Welcome starchasers, one and all, to the release of our latest space-age high-tech stormed-up demo for Underspace. This represents the first steps towards a release build, mainly in that it's more focused on polish than content additions. Still, it comes with a huge amount of quality of life changes and bugfixes. 

As always, you can join your fellow spacers and get more moment-to-moment updates on our Discord. Onto the patch notes!

KNOWN ISSUES

• Interior models for ships, stations, and planets, are currently untextured or unimplemented.
• Voice acting is currently unimplemented.
• Some ships may be missing dodge graphics and painting maps.
• Joystick and controller support vestigial and more or less not implemented and having a controller plugged in can introduce weirdness.

NEW CONTENT & FEATURES

• All flyable ships now possess the ability to dodge! Double tap a strafe directional key to do this. Note that dodging consumes thrust charge, with better thrusters able to consume less.
• More reliable navigational elements added for the UI.
• Hazard UI now shows the level of storm you’re at, the amount of radiation damage you’re taking, and the number of missiles/mines targeting you.
• Full overhaul of the ship painting and decal system. 
• Garages are now marked when close to them, and the player can swap to any ship at any shipyard.
• New explosions for larger ships, such as Doomsdayer gunboats and Dronic Kings.
• New textures and graphics for hangars, missiles, drones, gates, enemies, and more.
• Starchaser chapters can be joined at various data centers and chapterhouses!
• Taxi services are now available on planet Vauldric!
• More powerful ship scanners can detect and display hazards, animals, mimics, and more!
• Added a chase AI system: Entering formation with hostile targets will cause your autopilot to automatically follow them!

CHANGES & BUGFIXES

• Rebalanced NPCs during initial campaign missions to be easier for the player.
• Rebalanced prices of various equipment to reflect expected player strengths and cost.
• Fixed issues with various quests and missions not completing.
• Recoded billboard shaders to be much more readable.
• Pirate gunboats have much better colliders.
• Fixed issue where Karbelle’s quests couldn’t be completed.
• Fixed issue where NPCs would randomly decide to become immortal.
• Fixed issue where entering lanelines at weird angles would cause similarly weird effects.
• Tutorial popups during the initial campaign mission are much more in-depth.
• Various wrecked ships have had their UVs fixed.
• Fixed issues where some console commands didn’t work.
• Rebalanced how damage for beam weapons is calculated, making them much more forgiving and more accurate.
• Fixed issue where fog transitions in nebulas, particularly with storms, were very sudden.
• Reduced overall filesizes of the game and its demos.
• Improved NPC following code.
• Bandits now automatically become hostile after a certain point during highway robberies. 
• Fixed issue where ships couldn’t be properly restocked.
• Inventory UI now reflects various elements: including class of equipment equipped, and max amount of repair items or ammunition allowed.
• Fixed a few duplication exploits via the storage system.
• Fixed several mislabelled service stations.
• Added new dialogue for beating several very high level enemies in a quest.
• And many more bugfixes.