Changelog/2.0-RC4

UFO: Alien Invasion 2.0-RC4 (Released: 2006-08-29)

• New menu for assigning weapons and shields to aircraft.
  • New shields and weapons for aircraft (technologies).
• Changed soundcode to dynamic loadable sound drivers (see cvar snd_ref)
  • SDL sound for windows is working.
  • New arts sound driver for linux.
• Dedicated server for windows
• Improved tutorial.
• Updated translations.
• Aircraft selection on geoscape.
• Some research tweaks.
• Implemented the use of alien armor.
• Descriptions for
  • Equipment/Armor/Kevlar Vest
  • Research/Advanced Armor Fabrics
  • Kerrblade (moved over to the alien side)
  • Frag Grenade and Hellfire Canister (changed from incendiary grenade)
  • Lots of others are finally in-game.
• New production system.
• Difficulty settings are now campaign dependent.
• Chat button for multiplayer on HUD
• Extended menu if statements.
• Interceptions (not fully implemented atm).
• Updated weapon stats.
• Updated particles.
• New models and their particles:
  • Incendiary Rockets
  • Plasma Grenade Shells
• Aliens equipped differently for different missions.
• A lot of new and needed sounds by Karen Pease (meqme@dauqghtersoftqiresias.oqrg -- remove qs to despammify)
• Soldiers, scientists, etc. are added at the end of each month by nations depending on their mood.
• Multiple ammo for the same weapon can be loaded and reloaded.
• Half-used clips are gathered and correctly accounted for.
• Lots of unnecessary ".0" in the GUI (relic of the abstract range units) are removed.
• New buildings for base view.
  • Workshop
  • Hospital
• New beta map (see also List of Maps)
  • dam01
• Buges fixed:
  • #1545854 - After research is finished, Scientists go away
  • #1544631 - Map terrain08d (access fixes)
  • #1447434 fixed gamma for win32
  • Fixed multiplayer.
  • Fixed some bugs about wrong indices for multiplayer and savegame exchange (sort file lists)
  • #1461639 Soldier equipment vanishes on mission retry