Merry Christmas.

0.6.0.0

• Added the first four worlds of the in-progress GAUNTLET game mode
• Completing the current in-dev version of Gauntlet bestows a little crown you can put on your vehicle
• Singleplayer games (Gauntlet, and Melee with "Allow other players to join" off) are now truly local without a separate server process, improving CPU performance and start time
• Updated firing modes. Primary mode now fires weapons in a staggered fashion. Secondary fire (mouse 2 by default) fires together
• Middle mouse button now zooms view (visual effect only
• doesn't affect accuracy)
• AI players may appear using a new Micro chassis and/or a CPU brain instead of a cockpit in Gauntlet mode
• Rewrote the vehicle sound manager. No more sounds dropping out, smoother sound balance overall with any number of simultaneous weapons firing etc. Less sound sources playing at once
• Fixed a bug where sounds could get cut off suddenly when they shouldn't
• Revamped how parts calculate scrap to drop. You can now expect roughly the same amount of scrap no matter how a vehicle is destroyed (previously, destroying a part with other parts connected dropped less scrap than destroying each part individually)
• Weapon tracers are more visible with thicker lines up close
• Made wreckage stand out a little more against the background
• Significantly improved interpolation on other player's vehicles in networked games
• Radar GUI now includes off-radar indicators
• HUD: Weapon reticle edits, with a different design for weapons with bullet drop
• Balance: Decreased TTK
• Everything has around 20% less HP, with weapons doing the same amount of damage as before
• Balance: Decreased all weapon hit forces significantly. Firing force (recoil force on the shooter) is unchanged
• Medium Cannon bullets are no longer affected by gravity (no bullet drop)
• Tweaked camera shake
• Completely revamped the How To Play screens
• Added light flashes to weapons firing
• Updated firing FX on Plasma Artillery and Plasmanator
• Added damage debris FX for weapon hits and collisions
• Fixes for labels above vehicles/things. Better damage indication effect
• Some terrain types now always leave wheel marks
• not just when skidding
• New skidmark formula. Skidmarks also now show up while using the handbrake
• Containers are stronger, more expensive, and hold more scrap. Some other minor part stat tweaks
• Load vehicle dialog now shows vehicle scrap values in orange if they're above the currently available scrap allowance
• Load vehicle dialog now supports filtering out overpriced builds entirely
• Load vehicle dialog now remembers your filter settings
• Removed sounds that played when parts were damaged, they were poor quality and mostly unnecessary
• Some improved explosion sounds
• Standard colour coding for quit/continue buttons
• Improved in-game GUI performance
• Revamped the auto-repair sequence that happens when the repair button is pressed
• Revamped turrets
• the gun part can now be destroyed separately to the base
• Shockwaves show up better and look kind of cooler in a late 90s game sort of way
• Added a momentary red flash effect on parts that take damage
• Destruction can now cause camera shake
• Adjusted wheel colliders so vehicles are a bit less tippy in general
• Shift key now doubles as the same modifier as Ctrl on the build screen: Allows deleting with one click, or duplicating on place.
• Smoothed out AI aiming; mostly obvious with laser weapons which are now less jittery
• Minor font changes

Bug Fixes:

• Tamed the occlusion culling. No more weird flickers when the game decides something is not visible when it actually is.
• Fixed rotation pivot point on small machine gun (visual fix)
• Fixed AI vehicles being able to trigger "Skipped rebuilding x: Connection point is missing." messages when doing their own rebuilding
• Fixed occasional failures to rebuild vehicle parts in the correct order, due to a sorting bug
• Fixed shockwaves flickering when multiple shockwaves were running at the same time
• Reduced some unnecessary garbage generation
• Fixed electrical damage FX being backwards, showing the most "lightning" at the least damage