Greetings, Warmasters and Candidates! This is the newsletter for October 11th, 2022, the first October newsletter. This update is a smaller update, mostly focusing on Steam multiplayer integration, and getting steam achievements working. And as usual, there are more bug fixes and cleaning.
Quality of Life
The Steam Overlay now is fully implemented in Rank: Warmaster. For the longest time, the steam overlay only partially worked and honestly was unresponsive. This lead to having to implement a lot of what the overlay did within the game itself. What was working based on the last release, it was far from ideal. However, with some experimentation, we are proud to announce that we have the full overlay working and you no longer get trapped in the overlay.
The invite system now is able to invite someone even if they aren't running the game, to make joining a game far easier.
Steam Achievements are now active in the system. The first achievement is now actually achievable. There is a list of other achievements that are due to be added in the following releases. Look for more updates with this!
Short-term RoadMap
With achievements now working, we just need to add the other achievements to steam itself. We plan to add the new achievements and their triggers very soon.
AI development was delay because of steam integration priorities and the death of a team member. We will be getting things going back on the AI ASAP.
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/