Changelog/2.0-RC6

UFO: Alien Invasion 2.0-RC6 (Released: 2006-11-15)

• A revamped music score thanks to Psymong's new tracks
• Reaction-fire finally works (reasonably well)
• Confirm-movement feature
• One-handed weapons can now be used while holding certain two-handed weapons (but firing of the two-handed weapon in this state is disabled)
• Some new missions
• Heavy-laser model is now textured! (thanks to CeoBohga)
• Improved grenade targetting options and modes
• Isometric mode option
• New perspective mode zoom behavior to reduce distortion #1549194
• Cursor positioning improvements (#1474624 & #1560368)
• Tab key now cycles through soldiers on the battlescape
• Higher quality plasma particle effects
• Fade between music tracks
• Text boxes are now scrollable (mouse-wheel scrolling works too!)
• Keybinding tooltips for the HUD
• Keybinding options menu
• Radar coverage displayed on the Geoscape when setting up a second or subsequent base
• First-person camera mode enhancements (including #1549286, note however that first-person view mode is still quite buggy)
• Compression for saved-game files (file-size reduced from ~5MB to ~20kB)
• Some general HUD improvements (HUD reload button now greys out in move-mode if insufficient TUs will remain after the move)
• More alt(ernative)-hud improvements and bugfixes (chat buttons, reload-left, #1534457)
• IR Goggles are now affordable!
• Numerous bug fixes including:
  • Multiplayer server security fixes
  • Fixed all "CL_UpdateHireVar" errors (e.g. #1564035)
  • #1568183 saving games no longer causes crashes (or corrupt saved-games)
  • Properly fix the SDL "...could not generate font surface" error
  • Fixed an engine bug which caused visibility blocking (#1566912, #1586192)
  • Secondary weapon animation fix #1595141
  • Menu tweaks & fixes (Multiplayer, Aircraft, Ufopedia) including #1573786, #1566623, #1567820, #1586095. #1567102
  • #1553397 Confirm new settings dialogue after changing resolution mode
  • #1568685 Cleanly handle out-of-disk-space errors when saving a game or team
  • Soldier promotion fixed
  • More base-defense fixes including #1571874 (base-under-attack status should now clear properly after a successful base-defense)
  • Switching between multiplayer and single-player modes should now be safe (e.g. #1563368, #1551013)
  • Starting a multi-player server with no team will automatically create a new team
  • #1531412 Credit sequence illumination
  • An item is no longer produced if the number of items to manufacture is set at zero
  • Research can't be undertaken without a finished laboratory
  • Stunned alien count now correctly reported in end-mission statistics
  • #1536004 No more incorrect "Build a research-lab first" messages with multiple bases
  • A bunch of map fixes (e.g. #1573242, #1595066, #1595067, #1595060, #1562192)
  • Numerous changes to improve sound and graphics stability (e.g. crashes on startup)