[Sc2-announce] The Ur-Quan Masters 0.3 alpha released

[Serge v. d. B. <sv...@st...>]

Hello everyone,

It's been a while since the last release, but we're glad that today
we're able to announce the next official release of The Ur-Quan Masters.
We're calling it 0.3, and it's still an alpha version. Nonetheless, it's
very stable and it's got lots of improvements over the 0.2 release.
To name a few:
- We've got a much improved input system. For the user the main advantage
  is that it's much more configurable (though this still requires editing
  a config file).
- The content files stay in .zip files. This saves you over 13000 separate
  files on your hard disk, and greatly improves installing speed.
- The number of save game slots has been extended to 50.
- You can get a conversation summary when talking to aliens, like
  the PC version of Star Control 2 had.
- The much-loved PC out-takes are waiting for you when you finish the game.
- There are 2 additional ship slots for your Melee fleet, for a total
  of 14, which not entirely coincidentally is how many the PC version of
  Star Control 2 had.
- We've fixed lots of bugs.
You can find the much longer, complete list, at http://sc2.sf.net/WhatsNew.
To download all this goodness, we happily direct you to our download page,
at http://sc2.sf.net/downloads.html.

We hope you enjoy the game,

The Ur-Quan Masters development team