Milestone 1.28b STABLE Released!

[Chris]

This is an update for the default Steam / GOG / Epic branches that contains all the fixes from versions 1.26 to 1.28 which have been tested on the Experimental build.

The combined changelogs are shown below:

Gameplay:

• Using shot preview move (Ctrl+Shift) no longer causes significant performance problems.
• Various smaller performance updates to both strategy and tactical layer (although these are unlikely to be noticable in an Experimental build due to the extra logging reducing overall performance)
• Added a "mission briefing" button to the Geoscape info panel for a tactical mission, which shows you the mission briefing on the strategy layer.
• Cleaner SMGs and Cleaner Accelerated Rifles are now recoverable and usable (by popular demand).
• The intro cinematic and the game mechanic popups are now enabled at the start of each campaign, regardless of whether the tutorial is enabled or not.
• Xenonaut Sentry Guns can now open doors, but are unable to crush objects.
• Reduced the spawn rate of Cleaner anomalies at the start of the game.
• Tooltips have been added for the various stat columns on the Soldier Recruitment panel.
• Snowmobiles should now explode when destroyed.
• Stalker Stealth Armour now displays as Gas Immune in Xenopedia.
• When hovering the cursor over the base icons in the top right, the base name is now displayed instantly rather than after a short delay.
• When hovering the cursor over a soldier in the vertical list on the dropship soldier arrangement screen, the popup showing their face / equipment is now show instantly rather than after a short delay.

Key Fixes:

• Fixed a bug where the day 180 "Content Complete" popup was not being shown, and the game loss conditions were not triggering if you lost enough regions.
• Fixed a crash that could occur if you tried to begin a crash site mission when there was a wreckage site also present on the Geoscape.
• Fixed a bug that could cause multiple popups to spawn when intercepting UFOs or sending a dropship to a tactical mission. In both cases this could cause crashes.
• Fixed a crash that could sometimes occur during the alien turn if the aliens were using hovering units like Servitors.
• Fixed two rare crashes that could occur in the Soldier Equip pool due to corrupted Kickstarter backer soldiers.
• Fixed a rare crash that could occur if you built over 50 planes.

General Fixes:

• It's no longer possible to find undiscovered Cleaner Cells / Bases / etc by clicking on a UFO or mission that has spawned near to where they are hidden.
• Fixed grenades / aircraft missiles not properly upgrading if you skip the Alenium project and go straight for Fusion.
• Aircraft will now start to immediately repair Armour after being upgraded.
• Fixed the tactical soldier inventory incorrectly charging TU for you to pick an item up and then put it back in the same spot.
• Fixed the tactical soldier inventory incorrectly forgetting to charge TU if you moved the same item multiple times.
• TU costs for abilities are now rounded up rather than down. This fixed some odd situations where it was occasionally better to have fewer TU.
• It should no longer be possible to use a jetpack to fly between rooms in the Alien Base, or to jetpack through the roof of the Dragonfly dropship.
• Fixed an issue where it was not possible to redirect a dropship in flight to a landed UFO site.
• MARS vehicles now correctly display their names in the tactical combat.
• Disabled the day 300 Orbital Bombardment research report (which wasn't supposed to be in the game).
• Psyon VIP on Cleaner Cell missions no longer reports recovering both a Stunned Psyon and a Cleaner VIP if captured alive.
• Stalker Stealth Armour no longer shows the hair of soldiers floating inside their helmet.
• Dead Cyberdrones should no longer appear to be alive again after loading a save.
• Fixed some terrain objects in the Xenonaut base showing a bright pink error texture when destroyed.
• Fixed the Boreal sawmill building roofs so they correctly disappear if destroyed.
• Fixed typos in the strategy tutorial, Frag Grenade tooltip, and Ballistic Weapons and Fighter Datacore research text.
• Fixed the Engineering recruit panel having tooltips referring to scientists instead of engineers.
• Fixed a text overflow issue in the soldier memorial screen.
• Cleaner ballistic rifles no longer have an additional 5-round burst.
• Bomber UFO no longer incorrectly referred to as "medum-size" in Xenopedia.
• HEVY now displays its damage type as Thermal on tooltips.
• Tactical Inventory no longer incorrectly refers to the Tactical Vest as the Belt.
• Rush replace on aircraft now correctly costs the listed amount of money.
• Fixed an issue where you could drag any type of ammo onto any weapon on the Soldier Equip screen and it would accept it.
• MARS now correctly displays its name in the tactical combat.
• Fixed some Xenopedia / tooltip typos.

[B0ne]

Hello. Thank you for your wonderful work. Epic so far 1.25. 

Not updated to Epic. Can you solve this problem?

Edited August 1, 2023 by B0ne