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General Discussion / Re: Happy 25th Birthday, HLP

« Last post by Bryan See on January 21, 2026, 02:07:53 am »

Belated happy birthday.

As always, life comes first.

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Fate of the Galaxy / Re: [FotG Update] Fall 2025

« Last post by wookieejedi on January 20, 2026, 08:22:46 am »

Heh well the biggest external blocker we are waiting on now is FSO Stable 25.0 And thanks!

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FreeSpace Discussion / Screencap Contest: January + February 2026

« Last post by NeonShivan on January 19, 2026, 04:43:50 pm »

Greetings chat,

Because I am a little late to posting this, I've decided to merge both January's and February's contests into one. The theme this time will be free to give me time to wait until the last minute to come up with a schedule of themes for the rest of the year. There will also be two winners for this month as well so good luck and godspeed.

Same rules as before:

1: No HUD! (Jump nodes are ok though!)
2: Images must be presented as they would be as seen with only the FSO engine rendering the image. Remember that these entries help to show off what the engine can do for new players! So that means no after the fact photoshopping (except for cropping), and no external shader programs (reshade and the like). No lens flares, contrast shifts, colorizers, etc.
3: Max 3 entries per person!
4: Again, these screenshots are a way to promote Freespace and the FSO Engine - let's keep it in good taste.

Scoreboard: Nothing, new year new me.

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FreeSpace Discussion / Re: Props to Passionate Community + Shameless Stream Plugging

« Last post by NeonShivan on January 19, 2026, 04:41:13 pm »

lmao I see you moving Eyebleach to right after ITDoH

(Don't get ahead of yourself, you might need it after New Beginnings or Alliance Fights Back or Battle for Altair or System Madness or System Madness II or Enemies United or Ghosts of Valor)

(Also seriously, make a note to NOT dedicate more than about half a stream to Ghosts of Valor, it's really truly not the kind of thing you can play for extended periods of time without suffering major brain damage. But the stream must experience it at least once)

Looking forward to SOMA!

I am in great danger.

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Fate of the Galaxy / Re: [FotG Update] Fall 2025

« Last post by Colonol Dekker on January 19, 2026, 12:26:11 pm »

Katy Perry made it into actual space before Star Citizen.  Fate is well worth the wait and I'm confident in it.

Big thanks to everyone involved for your ongoing effort and passionate creativity.

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Fate of the Galaxy / Re: [FotG Update] Fall 2025

« Last post by wesp5 on January 19, 2026, 05:25:45 am »

So will this be out before Star Citizen or after ?

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Nightly Builds / Nightly: 16 January 2026 - Revision a2c05009d

« Last post by SirKnightly on January 16, 2026, 12:54:36 am »

Here is the nightly for 16 January 2026 - Revision a2c05009d



Group: Linux-arm64
nightly_20260116_a2c05009d-builds-Linux-arm64.tar.gz (Mirror)


Group: Linux-x86_64
nightly_20260116_a2c05009d-builds-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz (Mirror)


Group: MacOSX-arm64
nightly_20260116_a2c05009d-builds-Mac-arm64.tar.gz (Mirror)


Group: MacOSX-x86_64
nightly_20260116_a2c05009d-builds-Mac-x86_64.tar.gz (Mirror)


Group: Win32-SSE2
nightly_20260116_a2c05009d-builds-Win32-SSE2.zip (Mirror)


Group: Win64-SSE2
nightly_20260116_a2c05009d-builds-x64-SSE2.zip (Mirror)

Code: [Select]

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commit a2c05009d
Author: wookieejedi
Commit: GitHub

    Fix asteroids toggling (#7188)
 freespace2/freespace.cpp | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

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commit 2af0aefd9
Author: Daniel Cazares
Commit: GitHub

    fix(eye): guard missing model instance (#7180)
 code/ship/ship.cpp | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

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commit d9a6330d9
Author: wookieejedi
Commit: GitHub

    Fix regression from #7051 (#7191)
 code/io/keycontrol.cpp | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

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commit 634eece87
Author: Mike Nelson
Commit: GitHub

    make this check less stringent (#7182)
 code/lab/dialogs/lab_ui.cpp | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)


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General Discussion / Re: Happy 25th Birthday, HLP

« Last post by Colonol Dekker on January 15, 2026, 03:53:00 am »

Life comes first:)

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General Discussion / Re: Happy 25th Birthday, HLP

« Last post by Glowhyena on January 14, 2026, 11:30:10 pm »

25 years old already? Man... That's great. I wish I was more talkative here, but couldn't because of my life. Ha!

Yup, I'm still here, pilots.

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General Discussion / Re: Happy 25th Birthday, HLP

« Last post by BengalTiger on January 10, 2026, 06:27:43 pm »

Wow, that's a long time.