Naev Development Blarg (Page 10)

• Naev 0.8.0 Release!

  BY BOBBENS, ON DECEMBER 17TH, 2020

  We are proud to present the 0.8.0 release of Naev! This has over 4,000 commits from 0.7.0 and has been under development for the past 3.5 years. The backend and interface has been revamped to be modern with lots of improvements all over the board. Some examples include unicode and internationalization support. We would like to thank all the contributors who have participated in this release.

  Some of the more notable gameplay changes include making missiles and fighter bays not require ammunition, changed how some pilots spawn, time passes faster in larger ships, and a revamped commodity/economy system.

  We don’t expect there to be many issues, but if you do find any, please report them at the issue tracker. Discussion about the game can also be had on Discord (discord invite).

  You can get the latest version from any of the following three sources:

  

  

  

  Full changelog:

  • Gameplay
    • Overhaul of the interface to be more sleek and functional
      • Interface is much more slick
      • Dark theme to be more consistent with space
      • Font uses outlines to be more readable
    • New map overlay with adjustable opacity
    • Added rarity indicator to ships and outfits
    • Changed fonts
    • Indicate non-common NPC with exclamation marks
    • Added accessory slot and unique accessory outfits as mission rewards
    • Simple economy model implemented with map visualizations
    • Added travelling merchant who sells unique items
    • Made missiles and fighter bays reload while in space
    • Modified the balancing of missiles
    • Added asteroids and mining
    • Improved player GUI
    • Brushed GUI is now the default
    • Improved and fixed escort system
    • Made Pirates and FLF spawn in a fairer way
    • Made time pass at different rates for different ships (“Time Dilation”)
    • Made piracy missions available from any Independent or black market planet
    • Substantially increased pay for unique missions (10x in most cases)
    • Made references to the player gender-neutral
    • Made combat music vary from faction to faction
    • Made it so AI ships spawn with cargo
    • Improved AI behaviours
    • Nerfed Quicksilver
    • Added the ability to buy “fake IDs” from pirate strongholds
    • Made jammers into activated outfits that increase cloaking
    • Added Soromid organic ships that level up organs
    • Improved and expanded NPC portraits
    • Commodities can be sold/bought everywhere
    • Added a “slow mode”, which runs the game at half speed (like an easy mode)
    • Added a ship log which records events
    • Added a “system map” which displays information about known remote planets
    • Added support for giving commands to individual escorts
    • New intro images replacing old placeholders
    • Increased pirate name variety for bounty missions
    • Ships now travel with you automatically for free, as with outfits
    • Added map decorators showing locations of factions and the Nebula
    • Added a dogfight aiming helper
    • More music
    • New and/or improved missions
      • New Za’lek mini-campaign
      • Completed the FLF campaign
      • Fixed up the Collective campaign
      • Improved the Shark (Nexus Shipyards) campaign
      • Improved the Dvaered anti-FLF campaign
      • Added and improved piracy missions
      • New minor Soromid campaign, “Coming Out”
      • New tutorial mission at the start of a new game
      • Various newly added and improved generic missions
  • Engine
    • Support for compilation with Meson
    • HiDPI-awareness
    • Support for translations
    • Added shaders to speed up and improve graphics
    • Added support for non-ascii direct character input
    • Added support for map decorators
    • Removed support for Lua 5.0
    • Removed support for SDL 1, only SDL 2 is supported
    • Added support for translating
    • Made the OSD compact itself to avoid showing redundant information
    • Made Autonav able to follow ships
    • Consolidated the effects of cloaking and jammers under cloaking
    • Added workaround for ALSOFT buggy version that crashes
    • Added a polygon-based collision algorithm
    • Added some symbols for partial colorblind accessibility
    • Support #include in shaders
    • Multiple font support
    • Many bugfixes

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• Naev 0.8.0-beta.4

  BY BOBBENS, ON NOVEMBER 30TH, 2020

  It so happens that instead of having things cool down and prepare for the release, development has instead accelerated with 1473 commits from the previous beta. For this reason, we are going to do a final beta for 0.8.0, aiming to release full 0.8.0 by the end of this year. We would like to say that we don’t anticipate too many issues with this beta, but given the amount of code changed anything can happen. For this reason, please try it and find any issues, please report them at the issue tracker. Discussion about the game can also be had on Discord (discord invite).

  Download the new version from here.

  Some changes from 0.8.0-beta.3:

  • Overhaul of the interface to be more sleek and functional
  • Interface is much more slick
    • Dark theme to be more consistent with space
  • New map overlay with adjustable opacity
  • Improved AI behaviours
  • Nerfed Quicksilver
  • New Za’lek mini-campaign
  • HiDPI-awareness
  • Support for translation
  • Support for compilation with Meson
  • Many bugfixes

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• Steam Branches and Soundtrack

  BY BOBBENS, ON SEPTEMBER 10TH, 2020

  We have added support for the latest beta and nightly automated builds on Steam. You can opt-in by right-clicking in the library and selecting the branch you want from the opt-in beta. The generation of these branches is all automated and there are no differences with using the downloads available on github.

  We have also added support to generate a soundtrack using all 54 tracks from the game. This can be created by using the make soundtrack command from the source code. This has also been added to steam, and we are working to make this available on other sites such as soundcloud.

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• Naev 0.8.0-beta.3

  BY BOBBENS, ON SEPTEMBER 2ND, 2020

  Since a lot of fairly important stuff in the engine has changed, we have decided to do yet another beta. From this release on we have also moved to semver version notation. For this reason all the version tags on github have been regenerated. We don’t anticipate many issues from now on and expect to release the full version of 0.8.0 shortly. We don’t anticipate too many issues with this beta, but if you try it and find any issues, please report them at the issue tracker. Discussion about the game can also be had on IRC (#naev on irc.freenode.net) or Discord (discord invite).

  Download the new version from here.

  Some changes from 0.8.0-beta.2:

  • Added rarity indicator to ships and outfits
  • Changed fonts
  • Indicate non-common NPC with exclamation marks
  • Added accessory slot and unique accessory outfits as mission rewards
  • Added travelling merchant who sells unique items
  • Many bugfixes

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• Naev 0.8.0-beta2

  BY BOBBENS, ON AUGUST 14TH, 2020

  Given significant changes since 0.8.0-beta1 we have decided to do another beta before the final release (last one hopefully.) We don’t anticipate too many issues with this beta, but if you try it and find any issues, please report them at the issue tracker. Discussion about the game can also be had on IRC (#naev on irc.freenode.net) or Discord (discord invite).

  Download the new version from here.

  Some changes from 0.8.0-beta1:

  • Improved and simplified the look of the interface
    • Interface is much more slick
    • Font uses outlines to be more readable
  • Simple economy model implemented with map visualizations
  • Improved and expanded NPC portraits
  • Commodities can be sold/bought everywhere
  • Added a “slow mode”, which runs the game at half speed (like an easy mode)
  • Added a ship log which records events
  • Added a “system map” which displays information about known remote planets
  • Added support for giving commands to individual escorts
  • New intro images replacing old placeholders
  • Increased pirate name variety for bounty missions
  • Ships now travel with you automatically for free, as with outfits
  • Added map decorators showing locations of factions and the Nebula
  • Added a dogfight aiming helper
  • More music
  • Added some symbols for partial colorblind accessibility
  • Many bugfixes

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