This has been a whirlwind to make.

The imminent update brings a ton of overhauls and metagame progression, in addition to new content.

Expect a tutorial revamp and even more content in the next updates. Until then, enjoy!

Side note: Destination Ares' price will now be rising to it's release level, in anticipation of the upcoming launch. :)

Metagame Progression

• Unlock content by spending advancement points
• Gain advancement points from achievements
• Gain advancement points from completed runs New Ships
• Caelifera, a tiny new starter ship for beginner players to learn the ropes
• Mantodea, a difficult but powerful ship for veterans

New Roles

• Electrician — +2 Mechanical when repairing systems that consume energy
• Maimed — Reduced movement speed
• Athlete — Increased movement speed, less likely to get maimed
• Military — increased priority when tasking (currently locked)

Balance Changes

• HUD Warnings about beds, toilets, and kitchens now better account for ignored systems
• Loneliness hits unconscious crew for less. Likely harder to get a death from it now, but also more likely to result in psychotic breaks (and dying while in a psychotic state)
• Nerfed total loneliness amount
• Added chance to become permanently maimed when falling unconcious from an injury
• Low mass ships stay on course a bit better
• Added storage leak HUD warning
• Helms lose a *little* less raw speed when adjusting the ship
• Events now give you all their resources (even if you can't store them)
• Fuel cells have 1 latent capacity (even when turned off, but not when broken), in addition to the capacity gained while turned on
• Reactors' 8 latent capacity now goes away when broken
• Increased driftiness of ship (go offcourse less)
• Crew will take more care of their needs
• Increased hunger resistance
• Reduced distance to Ares

Customization Options

• Personalities can now be chosen in ship building, under crew appearance
• Tons more ship stats unlockable: thrust, navigation, capacity, mechanical score, science score, command score, energy production, materials prod., oxygen recycling + prod., fuel prod., food prod., waste prod., and waste recycling

Fixes and Quality of Life Improvements

• Killed a crash bug that's been around since ancient times! (fk yeah!!)
• Cut the opening exposition down a bunch
• Unplaced objects now trashed from your hand when opening menus in ship building
• In-game achievement announcements
• Detrimental roles are now colored red in tooltips
• Event results now tracked correctly when result tags are off
• Mouse pings show regardless of wildly different scene setups
• Space dust is more uniform in speed (still a little differentiated for parallax)
• Camera controls more lenient and spacious
• Turned off system audios in ship building (it was annoying af)
• Turned base music levels down a bit
• More menu fading
• Added reminder on controls bar on how to lock it open
• A few minor HUD & UI tweaks