Playtest 2 for FLEET is out now! It includes a number of additions and upgrades, almost everything eneded up being tweaked in some way!

Here is a quick rundown of some of the changes:

• Updated art assets for enemies, fleet ships and player ship
• Asteroids generation has been tweaked
• Asteroids can now be destroyed, though the player ship cannot directly target them
• Updated physics code to increase performance and make things more consistent across different setups
• Crashing into enemy ships currently transfers more momentum than before
• Tweaked colors on some UI elements
• New larger Elite enemies
• New Enemy: Mine Throwers
• New faster base enemy has a chance of showing up
• New Ability: Barrage
• New Ability: Rush
• Many fleet ships have been tweaked / balanced
• Player starts with 50 hull
• Doubled repair cost
• Enemy spawning tweaks (a larger variation in the spawn angle to group them a little less)
• Fleet ships upgrade costs increased (4000/8000)
• Tweaked spawning of super and elite enemies to be based on army size and remaining (they spawn quicker as the army gets destroyed)
• Mouse cursor is now confined to window
• Fixed an issue that would sometimes show a negative number for the bot swarm army
• Can now have more than 4 abilities
• Enemy explosion radius and clumping distances have been tweaked
• Elites can launch homing projectiles
• Added black holes
• Destroying elite enemies now grants a charge
• Improved off-screen indicator for Elite ships

As always, any feedback or suggestions are welcome / appreciated!