Release notes here.
A smaller one, while we get a lot of work done on the new tutorial framework. But still some exciting fixes, and other tweaks.
- Hacking no longer freezes flagships in place, and doesn't have bugs related to canceling hacks anymore, and also shows a message explaining why your flagships can't leave that planet.
- Forcefields no longer cause ships to get stuck against them.
- Officer fleets with Arks and Golems are no longer going to be QUITE so late-game, aka not right to an AI homeworld.
- The whole "ship caps changing as you change them between different fleets" thing is no longer a worry. Wow that was confusing.
- Some other clarity things relating to swapping ships between fleets have been added, such as showing the ship counts in the interface.
- Plus fixed a kind of sideways way you could get multiple copies of the same ship line in one fleet, thus causing manyproblems.
- Mercenary Flagships got radar dampening, making them way more likely to live!
- Transports that you give an attack order to (for purposes of the ships coming out of them) will no longer wander off to the southwest.
- If the game has an exception on startup, it should always now show you rather than sometimes just seeming like loading xml assets was hung.
- A LOT of work has been done on the new tutorials framework, but it's not ready yet. I'm really hoping that we start getting some player-made tutorials in there as I flesh out the framework more, incidentally. Some of them can be more scenario-like kind of like a "can you even win this" sort of "tutorial" if you want to. ;)
More to come soon. Enjoy!
Problem With The Latest Build?
If you right-click the game in Steam and choose properties, then go to the Betas tab of the window that pops up, you'll see a variety of options. You can always choose most_recent_stable from that build to get what is essentially one-build-back. Or two builds back if the last build had a known problem, etc. Essentially it's a way to keep yourself off the very bleeding edge of updates, if you so desire.
The Usual Reminders
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Also: Would you mind leaving a Steam review for some/any of our games? It doesn't have to be much more detailed than a thumbs up, but if you like a game we made and want more people to find it, that's how you make it happen. Reviews make a material difference, and like most indies, we could really use the support.
Enjoy!
Chris