This release mainly focuses on the Ease of Use. While not as massive as the previous release, it still has quite a few improvements worth checking. It is also a more “professional” release with most of the small bugs and annoyances fixed. The only reported issue I wasn’t able to fix in time is that the game will be extremely sluggish if you have, for a reason or another, disabled Windows’ “Themes” service. As usual, the full article will explain the improvements into more details but here are the main points:

• Save menu with several slots + quick save/load keyboard shortcuts

• Customize your own faction with tech groups, traits and laws

• A whole new large and symmetrical map

• Many improvements regarding the user interface

• Rebalanced of all existing weapons and shields, added new ones too.

• Improved graphical effects (new bullets, better rotations, denser nebulas …)