Waves of Steel v0.50 release notes

This is a patch release; no new content has been added.

Gameplay:

• The ship selection UI has been updated, to make finding ships in big save files easier.

• The treasure for "Poking the Tiger" has been changed to a new special ability. The previous treasure has been added to the drop list for "Hunter, Hunted"

• Added a treasure to "Chrysalis"

• The visuals for main gun projectiles have been changed

• Fire/smoke clouds emitted by main guns now keep moving with the ship

• The fading effect applied to shells based on their proximity to the player now has a larger radius

• Minelayer weapons (aside from the tether mine) have greatly increased fire rates and max ammo counts, to make up for the difficulty of using them.

• The "Miscellaneous" parts section (three dots blue button in the designer) has been subdivided into different categories.

• The ship designer now has a "recent items" menu (clock icon), which allows easy access to parts that have recently been worked with.

• The ship designer now has a button for accessing weapon config, which has been removed from the main menu.

• Added two new sizes of Bow Drill weapon.

• If the player has found all techs in a mission, tech crates are no longer converted to health crates, to avoid effects on difficulty when replaying missions.

• The M-tech bridges now give some bonus max displacement.

• Guidance arrows (red arrows that hover near the ship) now change size dependi ng on the size of the player's ship.

Bugfixes:

• Fix a bug causing ships to become untargetable zombies if they are destroyed immediately after getting out of their submarines.

• Fix bug causing the player to not die properly.

• Fix the amount of ventilation provided by bridges that have built-in vent stacks.

• The ocean ambiance sound effect has been restored.

• Fix a certain boss leaving active colliders around after it dies.

• Fix the Battle Platform superstructure not being able to be placed on other superstructure.

• Fix a bug preventing designer tutorials from being rerun.

• Fix bow splashes remaining visible on ships when they are jumping or otherwise ballistic.

• The nonfunctional "gunpod" weapon has been dummied out.

• Fix the County cruiser not having red paint.

Modding:

• Added a `maxMassBonus` property, which increases the max displacement of the ship when the part is placed on the ship. Note that increasing the ship's overall mass causes engines to be less effective.

• Added a `whooshSound` property, which is the name of the sound to play if the weapon triggers wooshing when passing close to the player.