Airships: Conquer the Skies News

• Landscape graphics have been updated and reorganised by Yellowminer.
• Changed light direction of daytime scenes to make more sense.
• The ship editor in multiplayer games now knows which modules you have available.
• Moved the "Import from File" button in the file screen to the top bar to be less confusing to new players.
• Obstruction beams now visible even when the distance between two modules is zero.
• Removed "Outside View" toggle in tutorials.
• Small ornate nameplates now display correctly.
• Items in the landscape editor palette are now better spaced and easier to click.

Edit And v1.0.14.3 fixes a desync issue I introduced when I added combat stats. My apologies, this should be fixed now. In general, if you encounter desyncs or other network issues, please do get in touch with me.

This version brings both a large list of bug fixes and some nice new stuff.

• Post-combat stats.
• All-new achievement icons.
• Two new achievements: "We Have Reserves" for sacrificing 100 crew for a victory and "Dumb Ways to Die" for having your crew die in 10 different ways in the same fight.
• Nicer combat setup dialog.
• Collapsible chat windows in combat and conquest mode.
• Fixed crash in conquest mode caused by selected ships being destroyed.
• Fixed crash when user would try to paste from an empty clipboard.
• Fixed combat desync issue.
• Rearranged ships in tutorials a bit to make them work more reliably.
• Flipped land blocks rendered properly.
• Giant spiders now die all at once rather than in halves.
• Cursor no longer instantly turns into selection cross cursor when you click somewhere.

The new combat stats system breaks down information such as accuracy both per-ship and per-weapon, which should be both useful and entertaining.

I've released a new update to the game and the servers. The game should now experience fewer lag spikes and no longer get stuck in reconnect loops.

This update fixes two crash bugs, one caused by loading a combat with a firing beam weapon, and one that happened when a monster nest message was meant to pop up.

Apologies for those affected by the crashes.

Addendum: I've now released version 1.0.13.3, which has fixes to networking, hopefully eliminating desync and reconnect issues. There is also a new server called "Europe (New)" which uses slightly better networking code.

Added addendum: Version 1.0.13.4 fixes a particularly obtuse bug caused by the player having the move command active while a tentacle attacks. Yes, really.

• Fixed desync caused by Shellwalkers in multiplayer.
  
• Fixed crash caused by trying to do a spy action when the spy has been caught.
  
• Cultist nest buildings now have cultist crew.
  
• If you're a cultist empire, you get special messages for cultist nests. (They're "heretics" from your point of view.)
  
• Suspendium Ray damage increased but made less effective against armour.
  

Modding:

• You can now specify alternate text for monster nests based on a bonus that an empire has.
  
• You can now specify a pixel amount for shells to shift when they open. (See data/ModuleType/SHELLWALKER.json.)
  
• Monster nest rewards can now provide technologies.
  

Note that this update is not notarized for macOS because Apple's notarization servers are not responding. I will fix this when possible.

(This is now fixed.)