Greetings, Warmasters and Candidates! This is the newsletter for August 2nd, 2022, the first August newsletter. There are several major parts of this release. First, the buildings have finally been updated to the new PBR and emissive standard, the Basics tutorial is fully playable, and even has some voice overs attached. Of course there are the bug fixes, polish and clean up.
Quality of Life
As suggested by the testers, loading a game will take the player straight into the game, rather than having to click on resume on the Omniball. The upgrading of turret buildings now is more consistent with the rest of the game with the order being Beam weapons, Pulse weapons, Missile weapons then Cone weapons(WIP). There also was a bug where the system was misidentifying your own ships so they couldn't be ordered around in the campaign mode, while it was fine in the tutorials. There also has been more minor tweeks to the objective and dialog system to try to make it more consistent. It is an ongoing process.
The Basics tutorial is now fully functional. Polish is always needed, but it does fully work finally! Part of that polish is the voice overs that have been added to the beginning of the Basics tutorial campaign.
Artistic Update
A lot of graphical updates this time. All the buildings have been updated now to the new emissive and PBR standard, as well as several ships.
Here is an example of a long shot showing the upgraded buildings while a battle happens in the distance.
Short-term RoadMap
The Basics tutorial will get polish updates as needed. Voice overs will continue to be recorded and added. The hope is finally get back to working on the AI. There is a possibility of better steam integration in the multiplayer and perhaps even achievements. The former is likely before the next release, the latter probably not but is being looked at.
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/