Alpha 28 "Barrel Roll" Released!

New bomber, new bomb, new terrain, and a whole bunch of improvements get us closer to Beta!

NEW STUFF:

• MEDVED - Heavy Bomber

• UB-2 - Basilisk - Heavy area-of-effect bomb

• "Dodge" special is now built-in to every aero, triggered using L3 or the C key by default

• New modding system using Unity asset bundles: More details in the official modding guide... basically it's a new method of making mods which is a bit more complicated, but it allows for much more visual design and, eventually, doing proper total conversions. Currently, custom aeros with custom stats are supported along with basic weaponry.

• New terrain: it's generated and spawned in as a single mesh now, with slopes in between tiles, which accomplishes a number of things I was meaning to do for a long time, such as: better performance, allows for mobile ground units, and it just looks better.

• New achievements - Good Stick, Good Sticks, Fast Mover, Dot Chaser, Mud Mover (Dot Chaser cannot currently be achieved because the Heavy Interceptor is not yet in the game)

TWEAKS:

• Most air-to-air missile hitboxes have been enlared to make them more effective

• Track camera command (R3) now works in cockpit mode, and the camera is now smoothed like in the chase mode.

• "New target detected" noise is less harsh

• New incoming missile graphic, the arrow is now pointing inward and has a little dot to make it a bit easier to estimate the number of missiles in swarms

• Player start position is varied a bit more

• Deadzone for mouse controls reduced by 50%

• Music volume is now adjustable

FIXES:

• Arcade controls are much smoother and much more effective at steeper climb and dive angles

• Menu sliders can be moved with the gamepad / keyboard

• Linux: only 32-bit versions are available, and they should have the correct Steamworks .so built in so the Linux version will launch correctly from the Steam client