ΔV: Rings of Saturn News

This is a minor release, polishing up the Enceladus Prime station and fixing some bugs. Changelog:

• New Enceladus Prime graphics and lighting.
  
• Fine-tuned docking arms to handle high-velocity approaches.
  
• Lidar screen will no-longer blind your pilot when there are many shiny contacts.
  
• Fixed a bug that could cause game to crash when you had a geologist aboard.
  
• Performance improvements for HUD.
  
• Made comms prompt more obvious.
  

This is a polishing patch, changing multiple small aspects of the game. Changelog:

• Game engine upgraded to latest stable version.
  
• Docking arms now take your velocity into account when performing docking sequence.
  
• Fine-tuned AI of Eagle Prospector.
  
• Updated translations.
  
• Changed lifepods so they won't break the excavator anymore.
  
• Added new crew faces.
  
• Helmets of the crew now reflect the station as they were supposed to.
  

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This is a bugfix release. Bugs fixed:

• Fine-tuned docking arms behaviour of the phage-class stations to accommodate heavier ships.
  
• Fixed a bug that could cause you to discover two very similar objects next to one-another.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused autopilot markers to be visible on Enceladus station.
  
• Stability improvements.
  

This release adds a brand new type of crew member to hire - an astrogator. Skilled in navigating the space, orbital mechanics and rings, an astrogator will keep a log of places of interests you discover, enable you to plot out-of-the-plane courses to get there quickly, and his keen understanding of how things move in space will enable him to highlight unusual contacts on your LIDAR.

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Changelog:

• New astrogator crew member you can hire.
  
• Additional story element you can encounter - the Phage-class station.
  
• Re-balanced the prices of some equipment.
  
• LIDAR screen has now greater range. Accuracy of Doppler-effect measurements greatly increased.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused camera to zoom out too far on Enceladus.
  
• Stability and performance improvements.