FUNCTIONALITIES

- added new defense drones

• can be build in the assembling machine
• costs: 150 brass, 150 copper, 300 iron
• can be deployed from disposer
• can be retrieved from salvager

- reworked chat to have separate channels for crew, fleet, ship, server, and all chat

- chat now supports scrolling

- systems faction influence can now be influenced by player actions, killing aliens for example lowers their presence and doing missions for a faction increases their influence

GRAPHICS

- added light to assembling machine that pops on when something is ready

- added new particles for bullets

SOUND

- added new music to main menu

BALANCE

- rebalanced stock and price deviants of alien biomatter, and rare resources

- aliens and drones now fire in bursts

- added store-o-tron to the black pit

BUG FIXES

- freecam (F3) now locks character (can no longer use "E" to activate anything)

- players are no longer able to send empty messages in the chat

- missions are now generated when nobody is on stations

- fixed play solo game menu button

- holomap now resets in rift generator after rift jump, fixing issues with range indication on systems (now turn red on correct distance)

- after a rebuild, stored ships can be retrieved on any stor-o-tron in that system, instead of from all stor-o-tron near the station that ships were stored on

- fixed issues with word wrap in confirm menus

- fixed issues invisible physics mesh for turrets

- signs should no longer show edit mode briefly when entering their range

- removed device from holotable 1, which spawned a holosphere scene on the origin point of a ship

- fixed nullref crash in invite player to fleet gui

NOTES

- servers need to be updated and rebuilt using the F8 admin menu