Vegastrike 4.3

Vegastrike 4.0 to Vegastrike 4.2

Owning a Whole Fleet - With the new One Fleet Plan You can own as many starships as you wish. Shipping to your system is only 6000 per ship! See the My Fleet Section in the ship dealer.
Original Music Ken Suguro and PeteyG have come up with an original score for Vega Strike that beats out commercial games. Listen to it and be immersed in Vega Strike as it should be.
Polishing the Engine - Docking boxes come up automatically, the Upgrade interface has a repair option
Plot Mission and Fixers - You can meet people in the various bars and strike deals with them. Dont cross anyone or you may suffer retribution!

Python Scripting - Upgraded various for-pay missions and the basic missions
Quests And News - Linked the local happenings to gameplay challenges and cash opportunities
Surpluses and Shortages - Trading is now affected by the live news model
Rendered Bases To Explore - Beautifully rendered bases to explore--but there's more than meets the eye
Locals to converse with - The bartender always has the latest news for j00
Trading with the enemy - It's always profitable to run the front lines, selling pricey weapons to evil Aera, or running back high tech bionics for terran research!
Music Player - A music player is now included in vega strike...it can play midis, ogg, or mp3... just dump the files into music/ and edit the playlists in .vegastrike
Ingame Map - A map of the local sector may be accessed with Shift-M. Sure accurate maps are expensive, but this one should be well worth whatever you didn't pay

Installer/Uninstaller - Allows players to easily install OpenAL and VS
Splitscreen Multiplayer - Coop gauntlet with a friend or blow him to shreds--even trading and exploration i spossible in this mode!
Save Games - Having persistent gameplay over multiple sections is possible
Large Star System Size - Vegastrike engine has been upgraded to use double precision floating values so that realistic system size is possible
Communications/Orders - Allows the player to contact neutrals and taunt enemies. Wingmen can be ordered.
Autopilot - Lets the player quickly go from one zone of combat to another
Trading - Lets players run guns to make money
Missions for cash - Players can now contract out for spare cash
Ship Upgrades - Don't like your ship? buy a new one or get some better weapons or engines!
Missiles - Missile can lock on to their targets and track them with ease (ECM systems err...almost ease)
Autotracking Weapons - Guns may be updated to seek to their targets
Tractor beams - Small pieces of cargo may be taken into a hold. look for these when a large cargo-laden ship has exploded
Energy Removing Guns - Leech energy down to nada on their targets
System Damage - Hud displays flicker and weapons blow off... maneuverability decreases and many more horrible things happen when you get damage... don't get damage
3D Cockpits - With accurate lighting and damage effects these cockpits add a whole new dimension to vegastrike
Mission Launcher
Better Communications (always has eight choices)

Time compression
Multiple Systems
Entire Sol sector and Vega sector included!
Fly through huge multilayered asteroid fields
Explore nebulae where your radar fritzes out
Jump to other systems at blue jump points with the 'j' key
Respawn with the ';' key (semicolon)
Switch Ships with the '[' key
Joystick support for a full featured joystick
Sound effects that make starships roar as they pass and zap as they die
Bolt weapons with glowing lighting effects
Cloaking that renders a ship partially/fully invisible
All new starships
Customizable fully working HUD with targetting displays, etc
Customizable Alien Race logos that will change on all starships by editing TerranPriA.bmp and TechPriA.bmp
Intelligent, Programmable AI
Varied weapons on different starships
Explosions that literally tear a starship into pieces
Shields That Glow upon hit (in the location hit)
Customizable missions
Stars that fly past as you explore the system
RAPID collision system that allows no problems with collisions
BSP Trees that allow one to fly close to a starship, and in the runway of (well formed) models...unlike the victory from WC3.
the Normal Force which bounces starships off of each other

Joystick support for a full featured joystick
Sound effects that make starships roar as they pass and zap as they die
Bolt weapons with glowing lighting effects
Cloaking that renders a ship partially/fully invisible
All new starships
Customizable fully working HUD with targetting displays, etc
Customizable Alien Race logos that will change on all starships by editing TerranPriA.bmp and TechPriA.bmp

Intelligent, Programmable AI
Varied weapons on different starships
Explosions that literally tear a starship into pieces
Shields That Glow upon hit (in the location hit)
Customizable missions
Stars that fly past as you explore the system
BSP Trees that allow one to fly close to a starship, and in the runway of (well formed) models...unlike the victory from WC3.
the Normal Force which bounces starships off of each other
The rings of saturn--a feature oft-missed in previous versions... now added for all to enjoy... just don't fire at 'em ;-)

REAL Asteroid belts, which will soon have AI.
Planets with correct orbits and realistic textures.
A huge sun with detailed textures in cluding hotspots.
WC style physics with afterburn slides.
Programmable AI for complex functions like Shelton sliding, rolls, loops, and kickstops.

Clicklists are built in... so you can click on ships and it will report so on console (same with selecting)
There is a location selector built in, but with this build you cannot see it
Utilizes SPHERE_MAP in OpenGL to produce fantastic spheremapped ships... shiny+fast
Made it faster on software.... but backgrounds are still textured
Physics works, but is disabled to allow viewing of sphere_map