This is an Interim Release of many of the new Features we have been developing since the Demo of 0.1.3 in October. Hold on to your horses, this will be a bunch of Patchnotes now:

New

• Maxwell
• Radiation Effects
• Ingame-Chat completed
• New UI Elements
• Effect Sounds
• New Decor in Worldbuilding
• New Menu Screen
• New Launcher
• New Soundtrack
• New Settings
• Levelling System (inactive)
• New Sounds
• New Ship: Ythir
• New Ship: Cobalt
• New Ship: Gaius
• New Key Input Handler
• New Backgrounds
• Skysphere System with higher Resolutions
• New Voice Actors
• NPC Voice Stacking
• Regional Effects
• Start of Computer Voice Stack
• Small Loading Pause on Jump for WorldInit
• Capital Ships (rare)
• Performance/FPS Counter (Shift-F11)
• (more) Secrets
• Ingame Wallet
• Traders Fully Implemented
• Navmesh for all NPCs
• Screenshot Function (F9)
• Combat Music on Enemy Encounter 
• More Engine Sound Variety
• More NPC Voice Variety
• Health Bars
• Targeting
• Relationship and Reputation System
• Over 40 new systems

Fixes

• Engine Update to be Large Adress-Aware (4GB RAM)
• Engine Update to support up to 4k Resolution
• Engine Update to include latest fixes to Sprite Alpha
• Ambient Light Calculation (Thank you Silentsands)
• Backbuffer Overload Flicker fixed
• Dual Camera Filtering Fixed
• Ship Ordered by Class and Size
• Ship Cargo values fixed
• Ship Armor and Shield Values normalized
• Decor missed Collision
• Gate was too big
• Station and Gate Textures have partially been updated for better resolution
• Stations now have naming

Changes

• The Ship "Bourne L" is now the "Hercules"
• The "Bourne S" is now the "Demeter"
• The "Hammerhead" has been Removed from the Game
• Some File formats have changed
• Character Creation Images
• Update to Loading system
• Minimap has been switched to UI based Nav

Theres more to come in the next weeks, as we are hitting a hot phase of productivity right now. I hope you are as excited as we are. To commemorate us moving forward, we consider opening up preorders through the Itch Integrated Preorder-Feature. Would you be interested in that? Let us know in the comments!

- Dex and the DB Studios Team