VoidExpanse v1.4 is here!

Our first and largest after-release content update is finally ready and live!
What's new this time? Let's take a look at some major features!

Hacking - long awaited hacking mechanics has been implemented. Now you can find abandoned terminals in space and hack them to receive some interesting loot.

New skills & skill categories - we decided to reorganize all skill trees and add new skill category called "industry". In addition to that we also implemented half a dozen new skills. Some of them are related to newly added hacking or to increase experience from trading if that's the route you would like to choose.

System patrols - now your attacks on civilian ships won't be ignored and system patrols will be immediately dispatched if you decide that "you are a pirate!" :)

More life in space - more traveling traiders and civilian ships in general, system patrols, etc. Simply put the space is a bit less empty now! Especially in faction systems.

New ships, weapons & items - a whole load of new content has been added. That includes several new ships, as well as faction unique ships that you can get by joining a particular faction!

New interactive objects in space such as refuel and repair mini-stations to make long trips easier.

...and a host of other new content and features! Make sure to let us know what you think about the update!

Patch notes for VoidExpanse v1.4.0 - v1.4.3

New features:

• New hacking system and special terminals that can be hacked for loot
• New trading mechanics for stock and price generation to make it more balanced and realistic
• Experience for trading
• New skills: more experience for trading, several hack-related skills, electronics skill
• New skill section - industry
• New ships (a whole lot of them!)
• New character type - Electronics specialist.
• Console command for MP: delete_player %player_name%
• Interactive space objects - refuel and repair stations, terminals
• Whole load of new weapons, especially fast firing ballistic cannons
• Added unique faction ships for each faction, you will receive one of them when you join a particular faction
• New devices, such as healing beam, new EMP, etc.
• New face parts, such as hairstyles for both sexes
• New items
• New types of the pirates (based on the new hulls and weapons)
• Modding: added API for opening container exchange for the player & other item related API, API for hacking + new triggers, etc.
• Patrol system - now if you attack civilian or faction ships in the faction protected systems it will be punished by the faction forces

Changes:

• NPCs will now use new merchant and cargo ships (that is, there will be more different NPCs now)
• More gear on the starting station
• Relics and alien guts give different amount of science points
• Asteroids content generation is now semi-random
• Expanded Joe's quest with new content
• Expanded tutorials
• Updated drop lists for killed pirates, pirate dens, "treasure chests", etc.
• Rebalanced many skills
• Better multiplayer menu + featured servers are now displayed as such
• Some devices and boosters now use the new electronics skill
• EMP device now requires energy to operate
• Rebalance several weapons
• Adjusted volume for certain sounds and fixed clipping
• NoesisGUI updated to v1.2.3
• Improved savegame backup system
• Improved particles effects
• Super-duper-long trails (could be disabled in options)
• Improved options menu
• Improved logging
• Updated to Unity to v5.1 (their new stable version with over 170 engine bugs fixed)
• Added a notification to the player if they connect to a server with a different language
• Mods info for MP servers is now shown
• NPC will now use their weapons even if they are running away from you
• CoreFunctionality.js refactored, extracted SystemMerchants.js, SystemMiners.js, SystemPatrol.js (finally!)
• Better AI interactions
• When selecting items/cargo amount to purchase, the max amount now takes player money into account
• Trade - tries to put purchased item into the cargo, if no space available then in storage
• More accurate animation when buying items from the store with Shift-key
• New audio options
• No more dead zones for Pirate Den turrets!
• Improved important skill highlighting to make it easier to see which ones are important
• Mono server bundles for Linux and Mac are now using Mono 4 with SGen GC
• Radar marks now use alternative shapes as primary shapes
• Fixed Linux input issues
• Improved handling of the resolution changes on Mac
• Battle music now activates if there are any enemies nearby.

Fixes:

• Fixed scale range didn't apply on visual appearance of the special objects
• Fixed server exception "collection was modified"
• Fixed savegame being falsely reported as corrupted (unable to load the savegame)
• Fixed NPCs merchants being stuck on the station entrance
• Fixed trails rendering issues
• Fixed rare problems with establishing connection to the master server and game servers
• Fixed all resources removed in mining quest instead of the specified amount
• Fixed script error "TypeError: null cannot be converted to an object at StarSystemUpdate (corefunctionality:409)"
• Fixed various networking issues
• Fixed savegame corruption issue
• Fixed some players not being able to start Singleplayer game on Windows XP
• Fixed issue where players couldn't connect to a multiplayer server until next restart
• Fixed crash related to AI behavior
• Fixed after activating a translation mod, the languages list in the options menu didn't show the new language in the list until the game was restarted
• (modding) Fixed issue when star systems faction was changed multiple times per game frame and the client cannot display factions on the galaxy map at all
• Fixed music starting to play when the game is not focused and sound should be muted