Hi,

For this patch I have some extra content and fixes, let's go in detail:

New Content:

New Player ship: Retrofitted Research Ship.

This ship starts with low hull points and weak weapons but to compensate has a Shield Array and Advanced Scanner. It also has a Techno Sorcerer and a few mercenaries as its initial crew.

New Quests and Encounters:

I added 3 new quests to add a bit more variety:

• Infestation: deal with a Xenobeast infestation in a civilian station of the Abandoned Systems.

• Unruly Species: eliminate Krell'Sha rebels in an alien station of the Alien Diaspora.

• CDF Incursion: deal with an incursion of the Colonial Defense Force into pirate space.

I also added 2 new random encounters:

• Civilian Starliner: deal with a civilian starliner's escort ships to get some quick cash.

• Minefield: explore a dangerous minefield to see what its guarding.

Fixes and Minor Changes:

• Now walls and some big obstacles become transparent when you hover them with the mouse for a clearer view.

• Added achievement for finishing the main quest with the new retrofitted research ship.

• Now hangar and medbay services costs are affected by faction reputation.

• Added burn effect to barrel explosions.

• Reduced cost of Target Spotting skill to 1 AP.

• Fix to hull damage sound not working during dialogue encounters in Star Map.

• Changed initial camera rotation in combat missions.

• Added 4 new music clips for exploration and combat.

• Fixed an issue where sometimes the trail of a sniper shot wouldn't be visible.

• Fixed wrong values and description for "Crippling Arm Injury" Trait.

• Now Medbay (ship upgrade) only cures two soldiers at a time.

• Fixed a minor issue where there's a visible tooltip for the player's ship when the ship is not visible in the star map.

• Fix to health bars in Victory Panel being too big for their container when soldiers have too much HP.

• Configured a few more cover elements as destructible.

• Reordered some quests so they make more sense in the systems they spawn.

• Fixed reputation set to zero for Abandoned Systems faction.

That's it for now, I have more content (especially quests) planned and polishing/bug fixing for the next patches. Like I said before, we are in the last stretch of Early Access so if you have any feedback you are welcome to share it before the launch.

Regards,

Jorge