Thanks to the wonderful and growing Star Explorers community, I was able to identify and fix several small bugs, including a game breaking bug that somehow avoided detection for many years! It was game breaking, but it was actually very small and easy to fix, so remember, if you find any issues, please report them here on the forum. Sometimes it only takes 10 minutes to fix something that might seem really challenging at first.

Save Game in Star Chart
Surprisingly, if you saved the game while viewing the Star Chart, it would not load properly the next time you try to play. This was a huge problem, but maybe it only effected a tiny set of players. Anyway, it only took 10 minutes. So please report bugs :)

Damage Panel
Somewhere in the process of adding wide screen support, the damage panel got neglected and no longer scaled to the size of the screen. This has been fixed.

Missing Towel
If you put the towel in your ship's inventory, it would show up with the wrong icon. Nothing major, it was just a matter of fixing the pointer to the correct icon. Now, rest assured that if you put your towel in storage, know you can get that soothing relief you long for when you return from a challenging mission!

In the near future, I plan to put the pre-release 5.0 beta up on the testing branch for the more adventurous players to test. I'm still working on finalizing my other game Paradox Vector, but once that is done, version 5.0 will have my full attention - as much as humanly possible. Thanks for your continued interest in Star Explorers!

Check out the pre-release trailer for version 5.0: