ΔV: Rings of Saturn News

This release introduces new main drives that you can fit into your ship, together with adequate power upgrades for your reactor. I took the opportunity to take a good look on all the rocket science in the game and fixed some values that were not realistic enough. Finally, the conservation of energy constrain is now in effect in whole game, so it can no-longer inadvertently break that. That required some ship redesign to give them enough power and cooling capacity to handle the new environment.
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Changelog:

• You can now upgrade torch (the main drive) of your ship. There are 3 new drives to choose from.
  
• You can install additional fuel rods in your ship to keep up with demand of high-tech engines.
  
• Added pressure simulation to rocket plumes.
  
• Mineral market will now experience long-time price fluctuations, making trading and investment more exciting.
  
• Conservation of Energy is now enforced on engine level. Rebalanced all the ships and equipment to strictly adhere to that.
  
• Significant performance improvements.
  
• Improved ringshadow visuals.
  
• Fixed bug in ring map that caused some regions to have a unreasonably high asteroid density.
  
• Fixed bugs in AI support behaviour.
  
• Fixed a bug causing logs to disappear when you had lots of them.
  
• Fixed a bug in autopilot that prevented flight backwards.
  
• Fixed bugs in smart camera that caused it to behave not-so-smart at times.
  
• Flame will no-longer shine through the asteroid.
  
• Added Korean translation.
  

This is a content expansion release. It adds whole new type of upgrades - the Mineral Processing Units, which are able to break-up your cargo when in-ring, store them efficiently and reclaim remass for deeper dives.

The effects of explosions and asteroid fragmentation got complete overhaul. You will see much more dust from seismic impacts, and high-energy kinetic strike don't look like balls of fire anymore. As a welcome side-effect, performance increase was reported on many machines.

Changelog:

• Added Mineral Processing Unit upgrades.
  
• Improved asteroid explosion and fragmentation visuals.
  
• Smart camera is now smarter and will adjust zoom factor when mining.
  
• You can now close OMS screen with both user-defined key and ESC.
  
• Updated power switch icon graphics on OMS to make them more obvious.
  
• Fine-tuned support AI behaviour.
  
• Updated translations.
  
• Fixed multiple typos.
  
• Improved performance.
  

This is a polishing release, improving some aspects of the game and fixing a bunch of bugs. Changes:

• Your funds are now displayed in the dialog screen.
  
• Added more dialog options and improved some of the dialogs.
  
• You can now be hired as a wingman.
  
• Re-balanced thermal reactor damage. It's easier now to overheat reactors with heat-based weapons.
  
• Fine-tuned visuals for high-resolution displays.
  
• Asteroids will now not appear out of nowhere when your camera is zoomed out.
  
• Fixed clicking sounds on game start.
  
• Performance improvements.
  

This release adds new category of upgrades - the disposable nanodrone systems. You can outfit your system with fabricator of laser-powered swarms of palm sized devices that will autonomously perform various tasks.

Disposable nanodrone is a palm-sized disposable device consisting of exchangeable tool-head and ablative laser propulsion system, powered remotely by ship-mounted laser. Drones are mass-produced and their propulsion system is destroyed during burns - they were never meant to come back to the ship. They achieve their tasks by virtue of launching in large, inexpensive swarms.

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The on-board drone fabricator unit mounts correct tool-heads, launches drones, tracks and powers them remotely with infrared laser array. Average lifetime of a launched drone never exceeds dozens of seconds.

Changelog:

• Added 3 nanodrone part storage upgrades.
  
• Added tugging nanodrone upgrade.
  
• Added maintenance nanodrone upgrade.
  
• Re-wrote and expanded some dialog trees.
  
• Updated translations.
  

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