Patch Notes - 1.2.1.004


Here are the fixes/improvements for this patch.

  1. Added a help overlay to all screens. 
    1. Holding Z will bring up an overlay with details on what everything on the screen actually means. So you'll notice names for all the icons, controls for everything. At the moment this looks super cluttered but I'm looking into getting someone with a bit of artistic skill to help out with the UI in future :) (i'm absolutely useless at UI and Artwork!)
  2. Redone the settings screen.
    1. The settings screen I had in place in the previous patches has been completely removed - there was very little control with what it was doing so I removed it and wrote a new one. 
    2. This settings screen will create separate ini style files to track your changes to the settings. These changes are not applied on load yet but that should be added in the next patch.
  3. Added a bit more multi threading - benchmarks tests are now showing that we can support around 40 large scale fleet on fleet battles! This should add a lot more possibilities to the upcoming scenarios and help out with level building limitations. 
  4. More work has been done behind the scenes to the camera controller. A lot of states have been updated to allow smoother transitions and greater flexibility - this is kind of behind the scenes and shouldn't be very noticeable in the demo.
  5. Logging has been greatly improved. Any issues can now be very easily tracked and solved :)

Thats pretty much it for this patch - alot of work behind the scenes, but the addition of the help overlays should help new players figure out how to do things that ive gotton alot of feedback on - like "How do I invade", well now in the RTS view, if you hit Z, you'll see all the instructions nescessary to invade an island :) 

Thanks again so much for the support and feedback - its really helping massively! I'm very happy this has been so well received and am working hard on getting more campaigns and systems ready. 

Hopefully the next patch will include some of the Inventory / Trading and Fleet management systems :)

Thanks again,

John :)

Files

1.2.1.rar 947 MB
May 30, 2019

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