So…today I uploaded the windows copies of Gratuitous Space Battles 1.29. (Other platforms will follow). Here are the highlights of the patch (but a lot more has changed).
Identical voice messages now need twice as long a delay between repeats.
Were you getting as bored with ‘Enemy systems scrambled’ as I was? If so… this makes it less annoying :D
Fixed bug the formation order in a sub-deployment didn’t load in correctly.
When you loaded in sub-formations (squads) on the deployment screen, you sometimes had formation lines going off into nowhere. Fixed!
Damage indicator feedback in-battle adjusted to be less ‘spammy’ when multiple shots hit in close proximity.
Still not perfect, but where you get lots of fighters attacking a single ship, you are no longer blanketed with UI popups…
2 New missions added (Pyrataxian Ambush & The Slarthoon Belt).
Oh yeah!..And one of them is a cool new ‘ambush’ style layout where you start the battle surrounded. I’m interested to see how people get on with that one…
Mid-battle and end-battle statistics now track radiation damage in full.
This was very annoying, but now its fixed so you can see just how effective these weapons can be. Spoiler: very effective.
There is still a lot of balancing stuff to do, and lots more to add. The good news I have found and fixed another hard-to-reproduce sound-related random crash bug, so the game should be super-stable now. If you had crashes before, please try the new build it is TONS better. That sound bug was a horrible multi-threaded related crash that only happened at certain combinations of CPU speed and game-speed, but I found a way to reproduce it with some cunning Sleep() calls on my ninja PC. Definitely fixed now!
I plan on adding some new features, and new missions over the coming weeks. We are still very interested in getting people to do lets plays and review the game, or add it as a steam curator./ If you have a popular youtube account / steam curator account, email cliff@positech.co.uk and say you want a copy :D.