Welcome starchasers! Demo 2.25 is mostly a series of bugfixes, but there's a fair amount of new features and new content here. Check out the full changelog below, and as always be wary of known issues.

KNOWN ISSUES

• Interior detailing and colliders to prevent falls on a majority of stations are not in.
• Voice acting is currently unimplemented, unbalanced, or placeholder for several quests and dialogue lines.
• Joystick and controller support vestigial and more or less not implemented and having a controller plugged in can introduce weirdness.
• Cockpit textures are unimplemented. 
• Several large filesizes are currently uncompressed and unoptimized.
• Trading in ships may have a UI mismatch between ammunition counts on a ship and the actual ammunition. 

NEW CONTENT & FEATURES

• The abyssdrive. At top speed in highengines you can charge an even more powerful, even faster version of it. Be wary, it can’t be used too close to gravitational bodies, 
• Planet Vauldric now has a trading center. No more buying chorm off the streets from a shady figure, now you can do it out in the open like a proper member of society.
• NPC loadout randomization. You’ll find NPCs have a habit of using different attacks, including missiles, mines, better thrusters, more guns, etc.
• Automatic targeting! Killing an enemy in battle will automatically switch you to your next closest target.
• Distant horrible objects in storms are now animated. 
• Jump holes now distort the camera when near them. 
• The in-game manual is now implemented, along with full videos for all topics!
• Musical stings for leveling up, completing campaigns, defeating bosses, defeating storms, and more.
• You can now access the storage menu from the cargo trader’s menu, on stations.

CHANGES & BUGFIXES

• Fixed black screens and softlocks related to taking on new missions.
• Fixed issue where starting a new game aftering having quit to the main menu could cause a crash.
• Rebalances of countermeasures, mines, and autoturrets.
• Autoturrets can now take down incoming projectiles.
• Heavy equipment now displays in full its stats, damage, etc.
• In-game graphics options, such as FXAA, resolution, run in background, and more, all work properly.
• Fixed issue where certain effects weren’t getting colored by the customization system.
• Minimine is now an animated pet.
• Resized several equipment pieces on your ship to better fit it.
• Fixed issues with NPC avoidance and infinite idling. 
• Fixed several issues with player autopilot avoidance. 
• Fixed issues with shadow rendering in various places.
• Fixed issues where certain weapons platforms couldn’t die.
• There is now a slight autolock when emerging from a laneline. It can be overridden, if you so choose.
• Fixed issues where some equipment didn’t report every stat it had.
• Fixed price mismatch issues between the trading UI and the money readout UI.
• Fixed issue where you could buy too many or too few hull webbing units, shield caches, and ammunition.
• Ship headlights now illuminate a much wider area.
• Leaving a conversation early will now piss off any ship if it’s a demanding conversation.
• Added options for eye adaption and disabling different kinds of spacedust.
• Fixed several saving and UI issues relating to destroying storms.
• Fixed issues where several player stats, including garage size, weren’t saving.