Patch 4.30 (11 December 2017)

New Feature: All-new quick menu.

New Feature: Target locking when using gamepad.

Added zoom buttons to map.

Added back button to Start/Options menu and Encyclopedia to allow use with mouse only.

Added tabs to quickly switch between Property Owned, Inventory and Weapon Mods menus.

Added shortcut to correct inventory trader in the Remote Comm menu from the Inventory menu.

Added flight-assist note when flight assist is disabled.

Added pause message when options menu is displayed.

Added chance to acquire trade agents for defeating hostile ships close to a station.

Added option to use the entire range of a slider for forward speed.

Added empty weapon slot to missile cycle.

Added ability to click on certain monitors in player cockpit to open specific menus (use NumPad to look down).

Improved AI fight/flee behaviour (again!).

Improved price calculation logic for stations with multiple production modules.

Improved targeting behaviour especially when using gamepad.

Improved organisation and labelling of controls in control configuration menu.

Improved mission bar design for better readability.

Improved visual appearance of ability menu.

Improved mouse picking in the ability menu so that hovering the cursor over the hotkey buttons correctly selects the button.

Improved mission target behaviour by reducing ping-effect in scenarios where there are more than 8 mission targets.

Improved cases where turning the ship switched displayed target elements a lot.

Improved tutorial missions and fixed several issues with them.

Improved highway flight by allowing roll axis to steer left/right instead of doing nothing.

Improved replacement of architects.

Improved mission enemy balancing.

Improved game over animation.

Improved behaviour of L and XL mining ships assigned to warehouses.

Improved interaction with crates/buttons/hack panels by doubling interact distance.

Improved preset profile for Saitek X52 to make use of changed interact menu positions.

Improved input mapping options (NOTE: some input profiles, especially for joysticks, may need to be reset).

Changed maximum distance of location-based icons to reduce icon clutter on station approach.

Changed main menu to deactivate steering while it is open.

Changed interact menu layout to be usable for 4-directional joystick POVs.

Replaced gamepad controls menu with auto targeting menu..

Fixed fighters dismissing valid targets if they are far from their commander.

Fixed Xenon not spawning in Albion on higher difficulty levels.

Fixed ships warping between unconnected highways.

Fixed Plasma Cannon Mk3 not having area damage.

Fixed NPCs on platforms engaging in smalltalk even if no smalltalk dialog option available.

Fixed Assign Trading Ship upkeep mission for warehouses being impossible to accomplish..

Fixed several other smaller mission issues.

Fixed drone dealer hint text.

Fixed successful player kill being registered if they destroyed a crate they were supposed to collect.

Fixed event monitor opening and closing directly when switching to external view under certain circumstances.

Fixed very rare case of broken event monitor.

Fixed very rare cases of incorrect colors being displayed in the UI.

Fixed rare cases of interact button (A on gamepad) stopping working.

Fixed full stop action not aborting boost while throttle is at 0, e.g. with gamepad.

Fixed first person rotation being much too slow in certain cases.

Fixed very rare case resulting in an event monitor being displayed in 1st-person or inside the drone HUD when it shouldn't.

Fixed target elements being stuck in-place with the opening interact menu.

Fixed saving game in a damage area being a death sentence.

Fixed reward notifications spamming with very short delay,

Fixed cases where target elements were missing on ships.

Fixed rare cases where the target elements or interact menu would be displayed behind the crosshair.

Fixed rare cases of hull/shield bars being displayed for obstructed targets without a target element.

Fixed cases where target elements appeared to flicker wildly.

Fixed case of crosshair arrows pointing to incorrect position.

Fixed case in which the selected menu line was not scrolled into view when pressing Up key.

Fixed cases of Enter key having no effect.

Fixed case of game being stuck on pause when UI is reloaded while game is paused.

Fixed cases where the game paused text vanishes even though the game is still paused.

Fixed cases where game unpauses automatically, e.g. Alt-Tabbing out and back.

Fixed issue with using non-bidirectional throttle together with gamepad mode.

Fixed missing particle effects when loading a savegame.

Fixed missing ship trails in highways.

Fixed disappearing engine trails for ships entering and leaving gates and highways.

Fixed missing normal map on floor in the Teladi gamestart station.

Fixed inability to change a Construction Vessel's orders before it starts moving to deploy.

Fixed problem with SETA not remaining deactivated while holding down fire button.

Fixed small and medium ships not considering fleeing after deciding to attack.

Fixed squadron subordinates attacking non-combat ships on sight when not attacked first.

Fixed Trade Deals menu breaking if a ship's queued trades are all with other ships.

Fixed player getting notifications for player-owned Construction URVs and Cargolifters getting destroyed.

Fixed area damage of Plasma Mk3 being overpowered when shooting without charging.

Fixed damage calculations for certain weapons.

Fixed ROVs not moving to dock.

Fixed welding effects of build and repair drones not appearing after loading a savegame.

Fixed warehouse trade ware prices not being locked to average price in some savegames.

Fixed rare issues with targeting objects using the gamepad.

Fixed lost steering input after closing a menu in certain cases.

Fixed short freeze when trying to cycle missiles when none are present.

Fixed NPC warehouses not trading at average price (for real this time).

Fixed moving the mouse not activating mouse mode reliably at high framerates.

Fixed inconsistency with "target closest object" behaviour.

Fixed causes of several rare crashes.

Various small performance improvements.
Patch 4.10 Hotfix (23 October 2017)

Fixed crash when starting the game after Windows 10 Fall Update.
Patch 4.10 (24 April 2017)

Added ammunition display to detail menus of ships and stations.

Improved font readability in certain cases.

Improved crosshair visual quality.

Improved slider bar behaviour for large range values.

Improved positioning of minigame display to try to avoid obstructing other elements.

Improved output errors caused by mods which generate certain UI problems.

Improved output from errors caused by Steam configuration issues when trying to start game.

Improved AI fight/flee behaviour.

Improved squadron engagement logic.

Improved combat movement for capital ships with forward-mounted weapons.

Improved determination of zone in which to mine for station-based mining ships.

Improved station-based miners engaged in inter-sector mining.

Improved defence officers on capital ships now target surface elements of hostile ships.

Improved movement from explicit player-given movement order.

Improved capital ship movement in areas with many asteroids (asteroids now break when rammed by a capital ship!).

Improved mouse cursor hotspot in OSX/Linux version.

Fixed several issues with Chinese localisation.

Fixed scroll-bar overlapping frame background in menu in some languages.

Fixed sliders in some menus starting somewhere in the middle rather than at the left.

Fixed notoriety bar not displaying correct LED-states in certain cases.

Fixed several crosshair behaviour and appearance issues.

Fixed several other minor UI visual glitches.

Fixed NPC command not updating correctly in menu.

Fixed sound position of long range scan echoes.

Fixed Xenon capital ships being boardable.

Fixed mining laser getting weapon mods that affect cooling.

Fixed Withdraw From Battle not holding fire.

Fixed squadron escorts not moving to attack in some cases.

Fixed trades getting disrupted by ships fleeing.

Fixed escape pods not moving after being ejected.

Fixed capital ships sometimes getting stuck trading, especially with other ships.

Fixed ships and stations not becoming hostile when their trade drones are destroyed.

Fixed rounding issues causing engineers to sometimes not make progress when repairing hull.

Fixed several issues with ship pathing.

Fixed rare cases of untargetable icons being displayed or comm-actions being listed incorrectly in the interact menu.

Fixed relation mismatch between the Argon Secret Service Licence and the mission rewarding it.

Fixed Argon Secret Service Licence not being able to be regained when achieving the required Argon relation.

Fixed engagement distance tolerances for capital ships moving in combat.

Fixed long-range scan hints appearing too often.

Fixed R&D Chem Lab stations requiring Bio-Optic Wiring during construction.

Fixed subordinates of capital ships taken from the player during the plot ending up in a broken state.

Fixed weapon mod menu being available on NPC ships.

Fixed circular command structures when assigning multiple ships a commander.

Fixed request to repair ship resulting in new drones being installed instead.

Fixed case of fleeing ships failing to do so.

Fixed crash starting game on a PC with more than 8 graphics devices.

Fixed external view being in the wrong position when activated for the first time.

Fixed ships sometimes ending up in wrong positions after loading a savegame.

Fixed cases where player drones bounced off the ship instead of docking.

Fixed ship traders failing to determine the amount of ammunition currently equipped.

Fixed long range scanners not detecting objects in adjacent zones.

Fixed passengers being commable from space, allowing them to be picked up.

Fixed Xenon P being generated for missions more often than it should

Fixed ships patrolling while guarding something, occasionally getting continuously distracted.

Fixed construction drones flying to incorrect positions.

Fixed cases where ships took unnecessary detours into potentially dangerous areas, especially in Home of Light.

Fixed inability to move with a capital ship if a station is nearby (especially the large Split station in Maelstrom).

Fixed mouse input being enabled for flight or first person movement while a game overlay is active.

Fixed inability to leave a highway while a menu is open.

Fixed problems with targeting objects in various cases.

Fixed endless loop when loading a savegame in certain cases.

Fixed several small memory leaks.

Fixed several causes of crashes.

Fixed a cause of performance drain and memory leak affecting long play sessions, particularly large battles.

Numerous small performance improvements.