One week until Winter Festival! Oh, sorry, wrong news topic.

• Added nonlethal damage as a new damage type. Used for Unarmed Strikes and other appropriate weapons. See rules here.
• Space Stations in Asteroid Fields no longer block bandits from de-spawning when all other conditions are met.
• Minor tweaks to hostile AI which reduce the tendency for bandits to repeatedly attack until they are bereft of life.
• New Bounty Hunting Master missions are supported. See rules here.

Two points of clarification on the above feature changes/releases:

1) The hostile AI will continue evaluation and may have further tweaks, either via code changes or other admin-controlled variables, to reach the desired balance of playability vs functionality. This will not happen overnight, and your continued engagement is vital to gathering enough data to effect changes. Please continue to report constructive feedback and observations on Discord in the #feature-feedback channel.

2) Although the Bounty Hunting Master contracts are now supported in the game engine, the first Master target will not be available to hunters until after the Winter Festival to avoid forcing you to choose between the two. Master Hunters, keep saving your rep and training your troops; you're going to need it!