Science hardened

This update has a number of enhancements to make the science in the game more realistic. First and foremost - map of the rings was updated to represent more closely our current understanding of shape and composition of the rings. You'll have a number of opportunities to visit ring propellers - fist discovered in 2004 by Cassini mission - and other features of the rings. Visual freed from Enceladus got a major overhaul and now more closely resembles an actual telescope feed that follows your ship - including visibility of multi-gigawat plumes of your ship (with proper, accurate diffraction spikes), variable zoom ratios and lightlag.

Quality-of-life improvements

• You will now receive a clear warning if you failed to pay your wages, so you won't be surprised when your crew leaves you, and have the opportunity to procure the funds to pay them.
• Eagle Prospector hardpoint hotkeys were remapped to 1,2,3,4.

New hardware

• You can now equip brand new K44 gimbaled toch.
• Nanoparticle Activated Nuclear Incinerator for these moments when you want just watch rings burn.

Bugs fixed

• Fixed an afterglow of Ganymedian Anarchy station.
• Rescue CERF will not register multiple transponders now.
• Fixed a bug that caused transponder signature to disappear on the Lidar screen if it was obscured for just few seconds.
• Fixed number of memory leaks.
• There was a visual glitch in gravimetric readings that looked as "pinches".
• Visual feed on Eagle Prospector was off-center.
• Game sometimes lost track of high acceleration values from lithobraking.

[ 2020-06-07 16:50:55 CET ] [ Original post ]