I bet this isn't surviving social media compression in one piece, but #NovaSquadron 's buttons now 'fizz' when you hover over them! Lots of little floaty particles drifting around as an extra visual indicator of what you've got selected.
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Taking a break from all the top-secret #NovaSquadron stuff I can't show you, to do something I can -
the background hexagons now glow around your cursor, and sweep across the screen from different directions!
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So I made a promise to a couple of people in the Discord server for @yoyoyollie.bsky.social's #DeliveryMustComplete.

The promise was that this weekend, I'd put a hat on a plane (long story)

so here you go.
Plane in a hat.
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hey is it me or does the main menu look different now
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A new button coming to #NovaSquadron 's main menu lets you boot up your in-universe PC (this'll make sense in a few months, trust me!)

Your desktop looks like this by default.
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here's a completely normal behind-the-scenes for you:
The in-game render (bottom-left) is showing the contents of the scene directly above it.
These two things are the same, just from different viewpoints.

Game dev.
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#NovaSquadron is (sort of) working again! Not much in the way of graphical improvements yet, but it is currently running at 20% higher FPS than 0.4.0.

In other words, regular missions are finally locked at 60FPS on Steam Deck!
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You might have spotted in the #NovaSquadron 0.4.0 trailer that I managed to get some better cityship models crammed in there right before release! Here's a better look at them.
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Speaking of 0.4.0, you can play it here: store.steampowered.com/app/1826830/...

#NovaSquadron Alpha Demo 0.4.0 just released NOW on Steam! Take the Valkyrie for a spin through two brand-new urban combat missions, both above and below a vast floating cityship in the skies of Jupiter.
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Blow stuff up here: store.steampowered.com/app/1826830/...

I wasn't happy with the way Hover Mode felt in #NovaSquadron 's city missions, so I made some quick changes that made it feel like a whole other game:
- Movement is now camera-relative
- R3 to lock on
- Right stick switches targets while locked on
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I'm very proud to present @crowwmonarch.bsky.social's first writing work for #NovaSquadron, the Urban Defense briefing! This is one of the two new city missions coming to 0.4.0.
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