changed:

• enemy phoenix is now immune to counter attacks
• changed EN upgrades to go in units of 5 (thanks ledabot)
• fixed not being able to use a weapon because game didn't check for cost upgrades when deciding when a button is clickable
• accuracy upgrades affect a weapons base accuracy, which overall makes these upgrades more effective and easier to understand.
• added a cover mechanic. Asteroids can be spawned in a battle that will have a chance of blocking attacks aimed at a unit on the same cell; until the asteroid is destroyed.
• rewrote buff code to make it neater and more flexible
• stealth is now fully auto self-cast. adding more skills like this will be easy.
• rewrote weapon button display code to be neater. this technique will be useful rewriting ship display code.
• rewrote selection code so it's neater and more rugged. been wanting to do that for a long time
• pretty massive rewrite of ship display code. much much less messy now. I don't think I managed to make it more efficient though, regretably.

fixed:

• missiles deducting energy cost twice
• bonus menu
• not being able to load from the main menu after credits
• pulse weapons always missing on the pirate base (still only does minimal damage)
• pirate bombers can now be attacked by melee
• game crash when attacking the phoenix with the booster attached with a melee attack
• fixed flak no longer working after shooting down all the missiles in a salvo.
• player ships sometimes counter attack twice
• added 2 cruisers in mission 8 to make it harder to end the battle prematurely.

balance changes:

• vanguard cannon now costs 1500 command points
• upgrading maximum EN is significantly more expensive
• upgrading EN costs of specific weapon types is slightly less expensive (over time)
• Tactical nuclear warheads have become cheaper and more powerful. 300$ for 800 damage. recommended against (pirate) bases!
• you can only use 1 order per turn

• 3 new missions, 1 new unit and 1 new character and lots of story!
• added melee attacks and created dynamic animations for them
• blind side attacks. any unit moving right next to another unit will get counter attacked by assault type weapons
• upgrading is completely overhauled and much morefunctional
• AI slightly modified

• disabled saving/loading during the enemy turn. instead, a warning will appear.

• fixed possible crash caused by Vanguard cannon when used to kill a boss (and other units)

• darkend the background during victory screen and destroyed units don't suddenly pop up anymore

• increases size of HP and EN values in status window

• "end turn' button shows red if there are ships with full energy left. it shows green when there are none. I think a confirmation popup would be too invasive.

• fixed transition glitch at the end of mission 2

• pressing [ or ] now cycles through player ships. if you start a new game on 1.06 then the middle mouse button will also work.

• lowered the default volume of music

• right click deselects weapon or ship (new game required)

• added experimental option for edge scrolling.

• fixed crash after killing a boss
• hopefully really fixed the Vanguard crash issue
• fixed crash when clicking middle mouse while selecting an enemy
• right click exits the save menu screen
• middle click will select the sunrider if no units are selected.

• fixed bug introduced by commenting out some critical code