ΔV: Rings of Saturn News

• VRAM optimizations lower the video ram requirements from 1.8GB down to 900MB. This solves performance and stability problems on cards that have 2GB of video ram or less, such as bad framerate and game freezes on NVidia GTX 7xx cards.
  
• Changed the visuals of background ring rocks, making them darker and easier distinguishable from the background.
  
• Improved physics accuracy to eliminate ore rocks phasing through ship hulls sometimes.
  
• You now have a wider range of tuning for EIAA1337 autopilot settings.
  
• Obonto stations can now dock - with some trouble - Cothon-212.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused a totally damaged part to be listed with the price of brand new one in upgrades.
  
• Option to replace a part in the repairs menu will now give you a discount for sale of your old, damaged part.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused repairs not to be immediately reflected in the upgrade menu.
  
• You can now click on the ship name in the dealer menu to bring up a preview.
  
• Removed broken Eagle Prospector configurations that listed it with high-stress hardpoint. If you own such a ship the harpoint will be still listed, but you can safely ignore it, as it doesn’t do a thing.
  
• Buying and selling a ship won’t cause it to appear in the dealer twice anymore.
  
• Fixed spawning bug that could cause ore to intersect hull when you bumped into medium-sized asteroid.
  

• Hitting a enemy excavator with mass-driver bullet is now a hostile act.
  
• Railgun projectiles will not ricochet so often now.
  
• Cargo containers and claim beacons won't hit against your hull during a cutscene anymore.
  
• Fixed a bug in ship names that caused your initial ship name to change sometimes. As a side effect, you might experience it changing name after this upgrade. Your other ships should not be affected.
  
• Ship names are now persistent across the games.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused mass-driver hit animation to play at edge of screen even if bullet was long gone.
  
• Point Defense Microwave Generator won't hit your own excavators anymore.
  

• New fully playable ship: Conlido RVM Cothon-212.
  
• New HUD: The HAL lifepod dashboard.
  
• Fixes to tutorial: I made conditions for the tutorial to proceed to be more consistent if you don’t play along with Enceladus’ requests.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused encounters with multiple ships to have a chance for objects to spawn on top of each-other, locking them up and dealing heavy damage.
  
• You can now politely refuse being hired as a wingman.
  
• Docking arm at Enceladus will exert less torque now and not shake your ship violently.
  
• When installing smaller storage compartments or propellant tanks, ammunition, propellant or drones that exceed the capacity are now lost once you launch for the rings.
  
• Fixed a number of typos.
  
• Improved performance of ship dealer screen.
  
• Fixed a bug that made an extra save slot gained from installing free “Tales from the Rings” DLC unreachable.
  
• Changed “optimize transit costs” to “allow target drift” on the dive target select screen, which has a similar effect but is much easier to understand.
  
• Added gimbal information to Z-Axial Pinch drives.
  

Get ready to explore space, mine some rocks and lose yourself in the hard sci-fi game ΔV: Rings of Saturn which just expanded the demo in a very big way.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/04/dv-rings-of-saturn-now-gives-the-full-game-in-the-demo-with-one-catch

• Massdriver bullets fired at point-blank range tended to survive the impacts much more often than they should be.
  
• Fixed a number of typos in transactions.
  
• Enabled mip-mapping for background ring debris, so they don’t twinkle so much when you are zoomed out and they are just specks of dust.