Alpha 5.7 Clear the Rubble

Alpha 5.7 has just been released. This update focused on cleaning up some of the code and trying to fix some of the issues that have been reported.

In addition to that we improved the lighting with a new day/night cycle which is tied to the waves. It starts at mid day while you are building and then quickly speeds ahead to the night when you start the wave. The wave will play out and then it will speed through the rest of the night and return to the next day once the wave has been beaten. As part of this we have also added a useful catch to force end waves that have gotten stuck. If a wave goes on too long it will finish the wave to prevent a soft lock and allow the player to continue instead of needing to restart the level.

Creative mode has been improved as well. The drop downs have been replaced with buttons for adding units to the wave which is faster and clearer. In addition to that, several buttons have been added to generate different strength groups of enemies.

See below for the rest of the changes

Changes:

• New day/night cycle w/ wave timeout Various performance improvements
•  Greatly improved creative mode wave creation with buttons to automatically generate waves of different strengths
• The Cheval-De-Frise makes a return with new functionality. Now it acts as a temporary barricade that soldiers will attack and destroy before they can move through it.
• Balanced the Crossbow block, increased damage and slightly increased range but also increased their cost.
• Cleaned up the code
• Added additional catches to reduce/prevent error propagation

Fixes:

• Fixed the deck building screen layout for wide aspects
• Fixed and issue when trying to give armor to soldiers which could result in armor being missing and/or preventing a wave from starting.
• Fixed an issue with the Flood Plains level which stopped the paths from appearing and broke waves.
•  Fixed an issue with the Barracks block where sometimes Barracks soldiers were unable to walk back into the barracks.
•  Fixed an issue with archers in formations where enemies archers could sometimes get stuck.