Versefiles Companion

Ein kleines Windows-Programm, das beim Spielen das Protokoll von Star Citizen mitliest und ein Journal führt: Aufträge, erhaltene Blueprints und welcher Auftrag sie gab, Belohnungen, Verkäufe und Käufe, Reisen, Besuche im Med-Bed.

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Eine Datei, einmal doppelklicken. Der Companion installiert sich für dein Windows-Konto, legt eine Verknüpfung „Versefiles Companion“ auf den Desktop und ins Startmenü und entfernt die heruntergeladene Datei – starte ihn danach über die Verknüpfung. Das Fenster öffnet auf Home: „Start RSI Launcher“ und deine Zahlen dieses Patches, der letzten sieben Tage und insgesamt, auf deinem PC aus LIVE und HOTFIX gezählt. Beim ersten Start liest er deine früheren Sitzungen aus logbackups nach und folgt dann dem Spiel. Schließt du das Fenster, läuft er im Infobereich weiter – beenden per Rechtsklick auf das Symbol.

Nimmst du einen Auftrag an, blendet er für zwanzig Sekunden in einem kleinen Feld über dem Spiel ein, was Versefiles darüber weiß: was er zahlt und wie lange Spieler brauchen, die Schritte, wo andere hängen geblieben sind, die Blueprints, die der Auftrag vergeben kann, und deine eigene Bilanz – und bei jedem neuen Schritt noch einmal: erst wie bisher, eine Sekunde später mit dem neuen Schritt. Mit Alt+Shift+P holst du es zurück – dafür prüft der Companion nur, ob genau diese Kombination gedrückt ist, und behält nichts davon. Das Spiel muss dafür im rahmenlosen Modus laufen; das Feld nimmt nie den Fokus und greift nicht ins Spiel ein. Abschalten lässt es sich, ganz oder nur für die neuen Schritte, im Fenster unter „Settings“. Mit Schlüssel sind die Blueprints eines Auftrags, die du schon besitzt, abgehakt. Und startet ein Spiel, meldet das Feld einmal, dass der Companion bereit ist – welcher Sitzung er folgt und wohin dein Journal geht. Sind mehrere Aufträge offen, steht der zuletzt bewegte vorn, die anderen folgen je in einer Zeile darunter; ein weiterer Druck auf Alt+Shift+P zeigt den nächsten ausführlich.

Er hält sich selbst aktuell: Beim Start, alle sechs Stunden und direkt nach dem Beenden des Spiels fragt er hier nach einer neueren Fassung und installiert sie dann selbst – nie mitten im Spiel, und nur eine von Versefiles signierte Fassung, die auf deinem PC geprüft wird, bevor etwas ersetzt wird. „Install now“ im Fenster erledigt es sofort. Abschalten lässt sich das im Fenster unter „Settings“. Noch auf Version 0.5.0 oder älter? Dann lade ihn einmal von Hand neu herunter – diese Fassungen können sich noch nicht selbst aktualisieren.

Er ist ein lesbares Skript und keine .exe: Öffne ihn vor dem Start in einem beliebigen Texteditor. Windows fragt womöglich nach, ob eine Datei aus dem Internet laufen darf.

Was sich geändert hat

Ein Eintrag je Companion-Version, die neueste zuerst. Zum Lesen auf eine Version klicken. Versionen über 0.15.1 sind Testversionen — dafür im Companion „Testversionen zuerst (Beta)" einschalten.

0.15.1 2026-10-15 der Download oben

• Companion 0.15.1 is now the version for everybody. Until today it was the test version: the home page in the style of the RSI Launcher, "Start RSI Launcher", your numbers of this patch, the last seven days and all time, and one key for the journal and game data. Copies that update themselves get it on their next check; the download on the companion page is this version too. Version 0.13.1 and later install themselves on the first start and put a shortcut on the desktop and in the Start menu — the companion page now says so.
• Companion 0.15.1 (beta) works with that one key. Its settings no longer ask for an import key, and the Game data tab is always there. Without a key, it asks for yours. With a key that may not upload game data yet, it says so, and "Check again" picks up an admin's yes without a restart. Once allowed, it shows the game data view as before.
• Companion 0.15.1 (beta): an item's type now comes from the game where our rules only guessed. When the companion reads the game data, an item the game itself attaches as a utility turret is now a "Utility Turret" — in this patch the ROC Mining Arm, which the class name had made a "Turret". The site has kept it out of the ship components since 1.61.1; from the next game data upload on, its own page says what it is, too. The companion also reads, straight from the game files, how many points each reward step of an event needs; the event pages show them since 1.62.0. How many points a contract earns is still nowhere in the files.
• Companion 0.15.1 (beta): the big button says what it opens: START RSI LAUNCHER. It always opened the RSI Launcher, never the game itself, and now says so; the tray menu too. The button that opened the journal folder is gone.

0.15.0 2026-10-15

• Companion 0.15.0 (beta): the home page in the style of the RSI Launcher. The companion's home page now sits on a Star Citizen wallpaper from CIG's official fan kit, with the launcher's look: a "Game environment" box showing the installed version as the launcher does (e.g. LIVE · 4.10.2-live.12913470), a START GAME button, tabs for this patch, the last 7 days and all time, and your numbers on cards over the picture — now with the places you have been as a card of its own. The bar on top carries the views and, on its own on the right, whether your journal reaches Versefiles. START GAME and the tabs work from the keyboard too. The wallpaper travels inside the companion, so nothing new is downloaded or sent.

0.14.1 2026-10-13

• Companion 0.14.1 (beta): the home page's tiles no longer cut numbers off. Ten hours of play and more now read as whole hours ("85 h"), a million aUEC and more as "12.3 M" — before, "99 h 59 min" lost its last letter. While a game runs, the time played now keeps counting instead of waiting for the next event, and a fault on the home page can no longer stop the companion from following the game. The companion also no longer adds the patch name to what it uploads, so "nothing new is sent" holds to the letter.

0.14.0 2026-10-13

• Companion 0.14.0 (beta): a home page with "Start game". The companion now opens on a page of its own: one click starts the RSI Launcher, or brings it to the front if it is open already. Below that are your numbers for this patch, the last 7 days or all time — contracts done, time played, sessions, aUEC earned and your success rate, then blueprints and places, quantum jumps, deaths, medbed treatments and CrimeStat changes, refinery orders, sales and purchases. Everything is counted on your PC from the companion's own journal, LIVE and HOTFIX only, and nothing new is sent anywhere. Starting the companion a second time now brings its window to the front.

0.13.2 2026-10-07

• Companion 0.13.2 for testers (beta). The button "Versefiles…" in the companion's window is now called "Settings", and so is the window it opens. In the taskbar the companion now shows as "Versefiles Companion" with its own icon instead of as Windows PowerShell; shortcuts made by 0.13.1 are brought up to date when 0.13.2 first starts.

0.13.1 2026-10-05

• The companion gets its own icon and no longer keeps a console window open — for testers first, in Companion 0.13.1 (beta). Started by a double-click, it now runs without the black window that used to stay open beside it. On its first start it installs itself into %LOCALAPPDATA%\Versefiles\Companion, puts a "Versefiles Companion" shortcut with the new icon on the desktop and in the Start menu, and removes the file you downloaded; from then on you start it from the shortcut. It installs only a version signed by Versefiles and never puts an older version over a newer one. Everybody gets 0.13.1 once it has been tested.

0.13.0 2026-10-04

• A beta channel for the companion. New companion versions now go to testers first and reach everybody only once they have been tested. The first test version is Companion 0.13.0. With it comes a tick under "Versefiles…", "Get test versions first (beta)", for anybody who wants to try new versions early; they may still have faults. Your companion gets 0.13.0 by itself once it has been tested.

0.12.2 2026-10-03

• The companion no longer goes down with a second contract. From 0.12.0 on, the overlay could come up empty when it switched to another contract, and the hotkey could then close the companion. It happened whenever the contract shown had steps you had not reached yet, such as a fresh one with a walkthrough. A contract the site does not know got its name back as well; it showed a blank title before. Companion 0.12.2.

0.12.1 2026-09-30

• The overlay finds the right mission more often: the game writes a contract's internal name a line before "Contract Accepted", and the companion used to drop it and look the contract up by its title alone. Now it keeps the name for the acceptance that follows. Companion 0.12.1.

0.12.0 2026-09-30

• Several contracts at once in the overlay. The companion follows every contract you have open, not only the last one you took. The one that moved last stands in full at the top — a new step of any of them brings it there — and the others follow one line each with the step they are at. Press Alt+Shift+P again while the panel is up to see the next one in full; after the last one it closes. Started during a game, the companion picks up the contracts already open from its journal. Companion 0.12.0.

0.11.2 2026-09-29

• The overlay gives the time players need as a span: "12–18 min (median 14)" — the middle half of all runs and the median, as the mission page states it. The extremes would say less: one contract left open over lunch stretches them. Your own line adds your fastest run. Companion 0.11.2.

0.11.1 2026-09-29

• The overlay's reward and time now show up for real contracts. Most contracts pay by a formula, so the game files name no figure — there the overlay now says what players were paid, as their logs record it, once three players have done the contract. With your companion key it also shows your own time and the reward you got last, next to how often you did it; your own figures need no three players. Companion 0.11.1.

0.11.0 2026-09-29

• What a contract pays and how long players take, in the overlay. Right under the title the companion's overlay now says the reward and how long players need from accepting to completing — so a contract without a walkthrough still shows something useful, along with its blueprints. The time is the middle of the measured runs and appears once three players have run the contract, as on the mission page. Companion 0.11.0.

0.10.0 2026-09-29

• Blueprints you own are ticked in the overlay. With a companion key, the blueprints a contract can hand out show which ones you have already — received in the game or marked by hand on the site — with how many of the pool are yours; the ones still to get come first. Companion 0.10.0.

0.9.0 2026-09-29

• Each new step of a contract shows. When the game gives you the next objective, the companion's overlay comes back by itself: first as it was, and a second later the step changes, so you see what moved on. In the list of steps from the game, the open ones are lit and the done ones dimmed. The same objective sent twice or a counter going up (0/12 → 4/12) does not bring it back. Switch this off on its own under "Versefiles…" in the companion's window. Companion 0.9.0.

0.8.1 2026-09-29

• In the companion's Game data view, a button that cannot be used right now — during a run, say — looks switched off: grey text and a grey frame. It used to keep its blue frame with dark, barely readable text. Companion 0.8.1.

0.8.0 2026-09-29

• One program instead of two. The upload tool is part of the Versefiles Companion now (0.8.0). With an import key — editors get one — the companion's window has a Game data view that reads the installed build and uploads it, and a notification says when your game has a build Versefiles does not have yet. A run goes on in the background: the journal and the overlay carry on meanwhile. The companion takes over the old tool's key and game folder by itself; an installed QuestGuideUploader.cmd updates itself one last time and then points to the companion. Without an import key the companion looks and works as before.

0.7.2 2026-09-28

• The key combination that brings the overlay back now works while you play: Alt+Shift+P instead of Ctrl+Alt+V, which never arrived while the game had the focus. The companion only checks whether exactly this combination is held down and keeps nothing of it; the keys still reach the game. Companion 0.7.2 — an older one installs it by itself once the game is closed.

0.7.1 2026-09-28

• The Versefiles Companion says when an update is ready: Install … now in the window installs it at once, even during a game, and Check for updates in the tray menu asks right away. It also asks right after the game closes, so a new version arrives the same evening instead of up to six hours later. Companion 0.7.1.

0.7.0 2026-09-28

• Mission info over the game. When you accept a contract, the Versefiles Companion shows what Versefiles knows about it in a small panel over the game for twenty seconds: the steps, where other players got stuck, the blueprints it can hand out and your own record. Ctrl+Alt+V brings it back. It works in every channel and needs the game in borderless mode; it never takes the focus or a click and does not touch the game. Nothing of it is stored — the journal still takes LIVE and HOTFIX only. Companion 0.7.0; a 0.6.x installs it by itself once the game is closed.

0.6.1 2026-09-27

• The Versefiles Companion shows its version in the window title and the tray, and the Versefiles account its key belongs to in the status line and under "Versefiles..." - so you can see where your journal goes. Companion 0.6.1; a 0.6.0 installs it by itself once the game is closed.

0.6.0 2026-09-27

• The Versefiles Companion and the upload tool update themselves. They ask this site for a newer version at start, and the companion every six hours as well. They install it by themselves: the companion only once the game is closed, never in the middle of a game. Installed is only a version signed by Versefiles, checked on your PC before anything is replaced, and the previous one stays next to it as a .bak file. Switch it off in the companion under "Versefiles...", in the upload tool with "autoUpdate": false in its config.json. Companion 0.6.0 and upload tool 1.0.0 are the first to do it, so download them once more by hand.

0.5.0 2026-09-26

• Companion 0.5.0: right after you give up a contract, a notification names the step where it stopped; a click opens My log to say why. The contract is sent at once, so it is already there.

0.4.0 2026-09-26

• The companion's "Hangar assigned" is now "Hangar request completed" — the game sends it for landing and departure requests alike. Companion 0.4.0.

Das Journal an Versefiles schicken

Freiwillig. Ohne Schlüssel bleibt das Journal auf deinem PC (unter %LOCALAPPDATA%\Versefiles\Companion). Mit einem Schlüssel von deiner Profilseite schickt der Companion es hierher, und du bekommst:

• dein Log und deine Blueprint-Sammlung auf der Seite (Mein Log),
• eine Liste, die erhaltene Blueprints selbst abhakt (Meine Liste),
• bei einem abgebrochenen Auftrag den Schritt, an dem er hängen blieb, und einen Klick für den Grund – das Tray-Symbol erinnert dich gleich danach,
• und, ab drei Spielern und ohne Namen gezählt: was Aufträge wirklich vergeben, wie lange sie dauern und wo Spieler aufgeben – auf jeder Missionsseite.

Geschickt werden die Ereignisse des Journals. Nie dein Handle, deine Konto- oder Charakterkennungen, deine IP-Adresse oder die Namen anderer Spieler – der Companion erfasst sie nicht, und die Seite behält nur die Felder, die sie kennt. Alles löschen geht jederzeit unter Mein Log. Es zählen nur Sitzungen aus LIVE und HOTFIX – HOTFIX spielt auf der Live-Datenbank. Sitzungen aus PTU und Tech Preview bleiben auf deinem PC. Datenschutz

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Für Redakteure: Spieldaten

Der Companion kann auch den installierten Spielstand lesen — Missionen, Gegenstände, Orte, den Auftragsmakler — und ihn zu Versefiles hochladen: Im Fenster erscheint die Ansicht „Game data", und eine Meldung sagt Bescheid, wenn dein Spiel einen Stand hat, den die Seite noch nicht kennt. Dafür gilt derselbe Schlüssel wie für dein Journal; erlauben muss es eine Versefiles-Administratorin oder ein Administrator. Früher war das ein eigenes Werkzeug, der QuestGuide Uploader; den Spielordner übernimmt der Companion von selbst. Mehr zum Hochladen von Spieldaten