Alpha 0.9.0 update is live!

These are the changes in Convoy 0.9.0 on 04-12-2014

Added:

• Ramming! You can now ram targets by driving next to them and double-clicking with RMB. Units have a "weight" now indicated by 1, 2 or 3 lines next to the health bar. Ramming a unit of the same weight or less results in the target being moved 1 square in the opposite direction.

• Many new scenarios!

• Short transition animation between open/closing map.

Added several new abilities:

• Mega Beam Laser - Loads of damage, can be targeted manually, deals damage to all in its path.

• Mega Railgun. Massive damage, ignores shield. Can miss small, fast targets.

• Heal Drone - Take HP from MCV, give to target.

• Vampire Drone - Take HP from target, give to MCV.

Changed:

• Armour now is percentage based damage reduction. 10% armour = 10% reduction, 50% = 50% reduction, etc. This changes combat in quite some ways, requiring the player to be more careful of which targets to engage with which weapons.

• Weapon damage has been adjusted to new armour mechanic. Very few weapons do armour damage, though most abilities do. Ramming and mines also damage armour.

• UI has been adjusted to work with new armour mechanic.

• Upgrades have been adjusted to work with new armour mechanic.

• Difficulty curve now split in 7 unit levels instead of 3. This should give a smoother progression curve with less extreme spikes.

• Quests now place nodes individually allowing more reliable branching in multi-node quests.

Fixed:

• Enemies should now try to avoid mines/wrecks again.

• Event marker should no longer override eachother on the map.

• Fixed many spelling/grammar issues in scenarios.

• Fixed out-of-fuel scenarios where you wouldn't recieve fuel (Out-of-fuel scenarios may still spawn incorrectly)

• Side quests folow up nodes should now spawn properly.