Welcome Starchasers! Demo patch 2.0 is another step forward towards a stable release candidate, and to that end contains lots of new goodies and things to try out, including mod support and across-the-board fixes. Those who have worked their way through the game's campaign missions and quests will find there's not TOO much new content there, but still lots of things to experience. As always, be sure to note the known issues section before moving forward.

KNOWN ISSUES

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

NEW CONTENT & FEATURES

• New UI effects.
• New on-station effects such as traffic flying by.
• New icons for the Us, those loveable zombie mushrooms.
• Modding support for gameplay changes (PC only at the moment). Included is a small demonstration mod.
• Over 100 new storm hazards and minibosses.
• Tons new hotkey shortcuts for things like dialogue and hardpoints.
• Visual overhaul of ship buffs.
• New cargo collection mechanics including physical pickups and single-item pick… upping.
• Added UI indicators to stations.
• New proper behaviors for spacetrains and space snakes.
• New graphics and gameplay enhancements for automated drones.

CHANGES & BUGFIXES

• Fixed collider issues on ships.
• Added full destruction to capitalships.
• The game now forces players to sign a waiver if they don’t do the tutorial.
• Tutorial simulation now works, actually.
• Fixed some issues where quests couldn’t complete.
• Rebalanced some prices and station timings to better fit the game.
• Fixed various issues in the “Between Spaces” quest to make the boss more challenging and his attacks work better.
• Fixed issues where party members couldn’t be summoned in.
• Fixed various minor UI issues relating to trading.
• Fixed various smaller issues relating to things like combat and NPCs not dying.