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Patch 0.8.2 - New mission, new frigate, and custom key-mappings

Gameplay

- Added a new standalone mission Colonists
- Added a new Outer Belt frigate that comes in civilian and military variations
- Increased rail-gun ammo-capacity
- Reduced collision-damage significantly
- Spectator-cam now defaults to a random top-view when selecting ships
- Removed thrust-mode rings in both tutorials
- Tutorial dialog now dynamically shows current key-bindings

UI

- Rearranged the Controls menu to make room for new key-bindings

Input

- All keyboard-bindings (with a few exceptions) are now customizable from the Controls menu
- Added ability to choose from 3 different joystick-sliders
- Joystick-throttle now handles forward and backwards movement
- Added joystick-slider option for lateral-movement
- Default joystick-button-mapping changed to Thrustmaster Hotas X

Visuals

- New asteroids added to most missions
- Rearranged components on Korado freighter
- Created a habitable planet with rings
- Re-textured large Boreas-asteroid

Audio

- Gun and thruster sounds are now muffled (somewhat) when in 1st person view

Bugs

- Fixed several bugs causing campaign-progress to be lost
- Corrected issue with some frigates using the wrong thruster-sounds
- Fixed issue with muzzle-sounds not being attached to guns

Core

- Implemented DirectInput keyboard support
- Improved overall performance by minimizing controller-polling