Was so happy that when I watched the Alpha 2D video within around 5 hours of it's launch that the update was also here on GoG. I was worried the GoG update might take longer but nope there it was.

There is a lot added to the Alpha, you can watch their update video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rJVuS6CfH0

There are several new items of equipment to help make your ship self sufficient. There is also what I will term as an long integer bug it may not be actually that though but it looks like it.

Because I played Alpha 1D a lot I was in Sector 83 and all of a sudden my money just vanished and turned into negative. When I restored from a saved game, I saw that the moment I make a sale of an item over a certain amount, it looks like it reaches the maximum value of the variable holding the money amount and pow, you lose it all, in fact you are in the negatives. Because I was in sector 83 everything cost in the 500K+ range.

Unable to continue with my long played saved game I started another but remained in the earlier sectors as this update gave you the opportunity to not have the void chasing you. Unfortunately when mining and then smelting previous metals and trying to sell them, I ran into the issue again where some of the refined previous ores had a minus 2141xxx value where xxxx are other numbers I do not recall but the -2141 I knew was this bug and so I could not sell that item. I exited and loaded the save game and I could sell some but then others turned into a value of -2141

It looks like I will need to wait until alpha 3 which is due in 5 weeks at the earliest to keep playing which is a great shame but it is very early days and this is an absolutely fantastic game.