{"id":109,"date":"2020-09-23T11:36:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T15:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkfront.net\/?p=109"},"modified":"2020-09-24T11:29:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T15:29:59","slug":"update-0-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/arkfront.net\/?p=109","title":{"rendered":"Update 0.42"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Update 0.42 adds new features, more content and fixes numerous bugs and performance issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Features:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/arkfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ion_cannon_v1.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-111\" width=\"421\" height=\"543\"\/><figcaption>Ion Cannons launching into ARKFRONT. Avoid them!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>An improved intro cinematic experience with more detailed animation, sound and music. You can see that in action here: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ARKFRONT_game\/status\/1307025988203798528\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/ARKFRONT_game\/status\/1307025988203798528<\/a><\/li><li>Added a new powerup and threat: Ion Cannon. Enemies will now launch ion beams at the player. The player can now acquire this technology in the game.<\/li><li>Added a massive, highly animated final boss ship. More to show in the future!<\/li><li>Added more animation to the player ship. Now the player smoothly turns around and returns to the ARK at the end of the mission, firing its thrusters.<\/li><li>Smoother better animation complete with moving pod-bay doors has been added to the ARK when the player returns, adding more life and motion to the world.<\/li><li>Outposts now have idle animations for their turrets and electric fences.<\/li><li>Outpost docking bays now flash to better indicate that they are interactive to the player.<\/li><li>Multiple variations of these merchant outposts now exist, in different sizes, positions, kitted out with different equipment and defenses.<\/li><li>Player can now choose when to return to the ARK during engagements at any outpost.<\/li><li>New NPCs have been added and more dialogue events.<\/li><li>Added a new smaller asteroid type.<\/li><li>Added 15 more levels to the campaign.<\/li><li>Tweaked game balance.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Improvements and Fixes:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Improved RAM utilization further. Game should now idle using less RAM.<\/li><li>Game should now make devices less hot as CPU usage has been reduced.<\/li><li>Improved the look and feel of camera shake.<\/li><li>Fixed several problems with the camera system.<\/li><li>Better supporting iPad and non-9:16 display aspect ratios.<\/li><li>Made several improvements to bring the game into line with the changes brought about in Game Maker Studio 2.3<\/li><li>Fixed a few crashing bugs.<\/li><li>Fixed object leaks and memory leaks.<\/li><li>Fixed text positioning on all aspect ratios.<\/li><li>Improved the codebase more generally, fixing problems and making the game more flexible for future updating when the game is live and during development.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update 0.42 adds new features, more content and fixes numerous bugs and performance issues. Features: An improved intro cinematic experience with more detailed animation, sound and music. You can see that in action here: https:\/\/twitter.com\/ARKFRONT_game\/status\/1307025988203798528 Added a new powerup and threat: Ion Cannon. Enemies will now launch ion beams at the player. The player can &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/arkfront.net\/?p=109\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Update 0.42&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/arkfront.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/arkfront.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/arkfront.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arkfront.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arkfront.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/arkfront.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112,"href":"http:\/\/arkfront.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/arkfront.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arkfront.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arkfront.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}