Reduced game download/install size, primarily by decreasing bit rate of some of the music. (This will make this update an unusually large download, but overall install size will be decreased.) · NPC ships and stations will now repair themselves when the player is far enough away. · Missile/Mine Launchers will now eject any stored munitions when switching modes instead of causing them to be lost…
Added options to the ship hamburger menu in Domination mode to restock all resources and crew at the cost of credits. This is only available for ships within their spawn area. · Enemy ships that are destroyed by NPCs will now award the player fame as long as they are near the player. · AI ships will now be willing to pick closer attack distances, which also solves some issues where they would p…
When jumping between star systems, it is now only possible to jump to systems that are either directly connected to the current system or have already been visited by the player. · Lots of updates to existing faction ships as well as a handful of new ships. · New Nuke VFX. · Crew thruster VFX no longer appear when zoomed out farther than 1/3x. · Added an option in the Accessibility settings to…
The settings file will now be saved immediately when clicking Okay or Apply in the settings dialog. · The Deck Cannon's stats now includes the crew stun time and radius. · Bugfix: Crash when attempting to transfer crew from a ship that has more crew than beds. · Bugfix: Crash in some circumstances when deconstructing Processor Factories or Uranium Enrichers. · Bugfix: Crash on the multiplayer g…
Bugfix: Crash when mining with a Mining Laser. · Bugfix: Crash when deleting an off-screen ship in Creative Mode. · Bugfix: Crash when selecting a crew room in crew assignment mode while using the Simplified Chinese translation. · Bugfix: Asteroid fields were unintentionally spawning very close to or even inside of suns. · Bugfix: Deck Cannon description incorrectly stated that each shot uses 1…
New Weapon: The Deck Cannon, a huge, double-barreled, roof-mounted cannon that uses 10 ammo per shot and stuns nearby crew whenever it fires. · Added 8x and 1/8 game speeds. · Point Defenses will no longer fire at crew when set to defend-only mode. · Some small optimizations. · Modding: Prohibited no-build zones of parts can be made to apply only to certain kinds of parts. All parts now have a…
Cosmoteer now supports using input method editors (IMEs). This has been tested for Microsoft Pinyin (Simplified Chinese) but in theory should work with any IME/language. · The virtual keyboard should now display for dialog boxes on Steam Deck. · Various performance optimizations, particularly with ship off-screen/zoomed-out icons, crew O2/distance warning icons, and marking large numbers of res…
Cosmoteer now supports using input method editors (IMEs). This has been tested for Microsoft Pinyin (Simplified Chinese) but in theory should work with any IME/language. · The virtual keyboard should now display for dialog boxes on Steam Deck. · Various performance optimizations, particularly with ship off-screen/zoomed-out icons, crew O2/distance warning icons, and marking large numbers of res…
Buffed High Explosive Missile collision-avoidance, speed, and lifetime. · Mission credit rewards now increase and decrease depending on faction reputation. · When running Cosmoteer for the first time, the default language will now be automatically set to match the language chosen in Steam, if possible. You can still change the language at any time in the Display settings. · Improved appearance…
Increased star system size by 50%. (Now 75% of the original size.) · Tweaked galaxy map generation to have more variety of faction ships and stations in most star systems. (Does not affect existing saves.) · When replacing a storage room with another storage room, any shared storage tiles will now keep their resource designations. · It is no longer possible to hyper-jump to a station when wante…
Experiment: Shrunk star systems significantly, approximately halving the distance between objects and generally increasing the density of activities. Please let me know what you think of this change in #beta-feedback on Discord. (Note that the Fog of War will be reset for existing saved games. Sorry about that!) · Increased the number of "police" ships that will hunt you while you are wanted by…
In multiplayer Career mode, added a "Transfer Ship Control" option to the ship hamburger menu to transfer control of the ship to another player. · In multiplayer Career mode games, you can now right-click on the credits display to transfer credits to other players. · Only three trade ships can now be trading with a station simultaneously. If a trade ship arrives at a station and there are alrea…
Crew will now automatically deliver resources to un-designated storage tiles when a supply chain connection is made to them or when the resources are in a designated tile of mistmatched type. · Ships in multiplayer now always use their original paint colors. There is no longer a setting to use different colors. · Bugfix: Pirate/Faction station destruction missions weren't appearing on the map a…
Default Career mode difficulty now defaults to Ensign/Builder. · Each star system now has four exploration missions that require 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100% of the ? icons to be explored. (Not retroactive for already-generated star systems.) · Added an "I Hate Salvaging" advanced Career mode option which, if enabled, will turn off resource drops from salvaged/destroyed ships, double credit rewards…
New Hyper-Jump Relay design. · Bugfix: Various crashes caused by translations. · Bugfix: Crash playing some older saved game when opening the settings. · Bugfix: Crash if using certain characters such as & in the name for a custom marker. · Bugfix: Rare crash in the resources editor.
Added a "Require Confirmation For Partial Refunds" setting that when disabled will no longer require you to hold the Ctrl key when deconstructing parts that give partial refunds. · Reduced the Mining Laser's fire threshold angle from 1.0 to 0.25 degrees. · Bugfix: It was possible to get stuck in a permanent "wanted" state. · Bugfix: Crash when viewing stats for the Disruptor in Russian. · Bugfi…
Missions where the only remaining objective is to receive payment will now be prioritized on the HUD. (But not above favorited missions.) · The names of associated missions are now shown when mousing over ships and points of interest. (If multiple missions are associated, only one will be shown.) · The distance displayed next to missions on the HUD is now more visible. · Parts that only give a…
Parts that were not constructed by the player and thus don't give a full refund when deconstructed will now have an orange warning icon in the ship editor and will be impossible to delete unless Ctrl is held. · The German and Spanish translations are now mostly finished. Please report any issues you see to #beta-feedback or #beta-bugs as appropriate.
It is now possible to repair destroyed parts that you haven't purchased the blueprints for. (Such as if you got them by commandeering an abandoned ship.) · It is now possible to make changes to your ship while don't have enough beds as long as you aren't actually removing any addtional beds. · A ship's default attack radius and rotation are no longer set automatically when attacking but may now…
"Tracked" missions are now called "Favorites". · Objects on the map that are associated with a mission that isn't favorited will now have a hollow gray star icon. · The nearest 5 missions will now be shown on the HUD in nearest-first order. This can be disabled in the settings. (If any missions are favorites, those will be prioritized and shown first.) · The distance is now displayed next to ea…
Nukes no longer have an "arming period" where they do no damage if they hit anything. · Many trade ship designs now have more crew, which should help with congestion at stations. · Updated a couple of the existing faction combat ships. · Bugfix: Crash when an observer leaves a multiplayer game. · Bugfix: Crash when viewing Railgun stats in French. · Bugfix: Attempting to trade our transfer reso…
Bugfix: It was not possible to transfer crew from a ship that didn't have an operational command room. · Bugfix: Ships with "Barbarian" allegiance would shoot at their own crew. · Bugfix: Right-clicking and dragging on an enemy ship that is already being attacked would glitch and set the attack distance extremely close if the Shift key was held or the "always show command handles" setting was e…
You can now right-click on the Gather/Salvage/Mine Tool to toggle off any resource types that you don't want to be collected, salvaged, or mined. · Resources now always sell for 50% regardless of difficulty level. This fixes an exploit where on "Builder" difficulty with a high enough faction reputation it was possible to sell resources for more than you had to pay to buy them, which created an…
Bugfix: Unable to load some Career mode games that were saved in previous versions of the beta. · Bugfix: Crashes when playing some Career mode games that were saved in previous versions of the beta.
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