CHANGELOG.txt

Version 0.5.0 Pre-Release
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New features:
  General:
- Game can now be completed, game over screens for winning and losing.
- "Random Battle" mode.
- Ukranian translation implemented.
- Bulgarian translation implemented.
- Italian Soldier Names added.
- Hungarian Soldier Names added.
- Aliens progress their equipment levels, races and aggression over time.
- Added "Alien Research" button in New Battle menu to set alien item level.
- Added "Right Click to Delete" function in save/load menus.
- Added various display filters to the game.*
- The default windowed mode position can now be edited in the configuration file.
- Increase/decrease buttons now respond mouse wheel scrolling when the cursor is above them.+
- The game can no longer be dynamically resized to a new display resolution when in windowed mode.+

  Geoscape:
- Live alien capture and interrogation.
- Psionic training.
- Hyper-wave decoding.
- Alien base handling.
- Scoring for both aliens and Xcom.
- Funding nation decision making.
- Multiple dogfight handling.
- Graphs screen.
- Base Defense Screens.
- Alien UFO Mission Generation.
- Alien retaliatory attacks on Xcom bases.
- Custom Initial Base Building.* (requires a new game to take effect)
- Allowed multiple items to be produced per hour when very large numbers of engineers are assigned to a project.*
- Upper limit for alien captures per containment facility.* (visible on Base Info screen)
- Captive aliens can now be sold in the same manner as dead aliens.*

  Battlescape:
- Battlescape melee unit AI.
- Unit conversion (ie: chryssalids)
- All missing units implemented, both alien units and xcom tanks.
- Units dual wielding single handed weapons is now represented on the battlescape.
- Equipment loadout saving.
- Proper A* pathfinding.
- Battlescape RMB scrolling improved.
- Landing Ufos/Ground Assault missions.
- Multi-Part Ruleset support.
- Pause Game on Loss of Focus.
- Certain units now "Yell" when engaging another unit.
- Enemy unit stats and armour are now affected by difficulty.
- Units can now "fall" off edges by walking off the side of a roof or platform.\

* These features are disabled by default but can be enabled as advanced options by editing your configuration file.
+ These features are enabled by default but can be disabled as advanced options by editing your configuration file.

Bugfixes:
- Updated translations.
- Updated soldier names.
- Added support for native cyrillic letters.
- Adjusted the length of the Date column on the saved game screen to allow room for translated text.
- Fixed bug in map generator regarding nodes outside the map.
- Fix for horizontal scroll-wheels.
- Research consumes items properly.
- Reaper Corpse tiles now arranged correctly.
- Support for Haiku folder paths.
- Battlescape buttons now unavailable during alien turn.
- Fixed Craft not rearming after refuelling.
- Fixed strange spawn behaviour.
- Camera now correctly centers on explosions, and properly detects explosion visibility.
- UFO walls can no longer be seen through from certain angles.
- Units on stairs will now correctly reveal tiles on the level above.
- Opening doors now uses time units correctly.
- Fixed error in great circle calculation.
- The player no longer reveals the tile an alien is standing on when they detect an alien on an unrevealed tile.
- The camera resets after non-reaction shots.
- Projectiles are now visible when they fly above an unrevealed tile.
- Undiscovered aliens are no longer factored into pathfinding.
- Players can now recover large unit corpses.
- Various bugfixes for large units.
- Various psi-related bugfixes.
- Various pathfinding bugfixes/improvements.
- Various cursor-related bugfixes/improvements.
- Ethereals can now fly as intended. You have been warned.

Version 0.4.5 (04-11-2012)
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New features:
- Ufopaedia.
- Hungarian translation.
- Rightclick mouse scrolling.
- Rightclick arrow buttons to min/max values.
- Weapons can be toggled on/off during dogfights.
- Modular rulesets (specified in options.cfg).
- Soldier reordering.
- New options.
- Man page / command-line help.
- Logging.

Bugfixes:
- Updated translations.
- Updated soldier names.
- Various string clipping issues.
- Various UI issues.
- Infinite error message when tanks didn't have ammo.
- Tanks getting it on in the storage room (recovered when mission ended).
- Multiple "Tracking Lost" windows per UFO.
- Improved auto-equipping to ignore empty weapons and load weapons on the ground.
- Brought alien weapons counted towards score.
- Civilians didn't count towards score.
- Crash when completing a research.
- Crash during dogfights.
- Wrong mouse input in minimap.
- Starting inventory didn't work correctly in mission simulator.
- HWP ammo popped up in soldier inventory.
- Incorrect armor damage modifiers.
- Workaround for big corpse pieces being recovered.
- Missing rules for Reaper (crashed terror missions).
- Ammo being reused after loaded.
- Civilians counting as saved when mission failed.
- Projectiles went through UFO if missed.
- Weird avenger spawn point.
- Item in elevator crash.
- Diagonally walking through trees.
- Items flying in the air when flying unit drops items.
- Fixed proximity grenade.
- Wrong craft speed when patrolling.
- Crash when patrolling after UFO lost.
- "Go to last known UFO position" button not working.
- Incorrect UFO recovery items.
- Ammo in weapons wasn't recovered after missions.
- Crafts were fully unloaded after missions.
- New crafts don't start in base position.
- Ammo graphics weren't cleared after unloading weapon.
- Minimap doesn't update level when using scroll wheel.
- Missing "Not enough equipment to fully re-equip squad" screen.
- Incorrect title in Promotions screen.
- Various changes to item creation/recovery in Battlescape.
- Wrong UFO graphics in interception window.
- Wrong craft/UFO altitudes.
- "UFO tracking lost" window missing sometimes.
- Crash when targeted terror site disappears.
- Reapers having incorrect behavior.
- Soldiers can turn without TUs.
- Walking through knocked down walls takes 4 TUs.
- Primed state of a grenade is not saved in the savegame.
- Firing and throwing accuracy does not decrease on injury.
- Diagonal line of sight through windows.
- Minimap not showing visible aliens on invisible tiles.
- Visible units not stored in save.
- Beam weapons not dealing any damage to UFOs.
- Rewritten dogfight radar animation.
- Dogfight UFO hit animation.
- Dogfight UFO crash animation.
- Dogfight projectiles animation.
- Projectiles could hit UFO even if it was out of their range.
- Added craft damage indication.
- Added translated terrain names to New Battle.
- Sound and graphics of flying suit.
- Small pathfinding issue.
- Segfault when mindprobing empty space.
- Untranslated Geoscape sidebar.
- Implemented faster unit walk speed off screen.
- Items visible on minimap on undiscovered tiles.
- Units walking on top of each other.
- Incorrect behavior with ground items in inventory.
- Options screen and resolution selection.
- Craft has wrong position when transferred.
- Craft doesn't reequip when transferred.
- Game returns to the actual game after saving (instead of previous menu).
- Drawing issue in medikit and scanner view.
- Improved explosion animation scaling with power.
- Explosion sound.
- Added Elerium-115 to battlescape.
- Vertical pathfinding.
- Cancel firing mode when pressing move up/down.
- Flying up/down graphics.
- Show damage percent of craft on its state-panel.
- Buttons not pressing with right-clicks.
- Bugs in soldier name generation.
- Added geoscape position to saves.
- Added "We can now produce" Geoscape window.
- Walk/move sounds.
- Proper ammo accounting after battles.
- Added "loading/saving..." messages to savegame screens.
- Being able to input text in resolution.
- Non-ASCII character input.
- Non-ASCII savegame names.
- Crash when trying to rearm crafts with empty weapon slots.
- Weapons glitching when dropped by panicked soldiers.
- UFO trying to escape after being destroyed.
- Freeze in wordwrapping.
- Big text automatically switches to small if string doesn't fit.
- Battlescape crash when items were dropped.
- Unlimited ammo weapons being incorrectly recovered.
- Mouse being restricted to 320x200 area in some systems.
- Not being able to overwrite saves with non-ASCII names.
- Save list not synchronizing with text input.
- Weapon unload not clearing text.
- Basescape not resetting time to 5 Secs.
- Random seed missing in saves.
- Crash when large units tried to move outside the map.
- Wrong reaper sound.

Version 0.4 (13-08-2012)
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New features:
- Basescape:
-- Research screens.
-- Manufacture screens.
-- Soldier improved stats.
-- Tank equipping.
-- Armor equipping.
-- Wound recovery.
- Geoscape:
-- New globe shading.
-- Craft pathfinding now uses great circles (more accurate).
-- New radar detection formula (more accurate).
-- Terror sites.
-- UFOs of all sizes.
-- Tied research requirements to everything.
-- UFOs in dogfights fight back.
- Battlescape:
-- Abort screen.
-- Debriefing screen.
-- Battlescape save game.
-- Panicking units.
-- Skill increase and promotions.
-- Ranged based accuracy is now optional (see UFO Extender for details on Ranged Based Accuracy).
-- Minimap.
-- Flying units.
-- Grav lifts.
-- Optional pathfinding preview.
-- Medikits.
-- Laser weapons.
-- Large units.
-- Motion scanner.
-- Alien deployment rules.
-- AI taking cover & throwing grenades.
-- Damage to items.
-- Mind probe.
-- Stun rod.
-- Show/hide battlescape layers button.
-- Rough battlescape artefacts salvaging functionality.
-- Added civilians.
-- Added support for skyranger landing on non 0-level.
-- Added support for multiple craft/ufo maps.
-- Psi Amp.
-- Added support for more alien races.
-- Load Game button.
- External rulesets.
- Added entries for most entities in the game.
- New Battle screen.
- Options screen.
- Startup logging.
- 64-bit version.
- Game icon and logo.
- Support for multiple data folders.
- Support for XDG specification.
- Support for user soldier name pools.
- Various new options (see docs).
- Debug mode.
 
Bugfixes:
- Two duplicating ammo bugs.
- Wrong rocket launcher hand sprite.
- "Not enough time units" during alien turn.
- Bug where alien weapons are given to the soldiers.
- Target mode is canceled when switching unit.
- Reserve time unit button is reset when starting new turn.
- Minor drawing glitch visible when walking down the skyranger ramp.
- Geoscape sidebar didn't show up on first start on some languages.
- Bug with line of sight inside UFOs along diagonal walls.
- Bug with pathfinding inside UFOs along diagonal walls.
- Aliens not black when in undiscovered terrain.
- Issue with turn and shoot.
- Too many reaction fires from autoshot (each shot had a chance of a reaction shot which is wrong).
- Unit selection arrow showed up during alien turn.
- Double sliding door didn't open when walking diagonally.
- Energy usage not calculated correctly.
- Missing text in Monthly Report.
- Ground items showing up in soldier's hands.
- Improved interface performance.
- Bug with seeing through undiscovered floors.
- Updated the Rank Bonus values used to calculate soldier "value".
- Apply changes to the base / soldier name when user presses OK.
- Incorrect globe zoom levels.
- Incorrect UI strings.
- Incorrect colors in Battlescape UI.
- Crash when starting mission on back side of globe.
- Endless number of soldiers in Skyranger.
- Clicking visible enemy units clicks other stuff too.
- Fixed lazy ground inventory arrangement.
- Aliens do not suffer from fatal wounds anymore.
- Improved straight line pathfinding in battlescape.
- Fixed unable to hit unit on stairs.
- Fixed drawing hidden object's outlines.
- Fixed pistol aiming position.
- Fixed HWP rank image.
- Fixed no LOF error issues.
- Fixed issue where unit stopped walking when not seeing new alien units.
- Fixed alien reaction shots costing no TUs. 
- Camera centers on selected unit on battlescape start.
- Fixed battlescape kill counter not working.
- Fix cursor hiding and scrolling during AI turn 
- Fix camera scrolling into dark infinite and beyond
- Fix unit FOV calculated before AI reaction shot.
- Fixed "alien floating error".
- Fixed walking under skyranger.
- Fixed firing XP from explosive ammo.
- Fixed active weapon display.
- Fixed issue with dead alien count.
- Fixed autoshot of HE ammo issue.
- Save turn number in savegame.
- Fixed free autoshot ammo.
- Fixed wrong UI colors.
- Updated translations.
- Fixed craft loading bug.
- Fixed crash with invalid savegames.
- Fixed savegame list not being sorted.
- Game no longer crashes if no sound device is available.
- Crafts that are outside of base no longer show in base view.
- Fixed globe not redrawing properly sometimes.
- Fixed various data loading bugs.
- Sell screen now decreases item quantity.
- Fixed craft pathing bugs.
- Fixed bug in command-line parameters.
- Various performance improvements.
- Added fallback if no soldier name pools are available.
- Fixed radar detection.
- Fixed some bugs in globe.
- Fixed inventory crash with certain armor types.
- Fixed crash with loading DOS sounds.
- Fixed battlescape buttons responding to wrong mouse button.
- Improved mouse click handling.
- Fixed Language dialog having wrong height.
- Game no longer crashes if language isn't found.
- Game no longer crashes if User directory is unavailable.
- Game now shows an error if no languages are available.
- Fixed various bugs with text strings not fitting.
- Fixed text caret not always aligning properly.
- Fixed crash with UI buttons.
- Fixed Intercept string not always showing correct stats.
- Fixed colors in Target Info and Items Arriving windows.
- Fixed various savegame bugs.

Version 0.3 (01-09-2011)
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New features:
- Basescape: 
-- Craft rearming.
-- Craft equipping.
-- Purchase/Recruit.
-- Sell/Sack.
-- Base transfers.
- Battlescape: 
-- Battle turns.
-- Item equipping, firing, throwing.
-- Environment: fire, smoke, explosions, damage, kills.
-- Unit stats.
-- Inventory.
-- AI Phase 1 (patrol, aggro).
- New languages: Czech, English (UK), Polish, Romanian, Russian.
- Support for custom font characters and full Unicode.
- Options.
- Platform-specific folders.
- Partial Ufopaedia.
- Externalized soldier names.
- Nag screen only shows once.
- Swapped F5 and F12 keys.
- Movable caret in text input.
- Stores column in Purchase screen.

Bugfixes:
- Bug in Geoscape pathfinding.
- Incorrect language names.
- Cross-platform bug when loading PCK files.
- Invisible loading errors.
- Incorrect mouse events.
- Missing strings.
- Various UI issues.
- Various translation issues.
- Bug in craft rearming.
- FPS Counter didn't always show up properly.
- Crash sites didn't vanish properly.
- Failing to load a game could crash the Geoscape.
- Games weren't always saved properly.
- Monthly report didn't show correct date.
- Crafts in base view weren't positioned correctly.
- Music loading issues.
- Various battlescape fixes.
- Various performance improvements.

Version 0.2 (28-01-2011)
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New features:
- Battlescape! 
-- Crash site missions.
-- Map generation.
-- Pathfinding.
-- Alien placement.
-- Basic lighting.
-- Basic fog of war.
- New language format (with Spanish and Italian languages).
- Crude Unicode support.
- Windows installer for all your lazy needs!
- Load/save infinite games.
- Screenshot, FPS Counter and Fullscreen keys.
- Any-resolution scaling.
- Support for DOS music.
- Being able to remove bases (Access Lift).
- Friendly start reminder.

Bugfixes:
- Bug in cursor rendering.
- Removed unused strings and trademarked game names.
- Craft maintenance bugs.
- Bug in text list alignment.
- Bug in bar rendering.
- Crash when a UFO intercepted by multiple craft was destroyed.
- Incorrect text in some screens.
- Some localized strings didn't fit on screen.
- Palette bugs.
- Various memory leaks.
- Being able to click on globe through windows.
- Bugs with multiple-target display.
- Various fixes to globe rendering.
- Big in text word-wrapping.
- Reorganized country/region data.
- Added OK button to Base Name window for people having trouble with Enter key.
- Removed preloading of every language (only one language is used at once, what was I thinking!).
- Bug in pixel blitting.
- Improved error handling.
- Probably many other minor fixes.

Version 0.1 (17-11-2010)
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First release!
- Geoscape:
-- Fully-controllable globe.
-- Globe details like country borders and names.
-- Day/night effect.
-- Initial base placement.
-- Basic UFO spawning and detection.
-- Craft interception with fuel consumption and basic dogfights.
-- Craft repairing/refuelling/rearming.
-- Funding overview.
-- Monthly funding.
-- Scroll-wheel support.
- Basescape:
-- Full base view with facilities.
-- Building new bases with access lift placement.
-- Base information.
-- Base stores.
-- Soldier stats (with randomly generated soldiers).
-- Craft info and equipping.
-- Facility building/removal.
-- Scroll-wheel support.