1.8
Storms
The storms have been completely remade this update. Some of the new features include:
- Improved tornadic wind fields
- Dynamic tornado funnels
- Major improvements to tornado damage
- Improved tornado life cycle
- Improved tornado movement
- Dynamic rain and wind system
- Rain now has varying intensity and is affected by wind
- Storms will now have localized wind areas in the RFD and FFD
- RFD now wraps completely around mesocyclones, allowing for rain wrapped tornadoes
- Some storms will have more or less precipitation than others
- New and dynamic storm structure
- Re-added storm cycling
- Dynamic wall clouds
- Improved lightning
Map
Some major map changes this update:
- The whole map has literally been flipped by 180 degrees to fix the sun rising the in west
- New town (Roxbury)
- New town (Auburn)
- Added an airport by Winston
- Many new structure types
- New wooden bridge
- New train bridge
- New metal silo models
- New NWS Building
- New water tower models
- New lakes and ponds
- Remade bodies of water
- Added mesonet stations
Vehicles
- Added TIV
- Minimum Threshold : 135
- Maximum Threshold : 165
- Top Speed : 100 mph
- Price : 95000
- Added TIV 2
- Minimum Threshold : 140
- Maximum Threshold : 240
- Top Speed : 105 mph
- Price : 320000
- Adjusted dominator stats
- Increased Dominator 1 price to 110000 (was 95000)
- Buffed Dominator 1 threshold to 120, 165 (was 120, 155)
- Decreased Dominator 2 price to 150000 (was 151000)
- Buffed Dominator 2 threshold to 125, 185 (was 125, 175)
- No changes to Dominator 3
- Improved vehicle handling
- Increased DOW price to 600000 (was 305000)
- Gave the DOW a makeover
- Made the DOW deploy more accurate
- Removed the DOW wind speed scan feature
Radar
New modes and general improvements
- Made the radar client sided
- Added velocity mode
- Added color table gradient
- Added radar settings
- Added ability to switch between radars
- Improved tornado tracks functionality
- New tornado track visual
- DOW radar scans are now accessible through the main radar while deployed with:
- Faster update times
- Much higher resolution
- GTG (gate to gate) displayed during velocity mode
- Shorter range
- Increased base radar update time
- Improved warning box model
- Warning boxes no longer update every scan
- Mesonet station readings are displayed on radar
Other
- Remade hail GFX
- New wind SFX
- New tornado particle effects
- Improved tornado SFX
- Improved power flashes
- New day/night cycle system
- Audio is now muffled when in vehicles or buildings
- Adjusted screen shake
- Remade main menu
- Added swimming
Bug Fixes
- Probably more than 0
- I didn’t keep track