Naev News

It so happens that instead of having things cool down and prepare for the release, development has instead accelerated with 1473 commits from the previous beta. For this reason, we are going to do a final beta for 0.8.0, aiming to release full 0.8.0 by the end of this year. We would like to say that we don’t anticipate too many issues with this beta, but given the amount of code changed anything can happen. For this reason, please try it and find any issues, please report them at the issue tracker. Discussion about the game can also be had on Discord (discord invite).

Note that to try this beta you have to opt into the beta from the game property menu.

Some changes from 0.8.0-beta.3:

• Overhaul of the interface to be more sleek and functional
  
• Interface is much more slick with a dark theme to be more consistent with space
  
• New map overlay with adjustable opacity
  
• Improved AI behaviours
  
• Nerfed Quicksilver
  
• New Za’lek mini-campaign
  
• HiDPI-awareness
  
• Support for translation
  
• Support for compilation with Meson
  
• Many bugfixes
  

We have some exciting news for you all. First of all, we have made the game soundtrack publicly available as a steam soundtrack. This should be accessible from the store page. These are all songs included in the base game, but just bundled differently for easier listening.

Next, as we work hard on the new 0.8.0 version with a lot of changes, we have automated the entire system so that now betas and nightly builds are available on steam! You will have to right click on the game in your library and opt-in to either the beta or the nightly. The beta will consist of the latest manually tagged beta release, while the nightly is built every night using the latest source code! Due to this, expect to find bugs and issues in both. That said, we would love to hear about the issues you encounter and thoughts about some of the new mechanics.

If you try either the beta or the nightly and find any issues, please report them at the issue tracker. Discussion about the game can also be had on Discord (discord invite).