Alpha 19 is now available

• Added a new future faction
  • Future armor
  • 3 energy SMGs
  • 1 energy full auto rifle
  • 1 energy DMR
  • 1 energy sniper
  • 1 rocket launcher
  • Shield field generator
  • Heal field generator
  • Plasma grenade
  • EMP grenade
  • Poison grenade
  • 4 weapon sights
• Added compensator, vertical grip and angled grip attachments to modern weapons to reduce recoil
• Added a WWI/WWII landing craft

• Added a dynamic recoil system for the player which replaces the clipped recoil animation and add real recoil to the weapons
• Added some head rotation to the rotation direction before the weapon moves to the direction to create a dynamic weapon feel
• Added muzzle flashes to weapons
• Reworked the modern weapon models to improve the graphics
• Optimized all models in game to heavily improve rendering performance if there are many different weapons/objects in the scene
  • In Alpha 18, rendering all modern weapons took 5ms on the render thread, now it's just taking 1.7ms
• AIs with full auto weapons will sometimes shoot bursts and full auto now
• When reloading a weapon which was empty, units are now using the weapon bolt after reloading to load the first bullet into the chamber
• Added a shotgun reload animation
• Repeat rifles will now drop bullet shells
• Improved the projectile and bullet shell performance
• Adjusted weapon aim data and attachments positions
• Improved explosion effect visuals
• Improved the pickup of weapons and shields
  • The system is working much more stable now and shields and weapons are using one key to pick them up
• Improved ship landing behaviour
• Added some random spray to ship cannons

• Adjusted sound range, volume and improved the falloff of sounds (now logarithmic instead of linear)
• Shot sounds are less clipped now
• Improved shot sounds
  • First sound sounds different than the others
  • Added trail sounds
• Increased the overall amount of sound effect variations
• Objects will have different impact sounds now
  • Stone, wood, metal, ...
• Improved and adjusted impact and melee sounds
• Improved the sound effect performance

• Fixed an object pool leak for projectiles
• Fixed that the player couldn't throw grenades while being unarmed
• Fixed that the player could pick up thrown equipment
• Fixed missing spectate button in pause menu
• Fixed missing shadows from character head and body in first person
• Fixed that the loading panel wouldn't show the last row of save files
• Fixed flickering crosshair while shooting in first person
• Fixed a loading bug, which allowed two players in one battle
• Fixed that ranged units won't leave their ships