Changelog/2.0-RC5

UFO: Alien Invasion 2.0-RC5 (Released: 2006-09-27)

• FreeBSD port
• Vastly improved alien artificial-intelligence and tactics
• Tri-state reaction-fire toggle feature
• Corrected reaction-fire logic (with friendly-fire minimisation)
• Aliens can now appear in armor, throw grenades and will use deadlier fire-modes, although they must now also reload their weapons when out of ammo
• Salvaged items displayed after mission
• Camera tilt as low as 35 degrees in 3rd Person Battlescape view is now possible
• Medikit and IR-goggles can be thrown
• Campaign mission anti-repetition fixes
• AltHUD (alternative HUD)improvements including soldier morale display
• Soldier stat generation tweaked so soldiers become more elite in specific roles
• Numerous balancing tweaks
• Slightly faster map loading in single-player mode
• Fixed some mission locality names and co-ordinates
• Experimental cmake support
• New weapon model: Heavy Laser (note: help is needed to texture this model)
• Updated and improved translations
• Numerous bug fixes including:
  • #1551805 - Soldier reacts on enemy even if line of fire is blocked
  • #1549923 - Blank screen at mission start
  • #1554953 - Crash at too many employees
  • #1508975 - Error: No free inventory space!
  • #1535229 - Grenades cannot be thrown downward
  • #1555567 - Crash at resolutions below 1024x768 due to font issues
  • #1550770 - Ships getting confused (interceptor selection issue)
  • #1542086 - Base-attack status never ends
  • #1550350 - Civilians appear in alien skins
  • Various fixes for division by zero errors, memory leaks and references to freed memory
  • Many map issues (clipping, stepon and textures as well as starting positions)
  • Victory tally, nation happiness statistics and rewards reflect player performance
  • Research dependencies and progress after loading a saved-game
  • Many inventory handling bugs
  • For a more verbose list of changes since the RC4 release see the following link: Bugfixes since 2.0-RC4

Special thanks to everyone who has helped make this release possible, including some new contributers: LordHavoc, sheldonh, Rani, Jiten, ubequitz, elbenfreund, acardenas, Kerner, Rei, pleiades, zapo, qackers, noob, tomshackell and numerous others!!!