Updates/v54

v54.0 [08/27/24]

+ Added a new "daily login bonus" feature with a brand new ship the "dolphin" and a new skin "Pond Dragon"
+ Now awarding the correct amount of rewards for a loss
+ Added some helper text to the ship placement screen
+ Added the drag ships hit from the ftue to the placement screen, it only shows once
+ Added a tap ship ability to use hint

v54.0 update attachment

v54.1 [08/28/24]

+ Slight change to when the daily login bonus modal opens
+ Some lore grammar changes

v54.2 [08/29/24]

+ Hopefully fixed the crashing when opening challenges issue on ios
+ Added some on-screen keyboard hints when in battle
+ Escape now closes more modals
+ Changed ship ability targeting to use the more mobile like "slide on controls"
+ Added a new setting to hide the keyboard hints
+ Replaced the word "blueprint" with "ship" on the "all ships unlocked" medal
+ Changed the challenge text from "Destroy 2 ships in one turn" to "Destroy 2 ships in one attack"

v54.3 [08/30/24]

+ Fixed a soft-lock that could happen during the ship placement phase in the tutorial
+ Added some help to the settings page to tell the user how to rotate
+ Tweaked minimum vertical height for the game before it scales down
+ Using the hand rather than the arrow in some more places to be consistent
+ Using the word "Normal" instead of "Short" in more places in the UI now

v54.4 [08/31/24]

+ The "fashionista" medal is now obtainable, thanks all who reported this :)
+ Fractal flake items are no longer "obtainable" and thus doesnt count towards the "fashionista" medal
+ You are now notified via push notification when there is a daily login bonus to collect
+ Daily login bonus availability is now taken as 24 hours from the last time you claimed a day instead of 24 hours from the time that the last day was awarded.

v54.5 [09/02/24]

+ Added another optimization in an attempt to reduce VRAM usage on ios. Please let us know if you see any strange issues on ios!
+ Added an error message if you attempt to skin a ship in a starting fleet.
+ The ship targeting on-screen controls now also show the ship that is doing the targeting (mobile only)
+ Fixed an issue in the tutorial where it was possible to crash the game while moving the nessie

v54.6 [09/03/24]

+ The daily login bonus modal now opens before a new player has played their first battle
+ Added a small delay before the buttons on the rivalry screen become clickable to prevent accidental clicks
+ Daily login bonus modal now shows how long before the next day is awarded
+ Upgraded the internal error handling system
+ The bronze league medal has been renamed to its correct name
+ The AI should no longer be able to use the coracle on an unrevealed ship
+ Reduced the size of the drag to move ship hint and made it now rotate between which ship it is pointing at

v54.7 [09/04/24]

+ Tooltips for medals and emotes now close when you scroll
+ Increased AI match-make chance for a new players first battle
+ Tweaked the UI layout on the placing ships screen
+ AI players now emotes during the battle, let us know if you have tweaks or suggestions for this feature

v55.8 [09/05/24]

+ Tweaked the AI auto emoter
+ Design credit for the Dolphin given to @Unblunderer(Nintend0nate)
+ Tweaked UI in a few places to emphasize joining BC
+ The mini sub no longer starts with 8 energy after the tutorial
+ Hopefully fixed the issue where the ship info modal can sometimes close as soon as it opens
+ Tweaked the daily login bonus push notification text
+ Added the design credit text back into the UI on the ship card and ship info modal
+ Added some rate limit code to the server, please do let us know if you start to see a lot of errors because of this!

v55.9 [09/06/24]

+ The purchase confirmation modal now lets you know what the BC price would be
+ You can now directly purchase locked skin (at a 50% increased price compared to the daily rotation price)
+ Updated the in-game settings menus
+ Added more lore

v55.10 [09/7/24]

+ Added a new experimental "landscape view" to the fleet designer. Let us know what you think!

v55.11 [09/09/24]

+ Discord DMs are now globally available to all
+ The Discord icon in the Discord Quick menu now shows the number of players online in our discord server
+ Added some re-engagement messages to users
+ Added a bunch more logging to help us track down issues such as the one that happened yesterday
+ Fixed a layout issue on the new landscape fleet designer view

v55.12 [09/10/24]

+ Fixed some buggy behavior on the ships grid in the fleet designer
+ Changed the popup that shows on the ship grid to use an inline one instead
+ Hopefully the above has also fixed the strange issue that some users experience where the ship info opens then closes immediately
+ Greying out the cancel button when showing the on-screen control for a combo ship rather than hiding it (it was causing some confusion)

v55.13 [09/15/24]

+ Hopefully fixed the ios memory crash that was happening on the ship placement screen

v55.14 [09/16/24]

+ Fixed an issue where some ships had reverted their behavior to a previous version.
+ Limited zoom button press on ios to help with the strange crash we are getting there

v55.15 [09/30/24]

+ Fixed an issue where the ship skinning modal would instantly close on ios devices
+ Hopefully fixed and issue where the ship info modal would close very quickly after it opens on many different kinds of devices
+ Fixed an issue where the re-energize modal would instantly close on ios devices
+ Fixed an issue where the board ping placer would be in the wrong position on devices that were scaled down
+ Improved the battle hud layout on devices that are horizontally and vertically constrained
+ Fixed an issue where you were unable to put an emote in an emote quick slot when the game was scaled down
+ The daily login bonus modal now scales down so that it always fits on the screen of any device
+ Improved the description text for the "Use ship X 3 times in a battle" challenge to reduce confusion on what you need to do
+ Fixed a layout issue at the bottom of the ships grid on the fleet designer on mobile
+ Fixed a layout issue at the bottom of the ship info modal on mobile
+ Changed the name of the app on android from "battletabs" to "BattleTabs"
+ Tapping on an already selected ship in the fleet designer will scroll you to that ship in the ships grid
+ The following ships had their 3d models upgraded: Pirate Thief, Valkyrie, Chaos Sub, Conniving Cannoneer

v54.16 [10/01/24]

+ Lots of changes on the server to increase stability. This may have some knockon effects on the client particularly around "data freshness". Please let me know if you see some stuff in the game that seems to be out of date where it shouldn't be.
+ Upgraded the images used in the Discord DM messages the game sends
+ Added a feedback survey request that is sent to players some time after signup
+ No longer sending "its your turn" push notifications (and Discord DMs) for combo messages. Only now sending them when the turn actually changes.

v54.17 [10/02/24]

+ Replaced the floating player status with a fixed status in the top left hand corner on mobile devices on the placing ships page in an effort to reduce the number of GPU crashes happening on this screen on ios.
+ Fixed an issue where proposals on battles page weren't being updated when battles have been created