Our labs have completed their latest research and Element v1.5 'Pulsar' is available now!
This update includes a new Supply Drone that can be used to fetch bonus Supply Crates appearing on the surface and in orbit. To accommodate the Supply Drone, the 'Repair' menu has now become a 'Drone' menu. The Drone menu will context-sensitively launch a Supply Drone or a Repair Drone depending on if your current target is a Supply Crate or one of your units in need of repair.
We have also added voice control input for Windows 10. This is considered experimental and we are still working on adding some UI to manage the preference. If you enable your microphone you should be able to use the following English voice commands in-game;
Menu Navigation
Menu Actions
Game Commands
The voice control cannot be too rushed so try pausing a little between instructions. The confidence level for word recognition is set quite low in this release so it might confuse your commands now and again. Depending on feedback, we may add more commands to fully control the camera or remove the feature if it's not that usable. Please let us know how well it works for you.
There are a lot of other changes under the hood in this release too, including major updates to Unity, and updates to other support libraries for Steam, input, sound, image effects, text rendering, data, and analytics.
Please let us know what you think - leave reviews, start a thread or leave a comment in the discussion forums, or tweet @flightlessnz.
Enjoy.
cheers,
Greg & John
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