼ" for currency
  
• Added "launcher" in missile weapon names, to distinguish from missile ammo
  
• Reduced crystal costs for crafting energy weapons
  
• Added crafting cost in credits.
  
• Increased spotlight distance. Now it also lights the ship and close objects.
  
• Increased zoom out distance in higher levels (for big ships).
  
• Reduced max strafe speed for class 1 ships (they were moving way too fast sometimes)
  
• Energy is turned back on when installing impulse drive or shields
  
• Changed "Drone Laser" to "Small Laser" to avoid confusion