Release v0.11.0-beta.3 · naev/naev

0.11.0-beta.3
- Differentiated more significantly the energy / kinetic / plasma weapon types
- Fixed hard crash when loading when approaching certain NPCs
- Fixed crash when change tab triggers a takeoff
- Fixed Naev not starting on Mac OS
- Fixed beam collisions (again)
- Fixed rare hard crash when beams are being fired
- 'in range' option for weapon sets now takes into account weapon arcs
- Buffed Targeting Conduit
- Renamed 'Point of Interest' to 'Sensor Anomaly'
- Double-tap activating outfits breaks stealth
- Nerfed Sirius Fidelity so it can no longer get ludicrous levels of action speed
- Map's discovery mode shows system features
- Removed enemies from a certain hidden faction so the player won't have standing issues with them
- Non-weapon outfits no longer show switch groups they are in as hot keys
- Turn off weapon sets when changing type
- Fixed toggle weapon sets not triggering outfits over and over as expected
- Turn off all weapon sets when entering stealth
- Fixed resizing not working on the background and toolkit in some cases
- Added pilot.weapsetAddType and pilot.weapsetSetActive
- Gave unicorp storm launchers a rarity of 2 and made it more available
- Have ships be a little less spammy distressing
- Centered tracking icon in slim GUI
- Show tracking icons for non-turret bolt weapons too
- More short names for weapon outfits
- Fixed pilot.setSpeedLimit not working
- Added tutorial message when player acquires first point defense weapon
- test_of_renewal: fixed weapon set defaults being incorrect and increased enemy damage
- seek_n_destroy: missions should work properly when boarding the target
- flf_diversion, flf_rogue: Missions should no longer be able to have ridiculously low credit rewards
- ec00: changed it so you can't hail the collective drone
- escort: fixed pilots not flying in formation
- Fixed many typos
- Translation updates
0.11.0-beta.2
- Slim GUI now shows activated outfits and all weapons all the time
- Collision system reworked (again) to take into account fast moving particles
- Fixed collision polygons not properly being used
- Added short names to some outfits such that they are easier to distinguish in the GUI
- Allied factions won't help out the player against neutral targets
- Added missing graphics for meditation chambers
- Don't allow giving the player names that can't be saved
- Updated love.filesystem to 0.11 spec renaming mkdir to createDirectory, enumerate to getDirectoryItems, and adding remove
- Fixed toggle weapon sets not turning off with only bolt weapons
- Hardened physics engine a bit to overflow that happens in 49 days of straight game time
- Fixed trivial memory leak in vpool
- Allow buying local maps where they are not sold
- Buffed Hunting Combat AI to 15% bonus
- Made Weakness Harmonizer AI not appear as an active outfit
- Outfit Lua function onshoot has been renamed onshootany
- Can toggle point defense weapons on and off
- AI will turn off weapons ionizer when going for a kill
- Player's new ships should start will all the default outfits, which fixes the some Sirius psychic tests
- pilot.weapsetAdd follows the same logic as the normal equipping functions
- slim GUI uses primary/secondary colours like the info menu
- AI should be less prone to jump before their leader
- Fixed cargo being lost when swapping ships in missions and events
- chapter1: event claims all the systems just in case
- poi: renamed 'Pristine Derelict' to 'Unusual Derelict'
- poi_intro: fixed typo
- achack03: fixed mission not being acceptable and harja spawning forever
- achack04: fixed missing formatting string
- dv_bikers: made missiles significantly more dodgeable and changed location
- Translation updates
0.11.0 (beta)
- 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
0.10.6
- Fixed potential segfault with invalid semver strings
- Fixed sign error when buying artifacts in the Baron Prince mission (sorry)
- Fixed behaviour of naev.trigger with parameters
- Fixed Lua spfx volume changing with game speed
- Fixed memory leak in luaspfx trails
- Fixed missions doing things in systems they should not
- Fixed Adrenal Gland III's time speed up effect
- Fixed Misi giving upgrades for free
- Fixed minor planet check in frontier war missions
- Fixed silent installs on windows
- Fixed typos
0.10.5
- Start counting effect stacks from 1 not 2
- Fixed launcher weapons using outfit mass instead of ammo mass
- taiomi: fixed claim check for last mission
- Fixed some typos
- Fixed equipment of Lancelot in "Sharkman Is Back" mission
- Fixed clicking on jump points also selecting planets in some cases
- nelly02: Nelly now stops recommending stuff that only does a little disable
- shadowvigil: Fixed mission not spawning escorts
- flf_patrol: Missions should no longer be able to have ridiculously low credit rewards
- Fixed some events not claiming systems that could interfere with other missions
- hypergate_construction: should actually claim the system
- Fixed some formatting in the alt text when hovering over outfits in the equipment window
- ec06: refuel tanker should provide as much fuel as possible
- taiomi09: fixed smugglers becoming hostile in some cases
- Changed music.stop() API to stop music from continuing by default
- Fixed potential memory issues on some platforms
- Fixed crash when changing to Japanese language on Windows using Japanese locale
0.10.4
- Fixed crashes related to multiple effects being active at once
- Fixed multiple mission_done hooks not passing parameter correctly
- Fixed plugin strings not being initialized with mismatched saves
- ec06: made the final battle work much better
0.10.3
- Fixed crash when using fits currently selected ship outfit filter
- Fixed escorts always being set to aggressive when loading a save
- Fixed Dvaered standing cap increase being lost after loading game
- Made space dust a bit less bright when it starts turning into lines
- derelict_rescue: play money sound instead of victory sound on completion
- rehab: fixed crash when aborting rehabilitation missions
- foundation station, efferey: fixed not using pirate landing script
0.10.2
- Fixed escorts sometimes not following their leader and landing
- Fixed autonav always wanting to go to the edge of jump points
- Fixed crash when causing multiple dialogues to run in the background
- Fixed outfit lua being called before initialization
- Fixed not giving the AI a name when updating a save breaking the updater script
- Fixed deleting last snapshot of a save switching to another pilot's saves
- Fixed saves and snapshots not displaying correct name with version mismatch
- Fixed crash when deleting Lua-side fonts, should fix crash with POI
- Fixed swapping ships with mission cargo sharing name with other cargo can lead to wrong cargo getting duplicated
- Fixed original music at Research Post Sigma-13
- Fixed music stopping after playing once in new games
- Change music API to make it explicit you can temporarily disable the music engine
- Set windows compatibility mode to Windows 7 when cross-compiling
- legacy gui: fixed line artefacts near fuel / energy bars
- pulse_scanner: fix potential error on init
- patrol: don't have an invisible time limit to reach the system anymore
- taiomi: fixed some claims
- zbh03: landing when hostiles spawned will fail the mission
- bounties: mention there is a time limit to reach the system, not made explicit though
- zpp01, zbh01: bumped chance to 30%
- poi_intro: can't board nelly again
0.10.1
- Fixed many stations not marked as stations
- FLF combatants only appear on FLF spobs
- Fixed cases where the player could be forced to take off when not spaceworthy
- Show engine volume option same as other volume options
- Use nearest neighbour interpolation for small resolution vn images
- Fix engine sound being played at high time compression values
- Try to fix issue where music stops playing
- Statically link libenet on steam versions
- diy-nerds: fixed reward and description not matching
- deliverlove: fixed credit exploit
- reynir: don't add 0 tonnes of hotdogs
0.10.0
- Made slim the default GUI instead of brushed
- Contraband missions use vntk instead of tk
- Sightseeing missions mention explicitly how much you get paid when completed
- Removed outfit name duplication in alt texts
- Made outfit descriptions fit in the landing window for all outfits
- Added sound effects to starting race
- Fixed non-Lua active outfits (jammers, etc.)
- Sort ship stats in outfit/ship descriptions
- Fixed jammers and jamming
- Buffed jamers and scramblers
- Buffed evasion bonus of Red Star hulls to compensate for detection malus
- Fix "Dead or Alive" and "Alive" being swapped in bounty mission descriptions
- Lowered error in physics approximation (shouldn't be noticeable though)
- Added particle beam and particle lance to Za'lek outfitters
- Fixed escort ai not being properly applied to newly spawned escorts
- Improved rendering of the map system information window
- Improved minor artefacts in slim and slimv2 GUIs with scaling enabled
- Engine sounds smoothly transition on/off
- Fixed other minor issues
0.10.0-beta.2
- Pirates should avoid attacking near safeish areas
- Fixed crash on load when player has more than one ship
- Fixed player.setSpeed() not resetting speed as intended
- Fixed pilot.comm not showing messages
- Fixed typo/grammar in sightseeing and dvaered census introductory mission
- Don't display health bars with no player alive
- Autonav doesn't go only to the center of spobs
- Mention escort AI settings when buying a fighter bay tutorial plays
0.10.0 (beta)
- New Mechanics
  - Support for setting ships as escorts and thus player fleets
  - Hypergates that allow for long distance travel
  - Asteroid rework
    - Asteroids no longer randomly explode
    - Asteroid scanning is no longer binary, but distance-based
    - New mini-game based mining
    - More diversity in types with different rarity
  - Support for restrictions for outfits and ships, such as minimum faction standing
  - Significantly improved how faction reputation caps are handled
  - Pilots can have intrinsic outfits
  - Bioships go rawr (new skill system)
  - Weapons and outfits can cause effects on ships
  - More complex space objects (spob)
  - Support for different difficulty settings
  - New exploration mechanic with points of interest
  - Unique ships to be found throughout the universe (pers)
  - Manual aiming mode for weapon sets
- Gameplay Changes
  - Weapon types are more differentiated
  - Removed nearly redundant launchers
  - Nerfed beams
  - Factional ships are more widely sold
  - Schroedinger uses less fuel instead of getting a large bonus
  - Plasma has a burning effect
  - Changed spawning and behaviour of pirates to be less dangerous in populated systems
  - Fighters only attack enemies visible by their carrier
  - AI is better at choosing targets
  - More dump targets for waste dump mission and tweaked rewards
  - Removed escorts for hire in lieu of player fleets
- New Content
  - Added a gigantic black hole
  - Added new space anomalies such as plasma storms
  - Lots of new asteroid types and commodities
  - More interesting places to visit and explore
  - More engine sounds
  - 45 New missions
    - More terraforming
    - Continuation of the Za'lek story
    - Help the Dvaered do some tasks
    - Tutorial for new mechanics
    - Secret system!
  - 14 New ships
    - Certain secret faction completely revamped
  - New spob graphics
  - Lots of new outfits and reworked old outfits
    - Use energy to avoid death
    - Create scanning pulses
    - Blinking has animations
    - Advanced mining techniques
    - Space mines
  - News revamped to be more flexible and relate more with current events
  - NPCs revamped to be more flexible with many new messages
  - New commodities that are only available from mining
  - Fancy racing mini-game that replaces old race missions
- Quality of Life
  - Support for save snapshots for each pilot
  - Can ask pilots to refuel you more than 100 units at a time
  - Engine sound volume is configurable
  - Revamped the star map to be large and more useful
  - Can add notes to the star map
  - Autoscroll is now an option in the VN
  - Spob communication window has been redone
  - Limit sound output volume when lots of sounds are playing jointly
  - Redid the music engine to be less prone to play combat music
  - Hide radar when overlay is open (with option to revert to old behaviour)
  - Duplicate effects get collapsed into stacks in the GUI
  - Allowing exiting and reloading while love framework is open (VN, etc.)
  - Autonav is more flexible with positioning on jump points
  - Can customize jump flash brightness
  - Player will not be scanned immediately on jumping in or taking off
  - Show health bars near pilots in combat (can be disabled in options)
  - Escort AI is customizable
  - Ship AI reminds player about things when they haven't played in a while
- Engine changes
  - Work has begun on a development manual
  - Plugin support with explicit support for total conversions
  - All monolithic files have been split up
  - Simplified terminology with spob (space objects) replacing planet/asset
  - Support for tags in missions
  - Player ships can store their own variables now
  - Weapon outfits support some Lua scripting
  - Ammunition/fighters merged into launchers/fighter bays
  - Support for "shotgun"-type weapons
  - Backgrounds no longer use an orthographic projection
  - Minor transitions added to the toolkit
  - Asteroids redone to be more flexible and easy to add using groups
  - Asteroid field support in the editor
  - Allow for soft claims instead of only hard claims
  - Unified the event and mission headers
  - Implemented per-pilot variables
  - Lua scripting for spob
  - AI can use special outfits
  - Lots of engine rewriting and modernization that should bring some speed improvements and more flexibility when modding
  - Added lua-enet library to allow for networking in plugins (off by default, requires setting in configuration file)
  - Can animate loading screen
- Bug Fixes
  - Too many to list, but we'll try
  - Fixed pilots not getting equipped at all in some cases
  - Fixed looting cargo when boarding giving less than expected
  - Fixed all asteroid graphics being used as debris
  - Fixed some hooks not properly passing arguments
  - Block certain inputs during cinematics
  - Fixed disabling saving and forcing the pilot to take off not working as expected
  - Fixed sounds getting stopped in many cases due to garbage collection
  - Many typo fixes
0.9.4
- Fix "No error." log spam with certain video card drivers
- Fix Lua errors with tiny nebula such as Sarcophagus
- Fix fake transponder cheesing rehabilitation missions
- Fix errors in "Anxious Merchant", "Dead Or Alive Bounty", "Harja's Vengeance", and "The Lost Brother" missions
- Fix the in-game screenshot feature, in case of odd window dimensions
- Fix at least "Dvaered Diplomacy" glitching when the game is saved/reloaded (thanks to "Duke" on the Steam forums)
- Update translations, including a new Spanish translation
0.9.3
- Bug fix: if the German translation was active, casino minigames' explanation (Erklärung) didn't work
- Fix errors/slowdown in Diversion from (...) missions
- Fix bug in "Waste Collector" mission
- Fixed a bug that allowed the player to get infinite escorts
- Work around bugs in at least one OpenGL driver
- Fix crash when unidiff changes assets that the player has targetted
- Player actually has to pay for stealing outfits
- Fixed game hanging when entering some volatile nebula systems
0.9.2
- Fix reward messages in the Particle Physics campaign
- Can no longer steal a certain Soromid ship
- Enhanced the logic for deciding whether it's safe to save the game after landing
- Fix mission bugs: "Assault on Unicorn", "Emergency of Immediate Inspiration", "The Search for Cynthia"
- Fix zombie autonav toward deselected targets
0.9.1
- Minor countermeasures for long player ship names
- Fix mission breakage in "Minerva Pirates 4", "Runaway Search", "Particle Physics 3", "Shadow Vigil", "Baron Prince", and "Dvaered Ballet"
- Fix exploit in "Travelling Merchant" event (mission prize for sale that shouldn't have been)
- Fix many missions that explicitly attack the player overriding stealth and visibility mechanics
- Fix some text labels that couldn't be translated from English
- Fix equipment slot information displaying over filter widget
- Fix phantom acceleration after an auto-board and undock sequence
- Darkened nebulas and lowered default background darkness
- Improved upstream metainfo for packagers
- Can no longer steal a certain Za'lek ship
- Fix crash under certain conditions when using the console
- Masochists and LTS distro packagers may build with Meson 0.54 (no subproject fallbacks) or 0.53 (also no "meson compile", only "ninja")
- Slightly reduced rendered nebula quality to stop breakage on some intel GPUs
- VN music uses logarithmic scale like internal music
- Fixed some offset issues with the slim GUI
0.9.0
- Fixed glitchy appearance of the map's mode menu
- Map mode is remembered throughout the gaming session
- Music transitions better for impatient players
- Tighten up alt-text
- Don't show aiming helper in cinematic mode
- A busy volunteer proofreader kept editing almost as quickly as we could add errores
- Some more outfit graphics
- Pilots should be a bit less trigger happy when jumping in
- Fixed minor visual artefacts with pirate trails
- Centered the bottom bar (Brushed GUI)
- FPS and Time Compression factors are monospaced when displayed
- Added option for disabling resizing of window
- Stealthed pilots don't affect autonav
- Meow meow
0.9.0-beta.3
- Fixed warning about cargo rush deliveries when you don't know the best route
- Fixed another crash related to pilot removal
- Fixed wonky backgrounds during death cutscenes, for the sake of other players of course
- Fixed crash when techs are first patched to planets through unidiff
- Fixed potential spurious warnings about incomplete translations, even when running in English
- Fixed failure to resolve regional translations (like pt_BT or pt_PT) from the locale
- Fixed VN log text overlap issues
- Fixed commodities not being added through unidiff
- Fixed safe lane rendering alpha being wrong
- Fixed misbehaviours with Maikki, Nelly 2, Shark 3, Shipwreck, Travelling Merchant, Warlords Battle, and Particle Physics 2
- Fixed backgrounds accumulating when messing with options
- Fixed issues with board scripts getting deferred with respect to boarding script
- Fixed some instances of background text interfering with how foreground text was drawn
- Fixed some missions causing trouble when saved/reloaded (due to dynamic factions)
- Fixed minor Ship AI issues (rename at game start)
- Fixed autonav via the map during a landing sequence
- Fixed autonav giving away autofollowed pilots and unknown destination systems
- Improved speed and accuracy of autonav stopping
- Improved mission marker behavior (show planets more, always clean up at end of mission)
- Kicked Empire patrols out of the Arandon system
- Gave pirate ships dodgier outfits
- Proofread too many parts of the game to mention
- AI should only try to jump to systems with their faction presence
- Wrap OSD titles as necessary
- Don't allow illegal characters in pilot name
- Be kinder to old video drivers
- More music
- More meow
0.9.0-beta.2
- Prevented Naev from losing the player's (pre-0.9.0-beta) licenses on first load
- Fixed missing credits and translation coverage data
- Improved phrasing
- Prevented players from getting stranded without access to fuel
- Mission script fixes for "Helping Nelly" and "The one with the Visit"
- Outfit script fix for "Weapons Ionizer"
- Fixed issues impacting at least some Windows / Intel graphics combinations
- Hulls are more widely available
- Improved some of the map outfits
- Do not render systems with unknown assets as restricted
- Added gamma correction to Options
- Fixed reproducible crash when boarded pilots get removed
- Added counterfeit licenses to pirate worlds
- Remove minor energy malus from sensor array and jump detector
- Electron burst cannon is no longer widely available
0.9.0 (beta)
- New mechanics
  - Added new utility outfits with complex effects
  - Changed ship classification, removing rare classes while adding Interceptor and Battleship classes
  - Illegal cargo and ship-to-ship detection
  - Pilots can now go into stealth mode
  - Systems have "safe lanes" patrolled by the governing faction
  - Electronic warfare parameters are simplified and visible
  - Added escorts for hire
  - Some simple minigames have been added
  - Scramblers and jammers have fixed chance to mess up missiles depending on their resistance
  - Restricted systems where dominant faction will attack on sight
  - Some bulk freighter-class ships added
  - Systems can have different effects on all ships in them
  - Fake transponder replaces fake id
- Visual improvements
  - New fancy system rendering effects
  - Ships and rockets now have engine trails
  - Beam visuals have been made more flexible and pretty
  - Jumping visuals improved
  - Redid the shake visuals and added a small damage visual
  - Most special effects implemented as shaders
  - Most small visuals redone to be more visible and clean
  - Similar presences are now merged in map
  - Overhauled all the backgrounds
- Gameplay changes
  - Pirates split into multiple clans and marauders
  - Added discovery messages as you explore the universe
  - Overhauled NPC AI
  - Overhaul and rebalance of most outfits
  - Wanted ships no longer aggro defense forces (bounties)
  - Bribed pilots don't become hostile again unless attacked
  - Stress now decreases based on ship mass
  - Merged the Independent and Civilian factions
  - Game now tracks meta-data like ships destroyed and time played
  - Trade lane routes made explicit
  - More common and useful derelict ships
  - Missiles have lock-on reduced and in-flight calibration added
  - Tutorial redone with Ship AI that is also accessible from the info menu
  - New ships including the Starbridge
- Quality of Life
  - Autonav supports landing and boarding
  - Comm window reworked and you can bribe multiple pilots at once
  - Possible to change or unequip ships with deployed fighters
  - More fine-grained autonav reset control by setting enemy distance
  - Added autoequip functionality
  - Able to filter equipable outfits
  - Minimal view mode for the map
  - More visible map markers
  - More in-game tutorial-ish explanations for new mechanics as you encounter them
  - You can now favourite your ships to help with sorting
  - Redid boarding window to be more intuitive and easier to loot what you want
  - Paste support for input stuff
  - Translation completion status is shown in the options
- New locations
  - Added gambling resort "Minerva Station"
  - Revamped and improved some existing locations
  - Several new planets and systems
- 40 New missions
  - Challenge adversaries in the Crimson Gauntlet
  - Follow happenings on "Minerva Station"
  - Invade the frontier with the Dvaered
  - Ship enthusiast quiz
  - Deliver fancy contraband all over the universe
  - Raid trader convoys
  - Rescue derelict crew
  - Small early game tutorial-ish campaign
  - Neutral campaign to transform the universe
  - Help the Za'lek do particle physics
  - Meow
- New translation(s) in progress: Czech, French, Korean, Portuguese, and Japanese
- Engine Changes
  - Added an optimizer to improve automatic outfitting choices
  - A ton of new ship stat attributes have been added
  - Support for Lua-based hooks in Outfits for complex behaviours
  - Support for post-processing shaders
  - Added rendering and update hooks in the Lua API
  - Added image format support beyond PNG (notably WebP)
  - Support for arbitrary ship display classes
  - Game data now handled by PhysicsFS, allowing for multiple sources and easier modding
  - Meson is now the only build system, and development builds can integrate all assets/translations without being installed
  - Fonts now use distance fields and much better in many cases
  - Improved how Lua was being loaded
  - Added library that supports lots of Love2D API in Naev
  - Added Visual Novel library
  - Added card games
  - Added dynamic factions
  - Added dynamic commodities
  - Lua support for advanced sound effects
  - Most markers and indicators use signed distance functions now
  - Internally using linear colourspace
  - Faction presence computed with base and bonus values
  - Virtual assets have been redone and are more flexible than before
  - Point value system for ships to help with presence and other things
  - Support for shipstats at a system level
  - Initial support for 3D models
  - Proper support for line breaks in most languages
  - Most objects (ships, planets, etc.) have tags that can be used from Lua
  - Lots of optimization
0.8.2
- Gameplay
  - Fixed duplicate rewards from pirate ship-stealing missions. (Sorry.)
  - Fixed the Advanced Nebula Research mission's failure condition in case you don't stick with the transport ship. (Sorry.)
  - Fixed the "The one with the Runaway" mission so the captured drone doesn't appear back in space
- Engine
  - Fixed a bug loading games with short (1-character) names
  - Tweaked chances of seeing Spaceport Bar missions
  - Updated German translation
  - Fixed "configure" script when the system has a "cxsparse" library and no "csparse"
  - Fixed source .tar.gz so ./configure is immediately usable again. (Note: 0.9.x will use Meson for builds.)
0.8.1
- Gameplay
  - Lowered large ships' time constant (renamed from time dilation) by 50% of the deviation from 100%
  - Tweaked Za'lek ships' stats and outfit slot behavior to match expectations
- Engine
  - Restored macOS support. (Catalina users will have to bypass Gatekeeper: See https://github.com/naev/naev/wiki/FAQ for details.)
  - Fixed a crash-loop when the "saves" folder gets populated by Steam data (or other files) and no Naev save files
  - Fixed intermittent error messages about the "Lua Spawn script for faction 'Trader'"
  - Fixed rare/potential bugs in font and save-file code
  - Fixed crash when navigating landing screens with the tab key
  - Updated German translation
  - Improved text in minor ways
0.8.0
- Gameplay
  - Overhaul of the interface to be more sleek and functional
    - Interface is much more slick
    - Dark theme to be more consistent with space
    - Font uses outlines to be more readable
  - New map overlay with adjustable opacity
  - Added rarity indicator to ships and outfits
  - Changed fonts
  - Indicate non-common NPC with exclamation marks
  - Added accessory slot and unique accessory outfits as mission rewards
  - Simple economy model implemented with map visualizations
  - Added travelling merchant who sells unique items
  - Made missiles and fighter bays reload while in space
  - Modified the balancing of missiles
  - Added asteroids and mining
  - Improved player GUI
  - Brushed GUI is now the default
  - Improved and fixed escort system
  - Made Pirates and FLF spawn in a fairer way
  - Made time pass at different rates for different ships ("Time Dilation")
  - Made piracy missions available from any Independent or black market planet
  - Substantially increased pay for unique missions (10x in most cases)
  - Made references to the player gender-neutral
  - Made combat music vary from faction to faction
  - Made it so AI ships spawn with cargo
  - Improved AI behaviours
  - Nerfed Quicksilver
  - Added the ability to buy "fake IDs" from pirate strongholds
  - Made jammers into activated outfits that increase cloaking
  - Added Soromid organic ships that level up organs
  - Improved and expanded NPC portraits
  - Commodities can be sold/bought everywhere
  - Added a "slow mode", which runs the game at half speed (like an easy mode)
  - Added a ship log which records events
  - Added a "system map" which displays information about known remote planets
  - Added support for giving commands to individual escorts
  - New intro images replacing old placeholders
  - Increased pirate name variety for bounty missions
  - Ships now travel with you automatically for free, as with outfits
  - Added map decorators showing locations of factions and the Nebula
  - Added a dogfight aiming helper
  - More music
  - New and/or improved missions
    - New Za'lek mini-campaign
    - Completed the FLF campaign
    - Fixed up the Collective campaign
    - Improved the Shark (Nexus Shipyards) campaign
    - Improved the Dvaered anti-FLF campaign
    - Added and improved piracy missions
    - New minor Soromid campaign, "Coming Out"
    - New tutorial mission at the start of a new game
    - Various newly added and improved generic missions
- Engine
  - Support for compilation with Meson
  - HiDPI-awareness
  - Support for translations
  - Added shaders to speed up and improve graphics
  - Added support for non-ascii direct character input
  - Added support for map decorators
  - Removed support for Lua 5.0
  - Removed support for SDL 1, only SDL 2 is supported
  - Added support for translating
  - Made the OSD compact itself to avoid showing redundant information
  - Made Autonav able to follow ships
  - Consolidated the effects of cloaking and jammers under cloaking
  - Added workaround for ALSOFT buggy version that crashes
  - Added a polygon-based collision algorithm
  - Added some symbols for partial colorblind accessibility
  - Support #include in shaders
  - Multiple font support
  - Many bugfixes

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