This is the official changelog for Starscape Update 4.1 of the Pre-Beta testing phase: the Abilities update.
Additions
- New Targeter upgrade slot which allows you to optimize your ship for dealing damage to different factions
- New Ability upgrade slot which allows you to equip one of three new abilities to further specialize your ship: the Afterburner, Signal Cloak, and Tractor Beam
- Players can now re-enter cloning tubes to edit their character appearance
- Trackers in space now have distance labels which tell you how far you are from an object
Changes
- Faction ships give variable standing decreases when destroyed instead of each one giving -20
- Drone Destroyers renamed to Drone Corvettes
- New mining laser sound effect
- Removed boost ability from all ships (replaced with afterburner ability)
- Slightly nerfed interceptor speeds and slightly buffed fighter speeds
- All ships are slightly more maneuverable
- Buy and sell prices are now more readable in store windows
Fixes
- Patched the infinite item/credits exploit
- Rewrote server startup code to prevent wrongly entering the system you just exited
- Planets and moons should now properly rotate
- Drones should now properly wait several seconds to attack a player after they exit warp
- Attempted a fix for falling into the void
- Attempted improvements to nebula (space dust) performance
- The starter mission should now complete for those stuck on the final step