Update 0.6.0 brings together all changes since the previous Steam release, 0.5.7, with improvements to combat, fleet repairs, ship production and multiplayer reliability.
Combat and Balance
- Rebalanced damage scaling by ship class and improved escort accuracy against small craft.
- Adjusted hull costs for several Terran, Mechanoid, Voidborn and Zythian ships.
- Missile and plasma damage now resolves when the projectile hits.
- Added target acquisition timing and visible incoming-fire warnings.
- Fixed defensive ability timing so activated defenses apply before combat damage is resolved.
- Combat disengagement now provides a movement speed boost while preventing the ship from firing.
- Fixed retreat orders being overridden by hold-position and autonomous movement behaviour.
- Overlapping repair auras now apply the strongest eligible repair effect.
Fleet Control and Repairs
- Added an optional fleet setting that sends individual damaged ships back to an available shipyard while the rest of the fleet continues its task.
- Individual withdrawal has an adjustable hull threshold, and direct player orders take priority.
- Shipyard repairs are faster, with repair times based on ship class.
- Support ships can now repair buildings.
- Fixed reinforcements failing to follow moving fleets.
Ship Production and Loadouts
- Ship production now charges for both the hull and all installed equipment. Equipment installation also contributes to build time.
- The ship designer and shipyard display hull, equipment and total costs, along with the complete build time.
- Queued ships retain the loadout selected when the order was placed. Later research or blueprint edits no longer change their queued equipment.
- Cancelling a production order refunds the materials paid for its complete loadout.
- Fixed duplicate drone capabilities in automatic loadouts and duplicate single-instance capabilities in manual designs.
- Improved automatic mine launcher placement and ensured automatic loadouts account for researched power capacity.
Multiplayer
- Fixed AI slots being dropped from larger multiplayer matches. Hosted matches can now correctly include one human host and up to seven AI opponents.
- Fixed match handling when the host is the only human player.
- Procedural map limits now consistently count human and AI players together: Small 2, Medium 4, Large / Belt / Open Space 6, Extra Large 8.
- Map selection automatically adjusts when the selected map cannot support the player count.
- Improved combat synchronization, including point defense, attack drones and targeted abilities.
- Fixed recovery handling for ship routes, queued commands and fog-of-war visibility.
- Moved in-game multiplayer chat controls into the journal toolbar, including unread-message indicators.
Campaign, Graphics and Interface
- Made the Terran opening mission, Signal Lost, more forgiving with additional starting resources, infrastructure and ships, plus later enemy attack waves.
- Added adjustable image sharpening from 0–100%, with a 20% default, supporting native rendering, DLSS and FSR.
- Corrected FXAA processing order.
- Fixed the pause hotkey being blocked by HUD keyboard focus.
- Fixed research event logging when starting or resuming a match.
Multiplayer reminder: All players must use the same game version.
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