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Player Ships
 - Fixed a little glitch in Wingblade's missile system
 - Improvements to Skull player ship
	Skull sprite scaled down 25%
	Rear lasers - blue (Skull), green (Azuris)
 - Player-2 ship: Sylph, major reconstruction:
	3x primary and secondary weapons:
	    Guns improved, lasers added
	    Guided missiles and positron beam added
	Rear-firing guns
	Improved instrumentation
	Shields and afterburners
 - X-Fighter multiplayer mode prototype/alpha

Enemies
 - Improve tank <-> turret matching logic
 - Deathball logic improved
 - Additional colour variants for Alliance construction drones ...

Menus
 - Main menu ship preview logic improved
 - Menu colour changeable via options menu

Runtime
 - Vsync enabled by default

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Player Ships
 - Dynamic adjustment to Braincom sprite scaling during Dai-X junction to accommodate 25% downscale of sprite.
 - Dai-X fighter missiles reinstated as actual missiles, rather than homing lasers
 - Dai-X fighter 'boosters', based on Blitzkrieg Dai-X
	(Collect white boost power-up).
 - Further improvements to Dai-X system
 - Engine alpha channel for all player ships
 - Wingblade mode change animations improved
 - Fixed a few glitches with The Skull

Player Weapons
 - Dai-X black hole ripper improved:
	Shoulder turrets on launchers both work correctly.
	Long-press fires 2 (Z) to fire black hole bomb, (if equipped).
	Automatically selects pulse guns after firing via selected mode
 - Special weapon overlay for X-Bomber weapons:
	ADEN cannons, EM napalm, Gunboys
 - Dai-X booster sprite and logic improved
 - Booster docking and animation logic improved
 - Guided weapon logic accommodates enemies with outlying hot spots.
 - Minor delay applied to scalar mass driver (stage 2 and 3) reloading, automatic fire cycle added
 - Gunboys' firing logic and animations improved
 - Dai-X fighter special weapons toned down, upgrade power-ups made more effective

Enemies
 - Hotspots fixed on enemy Astrowing fighter
 - Improvements to order of operations when enemies destroyed
 - Head added to L14 boss Death-X

Level-specific
 - L7 - Boss weapon logic improved
 - L9 - Improvements to sea environment
 - L8 and 9 - Gradients to blend background changes
 - L11 - background textures and underwater particles improved
 - L15 - Countdown loops correctly after time limit reached
 - L16 - Grey attack cruiser variant logic

System
 - Guest enemy system: spawn rates and randomisation tweaked
 - Darkness/opacity of shadows reduced
 - Initial health boost for enemy missiles, to inhibit chain-destroy on launch.
 - Warning/timer ring animation improved
 - Weird glitch in guest enemy system fixed
 - HUD indicates airstrike, F-01 and reserve player ship statuses.
 - Secondary weapon ammo counter correct colour for 'original' Dai-X and fighters

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Player Ships
 - Wingblade player ship improved in many areas
 - X-Bomber Prototype turrets fire yellow tracers, rather than blue.
 - X-Bomber neck lasers improved

Level-Specific
 - L16 reactor progressed

Player Weapons
 - Dai-X quantum blaster - unselected/beam mode re-worked
 - Dai-X pulse gun shots travel faster.
 - Dai-X arc sabre weapon:
	creates damage particles on target enemies
	consumes ammunition when no enemy present

Gameplay
 - Improvements to Dai-X junction and control mapping systems
 - Improvements to shield and damage indication systems
 - Hit boxes reshaped on Dai-X fighters
 - Bug fixed that occurs when a Dai-X fighter is destroyed
 - Pulse guns selected by default when returning to X-Bomber from Dai-X

Graphics and General
 - Enemy lightning weapon collision effect logic and appearance improved
 - Alpha channel added to power-up sprites
 - Pause button moved to pause/break key

Menus
 - Main menu colour change option - (WIP)
 - Flashing cursor added to high score menu, to make the name input field more apparent.

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X-Bomber Original Player Ship  
(Closer in some ways to the one in the show)
 - Pulse-fire neck lasers with additional sound effect, kindly provided by BladeZ
 - Dai-X - Yellow x-tracer (ep19)
 - Dai-X - Chest cannons revised
 - Dai-X New mega missile detonation mode (spiral incendiary)

General
 - Clickteam Fusion runtime updated from 293.10 to 295.10
 - Player searchlights (for night mode etc.) implemented
 - X-Bomber crew no longer chatter when playing as The Skull
 - 'Points of interest' objects improved

Player Weapons
 - New chest cannon mode for default Dai-X (high-velocity homing)
 - Dai-X pulse gun reverted to v0.84e configuration (more accurate to show), as well as primary weapon cycling behaviour
 - Braincom vulcan guns and cluster bombs revised
 - Graphical bug fixed on Quantum Blaster special weapon charge particle effect
 - Interesting positioning/graphical glitch fixed on ODIN/THOR boosters

Mission-specific
 - L6-10 - Glitch with X-Bomber pulse gun muzzle flash colour fixed
 - L6 - FG hologram effects further improved
 - L15 - Battlecruiser shield overlay
 - L16 - Reactor beam weapons fixed, core sprite added

Mission Briefings
 - Solar system map generates faster
 - Interesting glitch with map labelling fixed
 - Adding further DVD screengrab images to mission briefings ...

Main Menu
 - Ship selector in main menu displays images of player ships
 - Main menu mini-map looks a bit more map-like

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Mission 6
 - Player missiles and turrets now track cloaked enemies, once revealed by collecting 20 adaptive camoflage debris fragments.
 - Asteroid with crashed attacker type astrofighter added 2-minute mark
	Hover over it to investigate for points bonus.

Enemies
 - Deathball improved
 - Deathball 2 improved
 - Tank turret pairing logic improved
 - Dust clouds for larger ground vehicles

Mission Briefings
 - Mission 16 briefing complete
 - Mission 15 briefing almost complete

Level 16
 - Omega laser activates during approach
 - Dock area expanded with new background graphics, green heavy bombers and minelayers

Level 16 Boss
 - Overall graphics improved
 - Segment ordering improved substantially, especially regarding the shield ship as it docks and undocks
 - Head animations and weapon cycles improved

Special Weapons
 - Special weapons pod - Dai-X plasma grenade launcher improved
 - RFSG - side shots now orange, rather than red
 - Quantum blaster - retested

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Level 16
 - Boss progressed with sprites improved
 - Reactor shutdown sequence improved
 - Escape sequence improved
Level 11
 - Underwater light rays improved
Level 6
 - Enemy sprites, including FG device improved
 - FG holograms illuminated by player/ally weapons
Level 7
 - Ending improved
 - Skull non-player logic improved

Weapons
 - Plasma cannon effects and collisions improved
 - Scalar mass driver effects improved
 - Converging laser torpedo graphics and sound improved, recoil effect re-added for phase 1
 - Dai-X homing laser guidance logic improved
 - Dai-X arc sabre texture improved

General
 - Enemy beam weapon effects improved
 - Laser torpedo muzzle glows
 - Asteroid dust trails
 - Illumination on various ships
 - Dialog system improved with new character images
 - Menu map finished
 - Documentation improved

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Level 16
 - Black cloud transition (space => fortress exterior) improved 
 - Fortress exterior defences complete: 12.29
	5-tube missile launcher
	Energy net launcher
	Fighter launch tunnel
 - Drone hall improved with moving drone magazines 2020.07.06
 - High security area and reactor logic improved
 - Improved multi-level background layering
 - Fixed some graphical glitches relating to the fortress interior environment

Level 9
 - Introductory, coastal phase improved

Level 0
Object placement randomised

General
 - Bomber-X comic book Alliance carriers and fighters introduced as 'guest enemies'
 - WingBlade weapons fixed/improved

Mission Briefings
 - Mission environment display 2020.06.17

Engine
 - Sync of ground objects with terrain further improved
 - Fix applied to allow the game to run smoothly under new Fusion runtimes 2020.08.23

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Level 16
 - Interior environment graphics   2
 - Reactor progressed
 - Power transfer area progressed

Level 8
 - lots of bolts tightened

New Special Weapon
 - Dai-X #9; arc sabre   3

Updated Special Weapons
 - X-Bomber #8; Gunboy   1
	- firing cycle/animation improved
 - Dai-X #2; lock-on lightning
	- improved sprites
	- smoother beam handover between lock-on and manual modes
 - Dai-X #4; plasma grenade launchers
	- graphics improved

Player ships
 - Various improvements to Dai-X, including docking sequence
 - Shield bubble displays properly on all player ships when player hit.
HUD
 - Score display and performance counters restored, slight re-configuration

	1. 2020.05.13
	2. 2020.05.20
	3. 2020.06.03

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Level 16 (final level) substantially progressed:
 - Cargo block exchange graphics upgraded 1
 - Drone storage hall
 - Deathballs on rails
 - Death-X Variable type boss sprites improved
 - High security area 2
 - Space environment and transition to fortress exterior improved 3
 - Cruise missile vapour trail fixed, engine glow added
 - Energy net behaviour and textures improved
 - 'Eye' laser emplacement graphics improved
 - Main reactor 90% finished 4

Level 15
 - Battlecruiser damage indication improved 2

Engine
 - Terrain and ground-object handling improved 2
 - Object ordering
 - Scorekeeping improved
 - Messages subsystem - fixes and improvements 3
 - Enemy weapons improved, including smart laser
 - Music engine improved

Briefings
 - GUI improved; colour matches HUD of selected player ship 2
 - L16 briefing images added 3

Menu
 - various fixes, including updater 2

1. 2020.04.08
2. 2020.04.15
3. 2020.04.22
4. 2020.04.29

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Missions
 - Handling of weapon system activation improved in training mission

General
 - Briefing screen upgraded
 - Astrofighter carriers release astrofighters during levels - partial
 - Vapour and smoke trail performance improved
 - Dust particle system version 4
 - Automatic Dai-X junction (Hold shift).
 - Quantum blaster mechanics improved
 - Dialogue system improved for better readability
 - In-game music handling skips unplayable files.
 - fixed event ordering glitch, when friendly Astrofighters are destroyed

Weapons
 - Quantum blaster (X-Bomber special weapon) graphics updated
 - Enemy smart mine graphics improved

This version is a significantly larger download than previous versions due to the increased amount of music and external PNG briefing images.
These files will be slimmed down for the next version.

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Missions
- 1. Superfighter miniboss
- 6. Cloaked enemy effects improved
- 8. Volcanoes
- 10. Add large artefact enemies, improve sun background layering
- Levels 7 and 10; re-balanced; mini power-ups removed

Gameplay
- Player shields (press C) re-balanced and available on all player ships

Weapons
- Finish X-Bomber guided missiles
- Muzzle flash and impact effects phase 2; laser torpedoes etc.
- X-Bomber turrets and gunboys upgraded
- Rotator spreadgun rewritten with variable bullet speed
- Dai-X Fighter secondary weapons and ammo handling improved
- Several bullets merged and re-sprited
- Laser sabre upgraded - causes more damage after every beam reflection
- Lightning weapons improved

Audio
- Sound effects updated
- Music playback glitches fixed
- Soundtrack refreshed

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Player Weapons
- Wildfire missiles graphically improved with launch clouds and engine glow
- Wingblade and homing lasers functionally and graphically improved
- Change BrainCom and Legtrax special weapons
- Launch clouds, improved logic and graphics for plasma grenades

System
- Improved and unified player missile guidance and turret targetting system
- Main battle tank 'turret sharing' logic and movement
- Dialogue: shields and fighter megabombs
- Realtime rotation on more objects; 6MB shaved off project filesize

Graphics
- Mission 9 water texture improved - now more 'ocean' and less 'swimming pool'
- Check Shockwaves on all bosses

Gameplay
- Mission 4: Improve planet and explosion sequence
- Mission 16: Colour-scheme change on mid-level boss

User Interface
- Options menu streamlined
- Logic and graphical changes to main menu

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New Enemy - Alliance Ground Attack Drone (appears in Mission 06)

Weapons
- Changed Dai-X mega missiles to much cooler nukes
- Dai-X black hole missile special weapon improved
- Improved Dai-X Fighter special weapon logic; especially MainBody - X-Bomber guided missile homing logic improved to engage multiple targets simultaneously

Gameplay
- Automatic power transfer improved to take account of the extra boost from 50% (gold) and 100% (purple) power-ups.
- Alliance astrofighter, carrier and transport spawning logic simplified and improved.
- Manual power transfer efficiency increased from 50 to 75%
- Spawning for various things (including enemy transports and power-ups) improved.

Mission Updates
- Mission 15 - Battlecruiser upgrade - Phase 2
- Mission 11 - Terrain speed altered
- Mission 08 - Stage 3 rebuilt
- Mission 00 - Training mission updated

Graphics
- Various missile sprites improved (alpha-blend, real-time rotation, scaling)
- Drop shadows v4

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System
- Migration from Multimedia Fusion 2 to Clickteam Fusion 2.5 runtime
- 'Night mode' enabled and other consistency improvements in mission 11
- 'No instruments mode' available in options menu

Gameplay
- Dai-X special weapon; Quantum Buster rebalanced with new features and graphics
- Mission 11 underwater wingmen added

Graphics
- Bullet muzzle flashes and impact animations
- Dai-X Special Weapon 3; RFSG, and 4; plasma grenades improved
- Engine glow and afterburn for Booster Packs
- Underwater bubble particles and other mission 11 graphics improved
- Mission 9 - stage 1 graphics improved

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Note: Press and hold Select 1 (Shift, by default) to transform to Dai-X.
Select 2 is now Ctrl by default, rather than \,

System
- Joystick/gamepad button mapping
- Online and local high-score systems improved
- Skull missile reloading fixed

Gameplay
- Mission 15 battlecruiser improved
- DRAGOON weapon improved
- Neutralaser enemy weapon prototype
- Lack of power-up bunkers in mission 3 fixed

Graphical
- Power-up glow
- Boss 5 graphics improved

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Guest Ally: Impala Star Cruiser (credit: Brad Smith)

Gameplay
- GunBoy special weapon improved - More than 8 can be deployed.
- WingMan movement logic improved - ADEN Cannon now equally effective against all enemies

Graphics
- Lighting overlay improved and colour-coded full-screen glow displayed when collecting power-ups
- Shields, afterburners and plasma missiles improved
- Variable engine glow

System
- Background scrolling logic improved
- Player speed handicap added to allow engine-disabling enemy weapons
- Airstrike logic simplified and improved - Tap A to summon Airstrike. Hold A to summon F-Zero One.

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- In-Game Menu Resume feature improved
- Graphics, including improved DeathBall flamethrower and electroshock
- LegTrax Special Weapon improved
- The Skull Player Ship asset-handling improved ^12.14
- Alliance Fighter and Carrier logic improved so that they can attack Player from bottom of screen

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WingBlade and The Skull Player Ships ^11.13 available in all levels via upgraded Mission Selector ^11.01
- New WingBlade Weapons: Beam cannons, Deflector shield (Hold C), Rear-firing guns, Guided and plasma missiles ^10.04
- Added in-flight and docking animations to WingBlade ^11.13

F-01 System - Destroy 1,000 enemies and F-01 (Lamia) from the show will help you out if you hold "Airstrike" (default: A) for 1 second. 10.08

Music Indexing - Game scans for audio files in the "/mp3" folder and plays them in-game.^01.17

Performance and Stability Optimisation
- Rebuilt all Mission and Briefing frames ^12.26 � boosts performance and clears 'ghost' and other objects ^12.14
- Improved smoke/vapour trail and dust performance ^11.21
- Extensive object consolidation, Fixes for a few tricky problems

Graphics
- Dynamic soft-shadow engine ^12.02
- Random, parallaxing mountain engine ^02.07
- New craters
- Randomising Nebula object, used in Mission 14 10.08
- lots of updated sprites (w/ alpha-channels) and tweaks ^08.30
- New Blender logo by Felice ^10.04
- Added heat haze to M10 and waves to M09 water ^06.29
- Plasma Bomb shots changed from yellow to green ^11.13

Enemy and Hazards
- Unified Attack Cruiser with updated animations and dynamic damage indication ^10.14, Improved DeathBall, Improved Asteroid logic ^11.01
- Space Fortress laser battery 06.29

User Interface
- HUD Damage gauges stick to multiple enemies ^12.02
- Training mission instructions reflect assigned keys, not defaults ^07.05
- Embedded fonts improved and fully tested
- Mission Briefing graphics revised ^01.17

'Player invincibility bug' linked to Fighter Special Weapon level fixed ^11.13

Mission 16 Preview expanded With midway-boss preview 01.16

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Mission 14: The Last Stand - Complete with Boss and Mission 16 Preview, including ...
- Death-X - Remote Weapons Type Boss ^04.30
- Imperial fortress exterior defences ^02.13

F-01 System Prototype - Mission 14-only ^04.30

Aggressive Optimisation
- New Particle, Dust, Fire, Smoke/vapour trail systems ^04.30
- Star Field unified to a single object ^02.16
- Napalm damage effect supports enemies centred on action point

Napalm Cannon 02.15 and M10 Boss improved ^02.16

Dai-X Special Weapon: DRAGOON Pack - logic improved ^04.15

Laser and bullet re-spriting
- WingBlade wing machine guns, GunBoy homing lasers re-sprited
- Buster Cannon and Booster Pack adjusted and improved
- New weapons impact particles; especially for Booster/THOR. ^04.15
- Smooth blending for beam-weapon segments
- Laser sights colour-coded to friend/foe (green/red) and improved ^02.15
- Bullet collision animations improved

Updated Soundtrack, Sound-panning fixed.

Enemies and Assets Unified and Improved
- Cargo Train ^03.20
- Alliance Astrofighters and Dynamic Carriers ^03.02
- Power-Ups, Asteroids, Drones, many ground vehicles ^04.30
- Craters, Clouds, Planetary Missions, Enemy weapons ^04.06

Fixed
- Level Reset and Mission Complete glitches
- smoke glitch at window corner ^02.16
- Ally missiles no longer seek enemies when none present
- Enemy-destruct event ordering ^02.16

User Interface
- Gold Lucida Console replaces yellow Verdana ^04.06
- New HUD/Instruments ^04.05
- High Score Menu can upload previously-saved scores ^03.02
- New Display Options: particle trail length, v-sync, full-screen toggle ^03.21