Greetings, Warmasters and Candidates! This is the newsletter for July 6th, 2022, the first July newsletter. This release was slightly delayed because of the holiday. The big part of this update a lot of clean up and polish, and especially reliability. Various problems and polish issues were discovered in testing, and while the full scope is still a work in progress, a lot of quality of life things have been added that were sorely missing.
Quality of Life
The biggest quality of life update is mouse wheel support for the different lists in the game. The game has a lot of scrollable lists, such as dialogs or even research listings. While mouse wheel support was obvious, it wasn't a priority. Well, it was made one, and now it works well. The Basics tutorial (or Prologue 2 as it use to be called), is now playable all the way through. We are still working out the kinks but at least you can do it start to finish now. A lot of polish is being added, such as having better positions for the dialogs, and that if you drag them, the "Space to Continue" message actually follows the window. It's the small things that end up mattering.
The reload and new game functions should now be far more reliable. A lot of smaller bug fixes and updates have been done across the various screens. See the patch notes for such details.
Artistic Update
Here is an example of the Basics tutorial where the player is shown how to get their own fighters to attack a group of fighters. The screen shot is only showing one such interaction.
Short-term RoadMap
The Basics tutorial is playable now. Voice overs are started to be recorded. There is a lot of polish and clean up that is in process of being done on the tutorials and various screens. This will continue for the next few weeks.
That's all for this update, stay tuned for more news next time! If you'd like to give Rank: Warmaster a try for yourself, pick up a copy on Steam and begin your conquest of Mars!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1422270/Rank_Warmaster/