ΔV: Rings of Saturn News

• Fixed a bug that would cause the game to crash if you uninstalled your HUD completely and tried to use Astrogator, Pilot or Geologist tabs in OMS.
  
• Dynamic lighting on the preview of the gamepad control scheme in the settings was missing, making the gamepad difficult to read.
  
• An in-game reboot of Elon Interstellar Model E HUD caused it to re-appear much brighter than it was originally.
  
• Fixed a graphical glitch on the excavator of Elon Interstellar Model E ship.
  
• Updated translations - extended Spanish translation.
  
• Updated credits page.
  

[h3]Used ship import restrictions lifted[/h3]
Import restrictions have been lifted on a group of ship variants, following their completion of safety testing. Keep an eye out at dealerships across the system; new, specialized configurations of the Prospector, K37, and Cothon should be available soon.


[h3]Graphene superconducting coils breakthrough[/h3]
A new breakthrough in the graphene superconducting coil technology commonly used in superconducting magnetic energy storage systems allows the system to reach a much higher specific energy using a newly developed phase modulation technique. With the ability to dramatically increase SMES capacity through a software upgrade, manufacturers of most commercially available systems rushed to push out a firmware upgrade package unlocking the full capability of their systems.


[h3]Digital Mimas Halloween special concert[/h3]
With the conclusion of Digital Mimas’ latest Halloween special concert tour, their new song is now available for purchase over most electronic platforms. Sales are expected to reach record numbers for the band, following the success of the tour introducing the title.


[h3]Maintainance Logs[/h3]

• New ship variant: Mitsudaya-Starbus / Titan Heavy Industries Pelican Prospector.
  
• New ship variant: Rusatom-Antonoff / Triskellion-Armstrong KTA24.
  
• New ship variant: Conlido Cothon-217 “Bender”.
  
• Re-balanced Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage systems. Their capacity is now based on the latest estimations for graphene-based coils, effectively tripling their capacity. The charge/discharge behaviour now relies on the internal capacitor state rather than the power balance, making them more suitable to power high-draw appliances for prolonged periods. As a side effect, the new heuristics combined with increased capacity make them charge at a slower rate.
  
• Added intro animation when starting a new save.
  
• Additional soundtrack.
  
• Fixed a bug in the dynamic simulation range routines that caused them to not take into account asteroid simulations, only ship simulations. This improves performance in dense areas and will make the ships despawn further away, making events that rely on flying together with an NPC ship, like patrols or races, to be more consistent.
  
• Changed full-screen mode on OSX systems to not display docks or menu bars under any circumstances.
  
• Updated translations and credits screen.
  

• Changed the dive target selection screen gamepad controls. You can now pick the location with the right analogue stick, while the left one controls the sliders, making it consistent with other menus.
  
• The chat bubble comms reply prompt is now bigger and contains the button icon both on the Keyboard and Gamepad control schemes.
  
• The IFF sliders on the Pilot tab of OMS are now easier to control with the gamepad.
  
• Improved performance of some UI elements.
  
• Fixed a race condition that could cause the Settings menu to crash on some systems, occasionally preventing the game from being launched at all.
  
• NPC ships flying with nanodrone systems will now use them only on the ore they actually wish to collect.
  
• Nanodrone system simulation will now ignore geologist settings, as no geologists are present in the simulation.
  
• The pause menu will not be affected by auto-exposure. This makes the gamma slider helper image useful in-game.
  
• Updated translations
  
• Updated OSX engine version.
  
• The new OSX full-screen mode conforms to the OS full-screen convention.
  

• Button tooltips will now display when you play with a gamepad or keyboard alone.
  
• The new game parallel universe slider can now be quickly adjusted with your left gamepad stick.
  
• Fixed a bug that delayed the navigation in the Enceladus menu with the gamepad for 3 seconds after you pushed the first gamepad button.
  
• Fixed font used in some places for Ukrainian translation, which was missing some language-specific letters.
  

With the latest dV update, we added full translation to an additional language - Ukrainian. With a base English and our in-house Polish translations, this marks 3 fully supported languages, with multiple more on the made via community contributions.



Most of the ΔV’s translations are community contributions made by our players. With our development velocity, with new versions of the game coming out daily, this is the only way to ensure that we have up-to-date translations. Thank you!