May Update (210514)

G'day everyone!

A sizeable change to how homepanels work in this update. Homepanels were protected from capture on the first turn, but there was no visual indication. Now there's a square barrier that surrounds the panel. Furthermore, now homepanels are captured so long as a unit is on top of it, instead of having to explicitly move onto it (resulting in awkward moments where you'd tell a unit to move onto its own space to cap).

For the next month I intend to focus on starting the third chapter, while improving the main menus.

Core changes

• Homepanels are now visibly protected on the first turn. (Neutral homepanels are unaffected)

• Capturing a homepanel now plays an animation.

• Interruptions tutorial added.

• AI now thinks about where to place its starting homepanel, rather than throwing one randomly across the map.

• Can now capture homepanels from movement via techniques. This includes those pushed by attacks!

• Added Golden Scorpion (a lucky variant of the regular scorpion)

• Added several challenge mode maps

Customisation

• Can now override the squad's name colour in a level.

• Event trigger added: When the squad captures a specific homepanel.

• Addons can now properly reference their resources using an id tag in their filepaths - To see an example, check out the unit and squad that comes in the Template addon.

• Levels can now set a Battlemode: Standard, Points and Mission (no clear victory until toggled by an event.)

Bugfixes and tweaks

• Challenge maps now don't require the AI player to place their homepanel.

• Poison and Shocked animations now properly play at the end of a squad's turn, but before the next squad begins.

• Squad icons changed for chapter two enemies.

• Fixed a bug where cutscenes would not replay if a technique was included in the actions.

• Fixed issue where squads were being skipped over if their units were added after the battle started.

• Fixed issue where a level's battlemode was ignored and instead went with the default Battle.

• Waspice now properly plays sound.

• Animations for the Wannabe Bandit in the tutorial fixed.

• ZAQ's audio was fixed.

• Jester was given a proper golfing animation.

• Delay on Bourbon's attacks lowered by one turn. Bourbon's Buckshot's damage was increased.