This is a larger than average update with lots of changes as we get close to Early Access release.

Release Notes:

• New story lines
  
• New factions
  
• New anomalies, conversations, discoveries
  
• New techs
  
• New weapons, weapon variants
  
• Additional music tracks
  
• Changes to initial wormhole event
  
• Mission changes, updates
  
• Increase resource reward scale
  
• Initial achievement set (see known issues, below)
  
• Command crew portraits
  
• Home gateway marker
  
• Dev tool improvements
  
• New mission actions, conditions
  
• Item pickup notification colors
  
• Faction damage modifiers
  
• Improve analytics
  
• Additional settings:
  • Speed dust
    
  • Lens flare on/off
    
  • Heading vector
    
  • Color blind thermal
  
  
• Fixed soft-lock bug due to save timing with planet surveys
  
• Misc bug fixes from player feedback, error logs
  

Known issues:

• Game freezes for several seconds when loading new stories (e.g., start of exploration mission)
  
• Due to how Steam injects the game id, achievements are not triggering in the playtest build