New Features

Brand-New Mission Map System

• [p]The mission serving system has been overhauled to be more immersive and offer more strategic choice.[/p][/*]
• [p]All missions now take place in specific locations, which will impact the fuel cost to fulfill them.[/p][/*]
• [p]On every airbase tier level, you get up to 50% more missions, allowing you to strategically choose which missions your crews are good at.[/p][/*]

Base Fight Animations

• [p]In the aftermath of scrambling, you can witness shootouts above your base.[/p][/*]
• [p]A new camera button will also allow you to automatically move the camera to follow the intercepted plane.[/p][/*]
• [p]This camera is also available to witness victory roll celebrations after missions.[/p][/*]

New Defense Gun: Vickers AA gun

• [p]The new Vickers Machine Gun joins the roster of base defense options.[/p][/*]
• [p]The Vickers only needs 1 person to operate and costs 2 slots to ship.[/p][/*]
• [p]However, it is weaker than the Bofors and is limited in its turning radius, meaning it needs to be strategically aimed at paths enemies could come from.[/p][/*]
• [p]This new gun offers a simple early game solution for base defense.[/p][/*]

Character/Crew Editor & Import (BETA)

• [p]The brand-new web character editor allows you to create characters to import into your game.[/p][/*]
• [p]The new import functionality in the main menu allows you to choose which characters you want to populate the base with.[/p][/*]
• [p]New map parameters also allow you more control over which characters are in your starter crew.[/p][/*]

Tree Sapling Regrowth

• [p]Trees now spawn a tree sapling upon harvest, which will eventually become a tree.[/p][/*]
• [p]If you destroy trees, trees will not spawn a sapling, allowing you to also get rid of trees for good.[/p][/*]

Improvements:

• [p]Over 16 new missions: Together with the new mission system, there is a new set of missions.[/p][list]
• [p]10 of these are new hard endgame missions.[/p][/*]

• [p]6 of the new missions are brand-new stealth missions.[/p][/*]

• [p]This addresses problems with roofs being repaired for several days.[/p][/*]

Other fixes and changes:

• [p]Fixed issues of selections snapping to 0,0 when dragging on UI elements.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed an issue of older saves having everyone grow mustaches, including women.[/p][/*]
• [p]Missions now have a proper fallback if localization is missing.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed a problem of unread mission reports getting added to weekly evaluations.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed problems when planning structures further than the map border.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed issue of multiple people rushing in to carry the injured.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed issues of the runway menu not properly updating to Tier 0 when planning.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed a problem of AA gun range not showing if something else is selected before.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed a minor UI issue of size dots in the shipping menu showing in other categories.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed an issue of the game not going to automatic triple speed when everyone is asleep.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed some issues with objects destroyed on Lichfield during the intro.[/p][/*]
• [p]Plane tier display is now properly hooked up in the management menu.[/p][/*]

Issues we are currently working on:

• [p]We heard several reports of people getting stuck midway through going to locations. We have no fix yet, but we are working on it.[/p][/*]
• [p]We are trying to address that you cannot force people to carry an injured person.[/p][/*]
• [p]We are investigating an issue that performance starts to drop when resources lie around[/p][/*]
• [p]We are actively watching all your reports in the Feedback Tool and on Discord, so let us know if the update causes any issue.[/p][/*]

Thank you!