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Monthly update for April, 2012 Campaign added notification on aircraft arrived home balanced weapon and armour properties fix landed UFO missions not detected in some cases fix automission ended with both sides alive UI reworking UI engine using C++ classes Upgrade some UIs to support more than 8 soldiers HUD upgrades for more than 8 soldiers and more Battlescape AI checks now also for clear line-of-fire before shooting. fixed "autoreload" items (like Stunrod) in Skirmish and MultiPlayer Maps added spawnpoints for dropship tiles to support more than 8 soldiers (where needed) fixed door of Workshop in Phalanx base map (once more) other map fixes and updates In total, 513 commits were made in UFO:AI repository in April. 2012-05-14 — geever Version 2.4 is here! New map: Alien Base New map: Gate The UFO: Alien Invasion development team is proud to announce the release of UFO:Alien Invasion version 2.4. With more than a dozen new maps and dramatic speed improvements behind the scenes, 2.4 is a major step forward in our quest to build a fully free and open source tactical squad shooter and earth survival strategy game. Here are just a few of the changes in 2.4: A dozen new maps to battle aliens Rescue soldiers in dropships shot down by aliens and retreat from battles New particle and sound effects for weapons Support for smoke and incendiary effects New skirmish options to save squads and respawn aliens Battlescape render speed dramatically improved Download UFO:AI 2.4 Download UFO:AI 2.4 Changelog Changelog 2012-04-25 — H-Hour Monthly update for March, 2012 Campaigns fix automission ended when all civilians died implement stored UFO transfers fixed bug that did not remove scientists from a sold object's research added savegame support to simple campaign Sound and particles update weapon sounds updated fire and smoke field particles updated/new musics UI UI engine updates fix #3512190: Building preview window ignores checkbox rework market UI backend Battlescape more work on reaction fire system implemented fire fields for incendiary weapons finished the smoke bomb implementation Renderer fix lights shining on models through the walls lightmaps: set -soft as the default MSAA kernel keep the postprocessing when disabling shaders fix material system terrain/dirtmap bug Map various minor fixes on many maps updates to "neighbourhood" map work on harbour2 map MapEditor fixed part of #3500237: [UFORadiant] level up/down feature fixed #3508587: 'group' property of func_doors fixed #3502371: [UFORadiant] cannot use <Brush> tools implemented #3499338: [UFORadiant] 'Find Brush' tool Other converted the UFO:AI project to C++ Updated translations: Bulgarian, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, Russian, Ukrainian, German In total, 434 commits were made in UFO:AI repository in March. 2012-04-22 — geever Debian packages You can find updated debian/ubuntu/mint packages for i386 and x86_64 in our download section. Please report any problems to the proper topic in our forum. 2012-04-01 — mattn Prepare for 2.4 We have begun preparing the release of UFO: Alien Invasion version 2.4 and we could use your help. Please download the latest release candidate installer for Windows or Linux .deb packages for i386 or amd64 so you can help with testing, reporting bugs or making sure closed bug tickets are not still causing problems. Check the language files and send updates for confusing or inaccurate text. We also have 18 unknown licensed files in our repository we hope to replace. If you can help us replace these files it would mark a major step forward in our quest to be fully FOSS-compatible. View the changelog for a list of 2.4's new features and content. Working progress to remove non free resources. 2012-03-18 — mattn New city2 map Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 (night version) 2012-03-15 — ShipIt Official webpage address change Finally UFO: Alien Invasion got a own domain. We migrated the project web page to http://ufoai.org There is no need to change the old links you posted in our forum and on other web pages, old address are still working and are redirected to correct site. We hope the new address will be easiest to remember. Cheers 2012-03-04 — NineX Monthly update for February, 2012 UI updated the UFOPedia updated alien containment window updated research window implement baseattack team setup battlescape Inventory now shows rank and name of the selected soldier (campaign mode only) Shaders AMD card issue fixes new low quality world shader closer to OpenGL 3.0 compliance Maps new map +beach RMA new map neighbourhood updated +harbour2 RMA updated +forest RMA updated +mansion RMA two new tiles for +ufocrash RMA fixed +country RMA #3484719 Mapeditor added "skip-common" feature for replacing textures kitchen prefab fixed missing font problems fixed compilation for more recent versions of GTK+2.0 fixed #3476940 (UFORadiant Clipper-tool feature) added cut option General updated some translations more realistic walk animations for the bloodspider added save support to static campaign save game support reaction fire fixes and tweaks tuned needlers gun fixed forgotten team after skirmish retry replaced unknown licensed media - now only a few models are left prevent story related missions to be done via automission reduced memory usage applied patch #3485108 (Add a power ability training formula) applied patch #3485779 (add bunch of western european and nordic names) new map models Bugfixes fixed a crash on macosx with sdl 1.2.14 fixed #3486310 (mouse cursor not switching back) fixed #3485744 (actors won't go through 'reversed' doors) fixed #3463848 (func_door problems) fixed #3486900 (TU values do not always update in HUD)) +beach neighbourhood +harbour2 In total, 266 commits were made in UFO:AI repository in February. 2012-03-03 — mattn Monthly update for January, 2012 Campaign Right-clicking on alien in containment will now open UFOpaedia entry when alien is not yet researched Tweaked the amount of UFOs in a campaign Fixed bug #3285423 - ESC key on victory screen results in no UFO recovery Make missiles miss when aircraft landed Unified geoscape camera control (keys and mouse now both move the camera, not the globe) Prevent installing base defence weapons before buildings fully built up Updated overall base window Renderer Fixed bug #3420462 - fixed animation issues Fixed bug #3288569 - model animation flickers between deadX and deathX animation Updated OpenGL lighting code Updated rescue zone rendering Disable shaders on Intel graphics hardware Updated textures and normalmaps Replaced MAX_GL_TEXTURES limit with dynamically-allocated r_images array UFORadiant Fixed bug #3475262 - level up/down feature not working correctly Added a new texture overview dialog Fixed bug #3474122 - particle selector is broken Fixed segfault on shutdown Maps mansion Fixed RMA problems with forest large Code Added static campaign Make several maps available in skirmish mode Touchscreen drag&drop-like scroll for optiontrees, optionlists, text fields and text lists Artwork Fixed the scaling on the pilot helmet Replacements for bullet-pistol, bullet-pistol2 and bullet-sniper weapon soundfx Recompressed all textures Updated MiniHud Translations Updated some translations In total, 251 commits were made in UFO:AI repository in January. 2012-02-13 — mattn Monthly update for December, 2011 Artwork replaced last unlicensed textures some new textures and normalmaps Battlescape start developing a new Reaction-Fire system new Rescue Zone marker Campaign added Transferlist popup window fixed Speed ability experience gain HUD discontinued HHUD was removed more work on miniHUD some updates other (default, alt) HUDs new callbacks to cycle through soldiers and enemy backwards (only used on miniHUD yet) Maps added missing rescue zones fixed several assemblies other minor fixes Translations show Languages with native names list every language the game supports allow using languages not detected to be supported by the system In total, 202 commits were made in UFO:AI repository in December. 2012-01-16 — geever See news by years: 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007.

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