Update notes for November 2

These are today's changes to Bravemech: The Century War, from version 0.73.527 to 0.73.551.

v0.73.551

• Fixed: Norton could wrongly flag Bravemech as a threat and delete it.
• The cause was a Windows script we used to list screen resolutions.
• The game now asks Windows directly, so that script is gone.
• Fullscreen and resolution options work the same as before.

v0.73.550

• Map tools stay inside the bottom bar on smaller screens.
• Tool labels fit their buttons; the NEW tag sits on its corner.
• Log messages wrap beside your ship card instead of getting cut off.
• Officer tips and lines no longer cover cards, tabs or charts.
• Your ship's hull and supply show once, on the ship card.

v0.73.549

• Choose your heir: a son or daughter, or which child to adopt.
• Make your heir's face as a child: it grows up with them.
• At eighteen, shape their grown-up look while skin, hair and eyes stay.
• Grown heirs show their age: lines at forty, deeper at sixty.
• Every scene and battle plays with the heir you chose.
• Each heir speaks their own recorded lines, in every voice language.
• Story contact: pick which pilot you fly before launch.
• Each pilot card shows their face and their mech.
• Your pick stays for the next fight.

v0.73.548

• Landed on a planet? Travel to objective now flies you back up.
• On a planet with no job? Press Travel back to space.
• Focus is back and cycles through every unit you own.
• After your first job, the first officer guides you to the second.
• On a controller, the orders call now starts on Accept.
• No more trip home while your next orders wait.

v0.73.547

• Repairing before a fight no longer adds an enemy ace.
• Sortie Orders: pick any squad mech to fly it yourself.
• Your pick stays for the next fight.
• Only the Commander going down ends the run.
• Chinese, Japanese and Korean text no longer shows missing-character boxes.
• The story and voice-line subtitles now use the game's own fonts.

v0.73.546

• Pilot Campaign fights now open with a contact clash.
• The clash shows who you face, then launches by itself.
• Pilot Campaign battles use the fight HUD you picked.
• The Pilot Campaign mega boss is now mech-sized and much faster.
• He fights with his own blade, rifle and lance between patterns.
• He no longer wipes a full hull in two seconds.
• The pre-battle contact screen keeps both portraits in view.
• Portraits show whole, with no box behind them.
• Every mech in the fight shows in a sliding strip.
• Your RQ shows big beside the repair buttons.
• Space ends the week on the keyboard.

v0.73.545

• The title now shows an Early Access note beside the patch notes.
• Found something broken? Its Discord button takes you straight to us.
• On a controller, A on a mech card now jumps to Begin.
• START begins the campaign with the mech under the cursor.
• On Your File, LB and RB jump between sections.
• Left and right now stay in their row on Your File.
• Fixed a crash when a planet fight started beside your own convoy.

v0.73.543

• Story voices and battle voices can now use different languages.
• Want Japanese battles with an English story? Pick both on first launch.
• Settings › Audio now has a Story voices and a Battle voices group.
• Thanks to the Discord player who asked for this!

v0.73.542

• Co-op: guests in your own mechs now hit as hard as P1.
• Co-op: guests on loaner mechs still deal 15% less damage.
• Century: a friend pressing Start mid-fight joins the next fight.

v0.73.541

• Map pieces stand on solid coloured hexes, with no white glare.

v0.73.540

• Every mech on the Sector map now stands the same height.
• Mechs on the map are smaller, so each fits its hex.
• A squad shows all its mechs together in one hex.
• Escort fights no longer put target rings on the finish line.

v0.73.539

• Co-op: a downed player's health plate now clears off the screen.
• Co-op: each player's pad now rumbles for their own mech.
• Co-op: lock labels on enemies side by side no longer overlap.
• Co-op: when P1 falls, the camera frames the next player's lock.

v0.73.538

• Some jobs now run out in 1-3 weeks and pay 50% more.
• Two strike groups can hit your places in the same week.
• New job: keep a mech on a marked hex for three weeks.
• New job: catch a raider before it cuts a port's supply.
• Job distances and deadlines now follow your ship's real route.

v0.73.537

• Support mechs now carry a shield, as strong as a buster's.

v0.73.535

• Pieces with no actions left now darken and show an E.

v0.73.534

• Mechs can now attack from range: heavies reach 4 hexes.
• You can only attack what your mechs or ship can see.
• A ranged attack is one squad against one, for 12 seconds.
• Close fights let you pick which neighbors join in.
• Enemies bring in their own neighbors to close fights.
• Heavies move slowest; busters in jet mode move fastest.
• Supports can now repair your mechs and ship on the map.
• A mech lost far from your ship stays as a wreck.
• Reach a wreck with your ship within two weeks to recover it.
• Pirates will race you to your wrecks.
• Pilots without a part in the story can now die.
• The opening ace now breaks off sooner.
• Your ship moves 3 hexes a week on the Sector.

v0.73.533

• Changing parts in the face editor keeps the cursor on your pick.
• In the face editor, A no longer skips to the next step.
• The title menu now loops cleanly in every direction on a controller.
• LT and RT browse the patch notes, and VIEW opens them all.

v0.73.532

• The Zenith Frame's beam and held fire have reworked animations.

v0.73.530

• Settings has seven tabs now, sorted by what each setting does.
• The right stick now zooms the map all the way out.
• Zoomed out, a held D-pad moves the cursor several hexes.
• The left stick moves faster too, the further out you zoom.
• The star map now follows your cursor when you zoom in.
• Switching hangar stations no longer drops a card over the panel.

v0.73.529

• The contact plate's buttons fit again, on two rows.
• Minimal layout: Objectives now sits under your current objective.
• The war record no longer says nobody scored when your ship did.

v0.73.528

• Low hull or out of ammo? An arrow on your mech points to the dock.
• In local co-op, each pilot gets their own dock arrow.

v0.73.527

• The co-op lobby now shows your commander's name, not a stand-in.
• A player's Controls button opens straight on their own controls.
• Enemy name boxes no longer wrap around the other players' tags.
• Co-op guests can now call their ship home to repair or dock.
• A guest's pad no longer grabs P1's menus by accident.
• Guests stay with the carrier P1 steers, not an escort ship.

Thank you for playing, and please keep telling us what you think in the Discussions.