After we acquired the Nexus franchise our goal was to make the game experience better but unfortunately our hands were tied for a long time. Now we were finally able to do actual work on Nexus and this resulted in a lot that we actually did. ADDITIONS • Added option to use the current desktop resolution. It’s the default. • Enabled using modern monitor resolutions including Full HD. • Added correct displaying of GUI elements, briefings and subtitles with modern monitor aspect ratios: 16:9, 16:10, 21:9 • Added separate field-of-view setups for different monitor aspect ratios. • Added VSync option. It’s on by default. • All available text languages are selectable from the launcher. • All available audio languages are selectable from the launcher. • Added multiplayer NAT resolver to help connecting to Internet servers. • Added accepting Steam invites for multiplayer game. FIXES • Removed obsolete DirectX 8 executable versions. • Fixed disappearing of the loading animation in fullscreen mode under modern OSs. Also dimming is applied to the GUI during loading. • Fixed mouse cursor latency. • Fixed lagging of NPC mission dialogs with the unpacked data files. • Fixed the issue shortcuts stop working after switching tasks with Alt+Tab. MODDING ADDITIONS • Editor window size is configurable from mod_tools launcher. • Configured window size is independent from the fullscreen game resolution. • Nexus can be started in windowed mode from mod_tools launcher. • Nexus can be started in windowed mode with the /win command line option. • Mission Editor enables returning to main menu and load another mission. • Mission and Solar System Editor enables editing main campaign’s missions. • Published former developer tool Briefing Editor to ease altering main campaign’s mission briefing scenes. • Published former developer localization tool NexLoc to ease adding new translations. • Options saved to the user’s AppData folder instead of the registry. MODDING FIXES • Fixed Converter crash under under modern OSs. • Editor windows startup arrangement changed, Quit buttons added. • Editors warn about unsaved changes. • Solar System Editor uses the usual solar system navigation GUI. We hope you all enjoy Nexus now even more!