The Mac version of demo 1.75, which brings memory optimizations, bugfixes, and new varieties of content to experience!
KNOWN ISSUES
- Cockpit models are currently placeholders.
- Station interior models and lighting are all currently placeholders.
- Joystick and controller support vestigial and more or less not implemented and having a controller plugged in can introduce weirdness.
- NPC chatter happens much too frequently.
- Initial loading times are still long and the game might freeze up during it, please be patient.
- RAM usage is very high, especially on Linux.
- Fading transitions might sometimes be interrupted or sudden.
- Campaign and quest dialogue is currently unvoiced or temporarily voiced.
- Cursor can be moved outside of the window with dual monitors in most circumstances.
NEW FEATURES
- Game now saves total playtime, mission states, and boss destruction states.
- Equipment buttons now have color states for toggleable equipment such as drones.
- Mission improvements! Mission archetypes are the same, but mission flavor texts and similar are much more varied! Friendly NPCs can now assist you on combat missions, and large kill missions have more variety and spawn enemies to defend themselves.
- Cockpit overlay can be enabled or disabled in the settings.
- Various news stories have been added to space stations.
- Inventory and shops now display the damage per second on gun items!
- Models for Ballden characters now implemented! Yay space-coffins!
CHANGES
- Ordinated Legendaries now fire missiles and mines MUCH more often.
- In-game audio optimized a bit for memory.
- Autopilot docking code redone for edge-cases, to prevent overshooting.
- Submenus in the UI have background shading for better clarity.
- Bullets now properly curve towards wreckage.
- Adjusted graphics on foundry and large ship smoke to be less intensive but also more billowy.
- Zalhaise Mining Depot now properly displays its quest.
- The game will no longer autosave when loading a save.
- Ammo costs on ships are now calculated correctly when using the quick-service system.
- Manual docking on planets is much more reliable.
- Deaddrop missions are now considered contraband (unless stated otherwise) and can fail if you give up that contraband.
- Linux builds now default to Vulkan rendering.
- Manual docking and camera states are now saved between play sessions.
- Game saves now report date in addition to time.
- Strafe up and down are now separate keys.
- Slider values on the options menu can now be input directly.
- Navigation grid now occludes background effects for readability.
- Simulators and blackboxes now return you to the proper station.
- Added backgrounds to some station UI elements.
BUGFIXES
- Fixed an issue with cinematic bars on ultrawide monitors.
- Fixed graphical issues with nebulas when entering at extreme angles.
- Fixed an issue where the player could buy a ship that would be carrying more webbing and caches than it could hold.
- Fixed issue where the comm window could have overlapping models.
- Fixed an issue where explorative survey missions could not be completed.
- Fixed issues where scrolling in submenus would scroll the entire window.
- Fixed issue where laneline cameras would be off-center.
- Various grammatical fixes.
- Fixed issue where cargo hold calculations would be calculated wrong, leading the player to have less space than they actually had.
- Fixed serious memory leaks that occurred when jumping between star systems.
- Fixed issues where data centers wouldn't close the entire menu.
