VO 1.8.360 includes:- Improved quality and efficiency of the glow effect.- Windows version now requires SSE2 support. It should be faster as a result.- Removed the loading progress bar under the Guild logo on startup- Fixed ice crystal rendering error …

VO 1.8.359 includes:- Modifications to Livery system to allow more dynamic addition of new ship skins.- Mitigated issue related to Hive Queens disappearing from the game universe.- Key IDs are now shown in key lists.- Key lists are now sorted by Key ID…

Deneb Run this weekend! Check the in-game Event Information!VO 1.8.357-358 included:- Fixed rendering issue with fog on Android.- Added setting to toggle fog blob particles on Android. The setting defaults to on for Android 5 and above, and for higher-end Tegra and Snapdragon devices. The setting is at Options -> Advanced -> Graphics -> Show…

This is a final note that we are, for the moment, wrapping up our investigations in historical “PK farming”, or the process of cheating to increase the PK stat by repeatedly killing a drone “alt” running on another account (in some cases, thousands of …

VO 1.8.356 includes:- Fixed a server crash caused when too many hive skirmish missions were created at the same time.- Fixed player online status information leaks.- The automatic guild disband timeout that is started when there is less than 5 council …

We had an unplanned game downtime on Weds morning of this past week, and this post is intended to fill people in a little on what’s been going on.The basic problem was the “Kourier” AI subsystem, which controls the Hives, going a little bonkers and try…

VO 1.8.355 includes:- The Windows version now defaults to DirectX 11 on initial install.- Oculus Rift support has been temporarily disabled, until we can complete our update to the 0.7 beta of the Oculus SDK. Rift support will likely return next week.-…

It’s been some time since this was last discussed, so it seems a refresher may be in order.There have been those, lately, who have espoused the opinion if that if some gameplay mechanic within the game is exploitable in some way, then it must be “fair …

VO 1.8.354 includes:- Enabled multi-threaded physics engine, defaulting to 4 threads.- Fixed rendering issues for ships with liveries applied to them.- Livery is no longer applied to the Anniversary Edition Vulture.- Fixed issue with livery setting not…

VO 1.8.353 includes:- Fixed DirectX 9 display problem of new configurable Ship Liveries.Please keep us posted about any problems you see with the new Ship Livery system. We want to make sure it’s 100% solid before shipping out the new specialty livery …