What's New

Last week was a pretty productive week for Xenosea. I started out with some UI and control improvements for weapons. This includes a cleaner UI for turrets and torpedoes, as well as systems to prevent accidental shooting. Following that I did a pass on all of the turret, ammo, and torpedo types. I renamed almost all of them to have more thematic and interesting names. I also added some new turret and torpedo types.

New torpedoes include: 

• The Arbalest, a slower, heavier, longer ranged torpedo for hitting large targets at a distance.
• The Hammer, a short range torpedo. More like a bomb with mobility than a torpedo.
• The Stalker, a pirate torpedo, slightly slower and harder hitting than the standard military torpedo.

New turret types include:

• Hellstorm, a turret that fires volleys of armor piercing rocket darts. Takes skill to aim, but very satisfying.
• MTTS, a turret that launches self homing mini torpedoes. Useful for hitting agile targets, but a high risk for friendly fire incidents.

Patch Notes

• Added freelook to look without changing weapon aim.
• Added weapon safeties.
• New UI for turrets and torpedoes.
• Added sonar pings to torpedoes.
• Hide ammo panel if the player's sub doesn't have minisub hangars.
• Split up weapon groups on czar, province, and republic.
• Torpedo diversity.
  • Renamed existing torpedoes to have more thematic names.
  • Added new heavy, short ranged heavy, and pirate torpedoes.
• Turret diversity.
  • Renamed existing turrets and ammo to have more thematic names.
  • Added Hellstorm (rocket dart) and MTTS (mini torpedo) turrets.
• Fixes for Striker stability.
• Improve decoy effect on torpedoes.
• Torpedoes try to reacquire targets after losing target.
• Add maximum wire distance for torpedoes.
• Improve torpedo tube target logic.
• Custom drag for subs and torpedoes.
• Fix AI subs shooting when not in range, and not shooting when in range.

What's Next

Yesterday I wrote up a some script for an short campaign introduction, and started working on setting it up in game. This will add a little bit of context to the start of a campaign, and set up an optional tutorial. I expect to have it done in a week or two. Following this my focus will be to start fleshing out the world, starting with Northburg. This will entail additional characters and dialogue, and some quests. This will include adapting the existing Fate of the Fitzgerald quest, as well as some new ones.