Between the Stars News

• A bug that added weapons to the inventory when the player visited the hangar or a shipyard has been solved.
  
• A bug that caused event items to not be awarded properly when the inventory was full has been solved. An item from the inventory is now sent to the stash to be able to be awarded the event item.
  
• The performance of the sound effect of the Gatling Gun of the Republic has been improved.
  

• A bug causing items to be outside their slots has been fixed.
  
• The brightness of the ship's engines has been reduced.
  
• A bug causing the health of the ship when loading a save has been fixed.
  
• Volumetric lighting effect on suns has been reduced, most noticeably on red suns.
  
• A bug that prevented the bug report text box from clearing after being sent has been fixed.
  
• New line is now allowed in bug reports.
  
• Debug logs have been added to the loading code to try to know the reason for crashes that some players suffer upon starting a game.
  

• We have added an option to invert the mouse axis. You can activate the option in Settings > Game.
  
• A bug that caused the first tablet event to trigger a second time has been fixed.
  
• We have added additional text to internal mission descriptions to make it clear they must be done inside the ship.
  
• A bug causing objectives to display wrongly when there were more than 4 missions has been patched.
  

• We've added a glowing indicator on the ship events button that appears on the right panel. This indicator will light up when there are new missions to do on your ship.
  
• Damage Absorber has been nerfed.
  
• A bug that impeded exit from Ship View for the first few seconds after switching views has been fixed.
  
• A bug causing issues in the event #183 (The antique shop) has been fixed.
  
• A bug that caused to not to lose the ancient tablet
  
• A bug in Planet View that made some planets blurry has been fixed.
  

Uncover the mysteries of the strange shipment onboard a derelict ship on a new secondary story line composed of 18 new events.


A new internal quest system was added. The ship's events view can be accessed by pressing "U". In future updates, past events will be adapted into this system.


A depth of field effect has been added to the station, planet, and ship views. It can be disabled in settings.






Event dialogue format was changed. Double quotes were eliminated and now all dialogue is in italics with a soft yellow hue. Also, crew members' names will be highlighted with the respective class colour.

• We've added a new secondary story line. This story line replaces the strange radio signal events (#49, #50, #51).
  
• We've added 18 new events.
  
• New attributes added: Exhausted and Irradiated.
  
• Two new objects and a character added.
  
• A new internal quest system was added. The ship's events view can be accessed by pressing "U". In future updates, past events will be adapted into this system.
  
• Event dialogue format was changed. Double quotes were eliminated and now all dialogue is in italics with a soft yellow hue.
  
• In event texts, crew members' names will be highlighted with the respective class colour.
  
• A depth of field effect has been added to the station, planet, and ship views. It can be disabled in settings.
  
• Ability hotkeys can now be reconfigured/rebound.
  
• A bug that played the music at launch when the music volume was zero has been fixed.
  
• A bug making ship markers blink with the quantum drive activated has been fixed.
  
• A visual glitch that appeared on asteroids in the planet view has been corrected.
  
• Many text mistakes have been fixed.