Hello Shipbreakers,

Last year we announced that we had re-acquired full ownership of the Hardspace: Shipbreaker IP and would be taking over publishing responsibilities from its previous publisher, Focus Entertainment.

Today, we have published a very small update (patch 1.3.0.1263554) that contains purely cosmetic changes to reflect this change in publishing and IP ownership.

Here is a brief summary of what has changed in patch 1.3.0.1263554

• Removed and/or modified branding, logos, and legal small print on splash screens when the game first starts.

• Adjusted data collection notices.

• Updated developer and publisher credits.

• Patched the Unity engine version used to create Hardspace: Shipbreaker to address a possible security vulnerability present in older versions of the Unity engine.

We also want to take a moment to thank our wonderful community. Since announcing we acquired full ownership of the Hardspace: Shipbreaker IP last year, the outpouring of love and support has been incredible.

We also understand how eager you are to learn more about those Hardspace projects we confirmed in our original announcement. Our teams are hard at work and cannot wait to reveal more when the time is right. We appreciate your patience and understanding!

Sincerely,

\[BBI]Steven

To our esteemed Shipbreakers,

You have spent countless shifts in the salvage yard, slicing and dicing ships in relentless pursuit of profitability. But, today, we’d like to offer you the opportunity to make wrecks instead of salvaging them! We’ve partnered with our friends at ROCKFISH Games to create the Scrap & Shoot Bundle, featuring Hardspace: Shipbreaker and the incredible, open-world spaceship RPG EVERSPACE 2!

The Shoot & Scrap Bundle offers both games at an additional 10% discount. And if you already own one game, its price is automatically deducted from the total. So, for our existing Shipbreakers, consider this an additional 10% off on one of our favorite space games of the past decade.

EVERSPACE 2 is a killer blend of explosive action RPG and epic space sim. Pilot a variety of spacecraft, each with their own unique strengths, across a series of gorgeous, hand-crafted star systems. Engage in gruelling dogfights, loot powerful weapons and upgrades for your ships, follow a dramatic story or moonlight as a bounty hunter, space trucker, raider... the list goes on! We at Blackbird Interactive are big fans of this game, and we hope you will be too!

Get the Shoot & Scrap Bundle Here!

Today also kicks off the Steam Winter Sale, which means the Shoot & Scrap Bundle will be even cheaper as both Hardspace: Shipbreaker and EVERSPACE 2 are available at deep discounts!

You can also grab the Hardspace: Shipbreaker Digital Art Book and Original Soundtrack on discount as well:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1474600/Hardspace_Shipbreaker__Original_Soundtrack/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2237360/Hardspace_Shipbreaker__Digital_Artbook/

We’ve also partnered with a few other studios this year on Steam bundles of amazing sci-fi games that you should check out! Like the Shoot & Scrap Bundle, each of these grants an additional discount on top of any existing discounts and will automatically remove the cost of Hardspace: Shipbreaker if you already own it.

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/61977/ZeroG_Jobs/

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/58811/Space_Capitalism/

Lastly, we also just wanted to wish you all a happy holidays and express our deep gratitude to this wonderful community. Back in August, we announced that we had re-acquired full ownership of the Hardspace IP and were beginning work on new Hardspace projects. The outpouring of love and excitement we received since has been way beyond our wildest dreams. So thank you!

That work continues and we’re excited to share more news when the time comes. But, if you haven’t already, please pre-register for the LYNX Pioneer Program – our new community program that will give players like you access to early playtests of upcoming Hardspace (and other BBI original IP) projects, sneak peeks at ongoing development, and opportunities to chat with our development team. We’re planning to officially launch the Pioneer Program in 2026 and would love to have you embark on this new journey with us!

You can pre-register for the LYNX Pioneer Program here:

https://blackbirdinteractive.com/lynxpioneerprogram/

Also join the Hardspace Discord here to stay up to date on all Hardspace news:

https://discord.gg/shipbreakergame

Happy Holidays and see you in the new year!

- \[BBI] Steven

To our valued Shipbreakers,

We have an important announcement to share with you:

That's right! Today, we're revealing that Blackbird Interactive reached an agreement with Focus Entertainment, our publishing partner, to reacquire full ownership of the Hardspace: Shipbreaker intellectual property.

This is an exciting moment for us as a studio and the Hardspace community. Since Early Access in 2020, you've helped Hardspace: Shipbreaker grow from a scrappy salvage sim into an award-winning game that has resonated with millions of players around the world.

And now we're embarking on a new journey to create new Hardspace experiences. It's a journey we hope you'll take with us.

• Blackbird Interactive fully owns and controls Hardspace: Shipbreaker. And, as our studio begins this exciting new chapter, Hardspace is going to become a core part of our business strategy going forward.

• Multiple Hardspace projects are already in development! We're not ready to share any specifics yet, but rest assured we have paid close attention to your feedback and are laser-focused on ensuring this next generation of Hardspace expands on the original game in all the right ways.

• We're planning a small update to Hardspace: Shipbreaker to reflect BBI's full ownership over the product. This will mostly include updated splash screens, logos, and privacy policies around the collection and use of personal data.

• We're going to grow the Hardspace community as we work towards the release of new Hardspace games. It's still early days, so please bear with us. But if you haven't, be sure to join the Hardspace: Shipbreaker Discord[discord.com] as this will become the place to talk with our teams and learn about what's next (when the time is right).

• Focus Entertainment will no longer be affiliated with Hardspace: Shipbreaker. But, let's not mince words, Hardspace: Shipbreaker wouldn't be what it is today without them. We're eternally grateful for their partnership and willingness to work with us so we could take ownership of the Hardspace IP.

Today, we're also opening pre-registration for the LYNX Pioneer Program[blackbirdinteractive.com]. This exciting community initiative will offer:

• Exclusive early playtests of future Hardspace (and other BBI original IP) projects

• Behind-the-scenes development updates and access

• Opportunities to help shape BBI's next generation of games, participate in contests, and more!

Register for the LYNX Pioneer Program here:

https://blackbirdinteractive.com/lynxpioneerprogram/

Will this affect the availability of or my access to Hardspace: Shipbreaker on Steam (or other platforms)?

Nope! Everything is staying the same as it was. We're working on a small update to the game to update splash screens, company logos, and other small things like data collection notices to reflect BBI's total ownership of the product. We'll be sure to communicate any further changes if necessary!

What can you tell us about these new Hardspace games?It's too soon to say anything right now. They say that, in space, no one can hear you scream. But when we're ready to make announcements, we're going to put that theory to the test because we'll be screaming our heads off about it.

How can I get involved?

Sign up for the LYNX Pioneer Program[blackbirdinteractive.com], join the Hardspace Discord[discord.com], and follow our page on Steam! It's still early days, but we're so excited to roll out more opportunities for our players to get more involved as we embark on this exciting new chapter.

From all of us at BBI: THANK YOU! All those hours spent cutting, tethering, melting, and (occasionally) exploding your way through our game are what has made today possible. You’ve kept the torch—and the cutter—lit.

We're looking forward all the ships we'll salvage together in the coming years,

\[BBI]Steven,

Comms Director

• exclusive art from the creative folks at Blackbird Interactive
  
• 2 black and yellow vinyls with antistatic inner sleeves, ensuring an optimal protection
  
• Hardspace: Shipbreaker's tracks by composers Jono Grant, Traz Damji and Philip J. Bennett, with synth remixes by the game's audio director Ben McCullough

• exclusive art from the creative folks at Blackbird Interactive
  
• 2 black and yellow vinyls with antistatic inner sleeves, ensuring an optimal protection
  
• Hardspace: Shipbreaker's tracks by composers Jono Grant, Traz Damji and Philip J. Bennett, with synth remixes by the game's audio director Ben McCullough

• Most Innovative Gameplay
  
• Best Soundtrack
  
• Game of the Year
  
• Sit Back and Relax

• Some text can be hard to read on the job board in German
  
• Fuel "low" pop-up warning overlaps with some tools HUD in multiple languages
  
• On a Gecko-Stargazer the game crashes after detonating a demo-charge
  
• On a Javelin-Heavy Cargo an explosive decompression event occurs between 2 pressurized areas
  
• Some objects salvaged in the barge can be extracted from it
  
• Small personal terminals seen on top of corner terminals, have credits value attached to them but don't reward credits when dropped in the barge.
  
• Visual issues appear when launching a shift
  
• Toggling in quick succession some Cutter Race "Friend only" toggles can cause the wrong leaderboard to be displayed
  
• The title does not update the Standard Debt Remaining Leaderboard to reflect the user’s progression within Career
  
• Salvaged Armor plates don't have the proper visual treatment in the Barge
  
• Sticker selection can be moved while placing a sticker, using the mouse wheel
  
• Sticker selection can be moved while upgrading a sticker, using the right joystick (gamepad) or the mouse wheel
  
• Several Space Truck translations don't fit properly in their allotted space on the Job Board in Russian
  
• In the scanner "object mode", the end of the processors have a different visual treatment than the rest of the processors
  
• 'Salvage goal completed/failed' text in Russian doesn't fit properly in its allotted space
  
• Name of the collected Space truck object is not displayed, when playing in Russian
  
• Number for collected items doesn't fit properly in Shippy, in several languages, after collecting Space truck objects
  
• Text for 'low' oxygen doesn't fit properly its allotted space on the HUD in German
  
• Text for 'low' oxygen and health is not displaying in Chinese and Russian
  
• 'Continue' in Russian doesn't fit properly in its allotted space in several HAB messages including Campaign Incoming Messages
  
• The game doesn't load the proper scene after exiting the HAB in rank 5
  
• Dying while out of spares causes the validation audio to activate multiple times
  
• Resetting the "display performance option" doesn't reset the option description
  
• Fee Reversal screen does not resize correctly in 4k resolution
  
• Intro Text screen does not resize correctly in 4k resolution
  
• Door/Airlock consoles have no cryo treatment, when coolant is applied to them
  
• 'Brake' is not correctly displayed during the tutorial, when playing with the controller
  
• Player's avatar isn't displayed in the cutter race screens, if the player doesn't launch the general leaderboards beforehand
  
• During the tutorial, some voice lines can trigger in the wrong order if the player finishes tasks too fast
  
• Frozen cut points suddenly disappear (without shattering), when an object is thrown onto them
  
• Computer terminals' keyboard part has no cryo treatment, when freezing the terminals
  
• There is no VFX when an item is Processed
  
• Two screens mix if the player does not press a button during the end credits
  
• Spamming "Decline and Confirm" after leaving the HAB during the contract termination sequence will put the Front-end menu in a bad state
  
• If the players spams the "skip" button during the End Sequence he will be stuck on the main menu
  
• No audio can be heard afterwards, if a reactor explodes during the death animation of the user
  
• An empty health bar flickers when looking at a destroyed object
  
• Scanner instruction and Scanner input prompt overlap on top of another in the fees report, in multiple languages
  
• "[] To select" prompt in the Shipbreaker application screen, is overlapping with the border of the terminal, in multiple languages
  
• Game freezes (hitches), when the user exits the 'Create' menu in a specific way
  
• The outline around the selected poster doesn't appear in the HAB
  
• "Demo Charge" text label in the rebinding screen, is displayed on 2 rows in German
  
• "SUIT" abbreviation in the HUD is displayed on 2 rows, in Spanish and German
  
• Profiles display multiple times when displayed from the Leaderboard of the Cutter's R.A.C.E.
  
• "Demo charge" text label seen in the tool wheel is overlapping with the UI in multiple languages
  
• The left joystick can't be used to change settings in the Options menu
  
• The "Objective complete" and "Objective failed" bits on the cutter race work order notification pop-up, are out of bound of UI in multiple languages
  
• The Cutter Race work order label isn't displayed in the notification pop-up, after passing or failing the objective, in multiple languages
  
• The object's name label isn't displayed on the salvage pop-up in multiple languages
  
• D-pad navigation does not scroll all the way to the bottom of the video options
  
• Changing the Frame rate option cause the text to disappear
  
• In the movement tutorial, unassigned controls for the brake may be displayed on PC
  
• In the movement tutorial, incorrect controls for the brake may be displayed
  
• Audio cuts out for a brief moment when creating a new profile
  
• Navigating "up" when selecting the "display performance" option in the HAB will lead to a loss of focus
  
• Black and yellow stripe can be seen clipping and sticking out of metal objects inside the bay
  
• Entering the Career may send you in a shift directly
  
• Violent decompression "warning HUD" and VFX aren't showing when cutting the mackerels cockpit in a specific order
  
• Airlock vfx visible while outside of a Gecko ship
  
• The Oxygen meter is greyed out when picking up an O2 canister while low or out of Oxygen
  
• Lou's Data Miner speech can play in the HAB before the "Meet the Crew" speech plays
  
• The wrong leaderboard may be displayed for a category
  
• Cutter's race shows a work order "Salvage titanium" in the Cutter race screen, but the work order isn't present in the salvage bay
  
• In the button mapping, the "simultaneous breaking toggle" text may display when it shouldn't
  
• The prompt to access the Player's account profile on the leaderboards screen isn't displayed immediately in some cases
  
• Some characters available using the virtual keyboard are displayed as "empty square" when used in the profile name
  
• The virtual keyboard goes in a bad state under specific conditions
  
• The in game sound may get drastically lowered after changing game mode fast
  
• Tethers marker will no longer disappear, after reloading Career via the Activity Card, when buying Tethers the first time
  
• When cycling leaderboards difficulty modes with no save data, the rank icon will stay the same as previous difficulty mode with save data
  
• The R.A.C.E. 'Close' button is misaligned in Spanish on the Connection Not Found popup
  
• The player can navigate in the menu with the inventory interface opened
  
• Pressing the "home" button while holding an input doesn't drop the input
  
• Game hitches when the user accesses and exits the 'Create' menu by 'Circle', while grappling an object
  
• Storage objective doesn't actualize when failed in Cutter's R.A.C.E.
  
• After the user abandon a shift during career gameplay, visual issues are briefly seen before returning to front end
  
• Removing an AI node on a Reactor within the Barge allows it to be cuttable
  
• Back button has inconsistent placement in Employee Terminal screens
  
• Navigation highlight disappears on the next page of the Ship Doctor, when upgrading a top list objective in last, on the previous page
  
• The user can sometimes no longer interact with objects in the salvage bay since the interaction prompt is no longer displayed
  
• Helmet crack and shatter effects are displayed despite having the "HUD off" and the "hide helmet" enabled in the options
  
• A ship name is displayed while pausing during tether tutorial, despite no ship being present
  
• Unlocalized string in the "Ship Doctor Widget" in the pause menu
  
• Continue button is untranslated in Italian when approaching the HAB
  
• In Spanish, "Not ready" doesn't fit into Ship doctor menu
  
• Legend text in the Scanner no longer fits properly, when changing languages
  
• MP progression bar text label seen in the salvage bay isn't translated
  
• Typo in sender and receiver mail address inside message content when the language is set to Simplified Chinese
  
• Earned MP / LT text on Shift Summary does not fit properly in Russian
  
• Loading screen tips can break out of the text's bounds depending on language selection
  
• Sticker upgrade confirmation pop-up has out of bound texts in multiple languages
  
• Clicking on the vertical support of the sticker collection scrollbar is inconsistent
  
• Daily fees are no longer applied, when quitting the HAB by ALT F4 (after daily fees) and returning to the game
  
• The basic training "ship" name is incorrectly shown in English
  
• Some parts of the ship doctor menu can overlap in Italian and in Portuguese
  
• Translated text for 'Welcome to Morrigan Station' intro does not fit properly its allotted space in Russian
  
• Translation on the 'Everwork Asset Replacement' screen does not fit properly the allotted space
  
• After signing out of a profile, signing into a new profile will still have the UI selector on Sign Out, instead of defaulting to Career
  
• Reactor Class II baseplate emissives still shine when reactor is disconnected and shattered
  
• Cannot start a new profile by clicking on the empty license card, even though it has a + on it
  
• The text for 'fuel' on the HUD doesn't fit its allocated space in Russian
  
• The Salvage Destroyed notification overlaps Kaito's NPC Salvage Indicator during the Industrial Action scene
  
• The Free Play menu doesn't adapt to smaller resolutions