Demo v0.08 released!


Thank you to all of the playtesters who reported bugs and made suggestions! This release fixes a bunch of bugs and poorly-communicated systems, overhauls the ship designer UI, and greatly speeds up combat. Give it a play and let us know what you think!

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1482750/All_Or_Nothing_Waves_of_Steel


Change log:

 - Changed location of save data; on Windows, old save data is at
   C:/Users/yourusername/AppData/LocalLow/TMAGames/BYOBattleship
   New data is at
   C:/Users/yourusername/AppData/LocalLow/TMAGames/Waves of Steel
   and should be backwards-compatible with your old saves.
 - Add title screen fanfare
 - Increased speed of ships and ranges of weapons, radar, and sonar.
 - Add a visualization of weapon firing arcs during combat
 - Torpedoes have a wider firing arc.
 - Hopefully fix a bug causing ships to get stuck when they run aground
 - Fix AI ships bouncing up and down vertically
 - Added a dialog box prompting the player to end the mission when they complete the last objective.
 - Changed default switch-weapon-group key from Shift to Tab (avoid sticky keys warning in Windows)
 - The long-range radar now indicates what direction the player is facing
 - Fix a bug causing the ocean to look odd when using the gun camera
 - Fix fullscreen/windowed UI not working as expected
 - Fix mouse input not working in the options and combat menus
 - Fix a bug causing dialog boxes to flicker and display incorrect content when fading in
 - Fix a bug causing AI ships to be permanently disabled if the player quits a mission by going off the edge of the map
 - Reduced speed of ocean waves to reduce feeling that playership is not moving
 - Miscellaneous performance improvements
 - Most ship designer functionality can be accessed via buttons in the main screen, instead of by bringing up a highly-nested menu.
 - Fix bugs in the specials UI: mouse input doesn't behave, unable to cancel out; ships unable to save after using specials UI
 - Destroyer armor weighs twice as much
 - Fix a bug causing the weight limit to be hit too soon when placing parts
 - Fix a bug in the ship designer preventing controllers from being able to move parts up/down
 - Fix slowdown when placing belowdecks parts (powerplants and propulsion)
 - Crates are smaller
 - Add two new high-tier ship propulsion systems
 - Add a back button to the hulls menu
 - Display flag names when picking flags
 - Fix to-do list displaying on top of flags
 - Fix flag picker being off-center
 - Flagpole part now has a flag in the part preview display

 - Save-ship dialog has confirm/cancel buttons

 - Show a warning if the player attempts to save a very slow ship
 - Fix a bug causing the decal preview to not be dismissed if the player cancels out of adding a new decal
 - Add an option to the intermission menu to play the next mission

Files

WavesOfSteel-0.08-win.zip 235 MB
Jan 22, 2021

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Same here!

i'd like to download this but don't have the money. could you let me download the demo?