NPC trade posts in space, character voices, a new Hunting and more

New

Trade posts

• NPC trade posts in space. 632 trade posts now sit near stations. Fly within range and trade from your cockpit, no docking needed. Stock is limited and prices move with demand, and the station market is now for players only.
• Delivery and Lawless posts. Posts can deliver what you buy to a station of your choice, for a fee. Lawless posts carry rarer goods and more risk.
• Easy to find. Trade posts show up in Tactical, on the map and in the Almanac filters, and the Market now shows where an item is sold.

Quests and voices

• Quest unlocks. Quests now unlock things: the Old lanes series restores old travel lanes you can jump, other quests add recall anchors for your Homeward Tether and two new skill methods (Graveyard salvage, Filed flight plans).
• Supply lines series. A new quest series that teaches trading at the posts. New trade post counters open as you finish faction storylines, and a Fence back room opens after The Hollow Throne.
• Series tab and the Deed Standard. The Quests window has a new Series tab that groups quests by series, and the Deed Standard joins the new unlocks.
• New portraits and names. Some contacts have new portraits, and some characters have new names and faces to match who they are.
• Character voices. Every quest and mission line is voiced. Open Settings › Audio › Voice to pick a Comms or Clean style and a voice language: English, Chinese, Japanese or German (More coming soon).

Hunting

• Hunting as a classic task-master skill. Each master now pays in drops, with new quarry materials and Warrant-Pattern gear. Hunting-locked quarry and Paragon quarry join the hunt, and Bounty Points and streaks work as before.

Market and industry

• Cheaper listings. A new finder shows cheaper listings with "buy there, courier here", and buy orders are easier to place.
• Overclock reagent. Use it to run industry jobs faster.
• Exodus reforge and Rift key trade-down. Reforge your Exodus modules, and trade a Rift key down to a lower tier.
• Trophy turn-in. Hand in trophies for Bounty Points.
• Prestige liveries. Seven new premium paints you can buy with credits.

More to try

• Flotilla. Crews now work for 24 hours while you are away, and you can extend your license time with credits.
• Compare. Compare ships and modules side by side.
• Hollow Night beacons. Lanterns and Lamplighters glow with a beacon you can spot from far away, with markers on Tactical and the minimap.
• Player Moderators. A new volunteer program. Some trusted players may be invited to join, and they wear a silver P badge.

Improvements

• Windows and headers. The window you click comes to the front, and headers stay put while lists scroll.
• Phone toolbars. Phones get one-row search and filter toolbars.
• Event banners. You can move, minimize or hide them.
• Chat and pilots. Clicking a name in chat opens the pilot card, and a pilot's Rankings button opens their ranking profile.
• Stations and Industry. Stations list their services, including Refinery, and Industry tells you where the nearest refinery is.
• Colonies. Shops near parks build denser, and the planner explains density limits and how to raise them.
• Smoother warps and jumps. Warps and jumps run smoother, especially on WebGPU.
• Stability. Fewer memory problems in long sessions, and protection for weaker graphics cards.
• Reset buttons. A new Reset graphics cache button and a Reset view button help when something looks wrong.
• Website. Cleaner leaderboard and market links, and updated guides.

Fixes

• Undocking. Undocking no longer gets stuck in the hangar.
• Washed-out screens. Screens no longer wash out in big fights.
• Missing textures. Models no longer load without their textures.
• Retainer kills. Retainer kills now credit you properly.
• Approach and splice. The Approach and splice button flies you to the vault.

Balance

• Harvesting. Harvesting XP is more than doubled.
• Hunting. Bounty Office pay was rebalanced and now comes mostly from tradeable drops, and Hunting now takes about as long to master as other skills.
• Bounty office and Rift rewards. Both are tuned.