5.3 - Hotfix 3

[jammi]

Discovery Freelancer 5.3 "Singularity" - Hotfix 3 Patch Notes
August 30th - September 1st 2025

USEFUL LINKS

1. Discovery 5.3 Dev Diary #3 - Announcement Trailer, Systems, Story, and More - Systems, Story, and More
   
2. Discovery Freelancer 20th Anniversary Celebration - Special event celebrating the 20 year anniversary of the DIscovery mod
   
3. 5.3 main release patch notes
   
4. 5.3 hotfix 1 patch notes
   
5. 5.3 hotfix 2 patch notes

ART / MODELS
- Changed: EM Flak impact FX.
- Changed: SNAC impact FX.

BALANCE
- Changed: Heavy Fighter strafe force increased by 10%.

ECONOMY / POBs
- Added: Rydberg Matter, Deep Omegas loot.
- Fixed: Commodity decay removed from Anomalous Alien Structure (Omega Survivor event commodity).

ENCOUNTERS / NPCS
- Added: New threats to Fischer, dropping valuable Rydberg Matter.
- Changed: Cruise Disruptor fire delay increased for Deep Omega NPCs.
- Changed: Deep Omega NPC equipment and weapons.
- Fixed: Deep Omega bomber NPC thrusters.
- Fixed: Deep Omega NPCs now use powercores.
- Fixed: Deep Omega Gallic Wild NPCs have been sent home to Tau-61.

FLHOOK / CODING
- Added: Add exit button to the FLUF config menu
- Fixed: Prevent crashing when using ALT-Enter
- Fixed: (Hopefully) fixed the "black screen crash".

INFOCARDS

SERVER ADMINISTRATION / CONFIGS

SYSTEMS
- Added: Entry points to the Deep Omegas. Three entry points exist, with one being active on any given day.
- Added: A shortcut in Omega-97 leading to Fischer, which was temporarily removed for the event.
- Added: Omega-2 unique music.
- Changed: Fischer starsphere and ambient lighting.
- Changed: Omega-97 nebula view distance reduced.
- Fixed: Battlecruiser Akhetaten invisible LOD.
- Fixed: Coronado -> Cortez Jump Gate voice line.
- Fixed: Omega-2 northeast asteroid field rock type corrected.
- Removed: Event specific wrecks and salvage zones from the Deep Omegas.

Developers:
@Aingar - Coding
@Alex. - Keeping It All Running
@Antonio - Art, Systems, NPCs, Infocards
@Grumblesaur - Infocards
@Haste - Art, Balance, Economy
@jammi - Infocards, Systems, NPCs
@Laz - Coding
@Kauket - Art
@pillow - Balance
@Sombs - Systems
@Titan* - Art, NPCs
@Treewyrm - Art

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[Sand-Viper]

Sad to see the salvage zones go.. I never got them to drop anything during the Omega Survivor event.

Any plans to re-introduce them into some areas on a permanent basis?
Would be neat for salvage RPs!

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[Antonio]

Sadly those salvage zones were an ooRP event concession. The bustards have no business being there, especially so many of them.

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[jammi]

Sad to see the salvage zones go.. I never got them to drop anything during the Omega Survivor event.

Any plans to re-introduce them into some areas on a permanent basis?
Would be neat for salvage RPs!

Salvage zones are certainly something we want for the future, but with proper mechanical support (and not the hacky nonsense I threw together for the events).

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