Gemini Station Patch Notes

Live Alpha Version: 0.0.11

A major visual and systems update modernizing ships, space environments, combat encounters, progression, and moment-to-moment navigation.

Ships and Space Visuals

• Fleet Visual Overhaul

  player and NPC ships now use a new 3D-rendered presentation pipeline with improved lighting, directional turning, banking, scale, and faction-specific silhouettes.

• Expanded Ship Lineup

  updated visual profiles now cover core trainers, pirate craft, supply ships, scouts, starliners, satellites, claim defenders, salvage drones, and other traffic encountered throughout the game.

• Ship Destruction Improvements

  ship destruction now uses hull-specific breakup visuals and effects for clearer, more satisfying combat outcomes.

• Asteroid and Environment Upgrade

  mineable and mission asteroids now use improved models, lighting, rotation, and map presentation, with additional environment and habitat visual updates.

Combat and Encounters

• Pirate Fleet Expansion

  added a distinct pirate leader hull, destruction sequence, combat behavior, and encounter support alongside revised pirate raiders and interceptors.

• Improved Enemy Behavior

  updated pirate, patrol, traffic, and tutorial combat behavior for more reliable movement, weapon use, target handling, and encounter pacing.

• Ability Reliability

  hardened ability and projectile handling so active effects, energy costs, cooldowns, stealth breaks, and destroyed-caster cleanup resolve consistently.

• Clearer Charge Terminology

  ability text and combat feedback now use consistent charge terminology and clearer player-facing descriptions.

Progression, Ships, and Loot

• Level 11-20 Progression Foundation

  added the first common and uncommon equipment progression for levels 11-20, including new mods, ranked abilities, vendor stock, and level-appropriate loot support.

• Profession Ship Milestone

  Soldier, Entrepreneur, Scout, Engineer, and Miner paths now have distinct level-20 ship profiles prepared for their profession progression.

• Loot and Vendor Improvements

  improved level restrictions, inventory filtering, reward capacity handling, pricing, and vendor availability so equipment is presented and awarded more consistently.

Missions, Map, and Navigation

• Fly Here Navigation

  added a Fly Here target action and waypoint support for directing the ship toward empty space or selected locations.

• Mission Marker Improvements

  improved objective markers, availability indicators, scan ranges, and map visibility for survey, exploration, habitat, and asteroid objectives.

• System Map Updates

  asteroid fields, structures, mission locations, and active objectives now appear more reliably and with clearer spatial context on the system map.

Interface and Quality of Life

• Target and Radar Improvements

  refined target context actions, radar updates, target selection feedback, and off-screen navigation cues.

• Skills, Cargo, and Mission Polish

  improved skills presentation, cargo interactions, mission detail behavior, loading feedback, and popup consistency across the interface.

• Macro and Action Reliability

  fixed scan and global-cooldown interactions in macros and improved action button state updates during combat and targeting changes.

Stability and Performance

• World Streaming Hardening

  improved sector loading, reconciliation, map state, collision, and proximity behavior to reduce stale or freed-object errors during travel.

• Save and Mission State Reliability

  strengthened save restoration, mission state reconciliation, destroyed-object tracking, and persistent world interactions.

• Broad Regression Coverage

  added extensive automated validation for ships, encounters, navigation, rewards, vendors, missions, abilities, destruction, and world-state behavior.