Version 4.00 Beta 2 (202854)

• New Feature: Bulletin board system to keep track of offered missions.
• New Feature: Major overhaul of external view (enabled menus, target elements, external view in highways, and more).
• New Feature: Time acceleration using SETA (feature functional but item not yet available).
• New Feature: Player ship jump drive (feature functional but item not yet available).
• New Feature: Economy logging and statistics (feature not yet functional).
• New Feature: Flight School tutorial.
• Added 'Fly to position' order selecting a position via map click (Replaces 'Fly to Zone' order).
• Added ability to interact with on event monitor while controlling drones.
• Added option to start autopilot to current mission target.
• Added radar while remote controlling drones.
• Added heat damage from engine jets.
• Added savegame compression.
• Improved small ship AI to use boost in combat situations based on pilot skills.
• Improved behaviour when following mission target using autopilot.
• Improved HUD toggle now toggles more elements and works in more cases.
• Improved mouse accuracy in menus.
• Improved station manager logic to better coordinate multiple owned ships.
• Improved FXAA colour-correction.
• Changed default setting for menu display from "Side Console"-mode to "HUD"-mode.
• Fixed being able to issue multiple transfer orders for the same wares when using ware exchange with a station.
• Fixed another scenario that could lead to incorrect amounts of unavailable units.
• Fixed incorrect quantity of bought fuel cells on 'Refuel' order if the ship had already some fuel.
• Fixed several bugs with Marauder Pirates not being able to steal dropped containers from their targets.
• Fixed several cases resulting in ships getting stuck when following other ships out-of-sector.
• Fixed missing command info for mining drones and for transport drones picking up ware containers.
• Fixed stations complaining when player destroys an ownerless ship.
• Fixed broken game controls after interacting with a trade offer while controlling a drone.
• Fixed aim-at-indicator being displayed incorrectly when remote controlling a drone.
• Fixed rare cases where objects showed incorrect outlines.
• Fixed area damage increasing with lower framerates.
• Fixed issue where a 'static' effect remained over the event monitor during the plot.
• Fixed Particle Repeater weapons building up heat slower at higher framerates.
• Fixed player ship not being able to enter highways with an open menu.
• Fixed rare case of missing highway/gate/ship group target elements after starting/loading a game.
• Fixed rare case of non-working input controls after starting/loading a game.
• Fixed interact menu not always being on top of other target elements when using mouse/gamepad controls.
• Fixed current target not always on top of all other target elements.
• Fixed target elements not always on top of other target elements which are further away.
• Fixed rare cases of clicking on a target element actually targeting another object.
• Fixed target elements jumping when interacting with it while controlling a drone.
• Fixed rare cases of crosshair showing weird animations.
• Fixed rare cases of UI issues when switching to/from external and/or drone view.
• Fixed cases where weapon panels showed startup animation in cases other than entering the ship.
• Fixed various trade price discrepancies in menus due to incorrect rounding.
• Fixed game freezing when quitting the game with Alt+F4 while in loading screen.
• Fixed startup issues with corrupted or incorrect DLLs in Windows system directory.
• Fixed several small memory leaks.
• Fixed more causes of crashes.
• Several more small performance and memory optimisations.

Known Issues

The following issues in this version are known and will be fixed in a forthcoming update.

• Occasional graphical flash on entering a highway.
• Clothing on some character appears black.
• Flight School text remains on screen after playing the tutorial.
• Player ship can get stuck at the exit of a highway if a menu is open.
• Player ship can jump positions when changing zones while flying on autopilot.
• Texts that are new in 4.0 are not yet translated.
• Voice recordings for voiced texts that are new in 4.0 are not yet present.