Another week has passed, and it's time for an update to Waves of Steel! I want to especially say welcome to fans of the Steel Roar games in Japan who have discovered Waves of Steel! I am thrilled that you are enjoying my attempt to continue its legacy.
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Release notes for Waves of Steel v0.30:
- There are no new missions in this release. I'm working on them! But most of my effort this week has gone into bugfixes and polish.
- The appearance of ships has been updated:
-- New materials for all ships and ship parts
-- Ambient occlusion has been enabled
-- Tweaked wake and water effects
- This build includes early Linux support. If you have a Linux machine, please let me know if you run into any issues!
Ship Designer
- A bug in the Ship Designer that caused parts to get out of sync with their collision volumes has hopefully been fixed. This was a weird one!
- The Ship Designer now supports undo and redo. This is a new feature and I fully expect there will be some hitches with it. Please let me know if you run into any problems!
- Fix a bug where the side-view camera would be out of place after changing the zoom level
- When adding a new decal, the decal menu always starts from the topmost level, instead of the same level as the previous decal you added.
- If the player tries to add a custom decal that is too big, an error message is displayed
- Fix the ship/part preview not showing shadows
- Updated Iowa ship, bridge, and vent models
- Fix the Landing Ship being unusable by the player, due to missing underdeck
- Fix the name of the 6" gun (6" 53-caliber, not 6" 47-caliber)
- 6" gun barbettes don't get quite so tall when they need to superfire
- Fix a bug causing the System button to not unlock after finishing tutorials
- The confirm/cancel buttons in the confirmation dialog (e.g. for saving over an existing ship) can be clicked on
- The "Unlock all techs" menu option is available before creating a new ship
- Tweaked how the flag picker responds to the mouse
Missions
- Failing a mission does not unlock the next mission
- Fixed a bug causing the mouse cursor to not be locked to the game window when in photo mode
- The flamethrower deals twice as much damage. Multi-barreled flamethrowers have more ammunition
- Fixed numerous issues with the mission stats panel, especially around displaying unlocked techs
- Fixed being unable to click the mouse to continue dialog during the tutorial
- Fix several display issues with widescreen displays
- During dialog sections, the current speaker should be easier to recognize by their portrait
- Button prompts in dialog boxes now update if the player changes which controller they're using
- Mission 110 "The Cat's Away" has slightly tweaked tech drops
- Moved the net in mission 180 "Quetzalcoatl"
- Fixed mission music overriding the "lose" sting if the player dies
- Fixed the "win" sting playing at too loud a volume
- Derelict ships now always drop something
- Added a sound effect when buildings are destroyed
- Fixed binoculars not working when the game is paused
- Fixed binoculars obscuring parts of the HUD
- Added an achievement, with very temporary art :)
- Fix a dialog glitch in mission 120 "Paralysis"
Mods
- Mods can now provide their own ships.json and parts.json files, which will not get overwritten when Steam updates the game