As promised, this update has now been released. It contains a few tweaks and improvements.
- Minor tweaks and improvements
- Added new space and planetary scenarios, including several space and planetary sandbox variants.
- Removed all legacy 4:3 resolution support. Minimum supported res is now 1280×720 (720p). Also added support for new resolutions: 2560×1440 (QHD, WQHD, Quad HD, 1440p) and 3840×2160 (UHD, Ultra HD, 4K, 2160p) More info
- You can now dock with a planetary Mobile Forward Base in order to repair and rearm when deep inside enemy lines. This works the same way as when docking with a planetary starbase or a space starstation
- Changed NPC gun sounds playback to ON|OFF setting in CONFIG
- Updated audio engine, and made various tweaks and improvements to audio playback.
- Revised commandline options. See KB77
- Updated in-game docs and UI. Locate and run the GALCOMES_steam_shortcuts.exe file in your install folder to update stand-alone PDF files. See KB62
- Disabled playback of weather audio on Tacops
- Disabled controller vibration due to WIN10 issues
- Disabled multiplayer from the main menu due to master servers going offline years ago. Multiplayer is no longer supported. See KB80.
- Various revisions to support the future (coming soon!) release of the game’s modding tools which can be used to create space and planetary combat missions. These are the same tools released for Universal Combat CE, but with support for GCES-SE.
- FIXED: Some lingering minor bugs and isssues. See known issues for more info.
See the full changelog for more details.