Reassembly News — February 11, 2015
Aggregated from Steam, cross-tracked with Battle.net coverage on GamePatchNote.
Lots of changes! Hopefully not too many bugs. Major new things are much better sound effects, tournament mode, and agents can now move around away from the player. Lots of menu/bug/performance fixes.
* Decrease stuttering due to heap contention
* Greatly improve sound effects
- new samples for missiles and medium cannons
- add 3d audio positioning
- threshold/cull effects more aggressively to prevent clipping
- add wormhole music and agent jittering effect
- add thruster sound effects
* Add help menu for viewing completed tutorials, etc
* Add colored text to tutorials, etc (using quake3 style ^2escapes^7!)
* add lots of scroll bars
* add option to disable antialiased/smoothed lines for ATI cards that don't handle them well
* upgrade to steam sdk 1.32
* add gamepad configuration tab in controls menu
* add tournament mode menu, which allows importing ships from steam friends or from file and staging tournaments. Add more keyboard controls for tournament arena viewing
* Improve starting ship for faction 2
* cache steam cloud file list for better performance, and fix bug when clearing steam cloud save directories
* load save slots in the background (fix hitch when viewing save slot sceen)
* cool dragonfly/anisoptera splash screen
* tweak various block stats, particularly in faction 2 and 3, and add container blocks to several factions
* Allow agents to move around on the map even when far from the player, capturing territory and disabling player stations
* shields flash when damaged