Patch 0.9.0 - Major engine upgrade and EMP missiles

Gameplay

• Added new EMP missile that temporarily shuts down fighters and turrets
• Created new Dominion-freighter variations
• Added Dominion-freighter activity to applicable levels
• Converted Menace mission to a campaign-mission
• Added some radio-dialog to Menace mission (sets up future mission)
• Converted Banshee Inspection mission to a standalone mission
• Increased pacing of Maki Transit mission
• Added Lancer-EMP and Lancer-Medic-EMP gunship variations
• Added Phantom-EMP fighter variation
• Fixed initial trajectories for playable fighters in most missions

Core

• Upgraded Unreal engine to 4.17.0 (from 4.8.3)
• Builds are no longer packaged in PAK files
• All objects are now visually culled at long-ranges
• Added concept of electrical-power to all ships (for EMP)
• Moved save-game logic to a game-instance object
• Decoupled many ojects from one another and removed some circular dependencies
• Increased use of interfaces to facilitate polymorphic object-interactions

Visuals

• Improved lighting and colors overall (due to engine upgrade)
• Rebalanced lighting in all levels
• Shadows are now softer
• Fixed some misplaced textures on OBA-outpost
• Regenerated and optimized all LODs for every mesh (help me)
• Added scanline-effect to HUD
• Created new hologram-material (more visual clarity)
• Added a space-particle effect to the player-view (helps with gauging speed and direction)
• Simplified atmospheric effect on planets
• Health-icons no longer shown over hangar-bays
• Regenerated the Ishtar dome-mesh to fix geometry-artifacts]
• Reduced frigate-explosion particles for optimization

UI

• Added gamma and brightness sliders to the Graphics menu
• Created a separate Audio menu
• Added a master-volume slider
• Moved camera-preference to Controls menu
• Redesigned Missions menu background
• Updated all mission-preview images
• Added a mission-loading screen
• First campaign-mission from each faction are no longer locked initially

Audio

• Lowered rail-impact volume
• Lowered volume of missile-swoosh sound (when homing-missile activates)
• Added SFX for electrical shutdowns and reboots
• Added SFX for EMP-explosions

Bugs

• Fixed intermittent background-flickering in some levels
• Fixed exaggerated streaks of light in some levels
• Fixed issue with AI sometimes following their dropship
• Fixed stats for Minesweeper mission being saved incorrectly
• Fixed issue with squad-level-waypoints not clearing when player takes control