Eight-Zero fully overhauls combat, fleshes out piracy, and a new opening questline to Absolute Infinity. The editor has been fully reworked, and the engine has been upgraded to be even more extensible than before.

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Combat Overhaul

Combat is now punchier, leveraging the full physics simulation added last update. Players are now free to customize their ships loadouts by swapping hard points or applying upgrade modules. Weapons have their own strengths, weaknesses, and price points.

Piracy

Systems now have a chance to randomly spawn pirate dens - pockets of space with enemies to defeat and loot to claim. Missions on the job board will ask you to clear these dens out and restore order to the system in exchange for money.

Graphics

There is now a basic lighting system in the game, casting shadow on parts of objects not facing the sun. This effect can be disabled, as it performs poorly in the software renderer

Intro Quest

The intro quest has been reworked to make the tutorial an optional side component of the intro. Several bugged quests have been temporarily disabled.

Full Changelog

• Added randomly spawning encounters
• Added pirate hunting missions
• Added a new introduction quest
• Added a new tutorial quest
• Added new icons
• Added back manual page
• Added pixelation effect
• Added quickstart to console
• Added width to console
• Added height to console
• Added + syntax to run console commands from command line arguments
• Added screenshot tool (F2)
• Added extermination job type
• Added a basic lighting system
• Added Freedom as a possible name for NPC ships
• Added randomly generating NPC ship names
• Added quest markers on the local map (not the galaxy map)
• Added the ability to customize ship loadouts
• Added an outfitting panel to the station
• Added a bunch of ship upgrade modules
• Added a button to switch to the most ready hardpoint
• Updated ship combat, only one weapon can be active at a time now
• Updated DataProvider to parse data definitions from tagname and not filename
• Updated buttons to use icons
• Updated torpedo sprite
• Updated background colors for star systems
• Updated player draw order so it is always on top
• Updated hot-reload to use F4 instead of F2
• Updated select in-game text to be more suitable for children
• Updated NPC AI
• Updated the hint system to work in StoryScript
• Updated ship shields only to recharge a few seconds after taking damage
• Updated build system to reduce executable size by ~30 mb
• Fixed lag spikes in map
• Fixed redundant allocation
• Fixed jaunt drive ranges being recalculated needlessly
• Fixed kills causing crashes
• Fixed limpets not mining some asteroids
• Fixed faulty journal data corrupting save files
• Fixed off by one bug causing the wrong objective to show up in the journal
• Fixed weird blending effects on the edge of smoke effect
• Fixed typo in the physics engine causing faulty angle resolution
• Fixed some lag spikes when opening menus

Editor

• Completely overhaul editor
• Added a file explorer panel
• Added a tab-based system for editing models
• Added text (XML/JSON) editor modes
• Added reachability checks to Conversations
• Added a launch game button
• Added fact validation
• Fixed clipboard not working