Additionally there are tons of graphical tweaks including completely reworked menus (all of them), hit indicators, damage indicators and sparks when grinding against a wall.

When it comes to gameplay issues, all secondary weapons now have increased ammo capacity, there is an additional score tracker in the corner, shotgun now pushes both you and the opponent back and boost cooldown has been increased.
That’s still not all, check the changelog if you’re interested in the rest of the changes or download the game straight away, both avaiable in the download section:

Hullfire beta 0.4.0 download

• A new weapon: Rebounder. The bullets bounce off walls (maximum of 2 bounces) and the damage triples with each rebound.
• Many changes in the maps, Hive now looks completely different, Hangar has been reskinned (now named Scrapyard), Caves and Excavation has been seriously overhauled.
• Chat commands, type ‘\help’ into the chat to see a list, most of those only work if you are the host.

Full changelog and links in the downloads section as usual:

Hullfire beta 0.3.0 download

I also made some new screenshots, you can view them all in the screenshot section of the Hullfire page or two of them below.

There’s really too much to mention in a blog post, but you can check the full changelog in the downloads section as usual.
Enjoy!

Hullfire downloads

As usual, the full changelog is in the downloads section (link below) but the most important changes are:
-addition of repair stations
-massive changes in netplay code, should give you a much better online experience
-ships no longer collide with each other (this is for the sake of better network synchronisation)
-acid shotgun somehow buffed

Download the new version here:
Hullfire downloads

As usual, see the download section for full changelog and download links.

Hullfire downloads

Hullfire downloads

I hope this patch contains enough bugfixes to make playing the game comfortable so we can focus on version 0.2.0 which will bring some new features.

Also, text can now be colour coded, AI has 4 difficulty settings, GUI can be used with just the keyboard, we have a second tileset for new maps, there is a ton of bug fixes, ships can now be instantly exploded by a hit instead of always just catching fire upon being shot down, there is message log, and last but not least expect a playable beta build pretty soon!

After a little vacation/exam session break we’re back at development. While Tymek is busy drawing the artwork for all the characters I made some adjustments to the map editor, wrote the AI (still needs a little polish and more than one difficulty setting) and a simple spectator view which allows you to follow other players around before you respawn.

See the video above for two bots fighting each other seen in spectator mode.

The map editor is finished, it still might have some bugs and as the game will gain more features so will the editor, but for now it has everything we need: placing and rotating blocks, pickups and spawn points (both with optional snapping), changing background colour, rotation and dimensions of the map and switching between various views.

Having a WYSIWYG map editor is already showing it’s great advantages. Tymek should soon get down to making some more tilesheets and maps.

We finally got around recording the sounds we’ve been adding to the game. In the video you can see two new ships, Shock Mines, Plasma Blaster, Machinegun and the Bolt Driver.