Oh no it’s version 0.4!

Update: April fools! (as if you couldn’t tell) Click here for the original post.

New features:

• Geoscape:
  • Random mission generation.
  • New Geoscape pathfinding.
  • New globe lighting.
  • UFOpaedia.
• Basescape:
  • Research.
  • Manufacture.
  • New side base view.
• Battlescape:
  • Abort screen.
  • Debriefing screen.
  • Battlescape save game.
  • Panicking units.
  • Skill increase and promotions.
  • Ranged based accuracy is now optional (see UFO Extender for details on Ranged Based Accuracy).
  • Minimap.
  • First-peron camera.
  • Flying units.
  • Grav lifts.
  • Optional pathfinding preview.
  • Medikits.
  • Laser weapons.
  • Large units.
  • Motion scanner.
  • Alien deployment rules.
  • AI taking cover & throwing grenades.
• Terror missions.
• Moral choice system.
• External rulesets.
• Options screen.
• RPG conversation wheel.

Bugfixes:

• Damage modifier against blob alien types corrected.
• Research camera was incorrectly capturing information when the Y-axis was over 30º.
• Removed instances where soldiers were actually dying.
• Agent’s hat not correctly flipped when dispatching units towards a target waypoint.
• Fixed areas where bloom was missing.
• Tweaked interface where time units were still erroneously displayed.
• Terrain was vanishing when hit by a powerful-enough weapon.
• Corrected timing in quick-time events found in introductory cutscene before a specific terror mission.
• Removed unnecessary complexity from inventory system.
• Reticulated extra splines from Geoscape globe interface.
• Fixed items vanishing after going into the 5th tier of terror ship missions.
• Replaced random instances of PC controls being displayed with the equivalent console controls.
• Replaced all instances of yellow with green.
• Corrected difficulty bug where all games were defaulting to Beginner after being loaded.
• Added support for Kinect for a more accurate aiming innovative intuitive aiming experience.
• Changed Chrysalid spawning chance from 99% to 99.99%.
• Corrected instances when grenades weren’t exploding randomly while being anywhere close to the Skyranger.
• Negative conversation option in the romance subplot with Miss Jane in the Radar Room now properly awards a -5 bravery modifier.
• Tweaked soldier accuracy to correct situations where bullets were actually hitting their targets instead of the X-Com Commander.

Get it while it’s hot!