- Multiplayer Hour! (see below)
- Troops and planes are now coloured on the basis of their coat of arms.
- Planes have a damaged appearance variant.
- Planes now crash rather than just exploding in midair.
- Bombers are a bit better now.
- Planes should be less likely to fly too low.
- Rewrote ship file dialog. It's a bit slower in some situations now but will no longer eat up all the RAM and cause the game to crash.
- Game tries to warn you if it runs low on memory.
- Decreased install size by about 150MB.
- Various bugfixes.
So what's Multiplayer Hour? Basically, the problem with multiplayer right now is that there aren't enough people looking for MP games to find MP games. This creates a chicken-and-egg problem. Multiplayer Hour is an attempt to fix this. It's an occasional event, currently twice a week at different times of day, where the game encourages you to go online and play. In particular, I will also do my best to be online and available for MP battles, so there will be at least one person you can fight...
As always, do give me feedback both on this beta version and on the MP hour concept and implementation.
Update Beta 4 fixes some crash bugs with Beta 3. There will be a Beta 5 with a bunch of more minor fixes and adjustments.