ΔV: Rings of Saturn news & patch notes

Obonto releases new long-resolution radar

Rushed Triskelion-Armstrong firmware

Minding Subscription Controversy

Maintenance Logs

• Obonto Microengineering just released a high resolution Obonto LRPR prospecting microwave radar.

• Minding LF released a premium simulation service subscription, featuring higher resolution and a simulated ring scenario.

• You can now tune the power supply of the Triskellion-Armstrong AR-1500M series salvage manipulator, making it better suited for either prolonged dives or high-power recovery.

• New albedo filter for mineral target control will allow your system to roughly distinguish between raw ore and iceroids before geologist identification.

• New leitmotif-class soundtrack.

• You can now politely react to people telling you that you are in range of their claim beacon, even if they are lying.

• Two additional derelict recovery complications make recovery operations more interesting.

• Added a clock to your OMS screen.

• Voice acting for the intro.

• Adjusted ARM catching heuristics to prevent it from overextending and trying to reach for the things outside its range. It will now move with a very precise speed to match the incoming objects exactly and grab them just as they enter its maximum reach distance.

• Pressing the designated "accept" button on a slider will now return you to the parent control, making setting up filters more convenient on the gamepad and keyboard.

• Increased frequency of certain in-ring events.

• Added tooltip hints for the slider-based geologist filters.

• Inhabitants of the Obonto Habitats filed multiple complains about sky panels being set too bright for their comfort. While increased light output improved vegetation growth, luxurious ring-based habitats derive most of their profit from apartment renting, so the company implemented system-wide brightness adjustments. Independent pilots report that this change also reduced glare outside the habitat, which often blinded ship cameras.

• Maintenance drones manual now explicitly mentions that they will fix other ships when they are designated as friendly.

• Some braces in the Hive appearing to slide under ARM of your ship, if you entered it with one.

• The manipulator wear will not depend on your framerate anymore.

• Fixed tethering distance on the AR-1500M. Your salvage manipulator will now only grab things it can actually reach.

• Fixed focus movement on the geologist filter interface for gamepad and keyboard.

• Lidar simulation display on the Equipment screen will not obscure the description anymore.

• Fixed fonts on the gamepad settings screen.

• Racing did not want to contact you about 20% of the time they lost a race. They will be more open to rematches now.

• Installing a massdriver with an internal storage compartment will not slow down your general ammunition delivery to 100kg/s anymore. This required a very specific build to come into play.

• The Enceladus station is now better suited to host bigger and unusually equipped ships, like K44 with rear impact absorbers. The docks were moved lower and the structure up, so any outstanding protrusions won't collide with the station anymore. This should also make it better suited to host modded ships.

• Eagle Prospectors and AT-K225 used generic alarm siren instead of ship-specific ones.

• Fixed line-of-sight leak in Atelier.

• Engine and thruster naming scheme is more consistent now. Previously, some thruster or engine models were not having "engine" or "thruster" suffix on equipment list, while other did.

• Fixed inconsistent spelling of certain hardpoints.

• Fixed a number of typos and spelling mistakes.

• Updated translations.

• Gimbal safety protocols for gimballed drives attempted to move torches that were detected to point towards hulls to angle zero, rather than the rest angle of the torch. For most ships this was the same, but for EIME that caused the torch to move away from pointing straight back before igniting, which for Z-Axial Pinch torch caused significant response delay.

• Fixed a bug introduced in 1.82.6 which caused the game to crash if you liberated containers from a derelict AT-K225 while there was a lot of ore around.

• Fixed game crash when you managed to explode your ship in the Minding Virtual Flight Service simulator and waited dozens of seconds after the explosion with the simulation still running.

• Blowing up a pirate that has set up a trap before triggering that trap will not cause the game to crash anymore.

• You will be able to dock to Obonto 7 again. Even without power, their docking arms will have some backup power supply to allow you to proceed with the transaction.

• The "reduce flicker" accessibility option will now affect repair crews working on Enceladus on your ship, making the welders much easier on the eyes.

• Cradles will now require minimum idle power in order to latch on their cargo. When you suffer complete power loss, equipment in cradles will be free to escape them. This also means that derelict ships you encounter won't have cradled equipment attached to them permanently, which made certain recovery operations challenging.

• The game will now remember where you first met other craft and which craft were you flying during your encounters.

• Certain well-hidden station will not remain a mystery to you after you find it for the first time, which will prevent music changes on your subsequent visits.

• OCP209 HUD hardware display was obscuring distant astrogation markers in some directions. Now all the markers will be visible all around your ship.

• Updated translations.

Aftermarket MAD HUD unlocks spread across older ships

R-Sport ring-rage spike under review

Bounty stacking loophole closed and audited

Maintenance Logs

• You can now purchase Machines Astro-Dynamiques Cernunnos II HUD.

• Added new encounter.

• Difficulty is now stored in the save file. If you change the difficulty with no save loaded (main menu) it will adjust the default difficulty.

• Hailing a miner who is afraid of you over and over again won't make them post multiple bounties anymore.

• Fixed fonts on the equipment and tuning simulation charts.

• Ships that are not equipped with weapons will not try to ram you if they are angry at you anymore.

• Racing team will only challenge you to a race when it's neutral or friendly. If they don't like you, they will not discuss races anymore. Combined with the behaviour change for unarmed ships, this will also cause them to not try to ram into you while mockingly challenging you to a race. Instead they will now act more mature, and post a bounty instead.

• Limiting the distance of the nanodrone systems in tuning will now take into account your ships centre of mass instead of the location of the drone launcher. This will not affect the hardware limitations of the laser propulsion, which are still based around the location of the laser array. This makes the area of effect of the drone system on the maximum tuning non-circular, but makes setting up non-overlapping drone areas much easier.

• Adjusted some Obonto dialogue trees which presented reply options in different order if you inquired about some things.

• Some classes of moonlets, including ones with caves, caused the mood to shift towards mystery when you astrogated to them after the initial discovery. This triggered music changes and accompanying accessibility visual cues about mystery to discover when there was none.

• Updated translations, fixed some typos.

MAD releases retrofit kits

Mandatory medical screening for rescue ops

Omaewamou-Shindeiru false advertising scandal

Maintenance Logs

• Machines Astro-Dynamiques just released retrofit kits for their high-performance MAD Cheval 5.0 torch and MAD Luciole 1.2 RCS. Designed for heavy tugs, these might not be practical on smaller excavation crafts, outside of specialised requirements.

• Added extended safety protocol support for thrusters and torches, which can limit the power output of a thruster when built-in radar detects metallic objects, like ship hulls. MAD CERF torches are now equipped with new safety protocols.

• Search and Rescue pilots now have mandatory ADHD screening. They used to be quickly distracted as soon as a derelict even touched their cargo hold, resulting in many botched recoveries.

• Improved AI for docking manoeuvres. AI can now recognise if a ship it's attempting to dock into is stuck in a cargo bay.

• Improved performance around derelicts.

• Lifted some autopilot limitations on CERF ships, which were placed to improve odds of derelict recovery even when pilots got distracted. As a side effect, pirate-operated CERFs might now be more dangerous.

• ATK-225 had some drone systems installed in docking bays that stuck out in unexpected ways. Now they will stick out in expected ways instead. This slightly changes areas on which they operate.

• Fixed a dialogue bug that could allow you to pick if the captain of the ship you meet liked or disliked your current crewmembers.

• NANI effective range was listed wrong.

• Grinder audio feedback is now based on actual speed the grinder rotates, so you'll hear when it struggles with something.

• Catching a derelicts ND-LIS Kitsune with a vacant cradle arm will not prompt your crew to attempt to board it over and over again.

• Catching a ND-LIS Kitsune with a cradle and keeping it there for a while will not cause it to gain power, boot up and attempt to fly away while still attached to your ship. It will still refuel on a cradle compatible with re-fuelling, and should you release such derelict it will boot up and attempt to execute the last order given to its autopilot by the previous crew, which will most likely cause the derelict to get lost.

• Changed the way "reduce flicker" accessibility option works on a full processed cargo manifest. The mineral blinking will now be pronounced, but slow, so it should be clearly visible without triggering any photosensitivity issues.

• Miners you encounter at the edge of the rings will be curious about your operation again and will approach you to discuss it. Their whole purpose is to introduce new players to comms and to guide them further into the rings.

• Limited the traffic on the edge of the rings by 50%. While the miners will be approaching you now when you just sit on the edge of the rings, there will be fewer of them.

• Miners you encounter on the edge will not cause the storyteller to suspend other events if you decide to fly along them.

• Updated translations.

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Completely different flavour of the rings

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• Additional moonlet encounter.

• Ships that are curious about you won't attempt to fly in formation when approaching you. This caused them to stop further away than they should in most cases, but fly too close to you if you rotated your ship while they were on approach. They will still attempt to not fly directly at you, but should stop at much more consistent distance and behave more reasonably.

• Sometimes ships that were curious about you did not initiate comms, even if they wanted to.

• Ephemeral events near the edges of the rings, such as derelict encounters, could randomly end up not cleared when you visited them, enabling you to salvage the same derelict twice or other shenanigans with events that were supposed to be one-off.

• Fixed some fonts on Eagle Prospector HUD (both Imperial and Metric)

• Bringing salvaged mines or other tampered drones along with a pirate lifepod or ship will not cause Big Bad Wolf to issue you extra unearned rewards for bringing prisoners.

• Scrapwright Recovery Operation broadcasts sometimes got confused and gave you two different messages for a single derelict sighting. It caused the time such derelict was available for taking to extend beyond the intended period. They will check their sighting reports more rigorously now.

• Clarified description of choice at the dive summary screen to make it clear that you are storing only minerals.

• Polished up wording in some dialogues.

• Updated translations.

• Fixes game crashing to desktop and writing a malformed settings file if no settings file was found (such as at first boot). This also includes a compatibility tool to automatically fix malformed setting files written by 1.77.2.

• You can now remap mouse buttons.

• New mouse button visuals for the OMS screen, more readable and accounting for more possible buttons on the mouse.

• Containers which are low on propellant will still follow direct orders if they acknowledge them, instead of flying back to the Enceladus station.

• Updated translations.

• Fixed one single asteroid during tutorial splitting into many more fragments than it should.

• Fixed scrollbars appearing in option selectors which should easily fit on the screen.

• Adjusted visuals of option highlights.

• Fixed interface scaling for small screens - from 960 up to 1280px wide to ensure that all menus and settings are visible and readable. If your screen is below 1280px in width, you should notice that most on-screen elements are slightly smaller in order to fit the entire game interface. Screens of 1280x720px and bigger should not be affected in any way. This does not affect Steam Deck, as its native resolution is bigger than this. This did affect 1080p monitors in vertical orientation.

• Adjusted horizontal slider focused state display to make it more clear where your focus is while navigating the game with gamepad or keyboard. The most affected sliders are on the Dive Target Selection Menu. This specifically addresses that a disabled slider, controlling a resource you don't have currently installed on your ship, was hardly distinguishable being selected.

• Fixed focus order on the Dive Target Selection Menu to make sure you can easily access all the sliders using keyboard or gamepad alone.

• Maintenance Drones now work on friendly ships and drones. Using them this way is a friendly action. You can adjust vehicles they work on with your usual IFF controls.

• NPC AI is now more careful when flying damaged ships and not in life-or-death situation. This also applies to your damaged drones and derelict ships you attempt to salvage.

• Time-rate transitions are now applied gradually for all cutscenes in order to reduce numerical imprecisions in the physics simulation, which could lead into unresolved states in the physics system and things glitching out or exploding during some cutscenes.

• Fixed native tooltips sometimes showing up with "-" where they should not have.

• Additional workarounds for OSX OpenGL bugs that caused the game to crash if you used windowed display mode and resized the game window by moving it to an edge of the screen.

• More physically accurate electrical model for cradle arms and salvage manipulators.

• Salvage manipulators and cradle arms now have power limits in accordance to listed specs.

• A jammed cradle will not draw 500+MW of power in stall current anymore. Previously it could blackout most ships on a cradle docking accident, until you powered down the cradle in question.

• The hardware cursor will now always be visible if the game is not in focus.

• Fixed some inconsistencies in punctuation marks in dialogues.

• Updated translations.

• Updated engine to Godot 3.6.
• Updated Steamworks to 1.62.
• Improved performance of burnfinding on single-core-bound systems.
• Improved performance of pending collision tests.
• Improved physics performance.
• Improved sensor reading performance on low-end machines. If you had a period in which your in-game framerate would be lower than a simulated framerate of refresh of your HUD hardware, HUD would remember how many times it wanted to refresh and accumulate all the missing reads, catching up once your framerate exceeded the threshold again. This neither looked good nor was good for performance.
• Adjusted plume visuals for most plumes. Previous settings used more GPU power and caused some visual glitches when you have fusion drives installed but underpowered and some RCS firing along them.
• Propellant and Transit Reserve readouts on your HUD will not be misaligned anymore when you install large propellent tanks.
• When racing drone lost track of it's host racer, it would constantly complain to you that the race is now illegal.
• NPC ships will not go into precision manoeuvring mode while engaged in combat anymore. This caused significant performance drops when in combat in interesting areas.
• Grinders of Mining Companions installed in the back of a Cothon family of ships are now unlinked from your excavator. Opening these grinders could damage the reactor of such ship.
• Mining Companion cradle power supply increased to 30MW. While previous 10MW power supply was sufficient to operate the grinders for extended period while attached to the ship, it was insufficient to power the actuators that open and close the grinder itself. Repeated operation could drain the companion capacitor completely making it reboot and possibly lose cargo.
• When your crew successfully salvaged AI ghostship, they will actually fly it back to the station as the dialogue implies, instead of silently returning to your ship and sending the ghostship back on autopilot.
• Not every moonlet discovered counted towards "discover a moonlet" achievement. Now all of them will qualify, even the very special ones.
• Fixed Obonto and Phage stations docking arms interacting weird when you docked with OCP-209.
• Nakamura Dynamics and Eon Interstellar were found to advertise inaccurate thermal consumption values for their thrusters and torches. Legal action pending.
• If you are using a hardware mouse pointer option, your mouse pointer will now disappear after the same period of inactivity as the software counterpart.
• Selling 200+ ships in 10 in-game days overwhelmed the dealership and caused such game to crash upon loading and attempting to access the dealer quickly.
• Fixed issue with some mining companions, beacons and cradles unbalancing and possibly damaging certain ships.
• Fixed Equipment menu labels shifting under your mouse cursor on Enceladus.
• Enabling the "Reduce Flicker" accessibility feature will also reduce flickering of a full processed storage compartment.
• Lidar display on your OMS will now work even if you fly without HUD.
• Ships on the title screen are not considered real ships anymore. Previously, if these ships digged on the title screen long enough to exhaust all their propellant and trigger a return to the Enceladus station, they attempted to see if they are hired by the player. This caused their output during digging added to the next save you loaded - if you previously loaded any save, or game crashing to desktop if you did not.
• Added additional logs for long-executing physics queries to help troubleshoot performance spikes.
• Made the stats display on the Dealer/Fleet Examine Ship tab a bit tighter, so descriptions of more robust ship builds still fit on the screen.
• Pressing two hardpoint keys simultaneously will now toggle both of these hardpoints.
• Obonto Microengineering Maintenance Drones were found to advertise lower drone consumption than the actual performance of the system. The advertised ratings were adjusted to 50 dps.
• Updated translations.

• Added visual damage model for CERF S&R ships. When damaged, they will now be more visibly beat up.
• LIDAR display preview while you were tuning it was off-center.
• If your ship was caught in a salvage manipulator of another ship, and you attempted to catch it in return, the game would crash.
• Salvage manipulators now require some minimal power to operate. If a ship loses power completely, the arm will lose its hold.
• B8 Claim Beacons accidentally booting up at the Enceladus station will not crash the game anymore.
• B8 claim beacons will not accidentally boot up at Enceladus either.
• People will not attempt to follow two personal agendas anymore. Previously, if you fired and re-hired the same person, they could end up in picking up an additional quest to peruse, and changed their mind about that randomly.
• If you fire your resident singer and hire someone else who fancies a career is showbusiness, they can perform again.
• Updated translations.

• When you astrogate back to the Enceladus Prime station, ships with parts sticking below the ring plane, like Conlido Cothon series radiators, would appear to pass underneath an asteroid while the whole ship passed over it.
• Additional workaround to prevent a race condition that causes a rare game crash on some systems when returning to Enceladus on a ship equipped with OCP-209 HUD.
• Story events will not trigger when you are deep into an astrogation sequence, or during a cutscene. Some of such events resulted in dialogues you had no opportunity to reply to.
• People you talked with used to get impatient as soon as you started an astrogation sequence with comms open. Now, they will wait until it looks like you are committing to the jump before losing their patience with you and demanding that you answer.
• Eon Interstellar unveiled an ambitious plan for a generation ship to colonize HD 20794d. To celebrate, the company rebranded to highlight a shift from a single person's legacy to humanity’s long-term pursuit of the stars.
• Fixed some typos.
• Updated translations.

• Slightly increased the size of the cargo bay opening on ND-LIS Kitsune shuttle.
• Decreased the uranium crystal collider size to better match the displayed sprite and make it easier to ingest for smaller ships.
• Fixed a bug that caused most derelicts to be less damaged than they should have been.
• If a derelict story refers to a ship as highly damaged, it will actually be highly damaged once you recover it.
• Increased camera zoom when looking at the SRO service back at Enceladus.

Exclusive Salvage Sighting Broadcasts Launched

Transponder Fraud Ring Dismantled

Sabotaged Ships Prompt New Regulations

Maintenance logs

• Access to monthly Scrapwright Recovery Operations subscription - a periodic broadcast service aimed at licenced salvage crews, utilizing a vast collection of guild contacts, polar telescope arrays and long-range radars to detect and identify salvage opportunities.
• Over 20 additional salvage events, ranging from ship variants to ships that you could not previously encounter as derelicts.
• Five new story-based recovery scenarios when you are salvaging ships.
• Support for individually named astrogation destinations.
• Expanded salvage options: you can now pick who you send on the salvage mission.
• A careful review of drone camera footage revealed that some crew, when instructed to transfer propellant from your ship to a derelict, would not send the supply crate if they suspected the derelict ship would fail to boot up. Several such crates stashed in hidden compartments of the cargo hold were discovered.
• Sometimes your crew was overzealous when sending propellant to derelicts, sending two crates instead of one that was required.
• Recovered ships now have their tuning options reset, preventing configurations that would not boot up or straight explode if you tried to take them on a spin.
• If you witness an explosion of the craft you just salvaged, you will not receive a free identical copy once you get to the Enceladus Prime station.
• You can encounter two additional unusual formations in the rings.
• New accessibility option to further reduce flickering of UI elements, most noticeable during a damaged on-board computer event.
• Added a spotlight to the EVA suit your crew uses.
• Derelicts you find can now have some complications around them, which makes recovery a bit more challenging.
• If you don't send the crew to salvage a ship after being prompted to, or you have insufficient propellant, you will have an opportunity to send them again when you approach the derelict later.
• Locations of Obonto stations and other locations discovered through dialogue will now closely match their preferred placement, including not being too close to one another. This shifts the probabilities of discovery a bit.
• Better placement for dialogue-obtained astrogation destinations.
• New salvage-related achievements.
• The storyteller will now prioritize the derelict stories you haven't seen yet.
• Added graphical representation of an open channel to all the comms windows.
• Delivery rate of mass driver ammunition compartments was not actually enforced, allowing ammo-hungry massdrivers to consume much more ammunition than they should be getting.
• Largest containers for propellant, mass driver ammunition, and nanodrones were not accounted for in the resale value of your ship.
• Fixed some dialogue presenting a space for a ship name, when the entity didn't have one.
• Fixed Antonoff Ore Purifier when installed on AT-K225-BB. It tried to scan and process ores extending all the way out to the rear container cradles.
• During some derelict recovery scenarios, your crew would radio that they were flying back with the ship, but instead set it on autopilot and snuck back on board. This was deemed unsafe, and the crew was reprimanded.
• When you deny your crew an opportunity to reclaim their family and they angrily leave you, they will now actually leave immediately, instead of flying back on your ship and leaving silently on Enceladus. You will now be able to see them perform EVA to another ship when they do so. If you choose not to acknowledge them leaving, they will still leave.
• If there is a network communication error with Steam servers, the game will now re-try storing achievements and achievement progress in about 30 seconds, instead of waiting for game restart.
• Selecting a reply which has a decorator with looping animation caused animation and audio cue for "message being sent" to not play, as it waited for the infinite loop to finish. This could be confused with some of the dialogues not progressing, even once you reached the very end.
• Additional workaround for a race condition that could occasionally cause the game to crash after returning to Enceladus on some systems.
• Fixed some type-casting errors which might display some achievement progress wrong.
• Fixed equations for computing damage resistance when time was slowed down due to adrenaline boost or OMS screen being open. Some of the equations did not take the changed timescale into account, while others took them effectively twice, which caused damage anomalies when the time was not moving at a normal scale - some systems took more damage when OMS was open, for example, while others were almost impervious to all the damage. This caused some cradled hardware configurations to cause continuous damage when they wedged against the ship hull after you opened your OMS screen, and some types of damage were more severe when the game was running in a slower framerate.
• Decreased achievement related network traffic.
• Updated translations.

• You can purchase cargo bay baffles for OCP-209 and EIME ships again.
• Updated translations.

Antonoff's Ore Purifier Sparks Backlash

Elon Interstellar Accused of Bribery

Tighter Cargo Bay Inspections Enforced

Maintenance logs

• New cargo bay hardware - Antonoff Ore Purifier.
• THI Cargo Containers and NT Mining Companions now list the autonomous craft dry mass and propellant capacity in your upgrade menu.
• Improved font settings for Japanese, Korean, Thai and both Chinese translations to better fit small screens. Changes include adding a black outline to make the characters easier to read and decreasing the vertical spacing between the characters to make sure that all the standard heads-up displays fit smaller screens (and HUD sizes increased by the user).
• When a power draw of mineral processing unit will drop below 1MW, the tuning menu will report it in kW instead.
• Changed the way game handles cargo bay upgrades. Different ships can now support different types of hardware in their cargo bay.
• Thrusters and thruster-derived equipment will not blow through your ship hull and damage your excavator anymore. This caused undue damage then using Tetsuo HMX-2000I on a Pelican Prospector.
• Adjusted heat emission cones on most of the torches fit more closely to what you observe on the screen.
• Fixed OLED saving mode moving background cover in the OMS screen too much.
• Fixed OLED saving being affected by time slowdown/speedup, when it should not be.
• Improved font scaling for all the font renderings. Smaller fonts will now use mipmaps to avoid jittering artefacts when they are scaled way down.
• EIME will not come with 30 tones of propellant free when you launch from Enceladus anymore.
• You can't fill EIME with more propellant than your installed tanks anymore.
• Certain anomalies did not despawn when you flew far away from them, keeping the mysterious music playing for longer than it should have been.
• Adjusted cargo bay display on AT-K225 series ships, including the break-bulk variant, which did not match the iconography of the ship outline.
• Big Bad Wolf will now acknowledge that they offered you licence in the past and you chose to not pay the sign-up fee. They will also acknowledge if they offered you a licence but then you performed some questionable deeds.
• NPC ships will not change their opinion about you while you are still speaking to them so fast. This prevents you from being first offered some deals only to be denied few minutes later if your standing was near a threshold. They will still change their opinion based on your actions.
• Fixed a bug causing dehydrated ore to rehydrate while transitioning back to Enceladus. All water removed by an Mineral Processing Unit will now stay removed when you go back to the station.
• Updated translations.

• Fixed some miners confusing your ship with theirs when responding to you.
• You can now expose the Ganymedean Station to Big Bad Wolf after you do some small talk first without needing to call it again.
• Updated translations.
• Light Interlunar Shuttle Nakamura Kitsune 3D model is now available in the Tales from the Rings free DLC.

• Fixed the expansion configuration menu not being properly aligned in most screen resolutions.
• Some events were not cleaned up properly after you left them behind, and while they did not show any evidence of their continued existence, parts of them persisted and used up memory, CPU cycles, and could interfere with the spawning of events. This caused, among other things, your freshly deployed claim beacons to disappear if you moved just a few kilometers away from them and attempted to return to them.
• Updated translations.

• Expanded miner interactions. They will now acknowledge when you call them again, and you will be given different options and responses when you talk about the same subjects multiple times.
• You can ask your fellow miners to give thrusters full output and get to further orbit. They might listen if they feel like that is a good idea at the time.
• Made NPC ships more careful when they maneuver in areas where there is sufficient space around them.
• Added some opportunities to just hang up from a conversation if you are not interested in what the other party is saying.
• Additional commercial is running at the billboard at Enceladus.
• Improved examination behavior of AI. They will now more consistently fly towards your ship and initiate contact when they are curious about you, while still avoiding approach directly to your ship. This should lead to more ships starting interactions with you without you needing to hail them.
• Plotting a course back to Enceladus now requires you to align your ship for a torch burn. This prevents abusing the cutscene mechanics combined with autopilot-less astrogation for easier derelict recovery.
• NPC will not deny you the offer to be your wingman if they were the ones that approached you with it.
• Phage station Theta will not move their moonlet around once you discover it, even if you don't dive deep enough to figure out its secret.
• Fixed thermal consumption of NANI, which was much less than the 2GW advertised in its stats. It will now consume the heat it was supposed to.
• Improved interface between EIAA-1337 autopilot and OCP-209 ship. With previous configuration, the autopilot got incorrect dimensions of your ship, which could led to unexpected collisions.
• Elon Interstellar Model E pilots are now more aware where their fusion exhaust goes, and are better at avoiding hitting things with that exhaust by accident.
• Damage inflicted on unbroken roids inside a mineral processing unit chamber was dependent on your framerate. This led to faster processing the slower your computer was, during adrenaline surges and other circumstances when the perceived time slowed down for you. This affected ships and MPUs capable of ingesting entire unbroken asteroids, such as OCP-209 working in tandem with RA MPU.
• Some roids reflected much more energy that they should be, particularly smaller ones. This could cause refining within ships with a large bay, such as OCP-209, to stall.
• The amount of damage inflicted on an unbroken ringroid by a mineral processing unit will now depend on the surface area of the ringroid, not its volume.
• Patched an exploit where a mineral processing unit could produce unlimited propellant if you ingested a ringroid that had a reflectivity threshold above the damage inflicted by the unit. As long as you did not move, the device could produce propellant without actually damaging the source. The amount of produced propellant will now depend on the actual damage inflicted by the unit.
• IFF indicators could freak out near things that are not ships, but had transponders.
• Overheating your reactor in a simulation will not give you the Firefly achievement anymore.
• Ships close to certain stations could be confused by the proximity and refuse to move. They can now figure out how to gently back away. This also applies to autonomous autopilots.
• Updated translations.

Corruption Allegations Shake the Mining Guild

Processor Fine-Tuning Access Mandated for Shops

Unexpected MLF Protocol Update

Maintenance Logs

• You can now tune the processing speed of your Mineral Processing Unit. This affects not only the processing speed itself, but also mineral and remass processing efficiencies, as well as power draw.
• When tuning your ship, the simulation window will now display secondary parameters affected by the tuning option you are changing. This applies for parameters that have difficult to predict consequences.
• Additional dialogues you can have with fellow miners.
• Additional options to hire wingmen.
• You can now give commands to wingmen you hire. They might even listen to you.
• Ganymedean establishment will now serve refreshments at the same conditions as other Space Bars.
• Adjusted some dialogue to make clear when your crew manages to escape from a damaged derelict during a failed recovery attempt.
• Files clean-up: then you had the OST DLC purchased, game used to download some of the mp3 tracks twice. It will now only download them once.
• Your crew is now much less likely to be distracted by the environment when you approach a derelict ship. Previously, they could not notice it if there were exciting things happening around them.
• Fixed number formatting functions. In some circumstances, some fractional numbers were rounded wrong and produced off-by-one errors, for example 3.97 would be rounded to 3.0 instead of 4.0.
• Dynamic backgrounds on the title screen, credits screen, and the screensaver mode now have more asteroids.
• Improved compatibility of USV-GOT reconnaissance craft with both MLF Haul Drone and MPI Tug Drone systems. The commands imposed from the craft will now interface properly with the ship-area-network bus, allowing the systems to coordinate efforts when directed manually and preventing two opposite systems from fighting over the same ore chunk.
• When fixing weapon or thruster misalignment with OMS drones, your mechanic will not have to adjust the jury-rigging options in order for repair to take effect.
• Grinders of mining companions attached to AT-K225 are now detached from your main excavator. The placement of the docking bays made that feature useless, and they tended to damage your ship if you tried to open them up.
• AI now understands that when you are astrogating away you will end up far away, and that if they want to stay close to you they should follow. This fixes a problem with wingmen who would sometimes stay behind if they were at a comfortable distance from you when you performed a jump and were distracted with something else.
• Fixed THI Cargo Containers not unloading completely when asked to unload on ships with big processed cargo capacity.
• The IFF display only updates when visible now, improving performance slightly.
• When you hire a wingman, your IFF display will now update immediately.
• Hiring civilian wingmen and paying them well now nets you a good reputation amongst miners.
• Fixed part of the simulation chart label which was visible at the edge of the screen when the simulation initialized.
• Unified spelling and fixed typos.
• Obonto Microengineering unified its branding.
• Updated translations.

Elon Interstellar Promises Autonomous Astrogation

B8 Claim Beacon Recall Announced

Structural Realignment Completed on Station

Maintenance Logs

• EIAA-1337 autopilot is now capable of fully autonomous astrogation jumps.
• Your autopilot will now display Approach Speed next to Relative Velocity when you target an entity.
• New astrogation protocol. Previously, there was a fixed velocity deadzone required to match in order to engage astrogation. That deadzone is now dynamic, starting much bigger and narrowing down as the astrogation progresses. This will give you much more space for manoeuvre when you are starting your astrogation sequence but will require stricter adherence to the course at the very end. This change will also prevent large adjustments to the course as the cutscene kicks in, which could cause some unbalanced ships to perform unexpected spins.
• If you stray twice as far from the astrogation target, the trajectory computation will now rewind a bit, to reflect the fact that your astrogation software needs to account for unexpected ship manoeuvre. This also prevents abusing the astrogation system by "charging up" the astrogation without actually making the jump, just flying in a completely different direction while having the ship primed for an emergency jump. This made little sense in-universe.
• Pressing the "match velocity" key (X by default) during the astrogation sequence will now match your autopilot to the astrogation course, making returning to the right course after a manual dodge much easier. A proper on-screen prompt is included.
• During the astrogation cutscene, the ship will start slowing down only after you regain control of it, making it possible to cancel that manoeuvre immediately. Previously, there was 1.5 seconds of burn that you had no chance of affecting.
• Having a comms channel open won't stop the astrogation course computation when returning to the Enceladus station. Should such a cowardly escape cause a story event to be broken, the countdown will be slowed instead until the people you were talking to react appropriately.
• Attempting to place a B8 Claim Beacon outside of the area of Ring A will now cause it to complain about the claim, instead of silently relocating.
• Newly purchased claim beacons will not bang against your ship hull anymore when you start the dive.
• Cradles, docking arms and salvage manipulators will now use full physics simulation during in-ring astrogation cutscenes. Previously, they used a simplified system in order to preserve resources and make cutscenes more predictable, but this simplified system caused unpredictable behaviour in more complex cases, such as astrogating with mining companions attached that have ore inside them. Now cutscenes will use exactly the same simulation as the normal gameplay.
• Astrogators could confuse moonlets that were less than 50km from each other, often losing track of one of them.
• The HUD Scale slider in the settings, the very end of the scale would have no effect due to monitor aspect ratio constraints. Adjusted the slider to show only scale levels that actually change the scale.
• If your resolution or window size is so small that no HUD Scale adjustment is possible, the slider will be disabled with an appropriate tooltip.
• The railgun particle system now correctly accelerates particles relative to the velocity of the railgun.
• Repairs were performed on the Enceladus Prime station superstructure, which was slightly misaligned and when you observed it long enough could flicker some pipes in and out of existence.
• Holding a rotation manual control key while performing an astrogation jump with a fly-by-wire enabled autopilot will not cause your ship to continue spinning through the whole cutscene sequence.
• OMS's Astrogation destination list will no longer receive lights from the comms window. These lights caused some of the colours to be difficult to tell apart.
• Moving your in-game camera will not cause the shadows to shift around anymore.
• When selecting astrogation back to Enceladus, the astrogation velocity slider will now be disabled, with an appropriate tooltip hint.
• Selecting an astrogation destination that is too close for you will now add an appropriate tooltip hint to the disabled "Plot Course" button.
• The game will no longer receive gamepad input when not in focus. This caused the game to un-pause when you put it in the background and launched another game on Steam Deck.
• Switching the OMS tabs with gamepad/Steam Deck controls will not zoom the camera in and out anymore.
• Updated translations.

Ring Formations a Hoax

Crystals Discovered in Moonlet XT-HZA-3

New Racing Season Begins

Maintenance Logs

• Updated the graphics of Uranium Caves, removing rendering artefacts outside the moonlet and aligning the cave interior border with other caves.
• Motors on Eagle Prospector series grinders can now be disabled.
• A brand new soundtrack has been added.
• The "boss battle" soundtrack now plays more often during challenging encounters.
• Fixed asteroid banding artefacts caused by interactions between the limited simulation space and asteroids' density map when the ship moved slowly.
• The EIAA-1337 autopilot no longer attempts to use MLF Haul drones on targets they can’t interact with.
• Resolved the issue where large moonlets could appear in multiple locations or far from their intended spot due to failures in the spotfinding algorithm. The algorithm now ensures the moonlet finds a proper location quickly.
• Moonlets and other anomalies no longer drag along with the ship when astrogating away from dense regions of the rings.
• Delivering large amounts of molten iron via an industrial-grade mass driver directly to a ship or station hull now counts as a hostile act.
• Dismissing a crewmember from an active crew now clears associated story flags correctly.
• Cargo containers from Ganymedeans no longer send ore automatically, even with good standing.
• The B8 claim can now be aborted immediately when deploying the beacon by accident.
• The tutorial tooltip now correctly indicates that 'X' is a key to press, not a button to click.
• Fixed the black shadow that sometimes appeared around moonlets when raising gamma settings.
• Adjusted line-of-sight rendering settings to resolve graphical quirks when flying close to certain entities, like moonlets.
• Lines-of-sight now display correctly on ultrawide monitors or dual-monitor setups with a 4:1 aspect ratio or greater.
• Adjusted collider and occluder shapes for moonlets to better match visual representation, reducing confusion.
• Fixed lighting glitches caused by ore venting particle systems when the ship moves at high speeds.
• Disabled the OLED-saving option for the EIME HUD display, resolving the misalignment of the augmented reality display of the cargo bay.
• The Space Bar crew now keeps asteroids further away from the establishment, preventing rocks from spawning on top of the bar and causing chaos.
• Abandoning a race without further interaction no longer causes the racing team to refuse communication. They now forgive upon meeting again, and this works with older saves.
• The racing team now acknowledges rematches correctly when asked shortly after a race.
• Updated translations and translation credits.

• Increased beamformed LIDAR resolution by 100%.
• Additional cone focus tuning option for beamformed LIDAR.
• Booting up a B8 Claim Beacon, but aborting the claim, loading it up again and moving it to another location would cause the beacon to establish the claim in the spot it was first deployed.
• Beacons will not follow you when you deploy them again after aborting the claim but will return to their default behaviour.
• When a physical HUD lost its power, the autopilot overlay would stall instead of disappearing. It will now correctly disappear until the power is restored.
• Obonto Habitats and other traders would attempt to trade with NPC ships that docked to them by accident. Since most of the ships are not equipped for trading, this caused the conversation with the player to be cut short on subsequent contacts.
• Adjusted Kitsune cargo bay area to prevent it from accounting cargo before it clears the cargo gates.
• Added compatibility and automatic fixing for some corrupted save data file, preventing crashes when you attempt to load a save that was corrupted.
• When you travelled alongside a ship for an extended period, it could forget your previous conversations. The captain could change their mind about important things, like the favours he owns you, or even who is among their crew.
• When your claim beacon, mining companion or a cargo container just booted up after being released, but you immediately caught it back, you could end up with an open comms channel to a drone that was unable to close it, or respond. That prevented you from contacting any other entity, talking to your crew, or even astrogating back to the Enceladus station until you released that drone again.
• There were still some paths in the dialogue you could take that locked you out of a second round of the race.
• The racing drone will now always call you again when you catch it for the second and subsequent times. It might complain that the race is invalid if it completely runs out of propellant.
• The racing drone will now dodge more aggressively, will keep a larger initial distance, and will move further away when you are re-starting the race.
• Updated translations.

• Certain large and well-armed stations would get upset if they offered you a deal and you declined - and they didn't take into account that you might be in the middle of a trade to raise enough funds. They are much more patient now.
• Ships and stations that didn't like your cargo containers or mining companions tried to hail them to voice their displeasure while they were still attached to your ship, and opened fire when they didn't respond. They will now raise their concerns directly to you.
• Fixed a memory leak that happened when you switched ships in your fleet at Enceladus. Each subsequent switch to a completely new ship would take a little bit of memory and processing power, which could add up if you have a large fleet and have problems deciding which ship to fly.
• Custom paint will now show up correctly on the habitat of OCP-209.
• You can ask the racing team to race again, as long as their drone is still operational.
• You can't reset the race by calling the racing team while you are in the middle of a race.
• The race will now reset properly when you ask the racing team to race again after you finish one round.
• Racing drones which were caught with salvage manipulators shut down all of their sensors, which resulted in the race being invalidated, as the drone did not see any participants and assumed a catastrophic accident.
• Increased racing drone ship detection range to 64km.
• More reliable one-time astrogation destinations. Previously, if a temporary destination would lead you to a big entity, the game had problems finding the right spot to spawn, it could give up prematurely, making some destinations empty, when they should not be. Now, it will keep trying until it succeeds.
• Unidentified perpetrator was filling rich ore veins with ore chunks of exactly the same ore compositions, causing bafflement in the mining community. With increased telescopic surveillance these pranks stopped now.
• With multiple visits, some astrogation destinations could drift slowly towards the edge of the rings, eventually reaching a location outside of the playable area. They will counteract this now.
• Updated translations.

• Fixed a sensor-related memory leak that caused the game to degrade performance in multi-hour dives.
• Improved sensor performance.
• Updated translations.

• Triskelion-Armstrong issued a recall on the most recent B8 claim beacon series. A faulty ship detection module inhibited most of the drone functions permanently, which both rendered the claim beacon inoperational shortly after deployment and hindered third-party modifications of the beacons.
• Made the cargo hold walls of OCP-209 a bit thicker. This should prevent carbon-based anomalies from slipping through the cracks.
• You can't pump ore into racing drones, mines and claim beacons anymore.