Hello everyone, 1.16 has been released to the Default branch! Stable and Legacy branches will be updated in about 2 weeks. We're roughly 18 days late with this release. A few things slowed us down, but we made it before the end of the month. Sorry for the delays.
1.16 focused on three major things. First was the Linux port, which has gone pretty well. We should be releasing it sometime in the month of October. (An upcoming promotional event has delayed it some, but this allows me time to work out a few of the little issues the Open Beta has shown us.)
We also created an internal text tutorial system. I've been neglecting to make more tutorials for it because of 1.16's delay. Currently we have a base introduction tutorial, but the framework allows us to add many advance tutorials. Once I have everything smoothed out on the Linux port, I will devote at least 1-2 hours a day documenting stuff in the tutorial system.
The last major feature was a redesign of the Racing System. On the outside not much has changed, but internally it's a completely different beast. We've added more series and more interaction with your teams. There is still some minor quarks, but most of the bugs in the system have been ironed out.
Of course we also included many suggestions and fixed many bugs as always.
For a complete change log see: http://steamcommunity.com/app/285110/discussions/0/34094415738310881/
So enough about the past, what about the future?
For 1.17 we plan on three major features to come out.
First is Unicode support, reformatting the text in the game to be easily translatable, hot loading of translation files (so no more editing GUI), custom font loading, custom font sizes, and a community translation web interface. All of that means one thing. We're translating the game to multiple languages! Hopefully it will be a community driven effort. More details will come as they come.
Second will be Government/Fleet contracting. This has been a heavily requested feature as you can't really do anything during war time. Essentially your HQ government will contract Compact SUV's and Engines during war time, assuming you win bids. Police, taxi's and many other fleets will contract out sedans, vans, etc during times of peace. Remember to grease the politician's pockets! ;)
Last major feature will be a redesign of the Magazine system. We really need to put a lot more information in it, and fix the review system. It's horrible as it is now. So we'll do that! :)
As always, minor bug fixes and suggestions as I roll along.
*EDIT* Also uploaded a hotfix to fix save game loading.