• Unlocking ships in Hardcore Mode will now happen just by purchasing it, which will be saved without the need to quit the game.
  
• Cloaking Device now has a lower base energy cost, but causes the ship to not produce energy while it's active.
  
• Fixed bosses not spawning as frequent as intended.
  
• Fixed getting 'Indoctrinated' and 'Rebel' perks without the quest to accept/reject it.
  
• Fixed message "You cannot have more *some ability* than your character level." showing up when you are level 50.

• Docking in a station will now hide your ship, preventing it from being targeted or colliding with other ships. It will slowly regenerate your shields and energy (10% max energy/shield each second) instead of instantly charging both.
  
• Added option to jettison cargo item.
  
• Spaceship tooltip will now show if you already unlocked it or not.
  
• Stations are now stronger in hardcore mode to match AI spaceships, and slightly weaker in Relaxed Mode.
  
• Hardcore mode now has a slightly higher chance of acquiring higher quality loot.
  
• Jumpgate label now also shows the level of destination sector.
  
• 'Indoctrinated', 'White Collar' and 'Lone Wolf' perks are no longer acquired automatically, it will now prompt a quest for you to accept or reject it.
  
• When collecting loot with the inventory open, it will now try to select the same item after sorting occur.
  
• The bottom right log will now properly disappear or resize to not overlap other panels. This is only optimized for 16:9 aspect ratio resolutions or wider.
  
• Red Skull bellow level 5 will no longer use 'Hit and run' tactic.
  
• Fixed certain Perks being acquired in Relaxed mode without being previously unlocked in other modes. Although you can acquire and use any perk in Relaxed mode, you have to unlock most of them in other modes first.
  
• Fixed BUG that would cause enemies to inflict multiple damage impacts with a single projectile, which could cause instant kill.
  
• Fixed Hardcore frame on unlocked ship perks.
  
• Fixed ammo not being consumed right after being created by ammo replicator.

• Unlocking perks in hardcore mode are now distinguished from normal mode. Later on I might also add special bonuses.
  
• The spaceship density in sectors now better reflect what it says in the sector description (Population: Low, High, etc).
  
• Fixed a BUG in old saves that would prevent battle fleets to spawn.
  
• Fixed station turrets sometimes using much lower quality weapons (old saves: This will affect new stations only).

Greetings Commanders!

I’m happy to announce two new difficulty modes for the game: a “relaxed” mode and the “hardcore” one, with permanent death. I’m also introducing the Red Skull dreadnought, which is the big boy in the image above (cortesy of CGPitbull).
Other than that, I implemented several player requests (The "Buy X" button is finally here! lol) and a much welcome fix for those who were experiencing crashes.

Enjoy!

• Added two new game modes: Relaxed, where enemies are weaker, you have more cargo space and you can save anywhere; and Hardcore, where enemies are stronger, there is no manual save and has permanent death (if you die you lose your save).
  
• Added Red Skull Dreadnought: Cerberus.
  
• Several ship models received special bonuses, including a 20 weapon range bonus on the Dominance.
  
• Trade: Added "X" button where you can type how many items you want to Buy/Sell/Deposit/Load.
  
• Tutorial messages now pause the game until you click the Ok button. You can choose to turn this feature off.
  
• Reduced Red Skull presence in the starter sector.
  
• Each station turret is now independent and may attack a specific target, instead of every turret attacking the same enemy.
  
• Increased size of jumpgates and the syndicate docking bay.
  
• Reduced % Damage Resistance of some perks and armors in general.
  
• Titan weapon space reduced to 30 from 38.
  
• Increased weapon range bonus from ship class.
  
• Fixed "trail render artifacts", which was causing crashes on some machines.

Some requested updates, as well as new joystick setup and support for Simplified Chinese! :)

• Added item compare tool-tip for unique items (which you can only have one equipped) and spaceships.
  
• Joystick support (partial) has been improved with additional options. You can find the changes in Menu - Setup - Control. Make sure to use 'Restore Default' to get updated joystick layout.
  
• Added controller selection screen when starting a new game.
  
• 'Load All' button will now fill ship cargo instead of trying to load everything.
  
• You can now equip/unequip items with shift + left click and sell with shift + right click.
  
• Added localization: Simplified Chinese, by Teh Eng Hee.
  
• Changed Lithium rarity to 3 (blue), Copper to 2 (green) and Platinum to 4 (purple).

• Fixed game not loading because of corrupted user files (caused by a system crash, cheating, etc).

• Added Partial Joystick Support. You can control the ship and use some commands only with the joystick, but you still need keyboard and mouse for some actions like galaxy map, selecting skill points, trading, ship setup, etc. Until I add a couple more features, this will not be officially supported and therefore not appear in the Store Page.
  
• Removed ship class restriction for Warp Drives.
  
• Fixed ship collision during "Warp In" animations.
  
• Improved spawn position calculations.
  
• Added button to change steering mode in the left panel.

• Added new Setup options: graphics quality preset, resolution, antialiasing, fullscreen and projectile lights toggle.
  
• Added equipment: 'Cargo Expansion Module', 'Large Expansion Module' and 'Syndicate Expansion Module'.
  
• Weapon stats now always include bonuses from the character and current spaceship.
  
• Fixed repairing other ships counting as damage, and therefore resulting in reputation loss.
  
• Fixed mouse cursor going off-screen in some resolutions.
  
• The Log Panel (bottom right) is now hidden when the interface is open.

• Added "Warp In" animation for AI ships.
  
• Improved loot calculations (again) to diversify it more.
  
• Inventory now properly refresh if you pick an item while it is open, or when you scrap something.
  
• Trade goods in your cargo are now properly sorted.
  
• Fixed energy generation calculations.
  
• Crafting Modifiers are now sorted after added.
  
• Weapon name will no longer be reset after you craft a weapon.
  
• Drones max distance increased, based on it's owner ship size.

• Increased (and somewhat fixed) chance of high quality loot, specially from high level bosses.
  
• Reduced number of basic ore requested on quests.
  
• Item level is now also shown for equipment, not only tech level.
  
• Increased time between attacks against the player from enemy factions.
  
• You can no longer craft weapons without a weapon core, using only a booster.
  
• Crafted weapons have 2% less heat generation per Core added (max 50%).
  
• Stations will no longer have Indium and Lithium metals in stock by default.
  
• Civilian stations will properly appear as red in the minimap if the player is 'Marauder'.

Greetings Commanders!

After being highly requested, a complete key rebind feature has been added to the game. It has 2 keyboard configurations by default, one standard for WASD and an alternative for Arrow keys. Currently it only partially supports joysticks, as some special features (like a crosshair for aiming without mouse) needs to be implemented, but it is already playable with it.

I would also like to mention that the alternate control system (Steering Mode), which lets you steer the ship with A and D instead of the mouse, is also operational. You can swap between both modes using Ctrl by default and see what you like the most.
When in Mouse Steering, you have the advantage of precise aiming for fixed weapons and you can do “barrel rolls”, but the ship will always turn towards the mouse. While in Keyboard Steering, mouse only controls turret aiming, and the ship will not turn unless with A and D.
Basically I would say steering with mouse is better for small ships while bigger ones could benefit from Keyboard mode, specially if you are a Dominance owner =)

Enjoy!
- Laious