18th April 2012

• Brand new website design from Michael Heald for www.minerwars.com!

23rd March 2012, Public Build 1.078.019 and Demo Version

23rd March 2012, Test Build, 1.078.019

• Numerous bugfixes and optimizations
• First mission updated and balanced.

10th February, Test Build, 1.077.003

New or updated features:

• Extension to the first mission (destuction of generators)
• HUD notifications for damage, incoming enemy, solar flare, low fuel.
• New faction-specific prefabs for Russia, China and Fourth Reich.
• Prefab and missile explosions now damage all objects nearby (area damage).
• New server code – you need to connect to our server only when loading a mission or checkpoint or saving/loading your sector in the editor - other than that, you can stay offline.
• Many optimizations, minor improvements and fixes.

19th January, Test Build, 01.075.010

New features:

• Ore detector (radar upgrade for detection of various ores and minerals)
• Improved auto-updater for faster downloads (enhanced data compression)
• Solar map allows for easier long-distance travels
• Improved snap points in editor (perspective, resizing, selection of multiple prefabs)
• Added several basic functions to foundation factory (create prefabs from resources)
• Journal screen / Quest-log (overview of guests, global events like political issues etc.)
• New 3D models for building prefabs: temple, hospital, church, recycler, hydroponic farm, biological facility.
• Minor 3D renderer improvements (added glare for light sources)
• Fixed harvester device + numerous other minor fixes

9th January, Test Build, 01.074.006

10th January, Public Build, 01.074.006

Major Editor Update:

• Massive improvements to editor (build your stations from prefab modules; save up to 27 sectors; hundreds of ready-made prefabs; snap points for easier manipulation with objects; improved voxel hand; selection groups and more)
• Importing user-made 3D models
• Fully destructible prefabs - blow them out!
• Survival gameplay - keep an eye on fuel and electricity levels
• Inventory screen
• Foundation factory - construct prefabs and place them in in-game builder
• Radar detectors, radar jammer - no-one will hear you cry
• Aiming helper
• Builder mode
• New particle effects (explosions, sparks, smoke etc.)
• Numerous fixes and minor changes

29th November, Test Build, 01.000.061

Minor Improvements and Fixes

17th November, Test Build, 01.000.060

New features:
• P2P Downloader
• Minor tweaks, improvements and fixes

8th November, Test Build, 01.000.059

New features:
• Improved editor GUI, more intuitive controls, toolbars, tree view.
• Updated textures and ship models.
• New asteroid models.
• New prefabs (buildings, bridges, beams).
• Improved spotlight shadows.
• Voxel optimizations and blending.
• Improved light effects (HDR+glare).

25th October, Public Build 01.000.056 and Demo Version
18th October, Test Build, 01.000.056

New game and editor features:
• Modular mothership weapons - large weapons and turrets that can aim and shoot at enemy!
• Third person camera (attached behind your spaceship).
• Many new prefabs for the game and editor – tunnels, chambers, armor, rooms.
• Special prefab types – lights, kinematic prefabs (doors).
• 12 new playable space ships (that means 22 playable space ships in the current build).
• Improved mouse and keyboard controls, allowing for more intuitive gameplay.
• Improved and fixed explosions with more debris.
• Holographic semi-transparent markers to show true scale proportions of the in-game objects (size of a ship, man etc.) – apart of their practical function, they look great, especially with the implemented HDR and emissive textures.
• Many other fixes and enhancements.

New rendering engine features:
• Image-Based Anti-Aliasing (FXAA).
• Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (SSAO).
• Real spot lights (ship reflectors) with shadows.
• Sun light with much better precision.
• HDR, environmental textures, bloom/blur.
• Multiple monitor support.

31th August Public Build 01.000.053 and Demo Version
30th August Test Build 01.000.053:

First release after 8 month of silence!

The in-game editor implemented and hudreds of prefab modules available.

New game and editor features:
• Completely new GUI including lots of cool HUD icons.
• New player weapons.
• Improved AI (added waypoints, guard mode, more realistic combat behavior).
• New physics engine with multi-core optimizations.

New rendering engine features:
• Image Space LOD (Level of Detail) – seamless LOD with no popping artifacts.
• Deferred rendering with unlimited light sources.
• Dynamic shadows / Cascade Shadow Maps (CSMs) with blended cascades.
• Improved ship lighting from engine thrusts.
• Upgraded shaders, looking even more gorgeous.
• New render quality setting - EXTREME – designed to take advantage of newer hardware.