0.83 - Surf The Shockwave
Author: Laps,
published 7 months ago,
VA is 14 days old. Welcome to 0.83
The updates to far have made quite a big improvement to VA overall. So with these improvements, additions and fixes I think it's time to up the version number.
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Patch 190-192 released.
Build 20240414
- Added fancy explosions to Controls blowing up. Including a nice shockwave, and bright core flash.
- Added far reaching explosion sounds when Controls blow up, so you can hear the state of the battlefield.
- Significantly improved ship behavior when trying to avoid being surrounded, but also wanting to attack something. They now properly take an equidistant standoff position from both the target position, and threat average. Though it may not be perfectly reasonable all the time, it's much better.
- Ships are now aware of the Battle Arena Boundary, and will try to fly around the circle instead of bouncing into it. Overall, this helps Missile and Drone kiters when running away. Though they can still be a bit dumb at times.
- Ship slowdown behavior has been improved somewhat, so ships should be better at not overshooting where they want to go while still being able to chase things. Though this does still need refinement.
- Reckless AIs are now way more reckless. They don't worry about getting surrounded. But also a little less reckless, they aren't as cowboy about overshooting where they want to go.
- Removed the accidental battery capacity on Decouplers. Making them cheaper.
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