Patch 0.9.1 - Improved Linux & SteamOS support, laser weapons, and many core changes

Gameplay

• OpenGL support for Linux and SteamOS
• Turrets can now be healed by medics
• Fighter-explosions now move in the direction of the destroyed fighter
• Colonists mission has fewer enemy EMPs
• EMPs can now be deflected with shields
• Reduced duration of EMP-effect
• Added playable laser-equipped fighters to oba-okada-minefield and oba-firefight missions

Visuals

• Brightened world-environment in all levels
• Fixed distorted cockpit-rendering in OpenGL
• Rendering in DirectX and OpenGL are now almost identical
• Target-icons are now thinner and rendered additively
• Cockpit-rendering should no longer be cropped on ultra widescreens
• Asteroid-fragment explosions are now attached to frigates that collide with them
• Removed black smoke-particles from fighter-explosions
• Reduced opacity of smoke-fingers in fighter-explosions
• Dead pilots are now visually culled at greater distances

Input

• Duplicate key-mappings for the same action are no longer allowed
• Added 3440x1440 resolution to graphics-menu

UI

• Resolution is now properly saved and loaded from graphics-menu
• Fixed menu-placement for ultra widescreens
• Mouse-input in menus are no longer captured outside of menu-buttons

Core

• Improved overall performance by turning off unnecessary cockpit scene-capture rendering
• Reduced number of concurrent post-process elements
• Created new menu-handling interface
• Decoupled impacts from vehicles
• Turned off framerate-capping and smoothing
• Decoupled GShields from spaceships
• Decoupled turrets from spaceships
• Decoupled thrusters from spaceships
• Created thruster-controller to handle thruster-collections
• Decoupled turret-wrecks from turrets
• Most actors are now spawned anonymously within a BP-component
• Actor-classes are now checked before actor-spawning
• Decoupled hangars from spaceships

Bugs

• Team-exclusion in GShield is now changed when spacecraft-team is changed
• Fixed duplicate key-mapping error
• Fixed missing 120mm-bullet impact
• Fixed 0-index access of level-time and level-victories from mission-menu
• Fixed divide-by-zero warning in oba-practice-level
• Fixed skills-warning in spaceship-spawner
• Fixed debris-padding warning in debris-field
• Fixed rank-warning in vehicle
• Fixed ping-warning produced from debris-culling