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== Vendetta 1.8.505.1 ==
* Fixed error in Offline Training Simulator when restarting the ring tutorial when using a gamepad.
== Vendetta 1.8.505 ==
* Added new "Streaming Mode" to game network protocol, drastically reducing the loading time of complex sectors.
* NPC AI path-finding and refinement has been generally improved.
* NPCs are less likely to get stuck against asteroids.
* Experimental NPC AI-navigation test-sector in Bractus P-1.
* Destroying Unaligned Pirate fighters and capships now rewards with Light and Heavy Weapon XP.
* Unaligned Pirate fighters have a greater variety of occasional drops.
* Game protocol has been tweaked to enhance sector load times and network performance. Further tweaks coming.
* Lone Hive Queen escorts are now fundamentally more aggressive.
* Smaller NPC ships are now generally more effective at queuing and docking with stations, in large numbers.
* NPC Capital Ships are better at navigating around obstacles, and adaptively learning sector layout.
* Implemented and tuned a variety of strategies to make NPCs better at navigating "extreme" density asteroid fields.
* Enabled active monitoring of NPC performance analytics across the entire universe.
* Tuned the AI "learning" algorithms to better adapt to dynamic changes in sectors, over time. Some of this may take a little while to evolve.
== Vendetta 1.8.504 ==
