Demo Update Version 0.9.0

Hey all, here are the patch notes for today's Demo build!

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Tidal Splash festival; I've got some exciting things lined up!

Dread Admiral

Patch Notes 0.9.0

UX:

• Player can now box their fleet and move it in a single command. The fleet will, roughly, attempt to maintain its formation.

• Fixed an issue where New Campaign could retain state from a previous New Campaign that was never started, leaving updated perk selection or flagship upgrades behind.

• Text has been added to let the user know that New Campaigns overwrite existing Campaigns

• Player Recons no longer force the Player to wait. I'll keep an eye on this in case it causes some kind of exploit.

• Black Fleet penalty turns are now displayed to the user.

Balance:

• Gun Forts no longer have 'Shore Bombardment'

• Submarines can now shoot a Fort if they are directly next to it (submarines can't use their surface weapons when adjacent to ships)

• The Black Fleet penalty on the following map is now as follows:

  • Easy: No Penalty

  • Normal: 1 Turn for each full turn spent while the Black Fleet is in the Area

  • Hard: 2 Turns for each full turn spent while the Black Fleet is in the Area

• Raze City option costs about 40% less now

  • Design Note: Raze City is not meant to be used frequently. Aside from a Perk that gives you bonuses for Razing Cities and being a way to achieve the "Destroy City" mission. The reason it has high costs is to make it difficult to abuse for a player retreating from a losing battle.

UI:

• VSync added as an option (might help with some display issues). Default is Off

• Framerate limiting should be applied to all scenes now (no need for 400fps menus)

• Adjusted Fleet Upgrades screen to be easier to use, more descriptive, and consistently show much more information

Minor:

• Actually finally fixed plane crash direction for real this time, honestly.

• Fixed a bug where the Campaign was always Desert. Should now be a random environment. (Long campaigns will go through multiple environments.)

• Fixed an issue where the difficulty would swap to Normal when loading a battle from other difficulty settings.

• Fixed a bug where loading a campaign save where you'd killed the Admiral reverted its personality to the dead guy.

• Fixed an exploit regarding submarines

• AI should be a little more risky with planes now, especially if they can sink an opposing ship.

• Aligned AI estimation of its patrols, which should result in it skipping fewer actions when a Player has patrols up

• Possible fix for AI skipping Intercept actions

• There should be slightly less repetition of small explosions

• Fixed a bug regarding Intel revealing new nodes

• Game should generally be brighter

• Black Fleet once again enters on the Player's turn instead of the AI's turn. (This was the original design, but originally caused several bugs.)

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