ΔV: Rings of Saturn News

0.486.25 - Displayed Aspect

Fixed some lighting glitches on Enceladus station, with some of the spotlights being pointed in a wrong direction.
Added population to the docking ring.
When your ship is damaged, you’ll now see the repair crew fixing it on the Enceladus station.
Mystery music will fade away to normal background sound once you discover the mystery in question. This changes the music - and the blue visual cue - around frequently-visited discoveries, such as habitats and moonlets.
Mystery music will now trigger in more weird encounters, making them easier to spot.
Visual glitches from overheated computers are now less pronounced when your computer is barely damaged.
Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage devices will now switch from charging to discharge much quicker and will be able to power a highly-demanding hardware even if you don’t have a large ultracapacitor array to back up the peak usage.
When perceived flow of time changes the sound effect will have lowered pitch now.
Improved gamepad and keyboard controls in Enceladus station. You won’t be able to accidentally close your menu by pressing left direction on your keyboard or d-pad.
When you exited the Crew menu using gamepad or keyboard, focus was lost on the main Enceladus menu.
Improved performance of LIDAR rendering.
Some of the pirates you could encounter, defeat and salvage had ships with turbines and ultracapacitors that were not available in the hardware menu, making it impossible to sell them.
Improved fullscreen, window and borderless window handling on Linux systems. The window should now respect all window manager configurations and toolbars.
Improved performance of window scaling when in windowed mode.
Fixed an aspect ratio scaling bug that caused the game to overflow the screen on thin vertical monitors. Game now supports a full range of monitors from 4:1 to 1:4 aspect ratios.
When you lose a crewmember during ringdive, the appropriate OMS screen reflection will be updated accordingly.

0.484.18 - Folding Space

When you open your OMS screen after receiving a new message, the comms window won’t scroll from the very beginning.
Income and expenses during ringdive now have separate positions in the ship logs.
Improved B8 Claim Beacon’s autopilots so they make better use of their thrusters and reaction wheels.
Adjusted Eagle Prospector’s cargo baffle spring stiffness to make it easier to ingest low-density ore.
In rare circumstances, objects that were not supposed to could follow you through an astrogation jump.
Gamepad controls of the autopilot did not work if you explicitly selected the gamepad as an input, but they worked fine with auto-selection.
Some of the buttons were skipped when you navigated the settings menu with a gamepad or keyboard.
When switching the control scheme from keyboard + mouse to gamepad while your control settings are open, the focus will adjust to a correct widget.

0.484.13 - Entangled Telecomunication

The comms window will now always scroll all the way down when you receive a message, so you won’t miss any reply options.
You can now scroll your comms window with analogue gamepad controls.
When you collect an ore chunk you were targetting with your autopilot, your ship will continue on the same trajectory it was following before interception, conserving propellant.
Gamepad controls for EI1337 autonomic autopilot now work the same way as for other autopilots.
When you complete a crew quest that involves finding a family member and your crewmember survives the encounter, he won’t be asking ships if they have seen them anymore.
Fixed a race condition that could sometimes cause the game to hang up when switching from Enceladus to Rings and back, preventing you from either leaving the station or returning to it.
Dismissing your crewmember could cause your game to crash.
Added “bonus content” button when bonus content is available.
Fixed a number of typos.

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0.484.8 - Continuous Variety

Improved gamepad controls. You now have better autopilot aiming, a brand new gamepad controls screen in settings, autopilot aiming assist and both relative and absolute control schemes.
Equipment won’t be targeted by your gamepad targeting beam anymore.
You can now pan the screen with your right analogue stick on your gamepad.
Sliders in the tuning menu can now be controlled with analogue sticks on your gamepad.
Updated the tutorial with new gamepad controls.
Habitats are less likely to turn their point-defence weapons on you for minor infractions.
Ships that use microwave emitters are quicker to disengage now.
Processed cargo on the dive summary screen is now attributed to your ship.
“Space Western” mood and soundtrack are now more common.
Power and reactive mass consumption, as well as thermal damage of thrusters and torches with a significant wind-up time, will scale during the ignition appropriately.
Fixed a bug that could result in some of the achievements to unlock prematurely.
Anomalies and events won’t appear on the very rim of the rings, in regions where your autopilot could take over and take you back to the station.
Obonto habitats always greeted you with trading dialogue when you docked, even if you did not agree to trade.
Relative crew skill levels on the “Hire Crew” tab will update when you put people on and off active duty.
Updated the translations.