Good evening (CEST) everyone!
0.22.0 is now released and brings a brand new tutorial (inspired by the community) and recurring flights! There's also several important bug fixes in place. Since the tutorial is new, there are some minor graphical adjustments that will be taken care of as we collect your feedback but the main focus will be understandability and how new players approach it. It is most likely still lacking some important information and bits but we think that this version at least has a proper chance of being perfected over time as opposed to the old one which was lacking in a few different aspects.
The tutorial overhaul has also acted as a bottle neck in our release pipeline which means that the faster, smaller releases have been put aside but we expect this to pick up again over the weekend as we get busy solving more issues. With this major overhaul finally out it also means that we can get back to putting effort into where it really matters, more bug fixing and being able to devote some time into looking at performance optimization and especially in the areas of memory leak bugs (we are aware of a few).
Tomorrow we will post this week's devlog and discuss what's been going on and more interestingly the road ahead.
Here are the patch notes for 0.22.0:
Release notes - Airport CEO - Version Alpha 0.22.0
Improvement
- ACEO-14] - Conveyor belt path caching
- ACEO-716] - Stationed ramp agents on cargo bay should be labeled as "2" to "16"
- ACEO-1178] - Redesign tutorial
- ACEO-1598] - Enable multiple announcement icons on object to better highlight accessibility issues
- ACEO-1678] - Several generic minor UI changes
- ACEO-1681] - Increase GA aircraft taxi speed
- ACEO-1808] - Recurring flights
Bug
- ACEO-225] - Loans not properly serialized
- ACEO-446] - Minor audio issue after reloading game
- ACEO-462] - Minor taxiing issue as a result of change of weather causing change of landing direction
- ACEO-479] - Stands do not merge with secure zone area upon build causing ramp agents not to find paths until after reload
- ACEO-1203] - Minor GA pathway taxiing issue
- ACEO-1211] - Glitch with keybinding still being triggered when typing names
- ACEO-1376] - Airport buses can depart from very distant cities
- ACEO-1424] - Aircraft deadlock issue with extremely slow moving aircraft
- ACEO-1471] - Cannot remove check-in desk
- ACEO-1616] - Issue with deleted road peices not updating surrounding
- ACEO-1617] - Issue with deleted conveyor belts nodes not updating correctly
- ACEO-1667] - Fuel depot button defaults to AVGAS100LL despite being procured
- ACEO-1748] - Issue with stuck bags at check-in desks
- bACEO-1749] - Issue with node connectivity on cargo bays (baggage bay) causing stuck baggage at check-in desks
- ACEO-1750] - Lacking path issue error handling for persons trying to access secure zone exits causing persons to walk through walls
- ACEO-1772] - Issue with arriving passengers who do not properly receive a boarding desk within time causing deadlocks
See you all tomorrow!