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0.3.2602.24 UI scaling, career mode prototype improvements
This release publishes some previously shelved work and a smaller UI improvements pass to make this possibly final build more usable. What’s included: Full DPI/UI scaling support for modern displays. Implemented more pr…
Announcement2 changesUI/audio - Battlefleet Engineer
End of Development
It is high time for me to acknowledge that the development on Battlefleet Engineer ended already some years ago. The game will not leave Early Access. The price has been reduced accordingly. Timeline Started: June 2012…
Event6 changesBalancePerformance - Battlefleet Engineer
0.3.2207.6 Ship editing and testing improvements, merge from beta branch
This update focuses on improvements to make the ship blueprint editing and testing gameplay loop smoother. All existing changes from the beta branch are now also included in the main branch. New functionality: Added opt…
Patch notes20 changesFixCompatibility - Battlefleet Engineer
New features in beta branch
The "development" beta branch has been updated to the current state of development, which includes few still work-in-progress but already pretty functional features. During 2021 the amount of time spent on development h…
Patch notes4 changesCompatibilityBalance - Battlefleet Engineer
Workshop content usage hotfix
Fixed an issue that prevented playing some newer challenge levels and using ship blueprints downloaded from the workshop. These would show up in the game, but e.g. trying to add such ships to a level would just fail wit…
Announcement2 changesFixWorkshop - Battlefleet Engineer
0.3.2004.04 Fleet generator tool and fixes
This minor update adds a handy fleet generator tool to the battle sandbox. It allows quickly adding randomly selected ships similar to the battle setup screen. The tool may get introduced to the fleet and battle editors…
Patch notes13 changesFixWorkshop - Battlefleet Engineer
0.3.2003.10 Performance improvements
A small service update that improves performance in certain areas, allowing larger ships and fleets. Fixed a significant issue with audio objects not getting released correctly if the sound never actually started playin…
Announcement4 changesFixPerformance - Battlefleet Engineer
0.3.2002.19 Big Guns
This larger update brings a new class of weapons, changes to shields, an easier way to fly-test your ship designs, and lots of small fixes. New large modules These new 2x2 modules are beam turret, plasma turret, and shi…
Event47 changesFixGameplay - Battlefleet Engineer
0.3.1910.12 Battle Sandbox improvements
A minor update with mostly small user interface improvements in the Battle Sandbox game mode. New functionality Added options for what you can select in Command and Edit modes of the Battle Sandbox. This helps avoid acc…
Announcement8 changesFixUI/audio - Battlefleet Engineer
0.3.1909.19: New game mode: Battle Sandbox
One of the major design goals for Battlefleet Engineer has always been to give the player freedom and tools to make their own fun with different ship designs and battle compositions. However, a significant limitation ha…
Announcement5 changesFixWorkshop - Battlefleet Engineer
0.3.1908.21 Switch to 64-bit
The game is now available as 64-bit (only). The immediate benefit from this is that the "Out of memory" crashes are now fixed. These crashes were occurring usually when starting or ending a battle, or when trying to run…
Announcement1 changeFixCompatibility - Battlefleet Engineer
0.2.1906.10 First version of campaign prototype
The default branch now includes a very early version of a "survival sandbox" overworld where you have a persistent fleet in a small universe of warring factions. It only has minimal graphics and UI, but many of the inte…
Announcement1 changeBalance - Battlefleet Engineer
0.2.1811.3 Battle challenge workshop support, new fleet editor features
This update adds publishing of battle challenges to the Steam Workshop and some new tools for fleet editing. However, much of the work since last update has been in background functionality to support persistent fleets…
Event13 changesWorkshopGameplay - Battlefleet Engineer
0.2.1808.13 Workshop publishing fixed
This is a specific bug fix update. Feature development has been going on in the area of fleet editing and persistency, but those are not ready for release yet. Apparently publishing ship blueprints to the workshop has b…
Announcement1 changeWorkshop - Battlefleet Engineer
0.2.1805.25 Module drag and drop in ship editor
A small update with 2 features: Easier ship editing by simply dragging to move or duplicate modules in ship editor, ship motion traces test in debug overlay. Module dragging Simple demonstration video Selected modules c…
Patch notes3 changesGameplayPerformance - Battlefleet Engineer
0.2.1805.16 Missile controls and synchronized move command
This update gives more control over missiles and adds synchronized movement mode for ships. Also includes some smaller fixes. Missiles New missile launch controls UI allows disabling automatic launching and lets player…
Announcement10 changesFixGameplay
