Development version 5.6 is available for download

This is the sixth development release of the 6.0 version. The main feature of this version is more updates to the game UI: redesigned the combat interface (ship to ship and boarding), and many other small changes to the general look of the game. It also delivers many fixes for bugs. Binaries are available for Linux and Windows (both 64-bit). For more info how to use AppImage on Linux, please see: https://docs.appimage.org/user-guide/run-appimages.html. Below you can find major changes since the last development release:

Added

• Zooming in and out map with the mouse wheel
• Option to set defenders in combat screen

Changed

• Updated interface
• Keyboard shortcut for the next turn in combat to Enter
• Updated descriptions for harpoon guns and battering rams
• Updated README.md

Removed

• Setting for the animations

Fixed

• Escape key behavior in inventory and crew member dialogs
• Position of messages window after leaving the last messages screen
• Some typos in changelog
• Position of the game statistics
• Showing player's ship damage in combat
• Showing the enemy's ship's modules info when it is destroyed
• Scrolling last messages window when older messages showed as first
• Font on help topics list
• Scrolling the crew member info, assigning crew member to module and crew
  members inventory info
• Possible crash when ending delivery mission (issue #71)
• Scrollbar position in crew member info dialog
• Ending combat turn with space key
• Showing the lists of gunners in combat
• Crash in combat when the player's ship doesn't have installed guns
• Crash on giving order to back to ship in boarding combat
• Setting crew members positions (pilot, engineer, gunner) in combat
• Crash on setting crew members orders priorities