There are a lot of changes this week. First is shield effects. If a ship or station is equipped with a shield, the shield will appear when taking damage. The Astrela has a forward weapon. With the numlock on, turn toward a ship and hit '8' on your keypad to fire the beam at your target. The ships in the game currently don't retaliate so you can fly around and fire at them to see their shield effects. Also, you can save your game and then fly through the Cetus defense perimeter in Cetus Thetan. The defense stations are now hostile and will fire on you. There are also damage effects added. When your shield is down, any projectile weapon will create a damage effect on your ship. You will see debris fly off when hit. Other changes this week:

• Several major weapon updates. They will be available when the Saurum missions are released.
• The rate of fall and rise from the ecliptic for derelict ships has been better smoothed out.
• The hull status indicator at the bottom of the screen is now working properly.
• Some sounds, like 'system damaged' were repeating and will now only play once every 10 seconds.
• Several changes were made to the camera and how it follows objects. Fixes stuttering and some other issues.
• Some minor render changes since adding shields and updating weapons.