StarFrame Update — August 17, 2026

17 Aug 2026Developer post

⚔️ Combat

Lasers now have tracking. A target crossing your nose fast takes reduced laser damage, down to 25% at worst. Head-on or chasing a target is unaffected. Higher-tier lasers track worse.
Lasers fall off past 7 km. Full damage inside 7 km, zero at 10 km. Max range is unchanged.
Missiles need a finished target lock to fire. Lock Breaker now actually stops missiles until the lock is rebuilt.
Missile pirates fight at missile range. They used to close to 1.5 km no matter what they had fitted.
Cloaked ships and pods no longer trigger den reinforcements.
Reporting your killer works when they jump out or relog. The report follows the pilot, not the session. Kill board rows no longer show a blank attacker.

Craft quality and XP lock in when the job starts. Finishing a job after levelling up no longer improves the result.
Datacore training applies wherever you are when it finishes. You no longer fly back to collect a skill level.
Jobs run and settle while you're in a rift.
One Datacore at a time is enforced across the whole system. Same for premium job slots and research. Jobs already running are untouched; new starts past the limit are refused.

Premium licences bought from another system land on your account immediately. Cancelled licence sells refund correctly.
Cancelling an order in another system can no longer lose the escrow. The refund survives crashes and outages.
Corp names are unique. Founding a corp with a taken name is refused.

Your corp, war tab, jobs, orders, and both boards all show inside a rift. The assets tab follows in a later client update.

Station management shows Low Power with a countdown in days and hours. No more raw seconds.
Depots have their refuel button back.
Refining jobs list the item being refined.
No more skill gain/loss spam entering or leaving the arena.
Upkeep notices arrive in the GAME tab, once per login. They no longer repeat in faction chat.
Cancelling a remote buy says the escrow was returned. It used to say "remote sale."
MOVE ALL and deposit options are hidden in the arena.
Firing missiles without a lock says so.
The scan rig badge reads "sensor range."

Fixed outpost hangars, parked ships, and purchased station space being wiped by a server restart.
Fixed remote buys delivering goods for free after the order already refunded during an outage.
Fixed corp applications landing in the wrong corp when two corps shared an internal id.

Restart Steam to pick up the update.