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Elite: Dangerous Powerplay 1.3 Beta Patch Notes
Interdictions do 10% of the damage of a normal emergency drop
Chance that NPC escorts won't flee but stay and fight
Fix for Commuters having a crazy high chance to flee when their hull got to about 50%
Improved and highly optimised Hangar lighting
Visual improvements, rebalancing and optimisation to hangar particle effects
Fixed typo in basic discovery scanner description
Fix typos in water giant description
Fix spelling for Luyten 347-14 system permit
Remove extraneous space in class M star description
Fix incorrect starting explorer description
Remove unneeded secondary economy from Auta Isuang
Jovian texture replaced wrong default terrestrial texture, schematic height params for this planet type slightly raised for better definition
Fix turrets set to Target Only deciding to fire when you're in the hangar
Adjusted the height of the flood lights around the large landing pad (raised them up by 5 metres) so that they interfere less with the Chat panel in the GUI
Give turret mounts the ability to track 5 degrees down past horizontal, to help ships like the python be able to actually hit small ships in front of it
Friendly fire rules should apply to player Vs player, not just AI
Fix NPCs not giving themselves local bounties
Added ampersand character to text rendering on starports
Don't allow NPC's to jump if they have 0% hull
Prevent docking after the police 'notice' that a player is wanted. This is the same reaction with committing a violent crime near the station
The contents of an asteroid are now deterministic again, and will be the same every time a players logs in and for every player
A history of mined asteroids is stored per player on the web server. If a player tries to mine a previously mined asteroid, they get nothing
Asteroids can now contain up to 3 minerals, chunks still contain 2 minerals
Fix typo in star class L description
Don't go through the process of choosing a new group leader if when the leader dies we aren't the authority, as this will be an authority transfer rather than the leader dying
When a ship is dying and we're setting its behaviour to "Just hit me", we only need to set this as the current behaviour, not the default state
Outpost hangars now have new and improved lighting
Rich hangars and inner dock now have new and improved lighting
Fix underside of flood light poking through a hangar and a texture issue on a LOD in the Rich Station interior
Fix police defending wanted ships in their own faction
Thickened up the fine strut detail on the Solar Array LODs which was causing a lot of aliasing as much of the geometry could become sub-pixel at distance. This seems to have improved render quality somewhat, especially in the mid-range LODs
Fix the test that zeroed throttle when docked to only zero when docking state changes - allows the throttle to work when using accumulated controls during a pre-flight check
Don't show a ship's health bar if the schematic is showing a subsystem/module
Fixed the decal cameras for the Imperial Clipper
Make sure that an NPC appears after an interdiction if it has been interdicted by more than one player
Make sure that the lead ship wouldn't always head for the wake to drop out into the interdiction
Fix alignment issues with tiny and medium hardpoints, and also splits the doors into separate CSM files so that they can open independently
Fix rings becoming invisible when entering or exiting supercruise
Docking computer resets timer back to 10:00 fixed
Docking computer cannot land the ship if the player resumes control after the docking computer has piloted the ship inside the station fixed
Eagle interior cockpit now has texture
Fix for Asp landing gear not locking down
Improve Vulture LODs
Fix landing gear for Type 6
Fix landing gear for Type 7
Fixed shadow sharpness on cockpits
Fed Dropship Lowest LOD fix
Add a 'Hostile' sign in the same place as the 'Wanted' sign to indicate when the police will attack the player due to bad reputation
Add a missing check that meant mines were being targeted even if there was a better target around
Added rank progress bars
Decal pass for Mercenary paintjobs
Chaff now affects turrets and gimbals by the same amount
Improvements to engine effects overhaul
Improved the appearance of the Hauler drive effects
Stop Spinning AI Ships in Supercruise
AI will try to avoid crossing a player's firing line
Optimisation for partial name search in galaxy map
Fixed hole in Adder cockpit geometry
Pilot and chair added to external cockpits
Reduced range of Medium Empire thrusters light so it doesn't illuminate the Empire Courier's cockpit
Cap bounties to 10 million per jurisdiction - fines remain unlimited
Fixed Asp Gun Barrel Clipping in Outfitting
Inconsistency in the Class Y dwarf stars description fixed
Minor Typos in the Lakon Type-9 Heavy ship text description fixed
Fixed some mixed up commodity labels in French
Fix broken non-breaking spaces in French
Make sure that the gunsights system has sensible start values to prevent odd jumping
Fix a few cases of people with old weapon loadouts being unable to fire
On the galaxy map, "Plan Route" should be "Route Planen" in German
FSD cool-down timer should read "FSA-ABKÜHLZEIT" in German
When receiving machine details in response to wing/invite, try to connect to the machine - fix for some invites not getting through
Various translation fixes
Altered flicker on light to be more subtle in Fer-de-Lance cockpit
Shields persist in supercruise
Fixed not being able to supercruise through a completely invisible ring
Steadily loosen rank limits on supercruise interdiction as security decreases
Allow players to adjust their power pips in Supercruise
Make every capacitor recharge at max rate while docked, since station UI can steal the power controls, leaving players without any sys energy to bring their shield back up
Station entrance VFX optimisations
Don't skip the long shield recharge delay on location transition if your shield were at 0 health
Fix 2.5s hyperspace transition time when jumping from Supercruise
Don't duplicate ships when following a wake
Landing gears are initialised 'down' if you start docked, instead of starting 'up' and immediately deploying
New take on chaff effect, visible from greater distances
Encourage mining chunks to float away from asteroids, not inside them. Also push them out along that direction a little when spawning to help prevent fast moving asteroids from rotating through the new chunks
When weapons have a shot blocked and fail to fire, no longer drain weapon power spuriously
Adjusted some hitcheck were it may be possible to ram your way through a wall in the Coriolis station due to an acute angle in the mesh
Transactions panel will now update the vouchers if they change while it's open
When firing at a moving target turrets confusion is affected by distance so that turrets are more easily confused by sharp manoeuvres at short range than long
Confusion is based on the acceleration of the target in both absolute space and relative to the firer
Rather than Wobbling when the gun gets confused, turrets now tend to lag behind their target instead.
Fix for cartography data being fetched but requested in the previous page refresh
Shipyard now accounts for fitted modules in the Shields and Armour values
Prevent cap ship fighters spawning on top of each other
Only apply capital ship exclusion zone to player ships
Don't say "Warning! Landing gear" when approaching a landing pad if your gears are currently deploying
Class 2 Seeker missiles sometimes fire backwards in a Python fixed
Tweaked ammo amounts for multicannon and rail gun.
When targeting a Point of Interest, show the second detail as the name of the body it's around rather than the type of body. Also show minor faction names instead of major faction
Fix for weapons that fire atomic bursts - rather than draining energy per shot, the energy for the whole burst is drained up-front to prevent the burst getting oddly straddled over time if you're low on power
Added support for warming up shaders - a likely issue causing the big stalls approaching planets
Added better description to highlight the technical limitation of the kill warrant scanner
Fix clothing and consumer technology being the wrong way round in Russian
Speculative fix for Achenar star description is missing in German version
Medium pulse turret stopping aiming fixed
Stop AI ships jumping with a destroyed Frame Shift Drive
Shorten some French strings to fit on the gauge panel better
Fixed incorrect permit ID for Phekda that was causing it to appear as a debug
Update to the Police Hivemind numbers, slight rebalance to minimum delay, max strength and max bounty numbers
Balance pass on SC hunter/target chatter distances
Added alternative mapping for CH combat stick
Fix some inconsistencies in ship vs. environment collisions
Increase persistence for NPCs that are hunting player ships for various readings - this means they are more likely to chase for longer and not so easily thrown off the scent