Hello everyone! This is literally the BIGGEST update ever to Tanks Rebirth. I hope you enjoy all of the new features, changes, and bug fixes!

Remember you can enable speedrun mode with F1! Top 5 uploaded (may be changed later) speedruns will get their spot on the main menu!

Additions

• Added an entire room that the entire game scene exists in! There is no longer a black void that consumes the game
  • There's even a cool grandfather clock that matches your system's clock time!
• Added "Tactical Planes" mode where old "Marble Mod Buff" was
• Added some handy-dandy FPS graphs at the user's disposal, if needed
• Added scores for every player in the game
• Added 'Total terrain' info to the Level Info bar within the level editor
• Added the long-awaited cursor trail!
• Added a button to the campaigns menu instead of the user having to press Enter to download the latest version
• Added the ability for the game to obtain hardware information on any OS (MacOS, Linux) instead of only Windows
• Added the bonus life animation after over 3.5 years!
• Added a spectate feature to POV mode
• Added the ability to change your campaign's starting lives

Changes

• All tank types above "obsidian" are now gone.
  • This is because they were poorly designed, and will benefit more being replaced by the tanks to come in the future!
• The experience bar now has a little more flair and visual appeal
• "Master Mod Buff" changed to "Master Mode"
• Changed the game's main font (for english only)
• Players can no longer visually peek through corners of map geometry
• Blocks are now slightly bigger
• Main menu animation is now much different
• MOTD is now just plastered on the top of the screen
• Adjusted the look of the mission title bar / background
• UI tooltips no longer go off-screen
• Revamped the multiplayer UI
• Player scoreboards have been changed in color and look
• "東方 Mode" changed to "Bullet Hell"
• Window title has been changed to "Tanks! Rebirth"
• LARGELY improved the mission intermission look, which looks about 99.9% accurate now (validate the campaign version in the campaigns menu!!!)
• The chat now appears over the intermission screen
• The intermission screen background no longer scrolls when paused/stopped
• You now have to middle click instead of right click to delete a campaign, which makes mistakes much less likely
• Somewhat modified the campaigns menu look, so buttons don't overflow
• Also somewhat modified the difficulties menu to look nicer and have respects to resolution
• Having a controller plugged in no longer prevents keyboard usage for gameplay
• Packet send-out time decreased from 15ms to 10ms for more responsive netcode
• XP gained from destroying tanks is now billboarded towards players in POV mode
• Campaigns can now support up to 2,147,483,647 missions! I don't recommend spending that much time creating them though...

Changes Important for Modders

• GameProperties -> CampaignGlobals
• TanksRebirth.GameContent.Properties -> TanksRebirth.GameContent.Globals
• Almost every asset is now stored in a more general folder
  • General-purpose models are now under models
  • All music is now in music or a subfolder under music
• RotatedByRadians -> Rotate
• TankID.Random has been purged, for good reasons
• Lots of camera-related things from TankGame are now located in CameraGlobals
  • This includes GameView and GameProjection, important matrices to include with custom 3D rendering involving gameplay
• GamepadBind and Keybind now are IInputBind<T>s, which means you can use use them modularly within your code
• When changing tank models, be sure to set UsesCustomModel to true
• Assets (only models, for now) are managed via Resource<Model>s within ModelResources.
• Particles now rotate on the proper Yaw-Pitch-Roll axes, conversion:
  • Old Yaw -> Roll
  • Old Pitch -> Yaw
  • Old Roll -> Pitch
• TankGame.PostDraw -> TankGame.PostDrawEverything
• Numerous rendering-related things are now stored in RenderGlobals
• Many things from TankGame (such as frame time, delta time, etc) have been moved to RuntimeData
• TankGame.TextFont/TextFontLarge -> FontGlobals.RebirthFont/RebirthFontLarge
• GameHandler.GameRand -> Client.ClientRandom
• AI tank properties and parameters can now be fetched separately inside of AIManager
• Armor -> TankArmor
• TankProperties.VulnerableToMines -> TankProperties.InvulnerableToMines
• The modding API has moved away from singletons and now has different modded data per ModTank, ModShell, and ModBlock, so code does not execute on every entity of a given type at once
• Virtual methods no longer have a parameter for what they are modding, and now have a property (i.e: ModTank.AITank, ModBlock.Block, ModShell.Shell)
• MainMenu -> MainMenuUI
• GameSceneRenderer -> GameScene
• TankGame.GameData -> TankGame.SaveFile
• ParticleSystem -> ParticleManager

##Fixes

• Pause UI now appears over everything
• Citrine Tank Music now is prioritized over Ruby
• Optimized various mathematical operations around the code
• Optimized branching and code execution all around the game, so the game should run ~10% better
• Level editor now properly displays the correct mission name on the info bar
• Fixed crash involving deleting the first mission of a campaign
• Enabling "Lantern Mode" no longer makes the main menu blur go away
• Resolution is only changed upon leaving the settings menu if you are not in full screen, fixing the black screen bug
• Fixed the mission intermission screen having "overlap" while fading in and out
• Fixed game not properly retrieving hardware information
• Fixed the "Hit!" graphic not being the correct color on all clients in multiplayer
• The results screen now shows the cumulative effort of all players in mutliplayer
• Fixed mouse hitching in POV mode when rotating your turret
• Multiplayer now no longer suffers from "ghost bullets"
• Fixed mines wanting to explode when placed near dead tanks

TODO

• New AI tank aggression system (depending on the tank type, will either make advances towards you or will avoid you)

PLEASE, if you find anything wrong, go to my discord server and report bugs in the #bugs
channel, or, if you want to suggest something, suggest them in the #suggestions channel.

Happy tanking!