AI (Combat)
- Completed first pass of 'surrender behavior'
- Began implementing support for character traits

AI (Ships)
- Iteration on missile targeting
- Capital ship combat improved for longer-range combat

Art (Environment)
- Refinery decks are now in final polish
- Adding gas clouds to Lagrange points
- Final art on ship-to-station docking lobby and exterior
- Pre-production work for new 'Colonialism' ground-base archetypes
- Work on Orison continued
- Finalized art for Pyro's celestial bodies.

Art (Ships)
- Crusader Hercules exterior in final art completion, engineering and bridge in final art
- Shader created for the Esperia Talon is ready for implementation, as is the missile system.
- Crusader Mercury Star Runner continued polishing, finishing several parts
- Iterated on ship weapon affects, missiles, and shield impact effects

Characters
- Two new armor sets targeted for 2021 and Subscriber Flair items planned for release soon
- Three sets of armor further developed that will support mining & bounty hunting gameplay

Engineering
- Atmospheres, clouds, and ray-marcher possibly coming to next PU release
- Volumetric soft-body/deformation rendering prototype
- Research into improving setup of vegetation touch-bending

Features (Gameplay)
- New Reputation System is in the works
- Work on two new MobiGlas apps; Asset Manager (Involves Physical inventories) and Mission Manager
- Reworking ship restocking

Features (Vehicles)
- Developing on unifying IFCS with movement-heavy systems like players and missiles
- Parasite Docking UI was finished. Working through minor tasks to push to call the feature "finished"

Tech (Animation)
- Heavily upgrading the head assets in the character pipeline
- Began overhauling combat animations to remove glitches

AI (Combat)
- Progressed with Vanduul combat behaviors, authoring several animations for melee attacks and combos
- First pass of ‘surrender’ completed. Allows NPCs that are under pressure and without ammunition to decide to surrender

Animation
- Staggering, push/pull, stance transition improvements, a handful of new weapons, and improvements to the ‘crouch’ set
- Progress for the ‘social and life’ animations, including the chowline, mess hall, bartender drinks, bathrooms, armory character, engineer, and exercises

Art (Environment)
- Steady progress made on Javelin and Idris interiors, with lighting, material, geometry, and the Javelin's engine room polished.

Engineering
- In addition to force reactions, staggers are being included where a force can move the player but not knock them down
- Began implementing FPS radar and scanning, accounting for weapon emissions and audio signifiers

Level Design
- The Social Design Team brought a number of scenes up to their “gold standard,” which include completed behaviors, usables, interrupts, and abandons.
- The Level Design Team moved several FPS sections to a near-complete state.
- The Space/Dogfight Team supported the various feature teams. For example, AI and Flight Gameplay are working on enhanced path-following and hazard awareness behaviors.

Narrative
- Adding assets and props that include additional story indicators that reward players who dig a little deeper and explore the game’s locations
- Narrative continued to work with Audio and Combat AI to develop the Vanduul culture and behavior, while the team’s xenolinguist further developed the language