0.195.3 - Ringstorm

Quality of Life improved

This update follows the player-voted path of improving the general player experience with the game. I turned my focus to the Enceladus Prime station, mainly the upgrade menu. With the steady addition of the new upgrades, the list was becoming too large and difficult to navigate, so I had split it into separate, foldable sections. Upgrades will now warn you that your ship is not adequately powered to install it - but it will not prevent you from buying one if you really want to.

Due to a popular request smart camera was reworked somewhat. While zoomed out all the way, the zoom-in should not be evident. It will still auto-zoom when you are excavating and will zoom out if something dangerous approaches.

Streamlined physics and AI

With all the recent testing we done I managed to pinpoint and fine-tune the performance of many parts of the game - but the one you are most likely to notice are the physics and AI. While there are still cases when FPS drops that I need to isolate and fix, most of the time game ran perfectly smoothly in our soak tests.

I tuned the Artificial Intelligence that handles ships had a lot, as I watched it extensively while running tests.

More bugs fixed

As usual, there are bugfixes and polishes to the game. With the help of community members, we managed to find and fix more conditions that would lead to crashes or game freezes. I used the bug fixing opportunity to patch up multiple small graphical glitches that have annoyed me for way too long. Finally, I changed how the game handles a gamepad in some menus - while they could be used with gamepad fully, it was just not convenient.