Airship: Kingdoms Adrift Playtest update for 9 March 2023

The new version is here!

⚙️ Features

• Teutonic fighting pod launchers are now available, this serves as a starting platform for other parasite fighters to come
• The commander can now bring 2 escort ships along with the fleet, the logistics behind maintaining the fleet is still a work in progress
• Added a new officer behavior AI, enemies should be able to avoid most threats if the ship's performance allowed
• Change default rendering pipeline to forward rendering and added rendering pipeline and anti-aliasing preference to the setting menu, this is ongoing work that will lead to many optimizations and graphical config options

:QuestAccepted: Content

• Chapter 6 (Rescuing the Teutonic Engineer) is now available
• Added 2 types of the Teutonic Fighting Pods
• Added visuals for various settlements

🛠️ Improvements

• Re-rendered and reconstructed visual of Everspring Island, this will serve as a standard for the rest of the islands as it now supports actual terrain generation features
• Added variations to supply stores on Aberdonia ports
• Change a loot drop list for a certain officers quest
• Apply lighting optimization to Arran Town, Arran Watchtower, Sunstrip Town, Fair Island Mines, Dawn Isles Watchtower, Dawn Isles Town, Everspring Mines, Everspring Fort, Everspring Field, Everspring Lumbermill
• Revert the day/night timescale to a realistic scale, this should make travel time and speed believable
• Remove cruising cancellation upon encountering rock debris and neutral fleets

🐞 Bug fixes

• Fixed travel destination set to 0,0 upon reloading the game
• Fixed ships assignment button being shown on the flagship
• Fixed officers' quests guide locations, icons, and banners inconsistency
• Fixed a certain chapter 5 enemy spawn conditions being misplaced
• Fixed ships color resetting every time a player changes the ship's color
• Fixed weapons not locking onto the target within the firing arc
• Fixed officers' talent effect color to reflect positive and negative values correctly
• Fixed the Manamagnatic Cannon no longer targets projectiles
• Fixed having a navigator onboard causes the game to crash and causes unpredictable ships behavior
• Fixed camera locking issue when back from Test Loadout to the Port
• Fix flagship can't move after removing all escort ships
• Fix escort ship sailing animation not working
• Fix tutorial combat started with no light source
• Implement slow-down Escort when in front of flagship
• Fixed various typos as usual...