Bigger edge markers
v0.1.569 Jun 7, 2026
The off-screen direction markers are about 75% larger and easier to read.
- Enlarged the edge markers (the compass chits for off-screen stations, portals, bodies, and your objective) by about 75%, making them easier to spot and click.
Chat timestamps
v0.1.567 Jun 7, 2026
Every chat line now shows the time it arrived.
- Added a local 24-hour timestamp at the start of each chat line.
Stay connected through updates
v0.1.562 Jun 7, 2026
Getting kicked right after an update no longer means signing in twice.
- Fixed getting kicked right after entering the world (for example a new build restarting the server under you); the game now quietly reconnects to the same ship.
The main story keeps going
v0.1.562 Jun 7, 2026
After the cold open, your faction's storyline picks up on its own.
- Changed the main story to auto-accept your faction’s next mission after the cold open, so it keeps flowing.
- Added pulling characters who already finished the cold open onto their faction arc next flight.
Combat and login fixes
v0.1.558 Jun 7, 2026
Delete confirmation, kill-based combat XP, live bars, and hold-to-fire.
- Added an in-game confirm before deleting a character.
- Changed combat XP to a bigger reward only on kills, instead of dribbling per hit.
- Fixed shield and energy bars looking frozen; they now fill smoothly in real time.
- Added hold-to-fire so you can keep firing without clicking each shot.
Fix: mission progress lost on relog
v0.1.556 Jun 7, 2026
Story and mission progress no longer snaps back if you log out right after an objective.
- Fixed story and mission progress snapping back a step when you logged out right after finishing an objective; it now saves the instant you complete a quest step.
- Added automatic repair for characters already stuck on a finished quest step.
Smoother cold open
v0.1.555 Jun 7, 2026
The opening scanner sweep now comes after you buy your first real ship.
- Changed the opening scanner sweep to happen after you buy your first real ship, not in the blind escape pod.
- Changed “buy a ship” and “run a sweep” into separate sequential objectives.
Passive scanners can pulse
v0.1.552 Jun 7, 2026
Your stock passive scanner can now fire a quick pulse instead of doing nothing.
- Added a quick pulse to the stock passive scanner that flashes the area and briefly reveals you.
- Kept full noise-floor sweeps requiring an active or hybrid scanner.
Reworked badge emblems
v0.1.550 Jun 7, 2026
Faction and achievement badges now use proper coloured emblems.
- Reworked the badge emblems into proper coloured glyphs: a gold Founder coin, mercenary skull, Trader Guild arrows, federation shield, staff mark, alpha glyph, and more.
Cosmetic art pass
v0.1.546 Jun 7, 2026
Redrew the thruster flame, backplates, and hazard livery.
- Reworked the thruster into a flared nozzle with a long exhaust flame.
- Redrew the nametag backplates and hazard paint livery with cleaner art.
A full set of item icons
v0.1.544 Jun 7, 2026
Every item type has its own redrawn icon, plus a clear alert badge on warnings.
- Added a redrawn icon for every item type: weapons, shields, thrusters, generators, scanners, ore, ingots, blueprints, and weapon mods.
- Added a clear alert icon on warnings and rejected actions.
Item type icons
v0.1.535 Jun 6, 2026
Weapons, shields, thrusters and scanners now show a type icon.
- Added type icons to weapon, shield, thruster, and scanner inventory rows.
- Added the same icons to item hover tooltips.
Dressed-up menus and scrollbars
v0.1.533 Jun 6, 2026
Right-click menus and scrollbars use proper artwork now.
- Reworked right-click menus onto a real backplate with rounded caps and per-entry plates.
- Reworked window and list scrollbars with sliced bar and handle artwork.
Group your windows into tabs
v0.1.530 Jun 6, 2026
Drag one panel onto another to merge them into a tabbed window.
- Added merging panels into a single tabbed window by dragging one onto another.
- Added tab controls: click to switch, the tab x to close one, close the window for all.
- Added dragging a tab back out into its own free-floating window.
- Changed a grouped window to move, resize, and minimize as one unit.
Nebula and starfield overhaul
v0.1.525 Jun 6, 2026
Reworked the nebula and starfield over a run of tweaks: volumetric per-system clouds, a star river, colour, depth, and seam fixes.
- Reworked nebulas as volumetric clouds with real depth, each system its own server-decided colour.
- Added a milky-way star river and brighter colour stars that drift on their own depth layer.
- Added two-tone nebulas that blend a second matched colour through the clouds.
- Enlarged the nebulas and widened the milky-way band.
- Fixed background stars rendering as harsh vertical streaks.
- Fixed faint seams across the gas and the dark gaps between clouds.
- Thinned overcrowded starfields so sparse systems feel emptier.
Stations tell you their names
v0.1.480 Jun 6, 2026
Target-lock a station to see its name, and the edge marker names where it's sending you.
- Changed station target-lock to show the station name instead of a bare “station”.
- Changed the edge objective marker to name its destination, or “to <system>” for a gate on the way.
Your radar ping now sweeps the void
v0.1.478 Jun 6, 2026
Your radar ping sweeps a visible ring and lights you up while it's out.
- Added a visible ring of light sweeping out from your ship when you fire your radar ping (G).
- Added colour cues: your ping flares warm, other ships’ pings ripple toward you in blue.
- Changed an active ping to spike you on every scanner in range, so scanning is a trade-off.
Loot drops into cargo crates
v0.1.475 Jun 6, 2026
Kills and deaths leave a real cargo crate floating at the wreck.
- Added a cargo crate that drops at the wreck so loot sits in the world to scoop.
- Added crate glow in the colour of the best item inside.
- Changed raw ore to drop as a glowing chunk of rock.
- Reworked destroyed ships to leave tumbling metal debris instead of space rock.
- Added your cargo hold spilling into a crate where you die, to recover or lose.
- Kept your ship, fitted gear, and credits out of the spill.
Hunt missions point at the right enemy type
v0.1.467 Jun 6, 2026
Hunt missions point the beacon at the right enemy type.
- Changed bounty and hunt missions to aim the objective beacon at the exact target archetype.
- Changed the beacon to fall back to the mission’s home system when none of that type is present.
The objective beacon now points at every kind of goal
v0.1.463 Jun 6, 2026
The edge objective marker resolves a heading for every objective type.
- Added beacon headings for salvage, mining, and pickup objectives, aiming at the nearest wreck, asteroid, or container.
- Added headings for warp and area-scan objectives, routing to the nearest gate or named system.
- Added headings for deliver, refine, sell, and haul objectives, pointing at the turn-in station.
- Fixed survive, duel, and damage objectives to lock onto the nearest actually-hostile ship.
Scan contracts work again, and a clearer objective tracker
v0.1.461 Jun 6, 2026
Anomaly-scan contracts can be completed by pinging, and the tracker is clearer.
- Fixed anomaly-scan contracts being uncompletable; firing your radar ping (G) now counts toward the scan.
- Added checkboxes to the objective tracker for done and pending steps.
- Added a divider between tracked missions.
Capital stations you can dock at
v0.1.458 Jun 6, 2026
Each faction's capital is now a dockable port with a shipyard.
- Added three dockable faction capitals: Aegis Command, Burrow Station, and Pyx Exchange.
- Added full services and a faction shipyard to each capital.
- Added named homeworlds for each: Aegis Prime, Rell’s Rock, and the ocean trade world Cassio.
Factions now hold territory
v0.1.456 Jun 6, 2026
Major factions hold a capital and surrounding space, painted on the map.
- Added a named capital system for each major faction that always exists.
- Added faction-coloured territory on the galaxy map, claiming systems at least two jumps around each capital.
- Added system control info on hover.
- Changed controlled space to be patrolled by its owning faction instead of generic raiders.
- Changed territory to reveal as you explore.
Target pointer no longer clumps on your ship
v0.1.454 Jun 5, 2026
The target pointer no longer bunches up on top of you.
- Fixed the target pointer bunching into a blob on your ship; it now floats out and arcs cleanly toward your target.