Hello! This is quite a big "minor" update. This update is jam-packed with cool new things, such as an entirely re-programmed AI tank system and
new AI tank behaviors, lots of performance enhancements, bug fixes, and more!

Starting from this point on, I will be uploading a debug-enabled binary of the game for modders to use (windows only for now, others will need to compile)

Remember you can enable speedrun mode with F1! Top 5 uploaded speedruns will get their spot on the main menu!

Additions

• You can now switch individually between Windowed, Fullscreen, and Borderless Fullscreen in the graphics settings
• Added an "Auto-Orient Tanks" option to the level editor so tanks can be oriented identically to how they were in the original game
• Added coordinates display above the mouse in the level editor
• Added network metrics (ping, packet loss, packets sent/received) to the top of a multiplayer session
• Added more particle effects in various areas of the game

Changes

• AI Tanks are now completely overhauled! They now behave much different from how they did before
  • Almost never shoot/explode themselves
  • Act 10x more similar to the original game
  • Should, overall, make them less of a nuisance to destroy
  • Should also improve their movements a ton
  • Optimized and made much more performant (~15-20% faster?)
• The ping menu is now located on the right of the screen, and is vertically aligned
  • Pinging is now much simpler, using your scroll wheel to determine which one to use
  • Now, you press middle click to use the highlighted ping selection
• Slightly changed the position and look of the bullet count display
• Lantern mode has now been touched up, and now shows the lanterns of each player, and looks visually different
  • Also allows the player to see very slightly in the darkness if they squint
• Reworked Co-op spawn positions on most Vanilla campaign levels
• Yellow tank music is now prioritized over the pink tank's
• Reworked a few missions, and buffed the final mission slightly
• Slightly changed the look of the "vanish" animation of invisible tanks
• Slightly adjusted the orthographic camera
• Bullets how have much more generous hitboxes (same-ish as the original, now)
• Reverted third-person smoke particles to normal
• The main menu logo no longer follows your mouse off-screen
• Slightly changed the appearance of the path created to the mouse

Changes Important for Modders

• Completely overhauled the AI Parameters.
  • Be sure to read the documentation of them by hovering on them in your IDE
• Pink tanks, internally, are now listed before Yellow tanks
  • Update any campaigns!
• The center of the game scene is now (0, 0) instead of being slightly biased to the top
• You can now compile mods on versions higher than .NET 8.0
• TankRotation -> ChassisRotation
• TargetXRotation -> DesiredXRotation
• Tank.Dead -> Tank.IsDestroyed
• Tank.IsIngame has been removed
• All DrawUtils methods now use String instead of Text
• DrawUtils.DrawBorderedStringWithShadow -> DrawUtils.DrawStringWithShadowAndBorder

Fixes

• Fixed needing a "Starting Lives" value to save a specific mission
• Changed some inconsistencies between the original missions and Rebirth's
• Fixed controllers not working from v1.8
• Fixed some particles not being oriented properly
• Pings no longer track dead tanks
• Campaign tooltips now display proper extra-lives count
• (Potentially) fixed Wayland input not being able to exit campaigns after success or failure
• Fixed visual stuttering on AI controlled tanks when their rotation changes when facing down
• Fixed a bug where exiting the level editor and playing a campaign denied the player any score
• Fixed the difficulty algorithm not updating when switching levels in the level editor
• Optimizations to the particle system (~400% faster, but still has issues)
• Fixed some elements of the intermission animation being improperly scaled with resolution

TODO

• Multithreaded tank AI
• Campaign fail/success display
• Tank tread hyper-optimization (and visual re-haul)
• Wiimote support
• Real-time multiplayer stats
• Fix campaigns not ending immediately on all clients

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!