Taskforce Updated
Greetings Strategy Fans! Welcome to the first Taskforce update in over a year. Quite a few changes in this one...
FIRST! The campaign is now fully unlocked so you can play any mission in any order. This is quite a radical change but instantly improves the game. The original Amiga Taskforce from 1994, and Hilt II, both allowed any mission to be chosen. All of the training missions are available from the start too. Doing this avoids any worries or annoyances about losing campaign progress, and instantly adds a lot to the game for new buyers.
Secondly, Steam Achievements have been added, as current players will see in their Steam pages. There are lots of possibilities here, so there's an Achievement for completing each mission on each difficulty, and one for each training mission on Elite (some are harder than others!). There is an Achievement for completing the last mission and defeating Morgane (on any difficulty), but this is (ironically) easier than some of the others and will probably be superseded one day...
3. (I'll switch to numbers now): The Config.txt file is now loaded/saved to the game main folder rather than using the Windows 'Documents' folder, because Windows complains about security when looking in Documents. This shouldn't make any difference to players.
4. The screenwidth/screenheight/adapter options in the Config.txt now work, they didn't before, it was a bug. So you can at last set a custom screen mode.
And that's it apart from minor updates to the code. The demo includes the new features too. Thanks to the people who have bought the game in the past year, this update happened because of your sales. Find Taskforce here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1291150/Taskforce_The_Mutants_of_October_Morgane/
Enjoy!
Mark
FIRST! The campaign is now fully unlocked so you can play any mission in any order. This is quite a radical change but instantly improves the game. The original Amiga Taskforce from 1994, and Hilt II, both allowed any mission to be chosen. All of the training missions are available from the start too. Doing this avoids any worries or annoyances about losing campaign progress, and instantly adds a lot to the game for new buyers.
Secondly, Steam Achievements have been added, as current players will see in their Steam pages. There are lots of possibilities here, so there's an Achievement for completing each mission on each difficulty, and one for each training mission on Elite (some are harder than others!). There is an Achievement for completing the last mission and defeating Morgane (on any difficulty), but this is (ironically) easier than some of the others and will probably be superseded one day...
3. (I'll switch to numbers now): The Config.txt file is now loaded/saved to the game main folder rather than using the Windows 'Documents' folder, because Windows complains about security when looking in Documents. This shouldn't make any difference to players.
4. The screenwidth/screenheight/adapter options in the Config.txt now work, they didn't before, it was a bug. So you can at last set a custom screen mode.
And that's it apart from minor updates to the code. The demo includes the new features too. Thanks to the people who have bought the game in the past year, this update happened because of your sales. Find Taskforce here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1291150/Taskforce_The_Mutants_of_October_Morgane/
Enjoy!
Mark