ΔV: Rings of Saturn News

This release is a content patch. Changes:

• You can now buy new thrusters for your ship.
  
• Added 4 new upgrades.
  
• Added 30 minutes of storyline, including a boss fight.
  
• NPC ships are equipped with new upgrades where appropriate.
  
• You can disable your thrusters in OMS now.
  
• Mining tools now highlight on OMS preview screen when in use.
  

This release improves artificial intelligence controlling the non-player ships. Changes:

• Faction will now look after it's members.
  
• Tow ships will now communicate and not try to grab disabled ships that are already towed.
  
• Ships now can register as cargo of bigger ships.
  
• Fixes in docking AI heuristics.
  
• Fixed a bug that could cause game to crash when encountering perfectly stationary object.
  
• Extended logs to cover areas that might be causing crashes.
  
• Ensured that there are no collisions during ring-dive cutscene.
  
• Fixed autopilot power / acceleration limiting in comfort mode.
  

This is enhancement and re-balance release. Changes:

• You can disable individual ship systems on OMS screen now.
  
• Reactor leaks re-balanced again.
  
• Game logs now contain FPS information, so we can pin-point performance issues better.
  
• Custom paint on AI ships will now show up correctly in game.
  
• Performance improvements in dense regions of the rings.
  

This is a content and story release. Changes:

• Additional 1 hour of story.
  
• New faction.
  
• AI ships can have custom paint now.
  
• Tuned the performance for multiple AI ships.
  
• AI ships can now have different skill levels.
  
• Fixed thruster exhaust gases - now they have proper energy and will push objects back as expected.
  

This is a polishing release. Changelog:

• Improved performance of in-game physics.
  
• Clarified parts of tutorial.
  
• MAD CERF can be armed now.