Developer posts and news about this game.
An update to the open and honest letter of where are things and where are they going It has been years since the last update. Someone asked me today if the project is abandoned, and I said no but I realize that no one else knows that. As mentioned previously, a series of other ga
An open and honest letter of where are things and where are they going It’s the 2 year anniversary of the Early Access Release of Rank: Warmaster. This letter is more a transparency of what is happening and what has happened. Short Answer: We aren’t dead (mostly), and more update
Pulse Turrets further tweaked (They really are accurate now) Various Fixes
Greetings, Warmasters and Candidates! This is the newsletter for May 28th, 2023. Things are still ramping back up from the hiatus from before. In the previous release it was found the turrets weren't as accurate as one had hoped. Testing found some flaws, which are now corrected.
Pulse Turrets now appropriately lead their targets. Internal sorting routines updated. Various Fixes
Greetings, Warmasters and Candidates! This is the newsletter for May 13th, 2023. Things are still ramping back up from the hiatus from before. The main change in this update is the pulse weapon turrets will properly lead their targets. The minor parts have more to do with interna
Greetings, Warmasters and Candidates! This is the newsletter for April 29th, 2023. A progress update has been a long time coming, but it is here. The main significant update is that Admirals can now be ordered to attack other fleets or cities. Also, updates to the load/save syste
Admirals now can be ordered to attack fleets and/or Cities. They will build ships (and request designs) and send them to attack once a large enough force is made. Knowing when to stop is still a WIP. Save/Load now handles version changes. So Updated code no longer crashes on olde
Greetings, Warmasters and Candidates! This is the newsletter for April 15th, 2023. This is more of a "We are still alive" announcement. Personal issues are settling down but came to a head in the past week, there isn't going to an an update to the code this week, as you can proba
Greetings, Warmasters and Candidates! This is the newsletter for April 1st, 2023. This is more of a "We are still alive" announcement. Between GDC and personal issues, there isn't going to an an update to the code this week, as you can probably tell. The next scheduled update wil
Fixed issue with newer turret showing up correctly in building menu Fix loading of some text lists Fixed text scaling as well as centering on both horizontal and vertical (no longer a hack) Various Fixes
Greetings, Warmasters and Candidates! This is the newsletter for March 15th, 2023. This is more a maintenance update since we are preparing for GDC and hopefully a new announcement. Most of the change this time is some text polish to get the autoscaling and position working final
The new turret design is now implemented! Fixed how ground turrets fire (ie. beams no longer come from the middle but the barrels) Ground based Pulse turrets work again. (They seemed to like to fire straight into the ground before) The Navigation screen now has the Atmospheric Sh
Greetings, Warmasters and Candidates! This is the newsletter for March 1st, 2023. Two significant updates this time. The newer turret is finally in the system, with all the fixes that brings, and the Navigation/RTS screen now sports better effects with the atmospheric shader bein
Admiral AI can now be ordered to attack a Fleet or city via the Nav screen (WIP) Fixed loading issue where turrets were involved with the save. Fixed possible issue when viewing the Admiral from the Navigation screen. Various Fixes
Greetings, Warmasters and Candidates! This is the newsletter for February 15th, 2023. More minor updates and fixes preparing for a major news announcement in the coming weeks, so stay tuned! Most of the updates this time revolve around adding some functionality to the Admiral AI.
Further memory over allocation issues resolved from older terrain code, as well as the picker/mouse over code Fixed issue with loading of games because of a fix with the ground turrets Fixed coloring issues with some special effects. Main Campaign no longer refers to the Campaign
Greetings, Warmasters and Candidates! This is the newsletter for February 1st, 2023. More minor updates and fixes preparing for a major news announcement in the coming weeks, so stay tuned! Most of the updates this time revolve around bug fixing and memory. Quality of Life A lot
Fixed Major issue with memory allocation on AMD systems (CPU not GPU) Rewrote memory allocation system and fixed minor issues Memory Cache more used in system to speed up and stabilize the system. Fixed Nav Points trigger out of order Various Fixes
Greetings, Warmasters and Candidates! This is the newsletter for January 18th, 2023, and the second update for year 2023. The holidays are winding down, so more minor updates this time. Most of the updates revolve around bug fixing and memory. Quality of Life For whatever reason,