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Hello Everyone!

We are so excited to finally share the focus of our development efforts over the past few weeks: a large update focused on improving and extending planetary exocraft!

A brand new exocraft is now available to drive across the galaxies: the rugged, fast-moving Pilgrim.

The Geobay for the Pilgrim is available for purchase from the Blueprint Analyser.

The existing exocraft have also been tweaked. Multiplayer racing has been fixed, inventory sizes have been increased, and summoning has been made easier. Geobays now only need to be built once – after that, all owned exocraft can be summoned with unlimited range on any planet where you’ve constructed a new Exocraft Summoning Station.

New upgrades for the Pilgrim and all other exocraft can be purchased from the Exocraft Technician once their missions are complete. Exocraft handling can also be adjusted with a series of new technologies, allowing players to

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The Ferengi have seen the return of the Dominion, Odo, and the Hur’q as the opportunity of a lifetime. Using Gamma Quadrant supplies and Ferenginar’s own munitions factories, they have come presenting a medley of new armaments for the Alliance’s disposal. Not surprisingly, the Lobi Consortium has also joined in this cause and brought the fruits of their endeavors. The following are some of the brand new items in the Deep Space Nine Lock Box – Holographic Deep Space Nine Bridge Officers to join your crew and away teams. A Vanity-Only Ferengi Shield, allowing a player to take on the visual look of classic Ferengi ships, capable of dropping from the Weapon pack. A Lobi Hunter Ground Set based on the Tosk Hunters in the DS9 Episode, “Captive Pursuit”. Ferengi-Inspired Outfits Based on the attire of familiar DS9 characters, see below for more details and images. The Deep Space

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Today’s Ship Spotlight will focus on the second of the Angel Cartel vessels in the group we’ll be exploring – the Cynabal class cruiser.

On point during any Angel Cartel raid, the Cynabal is a fast attack cruiser that excels at providing a platform for hard hitting guerrilla warfare. With three bonuses dedicated to maximizing the damage application of its four turrets, plus a bonus to warp speed and warp acceleration, the Cynabal is adept at staying ahead of the pack while also having the ability to inflict crippling damage.

One of the earliest designs to come out of the Angel Cartel, the Cynabal’s function and blueprint has barely changed over the years, and it has remained a key vessel within the Cartel's fleet since it was first introduced.

In Detail:

Class: Cruiser

Weapons: 4 Turrets

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This portfolio originally appeared in Jump Point 5.3.

While Casse Aerospace bears the name of an engineering legend, the company itself has faded from memory for all but the most dedicated ship enthusiasts. Or at least that was the case for over a century until Anvil Aerospace resurrected one of Casse’s designs and alongside it, interest in the man himself and the ships he built.

An Edleson Design Institute Hall of Fame inductee in 2902, Leonard Casse has earned a place in the annals of history as one of the top spacecraft visionaries of the Messer Era. While the general populace may wind up considering his creation of the Hurricane fighter the most enduring part of his legacy, his effect on the industry overall is not limited to that one design. Cited by ship design luminaries such as J. Harris Arnold, Silas Koerner, and Jules Parliegh as a prime source of inspiration, Casse’s influence can be seen

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Attention, Pilots!

A major expansion is approaching fast (scheduled for end of October). It will feature a new player ship, the

Colonial Sentinel

, a medium fighter class ship, which will impress with some sophisticated electronic warfare capabilities and a special shield, featuring twice as much capacity as the standard model. You will also be able to use a plethora of new weapons, devices and consumables to fool, distract, and defeat enemies in new ways.

All-new factory space stations add further gameplay mechanics to the game experience, by offering special on-the-fly services, like refining and converting resources, upgrading ship capabilities or minor repair jobs. Furthermore, you will even be able to pay the Okkar Homeworld a visit. Along your journey, you will also encounter new story characters, who will offer individual questlines.

More details about the content and the pricing will follow soon.

Destiny Companion Update - 5/17/201

May 17 - Destiny Dev Team

What's New:

• Added support for showing the new Multi-Emotes.
• Added game type & teams to private matches in Game History.
• Added Crucible Valor/Glory ranks to player profiles.
• Added support for showing Seasonal Ranks in Vendors.
• Adding support for showing the contents of the Prismatic Matrix in Eververse.
• Added support for Pursuits in the Gear section.
• Fixed the Masterwork state not showing on Legendary and Exotic items.
• Some extra objectives may be showing in the details of Exotic weapons.
• Find Fireteams improvements.
• Clans are no longer required to create a fireteam.
• All users can now create a scheduled fireteam.
• Clan administrators can now moderate clan fireteams in the web client.
• Bug fixes and performance improvements.
• Localization improvements.
  

Known issues:

• Players are not able to change Emotes from the Companion apps
• "All Crucible" stats from the API will include private matches. Individual

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Hello Everspace Community,

We are very excited about the latest updates to EVERSPACE, and we are heart-broken to hear our hard work can't be experienced to its fullest. We've been seeing this issue pop up across a number of channels, and it looks like it is a occurring specifically when using Everspace on the PC. The XBox side is functioning as intended, however.

The team has been notified and are taking action; as soon as there is a fix, a new update will go live to correct the issue.

Thank you all for your patience as we lock this down!

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Electronic Arts and Microsoft have announced that Xbox Game Pass (PC and Ultimate) members finally have access to the EA Play catalog on PC. We reported last year that this would include the five Wing Commander games on the service, however, it appears that they've been removed from the EA Play subscription as part of yesterday's big update. The screenshots below show what the WC pages looked like before and after the removal. It was also announced last year that EA's Origin storefront would be going away, but that transition is still in progress and the Origin-branded store portal still carries the WC games for $4.99 each. In comparison, GOG typically charges $5.99 each, but they bundle WC1&2 together into one. They also frequently have sales that bring each package down to $1.49. While this is a bummer for the (admittedly tiny) handful of WC fans who may have been holding out for the new Xbox

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"This is our finest hour. Ever victorious against the enemies of humanity. Ever triumphant in our home, and around the system. Now the City wants to honor us. Who are we to deny them?"

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Entartika

posted this look back at a physically distributed patch for Special Operations. Apparently in regards to an autopilot glitch, the team at Origin modified the SO1 executable and sent it to people to copy over their existing WC2 installation. Origin did have a BBS in the early '90s with a few things like this, but relatively few people had modems to access it, so they had to send out updates in the mail. We've sure come a long way! Thanks to JJ2078 for the tip.

How games used to be patched, in the olden days

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We're happy to announce that there is currently a 30% discount sale in progress on the following Equilibrium of Mankind SKINs in the New Eden Store:

• Ark EoM SKIN
• Aeon EoM SKIN
• Archon EoM SKIN
• Paladin EoM SKIN
• Armageddon Navy Issue EoM SKIN
• Apocalypse Navy Issue EoM SKIN
• Absolution EoM SKIN
• Guardian EoM SKIN
• Devoter EoM SKIN
• Omen Navy Issue EoM SKIN
• Imperial Navy Slicer EoM SKIN
• Malediction EoM SKIN
• Anathema EoM SKIN
• Purifier EoM SKIN
• Crusader EoM SKIN

These discounts will be available through until downtime on January 23rd, so be sure to grab SKINs for your collection at these lower prices while you can!

Purchasing SKINs is easy:

• Log into EVE Online
• Have sufficient PLEX
• Go to the New Eden Store (press ALT+4 or use the Neocom to access the store)
• Purchase the SKIN(s)
• The SKINs are then available in your redeeming system

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We've just released a new patch with some smaller tweaks and a number of bugfixes. We've also added a special "retro graphics" graphics mode that you can unlock as a reward for finishing a hardcore mode run! Have fun! Please note that there's a delay for the Linux version, we'll hopefully be able to release the patch on Linux later this year.

New Features

• Added special "retro graphics" option that is unlocked after finishing a hardcore mode run

Tweaks

• Encounters: Nerfed Engine Booster MK2 and MK3 efficiency
• Increased camera range in action freeze
• VR / TrackIR: Unified Crosshair behavior in gamepad and keyboard mode. "Centered Crosshair" option works again in all cases.

Bugfixes

• Fixed Splitter glyph additional projectiles not homing in on targets anymore
• Fixed blueprint drop probability for higher tiers being too low if no more tier one blueprints are available
• Potential fix for Okkar

On 14th December 2002 five members of a young Starlancer clan founded the SWAT Portal as they felt the need to create a community for players and clans that wish to stay connected even if they play different games.
11 years later we still have this idea in mind and can look back on many great years.
Thank you to everyone who supported us and helped to stay an active community for such a long time.

We have many great plans for the next year. Not only the Crossfire 2.0 release can be expected but also the start of new projects and massive updates here at the Portal.
I hope the community gives us the support to keep going for another 11 years.

Always keep in mind:

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We're happy to announce that the Octopus Red Flight SKIN set has been made available in the New Eden Store for selected Caldari hulls:

• Cormorant – 190 PLEX
• Jackdaw – 190 PLEX
• Caracal – 230 PLEX
• Cerberus – 230 PLEX
• Drake – 230 PLEX
• Raven – 290 PLEX
• Golem – 290 PLEX

Head on over to the New Eden Store to grab these SKINs for your collection!

Purchasing SKINs is easy:

• Log into EVE Online
• Have sufficient PLEX
• Go to the New Eden Store (press ALT+4 or use the Neocom to access the store)
• Purchase the SKIN(s)
• The SKINs are then available in your redeeming system

Twelve years ago this community went live.
Since that we have achieved much and today it is time to look back, remember great times but also look forward to new tasks, to a new and even better future.
The past year was incredible hard for us as developers and website staff members.
This place has changed alot over the past year and we have done an incredible amount of work to bring it to this state.

Not only that we have a shiny new Portal with awesome performance and awesome functionalities... no... we also have Crossfire 2.0 running on our server, reached the highest possible rank in our Star Trek Online Fleet and have been voted into the Top100 of the Mod Awards for the 8th time.
Thousands of working hours went both into the Portal and into the Mod.
The new year will bring further improvements and of course a great time for our members.

But today... we all should lean back and enjoy the day.... celebrate another great year in this community.

With the upgrade of the SWAT Portal (which btw. I still havent officialy announced *cough*) we have introduced more and more great features to our community.
One of them is a new translation function that you can find on all Portal pages.

You can find a small translation button if you scroll down to the bottom of the pages.
It detects your browser language and will translate the portal content into that language as long this button is active.

This will allow our members to understand whats been written by others even if it is in a different language and certainly will we will get rid of language barriers.

just work in progress

Crossfire 2.0 Freelancer Mod - SWAT Portal

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Archambault terminal in the Chun Tstar system has been overtaken by the Children of Tothos cult, who are threatening to detonate a stolen nuclear weapon.

Senior Agent Rochelle Karim gave this statement:

"Most services at Archambault terminal have shut down as a result of the control deck's occupation by Children of Tothos adherents. It's evident that personnel are obeying the cultists' orders for fear that they will use the Lucifer Device."

"Millions of people remain at the starport, making a frontal assault too risky. FIA negotiators are taking steps to open a dialogue and resolve the situation peacefully."

The cult's leader, Barnabas Cole, transmitted a brief message using Archambault terminal's communications array:

"At last, we have found the place where our testament's light will shine. Join us. When the ceremony is complete, you will all see Tothos as we do."

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