• Japanese and French are here — the game now speaks 8 languages: Portuguese, English, Chinese, Korean, Russian, German, Japanese and French.
• PIERCING LASER reworked — the beam now grows from an emitter that charges at the ship's nose and releases a shock ring when it fires.
• Derelict ship — the type 7 UFO's disc gave way to a drifting hull.

IMPROVEMENTS

• Levelling a weapon up is now called out on the HUD and at the centre of the screen.
• Graveyard ships are scaled to the threat they actually pose.
• SHADOW IX in the enemy fleet now descends straight like a cruiser, without the fighter's sway.

FIXES

• Correct line breaking in Chinese, Korean and Japanese — no more words split down the middle.
• Each language uses its own font stack, so ideograph strokes render properly.
• The achievement toast no longer clips the title, and now shows up in Japanese and French.
• Ship achievements quote the name shown on screen.
• The intro, ending, credits and robot speech bubbles were missing Japanese.
• The screen no longer goes blank when the window reports zero size.