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- Station interiors are less accessible (more doors don't open) unless particular missions require travelling beyond shut doors.
- Reduced station accessibility reduces the chances to interact with NPCs but this has also become less necessary:
- Trade Agents (or cash rewards) are now occasional rewards for shooting hostile NPCs near stations.
- Hirable NPCs will show their skills when asked. It's no longer necessary to use Small Talk rewards, or hire them, first.
- Reduced station accessibility may relate to problematically being unable to ask hireable NPCs their locations in 4.20 HF2:
- This applies to Engineers, so when there are few, we have to find a Workshop dock (spanner icon) to get the Skunk repaired. It is not clear if this is an intentional change or one that could be adjusted in future patches.
User Interface changes
- New buttons have been added to the Inventory menu (Sidebar, 2-1-3) for the Property Owned and Weapon Modification menus.It is no longer possible to ask an NPC their location in order to find them on stations easily. This makes it harder to repair the Skunk. This may not be an intentional change.
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Other changes
- When entering the cargo area of the Skunk while in space, Yisha will be there too. She can be commed and offers access to several regular menus.
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