SWArmada 0.1.6

SWArmada 0.1.6

Version 0.1.6 is the Onager, Android, controls, combat-input, and presentation
release. It also includes substantial multiplayer, chat, lobby, movement, and
rules-correction work shared by every platform.

Onager and combat rules

• Added the Onager-class Star Destroyer's special firing arc, targeting token,
  ignition attacks, Extreme range, forced first-attack timing, Cataclysm timing,
  and official Onager upgrade interactions.
• Ship attacks now determine firing-arc legality from the physical defending
  hull-zone edge. Targeting anchors remain line-of-sight references, so a clear
  front-to-front shot is no longer rejected because an authored anchor sits
  outside the base.
• Attack damage is counted from hit and critical icons. Accuracy and blank faces
  remain zero-damage unless a printed card effect explicitly converts them.
• Corrected close-range Evade availability, Redirect allocation, Auxiliary
  Shields Team capacity, and exact duplicate defense-token handling.
• NK-7 and Intel Officer now preserve the exact physical defense token through
  local and accepted online commands. Intel Officer shows only the current
  opposing defender's tokens and uses compact token labels.
• The Escort VIP ship is restricted to Navigate commands and tokens.

Stable attack and movement input

• Attacking now follows one consistent flow: select a source firing arc, select
  a defending hull zone, then commit. Either selection can be changed before
  committing, while body taps, empty taps, and invalid taps leave both choices
  intact.
• Close or overlapping ships use the visibly nearest curved hull-zone control,
  preventing a defender tap from silently switching the attacker's firing arc.
• Cannon-mode touch input no longer falls through into battlefield selection,
  flash closed, or leave second-attack targeting in a stale state.
• Ram previews retain the complete plotted maneuver: reachable travel is cyan,
  the impossible remainder is grey, and the real landing choice is orange.
• HALT TO ZERO uses the same orange maneuver arrow as desktop, raised above the
  ship's size-aware hull hitbox so it remains visible and clickable.
• Squadron selection, targeting, movement, and collision displacement were made
  reliable on touch. Accepted movement now completes before the turn advances.

Android

• Added the first Android ARM64 player build, using the same battle rules and
  content as desktop. Minimum supported version is Android 8.0 / API 26.
• Android uses the device's native landscape resolution; only the frame-rate
  limit is configurable.
• Added one-finger camera pan with a deliberate deadzone and inertial glide,
  two-finger twist/orbit, two-finger pitch, and more responsive pinch zoom.
• Scrollable menus accept inertial swipes across the full list surface. Fleet
  and map-builder palette entries are armed with a tap and placed with a later
  map tap, so list scrolling no longer starts an accidental drag.
• World placements stage before confirmation. Squadron displacement supports
  immediate touch-drag, and firing-arc selection exposes all four touch targets.
• Added touch-accessible in-game Menu and Game Chat controls, safe-area layout,
  the desktop game icon, visible 3D ship/obstacle models, and logcat-only error
  reporting instead of an on-screen development console.
• Replaced unreliable dossier gestures with a spatial notepad diamond above
  ships and squadrons. Single tap selects and quick double-tap focuses.

Controller and controls

• Rebuilt controller support around one persistent virtual cursor: right stick
  moves the cursor, D-pad navigates exposed controls, A or right trigger clicks,
  and B closes the top visible surface before routing to gameplay Back.
• Left stick pans, LB/RB orbit, LT plus vertical left stick zooms, and L3 frames
  the whole table. The upper analog curve reaches Shift-keyboard speed without
  sacrificing low-stick precision.
• Rebuilt the virtual keyboard with a live wrapped input field, lowercase
  default, L3 caps, one-shot/double-latch Shift, and letter/symbol pages.
• The shared Controls reference is available directly from the main menu,
  Options, and the in-game pause menu.

Squadrons and battle presentation

• Squadron attack runs are substantially slower: fighters approach, keep moving
  while swarming the target, fire, and return to their exact formation slots.
  Anti-ship attacks, anti-squadron attacks, and Counter share this presentation.
• Added an attacker-mounted combat camera which keeps the defender in view,
  holds through combat feedback, restores the exact prior view, and yields
  immediately to real player camera input.
• Ship lasers now originate from the visual center of the firing ship.
• Contextual ship-base outlines appear during deployment, movement, targeting,
  displacement, and other footprint-dependent decisions.
• Hull-zone indicator lines now curve subtly inward, while their endpoints and
  all authoritative rules geometry remain unchanged.
• Improved maneuver markers, firing arcs, targeting-token orientation, ship
  selection over visual hulls, dice-chip layout, and desktop menu text sizing.
• Baked the tuned CRT/PSX profile, including forced point filtering and reduced
  random wear/tear.

Lobbies, multiplayer, and chat

• Added request coordination, pacing, retry, and stale-presence handling to
  reduce Lobby Service rate-limit bursts during connect, invite, and chat flows.
• Isolated simultaneous presence/chat and match-lobby event caches to prevent
  lobby callback corruption and the repeated lobby error cascade.
• Reworked local and online lobby setup with framed game-type arrows, a separate
  Starting Options row, compact two-way choices, and clear gold active states.
• Lobby, direct-message, and in-game chat now share 500-character wrapping,
  scrolling composers and reliable bottom autoscroll.
• Direct messages use top conversation tabs for opened, historical, or unread
  contacts instead of cycling through unrelated players.

Downloads

• SWArmada-0.1.6-Windows-x64.zip
• SWArmada-0.1.6-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz
• SWArmada-0.1.6-macOS.tar.gz
• SWArmada-0.1.6-Android-arm64.apk

The Windows and macOS builds are not code-signed or notarized. The Android APK
uses a sideload/test signature rather than Play Store signing. SHA-256 sidecars
and a combined SHA256SUMS.txt are included. Generated backup, Burst debug,
DoNotShip, log, and symbol folders are not part of any download.