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EarthX 0.2.8 (snapshot 1)


Hey,

After 9 days of me taking a "break", I can finally release the first snapshot of the 0.2.8 update.

Why is snapshot 1 amazing? Because it takes the graphics on another level! I tried to make it look nicer but also that you can still run it on low-end PC. The system requirements are going to be a little higher, but this is what I do expect from the players on Steam. You can still launch EarthX on LOW at a potato PC tho.

Why did it take more than a week to make? One of the reasons is my private life problems, like school or my destroyed PC. I will talk about that later in a new post ;)

Snapshot 1 is now available for everyone.


Changelog:
Visual:
  • Improved: Everything is smaller
    I made every object 30 times smaller to get more space for AI companies, but also for better visual appearance.

  • Added: New water appearance
    The water has now its animation, reflections, and the actual visible ocean deep.

  • Added: Wind
    All trees and clouds are affected now by the wind.

  • Added: Shadows
    All objects have now its shadows!

  • Added: Better color shadings
    Now the colors are looking even more dynamic and nicer!



  • Improved: The earth rotates now the right way!
    So many players requested me to change this, so here you go!

  • Improved: GEO sats are now static
    Just like IRL.

  • Added: Engine smoke when the rocket is flying in the atmosphere


New features:
  • Added: New build mode
    I reworked the build mode. Now instead of 24 slots, you can place buildings where you want and how you want.


  • Added: New rocket animations (AGAIN!)
    But this time with a lot better appearance and performance! I added 3 types of animations for LEO, MEO and GEO orbits, so everything is now visualized. Even the second stage! You can now see the fairings deploy on the second stage :D
    The landing has now sonic booms!


Other:
  • Improved: Test mission will be no longer selected on default
  • Improved: Mission report window appearance
  • Improved: Camera movement (it's more responsible now)
  • Fixed: rockets didn’t reset their position after a launch
  • Fixed: landing rockets could cause a lot of errors sometimes
  • Fixed: rocket reliability could be more than 100%
  • Fixed: mission report showed the wrong info after the failed static fire
  • Fixed: the offices are looking for wrong contracts after game load
  • Fixed: particles didn’t work properly on some of GPUs
  • Fixed: profit after a mission was wrongly calculated
  • Fixed: Tooltips didn't change their scale
  • Fixed: Static fire took 2 payments
  • Removed: Truth mode (Flat earth)


How to download this (and other) snapshots?

This snapshot was published for everyone.
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