QoL = quality of life, making the game smoother to play
I think almost always you can just update the mod and continue a game started with a previous version. I think you should be comfortable with starting now.
P.S. I'm interested in hearing how you plan to deal with randomly appearing hunter-killers. After they start approaching, do you plan to always accompany your transports with multiple defenders (see the earlier posts, I just save/reloaded in these cases but I wonder what will be your ironman strategy)?
Thanks for the explanation!
im am cheater ironnman superhuman player.
im frequently made a separate backup save in winrar archive. i know, it is not sport behaviour, also knowing it is a save game abusing. but this way im enjoying playng these cool oldscchool games. this way im can replay some moments.
last year im played twots 2,49. processed near the expedition to tleth, and researched last ship, but then ocassionally drop the campaign. on that 2.49 version i have not problems with hunter killers (green shielded small ships?). they probably kills my interceptors in 50% rate, but in other 50% my interceptors have a win at dogfights, especially 2 vs 1, even without savegame abuse thing.
nowdays am planning to start a new campaing in twots 2.51.2 with QoL. but beware of same critical bugs. still waiting for stable version.