Release notes:
http://arcengames.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=The_Last_Federation_Alpha_Release_Notes#Alpha_Verson_.102This one does a bunch of stuff:
- All new background graphics during battles. More variety, and darker colors. 7 in all so far, 3 more to go in the short term.
- A bunch of ship balance changes and fixes.
- Some AI fixes, although more stuff is needed (but pointless right now because of other coming changes with the hydral abandoned technology, and the need for the AI to respond to that).
- A lot of the work on the hydral abandoned technology, and the engineering ships for the player, has been done. But it wasn't quite releaseable yet.
- The combat GUI has been heavily heavily reworked. It now has more room for various things, and for what it does takes up less of the screen. It also has a dedicated tooltip area, so that for once in a game of ours you don't have part of your screen unexpectedly getting obscured by a tooltip as you mouse around. There is more to come in that tooltip area, though. It's meant to have four tabs on it, with some extra info that can be shown in place of the tooltips when you want to check things like intel, your objectives, or controls hints.
Anyway, we're making lots of progress, although obviously it's not where we want to leave it yet with the combat. There's still both more content and more AI logic needed for that to truly shine, but it's coming along well I think!
