Most of this happened over Fall break, Thanksgiving, and Christmas break.
RC is out, and it’s different.
- Main menu and Options menu have cool new background, plus the text is less ugly
- Other menus, the HUD, and the market have a brushed steel background
- Added a random forest in the battlefield and a river*
- Added menu and game music
- And thus music volume controls
- Added more functionality to controllers other than the mouse & keyboard (controllers can now toggle weapons and mods)
- added the cruise missile – very powerful and has a blast radius, but very expensive too. Also, it doesn’t require a direct hit, it just blows up once it reaches the closest point to its target along its trajectory.
- removed BVR scope – suffered from uselessness and a huge bug that would have been very difficult to fix
- replaced it with flares – confuse incoming missiles, but aren’t guaranteed to work
- with “really good” AI, other planes can use the market (with limited selection)
- AI planes will only fire primary weapons when within a radius of the distance between your plane and the left edge of your screen
- Added those wing tip trails (fancy graphics only – sorry, netbook people.)
- Boosters last 3 seconds
- Boosters and flares are stackable
- Speed now reads in mph (the plane’s top speed is 645.5 mph)
*The river banks are quite a bit broken.
Also, I apparently added 45 megabytes to the download, because of all the new textures and the new music.
For the first time ever, I’m getting close to finishing something! Not only that, but it’s actually kind of good. Electric has gotten to be a pretty good time killer, if nothing else.
I wouldn’t expect release for a little while. I need a little break, and school is back in, which slows things down. But it will happen, for real this time.
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