ΔV: Rings of Saturn News

• Improved performance for background rock generators.
  
• Fixed large lag spikes when the game changed from rings to station and upon loading save.
  
• Trading with habitat will now improve their disposition towards you.
  
• New quest options and dialogue choices when interacting with miners and space habitats.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused some derelict ships not be marked as a legitimate salvage and not thus transferred to the player.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused build-in EMP shielding to underperform. Cothon 212 now has the EMP shield level as advertised.
  
• When you bought a brand new ship and immediately sold it back, it was listed twice in the Dealer menu.
  
• Added additional check for “Full House” achievement, so you get it whenever you have a full crew on-board, not only when you just hired someone. This makes it possible to get that achievement when switching to a smaller ship.
  
• Tuned physics settings for very small objects to prevent them from passing through the hull of your ship.
  
• Translation updates.
  

Today we present another interview with a game developer! We had a chat with Kodera Software, creator of the hard sci-fi ΔV: Rings of Saturn which is available in Early Access.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/05/an-interview-with-kodera-software-creator-of-the-hard-sci-fi-dv-rings-of-saturn

• Right-clicking on an invalid object with a guiding drone installed will still rotate your ship.
  
• Gravimetric drone now has a visual scale for readouts displayed.
  
• Extra achievement.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused your launch sequence to count as a ring dive in ship logs.
  
• When you rescue a ship that is not abandoned, you get a monetary reward.
  
• Changed the visual cues for hearing impaired players to be both more subtle in appearance and hopefully more obvious what they represent.
  
• Number of stability improvements in thread-handling code.
  
• Changed a number of quests to be more predictable in their outcome.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused quest events near derelict ships to not trigger, locking out certain crew tales.
  
• Fixed warning levels for low ΔV on Eagle Prospector hud, which were set too high for Saturn’s rings.
  
• Restarting your computer will now reset all adaptive autopilot parameters to their default values.
  
• Adaptive autopilot modes now take more samples and are more difficult to confuse with anomalous cargo shifts.
  
• Changed the way crew quests are handled to ensure that everybody on your crew has his quest.
  
• Audio fixes - fixing audio stuttering and clipping on a couple of occasions.
  
• Fixed some visual glitches in the upgrade window.
  
• Updated translations.
  

• Claim beacons work again.
  
• Expanded one of crew quests with more interaction options.
  
• Changed autopilot disengagement protocol after you destroy a rock you targeted to be the same as if you caught it - you continue on the same course.
  
• Fixed wrong faces being displayed in some dialogues.
  
• Re-worded some of the ship and equipment descriptions.
  

• Catching an autopilot target with a salvage manipulator will use the same disengagement protocol as when acquiring cargo, making you move at the same velocity you were moving before intercept.
  
• Salvage manipulator was showing through clouds of dust and explosions.
  
• Drone systems will now lock targets only when they are actively acting upon them. This allows other drone systems or the manipulator to pick up more targets.
  
• Racing crew will keep away from the edge and won’t approach miners as often as they did.
  
• Salvage manipulator is much better at handling light items.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused salvage manipulators to try and catch parts on ships (excavators, reactors, docking clamps). Ships held this way were not counted as a legitimate salvage and in some cases could cause a crash when you returned to the station.