Updates

Alpha 4.10.02026-08-26
Siege of Orison (LIVE, No Wipe)
— Siege of Orison returns as a closed, instanced 4-player FPS mission, running on new Instancing on Demand tech
— Recco Battaglia reputation track now in person at Levski, with story missions and repeatable mining-contractor contracts
— Fuel economy rebalanced: hydrogen tank capacity cut and both hydrogen and quantum fuel prices raised
— Ordnance prices up sharply across the board (bombs +44% to +310%), and weapon-cache loot tables more than doubled
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Alpha 4.9.02026-07-15
Frontier Tensions (LIVE, No Wipe)
— 166+ bug & crash fixes, 73 sourced from the Issue Council
— New ship: Drake Basher light fighter (Grey's Market)
— New Nyx mission chain
— Clearer combat hit feedback
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Alpha 4.8.32026-07-01
Xenothreat Hotfix (LIVE, No Wipe)
— Xenothreat community event live
— Components & FPS weapons popping again in Contested Zones
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Alpha 4.8.22026-06-17
— Gatac Railen: alien-designed long-haul transport ship, human-operable, with agile vertical grav-lev handling
— Gatac Tyilui: first alien-designed carrier on the market, and the first ship with a zero-gravity hangar
— Stability and bug fixes
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Alpha 4.8.12026-06-03
— New Defend Location combat missions: players defend a location's fuel tanks from NPC attackers, in both a standalone version and a compounding one with multiple conflicting priorities
— Stability and bug fixes
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Alpha 4.8.02026-05-14
(LIVE, Full Wipe)
— New missions and ships added
— Balance, items and reputation reset
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Alpha 4.72026-03-24
Welcome to the Rock (LIVE)
— First iteration of Crafting — fabricators and blueprints
— Inventory system rework
— Operation Breaker Stations — new multi-stage mission restoring a derelict asteroid mining facility in Nyx
— New starter ship: RSI Aurora Mk II
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Alpha 4.62026-01-28
Lifeline for Levski (LIVE)
— LAMP (Light Amplification): cockpit night vision on a limited set of vehicle canopies for low-light navigation
— Kel-To Ship Supply Kiosks: quick engineering tools and provisions at major Stanton cities
— RSI Aurora series updated to Gold Standard: new art, physicalized components, refreshed HUD
— New ships: RSI Hermes (medium freighter), Argo MOTH (medium salvager)
— Clearing The Air: a system-wide Levski mission chain around a Molina Mold outbreak, spanning Nyx and Stanton
— Ground-vehicle-only missile variants added for the Cyclone AA/MT, Nova, Storm AA and Ballista
— 160+ bug & crash fixes, 56 sourced from the Issue Council
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Alpha 4.5.02025-12-17
Dawn of Engineering (LIVE)
— Engineering gameplay arrives — manage power, ship systems and repairs from the inside
— Vulkan renderer improvements
— Experimental VR support
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Alpha 4.4.02025-11-19
Welcome to Nyx (LIVE)
— Nyx joins the verse as the third playable star system — asteroid-dense, cold-lit, centered on the Glacian Belt
— Levski returns as a free-town landing zone
— First Vanduul ships in the persistent universe, including the Vanduul Stinger
— New interstellar hauling missions and Vanduul-tech smuggler PvE content
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