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+title: 'Naev 0.12.0-beta.1'
+author: bobbens
+tags: [ 'release' ]
+blurb: Naev 0.12.0-beta.1 is released!
+---
+
+This year, we're starting the betas a bit early given the large amount of
+content modified and added. As always, this release contains a large amount of
+changes done during the past year which likely have introduced a lot of bugs
+and issues that we want to iron out before the final release of 0.12.0.
+
+Now, this release changes a lot of how the game currently plays, and, while it
+is highly recommended to start a new game, it should be possible to just load
+up your old saves without too much stuff being changed. In particular, some of
+the major changes are:
+
+1. Nearly all the ships are now modelled in 3D with fancy lightings and tilting effects!
+2. You can now capture ships!
+3. New ships and ship variants!
+4. Faction reputation is no longer a single global value, but more nuanced and local.
+5. New challenging area to access many secrets.
+6. In-game Wiki full of mechanics and lore explanations!
+
+If you try it and find any issues, please report them at [the issue
+tracker](https://github.com/naev/naev/issues). Discussion about the game can be
+had on one of the various discussion forums and chatrooms we have. Check them
+out [here!](https://naev.org/contact/)
+
+You can get the new version from any of the sources below:
+
+<%= badge( "github", "0.12.0-beta.1" ) %>
+<%= badge( "steam" ) %>
+<%= badge( "itchio" ) %>
+<%= badge( "flathub" ) %>
+
+<br>
+<%= image( @items['/imgs/screenshots_0.12.0/llama_voyager.png'], "As a new ship variant of the Llama, the Llama Voyager shares many features but has fundamental differences such as fuel regeneration.", 'center', 'width="720"' ) %>
+
+### Full Changelog
+* Gameplay
+    * Ability to capture disabled ships
+    * Faction reputation is no longer universal, but varies on systems
+        * Direct faction hit changes are shown as messages
+        * Your actions will more directly affect ships in the system
+    * Significantly increase maximum potential fleet capacity
+    * Excess energy to battery recharge efficiency is now a flat 50% instead of varying based on charge level
+    * Gave the Za'lek sting a slight detection buff
+    * Can only have a single patrol mission active at a given time
+    * Pirates are less numerous during Chapter 0
+    * Dvaered Arsenal has no fighter bays and fewer slots
+    * Lowered CPU cost of some fighter bays
+    * Decreased CPU and energy provided by large core slots
+    * Pillaging ships affects reputation
+    * Significantly increased the amount of fuel provided by outfits
+    * Camouflage burster gives a speed bonus while active and disables when out of stealth
+    * Can scan ships with 'u' key
+    * Gave the Quicksilver another medium structural slot
+    * Beam weapons have minimum delays instead of minimum durations
+    * Can stealth when missiles are locked on
+    * Deployed fighters take stress and damage over time when their mother ship is destroyed
+    * Electron Burst Cannons and Za'lek Heavy Drones have had their damage per second lowered
+    * Improved point defense
+        * Spittle Tubuloid Cluster is now a utility and does more damage
+        * Guardian Interception System does double damage
+        * Missiles explode when intercepted
+    * Bounties have explicit time limits
+    * Derelicts should appear in remote systems
+* Quality of Life
+    * Added colourblind correction mode
+    * Exposed more colourblind options to the user
+    * Can modify game speed directly instead of using a slow mode difficulty for accessibility
+    * Messages get folded instead of repeating
+    * Asteroids no longer fade out if close to or targeted by the player
+    * Display fuel consumption for ships in the equipment overlay
+    * Added option to match speed with the slowest ship in the fleet (on by default)
+    * Made it so ships in the equipment screen do not change order based on value
+    * Mark spaceport bar tab when there is an important NPC
+    * Weapon set keybindings change window tabs
+    * Use short outfit names when displaying groups of outfits
+    * Shown more useful things you have when buying outfits with things other than credits
+    * Can sort and filter the mission computer
+    * Added small optional bounce to NPCs when they start talking
+    * Inform the player when they don't meet mission requirements for some important missions
+    * Can add new plugins directly from the options menu
+    * Can toggle whether autonav stops when missile lock-ons are detected
+    * Added colour coded factional backgrounds in the shipyard
+    * Can rotate shipyard image for ships with 3D graphics
+    * Prompt when deleting notes
+    * Added accessibility option that allows skipping story minigames
+    * Can view and change all your ships in the equipment tab when there is refuelling
+    * Reduced space dust size by 50%
+* Content
+    * New in-game wiki with explanation on gameplay mechanics and lots of lore
+    * 8 new missions
+        * The Onions call
+    * 4 new ships
+    * 13 new ship variants
+        * Give a new twist to existing ships
+    * 6 new outfits
+    * New area with unique challenges
+    * New events
+        * Get more Sirius abilities
+        * Find the dark side of the Nebula
+    * New NPC portraits
+    * New generic NPC and News messages
+    * Reworked trails to make ships feel more speedy
+* Engine
+    * Support for 3D models
+        * Lighting is based on system stars
+        * Fancy effects for special systems
+        * Ships tilt slightly when rotating
+        * Simple animations are supported and used when applicable
+    * Support for an in-game wiki
+        * Can process YAML, Lua, and markdown
+        * Cross-link support
+        * Support for custom widgets
+    * Stats (except inverted stats) are now additive instead of multiplicative
+    * Try to merge saves if multiple directories correspond to the same player
+    * More robust weapon set support that can handle multiple overlapping weapon sets
+    * Faster handling of asteroids with large exclusion areas
+    * Added fuel_usage_mod ship stat
+    * Fixed player losing navigation targets when unidiff is applied
+    * Fixed ai.idir giving wrong answer by M_PI_2 in some cases
+    * Threaded more loading components
+    * Lua require now caches chunks
+    * Dropped SDL_image fallback
+    * Use higher internal timer for all platforms
+    * Support for Tracy
+    * Spobs that are not landable yet generate presence will be shown on the map
+    * Warn the player if they try to use a name with all space characters
+    * Decoupled the collision system from the rendering system
+    * Added a low memory mode to use fewer and smaller textures with 3D
+    * Lazy load ship and outfit graphics to reduce memory usage and decrease load time
+    * Use clang-format to format all the C code
+    * Use enums internally to represent keybindings instead of strings
+    * Always use replaygain information when available when loading vorbis files
+    * Stop repeating the same warning after a fixed amount of times
+    * Support for outfits that don't break stealth
+    * Editor has partial support for universe diffs
+    * Editor has separate configuration and file dialogues
+    * New ship stats
+        * Global weapon range, damage, fire-rate and energy usage
+        * Range ship stat for all specific weapon types
+        * Turn, speed, and accel for launchers
+        * Shield downtime modifier
+    * Deprecated old faction API in favour of the new one for local / global standings
+    * Added support for temporarily overriding faction standings
+* Fixes
+    * PSO and Mizar nebulas have trails again
+    * Removed fancy background mode
+    * Can remove fighter bays with deployed fighters
+    * Sol is less friendly
+    * Fixed rare cases where fighters would not be able to dock
+    * Fixed hypergate and wormhole effects getting stuck
+    * Obelisks tell if you have completed them already
+    * Fixed space dust disappearing with certain jump abilities
+    * Boarded pilots become permanently disabled if they lose space-worthiness
+    * Double tap will activate feather drive like blink engines
+    * Fixed camouflage burster not activating stealth
+    * Fixed bug where beams were counted as giving energy in the equipment optimizer
+    * shadowvigil: claim entire route
+    * sh01_corvette: should be completable on easy difficulties now
+    * patrol: fixed escorts and fighters becoming hostile if hostile to the mission giving faction
+    * Fixed debugging paranoid builds under Windows
+    * Fixed autonav not respecting shield thresholds
+    * zbh10: Godheart and friends get at most 1 fighter bay per ship now
+    * Fixed ESS Trinity being bribeable
+    * Cargo on fleets with be displayed to make room for mission cargo when necessary
+    * Made it so Shadow Vigil doesn't try to go through Surano system for reasons
+    * `blackhole/zbh09`: fixed softlock during a cutscene under certain conditions