Patch notes

Graphics

• HDR rendering with tonemapping and bloom. Engines, canopies and lights on the ships glow.
• GPU particle effects: engine flames and ion trails, explosions with smoke, hull hit sparks and warp effects.
• Settings › Graphics has new Post-Processing and Bloom options. Turn Post-Processing off on older machines.

In flight

• Friendly company pilots: small squads of your company patrol the company maps, fight aliens and help you in fights. Your fire never moves onto one of them by itself.
• Cargo drops: alien loot and ship salvage drop into space as cargo boxes. Left-click a box to pick it up. Hover over a box to see what it holds. Boxes show on the minimap and disappear after 3 minutes.
• Ships turn to face their targets.
• Name tags stay steady over the ships.

Sound

• A new sound system with original music that follows the fight, and every sound levelled to the same loudness.
• Overload protection: big fights no longer distort, and close explosions dip the music.
• Button sounds can be turned off under Settings › Audio.

Interface

• The whole game in 10 languages: English, Svenska, Deutsch, Français, Русский, Español, Português (Brasil), 日本語, 한국어 and 简体中文. Quests, items and server messages are translated too, and Chinese and Japanese text wraps correctly.
• The (i) help cards are translated and name the keys you have bound.
• Key caps show your own keyboard layout (AZERTY, QWERTZ, Dvorak, JIS and others).
• A tighter interface: smaller text and controls, a more compact HUD, target panel and station pages. The hotbar keeps its width in every language.
• An update notice: from this version on, the start screen and the station tell you when a newer version is out.
• Opt-in crash reports: when the game crashes it saves a report on your computer. Turn on Settings › General › Send Crash Reports to send saved reports to the developers. It is off by default, and reports never include your name or a screenshot.
• Delete your account under Settings › Account › Delete account. This asks for your password first.

Rules (server)

• PvP points come from player kills only. Alien kills used to count too. Existing points were recounted.
• Rewards are paid by your own tier. A tier you pick in flight applies at once.
• Friendly fire costs honor. Company mates who destroy each other both pay.
• Each tier has its own PvP sectors. The Ship window shows whether you are in a safe or a PvP sector.
• Seekers drop a Ship Fragment about one kill in five.