xREL.v3

May 7, 2015
     
    Resolved UI display lag issue seen most severely in Research menu.
     
May 6, 2015
     
Campaign
     
    [Homeworld 1 Remastered] Fixed an issue where Mission 09 could not be completed due to an autosaving issue.
    [Homeworld 1 Remastered] Fixed Russian text issue seen in Mission02
    [Homeworld 1 Remastered] Fixed sensors disk issue in Mission 15
    [Homeworld 1 Remastered] Cryotrays can be healed during Mission 03
    [Homeworld 2 Remastered] Resource containers no longer float near the mothership when it disembarks during Mission 01
    [Homeworld 2 Remastered] Homeworld Music will now play properly during Mission 12 and 14 cinematics
    Fixed engine glows on Kadesh Multibeam Frigate and Mothership
     
General
     
    Playing animatics from main menu will now have proper subtitles
    Vaygr laser corvette and minelayer icons fixed
    Background pinching fixed in various maps. (Was much more visible depending on windows gamma settings.)
    Fixed issue where if you cleared your progress, mission 01 wouldn’t be selected which would cause a crash when trying to launch.
    Research and Build menus are not toggled unless units are available
    Alt-T and Alt-W are appropriately ignored as menu shortcuts for Kushan
    Top left UI no longer blocks mouse clicks
    Key bindings no longer accumulate/double up when applied to the main menu and in-game menu
    Key bindings no longer infinitely accumulate in the settings file due to edits
    No longer display the custom command energy bar if usage is not greater than zero
    A certain asteroid no longer blows up resource collectors unexpectedly
    Game will no longer crash when the player repeatedly changes any in-game settings via the Options menu
    Fixed nav lights on the Kushan Support Frigate
    Users will no longer get stuck “Downloading Content” when playing custom maps
    Fixed tiny menu button text at 4K resolutions
    Steam button now disabled if not connected to Steam
    Fixed more out of sync issues
    HW1 Classic - Credits scale to all resolutions available in Classic resolution menu
 
Additions
     
    Ship icons updated to have colors similar to the original HW2 icons to help quickly identify which ships you have selected
    Message appears in chat when player is defeated or surrenders and chat icon on left flashes to notify of messaging
    Message appears in chat after a player leaves a game
    Shift-Clicking ships in the build menu will now queue up 5 ships. (HW1 feature)
    Drag resizing of build and launch menu improved
    Optimized UI text rendering
     
Balance
     
    Vaygr resourcing paths moved closer to ship
    Resource collectors can now be captured while they are harvesting an asteroid in multiplayer
    Carriers and motherships have additional entry and docking paths to more efficiently build/dock units, greatly reducing the giant escalator queue
    Removed Repair Corvette regen times and reduced health from HW1 standard 1200 to 600 to be more in line with other corvettes
    Added the healing beam to HW1 repair ships
    Gravwell Generators now destroy themselves after their power bar is depleted
    Added support for armor class multipliers for kamikaze damage
    Missiles no longer miss and do double damage
    Circle strafe attack style with target facing added
     
Mods
     
    Added support for locale-only mods in Classic and Remastered. Locale mods are mulitplayer safe.
    Badge-only mods are now supported. (Multiplayer safe)
    Old Badge mods should be converted to this new type of mod to work properly.
    Added support for “cursors” mods
    Added minShrink property to text to allow for better scaling at various resolutions
    Removed some log spam
    Added OnItemSelect lua hooks for NewDropDownListBox
    UI script can now ask for a control’s custom values to store and retrieve vars
    Added ability for LUA to get the name of the current map that is loaded (getCurrentLevelName())
    Added concept of “healing” damage