Greetings, Warmasters and Candidates! This is the newsletter for July 19th, 2022, the second July newsletter. The big part of this update is some quality of life polish and improvements. In this case, remembering where the player put the Omniball or dialogs per screen, as well as extensive tooltips for the Quick Designer. Various more minor fixes were implemented of course.
Quality of Life
The biggest quality of life update is the tooltips for the Quick Designer, and the remembering of positions of dragged the Omniball and Dialog boxes. The Quick Designer is the preferred way to design ships within Rank: Warmaster. While there are other ways to do finer detail, it is the best balance between simplicity and function. A design can be as simple as selecting a Role and hitting defaults, or further tweaking as the player desires. Apart from the basics tutorial, nothing really told the player what did what. That has now changed so that each control better reminds the player what it does. It is still recommended to complete the tutorial first, of course.
The second big change is remembering positions of the Omniball and dialogs on a per screen basis. This was requested in feedback and now has been implemented. Each screen has it's own real estate problems, and while efforts were made to keep the pop up locations reasonable, even if the player dragged things out of the way, the next pop up would simply return to the default position. What is best for the player would change per screen, so now that is remembered per session.
Some other minor improvements is to the mouse wheel support, which now is more consistent and doesn't fight with the old drag and throw methods which are still there.
The reload should be more reliable from different screen saves. A lot of smaller bug fixes and updates have been done across the various screens. See the patch notes for such details.
Short-term RoadMap
The Basics tutorial is playable now and still being polished, especially on the Quick Designer. Some voice overs have been recorded, but a lot more need to be done. 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!
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