Space Engineers News-Hub schrieb:

We’re making great progress on the 1.209 update, adding lots of new content and features to the economy system, while simultaneously improving and expanding older elements. Over the past few weeks, contracts have been a major focus.

Many of the existing contract types are being refined to address pain points and improve their overall experience, while several brand-new contracts are being added into the mix. Our goal is to deliver an updated experience that features modernized NPC grids, dynamic situations, and objectives that encourage the use of specialized craft to get the job done.

Recovery Contracts: You never know what you might find in the void of space. The existing NPC and encounter systems now have a chance of becoming the starting point of your next big payday. Explore, discover, profit.

Space Engineers 2 News-Hub schrieb:

With VS2.2, we’re introducing the Planetary Events system, starting with weather as its first concrete event type. It’s a systemic layer meant to give planets more life and variation over time.
For now, weather is meant to shape how planets feel and behave, rather than acting as a constant obstacle.

All events are biome-driven and planet-specific. Planetary Event types coming in VS2.2 are:

• Weather: Sandstorms
  
• Weather: Rain
  
• Meteor Showers

The first weather events include Sandstorms and Rain. Sandstorms appear in desert biomes and across all of Kemik, while rain occurs on Verdure, mainly in water-rich regions. These events affect visibility and reduce solar panel output while they’re active. Weather visuals will be visible from orbit and will transition in and out smoothly. When you’re inside grids or caves, the effects are reduced or hidden, but you can still see what’s happening outside through

Space Engineers 2 News-Hub schrieb:

It’s honestly very cool that our VRAGE3 engine is at a point where you can create real, live optical illusions directly inside the game. No tricks, no fake overlays – the illusion exists in the world and holds up as you move around it.

That kind of thing still makes me smile.

Our next update for SE2, VS2.2, has entered the feature freeze phase, which means we have finished all features, are not adding more, and are just polishing and fixing what is in game. This means we need to do a lot of testing, reviews, and improvements.

Some highlights:

• Rifle gun and rocket launcher are already in the game, animations and particle effects are working. This is just the first version, and we will definitely polish them more in future updates.
  
• Welder and grinder blocks are in, and so survival actually became