Endless Sky news & patch notes

• Gamerules are now specific to individual save files and can be modified from within the game through a new button on the main menu. Old save files will automatically have this button available to them, while new save files will have to edit their gamerules to set the "Lock gamerules" value to false from the start scenario menu. This can also be used to disable the button on old save files, if you don't want to be able to change the gamerules for your existing saves.
• Save files that belong to the same pilot will now have shared information stored in a pilot file. Pilot files are located in a "pilots" folder next to the "saves" folder in the game's appdata.
• Homing weapon projectiles can now target minables asteroids.
• NPCs will deprioritize hostile ships that are already targeted by overwhelming firepower.
• The player can now receive information from scanners on escorts, instead of only the flagship.

• A continuation of the Patir Mystery mission chain.
• Various balance changes to missile tracking and alien secondary weapons.
• Added more Quarg ships as reinforcements in "Wanderers: Kor Efret 3" to account for reduced capabilities of individual Quarg ships following the Quarg ship and outfit rework.
• Removed various missions with LLM generated content, which violated our strict no-AI usage policy.

• Fixed various crashes, including ones that could occur when capturing mission NPCs, by encountering message buoys while having no active missions, or when using a gridfire to mine asteroids.
• Message buoys referring to the bombings of Geminus and Martini will now only appear after those events occur.
• Fixed an infinite money glitch, and various other fixes to the outfitter and shipyard caused by the recent shop UI improvements.

• The Hai Reveal storyline has been removed from the game. Only about a dozen missions were ever available, they conflict with the plot of other storylines, and no progress has been made on the storyline in several years, so we've opted to remove it for now.
• There are now three more starting scenarios, allowing you to start in the Deep, Paradise Worlds, or Syndicate space. These starting scenarios are available immediately and do not need to be unlocked.
• Added various difficult to locate culture conversations around the galaxy that give you insight into various alien races and historical events within the galaxy.
• The Graveyard has a new short standalone string of missions around investigating Ka'het and their behaviors.
• Human space now has "message buoys" that emit a hail message upon entering certain systems or traveling between regions.
• Heavily reworked bounty jobs. Changes include removing the previous aspect of bounty jobs where you had to locate the bounty, rebalancing the difficulty of the jobs and how often you unlock new ones, and more.
• Various QoL improvements to the UI, including updates to the outfitter and shipyard to have on-screen buttons for all possible actions, adding a "Player Info" button to the planet panel, replacing the "New Pilot" button with a "Reload Pilot" button on the main menu after you die, and more.
• Various performance improvements around pathfinding, VRAM usage, NPC AI movement calculations, and more.

• Fixed conditions in the Patir storyline not being set properly by events.
• The Carriers in "FW Pug 4: Escorts" now have enough fighters to fill their bays.
• Changing the main zoom factor no longer breaks the display of planet descriptions.
• Fixed a rare memory leak and a few rare crashes.
• If the "disabled fighters avoid projectiles" gamerule is active, projectiles with a trigger radius will no longer be set off by disabled fighters.

• Reverted changes to movement AI from the previous release, fixing various issues with ship movement introduced there.
• There is now a gamerule which controls if secondary weapon ammunition can be resupplied at any outfitter.
• Scrollable text areas on the map and plugin panels now behave correctly when the game window is resized.
• When landing, planetary security will no longer scan parked ships for illegal outfits.
• Animations of features in the HUD are no longer affected by the "pause" or "fast-forward" commands.

• Re-implementation of the "Hold Fire" command for escort ships.
• Improved the autopilot's ability to use reverse thrust and handle ships with insufficient crew.
• Added animations to incoming in-flight messages, the mini-map transitioning between systems, and zooming in and out in the map panel.
• The Heavy Gust now becomes available shortly after the Autumn Leaf.
• Some new and continued mission chains, including one involving the Ka'het.
• Ramscoop fuel and solar energy collection are now based the distances from each star in a system to a ship, instead of from the ship to the center of the system.
• Sprites can now be loaded from AVIF files and music from FLAC files.

• Updated the text truncation method to fix inaccurate truncation that could cause text to render outside of the intended input box or crash the game.
• Various fixes to the missions and content of the recently added Patir 2 storyline.
• Removed the unused portrait image assets from the game.
• Long planet or spaceport descriptions that created a scrolling text box no longer slide off the screen.
• Starfield zoom limits can now be customized through the interfaces file.
• The planet panel will now only be offset to the left slightly when the game window is fewer than 1280 pixels wide.
• We now offer a Windows NSIS installer bundle for installing the game.

• Removed NPC travel instructions. This fixes issues with some ships sometimes behaving incorrectly, and some mission NPCs starting in the wrong system.
• Invalid systems will no longer be included in the "neighbors" lists of other systems.
• Fixed overlaps of some elements on the map panel at particular resolutions.
• "FW Bounty 1" now includes its destination in its description.
• Caching in CI/CD now only relies on actions/cache.
• Added a CMake preset for armv7.

This is an unstable release, introducing new content and features that may contain bugs. Some notable additions and changes are:

• Major revamp of Quarg outfits and many new ships.

• A continuation of the Patir Mystery mission chain.

• Two old ships and an old outfit rarely used by some human pirates.

• Numerous new jobs, culture conversations, and some short mission chains.

• The Coalition intros are easier to find.

• Many large battles throughout the Free Worlds story now involve smaller fleets on both sides.

• Different sources of cloaking now offer some different benefits and drawbacks.

• Ammunition for installed weapons can now be restocked at any outfitter.

There have also been changes to the user interface:

• There are now sounds when interacting with buttons or pressing some keys.

• Gameplay can now be paused without opening the main menu, while still being able to select ships and issue orders.

• The starfield in the background of the main menu is now animated.

And, lastly, new and changed game mechanics:

• Missions can be offered when entering a system.

• Missions can have an "offer precedence" property to control the order in which they appear when multiple are available at once.

• Turret hardpoints can define "blindspots"; angles an installed weapon can't turn towards, and multipliers applied to installed turrets.

• New swizzles can be defined in data files and offer more flexibility in the color combinations they can take.

For a complete list of changes, as well as further detail about the summarized changes, see the changelog. Special thanks to everyone who contributed to this release: @1010todd, @4T4RI, @alextd, @alexrovw, @Amazinite, @Anarchist2, @Arachi-Lover, @aradapilot, @Azure3141, @beccabunny, @bene-dictator, @Brick63, @CasparKielwein, @Cherrio01, @comnom, @Daeridanii1, @danaris, @DmitriK, @dorbarker, @dseomn, @geojak, @Hurleveur, @JimmyFiryh, @Just-Existing, @Karirawri, @Kokiak-attack, @Koranir, @LilyIsTrans, @LixiChronikouOriou, @luzpaz, @mixx99, @mOctave, @nickshanks, @NomadicVolcano, @palant, @Petersupes, @petervdmeer, @pythonmcpi, @Quantumshark, @ravenshining, @reticent-rem, @RisingLeaf, @roadrunner56, @Saugia, @SomeTroglodyte, @SpearDane, @tehhowch, @TheGiraffe3, @thePeacemaker-66, @thewierdnut, @ThrawnCA, @tibetiroka, @tjubutsi, @TomGoodIdea, @UnorderedSigh, @warp-core, @Wedge009, @Zarkonnen, @ziproot, @Zitchas. This release is also accompanied by an update to the high-DPI plugin. You can also find a post on our blog about this release. We also have a Google form where we're looking for feedback on this release. Head over there to tell us your thoughts!

• 498 Star Systems
• 649 Unique Outfits
• 277 Distinct Ships
• 439 Planets to Discover
• 1,891 Missions to Complete
• 10 New Factions
• 215,619 Lines of Content
• 5,623 Images
• 316 Megabytes of Data

• Fixed an issue where player escorts could start jumping around independently of the flagship.
• Audio will now remain paused when switching from the player info to ship info panel.
• Coalition ship and planets can no longer be bribed.
• Buffed the health and mobility of the Bastion.
• Adjusted the Firelight Missile Bank.

• Added individual volume controls for different kinds of sounds.
• Audio now pauses if mission panels pop up.
• Most audio now plays faster during fast-forward.
• Added a new map mode that draws star graphics instead of rings.
• Reworked human carriers (the Carrier and the Aerie).
• More consistent turret traverse rates.
• Missiles now properly go haywire.
• Pug Seekers are now more susceptible to anti-missile.
• Added a new alien species in a group of systems that is difficult to navigate.

• Several new missions in human and Hai space.
• More direct choice options in early Free Worlds missions.
• It is now possible to steer while moving in reverse.
• Added a unique sprite for the Giftbringer.
• A sound effect now plays upon arriving at a mission destination.
• You can no longer purchase an outfit despite not having the credits.

• The biggest change this release is the removal of the "hold fire" command, added in 0.10.9, because of bugs associated with it that could not be adequately resolved prior to this release.
• We hope to have addressed those issues for the next release in a few months.

• The addition of the "silent jumps" and "silent scans" attributes, which allow ships to jump and scan without playing any sounds, not even the default ones.

• Particularly large capture defense values on some outfits were reduced, to work better with changes to capturing mechanics in 0.10.9.
• Fixes and improvements to various Incipias, Remnant, and Successor missions.
• Updated landing messages for some star sprites to improve accuracy.

• Boarding now pits attack against defense when both the attacker and defender choose the attack option.
• A new fleet formation mechanic has been added with several different formations the player can cycle through.
• A fleet "hold fire" command has been added.
• Two new alien species have been added to the game - the young Incipias north of Hai space, and the elusive Successors south of The Graveyard.

• Some other notable additions and changes to content and mechanics are:
• Wanderer planets now have defense fleets and can be demanded tribute.
• The Dragonflame Cannon now pierces through its target.
• Several new missions involving the Gegno.
• New scroll bar for various UI elements.

• The Gatling Turret and Javelin Turret now each require one crew member.
• The timer ship in "Sad Archie" has been given the "ramming" personality to improve its consistency.
• Animated ship and planet sprites are now correctly rendered in the hail panel instead of not being rendered at all or being rendered at a high frame rate.
• Gave the stock Dreadnought its fourth Torpedo Launcher back that it had lost in a previous release to make room for a bigger battery; it didn't need the bigger battery.

• Alongside this is a 50% increase in thrust, turn, reverse thrust, and afterburner thrust across the board.
• While newly instantiated ships have higher masses, ships already in save files will now be considerably faster. Have fun!

• Various new short mission chains, including one involving the Wanderers and Mereti.
• The changes to initial velocity and acceleration of missiles in v0.10.0 have been reverted.
• There are now many new uninhabited planets and stations in human space.
• Disabled Fighters and Drones will no longer be hit by stray projectiles; only weapons fire that specifically targets them.
• Missions can "mark" systems of importance without requiring the player to visit them, and leave them marked after the player has visited.
• Mission triggers and conversation actions can do various new things, including playing music, giving the player debt, and applying events immediately, instead of after at least one day.
• The firing arc for a turret hardpoint can be limited.

• The Gatling Turret and Javelin Turret now each require one crew member.
• The timer ship in "Sad Archie" has been given the "ramming" personality to improve its consistency.
• Animated ship and planet sprites are now correctly rendered in the hail panel instead of not being rendered at all or being rendered at a high frame rate.
• Gave the stock Dreadnought its fourth Torpedo Launcher back that it had lost in a previous release to make room for a bigger battery; it didn't need the bigger battery.

• Expanded the mechanics behind asteroid mining, including the addition of mining lasers that increase the yield of asteroids, tractor beams that pull ores toward your ship, dedicated mining ships in human space, and a new mission in the Sparrow introduction that goes over the basics of asteroid mining.
• Added a small pirate region to the south, home to the remnants of a collapsed government: the Confederated Councils of the Outer Rim. Includes the addition of various new pirate ships and weapons. This is the first of a number of planned expansions to pirate content and gameplay, with the goal of making it so that playing as a pirate is a more viable option. Stay tuned for more in future updates.
• You can now review past hails and status messages by opening the messages log panel, default "/".
• Lowered the brightness of the center of the galaxy sprite to make the system names in the galaxy's core more readable.
• Plugins can now customize the services that a spaceport offers, and even the name that appears on the spaceport button.
• The state of your capslock key is now tied to the state of fast-forward in the game if your capslock key is bound to your fast-forward control. This means that toggling your capslock key even when the game window is not in focus will also toggle the game's fast-forward.
• The list of plugins and the selected plugin description in the plugins panel can now scroll, instead of causing too many plugins or verbose descriptions to overflow the menu.

• Planetary security will now properly scan illegal goods in your fleet's cargo. Previously, only illegal installed outfits could be scanned.
• Improved the collision detection of flotsam, preventing cases where flying over a flotsam at high velocity could cause it to phase through your ship and not be collected.
• Various fixes to missions in the Coalition intro storylines.

• Various fixes and improvements to the new Coalition campaign intros.
• Outfits can now be given the "unique" attribute. The player will be warned when any such outfits are about to be lost.
• All controls and settings now have tooltips.
• It is now possible to recall the help messages for the currently active panel on demand.

Some other major changes and additions are:
• Flattened the thrust scaling of sets of engines as you get bigger engines in a set. Smaller ships have received a significant max speed and acceleration buff, while larger ships have been unchanged or slightly nerfed.
• The Unfettered Solifuge and Violin Spider are now added to the Unfettered shipyards.
• Ships can now be given display names for their model name.
• Plugins can now have a "plugin.txt" metadata file in their root folder that specifies the name of the plugin and its description as shown in the plugins menu in game.
• Governments can now define travel restrictions that prevent their fleets from traveling to or from systems or planets that match the restrictions.
• Various UI/UX improvements.

• Contacting the Korath Exiles during the Wanderer campaign can now properly be deferred and reoffered instead of deferring the mission effectively declining it and locking you out of the rest of the campaign.
• Using hotkeys to search for the nearest asteroid no longer crashes the game.
• The shipyard and outfitter mission offer location tags will now properly write to the save file.
• Trailing whitespace in hails no longer causes hails to overlap with one another.
• The "Remnant: Expanded Horizons Astral job" job will no longer select the "Deep Space" systems, which are unreachable, as waypoints.

• More customisation options for rings drawn through interfaces.
• A new personality that will prevent ships from ever cloaking.
• Various new spaceport news items and civilian ship hails.

• Various missions and spaceport news items will no longer appear at inappropriate locations.
• Fixed some instances of ships ceasing to act and drifting forever inappropriately.
• Fixed a problem with out of system escorts not landing to refuel when an appropriate planet is available.

• Released the first chapter of Hai Reveal, a storyline that involves the open secret of the Hai being exposed to humanity.
• NPCs in missions are now able to trigger game actions on status changes to the NPC.
• Updated and added new mechanics around asteroid mining to make it a more engaging system, including allowing your escorts to take a more active role in mining.
• Continued development of the Gegno, including new ships and outfits.
• Split the Quarg government into a series of regional governments, allowing for more fine-tuned interactions with different groups of Quarg.
• Plugins are now able to be enabled and disabled within the Plugins menu.
• Replaced the mouse control toggle button with a preference to prevent accidental activations.
• Controls can now be unbound by pressing X or delete when hovering over the control.

• Patched an infinite money glitch caused by bad offer conditions on an Unfettered mission.
• Ships with low max speeds no longer rubberband backwards when exiting hyperspace.
• Fixed various issues with buying and selling outfits caused by having outfits in cargo or storage.

• The accompany objective on mission npcs no longer implicitly sets the save objective. Plugin missions that had "accompany" but not "save" should be changed to include "save" if the intention of the mission is that the npcs live.
• This is a change that was made in v0.9.16, reverted in v0.9.16.1, and has been reintroduced.

• Two new alien factions, the Gegno and Bunrodea.
• A plethora of new conditions and new ways to use them, including the introduction of "global conditions" that can be set and accessed across save files.
• Improvements to how ship AI behaves, more intelligently making use of the range of their weapons. More AI improvements will come in the future.
• An overhaul to how cargo and outfit scanners function, causing scanning to take overall longer to complete.
• The jobs board can now be sorted on various metrics, including how much the job pays or whether it has a deadline.
• Improved mouse control while in flight, including the ability to select secondary weapons by clicking on their ammo icons, and a toggle for controlling flagship aiming and firing with the mouse.
• Reverted the heat damage change from v0.9.15, and reduced the buffs provided to afterburners from that same update.
• Added a deadline to bounty jobs so that they cannot be stacked infinitely and finished passively. In exchange, bounty ships now don't spawn as far away, and bounty job payments are increased.

• Reloading your save file while you have escorts in a different system that are carrying mission cargo will no longer teleport the mission cargo to the player's location.
• Reloading your save file while in the middle of a conversation will no longer repeat execute the mission actions that run alongside the conversation.
• Captured ships will no longer require the save file to be reloaded in order for them to make use of their weapons.

• The accompany objective on mission npcs no longer implicitly sets the save objective. Plugin missions that had "accompany" but not "save" should be changed to include "save" if the intention of the mission is that the npcs live.

• Added a firing sound to the Ka'het Annihilator Turret, as it was missing one.
• The jump range of systems affected by the Ssil Vida activation are now reset when Ssil Vida is deactivated in order to avoid a bug in pathfinding. This change will be reverted in the future once the pathfinding is improved.
• Fixed an error where attempting to launch with a fighter as your flagship under certain circumstances could cause you to launch with no ship at all.
• Fixed a longstanding bug where npcs could get stuck thinking they need fuel after traveling through a wormhole.
• Fixed a bug where fighters would sometimes fail to reparent to a carrier that had space for them when recalled.

• Clicking on a planet card on the left side of the map now selects that planet as a destination on your travel plan.

• 60+ new outfits
• 80+ new missions in human space and beyond
• 40 new stations and planets in existing systems
• Improvement of many graphics, including stars, ships, effects, and outfits
• The addition of parallax to background stars and haze
• Sweeping balance changes to various ships and outfits
• Overheating a ship only disables energy generation, letting the ship still use battery power to operate
• Changes to the UI, including the addition of new ship and outfit categories and an overhaul of the map screen
• Changes to existing missions, including an overhaul of the first third of the Free Worlds campaign.

• 20 new swizzle options
• The ability to customize ship and outfit categories in the data files
• Four new damage-over-time types
• Conversations can trigger mission actions depending on the player's choices, including payment, gifting items, and triggering events
• Missions can trigger actions every time the date increments
• Plugins can selectively disable vanilla content
• Events can remove objects from a system without needing to redefine the entire system
• Removal of the 32 hardpoint limit

• Numerous typo fixes
• Fixes to how several missions are offered to the player
• Better suggestions of possibly incomplete conditions in some missions' "visit" dialogues
• Differentiation between two Remnant engines' reversing capabilities
• Certain Navy shipyards now stock the Dropship
• Ships that have no specified "drag" attribute default to 100, rather than causing crashes
• Weaponry that alters the ship's status conditions (e.g. ionization) now respects the required minimum value of 0
• The "interrupt fast-forward" preference defaults to off

• Quarg planets now have regional attributes to enable better targeting via missions
• Missions that fail to be instantiated print more informative messages in the error file
• Large numbers of missing image frames no longer pollute the error file

• 70+ new missions in human and alien space
• Outfits can now be stored on planets, without needing to install them on a parked ship
• An overhaul of almost all human outfit images
• Players can now choose their starting scenario
• Spaceport news messages no longer include portraits by default
• Better handling for missing content definitions (e.g. from plugin removal)

• Bug fixes, including a bug that caused the game to crash on startup due to unsupported VSync settings.
• Buying & selling items at maximum depreciation now accounts for the 7-day grace period.
• Missions will no longer complete if a required passenger isn’t landed with you.
• Several new star images have been added, as well as additional jobs for players with many bunks.
• Tweaks to the balance of solar panels and some Coalition outfits, and to the fleets found in Hai space.