Multiplayer and Liv Launch

In probably the most anticipated release that Starblazer has had, Multiplayer is officially live and active. It's complete with Matchmaking as well as a Custom Games mode that makes it possible to play with your friends. Please encourage someone you know to check out the game during one of our many sales and play a round with you!

In this update, we also included support for Liv - mixed reality game recording. Now you can stream yourself real-time playing Starblazer, whether you're smashing ships, chatting with Orbit, or crushing the competition in Multiplayer.
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Tweaks:

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• If someone bails on a Multiplayer game, the person left in the game is awarded a victory. Boo!! No rage quitting!
• The AI will navigate around pillars and obstacles a little more smoothly.
• Enemy fleet boundaries now appear red during selection period to differentiate the two teams.
• Fleet selection buttons do not show up over the enemy's fleet bounds and area.
• We added back the fireworks at the end of a victory. Sorry that you all missed those! They're back now.
• You can now deselect the Builder from your Cosmic Controller, just like the other ships.
• There is UI during a game screen to quit mid-match on Arcade mode.
• In Arcade Mode, the ships will always be blue (allies) and red (enemies).
• Ships automatically fire back at an attacker if provoked.
• The Bruiser's buckshot radius is increased so that it can attack ships directly in the middle of it.
• The blast radius of the Fighter was also enlarged to catch the splitters that were slipping in between the cannons.
• The Start Menu will appear further away from the user's face so it's less obtrusive.

Bug Fixes:

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• If all of the assets were not properly loaded in Arcade Mode, then the user is not able to exit a game.
• In some cases, a mysterious third fleet is accidentally spawned in a matchmaking game. As cool as it sounds (Pirates, future DLC?), this was not good for gameplay.
• In multiplayer, the names of the two competitive players were not syncing across the network on the Scoreboard.
• There was a chance that the players could spawn on top of each other in Multiplayer. Now the spawn loading is more methodical and this can't happen.
• Outside users can no longer accidentally join a game that has already ended.
• Canceling a search for a multiplayer game was leaving it open. Now the player fully leaves the newly created room.
• Arcade UI will now adapt to any monitor size.
• Player was unable to quit to Start screen after changing from Arcade Mode to Full Mode.
• The ship building pedestal was out of range of the collision box in Fleetbuilder and blowing up people's ships. Boom.
• Fighter hologram was showing up backwards in fleet selection.
• The keyboard UI was layered behind the rest of the menu elements in Lobby.
• There was some shenanigans where selecting two different menu items in a row will break the loading process. Only one can be selected and loaded now.
• Spamming the load button could kill the loading process.
• Builders weren't showing up for the main player in Arcade Mode.
• Capturing the Flagship while an enemy seeker is active was causing a system crash.
• The sun boundary on Icarus was too unrealistically large.
• The Bruisers could not attack and destroy a Builder if approaching from the bottom diagonal angle.
• Left hand was missing a laser pointer on the Start menu.

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