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Documented changes (official notes from Egosoft):

Version 4.00 RC3 (208311)  
• New 2016-02-25

• New Feature: Bulletin Bulletin board system to keep track of offered missions.  
• New • New Feature: Beta 3 Major Beta 3 Major overhaul of external view (enabled menus, target elements, external view in highways, and more).   Feedback welcome.  
• New • New Feature: Beta 4 Economy Beta 4 Economy logging and statistics (feature now fully functional).  
• New • New Feature: Beta 4 Time Beta 4 Time acceleration using SETA (feature now fully functional, any SETA obtained before this release will be removed on loading).  
• New • New Feature: Beta 3 New Beta 3 New mission to obtain player ship jump drive (feature now available).  
• New • New Feature: Beta 3 New Beta 3 New missions to hack stations and obtain rare or valuable items.  
• New • New Feature: Beta 3 You Beta 3 You can now find and craft rare weapon modifications that increase your weapon's stats when installed.  
• New • New Feature: Flight Flight School tutorial.  
• Added 'Fly to position' order selecting a position via map click (Replaces 'Fly to Zone' order).  
• Beta 3 Added
• Beta 3 Added ability to access various features (event monitor/info point interaction, comms, mission/trade offers, etc.) while remote controlling drones.  
• Beta 3 Added
• Beta 3 Added event monitor and ability to open menus while remote controlling a torpedo (improves feature introduced in 4.00).  
• Beta 3 Added
• Beta 3 Added ability to claim ownerless capital ships by placing NPC on platform.  
• Beta 3 Added
• Beta 3 Added current target as default destination for autopilot hotkey (Shift+A), uses mission objective as before if no target set.  
• Beta 3 Added
• Beta 3 Added new Nyanae ships to Omicron Lyrae, replacing the Gigurum ships there.  
• Added heat damage from engine jets.  
• Beta 3 Added
• Beta 3 Added new "very hard" difficulty level.  
• Beta 4 Added
• Beta 4 Added navigation skill influence on effectiveness of AI pilots.  
• Beta 4 Added
• Beta 4 Added efficiency influence on cooling rate so that some weapons (e.g. Pulsed Maser) don't stop building up heat when damaged.  
• Beta 4 Added
• Beta 4 Added mouse look for camera rotation in all external views and in the cockpit (default is middle mouse button).  
• Beta 4 Added
• Beta 4 Added new M-sized traders to Republic of Cantera faction.  
• Beta 4 Added
• Beta 4 Added notification if a player squad drone was lost or killed.  
• Beta 4 Added
• Beta 4 Added missing ion and plasma resource fields to Maelstrom.  
• Beta 4 Added
• Beta 4 Added weapon modifications as possible but rare mission rewards (improves feature introduced in 4.00).  
• Beta 4 Added
• Beta 4 Added BBS functionality to more missions (improves feature introduced in 4.00).  
• Beta 4 Added
• Beta 4 Added voice recordings (in English, German and French) for texts that are new in 4.0.  
• Beta 5 Added
• Beta 5 Added new options to legacy main menu (for new features introduced in 4.00).  
• Beta 5 Added
• Beta 5 Added NPC population to player owned stations.  
• Beta 5 Added
• Beta 5 Added indication of unread entries to encyclopedia.  
• Beta 5 Added
• Beta 5 Added mouse-over tooltips for various conversation options.  
• Beta 5 Added
• Beta 5 Added option to switch mouse look button to be a toggle rather than having to hold it down (improves feature introduced in 4.00).  
• Beta 5 Added
• Beta 5 Added status report notifications during boarding.  
• Beta 5 Added
• Beta 5 Added new variation to mission where player must clear an area of explosives.  
• Beta 5 Added
• Beta 5 Added jump drive and fuel storage to Xenon I.  
• Beta 5 Added
• Beta 5 Added in-game links to tutorial videos.  
• Beta 6 Added
• Beta 6 Added axis labels to holomap.  
• Beta 6 Added
• Beta 6 Added NPC flee and retreat maneuvers based on skills.  
• Beta 6 Added
• Beta 6 Added drones launching from stations depending on Defence Officer skills.  
• Beta 6 Added
• Beta 6 Added revealing of NPC skills when they are hired.  
• Beta 6 Added
• Beta 6 Added new achievements (currently all named "Coming Soon", to be updated later).  
• Beta 6 Added
• Beta 6 Added money statistics for employees (improves feature introduced in 4.00).  
• RC1 Added • RC1 Added autosave once per hour if no docking autosave takes place in that time.  
• RC2 Added • RC2 Added several new in-game tutorials.  
• Beta 6  • Beta 6 [HoL] Added new Generic Mission 'Scan Anomaly'.  
• Beta 6  • Beta 6 [HoL] Added new mission chain in Toride.  
• Added savegame compression.  
• Beta 3 Removed
• Beta 3 Removed option to replace a working architect, which broke the both of them!  
• Beta 4 Removed
• Beta 4 Removed legacy shaders.  
• Beta 7 Removed
• Beta 7 Removed restriction on number of entries in station shopping lists.  
• RC1 Removed • RC1 Removed CVs from ship list in trade deals menu (new feature introduced in 4.00).  
• Beta 5 Replaced
• Beta 5 Replaced "Broadcast" order with orders for multiple selected ships in the Property Owned menu.  
• Improved small ship AI to use boost in combat situations based on pilot skills.  
• Improved behaviour when following mission target using autopilot.  
• Improved HUD toggle now toggles more elements and works in more cases.   Feedback welcome.  
• Beta 3 Improved
• Beta 3 Improved speed of medium sized ships.  
• Beta 5 Improved
• Beta 5 Improved gate transitions for capital ships, with better entry positions and a queue system.  
• Beta 5 Improved
• Beta 5 Improved missiles cycling, skipping missiles for which you currently have no ammunition.  
• Beta 5 Improved
• Beta 5 Improved event monitor display when picking up multiple containers in space at the same time.  
• Beta 5 Improved
• Beta 5 Improved SETA, no longer stops when steering and stops less often in highways (new feature in 4.00).  
• Beta 5 Improved
• Beta 5 Improved balancing of NPC ship group sizes in Hard and Very Hard difficulty.  
• Beta 5 Improved
• Beta 5 Improved max skill engineers so they can now repair hull up to 100%.  
• Beta 5 Improved
• Beta 5 Improved balancing of weapon mod statistics (new feature in 4.00).  
• Beta 5 Improved
• Beta 5 Improved weapon mod UI (new feature in 4.00).  
• Beta 6 Improved
• Beta 6 Improved visualization of jumpgate directions.  
• Beta 6 Improved
• Beta 6 Improved quality of local lights.  
• Improved mouse accuracy in menus.  
• Improved station manager logic to better coordinate multiple owned ships.  
• Improved FXAA colour-correction.  
• Beta 3 Improved
• Beta 3 Improved highway entry/exit sounds.  
• Beta 3 Improved
• Beta 3 Improved crash reports to indicate whether game has been modified.  
• Beta 3 Improved
• Beta 3 Improved balancing of ship prices (increased price of container transporters by 50%, reduced other medium sized ships by 25%).  
• Beta 3 Improved
• Beta 3 Improved NPC behaviour when flying through Jump Gates to clear the area.  
• Beta 3 Improved
• Beta 3 Improved accuracy of combat damage calculations when player is not present.  
• Beta 4 Improved
• Beta 4 Improved balance of pirate wings for easy and normal difficulty.  
• Beta 4 Improved
• Beta 4 Improved auto-aim behaviour when not firing at cursor.  
• Beta 4 Improved
• Beta 4 Improved docking behaviour of ships.  
• Beta 4 Improved
• Beta 4 Improved guided missiles flight behaviour.  
• Beta 4 Improved
• Beta 4 Improved target selection using gamepad controls.  
• Beta 4 Improved
• Beta 4 Improved text quality for smaller fonts in some rare cases.  
• Beta 4 Improved
• Beta 4 Improved readability of target element texts.  
• Beta 4 Improved
• Beta 4 Improved event monitor to show information about environment object in drone mode (improves feature introduced in 4.00).  
• Beta 4 Improved
• Beta 4 Improved cargo capacity of Nyanae traders in Omicron Lyrae slightly (improves feature introduced in 4.00).  
• Beta 4 Improved
• Beta 4 Improved behaviour of ships trading with warehouse stations.  
• Beta 7 Improved
• Beta 7 Improved station drone launching.  
• Beta 7 Improved
• Beta 7 Improved mission reward balancing.  
• Beta 7 Improved
• Beta 7 Improved AI pathing.  
• RC1 Improved • RC1 Improved crafting of weapon mods (improves feature introduced in 4.00).  
• RC1 Improved • RC1 Improved mission bar positioning and appearance.  
• RC1 Improved • RC1 Improved holomap presentation.  
• RC1 Improved • RC1 Improved balancing of rewards for new Clear Explosives mission variant (improves feature introduced in 4.00).  
• RC1 Improved • RC1 Improved balancing, timing and behaviour of Pirate ship groups.  
• RC1 Improved • RC1 Improved shielding of drone launch pad for Balor.  
• RC2 Improved • RC2 Improved visibility of target arrows in external view on bright backgrounds. (new feature in 4.00)  
• RC2 Improved • RC2 Improved radar range of all CVs from 12km to 32km.  
• RC2 Improved • RC2 Improved mission guidance.  
• Beta 7  • Beta 7 [HoL] Improved Toride mission chain.  
• RC1  • RC1 [HoL] Improved balancing of number of water traders in Home of Light, Cold Star and Toride.  
• Changed default setting for menu display from "Side Console"-mode to "HUD"-mode.  
• Fixed trade ships assigned to stations not respecting their new commander's subordinate range.  
• Fixed being able to issue multiple transfer orders for the same wares when using ware exchange with a station.  
• Fixed another scenario that could lead to incorrect amounts of unavailable units.  
• Fixed incorrect quantity of bought fuel cells on 'Refuel' order if the ship had already some fuel.  
• Fixed several bugs with Marauder Pirates not being able to steal dropped containers from their targets.  
• Fixed several cases resulting in ships getting stuck when following other ships out-of-sector.  
• Fixed missing command info for mining drones and for transport drones picking up ware containers.  
• Fixed stations complaining when player destroys an ownerless ship.  
• Fixed broken game controls after interacting with a trade offer while controlling a drone.  
• Fixed aim-at-indicator being displayed incorrectly when remote controlling a drone.  
• Fixed rare cases where objects showed incorrect outlines.  
• Fixed encyclopedia display of maximum speed for capital ships.  
• Beta 3 Fixed
• Beta 3 Fixed player ship sometimes jumping positions when changing zones while flying on autopilot.  
• Beta 3 Fixed
• Beta 3 Fixed engine ambient sound volume and pitch not working correctly during autopilot.  
• Beta 3 Fixed
• Beta 3 Fixed autopilot stopping when following a ship that changes zones.  
• Beta 3 Fixed
• Beta 3 Fixed autopilot continuing when entering a remote-controlled drone.  
• Beta 3 Fixed
• Beta 3 Fixed remote controlled missiles not moving while entry animation is running.  
• Beta 3 Fixed
• Beta 3 Fixed AI roll rotation in several flight behaviours.  
• Beta 3 Fixed
• Beta 3 Fixed small AI ships ramming into the player when boosting in some combat situations (problem introduced in 4.00).  
• Beta 3 Fixed
• Beta 3 Fixed event monitor hints overlapping the "Press F" text on the HUD eventmonitor.  
• Beta 3 Fixed
• Beta 3 Fixed capital ships boosting backwards or sideways.  
• Beta 3 Fixed
• Beta 3 Fixed broken aim indicator when controlling a drone.  
• Beta 3 Fixed
• Beta 3 Fixed station owned in Empire Builder not being able to replace Construction Vessel.  
• Beta 3 Fixed
• Beta 3 Fixed plot Construction Vessels being boardable.  
• Beta 3 Fixed
• Beta 3 Fixed station managers losing their account when involved in ware exchange trades.  
• Beta 3 Fixed
• Beta 3 Fixed ships on autopilot sometimes not accelerating to full speed (e.g. when player ship leaves a highway).  
• Beta 3 Fixed
• Beta 3 Fixed player ship getting stuck at the exit of a highway if a menu is open.  
• Beta 3 Fixed
• Beta 3 Fixed Xenon fighters being capturable.  
• Beta 3 Fixed
• Beta 3 Fixed being able to shoot dumbfire missiles backwards in external view.  
• Beta 4 Fixed
• Beta 4 Fixed broken jumpdrive not allowing refuel order to be given (still not allowed if jumping required to refuel).  
• Beta 4 Fixed
• Beta 4 Fixed garbled text on target elements in Russian localisation.  
• Beta 4 Fixed
• Beta 4 Fixed accumulating highway ad signs.  
• Beta 4 Fixed
• Beta 4 Fixed calculation error with recommended budget resulting in value sometimes being too high.  
• Beta 4 Fixed
• Beta 4 Fixed incorrect flight orientation on AI drones and Xenon fighters.  
• Beta 4 Fixed
• Beta 4 Fixed wrong rotation on the mining movement of medium miners.  
• Beta 4 Fixed
• Beta 4 Fixed player ship auto-roll when menus are open and the auto-roll option is off.  
• Beta 4 Fixed
• Beta 4 Fixed capital ships flying too slowly or getting stuck when avoiding other ships.  
• Beta 4 Fixed
• Beta 4 Fixed certain ships not being able to pick up collectables.  
• Beta 4 Fixed
• Beta 4 Fixed Active Missions menu getting stuck during tutorial.  
• Beta 4 Fixed
• Beta 4 Fixed dark or black loading screen when pressing ESC quickly after starting a new game.  
• Beta 4 Fixed
• Beta 4 Fixed player being able to click on invisible UI elements, such as while HUD not displayed.  
• Beta 4 Fixed
• Beta 4 Fixed several missions not cleaning up properly.  
• Beta 4 Fixed
• Beta 4 Fixed traders having too much scrap metal.  
• Beta 4 Fixed
• Beta 4 Fixed hack panel missions telling the player to return to ship when docked.  
• Beta 4 Fixed
• Beta 4 Fixed case where jump drive mission would not show mission objective to jump to a jump beacon (problem introduced in 4.00).  
• Beta 4 Fixed
• Beta 4 Fixed case where jump drive mission would not end because an objective got stuck (problem introduced in 4.00).  
• Beta 4 Fixed
• Beta 4 Fixed problems with the player auto pilot going through jump gates.  
• Beta 4 Fixed
• Beta 4 Fixed tumbling highway ships when the player exits highway.  
• Beta 4 Fixed
• Beta 4 Fixed production resource consumption not being calculated correctly in rare cases.  
• Beta 4 Fixed
• Beta 4 Fixed double "Cr" in logbook messages for money transfer for Fuel Cells.  
• Fixed area damage increasing with lower framerates.  
• Fixed issue where a 'static' effect remained over the event monitor during the plot.  
• Fixed Particle Repeater weapons building up heat slower at higher framerates.  
• Fixed player ship not being able to enter highways with an open menu.  
• Fixed rare case of missing highway/gate/ship group target elements after starting/loading a game.  
• Fixed rare case of non-working input controls after starting/loading a game.  
• Fixed interact menu not always being on top of other target elements when using mouse/gamepad controls.  
• Fixed current target not always on top of all other target elements.  
• Fixed target elements not always on top of other target elements which are further away.  
• Fixed rare cases of clicking on a target element actually targeting another object.  
• Fixed target elements jumping when interacting with it while controlling a drone.  
• Fixed rare cases of crosshair showing weird animations.  
• Fixed rare cases of UI issues when switching to/from external and/or drone view.  
• Fixed cases where weapon panels showed startup animation in cases other than entering the ship.  
• Fixed various trade price discrepancies in menus due to incorrect rounding.  
• Enabled radar while remote controlling drones.  
• Fixed target elements being visible through the player ship and player drone in external view (new feature in 4.00).  
• Fixed aim-at-indicator being displayed in external target view mode (new feature in 4.00).  
• Beta 3 Fixed
• Beta 3 Fixed missing target elements when switching from target view to external view (new feature in 4.00).  
• Fixed heat damage from engines applying to the ship the engines belong to (new feature in 4.00).  
• Beta 3 Fixed
• Beta 3 Fixed heat damage from engines still being applied when engine is wrecked (new feature in 4.00).  
• Beta 3 Fixed
• Beta 3 Fixed heat damage from engines not being applied after ship changes zone (new feature in 4.00).  
• Fixed incorrect truncation when displaying money in menus (problem introduced in 4.00).  
• Beta 3 Fixed
• Beta 3 Fixed case incorrectly allowing player to target objects in external target view (problem introduced in 4.00).  
• Beta 3 Fixed
• Beta 3 Fixed black cockpit monitors when undocking from a station/ship while in external view (problem introduced in 4.00).  
• Beta 3 Fixed
• Beta 3 Fixed bad flight paths that sometimes could occur when NPCs navigate through areas with dangerous regions (problem introduced in 4.00).  
• Beta 3 Fixed
• Beta 3 Fixed occasional graphical flash on entering a highway (problem introduced in 4.00).  
• Beta 3 Fixed
• Beta 3 Fixed clothing on some character appearring black (problem introduced in 4.00).  
• Beta 4 Fixed
• Beta 4 Fixed game over not showing player ship explosion sound or visual effects.  
• Beta 4 Fixed
• Beta 4 Fixed game starting in non-default full-screen resolution when running it for the first time.  
• Beta 4 Fixed
• Beta 4 Fixed voice samples for several encyclopedia entries in German localisation.  
• Beta 5 Fixed
• Beta 5 Fixed excessive marine loss when attack strength slightly higher than defence strength.  
• Beta 5 Fixed
• Beta 5 Fixed Transfer Wares order not working between small/medium ships and Construction Vessels.  
• Beta 5 Fixed
• Beta 5 Fixed very rare cases where target elements were missing or being displayed when they shouldn't be.  
• Beta 5 Fixed
• Beta 5 Fixed missing drone docks on warehouse stations (new feature introduced in 4.00).  
• Beta 5 Fixed
• Beta 5 Fixed inconsistent checkbox state on certain menus (new feature introduced in 4.00).  
• Beta 5 Fixed
• Beta 5 Fixed double sound effects in certain menus.  
• Beta 5 Fixed
• Beta 5 Fixed ship capture chance ignoring hull state.  
• Beta 5 Fixed
• Beta 5 Fixed various issues with economy statistics (new feature in 4.00).  
• Beta 6 Fixed
• Beta 6 Fixed several cases of small ships stuck and not following other ships into Highways.  
• Beta 6 Fixed
• Beta 6 Fixed line selection in sector map with many zones.  
• Beta 6 Fixed
• Beta 6 Fixed hitting a destroyed lock on a lockbox blowing up the lockbox.  
• Beta 6 Fixed
• Beta 6 Fixed some cases of drones flying far away before docking on their launchpads.  
• Beta 6 Fixed
• Beta 6 Fixed loading of buy/sell configuration for trade wares from savegame.  
• Beta 6 Fixed
• Beta 6 Fixed case of production not progressing to next possible item if current item is blocked.  
• Beta 6 Fixed
• Beta 6 Fixed drone resource cost (problem introduced in 4.00).  
• Beta 6 Fixed
• Beta 6 Fixed upgrade resource calculation (problem introduced in 4.00).  
• Beta 6 Fixed
• Beta 6 Fixed multi-sell on small ship trade (new feature in 4.00).  
• Beta 6 Fixed
• Beta 6 Fixed Weaponsmith achievement (new feature in 4.00).  
• Beta 6 Fixed
• Beta 6 Fixed partial wrecking of certain ships.  
• Beta 6 Fixed
• Beta 6 Fixed blending at screen edges with FXAA.  
• Beta 7 Fixed
• Beta 7 Fixed cases of ships fleeing while docking or executing trades.  
• Beta 7 Fixed
• Beta 7 Fixed target loss and failure to target in certain cases.  
• Beta 7 Fixed
• Beta 7 Fixed ships being able to rotate with all engines destroyed.  
• Beta 7 Fixed
• Beta 7 Fixed incorrect mass-traffic for Xenon station.  
• Beta 7 Fixed
• Beta 7 Fixed stuck ships at highway entrances.  
• Beta 7 Fixed
• Beta 7 Fixed problems with station supply delivery.  
• Beta 7 Fixed
• Beta 7 Fixed stations warning the player when attacking ownerless ships.  
• Beta 7 Fixed
• Beta 7 Fixed several cases of small and capital escort ships not shooting or being stuck.  
• Beta 7 Fixed
• Beta 7 Fixed several cases of capital ships not boosting flying between zones.  
• Beta 7 Fixed
• Beta 7 Fixed capital navigation issues due to bad alignment to the boosting orientation.  
• Beta 7 Fixed
• Beta 7 Fixed cases where ships cross jump gates and only use them after turning back.  
• Beta 7 Fixed
• Beta 7 Fixed some cases of capital ships not defending themselves when being attacked.  
• Beta 7 Fixed
• Beta 7 Fixed some cases of mining ships not collecting tagged asteroids on Mining mode.  
• Beta 7 Fixed
• Beta 7 Fixed hacked ships still being able to use their jump drive.  
• Beta 7 Fixed
• Beta 7 Fixed several cases of ships being invisible, or appearing and disappearing (problem introduced in 4.00).  
• Beta 7 Fixed
• Beta 7 Fixed issue with activating auto pilot from a menu while near a large object.  
• Beta 7 Fixed
• Beta 7 Fixed pre-selected line in menus not being on-screen in all situations.  
• Beta 7 Fixed
• Beta 7 Fixed mouse steering being active initially when starting a game in some cases.  
• Beta 7 Fixed
• Beta 7 Fixed text overlapping mission objective bar.  
• Beta 7 Fixed
• Beta 7 Fixed muffled exterior sounds after loading a savegame while on a platform without quitting to main menu.  
• RC1 Fixed • RC1 Fixed some zones not being visible from inside nearby highway.  
• RC1 Fixed • RC1 Fixed visibility range of huge asteroid in Verdant Profit.  
• RC1 Fixed • RC1 Fixed external camera view on mass traffic ships aborting when zooming out too far.  
• RC1 Fixed • RC1 Fixed external target view being zoomed out far too much on some ships.  
• RC1 Fixed • RC1 Fixed cockpit camera movement not working directly after loading a savegame.  
• RC1 Fixed • RC1 Fixed missing icon for selected mass traffic ship in external target view in some situations (problem introduced in 4.00).  
• RC1 Fixed • RC1 Fixed obstructed target elements when docked at Teladi capital ships.  
• RC1 Fixed • RC1 Fixed several issues with mission guidance involving highways.  
• RC1 Fixed • RC1 Fixed stations not always being connected to each other with mass traffic if there is more than one highway nearby.  
• RC1 Fixed • RC1 Fixed case where having the auto pilot follow a jumping capital ship could make the player end up in an invalid position.  
• RC1 Fixed • RC1 Fixed engines on small ship wrecks sometimes appearing not to be wrecked even though they are wrecked and do not function.  
• RC1 Fixed • RC1 Fixed relative movement when entering the Skunk's back room.  
• RC1 Fixed • RC1 Fixed trading menus not remembering previous sort settings (problem introduced in 4.00).  
• RC1 Fixed • RC1 Fixed equip drone/missile trades not updating when scheduled.  
• RC1 Fixed • RC1 Fixed rounding issue in trade price display.  
• RC1 Fixed • RC1 Fixed escape pods immediately self-destructing (problem introduced in 4.00).  
• RC1 Fixed • RC1 Fixed ships assigned to a commander not working after receiving a new Captain.  
• RC1 Fixed • RC1 Fixed lockboxes dropping useless Boarding Experience seminars (problem introduced in 4.00).  
• RC1 Fixed • RC1 Fixed upkeep missions to transfer credits not completing if the wanted amount was reduced.  
• RC1 Fixed • RC1 Fixed Game Paused message text not being centered.  
• RC1 Fixed • RC1 Fixed throttle feedback sound being played when pressing "full stop" key while in a menu.  
• RC1 Fixed • RC1 Fixed menu crash when viewing certain modules of R&D Chem Labs in the Encyclopedia.  
• RC1 Fixed • RC1 Fixed huge savegames caused by economy statistics data (problem introduced in 4.00).  
• RC2 Fixed • RC2 Fixed external view camera getting too close to the player ship (problem introduced in 4.00).  
• RC2 Fixed • RC2 Fixed incorrect throttle setting when returning from the Skunk's back room while being dragged along by a capital ship.  
• RC2 Fixed • RC2 Fixed trade ships remaining passive when new planned trips are added while undocking after last planned trip.  
• RC2 Fixed • RC2 Fixed capital ships losing combat drones that tried to follow enemies into highways.  
• RC2 Fixed • RC2 Fixed erratic autopilot movement when flying near station's surface elements.  
• RC2 Fixed • RC2 Fixed inventory ware entries not being marked as read in the encyclopedia (new feature in 4.00).  
• RC2 Fixed • RC2 Fixed 'Withdraw from Battle' order not properly working in some situations.  
• RC2 Fixed • RC2 Fixed several cases of lost combat drones launched from capital ships.  
• RC2 Fixed • RC2 Fixed player owned escort capital ships having wrong behaviour when their commander's captain is replaced.  
• RC2 Fixed • RC2 Fixed rare cases of ships teleporting after giving new fly orders if they were moving previously.  
• RC2 Fixed • RC2 Fixed some cases of area damage not working correctly.  
• RC2 Fixed • RC2 Fixed follow behavior for squad ships, where occasionally bumped the Skunk.  
• RC2 Fixed • RC2 Fixed Minimum Recommended Budget for drones/missiles sometimes not updating correctly (problem introduced in 4.00).  
• RC2 Fixed • RC2 Fixed builder ships not being able to receive wares from stations in high attention.  
• RC2 Fixed • RC2 Fixed transport drones taking too much time to reach their destination.  
• RC2 Fixed • RC2 Fixed rare cases of incorrectly positioned elements in menus.  
• RC2 Fixed • RC2 Fixed cases where no mission target was displayed.  
• RC2 Fixed • RC2 Fixed crosshair not showing mission target arrow.  
• RC2 Fixed • RC2 Fixed targeting issues in gamepad mode.  
• RC2 Fixed • RC2 Fixed several issues with event monitor during campaign.  
• RC2 Fixed • RC2 Fixed too frequent "Incoming missile" warnings.  
• RC2 Fixed • RC2 Fixed various cases of ships and other objects that moved too far away from any known zones.  
• RC2 Fixed • RC2 Fixed issues with certain savegames taking an excessively long time to load.  
• RC3 Fixed • RC3 Fixed collision avoidance being active when controlling a torpedo.  
• RC3 Fixed • RC3 Fixed ships becoming invisible, especially during escort missions.  
• RC3 Fixed • RC3 Fixed autoaim being very inaccurate for weapons with a weapon mod (new feature in 4.00).  
• RC3 Fixed • RC3 Fixed repair drones getting damaged by their owner's engines (new feature in 4.00).  
• RC3 Fixed • RC3 Fixed boarded capital ship escorts continuing to escort after boarding.  
• RC3 Fixed • RC3 Fixed pirate station being selected for hacking mission in plot (new feature in 4.00).  
• RC3 Fixed • RC3 Fixed tutorials placing objects in highways (new feature in 4.00).  
• RC3 Fixed • RC3 Fixed "collectables" tutorial sometimes getting stuck (new feature in 4.00).  
• RC3 Fixed • RC3 Fixed flight school not aborting when another tutorial starts (new feature in 4.00).  
• RC3 Fixed • RC3 Fixed object menu layout with NPC subordinate ships.  
• RC3 Fixed • RC3 Fixed build upgrade selection not preselecting lines correctly (problem introduced in 4.00).  
• RC3 Fixed • RC3 Fixed buttons in upkeep section of mission manager menu (new feature in 4.00).  
• RC3 Fixed • RC3 Fixed trade transactions with outdated amounts (new feature in 4.00).  
• RC3 Fixed • RC3 Fixed price and profit calculation in trade deal case (new feature in 4.00).  
• RC3 Fixed • RC3 Fixed green trade deals menu (new feaature in 4.00).  
• RC3 Fixed • RC3 Fixed missing text for Onil engine.  
• RC3 Fixed • RC3 Fixed external camera clipping through the playership in highways (problem introduced in 4.00).  
• Beta 5  • Beta 5 [TTO] Fixed playership being immovable on first game start in very rare situations.  
• RC1  • RC1 [TTO] Fixed some navigation issues with NPC ships flying to Albion gate in Fields of Oportunity.  
• Beta 5  • Beta 5 [HoL] Fixed player-owned warehouses being magically filled with certain wares and configured to trade these when a manager is assigned.  
• Beta 4  • Beta 4 [HoL] Fixed capital ships attempting to trade with Home of Light CVs getting stuck.  
• Beta 4  • Beta 4 [HoL] Fixed police ships in Home of Light belonging to PMC!  
• Beta 5  • Beta 5 [HoL] Fixed missing tradeoffer locations on Home of Light builder ships.  
• Beta 6  • Beta 6 [HoL] Fixed missing dock for m-sized ships on TerraCorp HQ (completes fix not correctly applied in 4.0 Beta 5).  
• Beta 7  • Beta 7 [HoL] Fixed new HoL weapons not being taken into account for Pimp My Ride achievement.  
• RC2  • RC2 [HoL] Fixed transitions from local highways into superhighways in Home of Light.  
• RC3  • RC3 [HoL] Fixed Terracorp not having licence traders.  
• RC3  • RC3 [HoL] Fixed various issues with Ship in Distress and Xenon Incursion missions.  
• Beta 7  • Beta 7 [OSX] Fixed ship repairs not working.  
• Fixed game freezing when quitting the game with Alt+F4 while in loading screen.  
• Fixed startup issues with corrupted or incorrect DLLs in Windows system directory.  
• Fixed several small memory leaks.  
• RC2 Several • RC2 Several more small performance and memory optimisations.  
• RC3 Fixed • RC3 Fixed more causes of crashes.  

Known Issues Issues

The following issues in this version are known and may be fixed in a forthcoming update. 
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• Using Alt-Tab during fullscreen video playback will cause video/sound to get out of sync (workaround: press Esc to skip video).

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•  The K (and possibly I) FIGHT ship can be boarded very easily and captured (either they were meant to not be board-able or very difficult to do so).
  

Undocumented changes (player notes; may be inaccurate; tending to be minor background things):

• Beta 2 Added new gates to "unknown systems" in Maelstrom and Albion (potentially DLC-related).
• Beta 2 Added 2nd Jump Beacons added to Vapor Stream (MA/DV) and Indignity (BR/MA). For Skunk and/or Unitrader? Image Removed 
• Beta 2 Added mission availability to Crystal Castle and Badlands Colony via the Bulletin Board.
• Beta 2 Changed the speed of several L and XL ships (less so than M ships). 
• Beta 2 Changed the Added mission availability to Crystal Castle and Badlands Colony via the Bulletin Board.
• Beta 2 Changed the speed of several L and XL ships (less so than M ships). 
• Beta 2 Changed the name for a Manager's range setting to "Trading Operational Range" for clarity.
• Beta 2 Improved formatting of thousands along the lines of jth's recent mod. 
• Beta 2 Improved organisation of Settings section of the main Options Menu (small but handy to know).
• Beta 2 Fixed missing shield generator coverage over Vulture Jump Tunnel Devices.
• Beta 3 Fixed PLASMA/JET Turrets doing substantially increased damage (problem introduced in 4.00).
• Beta 4 Introduction of a new Trade Deals menu for finding the best deals for a given ship.
• Beta 5 6 Improved layout of Economy statistics page (new feature in 4.0).
• Beta 6 Improved trading of stations' trading of stations' intermediate wares .