The Pioneer team are pleased to announce the availability of Pioneer alpha 10. Pioneer is a space adventure game set in the Milky Way galaxy at the turn of the 31st century.
Downloads are available from the download page.
Changelog for Alpha 10:
- Over 1200 real stars
- Supergiant stars
- Many new and more complex terrains
- Nearby ship and firing alerts
- Bulk freight ships outside starports
- More station backgrounds
- Mac OS X port
- Prettier background stars and hyperspace effects
- Reworked hyperspace ranges and durations
- Wide variation of faces in bulletin board ads
- Combat AI will give chase if the target tries to escape
- Velocity measured relative to the frame rather than the target
- Improved targetting squares and velocity indicators
- Ships and other small objects not shown beyond a certain range
- Unguided missiles work again
- Option to invert mouse look
- Rewritten Lua module API (with documentation!)
- Hundreds of bugfixes and code cleanups
