The beta has already given its fruits finding some major issues including game not starting on certain platforms, and the game not saving when exiting via the small menu while landed. We’ve also taken the opportunity to significantly reduce the entire size of the game by using advanced image and audio codecs making the full game less than half the original side with no real side effects. There are also minor fixes to different aspects of the game.

Download size wins

Moving to lossy assets shrank the builds by 60-70% across the board compared to 0.13.0-beta.1:

If you notice visual artifacts or audio quality issues from the new lossy assets, please let us know (platform, location, and any steps to see/hear it help).

We don’t expect this to be the last beta, so, as always, please report any issues on this tracker, and feel free to join our Discord or Matrix chatrooms.
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You can download the latest build from our downloads page!

Remember that you have to opt-in to the beta with steam.

Platform support changes

With the move to Rust and SDL3, Naev now only supports macOS 11+ (previously 10.13+) and Windows 10+ (previously Windows 7+). We will keep a 0.12.x branch on Steam as the last version supporting the older operating systems, and those older releases will remain available on Codeberg and itch as well.

Changes since 0.13.0-beta.1

• Fixed crash with appimage on certain systems
• Fixed game not saving when exiting while landed via the small menu
• Use lossy compression to significantly decrease the size of the game
• Right-clicking on a spob or jump point will both select it and take you there
• Fixed VN not looking up images with explicit file extensions
• Properly define cargo dependency patches
• Don’t specify webp for PSO-2434
• maikki1: fixed warning when player boards the ship fast
• Fixed new svg-based portrait generator breaking with some API usage
• Fixed some strings and updated translations