Patch and Update Notes | Latest Version 3.00 - Updated: 2014-12-11

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Recent Patch and Update Notes

Below you can find the index to patch and update notes.

• Patch 1.18 - 2013-12-02
  
• Patch 1.19 - 2013-12-09
  
• Patch 1.20 - 2013-12-17
  
• Patch 1.21 - 2013-12-20
  
• Patch 1.22 - 2014-01-07
  
• Patch 1.24 - 2014-02-04
  
• Patch 1.25 - 2014-02-26
  
• Patch 1.30 - 2014-04-15
  
• Patch 1.31 - 2014-05-06
  
• Patch 2.00 (183618) - 2014-05-20[/b]
  
• Patch 2.20 (184360) - 2014-06-27
  
• Patch 2.50 (187052) - 2014-10-09[/b]
  
• Patch 3.00 (189926) - 2014-12-11[/b]

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Patch 1.18 - 2013-12-02

• Fixed several causes of crashes in-game and when loading savegames.
  
• Fixed a specific problem resulting in periodic slow-downs.
  
• Improved general performance (first small improvement only, more to come).
  
• Fixed several problems resulting in trade ships getting stuck.
  
• Fixed several problems with ship/drone docking/undocking behaviour.
  
• Fixed problem with player drone formations.
  
• Fixed several small localisation issues.
  
• Improved skill levels for new NPCs.
  
• Improved readability of entries in interaction menus.
  
• Improved GPU listing on laptops with multiple GPUs (still some driver-related issues on certain hardware).

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Patch 1.19 - 2013-12-09

• Fixed major slowdown after loading savegames.
  
• Fixed several more causes of crashes.
  
• Fixed more cases of trade ships getting stuck.
  
• Fixed large ships being unable to trade with Canteran station in DeVries.
  
• Fixed undocking problems after trading.
  
• Fixed ammunition trade problems.
  
• Fixed mining drones getting stuck.
  
• Fixed negative number of drones in cargo.
  
• Fixed cargo bays containing more wares than they can hold.
  
• Fixed cockpit animations hanging (see note below).
  
• Fixed problem with targeting player-owned ships.
  
• Fixed incorrect player position during highway flight.
  
• Fixed player owned ships being assigned the wrong commander.
  
• Fixed ships with missing AI functionality.
  
• Fixed problems with Engineer functionality.
  
• Improved flight behaviour for boarding and claiming.
  
• Improved combat behaviour for capital ships.
  
• Fixed station defence problems.
  
• Fixed incorrect defence routines being used on ships.
  
• Fixed switching the AI mode of the Defence Officer.
  
• Added defend and attack mode options to Defence Officer.
  
• Rebalanced skills of existing NPCs in line with new ones.
  
• Rebalanced contents of boxes and other containers on platforms.
  
• Rebalanced cost of ship and station repair.
  
• Fixed transport passenger mission getting blocked after cutscene.
  
• Fixed sounds not stopping sometimes.
  
• Fixed buttons not working with mouse input.
  
• Added facility to unmap controls in control mapping menu (press Delete).
  
• Added video capture mode with ability to switch off cockpit (Expert settings).
  
• Fixed too many missing extensions breaking the load game menu.
  
• Several localisation improvements.

NOTE: If cockpit animations are still stuck after loading an old savegame then you may need to press Enter 5-5 and then return to the cockpit for this fix to take effect.

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Patch 1.20 - 2013-12-17

• Fixed several more causes of crashes and freezes.
  
• Fixed mouse controls not working after loading certain savegames.
  
• Fixed trade ships getting stuck after upgrade.
  
• Fixed skipping trade menu when going back to it.
  
• Fixed graphics options not setting correct shaders.
  
• Fixed missing build notifications from architects in other sectors.
  
• Fixed player trade ships trying to trade with enemy stations.
  
• Fixed menus showing out of date info about build progress.
  
• Fixed trades in another sector taking too long.
  
• Fixed upkeep mission to deliver architect to builder ship not ending.
  
• Fixed player ships not being returned during plot missions (will not re-create ships already lost, sorry).
  
• Improved ship movement in certain situations.
  
• Improved logic for station owned miners.
  
• Cell Recharge (fuel) stations in Omicron Lyrae now require Bofu instead of Food Rations.
  
• Various performance improvements (should be most noticeable when shadows are NOT enabled).

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Patch 1.21 - 2013-12-20

• Added new Refuel order.
  
• Fixed more causes of crashes.
  
• Fixed another case where the player could be teleported into the middle of nowhere.
  
• Fixed problem with NPCs being assigned to multiple locations.
  
• Fixed scan overlay not being removed when docking.
  
• Fixed capital ships standing still forever with the boost effect running.
  
• Fixed trade menu problem (in German only) when trying to sell and the ship doesn't have the requested ware.

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Patch 1.22 - 2014-01-07

• Fixed more causes of crashes.
  
• Fixed more causes of negative cargo amounts.
  
• Fixed several causes of zero-credit trades.
  
• Fixed incorrect display of station upgrade levels.
  
• Fixed engineers running wrong scripts.
  
• Fixed problems with cargo collect mode (mode must be stopped and restarted to take effect).
  
• Fixed problem with mining ships gathering the wrong resources.
  
• Added pilot command to stop current task.
  
• Reduced frequency of station warnings when attacking.
  
• Helpfulness of NPCs now depends more closely on relations.
  
• Added trade and welder drones to Canteran home station.
  
• Added options for borderless window mode and mouse confinement.
  
• Some small performance improvements.
  
• Added otherwise-unavailable wares to player station during plot mission.

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Patch 1.24 - 2014-02-04

Includes changes from Patch 1.23 that was not released outside the Beta process.

• New feature: Manual target control with keys for target nearest crosshair, closest enemy and next/previous target. Further improvements planned.
  
• New feature: Logbook system covering non-plot missions, player ships, discounts/commissions and game tips. Logging of a wider range of events planned.
  
• Added shipyard to Gemstone Manufacture.
  
• Added escort fighters to some capital ships.
  
• Increased Pirate, Reiver and Xenon activity for more action.
  
• Increased yields for mining regions in DeVries and Maelstrom.
  
• Fixed error causing map to suddenly close under certain circumstances.
  
• Fixed more causes of being teleported into the middle of nowhere on loading a savegame.
  
• Fixed cases where destroying a ship could result in the target element not getting removed.
  
• Improved update frequency of target elements.
  
• Fixed cargo collection mode.
  
• Fixed mining ships collecting ware containers.
  
• Fixed builder ships not being able to trade with stations reliably.
  
• Fixed one problem with building restarting when player not present (another build issue remains).
  
• Added filtering by station/ship in trade offer menu.
  
• Added Hire option with negative response for certain NPCs.
  
• Prevented certain plot ships from being sold.
  
• Fixed problem with timing of money transfer to/from manager.
  
• Added means for NPCs to return to player ship from assignments.
  
• Fixed marines not showing up in player ship units.
  
• Fixed builder ship menu not updating player account.
  
• Fixed negative total yield amounts for asteroid fields.
  
• Fixed more inconsistencies in weapon counts.
  
• Fixed drone count calculation for ship trader.
  
• Fixed several issues with active mission/guidance info being disabled.
  
• Fixed missing/incorrect highway names in mission objectives.
  
• Fixed assigning a ship to a station without a manager.
  
• Removed "taglauncher" from encyclopedia.
  
• Removed civilian factions from encyclopedia.
  
• Fixed several encyclopedia layout issues.
  
• Fixed several issues with build/repair drones.
  
• Fixed incorrect cargo prediction based on shopping list data under certain circumstances.
  
• Fixed trade menus not keeping track of selected ship in some cases.
  
• Added default "protect" behaviour for ships in your squad.
  
• Improved capital ship fight behaviour.
  
• Fixed problem with ships not attacking.
  
• Fixed enemies not attacking correct target in certain circumstances.
  
• Fixed another cause of jumping ships ending up in invalid positions.
  
• Fixed player ship sometimes being in the wrong place after undocking.
  
• Fixed problem with engineer sometimes being paid twice for player ship repairs.
  
• Fixed incorrect player engine price calculation.
  
• Fixed incorrect weapon counts in ship menu.
  
• Ships working for a station no longer sell wares to their homebase (goods just transferred, no money involved).
  
• Shipyards and fuel stations should no longer run out of resources (may take a while to take effect).
  
• Fixed cargo drones bumping into hull of mining ships and blocking trade.
  
• Reduced likelihood of mining ships transferring more minerals to a station than it wants.
  
• Added hotkey for docking (Shift-D by default).
  
• Fixed welder drones appearing in property menu.
  
• Fixed "keycode NNN" appearing in Options menu.
  
• Fixed problem remapping keys used in Detail Monitor (C, I and G)
  
• Changed resource cost for ship-building in Omicron Lyrae
  
• Changed ships available for construction in DeVries
  
• Fixed URV Wharf module in Integrative URV Forge not producing drones
  
• Fixed scan sound being replayed for something that has already been scanned.
  
• Fixed scan highlighting not being properly removed when leaving cockpit.
  
• Fixed trade missions not completing.
  
• Fixed problem resulting in player getting stuck in Canteran air ducts.
  
• Fixed floating crate on Albion platform interior.
  
• Fixed floating ad signs and incorrect traffic at DeVries wheat station.
  
• Fixed DeVries shipyard interior orientation.
  
• Fixed lights in prison being too dark.
  
• Fixed bench obstructing hangar entrance of DeVries repair platform.
  
• Fixed NPC stuck in locker on DeVries repair dock.
  
• Fixed not being able to take cases out of cardboard boxes.
  
• Improved Russian localisation.
  
• Improved support for Chinese text.
  
• Fixed another problem with borderless window mode on certain hardware.
  
• Fixed freeze and memory-related crash caused by ships shooting excessively under certain circumstances.
  
• Fixed several more causes of crashes.
  
• More small performance improvements.

Patch 1.24 Hotfix 1 - 2014-02-14

• Increased amount of Fuel Cells produced per cycle by Cell Recharge Factories and decreased price.
  
• Improved logic for ship AI to refuel earlier.

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Patch 1.25 - 2014-02-26

Russian and French localisations of texts that are new to patch 1.25 are not yet included. These will be added as soon as possible.

• New Feature: Player-owned ships and stations can now be renamed.
  
• New Feature: Smalltalk reward allowing you to receive trade offer updates for a station remotely.
  
• Added logbook entries for refuelling, trade and building.
  
• Added call from manager when a station is low on credits.
  
• Added ship name when player gets a call requiring a response from a player owned ship.
  
• Fixed a cause of occasional crashes when loading savegame.
  
• Fixed a cause of occasional crashes during large battles.
  
• Fixed several other causes of occasional crashes.
  
• Fixed another cause of the game hanging after Alt-Tab.
  
• Added prices for small ships so that these can now be sold.
  
• Cargo value is now taken into account when selling a ship; you get roughly half it's value.
  
• Fixed price calculations for intermediate wares.
  
• Fixed two causes of disappearing ships and one of ships ending up in strange places.
  
• Fixed certain station elements being rotated incorrectly after loading a savegame.
  
• Fixed problem with random station elements being built and preventing further building.
  
• Fixed problem with small ships preventing building.
  
• Fixed problem with drones not being able to dock at certain mining ships.
  
• Fixed incorrect container amount being dropped from cargo drones.
  
• Fixed another issue with cargo collection.
  
• Fixed buy offers for more wares than can be stored.
  
• Fixed player being able to start multiple boarding operations on the same ship.
  
• Fixed abort button for boarding operations.
  
• Fixed info and comm options for externally docked ships.
  
• Fixed issue with operational range settings resulting in ships looking for trades in the wrong places.
  
• Improved station-owned mining ship AI to prevent station from filling with more resources than it wants.
  
• Improved shooting logic for NPC ships (more improvements to come).
  
• Fixed a problem resulting in inactive patrol ships.
  
• Fixed a problem with NPC beam weapons not firing correctly.
  
• Fixed tag darts occasionally tagging something other than their intended target.
  
• Added inter-system traders to DeVries.
  
• Fixed station scan mode remaining active when it shouldn't.
  
• Fixed rare case resulting in missing info points and dock icons.
  
• Fixed subordinate count in orders menu.
  
• Fixed incorrect trade status in ship menu.
  
• Fixed "+" button not working in map menu under certain circumstances.
  
• Fixed sold ships and collected drones being displayed as destroyed in the logbook.
  
• Added missing descriptions for systems to encyclopedia.
  
• Improved rewards after successful smalltalk on platforms, including trade subscriptions.
  
• Improved dialog structure to find people on platforms.
  
• Fixed missing architect on plot builder ship.
  
• Fixed player being sent to a hostile NPC when asking for directions.
  
• Fixed ships not in player squad requesting player input when out of fuel.
  
• Fixed visual flicker when returning to the cockpit from a platform.
  
• Fixed location of visor/glasses on certain NPCs.
  
• Fixed missing physics data when loading a savegame.
  
• Added graphics settings for SSAO, Glow and Distortion.
  
• Fixed incorrect display of certain options in graphics menu.
  
• Fixed incorrect resolutions when changing displays in borderless mode.
  
• Improved stability of job system and patch code with modified games.
  
• Added support for catalog files in mods.
  
• Added Korean localisation (text only).
  
• Added Spanish localisation (text only, incomplete but included to enable feedback to translators).
  
• Further optimisations resulting in small performance improvements, particularly on lower-end graphics hardware.

Patch 1.25 Hotfix 1 - 2014-03-10

• Improved stability of cutscene playback while on a platform.
  
• Fixed stuck drone production on URV Forge.
  
• Added French localisation for texts that were new in 1.25.
  
• Improved font for Russian localisation.

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Patch 1.30 - 2014-04-15

Localisations for text relating to the new Joystick Deadzone option are not yet included. These will be added as soon as possible.

• New Feature: Steam Workshop support.
  
• Improved support for joysticks and multiple input devices.
  
• Improved mining behaviour for all sizes of ships.
  
• Improved trade ship behaviour to favour profitable, non-empty runs.
  
• Improved station scan mode which no longer highlights objects that are not relevant.
  
• Improved attack and evasive maneuvers and AI.
  
• Improved flight pathing during normal flight, when following other ships, and when docking.
  
• Improved collector drone flight behaviour near large objects.
  
• Improved map handling of ship command hierarchies.
  
• Improved trade menu, including text search, sorting and colours.
  
• Improved appearance of small ships flying in lanes around stations.
  
• Enabled comm/info interactions with player property that is more than 10 km away.
  
• Added missions relating to the upkeep of ships and stations.
  
• Added new ship types to DeVries.
  
• Added list of platform NPCs to station menu (only available if you're in the same zone).
  
• Added more information and command hierarchy to player property menu.
  
• Added information to encyclopedia about stations/ships that can be built.
  
• Added option to stop displaying steering mode message.
  
• Fixed missing manager comm option.
  
• Fixed wrong mouse-steering mode being entered in some cases incorrectly when leaving a menu.
  
• Fixed several other incorrect or inconvenient menu behaviours.
  
• Fixed calculations for gathering certain resources out-of-sector.
  
• Fixed player being sent to NPCs on ships or on hostile stations when asking for directions.
  
• Fixed some objects left in construction state after building finished (still at least one rare case remaining).
  
• Fixed trade missions not completing if the station storage was full, notably the food trade plot mission.
  
• Fixed trade ships not stopping their current order after clearing their shopping list.
  
• Fixed trade orders for selling items using ships in player squad.
  
• Fixed ships blocking docking bays after having docking interrupted.
  
• Fixed incorrect docking icons under certain circumstances.
  
• Fixed not being able to unlock skills of defence officers on platforms.
  
• Fixed displayed total counts of stored units.
  
• Fixed drones that should have a commander appearing in property owned menu.
  
• Fixed destroyed drones not being properly removed from drone storage.
  
• Fixed incorrect ship position after leaving a highway with a menu open.
  
• Fixed stations creating trade offers with higher value than it can afford.
  
• Fixed building and production remaining paused after modules having been hacked.
  
• Fixed ships assigned to stations being incorrectly assigned mining jobs.
  
• Fixed outdated trade offer information appearing on event monitor.
  
• Fixed trade ships assigned to player stations sometimes not updating their range.
  
• Fixed object menu not restoring after closing station trade offers.
  
• Fixed production menu information not updating correctly.
  
• Fixed production showing very long production times in certain cases.
  
• Fixed production stalling due to stations filling up with intermediate wares.
  
• Fixed several pathfinding problems, which should prevent ships from flying through stations.
  
• Fixed ships equiping drones or ammo getting stuck in the shipyard.
  
• Fixed problem that could cause following ships to get stuck when the target changes zones.
  
• Fixed most cases of dropped containers being stuck inside each other (can still happen occasionally).
  
• Fixed architect destroying drones in storage without adding them to the station.
  
• Fixed issue with parking ships when manager (stations) or pilot (construction vessel) are not present.
  
• Fixed trade ships waiting too long for a free parking location when intended trade is no longer possible.
  
• Fixed calculation of required funds when trading with other player property.
  
• Fixed pilot not being placed on ship's platform.
  
• Fixed ships trying to go to the same coordinates by default.
  
• Fixed mining for medium size ships.
  
• Fixed incorrect mining order for ships which can't transport the mining wares.
  
• Fixed blocked trades involving discounts if there is only enough money for the discounted amount not the full amount.
  
• Fixed built ships not leaving the shipyard after shipyard construction module has been destroyed and subsequently repaired.
  
• Fixed several other cases of ships getting stuck, not moving when they should.
  
• Fixed owner of fuel station in Gemstone Manufacture.
  
• Fixed incorrect lasers being used by medium ice collector ships.
  
• Fixed problem with accuracy of time data in savegames with long play time.
  
• Fixed rotation of construction ships after flying to build location.
  
• Fixed visual glitch on map when targeting/entering/leaving highways.
  
• Fixed animation problem with highways in games with long play time.
  
• Fixed stalls when entering highways in savegames that have been saved/loaded many times.
  
• Fixed another cause of the game stalling for a short time.
  
• Fixed crash when loading certain savegames.
  
• Fixed several causes of apparently random crashes.
  
• Various optimisations resulting in performance improvements.
  
• Significant performance improvements on some AMD graphics cards, particularly R9.

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Patch 1.31 - 2014-05-06

Localisations for text relating to the Joystick Deadzone option introduced in 1.30 are not yet included.

• Fixed further problems with ship and station build, upgrade and repair processes.
  
• Fixed crash when starting game with more than 4 joystick devices installed.
  
• Fixed several other causes of occasional crashes.
  
• Improved handling of pre-1.30 savegame compatibility problems caused by mods leaving files in the root extension folder.
  
• Improved error reporting in crash dump files.

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Version 2.00 (183618) - 2014-05-20

• New Feature: Three new gamestarts, each with a new cockpit configuration.
  
• New Feature: Rebalanced combat with three difficulty settings.
  
• New Feature: Additional commands for your ships.
  
• New Feature: Autopilot can fly your ship while you are busy.
  
• New Feature: All new highway flight model.
  
• New Feature: Most tasks can now be performed without landing on stations.
  
• New Feature: Full screen HUD detail monitor option.
  
• New Feature: Clicks on event monitor now open relevant menus.
  
• New Feature: Map/radar on event monitor.
  
• New Feature: New ships in Omicron Lyrae.
  
• New Feature: Huge new Xenon ship.
  
• New Feature: Four new missile types.
  
• New Feature: Improved graphics for an even more beautiful universe.
  
• New Feature: New graphics options and presets.
  
• New Feature: New start menu scene.
  
• New Feature: New Steam achievements.
  
• Added support for up to 8 input devices (now even your pet octopus can get the most from the game).
  
• Added option to buy replacement player ship cockpit layout from certain traders.
  
• Added shield damage for collisions.
  
• Improved responsiveness of main menu and dialogs.
  
• Improved event monitor with more space for important information.
  
• Improved positioning of interface elements in first person mode.
  
• Improved production logic now skips products where the station has too much stock.
  
• Fixed gamepad mode switching on when axis has non-zero value while at rest.
  
• Fixed problem with wrecked state of ship/station surface elements not always being loaded from savegames correctly.
  
• Fixed collectable objects not showing a target element.
  
• Fixed gates not showing a target element.
  
• Fixed info points not being displayed at drone launch pads.
  
• Fixed cases where clicking on larger targets didn't work.
  
• Fixed rare instance of mission objective bar being stuck on screen.
  
• Fixed text field not being reset when closing and reopening trade menu.
  
• Fixed problems with overlapping/truncated text on first person event monitor.
  
• Fixed cases resulting in jumping target elements.
  
• Fixed incorrect text in certain conversations.
  
• Fixed icon size in licence encyclopedia entry.
  
• Fixed distance sorting in trade menu.
  
• Fixed capital ships becoming invisible when boosting while player is close.
  
• Fixed cases where build icons were displayed without a builder ship in the player squad.
  
• Fixed missing trade offers for architects with no money.
  
• Fixed rare case of missing target elements (usually build locations or player owned cap ships).
  
• Fixed cases where targeting objects using gamepad/joystick controls did not work correctly.
  
• Fixed trade restrictions menu getting stuck.
  
• Fixed several causes of occasional crashes.
  
• Various optimisations resulting in small performance improvements.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Jonathan "MAD Joker" Ziller whose NESA mod was a major source of inspiration for our version of the functionality to allow most tasks to be performed without landing on stations.

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Version 2.20 (184360) - 2014-06-27

• NEW: The 64-bit EXE is now the default. See below for more information.
  
• Fixed Secret Service missions constantly reminding player to talk to mission actor.
  
• Fixed campaign progressing unexpectedly when docking at station.
  
• Fixed player occasionally being in wrong position on platform when loading savegame.
  
• Fixed trade offers on player ships/stations occasionally not appearing in trade menu.
  
• Fixed claimed ships not showing up in property menu.
  
• Fixed ships continuing to move when ordered to wait.
  
• Fixed trade orders not being executed when ship has been ordered to wait.
  
• Fixed various cases of drones being unable to dock/return.
  
• Fixed missing docking bay on Wheat Plantation.
  
• Fixed missing container storage on Pharma-Spice Farm.
  
• Fixed missing MK2 weapons after completing plot (you may need to change zones before this kicks in).
  
• Fixed map not showing player stations.
  
• Fixed incorrect positions of some elements on map.
  
• Fixed menu slider controls breaking under certain circumstances.
  
• Fixed controls no longer working when opening ability menu on a platform.
  
• Fixed controller A-button not working after having left the cockpit while an interactive notification was displayed.
  
• Fixed station under construction becoming invisible after Alt-Tab.
  
• Fixed a leak causing savegames to grow slowly in size over time.
  
• Fixed several causes of occasional crashes.

64-bit

We are now sufficiently confident about the 64-bit version of the game to make this the default. Both 64-bit and 32-bit versions now include this information in the game's start menu. If you encounter serious problems with 64-bit and would like to try reverting to 32-bit then you can subscribe to the 32-bit "beta" using the Steam client. To start using the 32-bit version, right-click X Rebirth in the Steam client, select Properties and go to the Betas tab then select release_32 from the dropdown list. If you are running a 32-bit version of Windows you will automatically receive the 32-bit version of the game, though such Windows versions remain unsupported.

Note: The system requirements for the game have always stated that it requires a 64-bit version of Windows, and that future updates for the 32-bit version are not guaranteed indefinitely.

We suggest that if you create a savegame in 64-bit you use that savegame with subsequent 64-bit-versions only and do not load it into a 32-bit version. While we do not know of any issues in practice with savegames between the two versions, there is a theoretical possibility that you might corrupt your savegame to a point where it cannot be restored if you load a 64-bit savegame into a 32-bit version.

Steam does not currently support automatic crashdump upload for 64-bit applications. We are therefore using a third party tool to provide this facility. If there is a crash then a standard crashdump will be created and uploaded to the third party site, from where we can perform analysis to determine the cause. As with Steam crashdumps no personal information is included in these crashdumps.

Note: The primary aim of the 64-bit version is to remove the memory limitations of 32-bit. This should improve stability, because the game is less likely to run out of memory, and reduce stutter, because certain essential assets that cannot be loaded in the background can stay in memory for longer. It is not likely to significantly improve general performance, though it's possible that it may do so for certain people under certain circumstances.

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Version 2.50 (187052) - 2014-10-09[/b]

• New Feature: New side-bar based main menu.
  
• New Feature: External camera view.
  
• New Feature: Free look in cockpit.
  
• New Feature: New shipyards for small and medium sized ships.
  
• Added Drone Hunt generic mission.
  
• Added Protection Detail generic mission.
  
• Added Diplomatic Aid mission chain.
  
• Added respawning of specialists with increasing hire fees.
  
• Added incoming remotely ordered wares to item trader menu.
  
• Added auto-refuel setting.
  
• Added small ship traders.
  
• Added primary shields to large ships which did not already have them.
  
• Added "civil war" behaviour between Plutarch and Heart of Albion in Albion.
  
• Added ability to replace destroyed CVs so that station construction can can continue.
  
• Added ability to assign ships to other ships of same size or to any large ship.
  
• Added option to choose between stopping and maintaining speed while in menus.
  
• Added event monitor display to drone control mode.
  
• Added target elements for player-owned small ships.
  
• Added statistic for storage modules hacked.
  
• Added crash report option with privacy settings.
  
• Improved event monitor with "picture-in-picture" mode.
  
• Improved hacking gameplay.
  
• Improved engine animation and effects.
  
• Improved ship AI behaviour in numerous situations.
  
• Improved generation of mission enemies.
  
• Improved "Assign new superior" command.
  
• Improved ability menu to show when a drone is unavailable.
  
• Improved mission target indicator to point always to the closest mission target.
  
• Improved trade offers menu (shopping list is included in ship cargo).
  
• Improved docking behaviour of drones.
  
• Improved build tree menu user experience.
  
• Improved several mission briefings.
  
• Improved Open Comm Link menu in legacy main menu.
  
• Improved scan time for police scanning illegal activities.
  
• Improved lifetime of containers dropped from cargo bays.
  
• Improved remote controlled player drones flying back to the player ship.
  
• Improved rendering of distant objects to reduce flickering slightly.
  
• Improved Mission Bar so it no longer obstructs menus.
  
• Improved crash report content to help us find and fix causes of crashes.
  
• Fixed several plot and other mission issues.
  
• Fixed player ship cover faction not being reset from Xenon after plot.
  
• Fixed player ships returned during the plot being inactive.
  
• Fixed incorrect Player relations with Plutarch.
  
• Fixed Reiver reputation not being mutual in new games.
  
• Fixed drones not being able to return to their home base.
  
• Fixed an issue with station expansions not completing out-of-sector.
  
• Fixed multiple ship dealers per platform.
  
• Fixed escort ships disappearing after loading a savegame.
  
• Fixed a pathing issue for ships flying to stations.
  
• Fixed an issue with gas collectors not collecting.
  
• Fixed production module animations being stuck after having been out-of-sector.
  
• Fixed incorrect AI ship behaviour after having been forced out of a highway.
  
• Fixed several problems with drone docking.
  
• Fixed problems with transport drones not picking up containers.
  
• Fixed drones failing to get a new commander if theirs is destroyed.
  
• Fixed several mining bugs (resource gathering, movement, searching...).
  
• Fixed cases of player drones getting lost when you enter a highway.
  
• Fixed police not detecting illegal cargo in player inventory in many cases.
  
• Fixed station building not proceeding correctly when not in the player zone.
  
• Fixed refuel budget menu assuming that the trader has no money.
  
• Fixed case where build resources are requested for the playership.
  
• Fixed problem involving disappearing wares.
  
• Fixed managers pestering the player for money.
  
• Fixed stuck trade offers and refunded money to all participants.
  
• Fixed shields not protecting surface elements on several ships in Omicron Lyrae.
  
• Fixed jumpgates sometimes sending the player to invalid positions.
  
• Fixed mining drones not picking up asteroids in some cases.
  
• Fixed ships getting stuck waiting for drones.
  
• Fixed some ships not shooting at large objects.
  
• Fixed some trade ships ignoring trade opportunities for extended periods of time.
  
• Fixed storage calculations for intermediate products that caused storage requirements to be vastly overestimated.
  
• Fixed exploit allowing repeated instantly-profitable trades on shipyards.
  
• Fixed temporary loss of faction discounts when temporarily losing reputation.
  
• Fixed remote transport drones ending up in the player squad.
  
• Fixed station-to-station trades sometimes ending prematurely.
  
• Fixed dropped inventory items being picked up again immediately.
  
• Fixed picked-up objects disappearing due to timeout.
  
• Fixed several problems associated with hacking gameplay.
  
• Fixed mining drones being unable to return to some capital ships.
  
• Fixed Split "Gangrene Chaser" turrets disappearing and allow re-building.
  
• Fixed upgrade resources being counted twice for building.
  
• Fixed upgrade level rounding issues resulting in incorrect upgrade counts.
  
• Fixed ship category in encyclopedia for Hermod, Light Sul and Heavy Sul.
  
• Fixed inconsistent upgrade counts between encyclopedia and ship dealer.
  
• Fixed player ship selectable in Assign to Commander conversation.
  
• Fixed unidentified station modules having a name in the map.
  
• Fixed being able to remote comm NPCs in the same room.
  
• Fixed offset mouse position in borderless window mode.
  
• Fixed mouse confinement when starting the game in borderless window mode.
  
• Fixed minor button selection bugs in menus.
  
• Fixed issues with scrolling down in some menu tables.
  
• Fixed automatically changing selection in map menu.
  
• Fixed initial button selection in menus not being highlighted.
  
• Fixed rare cases of hotkey buttons not working.
  
• Fixed occasional freeze when opening the options menu.
  
• Fixed cases where the dialog menu was not displayed.
  
• Fixed mode options being available in the player ship's back room.
  
• Fixed left mouse clicks not closing ability/interact menus in some cases.
  
• Fixed double clicks on current target not always opening interact menu.
  
• Fixed stuck scroll-bar when returning to a previous menu.
  
• Fixed platform trader menu getting stuck with discounts.
  
• Fixed various other issues with UI and targeting behaviour.
  
• Fixed dialog or legacy main menu sometimes not showing buttons as selected.
  
• Fixed pressing ESC/DEL on loading screen returning to startmenu after loading is done.
  
• Fixed target cycling not working in highways.
  
• Fixed targets being lost in some cases.
  
• Fixed mission targets showing group target elements for ships instead of single ship target elements.
  
• Fixed certain invisible ship/station components being selectable as target.
  
• Fixed keyboard navigation selecting options from time to time.
  
• Fixed input actions and states mapped to axis on joystick 3-8 not working.
  
• Fixed ability to comm from a remote control drone using the "C" shortcut.
  
• Fixed stuck shift keys when alt-tabbing or changing window focus.
  
• Fixed station hints not being shown in non-plot games.
  
• Fixed mission offer locations being displayed when in a drone.
  
• Fixed weird camera behaviour when flying relative to moving capital ships.
  
• Fixed main menu font issue in Chinese and Korean.
  
• Fixed the boost effect not stopping in some situations.
  
• Fixed missing Ad Sign text in event monitor.
  
• Fixed wrongly-scaled buy ship menus on detail monitor.
  
• Fixed wrong message text when standard drones arrive via remote delivery.
  
• Fixed subtitles changing too fast for long lines.
  
• Fixed incorrect English voice lines for a Teladi speaker.
  
• Fixed excessively bright lights on certain objects.
  
• Fixed disappearing ice asteroids.
  
• Fixed missing advertising signs.
  
• Fixed several of the most common causes of crashes.
  
• Various optimisations resulting in performance improvements.

64-bit

The system requirements for the game have always stated that it requires a 64-bit version of Windows, and the 64-bit version of the game is now successfully in general use. This is likely to be the last major version for which a 32-bit executable is available.

[Ketraar]

Version 3.00 (189926) - 2014-12-11[/b]

• New Feature: Interactive holomap with mouse support, rotation, panning and automatic zoom between map levels.
  
• New Feature: Stations can now be built in Empty Space zones.
  
• New Feature: Dangerous regions that can damage your ship.
  
• New Feature: Crafting of special items.
  
• New Feature: New non-plot mission chains.
  
• New Feature: Employee training to improve skills.
  
• New Feature: Ware exchange between player ships and stations.
  
• New Feature: Subsystem target cycling.
  
• Added ability to run in first person mode.
  
• Added custom trade offer price settings.
  
• Added new kind of floating crate that must be opened by destroying locks.
  
• Added new trade and targeting software upgrades for the player ship.
  
• Added option to enable automatic refuel when ships call player if they are out of fuel.
  
• Added build progress display to monitor and map.
  
• Added option to display non-squad ships in Trade Offers menu.
  
• Added Patrol Zone order to continuously secure a zone.
  
• Added Gather Resources for mining in different zones.
  
• Added option to recall all drones.
  
• Added encyclopedia page showing station build costs.
  
• Added estimated profit to trade menus.
  
• Added default drone setups to ship dealer drone menus.
  
• Added encyclopedia button to trade details
  
• Added shortcut display to new main menu.
  
• Added shortcuts for property owned, player inventory and undock.
  
• Added ability to rename Empty Space zones once a player station has been built there (improves new feature in 3.0).
  
• Added reminder to restart game after enabling/disabling extensions.
  
• Added new in-game statistics.
  
• Added new tips.
  
• Added localisations and voice recordings for new texts (new text in 3.0).
  
• Added Broadcast order button to property owned menu.
  
• Added new order 'Withdraw from Battle' to stop firing, fly away from enemies and wait for new orders.
  
• Added support for expanding/collapsing the map menu list with right/left keys.
  
• Added feedback when player property is attacked out of sector.
  
• Added pancakes.
  
• Added Attack action to interact menu for non-player-owned ships and objects (replaces Hail).
  
• Added event and reputation loss when player-owned ship is scanned and has to drop illegal cargo.
  
• Added new achievements and statistics.
  
• Added ability to hack shield generators resulting in shields being drained immediately.
  
• Added boarding resistance display to ship info menu.
  
• Added estimated total price per build stage to station build cost in encyclopedia.
  
• Improved gamestart balancing.
  
• Improved smalltalk gameplay.
  
• Improved smalltalk reward balancing.
  
• Improved hacking gameplay.
  
• Improved AI turret avoidance.
  
• Improved AI fuel station selection to reduce queues at the pumps.
  
• Improved AI attack behaviour on fleets of capital ships.
  
• Improved AI missile target selection.
  
• Improved small fighter attacks on big targets.
  
• Improved enemy target selection in non-fighter capital ships defending themselves.
  
• Improved police scan behaviour, giving more time to drop illegal inventory items.
  
• Improved duration of station response after being attacked.
  
• Improved positioning of highway advertising signs to avoid traffic.
  
• Improved price calculation and discount system to make trading viable for a wider range of wares (new base prices to come).
  
• Improved balancing of police licence prices, bounty rewards and mission rewards.
  
• Improved refuelling behaviour so that local budgets are no longer wasted on fuel.
  
• Improved effect on production efficiency of station employees, including skill levels.
  
• Improved AI engineer balancing.
  
• Improved holomap colour settings.
  
• Improved sound levels to muffle outside sounds when on a platform.
  
• Improved Defending/Attacking reaction time of the Defence Officer's configuration.
  
• Improved 'Attack Object' to not trigger negative reputation before start shooting.
  
• Improved AI combat movement to use the correct maximum combat range.
  
• Improved balancing of Teladi XL combat ships.
  
• Improved flight movement of boosting capital ships.
  
• Improved fight music so that it now also plays if a nearby player-owned object is attacked or attacks an enemy.
  
• Improved NPC trade ship distribution to address supply/demand inconsistencies in the default universe
  
• Improved NPC mining ship behaviour for better resource distribution.
  
• Improved balancing of ware price ranges for more interesting trade opportunities.
  
• Improved balancing of resources required for drone and small/medium ship construction.
  
• Improved balancing of boarding gameplay.
  
• Improved engineer repair behaviour allowing higher-skilled engineers to repair to a higher level.
  
• Improved balancing of station component prices to better reflect their contribution to profitability.
  
• Improved balancing of chance for NPC pilots to bail out when attacked.
  
• Improved default follow flight behaviour for player owned ships.
  
• Improved 'Fly to my Current Position' flight behaviour.
  
• Improved feedback from player-owned ships when under attack.
  
• Improved audio feedback for hacking gameplay.
  
• Fixed occasional highway-related sound cut-out.
  
• Fixed builder ship positioning.
  
• Fixed respawning of hidden ships once claimed.
  
• Fixed hull sections of certain ships appearing wrecked when they shouldn't.
  
• Fixed further cases of production getting stuck when storage for some products is full.
  
• Fixed attack/defend configuration of Defence Officer not working in some cases.
  
• Fixed unfriendly NPCs allowing further question options after 'Where can I find...?'.
  
• Fixed Refuel command being displayed twice in the pilot info.
  
• Fixed command info showing 'Docking' when ships undocking.
  
• Fixed wares being listed as available for resource gathering on ships not capable of mining them.
  
• Fixed damage not being taken into account when selling ships.
  
• Fixed some wares being illegal even to Pirates, the Xenon and Ren himself.
  
• Fixed collection of station dropped cargo not being flagged as illegal activity.
  
• Fixed negative credits in logbook messages.
  
• Fixed missing remaining discount time.
  
• Fixed "unlocked" percentage being shown for player-owned objects.
  
• Fixed incorrect unit capacity calculation in trader menus.
  
• Fixed incorrect number of engines displayed in ship detail menu.
  
• Fixed production times in the info menu not updating.
  
• Fixed 'Account Updated' notification sometimes reporting double amounts, even when transferred amounts are correct.
  
• Fixed trades failing completely if pilot funds are not sufficient for entire amount.
  
• Fixed additional wares being transported if an empty transport drone is destroyed on its return trip.
  
• Fixed player-owned ships not completing current tasks when being added to or removed from the player squad.
  
• Fixed switches on platforms not working when the game was saved while they were activating or deactivating.
  
• Fixed ships with trade orders stuck in following player ship (stuck trades will be completed after current task).
  
• Fixed capital ships not shooting at some stations.
  
• Fixed station not attacking enemies in several situations.
  
• Fixed damage per second simulation for ships using missiles as weapons when player is not present.
  
• Fixed demolition drone ammo.
  
• Fixed remote controlled missiles not moving if player stops controlling them.
  
• Fixed mining ships potentially getting stuck when they are unable to unload their wares.
  
• Fixed ships not finishing planned trade trips in certain situations.
  
• Fixed ships behaving as though moving while actually standing still.
  
• Fixed ships getting stuck in highways.
  
• Fixed at least one cause of unexpected warping of player ship to a new location.
  
• Fixed cockpit camera movement not working when loading a savegame.
  
• Fixed missing voice feedback for some orders.
  
• Fixed incorrect NPC voice feedback when there are no explicit orders.
  
• Fixed minimum budget display not taking into account local prices.
  
• Fixed object positions on map when viewing a different sector.
  
• Fixed random initial mouse position when mouse cursor activated on platform.
  
• Fixed target cycling sometimes skipping a target or selecting the wrong one.
  
• Fixed rare case of current target being lost when cycling targets.
  
• Fixed problems targeting certain objects using gamepad controls.

32-bit

The system requirements for the game have always stated that it requires a 64-bit version of Windows, and the 64-bit version of the game is now successfully in general use.

There is no 32-bit version for 3.00. Please note that The Teladi Outpost DLC is not compatible with the final 32-bit release, 2.51.

[Lupo]

Version 3.10 (190048) - 2014-12-18

• Fixed problem with mission chains where no reward being given would result in the entire chain being failed.
• Fixed hacking mission with fewer than 6 target points being impossible to complete.
• Fixed player-owned ships in Teladi game start having no actions running.
• Fixed excessively long timeout for stuck ware exchanges (further fixes to prevent it happening to come in a future update).
• Fixed cockpit walk-in animation not stopping when quitting a cutscene early.
• Fixed cockpit placement on Omicron Trade ship obstructing a shieldgenerator.
• Fixed unreachable crate on ship platform.
• Fixed floating adsign on Omicron station.
• Fixed hull value of Albatross XL (Liquid).
• Fixed loss of "volatile" crafting wares when using external view or after loading savegame.
• Fixed rare ships appearing with "(Remove) Teladi Pirate" in their name.
• Fixed missing hull sections in certain ships since 3.0.
• Fixed UI/control lockup if autopilot is deactivated from within a menu.
• Fixed some more causes of potential crashes and improved crash reporting.

[Lupo]

Version 3.20 (190820) - 2015-02-03

• Added fuel info and planned trips to property owned menu.
• Added build progress info to architect order.
• Added credits due from trades to player status menu.
• Added boarding attack strength to player ship info menu.
• Added crafting progress info to event monitor when collecting crafting items.
• Added logbook entry for captured ships.
• Added killer information to logbook entry when player-owned objects are killed.
• Improved player station defence behaviour to include defence of ships.
• Improved guided missile flight behaviour when launching them.
• Improved Transfer Wares flight movement when docking and undocking.
• Improved price info in menus for ships at shipyards.
• Improved accuracy of click-recognition in mini-game.
• Improved ambient sounds.
• Fixed a case resulting in non-working highway entry gates.
• Fixed several cases where crafting wares were destroyed unexpectedly.
• Fixed cases of ships full of wares not performing correct behaviour if assigned to a station.
• Fixed ships assigned to stations not using all relevant wares when station extensions introduce new products.
• Fixed lockboxes ejecting wares when destroyed.
• Fixed rare case of missing specialists on stations in some newly-started games.
• Fixed player-owned ships reporting attacks by player.
• Fixed reputation not being lost when player-owned ships destroy objects.
• Fixed several issues with crafting missions.
• Fixed ship damage not being taken into account when selling ships.
• Fixed stuck production in some production modules in certain older savegames.
• Fixed incorrect boarding pod position when claiming an ownerless ship.
• Fixed case where damaged ships could become stuck when sold due to missing Engineer.
• Fixed command info incorrectly displaying 'Undocking' in several cases.
• Fixes clicks on zone map on objects in zones other than the current one.
• Fixed stuck holomap zoom if changing zoom direction under certain conditions.
• Fixed inconsistent behaviour when selecting gates on the holomap.
• Fixed rare case where map failed to display proper object.
• Fixed info locations not being visible while in Scanner/Hacker drone if Skunk is too far away.
• Fixed stations attacking objects that are too far away when player is not present.
• Fixed discount from "unknown faction" in certain gamestarts.
• Fixed unnecessary reputation loss events in some cases.
• Fixed some instances of overlapping text in menus.
• Fixed secondary resources usage.
• Fixed player-owned ships not reacting to neutral ships attacks.
• Fixed incorrect behaviour of ships escorting other ships when the escorted ship is destroyed.
• Fixed certain shipyards not having miner or collector drones in their inventory.
• Fixed weapon panel not showing the correct weapon for the Heavy Laser MK1.
• Fixed reversed buy/sell text in planned trips info in some cases.
• Fixed overlapping menu elements in equip drones menu.
• Fixed not being able to deploy a CV to a station which already finished construction.
• Fixed inconsistencies in ware exchange info between different UI displays.
• Fixed some cases where UI was not visible when it should have been.
• Fixed case where player could be locked out of mission offer due to UI issues.
• Fixed case where game stops accepting any input.
• Fixed UI crash in encyclopedia with very long descriptions.
• Fixed some cases of employee skills not being visible.
• Fixed mission timer not showing up in menus under certain circumstances.
• Fixed upkeep mission category being displayed if there are no upkeep missions.
• Fixed missing sound when clicking on menu close button.
• Fixed missing shield generators on Teladi Phoenix.
• Fixed missing fuel storage on Teladi Albatross (Liquid).
• Fixed problems caused by the game being installed in folders with names containing Unicode characters.
• Fixed some minor memory leaks.
• Fixed various crashes caused by issues introduced by mods.
• Fixed several causes of common crashes and improved crash reporting.