v0.11.0-beta.1

• Gameplay Changes
  • Universe significantly overworked to be more consistent with lore
    • More landable uninhabited spobs, unique locations, and things to discover
    • Reviewed and corrected many descriptions and placement of spobs and systems
    • More in-depth and fleshed out tag system for locations
  • Ship slots and mass limits reworked such that smaller ships get more utility/structural slots to work with
  • Point defense systems that can shoot down missiles and torpedoes
  • Space object (planets, stations, etc.) properties affect quantity of missions available
  • Moved many missions and events to the vn system
  • Can sometimes find POI events with a pulse scanner equipped when entering systems
  • Changed the visuals for some of the nebulas (PSO, Mizar)
  • Pirate bribes cost more depending on your fleet and are based on points not mass
  • Missions are introduced less all at once to the player
  • Blink drives are more flexible but use energy and generate heat
  • Razor class weapons have been completely reworked
  • Can steal more than one outfit from a ship with high boarding bonus
  • diy-nerds: improved reward
• Quality of Life
  • Significantly improved autonav
    • Configurable and can use lanes
    • More efficient at reaching target locations
    • New option like follow pilots through jumps or brake when going to positions
  • Make it explicit when all the escorts have jumped or landed
  • Escorts will keep their same loadout until the game restarts
  • Player ship is no longer translucent when in stealth as it is redundant with the stealth icon
  • Show enemy/ally factions in the faction standing info window
  • Space dust is properly anti-aliased
  • Minor speed ups to patrol lane computations
  • Try to enforce minimum number of articles in the news
  • Independent patrol and bounty missions can be completed on more planets and stations
  • Can hide or prioritize missions from the info menu
  • Manual aiming model aims at the mouse location when the mouse is visible
  • Travelling merchant tells you when new wares are available and should be easier to find
  • Lua Love API should be better at handling input and not apply keys held before started
  • Increase time compression when disabled
  • Inverted how hide, evasion, and stealth value percent bonuses work. Now lower is better
  • Hide locked slots without outfits as the player can't do anything with them
  • Added volley mode to weapon sets that makes weapons fire as fast as possible, instead of staggered
  • Autonav options are now player-specific and accessible via the info menu settings button
  • Travelling merchant gives full details of the intrinsic outfits they provide
  • Selected slots in the equipment window will only show outfits that fit
  • Autonav routes consider distance travelled in-system
  • Made stress more visible in the slim GUI
  • Reworked how stats are displayed to be more visible and intuitive
  • Can show all known outfits or ships in with the map find functionality
  • Weapon sets much more flexible, verbose, and easy to use
  • Weapon sets remember slots, not outfits
  • Route is visible on all map modes now
  • Blink and flicker drives can use double tap arrow keys to move around
  • Toolkit is cached in a framebuffer for much faster rendering
  • Intrinsic outfit details now visible from the equipment menu
  • Visually indicate which pilots are scanning the player on the overlay and radars
  • Can sell all outfits on any spob with an outfitter
  • Enemies in patrol missions should not run away
  • Changed the faction standing caps to allow the player to get all ships when maxed out. Will be decreased in the future as missions are added
  • Slot icons to make it more clear what special slots a ship has
  • System markers and autonav TARGET marker will try to not overlap with jumps and spob names
• New Content
  • New mechanic for House Sirius called flow to unlock psychic powers
    • Gives passive bonuses to Sirius ships
    • Outfits allow use on non-Sirius ships
  • 8 new missions
    • Finish the Minerva campaign
    • Nebula refugees
  • Many new events
    • Abandoned stations with secrets
    • Greedy pirates looking for domination
    • Challenges of the mind
    • Mysterious signals
    • More points of interest
  • Many, many new systems and space objects
    • 67 new star systems with 123 new space objects
    • New graphics for space objects
  • Tons of new outfits
    • Sirius flow outfits
    • Completely reworked Sirius weapons too
    • Point defense systems
    • New accessories
    • Intrinsic outfits
    • and more!
  • Many new outfit graphics
  • New NPC graphics
  • More NPC and news messages
  • Added the Space Trader Society faction
  • Custom death animations for many ships
  • More ways to increase fleet capacity
  • The pirate clans are now more differentiated in terms of AI behaviour and taunts
  • More factional landing messages
  • Rehabilitation missions have been made more factional and a new rehabilitation mission for the FLF is now available
• Engine
  • Map system viewer is more compact
  • Added hook.hail_spob
  • Events support tags
  • Editor supports tags
  • Library to handle conditionals for mission computer missions
  • Added support for disabling specific patrol lanes from being generated
  • Support for Lua scripting for ships
  • Changed api of evt.claim and misn.claim
  • Missions/events load Lua as chunks instead of compiling each time
  • Significant speed-ups in collision detection with quadtrees
  • Hooks "outfit_buy", "outfit_sell", "ship_sell", and "ship_swap" pass Lua objects instead of strings
  • Ships can have extra descriptions that show up on mouse over
  • More Lua API added such as pilot.armour, pilot.shield, or naev.missionList
  • Soromid NPCs can have custom descriptions based on genetics
  • Improved VN API with vn.move, vn.musicVolume, etc.
  • Improved VN handling of non-ascii fonts
  • Support for generating munitions from outfits
  • Improved derelict script to handle custom derelicts better
  • Removed some custom environment and string handling functions for standard SDL ones (requires 2.0.18 now)
  • Better handling of user locales
  • Weaker effects shouldn't overwrite stronger ones anymore
  • Spobs can use communication graphics
  • Require OpenGL 3.2 for geometry shaders now
  • Support for advanced collisions such as weapon on weapon, allowing for point defense weapons
  • Renamed thrust to accel for more consistency and simplifications
  • Support for buying intrinsic outfits
  • Ship distress moved to the message framework
  • Outfits have support for double tapping accel/left/right triggers
  • Removed toolkit fading effects
  • Support for rendering images as SDFs
  • Significant loading time speed-up with multithreading
• Fixes
  • Main menu more responsive when changing windows
  • Typo and wording fixes
  • Fixed many corner case crashes in the editor
  • Fixed cargo missions not being generated in some parts of the universe
  • Game no longer crashes when loading save with persisted Lua pointing to nonexistent systems/spobs
  • Minor improvements to many existing missions
  • Fixed crash when events trigger other events on creation
  • Fixed autonav sometimes having trouble landing with reverse thrusters
  • Qex races should be much less laggy now
  • Fixed some outfits using the wrong store images
  • Fixed system viewer not being consistent with map
  • Player's escort damage is counted towards players damage
  • Avoid having missions duplicates for cases where they can significantly stack such as patrol missions
  • Fire rate and action speed should affect damage and disable of beam weapons
  • Fixed some outfits not having "Activated Outfit" in their description
  • Fixed ships offering 100 fuel refuels twice
  • Fixed some ships having trouble equipping because of stacking engine reroutes and such
  • Improved AI's scanning behaviour to be more robust to stealth pulsing
  • Fixed POI generating in extremely volatile systems
  • Fixed tutorial running during cinematics
  • Fixed active outfits not showing "activated outfit" in their summary sometimes
  • FLF no longer become true allies of the Dreamer Clan to not limit the players actions
  • Made audio system more robust to running out of source errors