Release notes:
http://arcengames.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=The_Last_Federation_Alpha_Release_Notes#Alpha_Version_.905Restart steam to force a quicker update if you like.
Yay, the updater is finally done! This lets us do our Humble Store and GOG.com releases properly.
And in general it lets us update our games on Linux outside of the steam store, which is a new capability. The updater is also generally better in a lot of ways (it's way way faster now, for one -- something that might have taken 10-20 seconds before now completes in under one), and it tells you better error messages if you should encounter one, etc.
That plus the new trailer were unfortunately the vast majority of my day. So the bad news with that is that I really am not going to be able to add any more quests prior to launch -- we are going to have to declare this game feature-complete at this point, and focus entirely on polish tomorrow (and Friday, too, why not). I greatly expect that this game will warrant expansions, so while we're doing that I'll also throw in a bunch of quests into the base game as well. But for now the quests just aren't something that fully fit into the timeframe, though the 6 that are there are really cool.
Keith, on the other hand, was really killing it today in terms of the bug/balance list, which is awesome. There is too much stuff, and too varied, for me to really summarize. One big thing is that the trade deals were really bugged in some cases previously, and now they are not -- that's a huge balance thing, because that's a major way of improving mutual attitude between races. Beyond that there are a lot of things that are more clear, more correct, and so on. Big long list.
Enjoy!
