We interrupt your daily flight to bring you a new patch. It improves the code for the Regular and Quick Map, and also adds a lot of optimization and technical changes. While a lot of changes have been made, they can be summed up quickly.
First off, the Map generation code has been optimized. Additionally, it received a few Quality-of-Life modifications. The Quick Map now accurately displays unopenned doors, and doors that can only be opened with a Laser Beam are marked differently to the ones that require Rockets.
On the more technical side of things, a new idle animation system was implemented. Not only does it run more smoothly, it also lets me remove a lot of redundant assets, making the game slightly slimmer. It even allows me to add idle animations to enemy ships!
Finally, one of the most important changes is that a new free paintjob has been added to the game, called Carol. Its main feature is a cute little christmas hat on top! Unfortunately it doesn't offer jiggle physics, as I'm yet to figure out how to do those.
Here is a full list of patch notes:
Additions:
- Added a new Free Paintjob: Carol.
> You can swap to it in the Shipyard or in the Options menu.
Visuals:
- Secret Doors are now painted green instead of gray on the map.
- Removed Secret Doors from the map key, as they act just like regular doors.
- Added a new Map icon: Sealed.
> This icon marks doors held shut by a special sealing lock.
- The Quick Map now accurately indicates which doors have been used before.
- Enemy ships now have an idle animation when Idle or Alert.
Campaign:
- Increased the activation arc of the Centurion's Forward Shield from 10 degrees up to 90 degrees.
> It's mostly to deal with a rare issue with the Forward Shield.
> Shouldn't have any tangible impact on the fight itself.
Rebel Ops:
- Reduced the number of Paladins that spawn in Mission 6.
Bugs:
- Fixed several Dock icons being incorrectly tinted.
- Fixed an incorrect objective marker in Rebel Ops Mission 6.
- Fixed a bug where using a specific secret door in Rebel Ops didn't make it appear on the map.
- Fixed the Hel's Fighters Store map room displaying a Landing Pad instead of a dock.
- Fixed enemy projectile sounds stacking during the last two phases of the final boss.
Techical Changes:
- Updated the Input library to version 6.1.5.
- Optimized the Map creation code.
- Optimized the persistent enemy code.
- Optimized the enemy lead calculation code.
- Created a new idle animation system for the game.
- Removed the now unused idle animation sprites.
- Removed several obsolete objects.
- Removed several unnecessary lines from the final stats window after finishing Hel's Fighters.
- Removed several obsolete functions from the code.
Steam-exclusive Changes (does not affect non-Steam releases):
- Updated the achievement icons for all Hel's Fighters achievements.
This is currently the last planned update for MF-01 Aerostrike. From here on, patches might be simple bug fixes or maybe a few extra free paintjobs. I'm looking to work on other projects for the time being, including a possible short Potatostrike SHMUP game.
If anyone is met with any sort of weird bug, or simply thinks that the map should have inverted controls, feel free to leave a comment, send an email to the support address, or make a post in either of the Steam support threads for MF-01 Aerostrike.
Stay safe pilots!
