Our labs have completed their latest research and Element v1.5 'Pulsar' is available now!

This update includes a new Supply Drone that can be used to fetch bonus Supply Crates appearing on the surface and in orbit. To accommodate the Supply Drone, the 'Repair' menu has now become a 'Drone' menu. The Drone menu will context-sensitively launch a Supply Drone or a Repair Drone depending on if your current target is a Supply Crate or one of your units in need of repair.

We have also added voice control input for Windows 10. This is considered experimental and we are still working on adding some UI to manage the preference. If you enable your microphone you should be able to use the following English voice commands in-game;

Menu Navigation

• "resource", "attack", "defence", "missile", "drone".
  
• "fire" and "repair" as aliases for "missile" and "drone".
  
• "back" to close a menu.
  

Menu Actions

• "level one", "level two", "level three" to build/launch/fire.
  
• "one", "two", "three" as aliases for build/launch/fire.
  

Game Commands

• "pause", "resume".
  
• "play" and "stop" as aliases for "pause" and "resume".
  
• "faster", "slower", "normal" for game speed control.
  

The voice control cannot be too rushed so try pausing a little between instructions. The confidence level for word recognition is set quite low in this release so it might confuse your commands now and again. Depending on feedback, we may add more commands to fully control the camera or remove the feature if it's not that usable. Please let us know how well it works for you.

There are a lot of other changes under the hood in this release too, including major updates to Unity, and updates to other support libraries for Steam, input, sound, image effects, text rendering, data, and analytics.

Please let us know what you think - leave reviews, start a thread or leave a comment in the discussion forums, or tweet @flightlessnz.

Enjoy.

cheers,

Greg & John
Flightless

Element v1.5 'Pulsar' Changes

Game

• Added bonus Supply Crates.
  
• Added new Supply Drone to pick up Supply Crates.
  
• Renamed Repair menu to Drone.
  
• Updated drone targeting to be context sensitive.
  
• Added Supply Drones and Supply Crates to tutorial.
  

UI

• Added experimental voice control for Windows 10.
  
• Updated and simplified HUD messages.
  
• Updated help text.
  
• Updated controls text.
  

Plumbing

• Updated to Unity v5.6.2.
  
• Updated Steam libraries.
  
• Updated input libraries (includes updates for native input).
  
• Updated sound libraries.
  
• Updated text renderer libraries.
  
• Updated JSON libraries.
  
• Updated image effects.
  
• Updated internal state machine libraries.
  
• Updated app launcher, scene controllers.
  
• Updated analytics.
  
• Fixed Bloom on Metal renderer.
  
• Removed internal video capture support.
  
• Updated screenshotter to support ludicrous resolution and cubemaps.
  
• Refactored player dialog handling.
  
• Fixed custom occlusion culling to support updated LOD API.
  
• Optimisation and bugfixes.
  

Element v1.4 'Nebula' Changes

Element v1.4.2 release notes.
Element v1.4.1 release notes.
Element v1.4 release notes.

Element v1.3 'Kuiper' Changes

Element v1.3 release notes.

Element v1.2 'Corona' Changes

Element v1.2 release notes.

Element v1.1 'Aurora' Changes

Element v1.1 release notes.