Time for another update!
We're proud to announce that the feature development for the Alliances update has finished! This means that we'll go into testing soon, after we did some internal testing as well.

The reason why this update took so long was that we had a lot of features that fit thematically into the update. There were just too many things that we wanted included in the update, so we thought "yeah, that one would be quite cool, too!" leading to a never-ending stream of cool ideas and features that we wanted to ship with the update, delaying it further and further.

We have all the most important features in and we've decided that now it's enough and we'll just ship it so you won't have to wait any longer. This also means that there are a few features that we initially wanted to include that didn't make it. But we'll release them in future updates.

These are the features (roughly) that will make it into the game with the update. A more detailed list of these will be posted with patch notes once the update goes live on the beta branch.

• Alliances, ie. player-founded factions, similar to guilds/clans in other games


• Steam Workshop support for ship and station models


• Co-Op ship steering of alliance ships


• Out-of-sector simulation for player ships and stations


• Improved server performance (less lag, less memory consumption)


• Whole Ship modification, ie. upgrading materials, scaling, rotating, modifying internal blocks


• UI improvements, searching on galaxy map, filtering in inventory