Version 2.50 Release (187052)  
 
• New Feature: New side-bar based main menu.  
• New Feature: External camera view.  
• New Feature: Free look in cockpit.  
• New Feature: New shipyards for small and medium sized ships.  
• Added Drone Hunt generic mission.  
• Added Protection Detail generic mission.  
• Added Diplomatic Aid mission chain.  
• Added respawning of specialists with increasing hire fees.  
• Added incoming remotely ordered wares to item trader menu.  
• Added auto-refuel setting.  
• Added small ship traders.  
• Added primary shields to large ships which did not already have them.  
• Added "civil war" behaviour between Plutarch and Heart of Albion in Albion.  
• Added ability to replace destroyed CVs so that station construction can can continue.  
• Added ability to assign ships to other ships of same size or to any large ship.  
• Added option to choose between stopping and maintaining speed while in menus.  
• Added event monitor display to drone control mode.  
• Added target elements for player-owned small ships.  
• Added statistic for storage modules hacked.  
• Added crash report option with privacy settings.  
• Improved event monitor with "picture-in-picture" mode.  
• Improved hacking gameplay.  
• Improved engine animation and effects.  
• Improved ship AI behaviour in numerous situations.  
• Improved generation of mission enemies.  
• Improved "Assign new superior" command.  
• Improved ability menu to show when a drone is unavailable.  
• Improved mission target indicator to point always to the closest mission target.  
• Improved trade offers menu (shopping list is included in ship cargo).  
• Improved docking behaviour of drones.  
• Improved build tree menu user experience.  
• Improved several mission briefings.  
• Improved Open Comm Link menu in legacy main menu.  
• Improved scan time for police scanning illegal activities.  
• Improved lifetime of containers dropped from cargo bays.  
• Improved remote controlled player drones flying back to the player ship.  
• Improved rendering of distant objects to reduce flickering slightly.  
• Improved Mission Bar so it no longer obstructs menus.  
• Improved crash report content to help us find and fix causes of crashes.  
• Fixed several plot and other mission issues.  
• Fixed player ship cover faction not being reset from Xenon after plot.  
• Fixed player ships returned during the plot being inactive.  
• Fixed incorrect Player relations with Plutarch.  
• Fixed Reiver reputation not being mutual in new games.  
• Fixed drones not being able to return to their home base.  
• Fixed an issue with station expansions not completing out-of-sector.  
• Fixed multiple ship dealers per platform.  
• Fixed escort ships disappearing after loading a savegame.  
• Fixed a pathing issue for ships flying to stations.  
• Fixed an issue with gas collectors not collecting.  
• Fixed production module animations being stuck after having been out-of-sector.  
• Fixed incorrect AI ship behaviour after having been forced out of a highway.  
• Fixed several problems with drone docking.  
• Fixed problems with transport drones not picking up containers.  
• Fixed drones failing to get a new commander if theirs is destroyed.  
• Fixed several mining bugs (resource gathering, movement, searching...).  
• Fixed cases of player drones getting lost when you enter a highway.  
• Fixed police not detecting illegal cargo in player inventory in many cases.  
• Fixed station building not proceeding correctly when not in the player zone.  
• Fixed refuel budget menu assuming that the trader has no money.  
• Fixed case where build resources are requested for the playership.  
• Fixed problem involving disappearing wares.  
• Fixed managers pestering the player for money.  
• Fixed stuck trade offers and refunded money to all participants.  
• Fixed shields not protecting surface elements on several ships in Omicron Lyrae.  
• Fixed jumpgates sometimes sending the player to invalid positions.  
• Fixed mining drones not picking up asteroids in some cases.  
• Fixed ships getting stuck waiting for drones.  
• Fixed some ships not shooting at large objects.  
• Fixed some trade ships ignoring trade opportunities for extended periods of time.  
• Fixed storage calculations for intermediate products that caused storage requirements to be vastly overestimated.  
• Fixed exploit allowing repeated instantly-profitable trades on shipyards.  
• Fixed temporary loss of faction discounts when temporarily losing reputation.  
• Fixed remote transport drones ending up in the player squad.  
• Fixed station-to-station trades sometimes ending prematurely.  
• Fixed dropped inventory items being picked up again immediately.  
• Fixed picked-up objects disappearing due to timeout.  
• Fixed several problems associated with hacking gameplay.  
• Fixed mining drones being unable to return to some capital ships.  
• Fixed Split "Gangrene Chaser" turrets disappearing and allow re-building.  
• Fixed upgrade resources being counted twice for building.  
• Fixed upgrade level rounding issues resulting in incorrect upgrade counts.  
• Fixed ship category in encyclopedia for Hermod, Light Sul and Heavy Sul.  
• Fixed inconsistent upgrade counts between encyclopedia and ship dealer.  
• Fixed player ship selectable in Assign to Commander conversation.  
• Fixed unidentified station modules having a name in the map.  
• Fixed being able to remote comm NPCs in the same room.  
• Fixed offset mouse position in borderless window mode.  
• Fixed mouse confinement when starting the game in borderless window mode.  
• Fixed minor button selection bugs in menus.  
• Fixed issues with scrolling down in some menu tables.  
• Fixed automatically changing selection in map menu.  
• Fixed initial button selection in menus not being highlighted.  
• Fixed rare cases of hotkey buttons not working.  
• Fixed occasional freeze when opening the options menu.  
• Fixed cases where the dialog menu was not displayed.  
• Fixed mode options being available in the player ship's back room.  
• Fixed left mouse clicks not closing ability/interact menus in some cases.  
• Fixed double clicks on current target not always opening interact menu.  
• Fixed stuck scroll-bar when returning to a previous menu.  
• Fixed platform trader menu getting stuck with discounts.  
• Fixed various other issues with UI and targeting behaviour.  
• Fixed dialog or legacy main menu sometimes not showing buttons as selected.  
• Fixed pressing ESC/DEL on loading screen returning to startmenu after loading is done.  
• Fixed target cycling not working in highways.  
• Fixed targets being lost in some cases.  
• Fixed mission targets showing group target elements for ships instead of single ship target elements.  
• Fixed certain invisible ship/station components being selectable as target.  
• Fixed keyboard navigation selecting options from time to time.  
• Fixed input actions and states mapped to axis on joystick 3-8 not working.  
• Fixed ability to comm from a remote control drone using the "C" shortcut.  
• Fixed stuck shift keys when alt-tabbing or changing window focus.  
• Fixed station hints not being shown in non-plot games.  
• Fixed mission offer locations being displayed when in a drone.  
• Fixed weird camera behaviour when flying relative to moving capital ships.  
• Fixed main menu font issue in Chinese and Korean.  
• Fixed the boost effect not stopping in some situations.  
• Fixed missing Ad Sign text in event monitor.  
• Fixed wrongly-scaled buy ship menus on detail monitor.  
• Fixed wrong message text when standard drones arrive via remote delivery.  
• Fixed subtitles changing too fast for long lines.  
• Fixed incorrect English voice lines for a Teladi speaker.  
• Fixed excessively bright lights on certain objects.  
• Fixed disappearing ice asteroids.  
• Fixed missing advertising signs.  
• Fixed several of the most common causes of crashes.  
• Various optimisations resulting in performance improvements.