Fixed login screen flashing
The login screen no longer flashes.
- Fixed the login screen briefly flashing every couple of minutes.
Changelog
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Fixed ships stuck after login
Ships no longer feel stuck right after login.
- Fixed ships rubber-banding or feeling stuck right after login.
- Fixed ship handling not updating after spending a movement skill or respeccing.
Galaxy map detail setting
Tune the galaxy map's detail on its own.
- Added a galaxy map detail setting from Low to Ultra in Display options.
- Improved galaxy map performance when it is left open.
Login screen no longer blacks out on resize
The login screen no longer blacks out on resize.
- Fixed the login screen blacking out the background while you resize the window.
Login window fits the sign-in form
The login window sizes itself to the form.
- Changed the login window to fit the whole sign-in form.
- Hid the What’s New panel when the login window is too narrow for it.
Find objective systems on the map
Jump the map to a quest objective's system.
- Added click-to-locate on quest objectives that name a system.
- Made the world boss objective point to its system on the map.
- Changed right-click menus to open on release instead of press.
- Fixed right-dragging the galaxy map from a system opening a menu.
Window UI fixes and clearer controls
A round of window UI fixes.
- Fixed dropdown menus rendering behind other panels.
- Fixed a black screen when resizing the window on the login screen.
- Fixed text being clipped by the scrollbar before it wrapped.
- Replaced the login toggles with proper checkboxes and radio buttons.
- Made the window minimize, maximize and close buttons easier to see.
New window buttons and controls
Refreshed the in-game window buttons and inputs.
- Replaced the bright-red window buttons with a neutral design.
- Added hover and focus highlights to buttons and inputs.
- Redrew the minimize, maximize and close controls.
- Restyled the text fields to match.
Hunt loaded haulers, grudges cool off
Kill loaded haulers for their cargo.
- Changed killed NPC traders to drop their cargo as scoopable ore.
- Added NPC grudges that fade over time.
- Fixed base factories overflowing instead of pausing when storage is full.
- Fixed a rare crash and some world-generation glitches.
Critical bug sweep
Money-loss and dupe bugs squashed.
- Fixed guild treasury deposits being lost on disband.
- Fixed a dupe that replayed story mission rewards on relog.
- Fixed a factory exploit when cancelling a finished job.
- Fixed a crash on certain gate routes.
- Fixed turning in or abandoning the wrong mission.
- Fixed several server memory leaks.
Loot stays on radar in crowded space
Loot stays on radar in crowded space.
- Fixed nearby loot getting pushed off your radar in crowded fields.
- Fixed server memory leaks that grew over uptime.
Fix: storage and purchases no longer eat your stuff
Storage and purchases stop eating your stuff.
- Fixed station storage losing your items on relog.
- Fixed ship and base purchases charging you without delivering.
- Fixed mining lasers and drones not hitting other players in the Void.
- Fixed a stray hit damaging your ship in the safe Reach.
Warp animations
Choose your warp animation from a new collection.
- Added a warp animation collection with Vortex Swirl, Hyperspace Jump, Space Fold and Wormhole Iris styles.
- Added a color tint for every warp style.
- Added visible warp animations for other pilots and NPCs.
Wings and patrols
NPC packs fly together and capitals post patrols.
- Added NPC wings that travel in formation and fight as one.
- Added wingmates remembering whoever kills one of their own.
- Added faction patrol circuits flown from each zone capital.
- Added wing and patrol-duty lines to the ship scan readout.
Living zones
Safe faction space, smarter roaming NPCs.
- Changed faction-owned space to be policed: NPCs there stay passive unless provoked.
- Changed NPC roaming to home regions sized by personality, with strength matched to the area.
- Added shoot-on-sight predators to deep unclaimed space.
- Added curious NPCs that fly over for a look and comment.
- Added a demeanor line to the ship scan readout.
- Fixed NPCs vanishing in open space instead of flying into portals.
Reworked the galaxy's arms
Smoother spiral arms and more systems to explore.
- Reshaped the galaxy’s spiral arms into smooth tapering sweeps off the core.
- Grew the galaxy to around 280 star systems.
A much bigger galaxy
Three times as many star systems to explore.
- Tripled the galaxy to around 200 star systems.
A new shape for the galaxy
The star map is now a twin-arm spiral.
- Reshaped the galaxy into a twin-arm spiral wound around a central core.
Gates point the way they should
In-system gates now line up with the galaxy map.
- Changed system gates to sit in the direction their destination lies on the galaxy map.
Snappier warp, sharper sensors
Faster jumps and a clickable, zoomable radar.
- Reduced warp jump time to half a second.
- Added click-to-target for contacts on the radar.
- Added mouse-wheel zoom to the radar.
- Enabled galaxy map panning at full zoom-out.
- Added a “Center on me” button to the galaxy map.
Five kinds of sky
Nebulas now come in five distinct visual styles.
- Added four new nebula styles: milky banks, supernova bubble arcs, wind-eroded pillar columns, and dark extinction dust.
- Improved gas ridge shading so star-lit faces blaze and shadowed faces go dark.
- Added per-layer contrast normalisation so every system shows full dark voids and bright cores.
- Changed hue drift to follow the filament structure within each cloud.
- Fixed bright stars splitting in half into two colours.
- Fixed gas lighting and filaments shearing along straight lines.
- Fixed crease-like folds across the clouds.
- Changed cloud and star patterns in every system.
Item tooltips get an Index
One number tells you if gear is better.
- Added an Index to item tooltips, a single strength rating per gear type.
- Added a simplified Standard tooltip mode, switchable in Settings.
- Moved DPS above raw damage in weapon tooltips.
Added ship power levels
See how dangerous a target is at a glance.
- Added a power level to every ship, shown on its nametag and in the target lock.
- Added a shield readout to the target lock.
- Added a live rotating view of the targeted ship to the target lock.
Fix: shield resets on dock
Docking stops flickering your shield to an old value.
- Fixed the shield bar snapping back to an old low value on every dock and undock.
First enemies hit a lot softer
The first scout enemies are much weaker now.
- Reduced Drifter Scout firepower and shields.
- Added worn variants of the lowest-tier gear.