Thanks for all the continued feedback and ideas! The are invaluable and I hope you are all staying safe and staying at home where appropriate. Tough time for a lot of people and a bit hard to focus on building this game, but on the other hand its nice to get lost in my spaceships for a while... Ive added a planet to Sirius to mark the occasion... Been a few new versions with a bunch of new changes. The most exciting I think is the new Non playable Race: The Radii a race of cyborgs with futuristic tech, a good challenge for higher level players. Another exciting new race soon to come.,.. I also going back to the Co-op missions, while still trying to work on my mission revamp. The 2 things go hand it hand. I can imaging some co-op multi stage missions being quite fun. However this is a big hurdle to get over, might take me a while. I will try and keep doing smaller fixes in the meantime... Here are the notes from the recent versions....

Beta 0.22.0

• AI ship levels: now higher level ships in higher systems
• New Andromedan skin added to Benaris
• New look for refinery interiors
• Space station carpets now owners colour scheme
• Can now respawn with fire button
• Multiplayer traffic meter added, let me know if it goes high/extreme at any point
• New Radii Weapon: Radii Revealer
• Shields now sometimes have a secondary resistance against a specific effect
• Can now only equip 1 augmentation of certain types e.g. only 1 ship turret
• Cockpit windscreens fixed
• Eyeblast/brainblast improved
• Fixed the energy balancer constantly telling you energy full
• Droid weapons all had a buff
• Repair beam range increased
• Some other bug fixes

Beta 0.21.7

• Fixed the error due to the missing double thunderbolt mine
• New weapon: Obscurer bomb
• Players can no longer get the vendetta if in an older version
• Large weapons: now get 1 ammo when you buy, but 0 when you equip from cargo hold, to avoid free ammo exploit
• Minor fixes to radii (arming time on photon bomb)
• Forkwork egg minefields added to chaos engine
• Forkworm eye blast, and the brain blast should now work better when point blank
• Adjusted how laser sight works. When holding fine aim on keyboard, but always when not turning fast on joypad/VR
• New random sector event added - quite a cool one
• Some other small fixes as usual

Beta 0.21.6

• New Race added to IoL complete with loot etc but still more to add
• Fixed the issue with shield bubbles and other effects sometimes persisting after running out
• Summoned minions should now work correctly in FFA zones etc (e.g. wont attack you)
• New levels of thunderbolt torpedos
• New ship beam turrets: Energy extraction & tractor beam
• Laser turrets adjusted, now slower turning with less energy than primary weapon turrets
• VR tweaks + tooltip now works better
• Can now longer earn money using the life extender & refunds
• Ships should no longer try and leave via the edge of the star system and shouldnt hyperspace that way and shouldnt enter from that way
• Added some planets
• Lots of work on the other (not live) new race
• Some adjustments to solarion weapons
• Some other minor tweaks and fixes

Beta 0.21.5

• Laser beam ship turrets tweaked+ a few bugs fixed. Nerfed slightly
• Ship Fighting AI - have tweaked so that they are less inclined to fight round the edges of a sector
• If you knock an enemy off the edge of a sector, if you follow them now then theres a good chance they will be in that sector, depending on how quickly you do it - this needs more testing & work from me
• Selective Effect dampener fixed
• Some errors fixed