{"id":561,"date":"2010-02-16T17:55:08","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T17:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=561"},"modified":"2010-02-16T17:55:08","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T17:55:08","slug":"gratuitous-patch-number-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2010\/02\/16\/gratuitous-patch-number-32\/","title":{"rendered":"Gratuitous Patch Number 32!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At last I&#8217;ve released patch <strong>32<\/strong> (version 1.32) for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitouspacebattles.com\">GSB<\/a> today. If all goes well, then I&#8217;ll roll that out to partners like steam over the next two days. There are many changes big and small. Here are the big ones:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">1) Performance: UI performance improvement for scrolling on the challenge browser screen.<br \/>\n2) Performance: Differential challenge data downloading means that refreshing the challenge list is much faster now.<br \/>\n3) New Feature: Fleet overlay UI for the battle screen showing every ship on your fleet and it&#8217;s current status.<br \/>\n4) Usability: Mouse cursor now changes to the hand icon when over something clickable.<br \/>\n5) New Feature: Added module stat comparison window when you click any item of module data.<br \/>\n6) Bug Fix: Weapons will now fire at anything within range correctly, even if ordered not to attack a certain class, providing that no other suitable targets are in range.<\/p>\n<p>Depending how you play the game, some of these may be irrelevant, or awesome. I really like the module stat comparison stuff. I should have done it ages ago, and the fleet overlay is handy too. People who micromanage their weapons orders to the nth degree will appreciate number 6. I always thought it was working that way, but it turns out my code is buggier than a bug breeding colony on bug island. It works in a much more sensible way now, and its more viable to build ships that mix and match anti-fighter and anti-cruiser weapons :D<\/p>\n<p>The patch will auto-download over the next 24 hours for existing buyers. New buyers get a\u00a0 ready-patched copy anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, onwards and upwards. I forgot to mention in the readme that I beefed up some of the explosions and particle effects too. The very next thing I do will be the next expansion pack, which I&#8217;m pretty excited about. After that, it&#8217;s likely the mini-campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At last I&#8217;ve released patch 32 (version 1.32) for GSB today. If all goes well, then I&#8217;ll roll that out to partners like steam over the next two days. There are many changes big and small. Here are the big ones: 1) Performance: UI performance improvement for scrolling on the challenge browser screen. 2) Performance:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; Gratuitous Patch Number 32!<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2010\/02\/16\/gratuitous-patch-number-32\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratuitous-space-battles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}