Hello!

We've prepared a small update in preparation for a much larger update in the new year.  

Here are some things to look for in this build:

• Reduced memory usage
• 3D positional sound
• Updated the ships' appearance to be a bit more realistic.   

Please read below for details.

Change Log

Gameplay

• Flak cannon range reduced from 5 to 4
• Flak cannon fire period increased from 0.1 to 1.1
• Point defense laser uses less energy
• Trickster health increased from 40 to 48
• Trickster accel reduced from 9 to 8
• Trickster turn rate  increased from 220 to 240
• Trickster points increased from16 to 18
• Terran ship points increased from 15 to 16
• Terran energy regen rated reduced from 8 to 7 (point defense energy cost reduced in half)
• Menkmack points reduced from 14 to 12
• Pinthi health reduced from 32 to 28
• Pinthi max speed increased from 4.2 to 4.4
• Pinthi point cost increased from 8 to 12
• Pinthi babies max speed increased from 2.5 to 3.5
• Scryve turn rate reduced from 90 dps to 60 dps
• Tywom point cost increased from 13 to 15
• Scryve flak cannon damage increased from 3 to 5
• Disabled displaying part names as tooltips in the Ship Designer
• Slight gravity tweak.
• Beams and Black Hole projectiles are now blocked by planets
• Black Hole projectile collider to better matches its visuals

Graphics

• Updated ship lighting and materials to be less cartoony
• Ship appearance and lighting is more consistent the crafting screen and Fleet Battle screens
• Improved the VFX of Scryve and Trandals weapons
• Jeff art pass that includes a  +4 menace bonus

Audio

• Switched over to 3D positional sound.  This means that in-game sounds should attenuate with distance. 
• Added new sounds and revised many of the older ones
• Added a third piece of BG music to Fleet Battles

UI

• Added support for two players control for the game UI
• Blocked Alt-Enter from switching to/from fullscreen mode as this was causing UI problems.
• Renamed "Brake / Down" to just "Down" in the key config screen. Also unbound controller button 'B' from that key.
• Added in-game leaderboard. 
• Prevent firing UI navigation inputs while a text edit box has focus
• Fixed a randomization setting error in the music playlist editor in Wwise that was preventing more than 2 bg music tracks from playing in random order. 

Bugs

• Fixed a bug that would sometimes prevent the Scryve Flack Cannon to fire.  
• Scryve Scout in Super Melee to now uses the Scyve captain image.
• Modified how buttons handle management of its visual states. This is to fix some unwanted behaviors where buttons get stuck in mouseover states or don't properly show their click states.