Patch Notes

Orbit+ gets a galaxy.

Orbit+ gets weight, and everything you collect in Orbit has a purpose.

Much smoother, especially in dense fights.

Fixed: the game got slower with every minute of flight.

The quest log with target markers, and equipment that finally works.

Real weapon sounds.

New control mode on phones: tilt.

Orbit+: the loot hunt begins. Plus a smoother game and automatic resolution.

Fixed: ship XP when aborting a flight, and shipyard callouts point at the real parts.

Weapons sit where the shots come from, plus a custom mouse cursor.

The main menu fits smaller screens.

Upgrades you can see: weapon turrets, engines, armor and shields now hang on the RAYCION as real parts.

The Guardians: bigger, more dangerous, rare and named. A guardian is now a highlight, not a formality.

Reviewed and fixed: two review rounds with over 100 agents, plus retuned Lightning Arc and drones.

60 new boons, station missions from a big pool, boon balancing with its own test stand.

One planet per system, headlights, random weapon, 48 achievements in four tiers.

Fewer lines, more world.

The core in the main menu rotates

Fixed: the Orbit clock jumped.

More comets.

A living background: rotating planets, comets, opaque depth layers.

New space: painted planets, a sky for each ring, backdrops from the 3D models.

Components from wreck parts, refraction as a true beam split.

Weapon balancing by measurement, a character of their own for the Pulse Gun paths, asteroids are a resource.

Shield impacts like the mood board, a sharper picture, no more twitching at rest.

Hexagons instead of circles, on the Core, the scout and your own ship too.

Enemies wear hexagon shields, the circles disappear.

The guardians get prettier: flames, eyes, reactor.

The guardians are 3D warships.

The drill scan traces the real asteroid.

Warp jump: the emergency exit in Orbit.

Options menu with display, accessibility and sound settings.

A shopping cart in the trading window.

Scan grid while drilling, a soft focus cone, a gentler pull from the Core.

No hiding under the ship, smarter enemies, inertia.

The trading post as a classic equipment shop.

Docking instead of stumbling in.

Drill laser, switchable onboard systems, thrust by facing — and asteroids break.

The nova is a pulse wave.

The shield bubble only shows itself when it's hit — and a hull hit is impossible to miss.

Seven new enemies whose attacks you have to fly around.

Fixed: the ship kept flying without input.

Ion drive instead of flames — with thrusters that follow your movement.

Weapons start small and grow noticeably.

The hangar explains itself.

Track is greyed out for now.

Boon selection in online co-op, now for the guest too.

See hits land on your own ship, and an auto-aim you have to earn.

Explosions now shake based on size.

Online co-op with a room code.

Hangar: no more accidental dismantling.

Focus: aim tighter, hit harder — and every weapon shifts gears.

Fire, smoke and ships you can watch die.

Twin-stick aiming in Orbit: aim freely, independent of flying.

The Raycion now rolls.

The Core now spins the right way.

The Core now spins — and shows its phases.

Balance marker set to 4.

The Phase Jump wasn't an unpopular button — it was a dead one.

The spawn window is now accurate.

Wave 11 is no longer a wall.

Guardians are a highlight again.

The Arcade theme is now a playlist.

Drone design now shows the element.

The Drone Swarm has real drones.

Weapon targeting system in Orbit.

Orbit 2.0, Part 7: a balance pass.

Orbit 2.0, Part 6: ore trading and events tied to place.

Orbit 2.0, Part 5: jobs only count once accepted, and keys come from required jobs.

New song for Track mode: “The Song (Industrial 130 BPM Remix)”

Orbit 2.0, part 4: the poison clouds now have a source.

Orbit 2.0, part 3: heavy enemies head home.

Orbit 2.0, part 2: scouts and alarms.

Orbit 2.0, part 1: calm and danger.

Wreck graveyards in Orbit.

Trading posts are now space stations.

Signals charge faster for whoever holds still.

Orbit stays in Orbit.

Raycion for phones.

Weapon talent trees.

Co-op: companions now belong to both players.

Eight new achievements for Orbit.

Solar Wind.

Relics give you what you can't get anywhere else.

Shield and hull are two separate resources now.

What does the next point actually get you?

Three new modules — and for the first time, more modules than slots.

Enemies now load four times lighter.

The Ion Laser was the only real choice.

New achievement: One Hit Wonder.

“Leaderboard unavailable” now says why — and it happens less often.

Bloom is now adjustable.

The engine flames now burn orange.

The new ship showed up in the menus, but not in flight.

The ship in the Hangar was blurry — and it was my own pipeline's fault.

New ship.

The Drone Swarm gets a verb.

Weapons now cost a tenth as much.

The Pulse Cannon (Pulskanone) is now called Pulse Gun — matching Heavy Gun, Snake Gun and Drone Swarm.

Follow-up to 0.86.0

Every weapon gets its own identity.

Three bugs that only became visible once real data was analyzed.

The DPS display was wrong — now it's actually measured.

The leaderboard now has two levels.

Sector 7 got stuck — confirmed by real runs.

Telemetry gap check.

Weapons now unlock with ship level too.

The hangar has two menus.

The new hangar is in the game.

Ship level.

Ten of fifteen weapon levels were empty.

The shield now charges the ion chamber.

Save wipe.

The difficulty curve had the wrong shape.

Every boon now works with every weapon.

Weekly leaderboard.

Telemetry: final score is now correct.

Save wipe.

Telemetry: measuring balance from real runs.

Hangar prices, take two — with Benni's number.

The hangar has become affordable.

Aim assist in focus.

Fixed

Rage, guardians triggered by kills, keys only from guardians.

The trading post now has a register.

The icon sheet is in the game now — wherever a symbol represents an object.

Accept jobs, earn tokens, install modules.

The tab screen now also shows the ship.

Orbit, round 2: five new job types and a client.

Orbit, round 1: jobs now have a place.

The models looked like toys.

The Gate to the Core has become a model.

Trading posts are now real 3D wheels.

Couch co-op is now available in Orbit too.

Every upgrade path now looks like what it does — and the backstory has been rewritten and restaged.

Fixed: only two fields were reachable in the skill tree with a controller.

Fixed: empty 1P/2P fields in solo play.

Co-op is now a real challenge, and an asteroid can no longer block a sector.

In co-op, each player has their own status corner.

In co-op, both players choose their own equipment, and the flight only starts once both are ready.

Co-op has its own card in mode selection.

Co-op with keyboard + mouse against a controller — a single controller is now enough for two players.

Controllers are read directly, and the two co-op ships can be told apart at a glance.

Couch co-op in Arcade mode and controller support for every menu.

Das Spiel rechnet jetzt in echten Gerätepixeln. · German

Das Schiff leuchtet im Flug und behält dabei seine Zeichnung. · German

Balance-Runde zu den fünfzehn Waffenstufen, dazu ein schärferes Schiff. · German

Fünfzehn Waffenstufen, Elementsteine und ein größeres Schiff. · German

Sechs Waffen, achtzehn Ausbaupfade, vier Sprünge, vier Verteidigungen. · German

Die Snake Gun — ein fünfter Waffen-Archetyp. · German

Die Feuerrate kommt jetzt auch an. · German

Schiffswerte im Skillbaum. · German

Brocken stoßen sich elastisch ab. · German

Aufräumen. · German

Drei Nebelarten, keine Kreise mehr. · German

Licht · German

Der Seitenbau ließ die 3D-Modelle liegen. · German

Brocken aus Stein statt aus Papier, und der Endschirm kommt wieder. · German

Der Service Worker lieferte alte Grafiken aus. · German

Der Kern als Magmakugel, echte Bullet Hell, stärkerer Traktor. · German

Ionenkristalle liegen länger — gemessen, dass es kaum etwas ändert. · German

Ionen liegen jetzt im Raum. · German

Werft im Konsolen-Stil, zwei Währungen mit eigenem Zeichen. · German

Das Hauptmenü im neuen Stil. · German

Stumm-Knopf. · German

Schüsse mit Wucht, der Kern im Hauptmenü. · German

Vier neue Gegner, drei Zonen-Plagen, steilere Werft. · German

Geleitschutz · German

Ein Schiff, vier Waffengattungen. · German

Die Ringe werden Zonen · German

Brutstätten, Schlüssel, Tor und der Sprung ins nächste System. · German

Asteroidenfelder sind luftiger · German

Orbit wird ein Sternsystem, dazu ein Prolog. · German

Der Arena-Modus heißt jetzt Orbit — in Menü, Hilfe, Erfolgen, Werft, Endbildschirm und Statistik. · German

Neue Schiffe. · German

Bildschirmtasten erscheinen nur noch bei echter Fingerbedienung · German

Ionenlaser · German

Wrackteile als Laufwährung. · German

Elite-Beute gedrosselt · German

Schuss-Modifikatoren und Frachtraum (Loot-Slots wie in Vampire Survivors). · German

Power-ups zum Aufsammeln. · German

Partikelsystem und sichtbare Ionenschleppe. · German

Arena hat einen eigenen Song · German

Arena-Ausbau · German

Zurück zur 2D-Schiffsgrafik ohne Neigung. · German

Echtes 3D-Schiff. · German

Schiffsneigung · German

Fokus sichtbar und bedienbar, Schiff neigt sich beim Lenken. · German

Gegner-Waffensysteme mit eigener Geschoss-Optik, Arena-XP repariert. · German

Schild- und Hüllen-Management · German

Waffenstufen als mächtigste Upgrades. · German

Geschoss-Optik nach Vorbild klassischer Bullet-Type-Tafeln, prozedural gezeichnet. · German

Arena auf schmalen Handys (iPhone-Seitenverhältnis) ohne schwarzen Streifen unten · German

Arena auf voller Monitorfläche und ein Weltraum mit Tiefe. · German

XP-Kerne größer, heller und leicht pulsierend, in allen Modi (gleiche Zeichenroutine für Arcade, Track und Arena) · German

Updates kamen auf Geräten bis zu eine Stunde verspätet an · German

Onboarding als vier klare Schritte mit Fortschrittsleiste · German

Barrieren, Meta-Fortschritt und iPhone-Feinschliff. · German

Balance-Pass · German

Skillbaum komplett neu · German

Erste veröffentlichte Fassung. · German