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NULLFRONT 0.5 — The Quiet Meridian
The Quiet Meridian adds a four-chapter single-player story campaign. Lead Ada Voss through relay recovery, civilian evacuation, resonator strikes, and the final assault on the Meridian Heart. Illustrated briefings, mission objectives, field dialogue, debriefs, retries, and saved chapter unlocks carry the story from opening to ending. Press F6 at the title screen to begin.
- Detailed, textured faction infantry with skeletal idle, running, attack, and death animations, smooth pose transitions, and animated weapon handling.
- New Warden and Behemoth heavy characters, a Hammer tank with an independently aiming turret, and a hovering Lancet construct.
- Heavy footfalls and dust, layered combat effects, and a cinematic battle camera that moves between wider fighting and closer engagements. F9 launches an actual AI battle; F8 switches the camera and command interface.
- A short generated opening cinematic, included in the app. It is pre-rendered imagery, separate from gameplay footage. Press any key to skip; F7 at the title screen replays it.
Download NULLFRONT-0.5.0-macOS-arm64.zip. Requires Apple Silicon and macOS 14 or newer. Extract it, move NULLFRONT.app into Applications, and open it. The campaign, skirmishes, music, effects, and intro run locally without an account. The download is a native macOS game; the website presents the game and its media.
Completed chapters save automatically. Retrying restarts a mission, and returning to the title screen retains chapter unlocks; battles do not have mid-mission saves. The included FIELD-MANUAL.md covers all three original factions, both battlefields, campaign objectives, and controls.
As with 0.4.0, this early public preview is ad-hoc signed and not notarized by Apple. If macOS blocks launch, follow Apple’s Open Anyway guidance.
The download is 545 MiB; the installed app uses approximately 889 MiB. The Shipping build, app signatures, and fresh ZIP extraction passed verification. The packaged cinematic replay, campaign selector/briefing/deployment, and development battle motion were checked. All 19 campaign-rule checks and an automated ordinary-command playthrough of all four chapters passed; a complete manual campaign playthrough has not been performed.
SHA-256: bed154f5a03bfa739a7a5c7eaf988a247c45ae49ea09bf37f55d94bd2d251f0a. The archive includes a field manual and first-launch instructions; SHA256SUMS-0.5.0.txt is also available below.