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Paint your ships!

[h3]Version 0.55509181[/h3]
🎯 [Continuum Transmuter] The Dye Fragment has been added. It allows repainting a ship in a given color. Custom colors can be created by mixing dyes.
🎯 [Misc] Passive drones (e.g., Cloner T-1 drones) can now drop in variants that make them fixed at the front or back of the ship.
🎯 [Balancing] Tiny fighters (smaller than 50 meters in diameter) now have reduced hull similar to how larger ships have increased hull.
🎯 [UI] Auxiliary Item slots in the HUD now have appropriate icons for Passive Auxiliary Items.

Turbo drones!

[h3]Version 0.55509180[/h3]
🎯 [Skill] The Xinthu skill "Turbo Drones" [2:3] has been added. This skill increases the speed of all drones with up to 300%.
🎯 [Misc] Passive drones (e.g., Cloner T-1 drones) can now drop in a variant that stick to the side of the ship instead of circling it.
🎯 [UI] The item tooltip has been updated to describe if passive drones circle the ship or stick to its sides.
🎯 [Balancing] The Stationary Engine Effectiveness Multiplier has been revised to be twice as potent, last longer (30 seconds), give a 4x larger area of effect, and have lower cooldown (1 second).
🎯 [Balancing] The cooldowns of the Scanner Sensor and the Predictive Sensor have been reduced to 1 second.
🎯 [Balancing] The Xinthu skill "Quick Recovery" [2:2] now provides 5% bonus per level (up from 1%).
🎯 [Balancing] The Xinthu skill "Warp Plasma Generator Generator MK1" [2:3] has been moved to a higher tier [3:3]. It now also increases Warp Plasma based on % instead of fixed values.
🎯 [Balancing] The Xinthu skill "Warp Plasma Converter" [6:2] now requires 1 point in "Empowered Repair" (down from 5)
🎯 [Balancing] The cooldown of Passive Drone Auxiliary Items has been slightly reduced.

Misc update

[h3]Version 0.55509179[/h3]
🎯 [Act 3] All main quest dungeons have been enlarged.
🎯 [Act 3] The last boss in Act 3 has been revised.
🎯 [Act 2] A Continuum Transmuter has been added to Alpha-1 (station #1).
🎯 [Act 2] A Continuum Transmuter and a Storage has been added to Grandar (station #2).
🎯 [Act 2] A Continuum Transmuter and a Storage has been added to Dhmorrga Station (station #3).
🎯 [Balancing] The DPS of the Cloner T-2 drone has been increased by 50%.
🎯 [Balancing] Warp Plasma Shields now drain significantly less warp plasma. This statistic is now also improved with higher rarity.
🎯 [Balancing] Follow-type Active Auxiliary Items require 50% less warp plasma to keep up.
🎯 [Balancing] The Xinthu Skill "Protective Hull" [5:1] now provides 4% bonus per level (up from 1%).
🎯 [Balancing] The Xinthu Skill "Intense Repairs" [6:1] now requires 3 points in "Protective Hull" (down from 5).
🎯 [Misc] Updated the textures for doors in Act 3.
🎯 [Misc] Added a space key to the on-screen keyboard.
🎯 [Bugfix] Fixed a rendering bug in the line of sight shader that allowed to see through some walls when zoomed out really far (+ ~7000 sensor range).
🎯 [Bugfix] Fixed an error with the on-screen keyboard.
🎯 [Bugfix] Fixed a rendering bug in the map.

World UI scaling options, new sound effects, and a new Cloner T-2 drone

[h3]Version 0.55509178[/h3]
🎯 [UI] It is now possible to set how hull bars, cooldown bars and item names should scale along with camera zoom. These options are presented in the general options section in the main menu.
🎯 [Item] A new Auxiliary Drone Summoner Item called "Cloner T-2 Generator" has been added. This item summons a Cloner T-2 drone that is larger and stronger that the Cloner T-1 variant.
🎯 [Act 1] The third boss station has been enlarged by 50%. This should make it reasonable to traverse also with (small) frigates.
🎯 [SFX] A new sound effect has been added for when activating "scanning"-type sensors.
🎯 [SFX] The AI dialogue sound effect has been revised.
🎯 [SFX] The volume of the "ping" sound effect has been slightly reduced.
🎯 [Misc] The weapon for the Axiom load out has been changed.

Fixed a network bug regarding content loading

[h3]Version 0.55509177[/h3]
🎯 [Bugfix] Fixed a bug related to client content loading (when playing COOP).