A real Earth, and weather to go with it. • The globe is now NASA imagery: Blue Marble by day, and city lights coming on along the night side. • Weather. Clouds drift, form and clear across the globe, and storms roll through. A storm over a target slows imaging satellites passing under it; signals satellites don't care. The target panel warns you a day ahead. You can hide the cloud from Profile if you prefer a clear view. • Tougher dogfights. UFOs now fire back down the arena after a visible warning: move or jam it with an EMP. The EMP slow wears off, so keep it up. Craft weave nearer and further, and both sides take visible damage and trail smoke. • Decommission a satellite or a TRB-01 when you no longer want it.

This is the combat update. • Weapons: the OFFENCE bay is open. Research mines, a railgun and EMPs, then fire on what you're shadowing. Powered weapons draw on the battery, so you have to pick your moment. • Shadowing: fly past a foreign satellite, or sit behind it at long, medium or close range. You can steal its technology and drain the data it has collected. • Unidentified craft: some come down and land. Find one from orbit, then send a recovery team from your home base to lift what it leaves behind. • The TRB-01: build it from recovered parts, chase craft in flight and bring them down. • Sound settings for music and effects, plus new music. • Fixes: the tour moves between screens again, and many smaller fixes throughout.

• Hour packs are now on sale. Buy in-game hours and fast-forward the whole world clock whenever you like. Waiting still always works, and new campaigns still start with 200 free hours. • Your cameras photograph whatever passes close to them. Most of it is other people's hardware. Not all of it is on any register, and not all of what you will eventually find down there was built by anyone with a flag. • Upgrades are researched. Collect intel from each kind of site to unlock better modules for the bays that site teaches. • Every upgrade draws power. A satellite whose fit outruns its solar array goes dark partway through each night. • A NULLPOINT can be bought already parked over a named region of the world. • A satellite worn down to nothing falls back to Earth after a warning window, and you can rebuild it from FLEET. • Your phone tells you when a site finishes collecting, or when a satellite is running out of propellant or condition. • 88 more targets across the USA, Russia, China, India, Australia and more. One site in ten carries bonus fast-forward hours. • Smoother globe when following a satellite, plus a new intro and button sounds.