Naev (tuxdb.com)

Naev is a game about space exploration, trade and combat. Players travel the galaxy and earn money by trading, fighting and performing missions.
Main features:

A large galaxy with hundreds of planets and moons to explore.
Real-time, semi-Newtonian gameplay reminiscent of the Escape Velocity games.
Many different ships to buy and pilot, and many ways to customize each of them.
Multiple factions, each with unique ship designs and personalities.
Open-source, meaning ultimate freedom of modding.

Currently Naev is a playable game, but it is far from being a complete one. To further mature the game, we, the developers, need you. Yes, you. All it takes is the motivation to be creative in some way! Probably the easiest way to help, as well as one of the most valuable ones, is by coming up with new stories for the game, and by shaping those stories into playable missions. Other ways to help include making art or sounds, improving gameplay via balancing work, or (if you have the ability) even a bit of coding on the main program.
A few things to keep in mind:

This game is a hobby project, not an indie development project. There is no final plan, no time frame for the "finished game".
The dev team does not accept monetary donations, only direct contributions to the game itself.
The game engine is written in C. Missions are written in Lua.
No, there is no multiplayer, and there probably won't be. Unless you add it!

Naev 0.12.0 Released!

After a whole month of beta testing and furious bug fixing, following the tradition, we are once again doing our yearly release. This release includes many engine improvements, such as 3D ships, an in-game wiki, reworked weapon sets, notable performance increases, etc., but also a significant amount of new content including a whole new area, more and reworked missions, and ship variants among others things. We also have not forgotten significant quality of life improvements; folding messages, more visual indications for things such as important characters at the spaceport bar, filtering for the mission computer, and more!

We would like to thank all the contributors who participated and helped in the making of this release that we hope will both surprise new players and veterans alike!

Most notable changes:

Nearly all the ships are now modeled in 3D with fancy lighting and tilting effects!
You can now capture ships!
New ships and ship variants!
Faction reputation is no longer a single global value, but more nuanced and local.
Simplified and more powerful weapon sets
New challenging area to access many secrets.
In-game Wiki full of mechanics and lore explanations!

The new version should be compatible with older save games, and will update things as necessary.

Full Changelog

Gameplay
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Ability to capture disabled ships
Faction reputation is no longer universal, but varies on systems
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Direct faction hit changes are shown as messages
Your actions will more directly affect ships in the system

Significantly increase maximum potential fleet capacity

Excess energy to battery recharge efficiency is now flat instead of varying based on charge level

Gave the Zalek Sting a slight detection buff

Can only have a single patrol mission active at a given time

Pirates are less numerous during Chapter 0

Dvaered Arsenal has no fighter bays and fewer slots

Lowered CPU cost of some fighter bays

Decreased CPU and energy provided by large core slots

Pillaging ships affects reputation

Significantly increased the amount of fuel provided by outfits

Camouflage burster gives a speed bonus while active and disables when out of stealth

Can scan ships with u key

Gave the Quicksilver another medium structural slot

Beam weapons have minimum delays instead of minimum durations

Can stealth when missiles are locked on

Deployed fighters take stress and damage over time when their mother ship is destroyed

Electron Burst Cannons and Zalek Heavy Drones have had their damage per second lowered

Improved point defense

Spittle Tubuloid Cluster is now a utility and does more damage
Guardian Interception System does double damage
Missiles explode when intercepted

Bounties have explicit time limits

Derelicts should appear in remote systems

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Quality of Life

Added colourblind correction mode
Exposed more colourblind options to the user
Can modify game speed directly instead of using a slow mode difficulty for accessibility
Messages get folded instead of repeating
Asteroids no longer fade out if close to or targeted by the player
Display fuel consumption for ships in the equipment overlay
Added option to match speed with the slowest ship in the fleet (on by default)
Made it so ships in the equipment screen do not change order based on value
Mark spaceport bar tab when there is an important NPC
Weapon set keybindings change window tabs
Use short outfit names when displaying groups of outfits
Shown more useful things you have when buying outfits with things other than credits
Can sort and filter the mission computer
Added small optional bounce to NPCs when they start talking
Inform the player when they dont meet mission requirements for some important missions
Can add new plugins directly from the options menu
Can toggle whether autonav stops when missile lock-ons are detected
Added colour coded factional backgrounds in the shipyard
Can rotate shipyard image for ships with 3D graphics
Prompt when deleting notes
Added accessibility option that allows skipping story minigames
Can view and change all your ships in the equipment tab when there is refuelling
Reduced space dust size by 50%
Changed mouse click selection priority, it prefers spobs/jumps and will ignore clicks reselecting the same object

Content

New in-game wiki with explanation on gameplay mechanics and lots of lore
8 new missions
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The Onions call

4 new ships

13 new ship variants

Give a new twist to existing ships

6 new outfits

New area with unique challenges

New events

Get more Sirius abilities
Find the dark side of the Nebula

New NPC portraits

New generic NPC and News messages

Reworked trails to make ships feel more speedy

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Engine

Support for 3D models
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Lighting is based on system stars
Fancy effects for special systems
Ships tilt slightly when rotating
Simple animations are supported and used when applicable

Support for an in-game wiki

Can process YAML, Lua, and markdown
Cross-link support
Support for custom widgets

Stats (except inverted stats) are now additive instead of multiplicative

Try to merge saves if multiple directories correspond to the same player

More robust weapon set support that can handle multiple overlapping weapon sets

Faster handling of asteroids with large exclusion areas

Added fuel_usage_mod ship stat

Fixed player losing navigation targets when unidiff is applied

Fixed ai.idir giving wrong answer by M_PI_2 in some cases

Threaded more loading components

Lua require now caches chunks

Dropped SDL_image fallback

Use higher internal timer for all platforms

Support for Tracy

Spobs that are not landable yet generate presence will be shown on the map

Warn the player if they try to use a name with all space characters

Decoupled the collision system from the rendering system

Added a low memory mode to use fewer and smaller textures with 3D

Lazy load ship and outfit graphics to reduce memory usage and decrease load time

Use clang-format to format all the C code

Use enums internally to represent keybindings instead of strings

Always use replaygain information when available when loading vorbis files

Stop repeating the same warning after a fixed amount of times

Support for outfits that dont break stealth

Editor has partial support for universe diffs

Editor has separate configuration and file dialogues

New ship stats

Global weapon range, damage, fire-rate and energy usage
Range ship stat for all specific weapon types
Turn, speed, and accel for launchers
Shield downtime modifier

Deprecated old faction API in favour of the new one for local / global standings

Added support for temporarily overriding faction standings

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Fixes

PSO and Mizar nebulas have trails again
Removed fancy background mode
Can remove fighter bays with deployed fighters
Sol is less friendly
Fixed rare cases where fighters would not be able to dock
Fixed hypergate and wormhole effects getting stuck
Obelisks tell if you have completed them already
Fixed space dust disappearing with certain jump abilities
Boarded pilots become permanently disabled if they lose space-worthiness
Double tap will activate feather drive like blink engines
Fixed camouflage burster not activating stealth
Fixed bug where beams were counted as giving energy in the equipment optimizer
shadowvigil: claim entire route
sh01_corvette: should be completable on easy difficulties now
patrol: fixed escorts and fighters becoming hostile if hostile to the mission giving faction
Fixed debugging paranoid builds under Windows
Fixed autonav not respecting shield thresholds
zbh10: Godheart and friends get at most 1 fighter bay per ship now
Fixed ESS Trinity being bribeable
Cargo on fleets with be displayed to make room for mission cargo when necessary
Made it so Shadow Vigil doesnt try to go through Surano system for reasons
[code]blackhole/zbh09[/code]: fixed softlock during a cutscene under certain conditions
Dont play wormhole sound on main menu
Dont allow the player to sell unique ships
Fixed corner cases where destroyed player ships would not properly be updated
Fixed Sirius Providence flow absorption bonus
Fixed positioning of a certain blockade
Fixed some visual aberrations when forcing the player to land or jump
Prioritize pilots and other objects over uninhabited planets when clicking
Can always bribe your way to pirates clansworlds
Consistently colour the ShipAI messages in the tutorial
Made max_fps actually get respected
Fixed map decorators not shown in editor
Update the overlay scaling given the players position
Fixed population not being updated by universe diffs
Fixed date acquired being wrong on some platforms
Improved pilot facing corrections when jumping
Pirate ambush derelict events break stealth
Mining minigame result affects yield more
Absorption is no longer limited to the 0% to 100% range
derelict_rescue: only allow generic target space objects
Restored portable installs with the Windows installer
Show intrinsic outfits in the Other tab
Fixed plural form of 0 items in many cases
Ships significantly past the mass limit are no longer space worthy
Dont allow ship shield/energy to go negative
Jumping through a one-way normal / hidden jump reveals the hidden side
Increased nebula visibility by 400 km
Fixed map thresholds for interference
Editor now shows dialogues on errors and allows user to choose directory to save data to
Escorts will try to respect players autonav rules by default
Dont show stealth circles during cinematics
Made pilots in formation less prone to spinning
Workaround MESA driver bug that causes dark or invisible ships on AMD hardware
Can no longer abort missions during landing animation