Game update

Some minor updates

Tank Wars: Anniversary Edition · published 9 years ago

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Happy New Year everybody!

We are still working on the networked multiplayer mode. In the meantime, we deployed some minor changes and fixes:

Feature updates

The Plasma Melter is slightly bigger now.
The Sequence Bomb doesn't come with overlapping sounds and lights anymore.
For real-time matches, an optional "action cooldown" has been introduced that can be used alternatively to or together with round/turn timers.
For classic (turn-based) matches, the turn order of the players has been improved.
The "intelligence" of AI players has been worsened.
The lights of the tanks changed from point lights to spot lights.
The calculation for the total ambient illumination intensity has been updated.
Water reflections have been updated.

Bugfixes

A bug where the match wouldn't proceed to the next round has been fixed.

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