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[FotG Update] Winter 2025

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wookieejedi:
It's been a busy season since our last official forum update, so all of us at Fate of the Galaxy want to share what we have been working on during the winter. A highlight list includes the following:


* Updated the AI flight patterns to improve their behavior to better match the Original Trilogy. For example, FotG AI will now conduct proper looking strafing attack runs on large ships by flying far away from the target then turning about and firing guns while flying towards the target while veering off once near and then circling around to continue another run. (Previously, ships would attempt to sit and park behind large ships, which did not match the behavior of the movies of course!). Another AI tweak includes updating guarding behavior to always move in formation with an escort if there are no hostiles nearby and improved collision avoidance when there are many large ships in tight escort formation.
* Updated some font aspects related to Aurebesh. For example, the Aurebesh writing on HUD gauges was tuned to actually show the name of the gauge instead of just the random gibberish the letters were using before.Updated files with an added free-for-non-commercial use Aurebesh font, thus if anyone ever wanted to replace all the font in FotG with Aurebesh they can do so easily by just renaming one file.
* Updated to expand control usability. For example, FSO now allows more axes and buttons on input devices. Specifically, players can now use input devices with up to 128 buttons and 8 axes (previously there were 32 buttons and 6 axes per device). The default key bindings for the `Look` feature were also updated to make it easier to use with just a keyboard, which will help our keyboard only users with tracking in-mission visibility.
* Updated Project Alderaan with many fixes, polish, and cleanup updates.
* Updated and fixed many other components with many dozens of cleanup and fix related updates, which are too long to list here!

Community Connections
As always, we want to highlight all the fantastic work completed by the FSO devs, too. They have continued adding code cleanup, bug fixes, optimizations, and multiple other updates that FotG uses. Just to name a few,  Lafiel has constructed a new and very robust particle system that integrates highly modular curve functions, Goober has added multiple enhancements and cleanup, and MJN has continued refining and augmenting SCPUI. In addition, ShivianSPS has created a Custom TC mode for KnossosNET and UI update, which FotG will be releasing on. As always, there’s many other devs adding great fixes, features, and other enhancements, too.

Moving Forward
We also want to thank you all for your sustained support and enthusiasm! We are getting very close to our internal milestones for a public release and can’t wait to share the game with you all once those are completed. In the meantime, here are some new screenshots including from the upcoming KNet update. May the Force be with you!

chief1983:
And also with you!

jg18:
Best of luck with (what sounds like) the home stretch! Go FotG team go! :yes:

wesp5:
Okay, so you basically post the same thing for five years now, I cite the announcement from 2020: "Ultimately, we are nearing the final milestones for a public release." Don't you think you should finally release something before Disney destroys the Star Wars franchise so completely that nobody will be interested anymore?

perihelion:
Dude... if you are excited to try what they're making, sure let them know that!  But don't act like you are entitled to anything.  This project is made entirely of volunteers with no hope of any return on the time invested.

And if you don't like all the new Disney SW crap, do what I do.  Ignore it.  The world is full of artists that keep producing music long after they've run out of things worth saying.  Doesn't mean the original records I fell in love with are any less amazing.  SW has always been a mixed bag (anyone else remember the Ewok movies?), so this isn't anything new.  My kids love the original trilogy far beyond anything that came out afterwards, and they were born after the prequels were old news.  Good movies are still good even if they are followed by mediocre ones by a bunch of of people more interested in milking a cash cow than quality story-telling.  And even there, there have still been some exceptional stories released despite Disney.

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