Reassembly
December 30th Patch Notes
This release adds the ability to play as several other factions and improves point defense functionality, in addition to fixing lots of bugs.
As usual please report bugs and offer suggestions via the steam or anisoptera community forum!
* Allow playing as 6 factions previously reserved for the AI (destroy a large ship from each faction to unlock that faction).
* Allow launcher weapons (missiles, drones), directional weapons (blast pulser), and charging weapons (burst laser, plasma mortar) to be used as point defense. Discourage point defense weapons from all targeting the same incoming missile.
* Add more save slots to insure that # save slots > # playable factions
* Fix weapon binding screen glitch where buttons would not line up with ship, and improve intro animation
* Allow agent fleets to spawn child chips
* Generator blocks now explode dramatically when destroyed. All non-hull blocks have a chance to produce an explosion when destroyed
* Numerous stat and ship tweaks to newly playable factions
* fix bug where changing player colors would not recolor some nearby allied ships
* wide lasers now honor width when colliding
* AI will now preferentially select player ships when spawning new ships, and regenerating a new world via the wormhole will use player ships/stations when available
* improve load/generate progress bar animation
* fix bug where agent missiles would damage agents after traveling through a large number of wormholes
* fix save file corruption due to NaN position issue, eliminate several instances where player position would get set to NaN (resulting in sudden black screen).
* recolor agents that have very similar colors to the player
* Improve color scheme generation from player selected colors
* add progress bar when reinterfacing
* improve linux and osx crash handling
* fix memory leak when loading save game
* show halos around large missiles and drones, making them more visible
* fix double-free crash bug when generating a new game
December 16th patch notes
* Fix not saving progress due to hitting steam cloud 1000 file limit. The game now compacts save sector files occasionally to avoid this.
* Fix super janky ship rotation, especially while firing missiles. Angular momentum is now properly conserved.
Have fun!
Arthur
December 15th Patch Notes
* Plant physics optimizations - areas with large numbers of plants should be significantly less laggy unless all plants are exploding simultaneously
* Properly conserve momentum when breaking clusters (explosions look slightly cooler, broken off parts spin more)
* Fix building generation for black/yellow faction and white borg faction.
* Automatically upload crash logs to server when possible
* Fix bug where AI would attach launchers the wrong way around and/or attach weapons to factories, preventing spawning
* Editor optimizations for large spaceships: fix long hang when dragging a complex cluster on top of another complex cluster'
* AI find-nearby-thing optimizations
* Faster compiler settings on Linux
* Fix mouse cursor visibility in OSX
* Improve plant colors
* Fix bug where 'g' key was mysteriously nonfunctional
* Fix several world generation bugs, better world generation loading messages
* Allow agents to capture map sectors
* Show agent colors on map screen when agent icon is hovered
* Default-colored agents will no longer inherit the player's color scheme
* player map regions now use the player-defined colors
December 10 patch notes
This release includes Linux support, along with a variety of bug fixes and improvements.
* Add live fps/ups/gpu memory counter to options screen. Free gpu memory when graphics options are turned down.
* Fix mouse button 4/5 hang
* Allow in-drive adaptive vsync (aka tear control) on Windows and Linux
* Get credits when using wormholes / defeating agents
* Fix ripple fire when emerging from wormholes
* Disable auto-zoom on mouse scroll (re-enable with 'y')
* Fix bug where resources were sometimes not picked up
* Fix bug where resources were passed infinitely between player and following factor ship, resulting in infinite credits
* Fix issues with export and test button in editor
* Merge resource notifications to avoid huge sea of +1s
December 2 patch notes
Just uploaded a new build. Mostly bugfixes and optimizations:
* Support unicode input, fonts, and keybindings for non-english keyboards
* Save game asynchronously when activating stations for smoother experience
* Clamp aspect ratio of various menus to avoid clipping on 4:3 displays
* Tweak control response for snappier spaceship rotation
* Fix bug where decrypted but unused blocks would be encrypted during wormhole transition, and where save progress could be lost when entering wormhole
* Fix bug where certain controllers (e.g. Xbox One Controller) experience really bad input lag
* Fix scroll direction on OSX
* Enable compression when downloading agents (faster wormholes)
* Allow binding mouse buttons 4 and 5
* Reduce CPU usage due to AI pathfinding for drones
* Hotkeys are no longer caps-sensitive
* Fix occasional crash when clicking test button in editor
* Fix spelling in menus
* Fix packaging issue where music is recompressed every update resulting in large update sizes - apparently the ogg vorbis encoder is nondeterministic. This update will be ~100MB but future updates should be only ~4M (unless we add more music).
New build uploaded Nov 26
I hope everyone is enjoying the Beta release! Just uploaded a new build fixing several common issues and adding a new block type. Changes:
* Fix crash while loading "More Spaceships" experienced by some players (during zip file decompression)
* Add unicode text rendering support - steam usernames with emoji or non-ascii characters should display correctly
* resource (R) packets are now easier to collect, even when under fire. Optimized resource related code.
* add vsync off/on/adaptive option to options menu
* add weapon descriptions to upgrade screen, show missiles/torpedoes/etc on launcher block in upgrade screen
* added rapid-fire rocket launcher block
Thanks for playing, and please keep the suggestions/bug reports/awesome spaceships coming!
Arthur