I'm pleased to announce that changes from about 8 "development branch" releases are now being pushed into the stable branch to get more people involved in the multiplayer testing. This involves a lot of adversarial and creative multiplayer maps as well as the ability to test co-op campaign play. Multiplayer is still rough around the edges so report any bugs you find at www.fromthedepthsgame.com/forum You can also design maps for multiplayer in the map editor and upload them to the forum for integration into the game.

Changes

(Bugs created in one version and fixed in the next are not listed here) [1.633] Friendly missiles should no longer target flares [1.634] Issues with laser designators retargetting all the time fixed [1.634] R also changes block rotation as well as type selection [1.634] Augmented nav missiles and one turns play ball with each other [1.634] Fixes for mac users who are experiencing infinite loading screens. [1.634] Control for firing vehicle weapons (CTRL and middle mouse) more widely advertised [1.635] Prompt on screen when you are overriding AI control of weapons [1.635] ACB has new inputs where it can respond to turn left and turn right commands to the vehicle [1.635] Button in options to disable slow motion explosions [1.635] ACB can activate a drone's mothership's docking station [1.635] ACB inputs added for fuel and battery charge [1.635] Dedicated heli spinner has a 'world vertical' fraction setting for adding stability [1.635][bug fix] Guide construct is never accidentally destroyed on the main menu but the Auto Battling process. [1.635] Multiplayer added back in to FtD with lots of new features. [1.635] Guide interface tidied up a bit [1.635] [bug fix] Water no longer visible inside boats (it was casting shadows even when transparent [1.635] Save vehicle GUI logic changed so you no longer need to deselect the current selection to enable renaming [1.635] Prefabs save and place the settings of the blocks now [1.635] Damaged enemy vehicles are culled in the vanilla designer [1.635] Complexity prefererence is saved [1.635] Missile seeking parts and one turns fixed a bit- note that one turns and APNG don't work well together due to the guidance algorithm of APNG. [1.641] New game mode- attrition added [1.642] Blueprint Spawner (block) and Blueprint Respawner And Scrapper (block) disabled in multiplayer [1.643] Autoloaders no longer accidentally connect into cannon connectors [1.643] Resource zone growth of resources have been stabilised [1.643] Less likely to target a random dead block- more likely to choose an alive one [1.643] World map deactivated on deaths [1.643] Problem with placing dedicated heli spinners on precision turrets fixed [1.643] new map 'Tournament of Kings' added to multiplayer [1.65] Laser Colorer block added for changing laser beam color and width for laser weapons. [1.65] Map editor allows setting of faction designs to different difficulty levels [1.65] Co-op campaign now available (still pretty rough around the edges I think) [1.65] Faction updates (DWG, TG and GT especially) [1.65] Basic design merging options added to map editor for merging two .faction files together

What's next

I'll be spending the rest of the week tidying up loose ends, maturing the features already in the game, and fixing bugs in the single and multiplayer, and then begin preparations for the custom cannon ammunition overhaul, which will begin with some changes to the engine to optimise performance and potentially the inclusion of a "fire mechanic (things burning).