Athena Crisis Updates: 10/11/24

It's been a busy week in Athena Crisis improvements and fixes! Check out all the latest changes below:

New Decorations: Over 30 new decorations depicting destroyed units or objects common to the autumn season. Perfect to depict devastation on the battlefield. (Check closely for a variety of very spooky Halloween-themed items!)
New Structure: Destroyed Super Tank: Similar to the Crashed Airplane, you can now place a Destroyed Super Tank structure. You need to clear it to make way for units.
New Airfield design: The design of the Airfield was adjusted to stick out more. The look was aligned closer to that of construction sites, cc @TheSneakyDragon.
Changed the color of the "Destroyed House" to look less like a neutral house.

There is now a new "Curated Campaigns" list that you can find from the campaigns screen. Curated Campaigns are high-quality, community-created campaigns that are well-tested and maintained. By playing them you can receive more stars and you might even unlock rewards. Don't spend all your new stars at once – more items will be added to the shop later this week!

Dragon Fire: Unlocks Dragons. The Dragon Fire power deals massive damage to units adjacent to Dragons.
Large Footprint: Allows recruiting Ogre's, with a power that benefits all soldiers.
Wild Companion: Unlocks Bears, increases Soldier attack in forests and mountains, and its power spawns Bears at Shelters.
Last Resort: This skill unlocks Zombies in the editor, and prominently features the "convert" ability – but only for units with less than 10hp!
More Power: Unlocks the Power Station in the editor, increases the funds multiplier of Power Stations and allows constructing Power Stations while the power is active.

Added gamepad/keyboard support for map filters in the new game list.
Added the ability to define initial charges in the map editor. This should make it much easier to test powers, and might make for some interesting setups when you start a map with a charge. Thanks to @CoconutTank for the code contribution!
Player skills in pending games are now hidden for other players until the game starts, cc @Legend.
The game now distinguishes between Xbox, PlayStation and Switch controllers and displays the different button layouts in the settings menu and the tutorial.
A "Ranked" tab was added to the "New Game" screen showing maps with the "ranked" tag. We'll try to keep a pool of PvP approved maps in there. Maps without the "ranked" tag can no longer be played as ranked games. cc @Legend, @Mαstrο.
As a result of this change, we changed all ongoing ranked games into casual games and did a one-time reset of player ratings. Who will become the best Athena Crisis player?
Activating a Power Crystal now immediately turns a game into a realtime game, cc @CoconutTank, @Mαstrο.
Added a 1 week turn timer. Removed the 10 minutes turn timer.
"click+shift" was added to creating and unloading units.

Buttons to delete a campaign or update the play style are no longer shown when spectating somebody else's campaign. Other campaigns now show "Xyz's campaign" to be less confusing about where you are, cc @TheSneakyDragon.
When there are multiple optional escort objectives and the player achieved one, it no longer changes the marked colors of the escort area.
Fixed the actions diagram on the open source website, cc @CosmicCarpenter
Fixed an issue where the map editor settings panel didn't reset the map size when inputing a large number.
Labels on buildings associated with hidden optional objectives are now immediately revealed upon completing the objective, cc @Lukas.
A small note was added to the create game and pending game screens when the first player who is starting a game is not the default first player.
Fixed an issue that displayed unpublished campaigns in some situations.
Fixed an issue in which captures were counted twice on the client, cc @SparkyDL2.
Note: There will only be critical updates and bugfixes from now until October 22nd. Expect many improvements to invasions in the latter half of October!