v1.7.5

Mostly a bugfix and maintenance release: the game moved to SDL3, gained a native MSVC build, and
had its renderer rebuilt underneath.

• Ground camera height (z position) now always saved/restored on view save/restore
• Following camera now persists when switching camera type (Ground <-> Zenith)
• A number of pathfinding improvements (performance and responsiveness)
• Screenshot capture is now more robust, and the 'Paused' overlay is no longer included
• Screenshot of a menu holds just the menu instead of the black border around it
• Optimized the game startup
• Added models, cursors, and planet minimaps texture modding support
• Added support for scaled planet maps
• Added a console (press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F11 and type console on there)
• Added initial implementation of crash dump with hangs detection (reports saved to logs/)
• Screenshots now go into a screenshots directory instead of the game's own data
• PNG textures are now preferred over the original formats and can be overridden by mods
• Display options are now Window Mode (Exclusive Fullscreen / Borderless Fullscreen /
  Windowed), Resolution and Refresh Rate as separate settings, instead of one long list
• Reworked first person aiming to behave the same whatever the frame rate and resolution
• Music now crossfades between the menu and gameplay tracks, and each resumes where it
  left off instead of restarting from the beginning on every switch
• The starfield now twinkles, and star colours and sizes follow the star's brightness
• FPS counter (Ctrl+Shift+F7) is now available in release builds
• Enter now sends a chat message to all players, F2/F3/F4 address a target and
  toggle alliances
• Text fields now support word jump and word deletion with Ctrl, and Ctrl+V paste
• The game version is now carried in LAN discovery and checked when joining. A client
  with a mismatched version is now told so, along with both versions.
• Joining a session no longer blocks the game while it waits for the host
• Removed the 'Screen resolution lock' option
• Removed the Gamma correction option, which SDL3 no longer supports
• Fixed constructions interiors not being race specific (always red)
• Fixed machines moving forth and back in corridors (e.g. in 'Regain Control' mission)
• Fixed many cases where machines could get stuck and lock each other
• Fixed camera move and zoom at the same time (basically reimplemented zoom with mouse wheel)
• Fixed selection marker rendering (2D/3D and runtime switching)
• Fixed rendering/culling issues that could cause missing world tiles / rooms not being rendered
• Fixed nearest Mine and Smelter/Pod lookup for Transporters / resource carriers
• Fixed nearest Lab lookup for Technicians
• Fixed a destroyed machine carrying on with its update while teleporting in or out
• Fixed a crash when a Resource Carrier was sent to a mine it could not reach
• Fixed crash on close by Alt+F4
• Fixed a crash on choosing an entry from a drop down list
• Fixed the audio stuttering during video playback
• Fixed the anti-aliasing option not being applied
• Fixed the drawing of rectangles and lines
• Fixed a number of issues with 2x interface scale
• Fixed the game menus opening while a modifier key was held
• Fixed multiplayer chat messages being truncated
• Fixed the port byte order in LAN discovery packets
• Fixed a double ENet shutdown
• Fixed sprite animations (fires, explosions, and the like) running at the frame rate
  rather than at the speed of the game
• A few more small fixes

Also, check the available mods: wiki/Mods#known-mods

v1.7.4

(ChangeLog to the previous stable release v1.7.1)

• Added an option to use WASD for the camera and 1st person control
  Check the in-game Hotkeys menu for more information about the assigned keys.
• Added 'Camera acceleration' option
• Added initial mods support (allows game data override)
• Implemented VSync
• TTF font used for the game menu
• 'Grab Cursor' option is now applied at runtime
• The game now won't move the camera if the cursor is out of the window
• Implemented Zenith camera rotation support for the Following Camera
• Fixed special characters in menu fonts (fixes German localization)
• Fixed a crash on focus on LandMine (thanks @Fuechschen-San for discovering that)
• Fixed negative damage on construction capture (fixes armor overflow, thanks Iris for detailed steps-to-reproduce)
• Fixed actor Icon not updated on race changed (e.g. for captured constructions)
• 'Windowed mode' option now always added to the config file (this also needs a checkbox)

Under the hood:

• Totally reworked keyboard input
• Much improved localization support (still no Unicode)
• A lot of other changes

Also, check the available mods: wiki/Mods#known-mods

v1.7.3 There will be dragons

machines-win64-wfw-20251208

• Added an option to use WASD for camera and 1st person control (ensure to check the box in Options). Check the in-game Hotkeys menu for more information about the assigned keys.
• Added initial support for game data overrides

Under the hood:

• Totally reworked keyboard input
• Much improved localization support (still no Unicode)

machines-win64-wfw-20251216

• Fixed special characters in menu fonts (fixes German localization)
• Fixed a crash on focus on LandMine (thanks @Fuechschen-San for discovering that)
• Fixed negative damage on construction capture (fixes armor overflow, thanks Iris for detailed steps-to-reproduce)
• Fixed actor Icon not updated on race changed (e.g. for captured constructions)
• Fixed some labels
• Camera inertia reduced by 50% (this needs its own option of course)
• 'Windowed mode' option now always added to the config file (this also needs a checkbox)

machines-win64-wfw-20260113

• Added 'Camera acceleration' option
• Fixed alignment of items in Options menu
• Some special characters removed from the translation file (and some are still there)
• A lot of under the hood changes.

v1.7.2

Hopefully fixes a few regressions:

• Fixed weird units reaction to given commands
• Fixed possible crashes
• 200+ changes under the hood
• Maybe this also has some new icons

v1.7.1

Changes since v1.6

• Implemented 2X UI scaling (a lot of HD textures wanted)
• Implemented recent events manager (to cycle through the positions of the last important events with SpaceBar key)
• Implemented a following camera (click on the Actor in corral or double click the squadron key (<0-9>)
• Implemented mouse grab (important for multi-display configurations)
• Implemented LAN game discovery
• Added Shift+<0-9> to add units to the squadron
• Added the same type selection by Ctrl-click or double click
• Shift+click now toggles selection
• Added grave (tilde) hotkey to toggle the 1st person camera
• Removed selection clear on fast RMB click on mini-map (actually felt like a bug: "sometimes selection is lost on mini-map clicked")
• Production and research items can be canceled by a click
• Screenshots are now saved as PNG rather than BMP format
• Navigation button with counter now uses TTF instead of BMP font
• Actor name in the panel description now respectes the HW level (e.g. now it names 'Scout' as 'Scout' rather than 'Grunt')
• Increased the number of drawn tiles (fixes missing terrain textures)
• Fixed interaction with the world on 4k screens
• Fixed Windows-specific issue with DPI scaling enabled (added DPI-awareness manifest)
• Fixed Alt+A and Alt+S hotkeys
• Fixed prompt message on a lab hovered
• Fixed incorrect game resolution until the player opens the options menu for the first time
• Fixed illumination on Desert map
• Fixed the updating of the game load progress bar
• Fixed Performance Options not loaded correctly
• Fixed network desync which caused empty/invalid players list on join (client side)
• Fixed a crash on processing a net message referencing object which is not loaded yet
• Fixed a few crashes
• A few more small fixes