This update adds a new Difficult career for pilots who want harsher flight without Hardcore economics and explains the differences between career rules more clearly.
Existing careers keep their saved ruleset.
Difficult is available as a new-career option in the full game without an unlock requirement and can begin in any region available across your careers.
Credits, rewards, upgrade prices, financing, map progression, and crash refueling remain identical to Standard.
Damage can strike an already degraded system again instead of always spreading to healthy equipment first.
Emergency backups require four correct inputs within ten seconds and allow two attempts.
Dust fronts, EM squalls, rift surges, and rift lightning disrupt instruments just as they do in Hardcore.
Help now compares Standard and Difficult flight rules and explains that Hardcore retains the Difficult flight hazards while adding its harsher economy and crash recovery.